And lives in australia the military is on standby as lightning starts even more bushfires. Protesting on into 2020 of the defiance is set to continue in hong kong. And the city of lights and lock this is right now the latest city cheering a new day. Iraqi protesters have taken their rage against u. S. Airstrikes on a shia group to americas Embassy Hundreds of people marched into the heavily fortified green zone and surrounded the embassy in the iraqi capital baghdad some of them managed to storm the compound and set a security post on fire they were angry over some. These u. S. Airstrikes in iraq and syria targeting a powerful iranian backed group the hezbollah brigades on iraqi soil the incident at the embassy happened as funerals were being held for the fighters killed in the u. S. Air strikes the u. S. Is deploying additional troops to reinforce the Diplomatic Mission its blamed iran for the unrest on tuesday but tehran denies it had anything to do with it simona fulton begins our c
I. Am contesting on into 2020 the defiance is set to continue in hong kong. Iraqi protesters have taken their anger against u. S. Airstrikes on a shia group to americas embassy in baghdad theyre protesting over sundays u. S. Air strikes in iraq and syria targeting a powerful iranian backed group the hezbollah brigades 27 fighters were killed so fulton begins our coverage with this report from baghdad. Angry and determined they marched across the river tigris through unmanned checkpoints into the heart of the fortified green zone thousands of members of the iranian backed Popular Mobilization forces and their supporters surrounded the compound of the u. S. Embassy to deliver a stern warning notice. This is a message to trump and to the American Embassy and consulate in baghdad. Watch out you have touched our soldiers and our brothers they set fires at the outer gates as they tried to get inside the Embassy Grounds the situation appears to be escalating now with hundreds perhaps thousand
Gave an interview tuesday evening to c. B. S. News new United States he basically called the protests outside the embassy a very serious situation but said at no time was the u. S. Ever considering evacuating the embassy in his words he said that iran was directly responsible he said again in his words this is all for stems from irans state sponsored terrorism that according to the secretary of state and if thats not enough tuesday evening as well the president of the United States donald trump sent out a tweet where he again pointed the finger directly at iran i want to read you exactly what the president said in a tweet tweet he said iran will be held fully responsible for lives lost or damage incurred at any of our facilities they will pay a very big price this is not a warning this is a threat before finishing the tweet with happy new year so what youre hearing here is basically pompei on one side saying our embassy is now safe its under control but on another hand potentially more
Emirate. Im in a mine in east india and are still using children to extract coal. I have all the sport including. I made a huge mistake. Russias Maria Sharapova admits she failed a drug test. Turkey has made a bold proposal to stop the flow of refugees to the European Union, ankara offering to take back refugees in greece in return for more money and other echl u eu concessions and we report from brussels. At the end of a long day and night the break they hoped for the eu reached an agreement with turkey that they believe marks the beginning of the end of europes refugee crisis. This is a real game changer, the days of regular migration to europe are over. Our objective is to discourage illegal migration to prevent human smugglers to help people who want to come to europe to and encouraging legal migration. Reporter the agreement means that in future turkey will take back all those making the periless and illegal journey from the aegean sea to greece and one refugee from tam ps in turk
Handing out cash in indonesia but this politician says he is not corrupt and not sorry. A senior olympic official has condemned brazils preparations for the 2016 summer Olympic Games. He says they are the worst he has ever seen. And some have not been started. Brazil other sporting event the football world cup begins in six weeks time and we will hear from the correspondent in a moment but we have this report from nicole johnston. Reporter this is the moment when brazils olympic comes through, five years ago it has the right to host the games in 2016. But its preparations are not going as planned and they have been slammed by the Vice President of the International Olympic committee. Speaking in sidney he said. Translator the ioc has a special task force to feed up preparations but the situation is critical on the ground. We have becomed concerned and they are not ready in many ways and we have to make it ap and that is the ioc approach and you cannot walk away from it. Reporter the pr