Also this hour a critical test for venezuelas Opposition Leader one he seeks reelection as head of the National Assembly. M nor intended london with a top storage mirror been trading counting is underway in the croatian president ial runoff in a vote that could influence the u. K. s for exit negotiations. With all the baseball its over and for the reigning super bowl champions as the new England Patriots lose in the playoffs. Thank you very much for joining us its been a day of fast moving developments in the middle east says the u. S. Assassination of Senior Iranian commander kasim cinnamon he causes major reverberations iraqs spawn amende has passed a resolution urging the government to expel all for. Foreign troops from the country but influential shia politician says that doesnt go far enough he wants security agreements with the u. S. To be cancelled and its embassy to be shut caretaker Prime Minister ayad abdul mahdi address on it. The logic. No foreign troops are to do military
Raw lines remain blocked at Polytechnic University instinctual kalar and up to 100 protesters are refusing to leave riot police have surrounded the campus ready to mike arrests if any demonstrators try to skype it has been in foster all flaws. In the process he will both be counted. For all she said he was going to be. All wrong. This is so all waltz on tuesday around 800. 00 surrounded 300. 00 around the idea of 18 and cant be charged with writing others managed to escape the campus and avoid a wrist some protesters have attempted to flee over the last few hours through the universitys drainage system but they were arrested other attempts were made to a skype ive not but the. Students were met by riot police and retreated back inside the campus the United States senate has backed the prodemocracy protests movement in hong kong and he not amisse vote senate has passed the hong kong human rights and democracy act which threatens to invoke chide sections on the city if the u. S. Consider
Are selected to stand on Election Committee which plays a crucial part in voting for hong kong next later now that election will be in 2020 kerry lamb is very unpopular at the moment but certainly if the prodemocracy groups in the prodemocracy parties have the majority in these district elections you could assume that a large part of those 117. 00 District Council selected will be from outside of politics leaked classified documents from chinas government have revealed new details about the mass detention of ethnic minorities muslim way gores Rights Groups estimate that more than a 1000000 people have been locked up in camps in the shin jiang region the reporting clues Intelligence Briefings that describe how police use a data system based around Artificial Intelligence to select who ought to be detained Arsalan Iftikhar is a human rights lawyer he says despite chinas denials the documents confirm what many have suspected about the camps. Its a completely orwellian system of ethnic cle
In 2019 is very tribal the democrats will have hared things that they think put donald trump very firmly in the dock the republicans think this is very much nothing to get worried about and donald trump did nothing wrong whereas donald trump himself he underlined exactly what you just said there by standing on the white house lawn today and saying i wanted nothing i want to do nothing yet as little notepad there sort of shouted that in and tried to ram home. Well the timing of him saying there was no quid pro quo which is very important is interesting because he said that to Gordon Gordon sandland said to him what do you want from ukraine i want selenski to do the right thing i dont want a quid pro quo why is that phrase become important because that very day the media were reporting that aid to ukraine was being held up because donald trump was looking for a quid pro quo and someone clearly said to donald trump if thats the case that does not look good for you this is a real problem t
With the selection. What do we know about judge neil gorsuch. Brilliant and has written on many subjects. We know he is probable pro life. He is against assisted suicide and euthanizeya. He has written a lot and wrote an interesting piece about the Senate Confirmation process saying that it leads a lot of great people on the sidelines and he cited two people. John roberts the head of the Supreme Court and also merrick garland. The one that has been nominated by president obama. And it was for a different post and he didnt think the senate treated them very well in the confirmation hearings. Tell us what happened now. He made his pick and tell us about the confirmation process an. What happens and what needs to fall in place . We will go through hearings and where the democrats will have their shot at vetting his legal record, his writings, everything he has touched and everybody he has talked to will be subject to questioning. They will try to profile who this individual is. They are g