The sun coming up 6 00 a. M. Its wednesday, august 28th. And we have a lot to get to this morning. Including special counsel jack smith trying to salvage the federal Election Interference case against donald trump. Filing a formal indictment against the former president. Were going to bring you excellent analysis in just a moment. Meanwhile, donald trump now says that he will debate Vice President Kamala Harris in two weeks, but the Harris Campaign still needs to be resolved. And well have more details about that the operation that rescued an israeli man who was held hostage by hamas for more than 300 days. That comes as israel launches a broad operation in the west bank with raids and air strikes in that territory. Im Jonathan Lemire along with u. S. Special correspondent for bbc news katty kay in this morning for joe, mika and willie. Well be joined by Symone Sanderstownsend, and mike barnicle, and nbc news capitol hill correspondent, you just saw her on way too early, ali vitali. Lo
Forces in afghanistan has found credible evidence of multiple war crimes. The report also details 39. 00 on the lawful killings of civilians or prisoners justice persian considered in detail. 57 allegations of incidents and issues. He found there to be credible information to substantiate 23 incidents, of alleged unlawful killing of 39 people by 25 straw un special forces personnel predominantly from the special air service regiment. The Prime Minister of ethiopia says Government Troops are close to victory over local forces in the region. Aids beginning to arrive, addressed camps in sudan for those who fled the violence. Thousands of crossed the border in the past 2 weeks. I mean is Prime Minister remains under pressure to step down after his country signed a deal to hand territory to john rallies organized by both pro and antigovernment. Protesters have taken place in the capital yet of on some of the demonstrators were soldiers who fought in the region of mcconnell. The number of co
The number of infections across africa has surpassed 2000000, but lower rates of testing means the caseload is sought to be much higher across the continent. Any uganda, at least 16 people have been killed during protests sponsored by the arrests of Opposition Leader bobby wine Security Forces shot at crowds as they demonstrated after one was detained. At least 350 people have been arrested since wednesday as more from neighboring kenya. Weve seen Police Soldiers and security operatives in plain clothes, firing guns directly at people. We dont know what extent theyre using metal bullets or rubber coated bullets. Also a lot of use of tear gas as the police and the Security Forces to try to break up crowds of supporters of the pop star turned politician. Bobby, why in this hasnt just being the capital kampala, theres also be also been on rest in other parts of the country just a few hours ago earlier today as well as on wednesday when one was arrested. If the o. P. s military says its ne
Its vaccine. The fact that the 3rd stage Clinical Trials are wrapped up so quickly here for pfizer is because the participants had more exposure to cohabit than initially the timeline had anticipated. That is because of how big of a peak the u. S. Is experiencing at this moment with 11400000 people having already been infected. Now the way that this study was conducted is that they took 44000, people split them in 2 groups, half of them got the vaccine, the other have did not among the group that did not get the vaccine. Well, there were 162 cases of cove. It, theyve been protests in the ugandan capital and at least one other city after a president ial opposition candidate was arrested. The pop star turned politician known as bobby wine, says he was violently dragged out of his car by police. Officials say his campaigning has broken coronavirus restrictions have been reports of deaths in the unrest centered mainly on kampala. Both sides are claiming the upper hand, as the conflict in e
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