Hello and welcome. First afghanistan, now iraq. In the past few Hours President Joe Biden has announced that the uss Armed Forces will leave iraq by The End of the year. The move was announced during a meeting with iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al Kadhimi at the White House. He has been urging President Biden to withdraw troops who have been a presence in the region since 2003. Roughly 2,500 us troops remain in the region but their presence has been harder to justify since the killing of qassim suleimani, irans top Security And Intelligence commander, by american Drone Strike in 2020. After the strike Iraqs Parliament demanded the government expel us forces, a powerful message for the countrys Prime Minister, whos been in power for just two years. But many of the us troops still in iraq, wont actually be leaving. Theyll be reclassified as advisers, a non combat role. White House Press Secretary Jenn Psaki explained how the us saw their new role in iraq. The real Announcement Today or re
Film that won the palme dor. Wait, wait, wait and nervous laughter in cannes as the Director Spike Lee accidentally lets slip the name of the winner of the palme dor. Hello and welcome. Rescue workers searching for victims of the devastating floods across Western Europe have warned that more bodies may be found in submerged cars, cellars and collapsed buildings. At least 170 people are known have died, most of them in western germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel is due to visit affected areas on sunday. With more, heres our berlin correspondentjenny hill. In ahrweiler, everything, everyone, is covered in a thick, sticky mud. Theres no power, nowhere to buy food, not much mobile reception. But theyre doing what they can. Willie told us theyve never seen anything like it here, not even in his parents grandparents time. The water rose two metres in 15 or 20 minutes, he told us. People tried to save their things, went into their basements and, unfortunately, got trapped. I was lucky, he said,
Rising tensions over russias military Build Up next to ukaine President Biden suggests a summit to russias President Putin. Lockdown legends a Rolling Stone and a Foo Fighter Call for some optimism as the pandemic eases in the uk. Hello and welcome. The us, South Africa and the European Union are to temporarily suspend the rollout of Thejohnson Johnson Covid jab, after reports of rare blood clotting. The american health authority, the fda, said six cases were detected among more than Six Million americans who received the single dose vaccine. Johnson johnson said it has paused its eu rollout. Heres our medical editor fergus walsh. An abundance of caution was cited by us Health Officials as the reason why they paused the use of the single shotJohnson Johnson Covid Jab. The vaccine, which in europe is branded as janssen, was approved in the us in late february. Since then, there have been six incidents of very rare clots in the brain, out of 6. 8 million doses. So less than one case per
hello and welcome to the programme. talks to attempt to secure a trade deal between the uk and the european union have concluded for the night. they will resume again on monday with the head of the uk team, lord frost, insisting they were working very hard to reach an accord, although ireland s prime minister said things were on a knife edge. both sides are making different claims on signs of progress overfishing rights. two other main issues competition rules and how a deal would be enforced remain unresolved. our political correspondent chris mason reports. back in brussels, the uk s chief negotiator, lord frost, arriving for what s described on the british side as the last roll of the dice in trade talks with the eu. we ve been working very hard to try and get a deal. we re going to see what happens in negotiations today and we will be looking forward to meeting our european colleagues later on this afternoon. thank you very much. there is frustration in government a
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