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, everyone, thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. today the u.s. is expected to take a major step forward in the race to vaccinate the country. a panel of cdc advisers is set to vote in the next hour on recommendations for who should get priority access to the johnson & johnson vaccine. the vote coming one day after the fda issued emergency use authorization for the single-shot vaccine. cdc director dr. rochelle walensky could sign off on the recommendation by the end of the day. cnn health reporter jacqueline howard joining me now. jacqueline, how much closer does this new vaccine bring americans to ending the pandemic? any time a covid-19 vaccine gets authorized, with johnson & johnson now being the third, it is a step forward in the fight against covid-19. and with the amount of vaccine doses that will be made available as soon as the cdc gives its recommendation that this vaccine can be used, we are going to see the capacity for vaccinations in
and tests as the countdown to new year celebrations begins. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. wildfires in the american state of colorado have destroyed hundreds of homes and prompted the evacuation of 30,000 people in two towns north of denver. the national weather service described it as a life threatening situation and ordered the residents of louisville and superior to leave. here s the sheriff of boulder county, joe pelle, at an earlier news conference. it has been a harrowing day in boulder county with two significant fires fuelled by dry conditions and very high winds. we currently have thousands of individuals in the south part of our county and in the areas of superior and louisville who have been evacuated. we know that there are structures, both homes and businesses, that have been burned and lost. i m speaking about hundreds of structures. we know that people are anxiously waiting for word about the conditions of their homes and their