a year of pandemic. so in the last half hour the u.s. is top court has rejected a bid from the state of texas to overturn donald trump s election loss the president had backed the lawsuit he called it the big one it sought to throw out the results in 4 key states several legal challenges have been raised and rejected across the country seeking to stop joe biden s win before it is officially certified next week let s get the latest with my camera correspondent in washington d.c. not of a rejected it not even letting them file the documents i believe. indeed yes well this is the statement that the court has just released as you can see it very short indeed it s an unsigned statement but it basically says that texas has not demonstrated. judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections all of the pending motions are dismissed as moot this in reference to the large number of states that joined to the attempt by texas to reverse the electi
that the troops were being reduced in light of the growing capabilities of iraqi security forces to address terrorism in the country. and of course, eisel was officially declare defeat in 2017. but the coalition has still been engaged in fighting an insurgency and trying to contain sleeper cells that remain operational in that country. but of course, it s much more complicated than that. if we go back to earlier this year, there was this parliament vote to oust all foreign troops. and that vote came in response to the u.s. killing of iranian general custom, some in money and other iraqi officials here in baghdad. and we ve also seen a surge in rocket attacks on u.s. interests, and it was in that context that the 2 sides renegotiated u.s. military presence, beginning the drawdown from 1st $5000.00 troops earlier this year to $3000.00 troops as of september. so this additional drawdown is not that significant in light of the reductions that have already taken place. but what re
where many embassies are based. it was a little after 8. 30 in the morning when the 1st rocket landed in the afghan capital for the next 10 minutes, it felt like kabul was under attack. witnesses say the attack during the morning rush hour was timed to cause maximum damage. so for the record, what they got was morning and we were leaving our home when an explosion happened 2 of my sisters and my mother wounded. so we took them to hospital. i would have thought the way for book it was around 9 am. rockets hit the bakery, wounding an employee who needed hospital treatment. lots of shopkeepers are going to suffer financially because of this. i still has claimed responsibility for the attack. it came just hours before the u.s. secretary of state might bump a 0. arrived in qatar as capital doha, he s talking to both afghan government and taliban negotiators. involved in peace talks, there shows richie s and security that are just breath yet again. so that the sort of weaponry gets
hopefully the 1st people who will be immunized across the united states across all states. in all the areas where this, the state department of health will have to told us where to deliver the vaccine. shavar dancing has more on the situation in the us from wilmington, delaware home state of president elect, joe biden. the midwest is a particularly big head to the middle of the country, basically is being particularly hard hit 200000 dollars 200000 cases a day, you know, being, being recorded. and the fear is that we have the spike right now with hospital beds on the overstrained. and we might be heading for yet another spike because of the thanksgiving holiday, which is coming on on thursday, the c.d.c. pleading with americans not to travel to visit their families this week. they really think that it will become a huge super spreader event. basically if i giving as families gather around dining tables, they re all suggestions of some of the arrogance of these are heeding tho
consistent with our established plans and strategic objectives. supported by the american people and does not equate to a change in u.s. policy or objectives. when our white house correspondent can really help it. this was anticipated and already in advance of this announcement, there was pushback because top republicans, including mitch mcconnell, the top republican in the u.s. senate saying that this is really going to affect not only the ongoing peace efforts in negotiations in afghanistan with regard to the taliban of course, those negotiations taking place in doha, but also the fact that there is concern this could affect u.s. national security in terms of its counterterrorism efforts. but we should also point out that this is some of the same advice that was given to the u.s. president from top officials in the pentagon. but what s notable about this is the fact that the president just last week in fact, put in place a number of loyalists at the pentagon in order to pus