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Several people have been killed in the town of. Analysts say h. T. S. Is pushing back against turkish control of the region fearing that turkey might make a deal with russia and the Syrian Government mohamed though has the latest. In turkey. City on rule one it does describe the latest spate of fighting the last in mosul syria in the past three months fight us and loyal to the ill cut it out from the hated heya to cradle shaam a safe soft cut it out an offensive against tuck his box in and rebels with a view of dividing destroying the free and the loss on the other side of the l. F. Or countryside say to have taken control of the threat to dick tal of visit then villages around it and now the toughest city and rebels are calling for help from being forced months to try and repulsed the offensive against them by the al qaeda affiliates all this comes a little over a week says the president of the United States donald trump announced the withdrawal of about two thousand u. S. Troops to a
Asia. Hello i have a little good news for afghanistan wanting rain release no time this time the of this summers wait is this streaming cloud the start of it if you like which looks like nothing very much but it is indeed an easy brought rain and the picture says a daytime is more raids develop in the eastern med might show itself on the coast of lebanon but the existing stuff is really quite heavy thats the euphrates and tigris valley there on the high ground in western iran snow tires of course and then the cloud ahead of it where it really just precedes this rain should spread across iran and show itself on high ground in afghanistan as a low ground is rain if youre lucky probably the first decent dam pull this winter at the same time the next storm system has affected turkey more than you or else mr showing itself in the finals in syria maybe lebanon snow tight of course its fine to the south of that and the breeze temporarily has changed directions over the Arabian Peninsula to so
A winters day. However same temperatures really falling away across western parts of youve already cold enough towards the ace and that cold air diving down from the north lots of weather systems are rolling in here theres going to be more disturbed weather continuing just around the central parts of the med its rain is that means more heavy rainfall grace athens looking very very wet there be some snow mixed in as well and basin places a snow into poland eastern parts of germany even have a toward crying and pushing into that western side of russia minus one the top temperature in moscow as that cold air for the west london at around five degrees celsius and not much warmer than that for paris so some of the temperatures is a bit go on a friday but the winds here at least on the light side cold mold the winds really digging in across that eastern side through the Baltic States down across part and more snow coming through here is that moderate just bumps into the really cold air more
Revenues and different types of revenues on a grid and reading the ukase incredibly complicated consultation document about the new digital proposed digital tax for these Big Tech Companies and theyre saying right first of all were not going to tax Small Companies its only going to be the very beginning on pennies so they look at a kind of minimum revenue but then they start going into definitions about where we only want to tax for example social media platforms but not actual just normal ecommerce online you know buying things on amazon we dont want to tax that revenue so how do we define what is a social media platform and what is just a pure kind of marketplace because obviously there are often big crossovers now between the two types and so theyre kind of trying to get their head around all this really this is just going to be a bonanza for tax lawyers theyre going to make a lot of money arguing these things in court for the next few years until the world can get its act together