Militaryjuntas in neighbouring burkina faso and mali warned that any Foreign Military intervention in niger, would be considered a Declaration Of War on them. A french mp for emmanuel macron s Renaissance Party spoke to the bbc about the countrys Evacuation Mission and said paris was left with no other choice. Translation we estimate that a few hundred people french people wish to leave, and have clearly expressed this intention, since we know that the tradition between European Countries is to show solidarity. If other European Countries decide to organise your evacuations, which is possible, we would Work Together to evacuate those who want to leave. Niger is a key part of africas sahel region which stretches from the atlantic to the red sea. Burkina faso and mali, have also seen recent military coups, and say, they would come to the defence of their neighbour. On sunday, the Regional Bloc ecowas made up of 15 west african countries, gave the coup leaders in niger one week to restore
candidate. now, we began with the newly released assessment of the disastrous afghan again that afghanistan withdraw. the review gives us mostly a free pass while shifting blame to his predecessor. national security council john kirby defended the biden administration action in a heated exchange with the reporters yesterday watch this. in hind sight reading this, does the president have any regrets about how this bridge was carried out? the president is very proud of which the manner of which the men and women of the military and intelligence community and were on a nonconductive base withdrawal. who was gonna get fired over this? peter the purpose of the document that we are putting out today, is to correlate the chief reviews and findings of the agencies that date asked the action reviews. and, it is not the purpose of it is not accountability. emily : and you re saying e saying that you are part of the way this was conducted? probably the fact that we get
about a couple big issues here at home. first, pentagon pflueger who posted with the defense department because sensitive highly classified material in a chat room popular with video gamers. i was checking to make sure they get to the root of why he had axis in the first place number one and number two the focus extensively on the extent to which it all occurred and that s going on right now. i have nothing to report beyond what s already reported. a new report in the washington post reviewing leaked secret documents detail the u.s. was aware of the 24 china spy balloons in addition to the one u.s. shot down in february. meantime not only was biden ready to talk about the leaker, he weighed in on planes for 2024 but again keeping it vague. we ve already made that calculus will announce it relatively soon. you made a decision? i told you my plan is to run again. short of an announcement we will get to that. first, we have so much to talk about particularly this lea