Forces, their size in afghanistan, will be 2,500 troops. Our force size in iraq will also be 2,500 by that same date. The announcement was made by acting u. S. Defense secretary chris miller. He replaced mark esper, who was fired by President Trump after joe biden won the electioner in this month. Troops have been gradually reduced as part of a peace deal struck earlier this year. U. S. Media reports say 4,500 soldiers are now believed to be deployed in afghanistan, and 3,000 in iraq. Republican Senate Leader Mitch Mcconnell is raising concerns about the timing of the latest move, and warned against any earth shaking changes to defense or Foreign Policy in the coming months. The planned reduction comes amid a recent resurgence of violence in afghanistan. The government and the taliban are engaged in ongoing peace talks, but they have yet to achieve a breakthrough. Turning to the latest on the coronavirus here in japan. Infections continue to spike across many parts of the country. Its
Accuses the trumpet ministration of twisting his words for a campaign video. Violent protests in belo rose as Police Confront demonstrators demanding the resignation of the president. Has been renewed fighting over occupied nagornokarabakh this by the cease fire coming into effect 48 hours ago armenia is reporting shelling along the southern part of the line of contacts in the region however civilian areas have not been hit by jan says its destroyed several military vehicles for breaching the humanitarian ceasefire syrian consolo is in danger azerbaijan her group of diplomats are assessing the damage. Over the night it was quiet compared to the previous nights there were shellings especially in terms of them and go around boy even in the morning we were able to hear the shellings and go around all about since yesterday is that lee ballistic attack that it can jet city the 2nd largest city of us our age and there hasnt been any firings against ganja and today i must say it is a diplomat
Seven, streaming against cbsn bay area, the upcoming heat wave and slowmoving battles on the fire lines could make for a moped out Holiday Weekend. Good evening. We have Live Team Coverage on the heat, and the possible power grid struggles that could come with it but we begin with the airquality looking live outside, our for sales cameras. More hazy skies tonight for much of the day in san francisco. s mother the campfire. Even though containment is going up every day it is not me they are still burning because they very muare. E p of a tree. Into sit there and watch it. Would a helicopter drop of 1000 gallons put out a large amount of fire . Absolutely. Those fires were burning for weeks if not months, plus they say it takes longer than you think were wind to actually move that smoke around. It takes a while to push all the particulate matter out of here. So smoke that was created a week ago is still sitting here. I was at work and they told us to go home because the air quality was s
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Warning the Public Health emergency is quickly becoming a human rights crisis how many limitations are people willing to accept to fight a threat like coronavirus. Kenneth roth welcome to conflict zone thanks for having me. There are very immediate needs amid this coronavirus pandemic hundreds of thousands have already died a qana means have been hit hard many people are losing their jobs some are even trying to figure out how to put food on the table in these extraordinary times how do you put human rights at the top of the agenda. Well i think its important sara to note that human rights allow certain extraordinary governmental powers in time of a genuine public emergency or crisis like were facing now so you know nobody objects from a human rights perspective to the efforts to limit our trouble to inforce social distancing to do the things that are necessary and proportionate to our Public Health needs but when autocrats say oh we need you does violate your human rights left and rig