Saddam had biological weapons they were ready yeah but everybody thought they had the International Community has clearly demonstrated that it is fed up way is it a process which has been going on for 12 years trying to disarm iraq from its weapons of mass destruction this report by libyan intelligence the external Security Organization or solo shows details of a meeting with the cia. As it plans to invade Saddam Husseins iraq in 2003 the us needed to prepare Public Opinion for the attack getting libya on govt is key to that strategy. But the iraq war went badly for the western allies. No evidence of dangerous weapons was found and the lack of a postwar strategy plunged the country into calles. Gadhafi then seized the moment in a dramatic bid to ingratiate himself with the west and have sanctions on libya lifted he claimed to have w m ds and offered to surrender them. With. Desperate to put a positive spin on their mission to destroy weapons in the middle east the u. S. And u. K. Led t
A way to hide identities from surveillance cameras now its illegal for protesters to cover their faces. Their protests have become increasingly violent and initial peaceful rallies the largest ever seen here calling for the withdrawal of a proposed extradition law had escalated into running battles in vandalism. Their demands became more of a broad push back against what protestors see as growing control from beijing chief executive kerry lamb has turned to a British Colonial era emergency law not used since riots in 1967 anyone who wears a mask could face up to a year in jail and a 3000. 00 fine hong kong its not in a state of emergency and we are not proclaiming that hong kong is entering a state of emergency. But we are indeed in an ok sion of serious danger which is a state a condition in an emergency regulations ordinance that was many of the protesters said that they were not deterred by the emergency law and will carry on as before. Other so that might stop some demonstrators bu
Watching our teams of National Daniel hawkins here with you tonight welcome to the program. Kurdish military forces claimed to have repelled that attack on a border town in the northern syrian province of raka earlier today turkey launched a ground offensive against kurdish groups and Islamic State terrorists in the region it comes off the 1st phase of airstrikes on 2 northern towns a video footage shows thousands of locals fleeing the area following the launch of the Turkish Operation the Syrian Democratic forces say 5 civilians have been killed in the offensive earlier it also accused of deliberately targeting civilian areas this is what locals have been saying about the situation. America and other countries should protect us theyre committing sin here our Children Women is there really no mercy let everyone stand up for us arabs foreigners sin sin. This is an occupation we are a peaceful people we live can. Business it is a crime hey look good on the bus real to the people here loo
Cooperates but of course we know this track record is that he tends to stonewall and he tries to delay the 3 House Committee chairman have said that they sent a subpoena to the white house they want full details of the call with ukraine and the white house are going to object to that this is likely to end up in the Supreme Court this is happened before and its likely to be where pins this time round as well quite simply the house is frustrated with the stonewalling with the delays with. The failure to deliver documents that theyre asking and so that is why they have put forward this subpoena and also includes Mick Mulvaney who is the chief of staff some would argue often the 2nd most powerful job in washington is the president s chief of staff they want documents from him as well now what sort of public can the White House Point of view well they say that until the house has a full vote on impeachment then there are no impeachment proceedings ongoing and the know that if they did that
A very good idea lets do that so they have put forward their subpoena for documents from the Vice President and in that letter saying we want these documents theyve also said that failure to comply by october the 14th would be considered to be an obstruction of justice 3 very important whats important because that is whoa they managed to get Richard Nixon it wasnt the cover up well it was the cover up but it was blocking documents going to oversight congress so theyre saying to mike pence look you hand over these documents theres every chance that youre going to be charged with obstruction of justice which means impeachment for you as well so this hasnt been a good week for the white house friday hasnt been a good day for donald trump and mike pence and the reality is things are probably only going to get worse from this point all right alan fischer with the latest from washington allan thank you. When you were head of the news hour and clearing strength and numbers and syria had as ri