playwright turned president oversaw his country's transition to democracy as well as the peaceful breakup between the czech republic and slovakia have all died at home on after a long illness. a mammoth rescue operation is now underway in the southern philippines after floods tore through the area killing over six hundred and moving . hundreds missing that's how i feel heard on friday night causing a month's worth of rain to fall in twelve hours tens of thousands of were forced from their homes by the deluge the rescues currently being humbled by widespread power cuts the floods grades. the follow us troops have officially withdrawn from iraq and nine years after the invasion that analyst as you say the soldiers crossed into the brink kuwait during the night many now feel a surge in terror attacks following america's military departure the conflict saw around one hundred thousand iraqi civilians killed and cost the united states almost a trillion dollars. next we head to one of...