for news use huge john hardy joining me now. so anyway, personal knowledge of the cuban people, but also as cards a major event in cuba over the past few years, including you sat down with fidel castro, 1991. i'm sure that was a interesting conversation into the security getting into sort of an incredible, you know, i want to get your take on the advances. you watch everything going on in the streets. i've not only keeper, but the american reaction. where are we at, what do you see happening right now? well, i mean, it seems clear the cause is something that is been probably escalated by covert 19. so look, cubans in cuba need to fix 1st of all a vibrant economy which they don't have have never had and aren't going to have because it's a failed system and it doesn't offer that socialism doesn't work. we know that and they're still trying to push it through in cuba. all the re, clarify who's trying to push it through. obviously are the people still thinking it's going to work or they who still trying to people resign themselves t

john hardy has been taking a closer look at the moods with us forces leaving afghanistan. the sites are also now set on america's draw down once again in iraq. it has been a violent 18 years since the us invaded the country in march 2003, with more than 4500 us troops killed and hundreds of thousands of civilian debts. despite then president george bush's mission accomplished declaration in may 2003. the fight, as we now know, would re john, even after the fall of saddam hussein. by april 2004, america had 144000 troops on the ground in iraq, and the numbers would fluctuate over the years as us forces would fight a bloody campaign against rocky insurgency and al qaeda. now the white house reportedly plans to fully end the u. s. as combat mission in the country by the end of the year with president bite and saying the united states needs to quote, fight the battles for the next 20 years. not the last 20 or role in iraq. b as a dealing with not just to be available to continue to train to assist to help and to deal with isis whereas is arrived. but we are not going to be bro

john hardy, has there been a number of red flags and a number of warning signs, and what we're hearing is certainly, you know, the earl structural deficiency struggling structural degradation, including some of the supporting columns in the foundation of the building, the champlain towers and south building behind me that were basically cracking that were essentially disintegrating that were corroding because of the salt air. and just over time, this building was built in 1981. and since then, specifically, as noted by the structural engineers report in 2018 or a number of concerning problems, the question is, why weren't they taken care of? there was a 40 year re certification process that was underway. there was roof repair work that was underway and the price tag for all of these things was in excess of $1516000000.00. so you know, a big question mark there as this investigation continues. it's really in its infancy, the beginning stages, along with the ongoing investigation and what causes collapse. of course, as you can imagine, investigate or structural engineers inspectors are p

something else to worry about john hardy. as the latest. there are several new headlines today and among them, the resumption of the ongoing search operation at the site champlain tower south building behind me. the whole, the work was halted for about 24 hours because of ongoing structural concerns having to do with the remaining existing standing power. and there was concerns about basically the, the ground, the platforms, and basically the parking level, the structure of shifting and some of the concrete slabs shifting over the last, basically 9 days. now we're in a nice day because of ongoing rainstorms. it's been, this is actually the 1st way where it hasn't been raining all day, but since last thursday, every day there's been heavy thunderstorms to that water being or water logging area. the heavy rain, the wind really taking a toll. so the work was shut down for about 24 hours and engineers were able to deem it say for those rescuers to go back to work. trying to find bodies among the rubble in our 1st responders have been hard at wo

john hardy has more from miami as is often the case when cuba speaks so does miami's little havana, cuban americans in miami, voice, their support of their cuban brethren and havana, and more than a dozen other cuban cities marching in a rare show of dissent against the government, they say, is responsible for a lack of adequate food medicine and electricity as cuba grapples with a severe economic crisis. worse than by the cobra. 1900 pandemic, monday to crowd and little havana was smaller. but just as vocal just behind me across the street is the for cy restaurant. this is a very well known cuban restaurant in little havana. and it's really been the main staging area for these protests. you can see there's a good amount of protesters here across the street. there's a pretty sizeable police presence, probably more police than there are protesters today, many of whom have been really driven back because of the ongoing rain and thunderstorms here in the area of the.

use john hardy to help us for today's announcement, we are joined by forward putting on official micro my. michael, thanks for joining me on this. i know you watch suppress conference area, which we call a little little lackluster. there wasn't the pomp and circumstance that you would expect with a reader from a foreign country, even iraq. the talent has been set and that's what was now so that, that's what they had said. but one of us actually be withdrawing. do you believe all the military facets from iraq, they're going to withdraw combat? they're not going to withdraw, or they will replace them really with teachers and advisors and intel support, which is, which is what the prime minister wants. and he's reacting frankly to internal pressures, especially from the sheer, the, the, the, the popular mobilization forces. they wanted all the forces out period. however, they've basically agreed that they'll go along with, haven't the type of us a personnel there that can provide the training and the intel. and so we'll see what happens. but the prime minister has a lot of internal proble

now in the wake of this catastrophe, john hardy, the reporting cause for seeing okay, some other headlines very briefly. now, in the art will be sent to this weekend and oil platforms under water pipeline is ruptured and caught far in the gulf from mexico making the sea appeared to burn for a while. there is believe that the 5 year old platform is caused by a hydrocarbon leak. with initial reports, jessie could spread 2 other off shore rigs, but now the owners say the flames have been extinguished, and thankfully, no reports of death or injuries. but some dramatic scenes there for a while, it's about hundreds of workers of classroom police and charles to go put in paris demonstrations where of cold up for a new contract cutter employee's wages. the protests lead to delays of up to an hour. and again, as you can see, some pretty angry people that heated see? well, that's the way things are looking so far this saturday morning from moscow, kevin and the team wishing a great rest of the weekend. me the one i make no, certainly no borders and the blind number please. as a merge, we don't have

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perhaps getting people out of their homes in particular, hardy places visiting the thing of utter devastation caused by the flooding and west in germany. john langler merkel pledged more efforts to tackle the challenges posed by climate change. quickly chavez, which is the germany, is a country that can overcome this financially. germany is a strong country and we will oppose this force of nature in the short term. but also in the medium and long term to a policy that takes nature and climate into accounts more than we have done in recent years. there had been warnings from the weather. in 2016 the river far burst its banks, causing damage to bridges and other infrastructure. they were repaired, but nothing was done to protect against future high waters. it's not a secret that streets in bridges and all these dams are not in a good condition. and nobody's investing in it, and they're just like waiting till something happens again, 5 years ago we had a duration similar to this one and a bridge in the near broke and they just repaired it like it's okay for now. and nothing happened till the end, and now the bridge is gone again. this part of