frontlines there he had just won reelection and was one of africa's longest serving leaders his son john macarthur is it exacted to be interim head of state paper morgan has more from shah's capital and. president as being himself went to the frontlines along with top army officials to lead the battle against the group and announced later that at least $300.00 were killed and more than $140.00 were captured while the rest fled and were being pressed by the government military now we hadn't heard from debbie over the weekend we didn't hear from him yesterday as well on the day that the national electoral commission announced that he had won the election by nearly 80 percent we were expecting to hear a statement from him. to assure his supporters and to basically welcome the results of the national electoral commission that's now will not be happening we know that we just learned from the army that he had sustained injuries during that battles over the weekend and those were the reasons and the bat that the injuries whether reasons why he passed away the u.s. is described russians plans to block par

lines that he had just won reelection and was one of africa's longest serving leaders his son john macarthur is it exacted to be interim head of state paper morgan has more from shah's capital.

. >> that is john macarthur, mega church pastor in l.a.t while holding indoor services defying the state's health guidance as congregants gathered, shook hands and sang many did so without masks even though we learned early on that churches were super spreaders after a church in the state had 5 people falling ill and two dying. macarthur then sang a different tune. >> this is not persecution of the church. this is government law for the greater good of the population. it's not noble to say, well, we're going to meet whatever the government says. that is the kind of defiance that makes christianity look anything but loving. >> we contacted macarthur and his church about this shift in tone. and we received an email back from jenna ellis former trump senior legal adviser who said she represented the pastor and the church asked if they stand by the comment, quote, there is no pandemic" ellis did not respond. she contracted the virus herself last december. it is fed by a mixture of distrust in government, questions about how vaccines work. on s

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in the purple john that was deep in the in the flank of the the north korean forces, which had gone south what macarthur thought would happen is if he could land a couple of divisions 50,000 men there they could retake soul, which had lost in? captured by the north koreans and they could drive across korea. south of the 38th, peninsula 38 parallel severing the lines of communications of all the north korean troops that had gone south turning them into a mob basically. and capturing them. and thus liberating south korea. the north so this is what he planned. his staff every member have his staff said don't do it. it's too risky. the big problem was tides the tides in the inch on area very very high. and very low and therefore the tides would limit allied access to the beaches for a good number of hours during each day. and so this became a real problem of supply and it might lead to the isolation of the american troops that actually got sure if the north koreans were able to react quickly. to the invasion macarthur insisted, however he basically said we're going to do this. and so they did it. and the in