it was backed by 8 republican services this follows the assassination of a top iranian commander kassam salami who was killed in a u.s. strike last month u.s. attorney general william barr has criticised donald trump's use of twitter that softer the us president commented on the sentencing of roger stone earlier this week roger stone is the former campaign advisor he's been convicted of lying to congress witness tampering and obstruction of justice and iraq here base where u.s. troops are stationed has been targeted in another rocket attack in the northern province of kirkuk so far there are no reports of casualties but a previous attack on the same base in december killed a u.s. contractor triggering a chain of events that calls regional tensions to soar. the u.n. says more than 800000 syrians have fled their homes in italy province the last remaining rebel held area since december the 1st the vast majority of them are women and children and they've ended up in displacement camps near the turkish border the conditions are desperate as the cold winter weather sets in and storms blanket

a big night of fa cup football across the bbc tonight, so let's start at oxford united's kassam stadiumtle united are hoping to avoid an upset. the league one promotion chasers earned a goalless draw at st james‘ park nine days ago — and now get a second crack in front of an expected sellout. former newcastle captain alan shearer is part of the match of the day team tonight. i chatted to him about half an hour ago. i asked him if he was impressed with thejob i asked him if he was impressed with the job steve bruce was doing? newcastle haven't been past the fourth round under mike ashley, so if they get the right result tonight and can get into the next round it isa and can get into the next round it is a decent draw with west brom and the number of points that they have got on the board in the premier league, if you put all that together then yeah i can understand exactly why he is saying that. the football at times hasn't been pretty, they certainly haven't scored as many goals as the newcastle fans would have liked. but in terms of an overall then, yeah, it can be pretty positive. a t

drone strike which killed any general kassam still a manny he claimed congress had been briefed more than 70 times and said the military action in january had made america much safer removing him from the battlefield was a d.s. school tory measure his death reduced the risk to our personnel overseas both my diplomats and our military and made clear that we're willing and able to impose cost on our adversaries if they threaten or attack us but there was anger on the democratic side one congressman asking if there was a clear foreign policy that was being followed the list of actions that are legally and strategically questionable continue to pile up in this administration and yet the administration refuses to provide clear and analyst answers these include pulling out of the j c p a way no strategy abandoning the kurds no strategy then of strategic benefit of assassinating solomon no strategy compere was asked about the american response to the coronavirus he said the us was doing all it can to make people safe and even suggested that it offered to help iran with its response might be

there then talk to boat around might prompt made an opening statement he talked about the killing of kassam silverman. and he insisted to the members of the committee that he'd made himself available over the last few months claiming that congress had been briefed more than 70 times about the operation that killed the iranian general and he insisted the world was no a safer place because of us actions on that night back in january iranians and those impacted by the regime are thankful that the united states is finally holding their oppressors accountable. the trumpet ministration will neither appease nor tolerate the enormous national security threat that iran poses to the united states our friends and our allies. pressure campaign is aimed at reducing these threats and convince iran to change its behavior. there were 2 to kill or contentious exchanges one when a democratic congressman suggested that to might pompeo as there was nor coherent foreign policy strategy the donald trump tends to bumble through things insisting well we'll see what happens and again raise the question of what happ

drone strike which killed any general kassam cilla manny he claimed congress had been briefed more than 70 times and said the military action in january had made america much safer removing him from the battlefield was a d.s. call tory measure his death reduced the risk to our personnel overseas of my diplomats and our military and made clear that we're willing and able to impose cost on our adversaries if they threaten or attack us but there was anger on the democratic side one congressman asking if there was a clear foreign policy that was being followed the list of actions that are legally and strategically questionable continue to pile up in this administration and yet the administration refuses to provide clear and analyst answers these include pulling out of the j c p a way no strategy abandoning the kurds no strategy then of strategic benefit of assassinating solomon no strategy compere was asked about the american response to the coronavirus he said the us was doing all it can to make people safe and even suggested it had offered to help iran with its response might be spent 2 h

indeed we are, and the kassam stadium is bouncing.