we have more from nexus media's josh landis who had a tour of a unique replica.porter: on this 10,000 square foot replica of the mississippi delta, he shows me the vanishing barrier islandsh whed to help protect southern louisiana from storms. in partnership with thstate's coastal protection a restoration authority, the faculty here created this model as well as the center for river studies. it's a multidisciplinary effort to understand the ever-changing nature of the delta he goal of a sustainable future for its inhabitants, commerce, and wetlands. >> we're tryg to help the state understand river sedimentw diversions andand moves down river. the idea is to recbanect the rive to these wetland areas. g,is could be thought of as controlled flood don't mean we're trying to flood people or increase the risk to anybod you have large gated structures sitting here that replace the levee. you open up these gates when the river is high and that sand is moving down to reconnect t river to the wetlands. like it storically was, before weeveed it. sand ibasically now dropping

a confrontation with iran which which it's even europe seems split over this joshua landis as always great to get your views on this thank you very much indeed pleasure. moving on to the rest of the day's news now a u.s. soldier and 2 american defense contractors have been killed by al shabaab fighters who stormed a military base in kenya it happened in lamu county in a heavily secured sites known as camp simba the armed group released these pictures it says show the pre-dawn attack its fighters 4 of whom were killed managed to destroy several aircraft and military vehicles 2 u.s. defense department officials are among the injured from nairobi here's how to move on the many unanswered questions surrounding the attack. it was an audacious attack the military base is heavily fortified protective about the king and american troops but al shabaab still managed to break through there destroyed some military planes and infrastructure on the base is a very volatile is an area called born virus and over the years the kenyan defense force they've been going in now to the forest trying to flus

i think we've lost joshua landis there in norman in the states we'll go back to joshua if we can let's. go back to an earlier conversation we had with ismael also dani a retired iraqi brigadier general he gave us his view on how far the iranian government may go in terms of retaliation following the assassination of so the money on friday. iranians are taking the credit to hit back directly they wouldn't even leave their proxies to deliver the message to the americans that is expected and by the way it's kind of saving face for them because killing so they money is as is an insult from the americans to iranian establishment to iranian a state as a whole and therefore i think iran ian has to retaliate i mean they are they are compelled to retaliate in a way that will be selecting the target would be with the same. volume or the size of killing soleimani as well it's going to be impacted as well as what has impacted on iran so if you're on has selected this option but i don't think so this is going to be. the only retaliation from iran the conflict has already been begun in air and on an

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today, the landis slice up by walls, wire and checkpoints full stop the trump plane wants to throw outrt of state to the palestinians if they agree to restrictions approved by israel. in israel get the chance to be bigger, with a green light to a territory it once was. the timing 62 l, a distraction from elections and serious charges. high crimes and misdemeanors for trump, bribery and corruption for netanyahu. this may be the deal of the century for the israeli government but not for the palestinians. it could create a sense of frustration, anger and hopelessness which, in such a combustor part of the is dangerous. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme: it's the size of britain and is melting faster than ever before. a special report from antartica on what's been dubbed the doomsday glacier. also on the programme: taking the idea of planning your own funeral to the next level. we meet the new zealanders who have created their own coffin club! the shuttle challenger exploded soon after lift—off. there were seven astronauts on board, one of them a woman scho

control does the iraqi government that will warrant and they are not talking about oh it will not be in landis the xabi popular mobilization forces there's no doubt that he is considered an. unofficial within the u.s. government with an iraqi government the iraqi government there is a friend and a lot of partner. the u.s. government and this was done without the approval of us once read all of the iraqi government so this book. the government there now that a difficult position that was embarrassing for government and also raised a great deal of was the lithium ranks ok then you're all kind of on the other hand when so i just i just want to talk about escalation for a minute and because you something you said was interesting the uranium military claims that 35 american and israeli targets are within their reach at what they actually attack any of them and risk that the escalation or is it more about psychological warfare at this stage that's a very good question of the past actually is that a long is a long term plan or is that. they have been very careful rational actor but i think what we ha

department of state well joshua landis is the director of the center of middle east studies that he will best of oklahoma he says iran will not give in to us pressure iran is committed to escalating. zarif the foreign minister and others made it very clear months ago. that iran could not afford to capitulate to the united states because they believe the united states wants regime change and would crush them so they have to escalate ever since president trying to scuttle the you know there has been a sticking point for escalation and that you know neither side can afford to give in because oh look weak the leaders of both sides have committed to this escalation and isc it's hard to see how it how it gets you know where the off ramp means and how people can deescalate you can quibble about what kind of government iraq has and certainly there are some iraqis who are happier today than they were under saddam hussein but the you know the basic fact is that the united states in order to destroy the order that was in iraq under saddam hussein cast the sunni arabs from the top of society down to

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the former renault nissan chairman landis in lebanon with tales to tell and scores to settle. with theories running wild, we bring you the facts. matt: welcome back, this is the european open. we are 40 minutes away from the start of cash equities trading. the first day of trading in the new year. let's get first word news with laura wright in london. militia has broken up its encampment at side of the u.s. embassy in baghdad. that comes after they attacked the compound earlier this week. israel's prime minister has said he will seek immunity from prosecution on corruption charges. he hopes there is no functioning government to consider his request, gambling that he will be leading the coalition. australia has drafted in the navy to rescue torres from wildfires. eight people have been killed in the blazes that have swept through new south wales and neighboring victoria, destroying hundreds of properties. global news, 24 hours a day on air, on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. matt: carlos g

joining us to break down some numbers, john freeman, the vice president of equity research and kevin landisys, it's good to see you both. good afternoon >> thank you for having us >> kevin, i'm seeing some numbers on the ad revenue growth may be a little shy. are you seeing something else? >> well, we haven't gone through all the numbers, but what i would say is that it's basically an up and to the right story and the whole micro targeting and the power of that is still early on so even though their users aren't ramping up that fast, they should still be able to ramp their revenue pretty aggressively. >> john, what do you see that explains a 7% down move this afternoon? >> i just think maybe expectations got a little bit ahead of what was plausible. certainly it had a run, facebook has had a run recently i thought the beat looked pretty solid actually i was actually surprised i was looking for more like 7% to 8% in monthly and daily active users and it was a little higher soy thought twafs impressive and growth obviously is something that is going to be more and more important because, you

we all know the attacks on jews the killings the vicious landis have only grown worse and they have spread to my own country 75 years ago when the world finally saw the pictures of the gas chambers here and the piles of bodies nobody in their right mind wanted to be associated with the nazis but now. i see something i never thought i would see in my lifetime the open and brazen spread of anti jewish a trick throughout the world once again in 2020 we hear the same lies the nazis used so effectively in their propaganda they said jews have too much power jews control the economy and the media jews control governments jews control everything we have this madness online in the media and even within democratic governments we will never advocate anti-semitism it's a deadly virus that's been with us for over 2000 years but we cannot look the other way and pretend that it isn't happening that's what people did throughout the 930 s. and that is what led to auschwitz there were 50 countries 50 countries prison represented here today i know each and every one of you is a scots that by anti-semitism as