Sunday, February 5, 2023

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 2/5/2023 NEWSDUMP WEEKEND MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE IN TURKEY, ISIS TERRORISM ARRESTS IN TURKIYE, UKRAINE LOSING GROUND IN DONETSK, CHINA SAYS BALLOON SHOOT DOWN WAS OVERREACTION

 

(SERVICE WHEN ABLE WITH FINAL POSTING AROUND MIDNIGHT EASTERN US TIME)



                   LATE NEWS TONIGHT:



                       BREAKING NEWS:



IN TURKIYE (TURKEY)  A 7.7 OR 7.8 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE SOME REPORTS SAY 7.4.


DAMAGE IN FOUR TURKISH PROVINCES.




OFFICIAL TURKISH FIGURES SO FAR SAY THAT 76 ARE DEAD THERE.  440 INJURIES ALSO REPORTED.


DEATHS AND INJURIES IN BOTH TURKEY AND SYRIA...TRT HABER (NEWS) TURKIYE (TRANSLATION PROMPT) (VIDEO EMBED)...



THERE ARE TSUNAMI ALERTS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA FOLLOWING THIS QUAKE...





THE NATIONAL UNITED ARAB EMIRATES BLOG







In Türkiye arrests of a group linked to Islamic State.   


The group suspected of plotting terrorist attacks against Western targets over recent Quran (Koran) burning incidents in Sweden and Denmark....CGTN CHINA




Iran announcing pardons for tens of thousands of prisoners including some detained during the recent protests...AFP FRANCE-GULF TODAY UAE



THE RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SERGEI LAVROV VISITING IRAQ...TASS RUSSIA





At least ten are dead in avalanches in the Austrian and Swiss alps...ORF AUSTRIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)...BBC NEWS




In the Russia-Ukraine conflict the situation 'getting tough' according to the BBC.    


It's the message from Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.



Ukrainian forces losing ground in the Donetsk region and British intelligence says Ukrainian soldiers are "isolated" in Bakhmut (Artyomovsk)...BBC NEWS...




There were air raid warnings across seven Ukrainian regions Sunday morning...TASS RUSSIA...



More on Russia and Ukraine later in the summary...






At least 23 dead in Chile others missing as hundreds of wildfires are raging in extreme summer heat...REUTERS...AFP FRANCE-THE HINDU




THE SHOOTDOWN OF WHAT THE US SAYS WAS A CHINESE SPY BALLOON JUST OFF THE COAST OF SOUTH CAROLINA SATURDAY AFTERNOON.


CHINA PROTESTING THE SHOOTDOWN SAYING THE USE OF FORCE WAS NOT NEEDED AGAINST AN UNARMED CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT.


THE CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SAYING THE US ACTION WAS AN OVERREACTION.


CHINA SPEAKING OF THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF PRIVATE COMPANIES INVOLVED WITH THE AIRSHIP AND THE RIGHT TO MAKE FURTHER RESPONSES...


                   CGTN CHINA...BBC NEWS





"It hurts our souls that they have (not acted on) a proposal to move up elections"




In Peru Roman Catholic Cardinal Pedro Barreto commenting on the failure of Congress to approve early elections.    The church saying that early elections are "urgent"...AFP-RFI FRANCE



The protests against President Dina Boluarte's government continued today by supporters of ex-leftist President Pedro Castillo.



Highways blocked in many parts of the country and demonstrators fighting police in the streets of the capital city of Lima...



    RPP PERU LIVE SATURDAY BLOG 2/4/2023 (TRANSLATION PROMPT)





In Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida firing an aide for comments about same-sex couples.



Masayoshi Arai saying he would not want to live next to or look at same-sex couples.



Arai also warning that legalization of same-sex marriage in Japan would cause many people to abandon the country.



Prime Minister Kishida saying that Arai's remarks were "outrageous" and "completely incompatible" with the policies of his government...BBC NEWS




AN INERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY REPORT LEAKED TO THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA DRAWING A CRITICAL RESPONSE FROM IRAN.



THE IRANIANS SAY THAT THE REPORT ON CHANGES TO EQUIPMENT AT ITS FORDOW URANIUM ENRICHMENT FACILITY IS FLAWED.



THEY SAY THAT IAEA DIRECTOR-GENERAL RAFAEL GROSSI IS INVOLVED IN 'UNPROFESSIONAL AND UNACCEPTABLE' BEHAVIOR...TREND NEWS AGENCY AZERBAIJAN



               RUSSIA UKAINE DRAMA



PRISONER SWAP INCLUDES BODIES OF BRITISH ON UKRAINIAN SIDE




                  TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED




Hundreds of prisoners exchanged between Russia and Ukraine with the bodies of two British nationals helping the Ukrainian side...ANADOLU AGENCY-YENI SAFAK TURKIYE

  



In other news...




THE FORMER PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN PERVEZ MUSHARRAF IS DEAD AT THE AGE OF 79.


MUSHARRAF DIED IN DUBAI.     HE ASSUMED POWER FOLLOWING A MILITARY COUP IN 1999.   HE WAS LATER FORCED OUT BY AN IMPEACHMENT PROCESS IN 2008...ASSOCIATED PRESS-EURONEWS



Authorities in India cracking down on child marriages.



Over two thousand arrests reported in a campaign against marriages involving girls under the age of 18.



Both Hindu priests and Muslim clerics among those arrested...ASSOCIATED PRESS-GLOBAL NEWS CANADA














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