NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 11/12/2018

(UPDATES, EDITING , ADDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE UNTIL 730 AM)

In northern California 29 are dead and hundreds are reported missing because of the "Camp Fire" that started last Thursday and consumed the town of Paradise on Friday, burning over 6,700 structures in the town of 26,000.

228 people are reported missing according to the Butte County Sheriff.

The cause of the fire is not known yet, but there was an outage on a power transmission line minutes before the fire erupted.

President Trump was in France yesterday at an American cemetery where war dead are buried honoring the fallen on the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.

The President was in attendance earlier at a ceremony in Paris along with the leaders of more than 60 nations.   The ceremony also marked the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I.

French President Emmanuel Macron spoke against nationalism and withdrawal from the world as a whole and also called for nations to work together in the search for peace.

Macron joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russia's President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a "Peace Forum" in Paris yesterday afternoon.

Polling data for the European Parliament elections next May shows Marine Le Pen's National Rally Party, formerly the National Front, leading in France over President Emmanuel Macron's En Marche Party 20 percent to 19.5 percent according to the polling firm "Elabe".

Two-hundred thousand people marched through Poland's capital, Warsaw, on the centennial of that nation's independence Sunday.   Some marchers chanted "Away with the EU" during the march.

British cabinet sources are telling the BBC there were grave doubts from many cabinet ministers about Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plan that she presented last summer.  Controversy over the plan which many Brexit supporters see as a sellout to the European Union led two cabinet ministers to resign.

Israel staged a commando raid in Gaza Sunday night,  According to Israel's "Haaretz" newspaper,  a senior Hamas military leader and six others were killed in the attack.  The report said the raid was staged to kill the Hamas commander.

One Israeli officer was killed and another wounded in the operation.

Alert sirens went off in southern Israel near the Gaza border and there was an exchange of fire in the border area.

The attack comes days after the first 15 million dollar shipment of Qatari money in suitcases was allowed into Gaza by the Israeli's in a bid to pacify violence coming from Gaza.    This includes regular attacks from protesters on the border fence with Israel along with incendiary kites and occasional rocket attacks.

The Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Al-Qaeda in Syria, say they've launched attacks at Syrian positions in the deconfliction zone of northern Syria over the weekend.  

The attacks are in violation of the cease-fire in force in the zone guaranteed by Russia and Turkey.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Turkey has provided audio recordings of the October 2nd murder of Jamal Khashoggi to five nations.   Saudi Arabia, the United States, France, Germany and Britain have received the recordings of the murder that took place inside Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul.

Erdogan says Saudi Arabia knows who the killer is from among the group of 15 Saudis that arrived in the country one day before the murder.

The Turkish president says the Saudi prosecutor in the case, Saud al-Mojeb, has refused to cooperate with his Turkish counterpart delaying the investigation into the murder.

And word this morning that the Saudi energy minister is calling for a cut in world wide oil production of one million barrels a day.

Two Navy crew members were rescued from the water south of Okinawa in Philippine Sea after they were forced to eject from their F-18 Hornet aircraft.   The Navy says there was a mechanical issue with the aircraft operating from the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier.