NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT NEW YEAR NEWSDUMP TUESDAY 1/1/2019
(THIS NEWS SUMMARY WAS PREPARED LATE TUESDAY THROUGH MIDNIGHT AND MAY BE UPDATED INTO THE MORNING)
Happy New Year to all.........
In Tokyo just after midnight a car plowed into pedestrians injuring eight, one seriously.
The crowds on Tokyo's popular Takeshita Street were heading to a shrine for New Year's prayers.
The suspect taken into custody by police for intent to kill was a 21 year old man who said he committed the act to protest executions.
Capital punishment is legal in Japan and last July 13 members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult including leader Shoko Asahara were executed for murder in the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway that killed 12.
In the United Kingdom a man reported shouting by an eyewitness:
"Allah"
stabbed three people at the central railway station in Manchester, England around 850pm local time New Year's Eve.
BBC journalist Sam Clack who works as a producer for Radio 5 Live was the eyewitness who said he was close enough to touch the attacker.
Reacting to the attack on Facebook activist Tommy Robinson:
"It's a New Year but we still have the same old Islamic Terror in the UK. Another jihad attack tonight, multiple people stabbed in frenzied attack at Manchester train station by a man shouting 'Long live the Caliphate, Allahu Akbar'. Absolute Scum"
The US Ambassador to the UK Woody Johnson says the country is:
"in need of leadership"
over Brexit.
Johnson told a BBC radio interviewer that if Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plan were approved it would block the possibility of a trade deal with the US.
President Trump has said that a separate trade deal with US would not be possible under May's plan locks the UK into the EU and prevents a separate trade agreement with the US.
In France the year end message from President Emmanuel Macron promised order in the country "without compromise".
He denounced Yellow Vests protesters for their attacks on "elected officials, the police, the journalists, Jews, foreigners, homosexuals".
Yellow Vests protesters mixed in with the 250-thousand gathered to celebrate the New Year on Champs-Elysees in Paris. The Yellow Vests faced off with police in Bordeaux where they occupied the Aquitaine Bridge to bring in the New Year.
More at this link...........FRANCE BREAKING POST 12/31/2018
In France the year end message from President Emmanuel Macron promised order in the country "without compromise".
He denounced Yellow Vests protesters for their attacks on "elected officials, the police, the journalists, Jews, foreigners, homosexuals".
Yellow Vests protesters mixed in with the 250-thousand gathered to celebrate the New Year on Champs-Elysees in Paris. The Yellow Vests faced off with police in Bordeaux where they occupied the Aquitaine Bridge to bring in the New Year.
More at this link...........FRANCE BREAKING POST 12/31/2018
The word from Washington is that the withdrawal of US military forces from Syria will be spread out over four months. Administration officials told this to the "New York Times" following Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's Sunday meeting with President Trump.
Graham was worried about the withdrawal going into the meeting but came out more reassured about the situation.
US National Security Adviser John Bolton is travelling to Israel and Turkey within the next week to discuss the withdrawal accompanied by US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford.
US National Security Adviser John Bolton is travelling to Israel and Turkey within the next week to discuss the withdrawal accompanied by US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford.
Brazil's new president of the "Right" Jair Bolsonaro is being sworn into office New Year's Day. Dignitaries on hand include US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu spoke with reporters at a news conference in Brazil Monday saying he will not resign if Israel's Attorney General moves forward with recommendations for his indictment ahead of the April 9th election.
A hearing would have to held follwing the Attorney General's recommendation and as Netanyahu put it:
"According to law, the prime minister does not have to resign during the hearing process...The hearing doesn't end until my side is heard.."
North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-un says in his New Year message that he is willing to meet President Trump at any time, but that if the US demands unilateral actions, he will pursue a 'new path'.
Kim says he remains committed to complete denuclearization but it would move more quickly if the US took corresponding actions.
Massachusetts Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren announcing an exploratory committee to run for President in 2020. She is the first Democrat to do so.
Massachusetts Democrat Senator Elizabeth Warren announcing an exploratory committee to run for President in 2020. She is the first Democrat to do so.
Ray Sawyer, an eye-patch wearing member of the "Dr Hook and the Medicine Show" band, is dead at the age of 81. Sawyer sang lead vocals on the 1972 hit song "On The Cover Of The Rolling Stone"
And that's the way it really is as we enter the New Year, Wednesday January 1st, 2019.
And that's the way it really is as we enter the New Year, Wednesday January 1st, 2019.
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