NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 4/5-SATURDAY 4/6/2019 NEWSDUMP EDITION
(WORK IN PROGRESS WITH STORIES UPDATING, EDITING, EXPANDING ETC. UNTIL SATURDAY MORNING 545 AM EASTERN US TIME)
The British Prime Minister Theresa May now asking the European Union for a delay on Brexit until June 30th as she continues to seek out a way to force her controversial plan through Parliament.
She has written a letter dated Friday April 5th to the European Union President Donald Tusk seeking the delay while Tusk has proposed a flexible one-year extension from the current April 12th date-deadline.
Wikileaks tweeting that two Ecuadorean government sources are telling them that its founder Julian Assange will be expelled within "hours to days" from Ecuador's Embassy in London and that there is an agreement with the British authorities to arrest Assange.
They have also tweeted Friday morning that British police are using an apartment overlooking the embassy's front door in connection with the plan to arrest Assange.
This led the foreign minister in Ecuador to deny any decision has been made via Twitter but now his tweets are reported deleted.
"Wikileaks" Twitter page is at the link...….HERE
The final polls are being published ahead of Israel's election on Tuesday ahead of a polling publication ban.
One could argue the polls are a dime a dozen at this point but in general they show two parties at the top of the heap in a proportional representation system for the 120 seats in Israel's parliament.
The "Blue and White Party" of former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz is in a tight race with incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party. Blue and White leads most polling but its potential allies on the Left side of Israeli politics in the smaller parties fall short of a 61 seat majority.
There are a number of parties to the Right taking various shares of the seats according to the opinion polls.
Week 21 of the Yellow Vests protests in France Saturday with a call for a major protest in Rouen and at least two gatherings planned in Pairs. The crackdown and restrictions in full swing with Paris Police Prefect (Chief) Didier Lallemont banning protest on the Champs-Elysees and around the presidential and legislative buildings in the capital city.
There are a number of parties to the Right taking various shares of the seats according to the opinion polls.
Week 21 of the Yellow Vests protests in France Saturday with a call for a major protest in Rouen and at least two gatherings planned in Pairs. The crackdown and restrictions in full swing with Paris Police Prefect (Chief) Didier Lallemont banning protest on the Champs-Elysees and around the presidential and legislative buildings in the capital city.
The Yellow Vests Breaking News post is at the link......HERE
The meeting between Italy's Interior Minister-League Party leader Matteo Salvini and France's National Rally leader Marine Le Pen in Paris Friday was "cordial".
That word from sources cited by Italy's ANSA news agency.
Salvini and Le Pen have formed an alliance for the European Parliament elections next month and the sources say they are considering holding a joint rally at the end of the election campaign where a "new Europe" will be proclaimed. A report in the French media says the two will meet in Milan on May 18th.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met Eastern Libyan forces commander Khalifa Haftar Friday in Benghazi in a bid to stop the eastern forces from attacking the capital city of Tripoli controlled by a UN backed government, but afterwards he said he was leaving with:
and
The eastern forces have taken control of most of Libya in recent weeks and reportedly began an assault in the direction of Tripoli Thursday night and early Friday morning from the West temporarily cutting the road to Tunisia.
However, the Tripoli government forces repulsed the attack. Its also reported that the Tripoli government forces took more than 100 prisoners from the eastern forces.
BUT LATEST WORD IS THAT HAFTAR'S EASTERN FORCES HAVE TAKEN THE TRIPOLI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AFTER CAPTURING SEVERAL TOWNS AND ARE 20 KILOMETERS FROM THE CITY. HOWEVER, INFORMATION IS SKETCHY AT THIS TIME WITH THE UN BACKED TRIPOLI GOVERNMENT CLAIMING TO HAVE REPULSED THE ATTACK.
THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL HELD A CLOSED DOOR MEETING AND AFTERWARDS CALLED ON KHALIFA HAFTAR'S LIBYAN NATIONAL ARMY 'TO HALT ALL MILITARY MOVEMENTS'.
Opposition sources in Syria say there was a Russian airstrike in Idlib Province in northern Syria early Friday morning.
The town of Khan Shaykhun was the site of the attack on jihadist positions following a rocket barrage from Idlib on a town in northern Hama Province, Mahardah. The Syrian government news agency says that one person was killed and three injured in the jihadist rocket attack Thursday evening.
Seven people linked to women's rights activists arrested in Saudi Arabia. Two of the seven detained dual US-Saudi citizens. The seven are writers and bloggers who have supported 10 women's rights activists put on trial last month.
Venezuela's Interim President Juan Guaido urging nationwide street protests Saturday against the shortages caused by the Maduro regime.
A protest march set for 11 am local time in the capital city of Caracas.
The next round of US sanctions on Venezuela rolled out Friday with 34 vessels operated by Venezuela's state oil company on the list along with two companies and another vessel.
The objective of the new sanctions is to shut down the flow of Venezuela's oil to Cuba.
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Friday that his AK Party is going to court to seek recounts of the March 31st local government election results that showed the opposition CHP winning Turkey's largest city Istanbul and the captial city Ankara.
Erdogan says that Istanbul was won with 53.3 percent of the vote even though the results counted showed the opposition CHP winning 48,8 percent to 48.6 percent.
The crowds continue to protest in Algeria. This Friday's mass demonstration the first after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's resignation.
The protesters happy to see Bouteflika gone but they want fundamental change in the system meaning that Bouteflika's cronies should not be part of any transition of the government in the country.
Its legislation that President Trump is expected to veto but the House followed the Senate in passing a resolution calling on the United States to withdrawal support from the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
President Trump has picked David Malpass to be head of the World Bank. Malpass was an senior economic adviser to Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. He's described by White House officials as "pro-growth".
There's been a settlement in seven defamation cases brought against Bill Cosby from women who accused him of sexual misconduct. The settlement involves payments from the AIG insurance company with Mr. Cosby's spokesman its not Cosby who pursuing the settlement adding that countersuits against the seven remain in place.
Cosby serving at 3 to 10 year sentence in a Pennsylvania state prison at Phoenixville, near Philadelphia, after his conviction last year on three sexual assault charges.
He was one of the prosecutors in the O.J. Simpson murder case in the 1990's, but now Christopher Darden is representing an accused murderer.
Darden defending the accused in the murder of rapper Nipsey Hussle in Los Angeles last Sunday.
He entered a plea of not guilty in court Thursday.
The name of the accused murderer is Eric Holder, no not that Eric Holder the former Attorney General of the United States, but 29-year old Eric Holder, an aspiring rap singer.
And that's the way it really is as we come into Saturday morning April 7th, 2019.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met Eastern Libyan forces commander Khalifa Haftar Friday in Benghazi in a bid to stop the eastern forces from attacking the capital city of Tripoli controlled by a UN backed government, but afterwards he said he was leaving with:
"deep concern"
and
"a heavy heart"
The eastern forces have taken control of most of Libya in recent weeks and reportedly began an assault in the direction of Tripoli Thursday night and early Friday morning from the West temporarily cutting the road to Tunisia.
However, the Tripoli government forces repulsed the attack. Its also reported that the Tripoli government forces took more than 100 prisoners from the eastern forces.
BUT LATEST WORD IS THAT HAFTAR'S EASTERN FORCES HAVE TAKEN THE TRIPOLI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AFTER CAPTURING SEVERAL TOWNS AND ARE 20 KILOMETERS FROM THE CITY. HOWEVER, INFORMATION IS SKETCHY AT THIS TIME WITH THE UN BACKED TRIPOLI GOVERNMENT CLAIMING TO HAVE REPULSED THE ATTACK.
THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL HELD A CLOSED DOOR MEETING AND AFTERWARDS CALLED ON KHALIFA HAFTAR'S LIBYAN NATIONAL ARMY 'TO HALT ALL MILITARY MOVEMENTS'.
Opposition sources in Syria say there was a Russian airstrike in Idlib Province in northern Syria early Friday morning.
The town of Khan Shaykhun was the site of the attack on jihadist positions following a rocket barrage from Idlib on a town in northern Hama Province, Mahardah. The Syrian government news agency says that one person was killed and three injured in the jihadist rocket attack Thursday evening.
Seven people linked to women's rights activists arrested in Saudi Arabia. Two of the seven detained dual US-Saudi citizens. The seven are writers and bloggers who have supported 10 women's rights activists put on trial last month.
Venezuela's Interim President Juan Guaido urging nationwide street protests Saturday against the shortages caused by the Maduro regime.
A protest march set for 11 am local time in the capital city of Caracas.
The next round of US sanctions on Venezuela rolled out Friday with 34 vessels operated by Venezuela's state oil company on the list along with two companies and another vessel.
The objective of the new sanctions is to shut down the flow of Venezuela's oil to Cuba.
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Friday that his AK Party is going to court to seek recounts of the March 31st local government election results that showed the opposition CHP winning Turkey's largest city Istanbul and the captial city Ankara.
Erdogan says that Istanbul was won with 53.3 percent of the vote even though the results counted showed the opposition CHP winning 48,8 percent to 48.6 percent.
The crowds continue to protest in Algeria. This Friday's mass demonstration the first after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's resignation.
The protesters happy to see Bouteflika gone but they want fundamental change in the system meaning that Bouteflika's cronies should not be part of any transition of the government in the country.
Its legislation that President Trump is expected to veto but the House followed the Senate in passing a resolution calling on the United States to withdrawal support from the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
President Trump has picked David Malpass to be head of the World Bank. Malpass was an senior economic adviser to Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. He's described by White House officials as "pro-growth".
There's been a settlement in seven defamation cases brought against Bill Cosby from women who accused him of sexual misconduct. The settlement involves payments from the AIG insurance company with Mr. Cosby's spokesman its not Cosby who pursuing the settlement adding that countersuits against the seven remain in place.
Cosby serving at 3 to 10 year sentence in a Pennsylvania state prison at Phoenixville, near Philadelphia, after his conviction last year on three sexual assault charges.
He was one of the prosecutors in the O.J. Simpson murder case in the 1990's, but now Christopher Darden is representing an accused murderer.
Darden defending the accused in the murder of rapper Nipsey Hussle in Los Angeles last Sunday.
He entered a plea of not guilty in court Thursday.
The name of the accused murderer is Eric Holder, no not that Eric Holder the former Attorney General of the United States, but 29-year old Eric Holder, an aspiring rap singer.
And that's the way it really is as we come into Saturday morning April 7th, 2019.
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