NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT FRIDAY 6/28-SATURDAY 6/29/2019 NEWSDUMP EDITION

(WORK IN PROGRESS THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY MORNING)

A death sentence from France's Court of Cassation for quadriplegic patient Vincent Lambert late Friday afternoon.

The ruling from France's highest court overturns a May 20th ruling from the Paris Court of Appeal that restored food and water to Lambert, injured in a 2008 traffic accident,  just hours after it was taken away.

This new ruling means food and water can be taken away from Vincent Lambert at any time.

Doctors and the French government contend that Lambert is in a "persistent vegetative state" justifying his killing while his parents insist that he is simply a disabled person deserving of life.

Lawyers for Lambert's parents said there will be a lawsuit for murder if he is put to death at the University Hospital in Reims.

An attempt by the federal government to compromise with environmentalists failed Friday morning as three groups that want an injunction to stop Oregon ranchers Dwight and Steven Hammond from using federal land for grazing rejected it.

The Hammonds pardoned by President Trump last year after their case was brought to the world's attention by Ammon Bundy, his brother Ryan and LaVoy Finicum among dozens of others involved in 2016's Oregon Standoff protest.

Dwight and Steven Hammond in court Friday to hear the arguments.   US District Judge Michael Simon keeping a temporary restraining order in place until another hearing is held on July 17th.

Maxine Bernstein of "OregonLive" tweeting about the story.....LINK and publishing her "OregonLive" story Friday night....LINK

They are arguably the most demonized leaders in the world  and on Friday US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were together with President Trump in a jovial mood.

In front of the media President Trump wagging his finger at Putin and saying:

"Don't meddle in the election, please."

In response to a reporter's question about whether he would warn Russia not to interfere in the 2020 election.

The BBC spin of the story is here......LINK

Their 80 minute meeting in conjunction with the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan.

Iran, Syria, Ukraine and Venezuela among the topics discussed.

More on the meeting from Russia's "Tass" news agency.....LINK

The Russian leader also meeting the outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May at the G20, a resumption in high level talks between Russia and the UK following the poisoning incident involving Sergei and Yulia Skripal in England in March 2018.

Putin gave answers to May's questions regarding the incident, according to Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

President Trump also said after meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping that trade talks would resume between the US and China.

President Trump tweeting about his next stop following the G20, South Korea.   The President offering to meet North Korea's Kim Jong-un at the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas for a handshake and to say "Hello!"

At Gallargues-le-Monteux in southern France Friday afternoon the temperature recorded at 45.9 degrees Celsius or 114.6 degrees Fahrenheit, the hottest temperature ever recorded in France.    The heat wave in Europe at its hottest in southern France and Spain with warm air from Africa working its way northward.

Four French departments under an extreme heat warning Friday with temperatures expected to reach as high at 110-115 degrees Fahrenheit in many places.

Dozens reported killed on both sides as Syrian government forces went on the offensive in northwestern Syria Friday morning.

The goal of the government forces to recapture two villages  (Jubayn and Tel Milh) taken by the jihadist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Al Qaeda).   The effort failed.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says 51 died on the government side and 45 on the side of the jihadists.

The United Arab Emirates removing some of its military forces from Yemen to bring them home in the midst of increased tensions with Iran.

The UAE is a major player in the Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Iranian backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Also from Yemen's civil war the attack on Saudi oil installations last month claimed by Houthi rebels is believed by US officials to have come from southern Iraq.    The "Wall Street Journal" says US officials blame Iranian backed militias in Iraq for the attacks.

In Canada, the Ontario Supreme Court ruling Friday that the federal carbon tax is legal and valid citing the notion of "climate change".

A challenge to the law brought in the court by the Ontario provincial government of Premier Doug Ford.

The provincial government says it will appeal the decision.

More on the story from CTV News in Canada.....LINK

The United States announcing sanctions Friday against the son of Venezuelan ruler Nicolas Maduro.

Nicolas Ernesto Maduro Guerra is a member of Maduro's "Constituent Assembly"

Any assets he has in the US are now frozen and American businesses and individuals are prohibited from working with him.

Geert Wilders, leader of the Party of Freedom in the Netherlands, has his own take on a plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Noting the meeting in Bahrain this week involving a 50 billion dollar commitment on Israeli-Palestinian peace, Wilders said the Palestinian people need a homeland in Jordan and they should be moved there.

Wilders lived and worked in Israel on a collective farm in his youth.

More from Israel National News......LINK

Here in the US, James Alex Fields sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge Friday in Charlottesville, Virginia.   He pled guilty to 29 of 30 "hate crimes" charges against him.

Those charges in connection with his driving a car into a crowd of left-wing protesters after an attack by leftists on the nationalist rally he attended in Charlottesville in August of 2017.   One of them killed and others injured.

Fields apologized for his actions before sentencing.   He has already been sentenced to life in prison on state charges. 

The guilty pleas in the federal case were in exchange for  prosecutors dropping the death penalty.

Before his sentencing Nicolas Stix commented on the 'VDARE' website that Fields is getting neither justice or mercy in the case because of his lawyers.....LINK

After some 20 years of negotiations a trade deal announced Friday between the European Union and the Mercosur nations of South America,  Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.

And that's the way it really is as we Newsdump into Saturday June 29th, 2019.