NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT MONDAY 10/28/2019

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The political drama in Washington and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi planning a Thursday vote on "procedures" for the "impeachment inquiry".

The White House says the vote proves that the process of the "impeachment inquiry" lacks any due process of law.

And the process of the "impeachment inquiry" continuing in Washington behind closed doors punctuated by news leaks about testimony from witnesses.

The European Union coming out with a flexible Brexit deadline today.    The January 31st deadline is flexible meaning the UK can leave earlier if Prime Minister Boris Johnson's "Great New Deal" with the EU is approved before then.

The decision pre-empts any notion of a Brexit this week.

In London, the push for an early election by Mr. Johnson failing Monday in a House of Commons vote on plans for a December 12th General Election.

Johnson wants to try again tomorrow.

In Lebanon the protests continued Monday with a new twist.   Cars were being placed across roads in addition to demonstrators and barricades.    Social media began spreading the idea of using cars for blocking off highways yesterday and today. 

The move comes in the face of calls by national leaders for the blockades to end and plans by the military to begin clearing highways today.

More on today's protest from "The National" in the Untied Arab Emirates......LINK

Meanwhile the governor of Lebanon's central bank told CNN that country.....LINK ......is days away from collapse unless the protests stop.....

From the protests in Iraq  eight dead and nearly 300 wounded on Monday.    The demonstrators battling the security forces at Tahrir Square in Baghdad

Tear gas and stun grenades being used to keep the demonstrators from entering the "Green Zone" of the city where government buildings are located.   Thousands of students joining the ranks of the protesters today on the fourth day of a second wave of protest.

A midnight to 6 am curfew has been imposed tonight in Baghdad.

This video clip is from Saudi Arabia's government owned "Al Hadath" news channel reporting today's events.  Al Hadath banned from reporting in Iraq by the government......LINK

Also tonight a report from Iran's "Press TV" about three mortar rounds hitting a base north of Baghdad where US troops are stationed.....LINK

In Chile more protests and clashes with police in the capital Santiago and other cities today even as President Sebastian Pinera announced the replacement of eight cabinet ministers.

A shopping center fire broke out after a protest demonstration in the capital city.

A protest in Honduras with students battling police firing tear gas.   The student demonstrators demanding the resignation of President Juan Orlando Hernandez for alleged ties to drug trafficking.

TWO SHOT AND WOUNDED OUTSIDE A MOSQUE IN BAYONNE, FRANCE TODAY.

THE SUSPECTED SHOOTER WAS ARRESTED, AN 84-YEAR OLD MAN.

POLICE SAY HE FIRED AN INCENDIARY DEVICE THAT STARTED A FIRE INSIDE THE PROPERTY OF THE MOSQUE.

A new wildfire breaking out early Monday in Los Angeles along the 405 Freeway.   The freeway shut down but thousands of residents evacuating in the Sepulvada Pass area.

Winds driving the "Getty Fire" in a westward direction from the 405 and at least five homes reported destroyed.    This is a live video stream from ABC 7 in Los Angeles.....LINK......

From Italy the new twists and turns of politics.   Matteo Salvini of the League is now in opposition and working with other parties of the "Right" like the mainstream Forza Italia of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.     Salvini now supporting the European Union instead of being critical of it.

On Sunday Salvini's coalition of parties won a regional election in Umbria with 57 percent of the vote while the alliance of the mainstream Democratic Party and the Five Star Movement only got 37.5 percent of the vote.

Salvini is still talking tough on immigration but now pushing other issues like proposing a flat tax rate.

The banking giant HSBC posted a steep decline in its third quarter earnings.    The 24 percent decline in net profits announced today led to declines in the bank's stock of just over four percent early in the day.

The acting CEO, Noel Quinn, calling HSBC's performance in the US, UK and Europe "unacceptable" and saying plans for a "remodel" of its business activities in those places.

RUSSIA'S REPRESENTATIVE TO THE ORGANIZATION FOR THE PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS SAYS THAT THE JIHADISTS IN NORTHWESTERN SYRIA'S IDLIB PROVINCE ARE PREPARING "A NEW CHEMICAL PROVOCATION".  ALEXANDER SCHULGEN OFFERING THE WARNING OF A FALSE FLAG ATTACK TO THE MEDIA ON SUNDAY.

In April of 2018 an allegation of a chemical weapons attack by Syria's government led to fiery words from world leaders including President Trump and US, British and French military action against Syria.

But since then doubts have been raised about the report of the OPCW organization that confirmed the notion of such an attack.

Now a second whistle blower has emerged from within the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons saying that their findings contradicting the notion of a chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria were suppressed.

More on this was published by "Southfront".....LINK

And for now that's the way it really is for Monday October 28th, 2019.