NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 10/1/2019

(LIMITED SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH LATE TUESDAY)

North Korea conducted a missile launch Wednesday morning local time and there is suspicion that a missile was fired from a submarine.

It flew some 280 miles eastwards and landed in the Sea of Japan.

US and South Korean military authorities are gathering more information about the launch.

A top Japanese official expressed the belief that two missiles were launched.

More from NHK in Japan.......LINK

Former Dallas Police officer Amber Guyger convicted of murder today.   She shot 26 year-old Botham Jean in his apartment thinking she was in her own believing that he was an intruder.

Guyger testified during the trial that:

"I shot an innocent man"

She faces a possible sentence of 99 years in prison but could get one as low as five years.

Guyger was originally arrested and charged with manslaughter but then rearrested and charged with murder after weeks of protest because the shooting victim was a black person and it was felt she was being allowed to get away with the killing.

Politics in Washington, President Trump tweeting that the "impeachment inquiry" the Democrats have launched is a:

"COUP"

The attempt to form a new government in Israel has ended with the Blue and White Party refusing to be part of a government led by Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud.

The pre-indicment evidence hearing for Netanyahu which will be spread out over two weeks begins Wednesday.  He faces charges in three separate corruption cases.

It's "National Day" in China where there's been a massive parade to commemorate 70 years of Communist rule in the country.

Democracy protesters are making their presence felt in Hong Kong with clashed reported between the demonstrators and police.

Tear gas and water cannon being used.by the police.     A blue colored water shooting from the water cannon with the suggestion that it may be designed to be an additional tear gas like irritant.

Radio Television Hong Kong says the liquid was corrosive as it decided to take its reporters off the streets after one was injured by the police.

And in at least one case live ammunition used with a protester wounded.

The BBC is blogging the developments......LINK

"Sky News" reported from the protest earlier today......LINK

From London Boris Johnson being pushed for details on what the border with Ireland will be like under his Brexit deal proposal to the European Union.

Johnson saying that there will be customs checks on the border but rejecting the notion that there will be customs posts along the border.

The final details of his proposal for a deal with the EU being tweaked.    The talks for that deal will be going on in the weeks leading up to the October 31st deadline which Johnson says is a firm one for Brexit with or without a deal.

Supporters of Leave which won the 2016 referendum in the UK see a deal with the EU not as Brexit but as a sham and a sell-out.

Also under discussion in the UK a cross-party attempt by the opposition to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister but the pro-Remain,  pro-European Union Liberal Democrats leader Jo Swinson rejecting the notion of Jeremy Corbyn becoming PM.   The BBC has more.....LINK

Canada's election now less than three weeks away and four party leaders will debate in French in Quebec on Wednesday night.    

One of the four is the new leader of the Bloc Quebecois Yves-Francois Blanchet.    Blanchet has aligned himself with new provincial government of Premier Francois Legault and seen poll numbers rise in the province.

Blanchet has gone beyond the provincial government's ban on religious symbols for government employees at work to advocate for federal services to be delivered and received with uncovered faces in what appears to a notion aimed at the increasing Islamic presence in Quebec.

The CBC reports on the Bloc and its new leader......LINK

ONE PERSON IS DEAD AND TEN ARE WOUNDED IN AN ATTACK AT VOCATIONAL SCHOOL IN KUOPIO, FINLAND.   A SWORD SAID TO HAVE BEEN USED IN THE ATTACK.

THE ATTACKER ENTERED THE SCHOOL AND STABBED PEOPLE.   POLICE HAVE MADE ONE ARREST WITH THE ATTACKER REPORTED AMONG THE WOUNDED.   POLICE SAID THEY FIRED TWO SHOTS AT THE SCENE.

THIS IS THE ENGLISH VERSION OF THE STORY BEING PUBLISHED BY FINLAND'S GOVERNMENT MEDIA OUTLET "YLE".......LINK

In France the Paris prosecutor's office investigating writer and journalist Eric Zemmour for comments about Islam and immigration during a "Convention of the Right" last weekend.

He is being targeted accused of "public insults" and "public provocation to discrimination".

Zemmour told the meeting of the Right in France last weekend in part:

"In France, as in all Europe, all our problems are aggravated by immigration, school, housing, unemployment, social deficits, public order, prisons....and all our problems aggravated by immigration are aggravated by Islam, its double punishment.   Between living (and living) together, you have to choose"

Zemmour was sentenced for "provocation to religious hatred" in 2011 ordered to pay a fine and legal costs totaling more than 14-thousand dollars.

"NO FARMERS, NO FOOD"

In the Netherlands today a mass protest of farmers clogging highways with thousands of tractors and a rally to hit back at the claim that cattle are causing a:

"nitrogen emissions problem"

contributing to "climate change".

A report is calling for farms in the country to be closed down that are "inefficient".

The BBC's spin on the story.....LINK

The Iranian supported Houthi rebels continue to release pictures from their military operation said to have killed or captured thousands of Saudi-coalition forces in Yemen.

In their latest release the Houthis say there is evidence that some of the Saudi-coalition forces that are provided support by the United States and United Kingdom are linked to Al Qaeda.

"Southfront" has more.......LINK

And in brief that's the way it really is for Tuesday October 1st, 2019.