NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 11/10/2019
Former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley says that former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson actively worked to undermine President Trump and tried to enlist her help in their efforts.
Haley's memoir is set for publication and in it Haley says they wanted her help in undercutting the President in order to:
"save the country"
Its Monday in Hong Kong with a general strike being called by protesters for democracy and police officers using live ammunition on protesters according to the BBC.
Protesters trying to block intersections in Hong Kong are being confronted by the police leading to confrontations.
BOLIVIA'S PRESIDENT EVO MORALES RESIGNED SUNDAY AFTERNOON ALONG WITH HIS VICE-PRESIDENT ALVARO GARCIA LINERA.
MORALES WAS UNDER PRESSURE WITH PROTESTERS, OPPOSITION POLITICIANS AND THE ARMY AND POLICE CHIEFS INSISTING ON THE RESIGNATIONS.
SHORTLY AFTER HIS RESIGNATION, MORALES'S HOME IN COCHABAMBA WAS RANSACKED BY PROTESTERS WHO PAINTED MESSAGES CALLING HIM A MURDERER AND THIEF ON THE WALLS OF THE HOUSE.
HERE IS VIDEO OF THAT EVENT.....LINK
Bolivia's President Evo Morales earlier said there would be new elections bowing to pressure from demonstrators on the streets and the Organization of American States, which audited the results of last month's presidential election.
The OAS said it has found evidence of extensive manipulation of the election results.
Morales also saying that there would be a new organization to oversee the election.
Police abandoned confrontation with protesters in recent days and the military said it would not intervene.
Supporters of the long-time left-wing president claimed a "right-wing coup" was taking place in the hours leading up to his announcement of the new elections earlier today.
The leading opposition presidential candidate in the last month's election, former President Carlos Mesa, had said that Morales and his vice-president should not be candidates in a new election.
Mesa also said that Morales should not oversee the electoral process.
Spain's second election this year Sunday with the Socialists winners but a few seats under their performance earlier this year. The result is again a deadlock. A rise in support for the mainstream party of the "Right" the People's Party and a more than doubling of parliament seats for the anti-mass immigration Vox Party, dubbed the "Far Right" by the mainstream media.
As the vote count came to a conlusion for the 350 seats in the lower house of parliament, the Socialists stood at 120, People's Party 88, Vox 52, the left-wing Podemos at 35 and the conservative economic Citizens Party reduced to 10 seats. Separatists led by the parties in Catalonia also winning dozens of seats.
In Catalonia the Republican Left separatists won 13 seats, the Liberal separatists won 8 seats and the Left-Wing separatists won 2 seats.
In the Basque region 12 seats went to separatist parties and a new "Green" party Mas Pais won 3 seats.
Israeli politics and the leader of Yisrael Beitienu (Israel Our Home) Avigdor Lieberman calling for a national unity government involving Likud and the Blue and White Party, but excluding the more conservative and religious parties.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu making his apparent counter move adding New Right Party politician and former Education Minister Naftali Bennett as Defense Minister. in his caretaker government.
Forming a new government now in the hand of the Blue and White Party with many believing its efforts will fail leading to new elections which would be Israel's third in less than a year.
Five Italian soldiers injured when a bomb exploded in Iraq today. The wounded soldiers evacuated by US military helicopters. The Italians part of the international force to deal with the Islamic State.
More from Reuters......LINK
A crackdown on protesters this weekend in Iraq with various political leaders uniting to support an end to the protests. Live ammunition used Saturday night to clear bridges in Baghdad and continuing fights in the streets into Sunday. 15 protesters reported killed over the weekend.
The government now saying it is banning the use of live ammunition.
PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLING ON IRAN TONIGHT TO RELEASE A FORMER FBI AGENT WHO WENT MISSING THERE 12 YEARS AGO.
TRUMP TWEETING THAT IT WOULD BE A 'VERY POSITIVE STEP' IF ROBERT A. LEVINSON WAS RELEASED BY IRAN.
LEVINSON WAS CAUGHT BY IRAN INVOLVED IN A SECRET CIA MISSION IN 2007.
IN CONTRAST, THE PRESIDENT ALSO NOTED ON TWITTER TONIGHT THAT ENRICHMENT OF URANIUM BY IRAN THAT IS REPORTEDLY UNDERWAY WOULD BE A 'VERY BAD STEP'.
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley says 500 to 600 members of the military will remain in Syria.
Milley told ABC's "This Week" program they are there to counter the Islamic State.
In Turkish controlled northeastern Syria a car bomb killed eight and wounded 20 today near the city of Tal Abyad. The Turks blame the Kurdish allies of the United States for the bombing.
In northwestern Syria the Russian airstrikes continued Sunday with the anti-Syrian govrnment Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reporting seven civilians killed. Russian and Syrian air forces have been targeting Al-Qaeda and other jihadist opposition groups fighting the Assad government in Syria.
A Russian hacker wanted by the United States could be extradited from Israel:
"any time"
Israel's Supreme Court rejecting an appeal from Alexei Burkov.
His lawyer Michael Ironi told Russia's Tass News Agency that US Marshals have been in Israel for two weeks and are now free to take Burkov to the US.
More from Tass.......LINK
A state of emergency in two Australian states, New South Wales and Queensland, with officials warning of a catastrophic threat to the country's largest city, Sydney, in the next 24 hours.
Brushfires in eastern Australia have already killed three and destroyed hundreds of homes, but there are fears that the worst is yet to come.
ABC in Australia with more on the story........LINK
And for now that's the way it really is for Sunday November 10th, 2019.
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