NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 1/28/2020

NEW FIGURES FROM THE PENTAGON TODAY ON INJURIES SUSTAINED IN THE IRANIAN MISSILE ATTACK ON A US BASE IN IRAQ JANUARY 8TH.

50 TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURIES NOW REPORTED, UP FROM THE PREVIOUS COUNT OF 34.

32 OF THOSE INJURED ABLE TO RETURN BACK TO DUTY WITH 18 STILL BEING TREATED IN GERMANY AND THE UNITED STATES.

AT THE IMPEACHMENT TRIAL IN WASHINGTON TODAY A FINAL DAY OF DEFENSE PRESENTATION WITH ATTORNEY JAY SEKULOW SAYING THAT DIFFERENCES OVER POLICY DO NOT MEET THE LEGAL STANDARD FOR IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT.

The "Deal of the Century" Middle East plan rolled out at the White House today with a call for two separate Israeli and Palestinian states with Israeli settlement blocs being kept under Israeli control in Judea and Samaria (Palestinian territories).

President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appearing at a White House ceremony to announce the plan.....

Israel's "Ynet News"  reports......LINK

Today Israel's Attorney General formally filed indictments against Prime Minister Benjamin Nertanyahu in three corruption cases.

Israel's parliament set today to take up Netanyahu's request for immunity in the cases.

The Attorney General's action will lead to a trial........ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS STORY

Also in Israel today prosecutors asking for a court ruling in the case of Malka Leifer.   Leifer facing charges of child sex abuse at a Jewish school in Australia.

The court has heard testimony that Leifer is fit to stand trial which should open the way for her extradition.

Previously through the intervention of a prominent rabbi and religious politician in the Health Ministry, Leifer had been deemed unfit to stand trial.

Leaders of the Jewish community in Australia have appealed for Leifer's extradition.

THE NEW FIGURES FOR THE CORONAVIRUS RELEASED BY CHINESE AUTHORITIES WEDNESDAY MORNING (TUESDAY EVENING US TIME)  ARE 132 DEAD AND 5,974 CONFIRMED CASES.

SOME 60-THOUSAND ARE SAID TO BE UNDER QUARANTINE IN CHINA.

MORE DETAILS FROM "TASS"......LINK

Over the objections of the United States expressed repeatedly in the months leading up to today's decision the United Kingdom is allowing the Chinese telecom firm Huawei to participate in its 5G networks.

Restrictions are to be imposed that are said to keep Huawei out of "sensitive parts" of the networks.

More from the BBC......LINK

Here in the US federal charges against a Harvard professor and two Chinese researchers who are accused of helping the Chinese government.

Charles Lieber accused of lying about his connection to China's government and the researchers accused of being foreign agents.

MORE ON THIS STORY FROM THE BBC.......LINK

In Syria major parts of the key town of Maarat Al-Numan in southeastern Idlib are now in government hands.   The offensive against jihadist opposition forces moving forward in southeastern Idlib but a Turkish military convoy is reported moving forward southwards inside Idlib.

Yesterday President Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said to be in agreement in a phone conversation they had that "violence" needs to end in Idlib.

Syria's government warning that Turkey is involved in a plot to stage a fake chemical weapons attack and Russia's military mission warning of jihadists planning a "chemical weapons provocation".

A report on the Syrian government forces advances both in Idlib and to the west of Aleppo from "Southfront"......LINK

A motion submitted in Iran's parliament to pull that country out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The move in response to European singers of the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement moving away from it on grounds that Iran is violating it.

The story as reported by Iran's "Press TV".....LINK

The bodies of two Americans killed in Monday's crash of a US Air Force plane in eastern Afghanistan recovered today......FOX NEWS STORY

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.7 in the Caribbean Sea today in between Jamaica, Cuba and the Cayman Islands.

It was felt over a wide area including southern Florida.    There was a brief tsunami warning which was later withdrawn.

No reports of casualties.

In Peru tonight opposition leader Keiko Fujimori is back in prison to serve a "pre-trial" term accused of money laundering and corruption.

That's the way it really is Tuesday January 28th, 2020.