NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT TUESDAY 6/6/2023 CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST PRO-LIFE MARINE WHO REFUSED COVID VACCINE, IRAN CLAIMS HYPERSONIC MISSILE, PRINCE HARRY CHALLENGES TABLOID JOURNALISM IN COURT

 

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A legendary Brazilian singer is dead and the flood said to have been caused by a Ukrainian attack on a hydroelectric dam but first...

                    LATE NEWS TONIGHT:

In Richmond, Virginia two are dead and others wounded when there was shooting incident after a high school graduation ceremony.

The shooting outside an auditorium at Virginia Commonwealth University where students from Huguenot High School has just graduated.

One of the killed an 18-year old student who had just graduated...WRIC RICHMOND

TUCKER CARLSON WITH HIS FIRST EPISODE ON TWITTER TONIGHT...TUCKER CARLSON TWITTER (VIDEO EMBED)

It's the third time that the Marine Corps has done it but again charges are being dropped against Lance Corporal Catherine Arnett.

She got into legal problems when she refused to get the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds linked to abortion.

Arnett recently released after spending 113 days in the brig.

A Marine spokesman indicating that she will be administratively discharged from the Marine Corps.

Fetal cell lines from abortions were used in the development of the COVID-19 shots...

                   TASK AND PURPOSE

The estranged entities in professional golf are merging.    The PGA Golf Tour and LIV Golf are joining with each other.

The two competitors were embroiled in a legal dispute until today.   DP World Tour golf is also involved in the merger...

                              BBC SPORT

In Israel today Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers following the funeral of a two-year old boy.

The child killed by Israeli fire during military operations against terrorism...TIMES OF ISRAEL

The United States sanctioning an alleged "procurement network" that helped Iran's military and missile program.

Seven people and six entities targeted in Iran and China...ANADOLU AGENCY-TURKIYE (TURKEY)

IRAN CLAIMING A MILITARY BREAKTHROUGH TODAY WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A HYPERSONIC MISSILE.

THE 'FATTAH' MISSILE TRANSLATES FROM PERSIAN INTO ENGLISH AS 'CONQUEROR'.

IRAN SAYS IT CAN EVADE ALL AIR DEFENSES.

PRESIDENT EBRAHIM RAEISI SAYS THAT THE MISSILES ARE MEANT FOR DEFENSE AND DETERRENCE...PRESS TV IRAN

More news related to Iran later in the summary...

The markets today.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 10.42 points.

The NASDAQ rising 46.99 points.

At 430 pm New York Time the price of oil 71 dollars and 47 cents a barrel down 68 cents...MARKETWATCH

Inflation in the Philippines at a 6.1 percent annual rate last month, down from 6.6 percent in April...CGTN CHINA

FRANCE:  PROTESTS AGAINST IMPOSITION OF PENSION REFORM

300,000 PROTEST IN PARIS ACCORDING TO CGT UNION, 900,000 NATIONWIDE

GOVERNMENT CLAIMS ONLY 281,000 PROTESTERS

                                                      (UPDATED)

Another nationwide day of protest in France against President Emmanuel Macron's imposition of pension reform including the higher retirement age of 64.

Incidents surrounding today's mass protest include a demonstration at the headquarters for the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Also, electrical workers cut power in parts of Paris where media and digital companies operate from the mainstream media seen as messengers for the Macron government.

Organizers for the CGT trade union say 300,000 protesters marched in Paris today...

                                VIDEO-PARIS PROTEST

  BFM-TV FRANCE MAINSTREAM MEDIA BLOG (TRANSLATION PROMPT)   

                     VIDEO-PROTEST IN MARSEILLE

A SAUDI MEDIA OUTLET SAYS THAT AN ISRAELI STRIKE IN SYRIA LAST MONTH WAS AIMED AT A SECRET IRANIAN UNIT.

THE STRIKE AT THE ALEPPO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SAID TO HAVE IMPACTED A MANUFACTURING OPERATION.

THAT OPERATION PROVIDES MISSILES AND OTHER PRECISION WEAPONS FOR IRANIAN AND SYRIAN MILITARY FORCES...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS

  THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

KREMLIN SAYS UKRAINE COMMITTED ACT OF SABOTAGE AT DAM

FLOODING AFTER HYDROELECTRIC DAM WAS DAMAGED

UN SECRETARY GENERAL EXPRESSED CONCERN FOR NUKE PLANT BECAUSE OF DAM BREAK

RUSSIA INITIALLY SAYS HYDROELECTRIC DAM WAS NOT BREACHED

AUSTRALIA, UKRAINE, US DISCUSSING TRANSFER OF DOZENS OF WARPLANES TO UKRAINE

              TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the destruction of the hydroelectric dam and power station (Kakhovka) today was an act of sabotage by Ukraine...TASS RUSSIA

The latest word is that flooding has occurred following the Ukrainian shelling of a dam...TASS RUSSIA

The UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres expressing his concern for the safety of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant following the dam break.   The nuclear plant uses water normally behind the dam to cool its reactors...TASS RUSSIA

Contrary to Ukrainian reports, Russia earlier said that the Nova Kakhova Dam in the Kherson Region had not been breached.

Shelling did cause some damage to the hydroelectric power station according to early reports...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)

A report from Australia says that the Australian government is talking with Ukrainian and US officials about the transfer of 41 FA-18 warplanes from Australia to Ukraine.

The aircraft has been decommissioned by Australia...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)

In other news...

(Updated) In Russia 32 dead and dozens of others being treated due to cider poisoning.

The poisoning linked to production of cider in the Samara region....

...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)... TASS RUSSIA STORY UPDATE...LATER TASS RUSSIA NEWS STORY

SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES GONORRHEA AND SYPHILLIS ARE AT RECORD HIGH LEVELS IN ENGLAND...BBC NEWS

MICROSOFT IS PAYING 20 MILLION DOLLARS TO THE US FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.

IT'S OVER THE COLLECTION OF DATA ON CHILDREN WITH XBOX ACCOUNTS...BBC NEWS

Today in the UK the court case involving Prince Harry and his legal challenge to tabloid journalism.   

Harry on the stand talking about phone hacking used to create tabloid stories about him.

A lawyer for the British tabloid "Daily Mirror" suggesting the stories came by other means. ..BBC NEWS BLOG

AND BRAZILIAN SINGER ASTRUD GILBERTO IS DEAD AT THE AGE OF 83.

GILBERTO REMEMBERED AS THE VOCALIST WHO SANG THE 1960'S HIT SONG "THE GIRL FROM IPANEMA"...ASSOCIATED PRESS-NBC NEWS...