Wednesday, June 5, 2024

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT WEDNESDAY 6/5/2024*DEADLY TRAIN COLLISION IN CZECH REPUBLIC*PUTIN TALKS ASYMMETRICAL RESPONSE TO WESTERN WEAPONS ATTACKS FROM UKRAINE*UKRAINIAN TERRORISM ARREST IN FRANCE*STAGNANT AUSSIE ECONOMY*

 


                              (SERVICE WHEN ABLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY EVENING)




                   LATE NEWS TONIGHT:




A FIRE AT AN OIL REFINERY IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA'S ROSTOV REGION TONIGHT FOLLOWING A DRONE ATTACK...TASS RUSSIA



An incident involving an explosion near a merchant vessel in the Red Sea today.   It happened off the coast of Saudi Arabia.  No damage to the merchant vessel...United Kingdom Maritime Trade Organization



AT LEAST FOUR DEAD AND 26 INJURED WHEN A PASSENGER TRAIN AND FREIGHT TRAIN COLLIDED TONIGHT IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC...INDIA TODAY


The Georgia Appeals Court pausing that case brought against President Donald Trump by Democrat Atlanta prosecutor Fani Willis for challenging the 2020 Election results


This is so the court can hear appeals from Mr. Trump and other defendants who want Willis removed from the case...ANI NEWS INDIA


TONIGHT, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN SAYING RUSSIA HAS THE RIGHT TO RESPOND TO WESTERN WEAPONS STRIKING RUSSIA FROM UKRAINE.


PUTIN SPEAKING OF WEAPONS GOING TO COUNTRIES THAT IN TURN WILL ATTACK THOSE NATIONS SUPPLYING WEAPONS TO UKRAINE.


MR. PUTIN SPEAKING WITH FOREIGN NEWS AGENCIES INCLUDING THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, REUTERS, GERMANY'S DPA AND JAPAN KYODO NEWS...RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)



Russia is requesting a UN Security Council meeting a week from Friday.


The meeting to discuss Western nations supplies of weapons to Ukraine to attack Russia...TASS RUSSIA


SLOVAKIA'S PRIME MINISTER ROBERT FICO SAYING IT WOULD BE A SMALL MIRACLE IF HE STARTED WORKING AGAIN IN SEVERAL WEEKS.


FICO CRITICALLY WOUNDED IN A MAY 15TH ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT.



HE SAYS THE ATTACK CAUSED SERIOUS DAMAGE TO HIS HEALTH.



MR. FICO SAYING HE FELT NO HATRED TOWARDS HIS ATTACKER ADDING:




                               "I forgive him"...



                           AL JAZEERA QATAR



The annual inflation rate in Russia moving up to 8.17 percent for the week of May 28-June 3...TASS RUSSIA





A HEZBOLLAH DRONE ATTACK ON A SOCCER FIELD IN NORTHERN ISRAEL WITH AT LEAST 11 WOUNDED.


NO ALARM WAS GIVEN BEFORE THE ATTACK.


ISRAEL'S MILITARY INVESTIGATING...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS



                 "We're just getting started"

REFORM UK LEADER NIGEL FARAGE REACTS TO LEAP IN POLL...LINK


BRITISH POLITICS A NEW YOU GOV POLL SHOWING REFORM UK AT 17 PERCENT A RECORD HIGH LEVEL.


THIS POLL FOLLOWS NIGEL FARAGE'S ENTRY INTO THE JULY 4TH ELECTION AS REFORM UK LEADER AND CANDIDATE IN CLACTON.


THE CONSERVATIVES AT 19 PERCENT AND LABOR REMAINS WAY AHEAD AT 40 PERCENT...WIKIPEDIA BRITISH ELECTION POLLS



The markets today.



 The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 96.04 points.




The NASDAQ rose 330.86 points or 1.96 percent.


At 458 pm New York Time the price oil has risen to 74 dollars 25 cents a barrel up one dollar or 1.37 percent...MARKETWATCH



IN FRANCE THE ARREST OF A 26-YEAR UKRAINIAN MAN FROM THE EASTERN RUSSIAN SPEAKING DONBASS REGION.



ANTI-TERRORISM AUTHORITIES ARE INVOLVED AFTER THE MAN WAS TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITAL WITH SERIOUS BURNS.



THOSE BURNS RELATED TO MAKING AN EXPLOSIVE THAT DETONATED.



THIS WEEK UKRAINE'S PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY VISITING FRANCE FOR D-DAY COMMEMORATIONS FOLLOWED BY A SPEECH TO FRANCE'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON FRIDAY...BFM-TV France (Translation Prompt)...



Also in France the story of a Palestinian woman detained and fined by police for an 'illegal protest'.




The woman wearing the traditional Palestinian keffiyeh head covering.



The woman in question noting that she was not participating in a protest.



The incident captured on video...


                          THE NEW ARAB



China reaffirming it will reunify with Taiwan on its own terms.


Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Mao Ning noting that both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to China.


She also said that the United States needs to observe the "One China" principle as the US has stated in the past.


Recently Joe Biden did not rule out sending the US military to Taiwan in case of Chinese military action there...TASS RUSSIA




A KNIFE ATTACK ON AN ALTERNATIVE FOR GERMANY POLITICIAN IN THE CITY OF MANNHEIM.


THE ATTACK, CONFIRMED BY THE AfD, TOOK PLACE WHEN CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE HEINRICH KOCH CONFRONTED A MAN TEARING DOWN ELECTION POSTERS.


MR. KOCH LEFT WITH CUTS FOLLOWING THE ATTACK.



A SUSPECT IS UNDER ARREST...BBC NEWS



Stagnation in Australia's economy with GDP growth just .1 percent in the first quarter.


Inflation a major factor in the slowdown.


There was .3 percent growth in the final quarter of last year and 1.1 percent since March of last year...NIKKEI ASIA






US OFFICIALS LED BY CIA DIRECTOR WILLIAM BURNS IN THE MIDDLE EAST NOW TRYING TO PROD ACCPETANCE OF A CEASEFIRE-HOSTAGE RELEASE DEAL INVOLVING ISRAEL AND HAMAS.



THEY ARE VISITING EGYPT AND QATAR AND MAY END UP IN ISRAEL AS WELL...TIMES OF ISRAEL




               THE ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

                                                          (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)


              MAARIV ISRAEL (TRANSLATION PROMPT)




                                ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS




                                        TIMES OF ISRAEL




In other news...



American Amanda Knox reconvicted of slander in Italy today.   


She will not serve any prison time.    


The slander case stems from her implicating bar owner Patrick Lumumba in the murder of her British roommate Meridith Kercher in 2007.



Knox served four years in prison for that murder before she was acquitted...BBC NEWS








   THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA

                                                       (UPDATED WHEN ABLE)



                     TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED




          RIA NOVOSTI RUSSIA (TRANSLATION PROMPT)





In other news....




A SUCCESSFUL LIFTOFF FROM CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA TODAY FOR BOEING'S STARLINER....NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)

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