US welcomes Saudi offer to send troops to Syria

These are some of the headlines we are tracking for you in this edition of Press TV's Top 5:

• The US says it welcomes Saudi Arabia’s offer to send ground troops to Syria, as the Syrian army retakes more areas from Takfiri terrorists.
• The French parliament debates changes to the constitution in the wake of last year’s deadly terrorist attacks in Paris.
• The US Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders appear in their first one-on-one televised debate.
• Official data shows industrial orders in Europe's largest economy Germany declined in December, 2015, due to falling domestic and eurozone demand.
• In Mali, a group of gunmen attack a UN police base and an army checkpoint in the city of Timbuktu.