Of the 737 max airplane at a hearing before the house transportation and infrastructure committee. Hes joined by boeing chief engineer john hamilton. This is just over two hours. Committee on transportation and infrastructure will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair be authorized to declare recesses during todays hearing. Without objection, so ordered. I also consent that the chair and Ranking Member of the full committee be recognized for ten minutes each during the first round of questions without objection. So ordered. Before i begin i want to explain an administrative matter regarding some of the documents we may use in todays hearing and will be entered into the record. Ill be making two requests in reference to two document lists, a and b. We have been advised by the house generally counsel that the constitution provided authority for us to release these documents and the documents from boeing, boeings attorneys agreed to the release of these documents. I see no
Hello. The United States plans to start withdrawing troops from afghanistan before next yea rs president ial election. Secretary of state mike pompeo describes his directive from President Trump as unambiguous end the endless wars. The afghan war is americas longest, with about 1a,000 us troops still there. Two were killed on monday in an apparent insider attack by an afghan soldier, and although peace talks continue with taliban militants, the chances of Real Progress look uncertain. Here is our north america correspondent peter bowes. This appears to be a sign that President Trump is increasingly impatient over a lack of progress over the last two years. He has a lwa ys over the last two years. He has always made it well known, as he puts it, that he prefers to end these endless wars. And this is currently americas longest war. He would rather be taking troops out than putting troops in or living with the status quo. I think the key is in terms of this phrase, he would like forces to
Hello. The United States plans to start withdrawing troops from afghanistan before next yea rs president ial election. Secretary of state mike pompeo describes his directive from President Trump as unambiguous end the endless wars. The afghan war is americas longest, with about 1a,000 us troops still there. Two were killed on monday in an apparent insider attack by an afghan soldier, and although peace talks continue with taliban militants, the chances of Real Progress look uncertain. Heres our north america correspondent, peter bowes. This appears to be a sign that President Trump is becoming increasingly impatient over a lack of progress in afghanistan over the last couple of years. And he has always made it well known that he prefers to, as he puts it, to end these endless wars, and of course, this is currently americas longest war. He would rather be taking troops out than putting troops in, or living with the status quo. And i think the key, in terms of the phrase of what mike pom
Major currencies this morning. Iain conn, the chief executive of centrica, which owns british gas, announces hes stepping down after a challenging period for the company. Poorer pupils trail 18 months behind the rest of the class once they take their gcses, according to new research. Coming up in sport, gareth bale pulls out of real madrids pre season trip to munich after his big money move to china was blocked by the club. Greg and amber and, as the winners of this years love island are crowned, well ask whats made the reality show such a success. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. A former high courtjudge says police may have broken the law in the way they investigated claims of a paedophile ring at westminster. Carl beech was jailed for 18 years last week for perverting the course of justice after lying about his claims. Sir Richard Henriques, who carried out a review of the Scotland Yard inquiry, claims that warrants to search the homes of some of those beech had accused o
The mountain has dominated politics for so long. Thank you for all the music scientists in canada tell us why playing an instrument to help us get ahead in life. Im welcome to the program a German Air Force pilot has been killed after 2 fighter jets crashed of the north east of the country for the euro fight to combat aircraft during a Training Exercise one pilot parachuted to safety well days a 2nd died in the incident of the crash occurred in the northern german state of mecklenburg western pomerania. Thomas aspiring tell us more welcome thomas what else do we know. Phil you mentioned the main aspect at this time namely the fact that one of the 2 pilots has been found dead the other pilot the 2nd pilot had been able to be rescued after he was found on top of a tree and he is apparently now in hospital although it is unclear whether his injuries are serious or how serious the injuries might be the latest information from the 2nd pilot as they say is that he was just found dead other a