Good morning. This hearing on the subcommittee on readiness and management support will come to order. Today this subcommittee meets to receive the testimony from deputy secretary of defense David Norquist concerning the department of defense 2018 and 2019 audits. Last year when he was serving as the dod comptroller, secretary norquist completed the first dod audit ever. Soon thereafter secretary norquist was nominated and then confirm as deputy secretary of defense, withh Overwhelming Senate support from both sides of the aisle. He is a welcome wealth of knowledge on these issues and i thank you for being here today. To a lot of people, aside from a good friend senator perdue, who im hopeful will be here a little bit later, the dod audit might not come across as the most interesting topics in the world. However, Ranking Member kaine and i taket her oversight responsibility serious and are happy to havee this important d timely hearing. Another responsively take circe is one in providi
Limited the amount of potential damage it still sits off the coast of honshu as you can see in the forecast really for the rest of bundled into tuesday takes it out of the way completely so choose to stay daytime forecast is this one temperatures back in the thirtys is virtually nothing going on theres no breeze for a few showers some things trying to gather further west particularly of the Korean Peninsula maybe your concentration of right and eventually that will come back i think tokyo could be a wet one on wednesday to be arms in fact given the way theres nothing immediately trying to form the showers are all building again and you know in fact the whole of western china and the drifting in that direction late season rain may well affect hong kong the western yangtze sichuan as well and of course the hard drive right down through Southeast Asia you spot vietnam or myanmar or try and you can see is covered in this potential for rain south of that though it does die out and you get t
Point so why bother. Well because he wants to present the problem as being more notes of his but of the opposition parties not agreeing to an election when theyve theyve said for such a long time that they want one but plainly those opposition parties have made it very clear in the last hour or so that they will vote against him again this evening and given them the parliaments as charlie was saying in that report is going to be suspended for a full 5 weeks of this most critical time its hard to say the good ship United Kingdom is being anything else but bobbing around in the open sea with the engines cuts and the lights off lets take a few from Kevin Maguire who writes for the left of lean left of center news new statesman what is going to do when we when he when he loses patrick tonight says he is is he going to is going to resign do you think or what will it tough it out a bit longer well because parliament suspended actually the number of other news you can take is you know host he
Arrangements and if not then you might expect some sort of jockeying behind the scenes to see who my fancy having a go replacing him all of these things plainly are all happening at exactly the same time directly before Parliament Comes back and then the crucial European Council meeting in the middle of october and they have to decide if theyre prepared to agree to this to late subjects its that obviously is contingent on the being another election being being confirmed by then so no problem is not sitting yes everything still to play for indeed largely live for us there in london thanks last. Lebanese armed group has one less says its shot down an israeli drone outside the border town of rania its fighters say they now have the aircraft israel and Hezbollah Exchange far along the lebanese border just over a week ago so in a hot air has more from beirut. This is the 1st time since 2006 that hezbollah says its down to an israeli drone over lebanese territory in 2006 israel and hezbollah
A failure of statecraft for which we would be responsible for the behind the smiles there is tension irish Prime Minister veronica says there will be no concessions on the irish border issue and ireland would support an extension to the brics that deadline. The backstop continues to be a critical component of the Withdrawal Agreement unless and until alternatives are found. But we are open to alternatives but they must be realistic ones legally binding unworkable and we havent received such opposes todays meanwhile in westminster Jeremy Corbett and other opposition leaders met to plan their next steps. On monday a bill designed to block an exit deal becomes law m. P. s will then vote on government plans to trigger an early election but that vote is expected to fail Boris Johnson is then obliged to write to the e. U. Asking for an extension if he can present an acceptable deal to parliament by october 19th but the government says he will not request that extension. The Prime Minister is