A military briefing for a full year. When my dad was the artillery commander, they asked the second airborne to come visit. He was troubled. So i have touched royalty. Secretary wilkie is here for important testimony. Do i have the mic on . I can officially call the subcommittee on military construction, Veterans Affairs, and related agencies to order. I would like to welcome secretary wilkie, who is our witness this morning, joining us. Since this is our first hearing with some numbers participating remotely, i would like to begin by offering a brief explanation of how it will work, in order to benefit both members and the public. First, this hearing room has been configured to maintain the recommended six foot social distancing between members, witnesses, and other individuals in the room necessary to operate the hearing, which we have kept to a minimum. Some members have elected to use secure videoconferencing which allows them to participate remotely. For those on videoconference,
Turkeys president has just done millions of refugees to the European Union after it criticised this is authentic against kurdish militants in Northern Syria the loss of billions begin to flee the invasion. And austrian author peter honeycutt has won the 2019 nobel prize for literature and the whole of the polish author old up to par check is made to 2018 a year late. Im sumi so much thats good to have you with us we start here in germany where the countrys interior minister haas a whole file is warning that the threat of nationwide rightwing terrorism is very high they hope for was speaking at a press conference after an antisemitic attack on a synagogue in a nearby shop in the eastern city of hull it. He says the government would do everything it could to protect german jews and that given the legacy of the 2nd world war germany must ensure the jews can live in the country without fear the german interior minister also said wednesdays Fatal Shooting which left 2 dead had a shame to ge
State department has approved plans to sell 8000000000. 00 worth of f. 16 fighter jets to Taiwan Congress is expected to give the green light that beijing strongly opposes any arms deal with taiwan which it considers a breakaway province Gabriel Elizondo has more now from washington. Weve been hearing rumblings for several days now about this possible arms sale to taiwan but it was on tuesday that the white house gave formal notification to congress on their intention to pursue this arms sale to taiwan and it is a big one worth about 8000000000. 00 it calls for the sale of 66. 00 f. 16 fighter jets to the taiwanese if this goes through it would be the biggest arms purchases by taiwan in nearly 20 years now this also is part of the trumpet ministrations bigger plan since trump has been in office last 3 years or so to get closer relations to taiwan the Trump Administration has sent high level visitations everybody visitors to taiwan its opened a diplomatic offices in taipei and the Trump
Writing a book. When i started the movement, i gave a speech. I was invited to give a speech. People cried to that speech. People gave me two standing ovations. This never happened in the history of that conference. When i came down the stage, this lady came to me and she said, when are we going to read your story . And i thought, who would ever be interested in reading about my insignificant life . But that really sparked the idea of writing this book. Lamb when was that . Alsharif i gave the speech in 2012 and that is when i started writing it. Lamb where did you give the speech and why . Alsharif it was also a Freedom Forum and it was hosted by human rights foundation. It is based in new york and they invite activists from all around the world to tell their stories of standing against tyrants and standing and fighting for human rights. That was in oslo. Lamb lets start from the beginning. Where were you born . Alsharif i am born in mecca in the year of trouble, i call it, which is 1
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