guys. if you could take your seats, please. thank you. so we ve got three experts here who have expertise with both oversight from the executive and the legislative branches. they are going to help draw a picture for you, literally, the nuts and bolts of oversight. so from your left, we ve got, wait a minute. oh, yeah, here we go. from your left, we ve got austin evers who founded american oversite in 2017 after serving on the state department on oversight and transparency issues. then we ve got andy wright, a senior fellow and founding editor of just security. he s a research scholar at new york university school of law as well. pertinent to this discussion, he served on obama s white house counsel and was staff director to the house oversight committee. and then we ve got justin rood, the director of the congressional oversight initiative at pogo. he was also a senior investigators on two senate committees. he bridges reporting skills to his work, having worked at abc news
several deaths have been reported. security forces tried to break up a sit in there, which has been going on for weeks. the demonstrations have also spread to other cities including the provincial capitals of lahore and karachi. the bbc‘s south asia regional editor, anbarasan ethirajan, is following the story. islamabad, pakistan s capital city, turned into a battle zone. police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the islamists, but they came prepared, and responded with stones and bricks. several police vans were on fire. many injured were taken to hospital. at one point, the police had to retreat as hundreds more demonstrators turned up unexpectedly. after failing to disperse the islamists, the government has asked the military to restore order in islamabad. the islamists have been blocking a key highway for weeks, demanding the sacking of a government minister who they accuse of blasphemy. the protesters are defiant. translation: we re protesting against the op
in florida and in parts of the caribbean government and aid agencies are preparing for one of the biggest relief operations the region has ever seen. hurricane irma has now been down graded to a storm but as it travelled across the caribbean to florida it killed at least 30 people and caused widespread destruction. our first report is from florida where up to six million homes are still without power. aleem maqbool reports. after a day of darkness and fury, miami opened its eyes to the aftermath. this city is now littered with the debris of the hurricane. boats were even lifted clean out of the bay and dumped on the shore. people here are emerging from the shelters and barricaded homes to try to start clearing up. so you got out this morning and what did you find? sheer devastation, everywhere you look. i mean, the parking lots are flooded, cars, trees falling down. in spite of all the preparation, millions are now without power. the financial district of the city has been ba
all right. great. we ll get started now. i would like to introduce our keynote speaker. he served as the south korean ambassador to korea and austria. minister chao worked on a variety of issues including trade, nuclear security and climate change policy. he was also a visits process sore. please give a welcomed round of applau applause. we ll have him come and give his remarks. thank you. good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. i m delighted to be here today to attend this forum cohosted by the csis. today i would like to talk about the three challenges korea has been facing and how crucial the alliance has been in overcoming those challenges. my remarks today however are not an expression of the official position of the korean government as in fact i do not deal with the issues i m going to talk about today. i would rather present my own personal observation and the korean policy on these challenges or issues. 20 years ago i would you say here in washington, d.c. working a
years ago, covering that fateful day in dallas. what the kennedy assassination did for me was forever to keep me aware of the fragility of everything. three rounds fired in 15 seconds changed the course of history. woodruff: those are just some of the stories we re covering on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and friends of the newshour. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ifill: the senate s long- festering fight over filibusters came to a head today. majority democrats pushed through a rules change making it eas