We have quite a few more. This is the time of year, and we have general todd walters, and i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with the from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and th
A peaceful settlement of the syrian conflict. Tonight at midnight were going to declare a cease fire to make it sustainable all work will be done effectively and rapidly and i must to into the humanitarian crisis in the region all the Syrian People who need help without discrimination will be given i and all the displaced people in the country will be able to be repatriated to their harms meanwhile turkey has deployed a 1000 Police Officers to its border with greece to try to help push back of refugees and migrants into its territory tens of thousands of migrants have been massing on the turkish side of the borders since last week when anchor announced it would no longer stop them from crossing into the e. U. But greece says those trying to enter are doing so illegally turkey has accused greece of using live fire killing for migrants thats been rejected by athens. Nearly 300000000 students globally have been affected by School Closures as countries impose strict measures to contain the
Military family i was always taught that its every citizens duty to join the military if you can you should so i want to go ahead and join and start a career. But of course i was 17 years old i had a boyfriend that encouraged me to go in so thats why they didnt give you permission to go. When i was in high school i was impressed with the marines but i had met. A colonel that used to run laps around the truck after soccer practice and. Youd be perfect for the marine corps because youre really smart and thats what the marine corps needs the professionalism. Everything about it inspired me. After i graduated high school i left for Orlando Florida which was the 1st time i was ever on an airplane and a life. I made. Really it was just wanting to go see the world because im from a really small town i had a College Scholarship to go play basketball but i instead opted to go into the military. You know what i chose to do. I come from a long line of military when somebody from every generation
Will also not apply to the United Kingdom truck justified the strict measures by blaming european leaders now dealing with a mass outbreak of cases. The European Union failed to take the same proportions and restrict travel from china and other hot spots with Financial Markets falling and a rising number of americans staying home from work trump also urged the u. S. Congress to put in place measures to provide Financial Relief if we are vigilant and we can reduce the chance of infection which we will we will significantly impede the transmission of the virus us corona virus infections now number more than a 1000 prompting local governments around the country to cancel large public gatherings closed schools and even ban fans from sporting events Late Wednesday the n. B. A. Suspended its season after a utah jazz player contracted the virus and in another stunning announcement hollywood superstar tom hanks and els t. V. And his wife also tested positive in recent weeks trungpa sought to c
Is the minimum 50 he stands so what i did if we had a we should wear a mask if we speak to each other and we should stay when we need it least from each other and then you know everything if closed but he really a bit about the east side meanwhile the European Commission says all of its 27 Member States now have confirmed coronavirus cases European Union leaders are due to hold an emergency Video Conference later on tuesday but coordinating their response to the outbreak china has announced the closure of all temporary hospitals treating coronavirus patients and rouhani president xi jinping visited the eppy said for the 1st time since the outbreak was discovered that it december the number of new reported sections in china also has continued to slow Margaret Harris a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization she says other countries should learn from chinas experience. We cant necessarily say what happens in one country always ups and happens in another country but there are really