Ever an indian Prime Minister pays an official visit to the occupied palestinian territories. Plus after releasing the republican memo on the russian probe u. S. President donald trump says no to the democratic republic. We begin with a dramatic confrontation in syrias war an israeli warplane has crashed after an iranian drone was shot down near the border with syria the syrian state t. V. Is reporting explosions and what it says israeli attacks near the capital damascus so heres how events have played out israeli media says an iranian drone was launched from a syrian base in the homs desert and shot down near its border syria denies the drone and israeli air space well shortly after that an israeli f. Sixteen war plane crashed in northern israel the jet had been targeting the military base in homs the Israeli Army Says it encountered fire with syria says it shot down the jet in response to an israeli act of aggression both pilots ejected and parachute is safely into northern israel on
Up the u. S. President donald trump refuses to declassify a democratic memo on the rusher investigation citing National Security concerns. Colombias former rebel group the fox suspends political campaigning amid security worries after angry protests. Also this hour breaking barriers in sri lanka as a Record Number of Women Candidates Campaign for seats in the forthcoming election. The first full day of competition at the Winter Olympics is now well underway in south korea later today the first medals will be awarded winners are set to be crowned and biathlon Cross Country skiing speed skating and ski jumping meanwhile away from the slopes on the ice rinks diplomacy is drawing almost as much attention as the games themselves live now to my colleague natasha can and so natasha i mean the choreography of this theyre getting down to the nitty gritty everything theyre looking after everything even right down to the symbolism of whats on the different menus today. Yes oddly enough that has a
Up next, the chiefs of the army, air force, navy and marine corps testify on their budgets and the impact of repeated continuing resolutions in place of more longterm appropriations for the military branches. Held by the House Armed Services committee, this is about two hours, forty five minutes. [ banging gavel ] the committee will come to order. After having explored the next steps of defense reform in yesterdays hearing, we now turn to what is needed to repair and rebuild our military, and im grateful to each of the distinguished Service Chiefs for being with us today. Theres widespread agreement that funding cuts under the budget control act, plus a series of continuing resolutions, coupled with a pace of required deployment have damaged the u. S. Military. I believe that damage has gone far deeper than most of us realize, requiring more time and more money to repair than is generally expected. Theres plenty of responsibility to go around for the current state of affairs, with both
Basically gave to al qaeda and the taliban a detailed explanation of what u. S. Strategy was going to be. And i dont remember the secretary of defense or other people last summer getting all hot an bothered about the mcchrystal leak. I think that was a far more egregious assault on civilian control of the military. Thanks very much. I really enjoyed it. [applause]. Youre watching American History t. V. All weekend, every weekend. On cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. At cspan history. Coming up, author and Professor John mcmanus talks about what happened in the days and weeks following the june 6th, 1944 dday invasion of normandy, france. He explores some of the challenges the allied forces faced, including the difficult terrain, and the german fortifications in the towns surrounding the beaches. This hourlong event was part of the National World war ii museums commemoration of the 70th anniversary of dday, in june. The focus today is post june 6th when to some exte
Since azerbaijans independence, in 1991, u. S. Aid has spent 55 million on programs to make the country more democratic. The country remains more undemocratic and is becoming more and more authoritarian. The u. S. Government presses on with multimilliondollars programs in azerbaijan. In 2012 us aid issues a 1. 5 million call, i want you to listen to this. That would enable key Society Organizations to better respond to the president s vision and calls for more meaningful and state Civil Society partnership fulfilling the governments commitments to various International Human rights instruments, end quote. The idea of u. S. Taxpayer dollars going to implement the supposed democratic vision of azerbaijans authoritarian president reinforces the notion that foreign aid is a scam. Ill give you an example from kazakhstan. This is a typical program. Youll see this in every part of the world. Im a eurasia specialist. My examples from the region, usaid worked with the 1. 5 million to increase t