The hearing will come to order. Thank you for coming to the committee today to testify. We know you are on a tight schedule and in order to keep you on schedule and ensure all members have an opportunity to ask questions i ask unanimous can send members will be recognized during the question and answer session for three minutes. Without objections ordered in the Ranking Member and i will be recognized for five minutes during the question and answer sessions. Without objections ordered we will both be recognized for three minutes and they will now yield myself threeminute but once again thank you for being here its been seven years since the chair of the Federal Reserve has appeared before this committee and we are very grateful for your being willing to do that i want to make sure that we support the independence and the repeated attacks are unacceptable and dangerous. I look forward to hearing the testimony and discussing Opportunities Congress and the fed have to support the workers
A holiday. That celebrates the achievements of independence and the fight against colonialism. Also, a head piece stokes shouldnt be resumed, and they shouldnt be based on common sense. But if it comes to that, of course, we need to understand who we can deal with in order to get to the signing of legally binding documents. Russia insists its ready to negotiate, to end the ukraine conflict because the us escalates the fighting by announcing the hundreds of millions of dollars in further military age to keep the just after 4 pm here in the russian capital. And youre watching r t international. I am your host donald quarter. Welcome to the program. Just a day from being ordered by the us top court in the hague, to prevent genocide and gaza and hold. Its offensive in the city of rafa. Israel has once again been pummeling the south of the enclave. The, the, the split it shows a recent is really attack on a refugee camp in con eunice, just 10 kilometers from rough on a missile strike hit a
Take a look at the numbers with ben lomin picking up over an inch of rain. One inch as well. More spot its for you with santa rosa. 84. Napa. 83. San francisco. 36. San jose a few hundred diagnostics of an inch. 08. At least moderate to heavy rain across portions of the bay area. On the radar we have some rain move across the area earler today. That was this morning. Just this time for the morning drive. Things have changed. We had scattered rain out there from this morning and then still a few pop up showers right now. There we go if the live doppler sweep. Some rainfall as you can see. Just to the south outside of sonoma. Moving the maps closer to san jose, morgan hill and santa cruz. You can still see coverage and looks like around the millpedas area. You can see whats developing out here in the pacific. There is circulation out here to the west. That is going be a stronger storm just in time for your friday morning drive. Really targeting Southern California. A lot of the Southern
Thement gone said today that several leaders were killed during strikes in iraq. Joining us live now from the white house, what do we know about this . The chairman of the voice chief of staff. Of course, tony, more than 1300 of them, the head of isil military operations in iraq, a key deputy to isil supreme leader. And a governor of the contested city in the areas around among those who were killed in strikes principally in the first week, and in late november as well. Of course, the coalition now stepping up the air strikes bringing in more partners into iraq to bring the fight to isil, there is a big offensive plan for the spring, as the United States and Coalition Partners continue to retrain key elements of the iraqi army, and top pentagon officials military officials p the equipment trying to cut them off, their supply lines in preparation to what is supposed to be a major offensive. Do they believe progress is being made. They believe progress is being made, still controlling a
Bollywood actor irrfan khan, who starred in Slumdog Millionaire and life of pi, has died at the age of 53. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Im victoria derbyshire. The Coronavirus Testing Programme is being expanded by the government. It will include all care home staff and residents, and anyone over 65. The government says the 100,000 target set by the Health Secretary is due to be met by tomorrow. Downing street is this morning still declining to say whether Boris Johnson will appear at Prime Ministers questions in the commons this lunchtime following his return to work. A recession on an extraordinary scale is predicted by spains Prime Minister following the outbreak. Over 58,000 us citizens have now died from covid 19. Thats more than the number of americans killed in the vietnam war. Almost 18,000 more people could die from cancer over the next year in england because of the impact of covid 19, according to researchers. Well have more on all those stories shortly. 0urfirst re