The u. S. Capitol. Amna and, saudi arabia and israel move closer to normalizing relations after decades of animosity, but many questions remain. I think its quite a high price and theres a lot of Wishful Thinking about the kind of gains that it could potentially bring. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. And friends of the newshour, including kathy and paul anderson, and camilla and george smith. Pediatric surgeon. Volunteer. Topiary artist. A raymondjames Financial Advisor tailors advice to help you live your life. Life well planned. The john s. And jane l. Knight foundation. More at kf. Org. And with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Amna welcome to the newshour. U. S. Senators are back to work in washington today after a monthlong rec
Of the leftwing national media. Today the president declared comey is not only a liar, but a confessed leaker as well. He held a rose garden News Conference in which said he will be able to testify under oath that he never asked comey for a loyalty pledge. That he never asked comey to drop the investigation into former National Security advisor general michael flynn. Fox news chief white house correspondent, john roberts, with our report. John there was a lot of anticipation about what the president would say about the testimony on capitol hill. It turns out he said a lot. In the rose garden President Trump spoke for the first time in public about james comeys testimony on capitol hill. He said he would be happy to tell the details of their meetings to robert mueller, under oath. The president said he never asked comey to shut down the investigation. I didnt say that. He lied about that. I didnt say that. And there would be nothing wrong about i did say that. But i didnt say that. Repo
Difficulties we faced in turkey is to explain this event to our international counterparts. It is very complicated and difficult to express, and one of the difficulties and one of the mysteries of this event is also tackles fighting against three terrorist organizations in the coup attempt, and also how turkey is in thiswith challenges era. We have to go back to the background to understand these. We will have four distinguished guests today. We will try to understand what happened in terms of Foreign Policy and Security Issues in the aftermath of the july 15 coup attempt. Also some background about this. Speakers. Have four isassador james jeffrey, who a distinguished fellow at washington institute. Our second speaker will be professor rene. She is an expert on Turkish Security of Foreign Policy. Our third speaker is criminal richard alston, colonel richard alston. The chair speaker is andecurity studies professor of international university. Seta mr. Ambassador. Let me tackle this fr
On earth made an appearance. Barack obama Security Advisors will be meeting at the white house this weekend to discuss syria and options is possible military action and follows a chemical weapons attack earlier this week and we look at how World Leaders are perceiving events. What will the world do about this, the dying and the dead . More than one thousand killed according to acvisits a many of them children and World Leaders say appears to be a chemical weapons attack in syria. U. S. President barack obama has been dealing with domestic issues but in an interview he called this a big event of grave concern. But mr. Obama says the u. S. Will not respond on its own saying the world needs proof of what happened here and who is responsible for it. Un inspectors are in damascus and the chief will arrive on saturday to try to negotiate access to the site of the attack. Experts say they dont have much time. These are nonpersistent agents in effect and kill people quickly and dissipate very
Aawww, congratulations a royal welcome the duchess of cambridge shows her support for new parents and maternity staff with a virtual visit. Grounds for concern brighton voice their opposition to the premier league finishing at neutral venues. Clubs have been told its the only way of restarting and completing the remaining fixtures for safety reasons. Good morning. We are waking up to a lot more cloud across england and wales today. Theres a lot of fine weather out there at the moment, but for some of us, the chance of some sharper showers heading on into this afternoon. Ill be taking a look at what your chances are in just a little while. Its sunday the 3rd of may. Our top story as the number of people in the uk who have died from coronavirus rises above 28,000 the second worst total in europe the Prime Minister has spoken for the first time in detail about his experience of being in intensive care with the virus. Speaking to the sun on sunday, he said contingency plans were made while