Now on Bbc News newscast. Today were going to talk about a lot about the Middle East. And we talked about it a little bit yesterday. But obviously its one huge big dominant News Story this weekend, notjust because its the anniversary of the terrible October The 7th attacks, but also because overnight lots of things have been hotting up still further with more strikes on the lebanese capital, beirut. Yes. Said to be the largest so far. So well get to that. And also ask, when this politics comes home, how will it influence this government, all on this Sunday Episode of newscast. Newscast. Newscast from the bbc. Hello, its laura in the studio. And paddy in the studio. And nick in the studio. Thank heavens youre here because theres this giant Middle East crisis, and its clearly going to have a big defining impact on this new labour government. Well, indeed. And it already has, because, as laura was saying on her show this morning, you know, you can directly say that labour lost five consti
Now on bbc news. Newscast. Today, were going to talk about a lot about the Middle East. And we talked about it a little bit yesterday. But obviously its one huge big dominant News Story this weekend, notjust because its the anniversary of the terrible October The 7th attacks, but also because overnight lots of things have been hotting up still further with more strikes on the lebanese capital, beirut. Yes. Said to be the largest so far. So well get to that. And also ask, when this politics comes home, how will it influence this government, all on this Sunday Episode of newscast. Newscast. Newscast from the bbc. Hello, its laura in the studio. And paddy in the studio. And nick in the studio. Thank heavens youre here because theres this giant Middle East crisis, and its clearly going to have a big defining impact on this new labour government. Well, indeed. And it already has, because, as laura was saying on her show this morning, you know, you can directly say that labour lost five cons
Matthew lee joins us to discuss the palestine conflict. Well talk with ed bingle a former customs and Border Protection official but minors crossing the border. Piece piece. Every morning on cspan at 7 00 eastern. President obama on monday awarded the medal of honor to formal active duty Sergeant Ryan pits. He held off the taliban during an attack on his unit. He the ninth recipient to be award awarded for the war in iraq or afghanistan. He is of the chosen few to receive this honor today as the nation pauses to recognize him. Our hearts are touched by staff Sergeant Ryan pits. He humbly insisted that his remarkable actions were simply was his duty it will always be on his loyalty to his unit. We acknowledge that devotion came from a faithful family who prayed for and supported him. We join our hearts together as we honor him today. We honor the courage and commitment of all who serve in harms way. This we pray in your holy same, amen. Good afternoon everybody. Welcome to the white hou
The house and Senate Taking up a hearing on u. S. Policy in iraq. Iraq continues to be a big concern in addition to the other conflicts. I know there were some concerns over the webbing end with jordan and iraq situation with them. Beyond hearings and there are not that i have my list in front of me. Beyond hearings i think again the probably one of the markka one twz of the webbing. We will have to keep watching for reactions in russia and ukraine and the middle east. At some point i think we will see calls for the u. S. To help ukraine ukraine. As i scan this hearing list, there is at least in the senate it specks to a lack of accountability. Accountability. They are also looking at Flood Insurance issues but appropriations was supposed to be big success of the month. That there was going to be big deals done before the recess happens. We may get some sense this week whether it will move at all. I just want to get your reaction to your colleague who was a story this morning leadershi
Particular. We didnt try to take on the whole envoy question for because the conflict ones had special characteristics. But tom, youre putting your finger on a problem. Because if you looked at the number of special envoys, and its almost the same from one administration to another, youre talking about 25 or more special envoys, and if theyre all supposed to report to the secretary of state, you realize, in addition to all the regular structures, you really have an unworkable structure. [ inaudible ] yeah. So its not bad to put these under some of them under a structured bureau, and therefore have an undersecretary who is handling more of that. And i think we have to be very careful about the proliferation in to areas that, again, sometimes become more symbolic. And i think deserves more attention. On the conflict with other policies, this is very important. We tried to deal with it a little bit, Richard Haass experience working on cyprus in relationship to our relationship with turkey