And today the president of the United States, joe biden, has already signed this bill and said that this aid will make both america and the whole world safer. It will make america safer, it will make the world safer, it will maintain americas leadership position in the world, and everyone knows it, by providing vital support to americas partners so that they can protect themselves from threats to their sovereignty and to the lives and liberties of their own. It is also an investment in our security, because when our allies are stronger, and so are we. Aid is already on its way, they say in the United States, but where exactly . Most of the approved package will go to help ukraine, it is a wellknown sum of 61 billion dollars. It is worth adding that almost 50 billion of this amount is allocated to the Defense Industry of the United States. More than 26 billion will be spent on military aid to israel and humanitarian aid in the gas sector, and 8 billion will go to taiwan and other allies
Because it is definitely the last thing we want right now is for anyone to be watching this and think oh, no it is going in the wrong direction we hope 24 hours later since last night it thinks at least trending in a peaceful direction than what we were seeing. Will israel retaliate for saturdays strikes. Seeing wider conflict is ahead and that america could get dragged into it. Also tonight, pretrial tantrums, trump on the attack against key figures in his hush money trial. And on the lead back to your rights. Lets begin. We are continuing to follow this weekends major escalation across the middle east. Iran Launching Hundreds of drones, missiles, towards israel on saturday that it says probably a conflict in syria this afternoon. Some top u. S. Officials are worried that israel may in fact respond hastily and could drag the u. S. Into a conflict. We will dive in deeper in just a moment. In the past 24 hours we have seen a swift change in narrative. Much of the world focused on condem
Businesses, peter higgs, and how his discovery re shaped our understanding of the world. The breakup is good to have you with this. It is the 1st court ruling of its car in today. Europes Top Human Rights Court ruled in favor of a group of swiss pensioners who had argued their governments in action on Climate Change has put their lives at risk. A landmark decision that could influence legislation all across europe and give a boost to activists who say their governments are failing to tackle global warming. Of these women have made climate history some 2500 swiss pensioners through their own government because its handling of the Climate Crisis put their health at risk. The european human rights question strossberg funds ruled in their favor. A landmark decision cementing the idea that governments clements in action can violate human rights as the step by step talk, this is the best they. Yep. Thats we have the right thing history. And as i pushed on the way i understood it, switzerland
[applause] conference about identity com. Rosenworcel good afternoon. Thank you to everyone for being here today. You got me somewhere between senator and the Deputy Attorney general. So its a treat to be back at the state of the net conference and a special thank you to the Internet Education Foundation for having me and thank you for the good work you do to foster conversation about internet policy. Upfront i think i need a disclaimer. As a commissioner at the fcc speaking at the state of the net Conference Im going to defy some expectations today. Im not going to talk about Net Neutrality. I support Net Neutrality and i voted against last months this is an to last months decision to roll back those rules and i made a ruckus and there is no shortage of place where you can read my heated and sometimes fiery take on what happened. But today instead of talking about the substance of Net Neutrality i want to use it as a launching pad and i want to go big and discuss policymaking in the i
This event today. Im delighted to welcome the only rao to speak here. She is the administrator of the office areas information and regulatory affairs. For everybody in this town, commonly known as oira. Her appearance today is reminding me of one of the first events i ever did here at brookings. I hosted, it was probably eight years ago, the oira administrator. I was a little bit nervous, i was Walking Around outside getting warmed up, and there was a group of protesters out front, one of home was wearing a full on oscar the grouch costume with a trashcan and a sign. Were singing a very creatively written song called oscarsash, a play on famous song i love trash. I will say, it was effective, because without that i would never have remembered the coal ash disposal rule. Guardedly, there is nothing so exciting happening outside the room today, which is well enough. The story does highlight a serious point, which is that the job of oira administrator is almost always controversial and fr