Done an excellent job as second in command to secretary perry. So we welcome you back to the committee. Its good to have discussion with you last week. I want to thank you really want to thank you for all youve done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. Weve got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. Mr. Deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. So we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy secretary this morning. So senator cassidy, if you would like to proceed. We do have a full complement here this morning and a full house behind you. Hopefully the introductions do not consume our full morning, but we certainly welcome all the good comments. So senator cassidy. Madam chair, what a wonderful way to t
Demanding radical overhaul of the government. And a new report on the downing of a malaysian airliner over Eastern Ukraine in 2014 finds a strong link between top russian officials and separatist rebels. And we begin in gaza where a fragile cease fire between israel and the. Group appears to be holding despite sporadic rocket fire missiles were fired into israel just hours after the cease fire was declared to end 2 days of intense fighting 34. 00 palestinians have been killed in israeli asteroids including 3 women and 8 children thousands of mourners attended a funeral procession in gaza for 8 members of the same family killed in one of them. Reports now from gaza. The single deadliest moment in 48 hours of fighting an israeli airstrike destroyed this house in central gaza killing 8 members of the same family including 5 children the israeli army said the target was runs me. An Islamic Jihad commander. They gave no warning usually they do but this time they killed a whole family its no
The surviving 5 hits and picking apart just what happened with the downing of flight m. H. 17 over ukraine you evidence links to high ranking russians. Starting in gaza where a ceasefire between israel and Islamic Jihad appears to have broken down less than 24 hours after it began its ready forces say theyre hitting what they call terrorist targets in the strip after the group fired rockets itself into israel most of those rockets were intercepted by israels anti Missile Defense system this fighting between the 2 sides began on tuesday after Israeli Forces assassinated a Senior Leader of Islamic Jihad to gaza since then 34 palestinians have been killed just past 2 am in gaza heres harry forced it to bring us up to date. Well yes kemal in the last hour maybe a little bit more israel has begun another round of airstrikes the Israeli Military tweeting that it was again targeting explicitly Islamic Jihad sites they blame Islamic Jihad both around of rocket attacks in recent months and expl
By the iron dome around nightfall the 2nd one around 8 pm local time which fell inside gaza and territory it was after that in the early hours of this morning that israel began to respond its military tweeting that it was doing so because of the breaches of the cease fire that had taken place during the course of the day there were also protests in the streets in some locations in gaza with people unhappy with the cease fire especially given the loss of life that we saw during the course of the previous night children also killed saying that more rocket fire should be carried out Islamic Jihad said sending out a statement saying that it was ready on standby with its finger on the trigger to respond should there be further attacks by israel so saying it had a new missile available to it domestically produced one it said which had a range of some 120 kilometers on the other side of the gaza border fence we heard late last night that the communities the israeli communities around the frin
There was a vigil for a black man whos been on death row in the u. S. Killing a white woman in the 20 years of. A ceasefire in gaza between israel on the Group Islamic jihad has broken down less than 24 hours after it began just a few hours ago Israeli Forces bombed numerous targets in response to rocket Fire Fighting between the 2 sides began on tuesday after Israeli Forces assassinated a Senior Leader of the Islamic Jihad in gaza 34 palestinians have been killed since then the force that has more now from gaza. Well the early hours of friday morning another round of airstrikes from israel targeting it said Islamic Jihad sites in the gaza strip were hearing they were largely empty training grounds and the like but some of them were close to residential areas so some damage done to people injured after what had been a day in which it was proved it was already a tenuous cease fire. The single deadliest moment in 48 hours of fighting an israeli airstrike destroyed this house in central g