Briefing that weve just received led me to believe it is a hoax Democrats Press the white house on just how much donald trump knew about allegations that russia paid taliban fighters to kill u. S. Soldiers. And protests in ethiopia after a popular singer and government critic shot at. And in school the africa cup of nations has been postponed by 12 months due to the coronavirus the continents biggest sporting event will now kick off in cameroon in 2022. Now china is imposing a new security law on hong kong 23 years after it took back control and promised a one country 2 systems policy its been signed by chinese president xi jinping and is now in force critics say the legislation erodes hong kongs freedoms adrian brown reports. It normally takes a year for Chinas Parliament to pass legislation this time it happened in record time just 40 days the new security law completed its passage after a vote by the countrys most powerful political body the Standing Committee of the National People
There is some mist and fog and a few showers around this morning. They will give way to a dry and decent with sunny spells. Later, some rain in Northern Ireland. Details coming up. Good morning. Its monday, 18th march. Vladimir putin has claimed victory in russias president ial election. Without any serious opposition, a fifth term was seen as inevitable. At least 80 protestors have been arrested across the country for vandalising Polling Stations. Foreign secretary David Cameron hasjoined other western governments in shunning the result. He said, this is not what free and Fair Elections look like. Our russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports. Foeradimir putin, six more years in the kremlin. Russias president is sounding more confident than ever. Translation whoever might | want to intimidate us, whoever might want to suppress us, our will and our conscience, they have never been able to do it, and never will. Then, mr putins first Public Comments on the death ofjailed Opposition Leader A
The scope of safeguards and there could be some extensions of authority that are appropriate as part of this agreement. The iaea will require continued Financial Support. The process for Financing Agency activities is to get approval i should wind back again. The iaea is a member of the United Nations family of organizations. As such, it has its own membership and has its own budget and a formula for assessing members in accordance with approved budget to carry out programs. To change that requires today the approval of the 35 governors which is very difficult under any circumstance so whether all 35 would be enough or whether it forcing it to a vote is unusually not the way that the agency would operate. So i would hope that part of the American Perspective on how it can make this effort succeed is to consider a contingency grant to the agency of something on the order of 50 million which sounds like a nice round number but it is much smaller than the i have to say, i dont know exactl
7 00 tomorrow. We will see you then. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] the president will argue today that it would be a historic mistake if congress blocks the Nuclear Accord with iran. He president will frame the decision before lawmakers as the equential foreignpolicy issue since the decision to go to war with iraq. He needs the backing of enough democrats to fight gop opposition. The white house says it has enough democratic support to a pulled a veto. Read more at the hill. Com. We will have live coverage of the president s speech today at American University starting at 11 20 a. M. Eastern. To post yourble thoughts on facebook and twitter. After the president s speech we will be taking your phone calls. Coverage on capitol hill over on cspan3 getting underway momentarily. The Senate Banking committee on the iran sanctions. That hearing is underway. Following on cspan3. Agreement with National Security experts also talking about the role of the International
What do you think about that concept as you see the numbers coming up from this initial budget release . Guest i feel whoever we give money to that we have to evaluate the program and make sure there doing what they are oing, ed to be dbut is budget focuses on verans, security, and the litary. And it is cutting programs that are really good and really important like in the state department. I would like to think we would put money behind diplomacy first and then war secondarily. Ive talked to people in the military that think this is devastating that the cuts would be that high. In our environment, there is no question that there is climate change. There is warming. I think that 99. 9 of scientists would say that, yet we are still cutting deeply and that agency. The potentialat state department cuts, what programs are going to be most affected and what do they do for diplomatic effort in what you see happening if these budget numbers go through . Guest working with the countries and he