The House Committee will come to order without objection. To chair is authorized declare recesses at any time. Welcome everyone to this hearing on securing americas election, oversight of government agency. I will recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Last month, this Committee Held part one of a series of hearings on securing americas elections. In that hearing, three witnesses who had jointly been chosen testified that our nations elections are under attack. The former director of the National Security council under both president clinton and george w. Bush warned that we must take hold and expeditious steps to address cyber threats. We must treat Election Security theecretary of state from commonwealth of pennsylvania elaborated. Election security is a race without a finish line line and our adversaries are not going down. This testimony has been confirmed by the leaders of our Intelligence Community. Foreign actors will view the 2020 election as an opportunity to review their
London with the top stories from europe including a Tumultuous Times in british politics continue on to the dramatic suspension of Parliament Prime minister Boris Johnson insists a new press it deal is possible. And this for somalia have suffered a world cup heartbreak against him by way a last minute goal denied africas lowest ranked team a place and the next round on the road to qatar 2022. So the u. S. National security advisor john bolton has been fired by President Donald Trump in just the past couple of hours in a tweet the u. S. President said he had numerous policy disagreements with bolton as did apparently others in the Administration Bolton was trumps 3rd National Security adviser we will have reaction from washington in just a moment but well start with this from mike hanna looking back at john boltons time in office we think the sanctions. Fighting john bolton was the 3rd National Security adviser pointed to by President Trump since taking office and hes the 3rd to resign
Arrives in afghanistan ahead of the president ial folks. Thank you for joining us one of the most powerful people in the white house is out of a Job National Security advisor john bolton insists he resigned but u. S. Present donald trump says he was fired because of disagreements over Foreign Policy bolton was known as a hawk who wanted the u. S. To take a hard line stance against countries like iran venezuela and north korea alan fischer has more from washington and youre going to do a fantasy job of it appreciate you i thought there had been growing divisions between john bolton to his course but the end was brutal even by the standards of this white house donald trump tweet saying i informed john bolton last night that his services are no longer needed at the white house i disagree strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration. Therefore i asked for his resignation which was given to me this morning bolton tweeted not the usual thanks for being able to se
Warplanes dropped 36000 kilograms of bombs on the island in the tigris river the Iraqi Military says the attack was part of a Larger Campaign to clear areas north of baghdad of any remaining eisel fighters including some who may have crossed from syria. The u. S. Led Coalition Says conners island had become infested with deisel fighters who are believed to be using the island as a transit hub and safe haven. At least 31 pilgrims have been killed at one of the most sacred sites muslims in iraq Officials Say about a 100 others were injured when a walkway collapsed and triggered a stampede in karbala the government fears the number of dead could rise Charles Stratford has more. Injured in a rush through the crowd stretches. Millions of shia muslims have gathered in the iraqi city of karbala to commemorate the deaths of hussein even early the prophet muhammads grandson who was killed here more than 1300 years ago witnesses said that when some people fell over slow put one of the entrances
Now. Also i mean the last few passengers are kicking in about 300 of the more than 600 you mentioned will take the 1st free flight today it will be followed by a 2nd flight on thursday we expect those flights to take off in the coming hours its been quite a long process theyve been issues around documentation some people not having the right paperwork some passports expired some people a small group of them have been kept back because they havent met the requirements by the the immigration and Home Affairs Department here in south africa we also know 1 that there have been concerns around a number of people being flagged by the department of home of face and thats caused a number of delays we know that the nigerian consulate has spent the last few days trying to assist people with the necessary paperwork so we are still to establish exactly how many people do indeed take this flight but of course many have said that they are weary of staying in south africa scared of of what may happen