The committee will come to order. Thank you all for coming today and to the witnesses for joining us today as we examine the current state of the u. S. Russia relationship and the strategy to deal with the Russian Federation. Its timely to assess the relationship with russia and as weve recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of the events that led to the collapse of the soviet union, the fall of the berlin wall, solidarity, selection, victory in poland and the baltic demonstrations among others. Many former soviet states had become prosperous democracies with memberships in nato and the eu. Mr. Putin has taken russia down a much darker path. Today Many Russians suffer with oligarchs enriching themselves to control the major industries. Russia rates its elections to ensure onlensure a week from und politician speak the cut. Russia is targeted and expelled humanitarian organizations and three Media Outlets labeling them as foreign agents. The russian people are in humanity imprisoned a
Watch prime time reairs on cspan or stream any time on demand pot cspan. Org impeachme nt. The House Intelligence Committee just concluded its fifth open hearing of the impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Lawmakers heard testimony from Deputy Assistant secretary of defense for russian, ukrainian, and eurasian affairs, laura cooper. And under secretary of state for Political Affairs david hale. We will show you that hearing now in its entirety. [silence] [inaudible background conversations] [silence] the committee will come to order. Good afternoon everyone. This is the sixth in a series of public hearings the committee will be holding as part of the house of representatives impeachment inquiry. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. There was a quorum present. We will proceed today in the same fashion as her other hearings i will make an Opening Statement that the Ranking Member mr. Nunez will have an opportunity to make a sta
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A permanent member of the of the Security Council a russian veto at the un signals the end of an investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria. This is our desire at live from doha also coming up. In the interest of the people of zimbabwe. Mr Robert Mugabe in my city zine Zimbabwes President rejects calls to step down military leaders say its the only way to ensure a bloodless transition of power. Amnesty international accuses all sides of war crimes the battle for control of matter we in the philippines. And how a trumpet ministration decision is being saluted by elephant hunters. Russia has vetoed a u. N. Security Council Resolution to extend the investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria last month u. N. Investigators found the Syrian Government was responsible for the chemical weapons attack in hansei coom in april in which eighty people died many of those were children diplomatic editor james bays reports from new york the tenth veto by russia in the un Secu
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