And one ukrainian family lost everything in the russian invasion. Now, theyre rebuilding their life in america. I will always feel this pain for him, because i had normal life and he now, he has like different life. Major funding for pbs newshour weeke has been provided by certified planning professionals are proud to support pbs newshour weekend. And with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station fr viewers like you. Thank you. John good evening, im john yang. Almost from the very beginning of the israelhamas war seven months ago next week, aid groups have been warning that gaza was a humanitarian crisis in the making. And now, cindy mccain, head of the u. N. s world food program, tells cs meet the press the situation has reached a perilous phase. Cindy mccain what i can explain to you is there is full blown famine in the nort
There was testimony on the budget request and where theyre working to find more efficiencies in certain programs. This hearing is about 90 minutes. Subcommittee will come to order. Good afternoon to everybody. Thank you for being here. Really deeply appreciate our two distinguished witnesses here today to give us an inside look at the budget as it relates to africa. And where the challenges are, where funding will potentially increase. As you know, the appropriations budget that has passed the house clearly indicates that there were some differences of opinion as to how much and where we should be spending that money. And i think we have come to a consensus at least on the republican side that extraordinarily important programs like pep far, the emergency plan for aid relief, a number of refugee plans and a lot of other programs that deal with Infectious Diseases, like tuberculosis need to be funded in a very robust way in order to save lives and to mitigate dangers, especially to wome
Immigrants hang in the balance. Shannon is joining us now from the north lawn with the latest on negotiations. We are now hearing from the House Minority leader nancy pelosi saying there is no point in another stopgap bill without a daca deal. They seem to be pretty far apart. Shannon right. Jeff flake may think they are caused a deal. Lindsey graham may think they are close, but democrats think otherwise, and a lot of this will come down to where they are able to reach an agreement on the wall. Risk a building entity from their supporters if there is money for a wall. Trumps base and hartline supporters want that wall. They will not settle for anything less. There have been some talks about maybe a walllite. Something that looks like a wall and acts like a wall, but democrats can call it a fence and republicans can say they got a wall. Something we saw last year when there was a deal reached, with her was a great money to Border Security and repairs to fencing, but not an actual wall.
In fact, every signatory of the nonproliferation treaty which is every country except five in the world right now except inspections. That is why we have international thank you for being here. We deeply appreciate our two distinguished witnesses here today to give us an inside look at the budget as it relates to africa and where the challenges are and where funding will potentially increase. As you know, the appropriations budget has passed the house and clearly it indicates there are some differences is opinion as to where we should be spending that money and we have come to a consensus, at least on the public inside of extraordinary programs like the emergency plans for aids relief, refugee programs and a whole lot of other programs that deal with Infectious Diseases, like. Ellipsis. They need to be funded in a very robust way in order to save lives and to mitigate dangers to women and children. We also have a strong commitment on this committee and from our leaders in the state dep