Officials in the state department the pentagon u. S. Agency for international developmen■n tes■4■;fi the pacis region. They also considered some of the challenges the island nation face including Climate Change, e and chinas presence in the region. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing is just over 90 minutes. [background noises]■ this hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. For thousands of years pacificfq islanders have been masters of the seat navigating oceans by canoe guided only by the stars. With Climate Change and globalization h yitting their sh innovators on how to save their heritage. There are over a million and a half americans and pacific from freely associated state serving in the United States armed forces. This put people to people ties at the heart of our reliohi a ps been a vital and Strategic Interests of the United States. During world war ii u. S. Navy built an airstrip what is now nation. But today it is the peoples
Happening that day . October 4, 1930, is 770foot long airship, the largest thing everer clung, larger than the titanic about to take off on a trip which was in india as part of scheme by the British Empire and it was kind of a moonshot. One of your chapters is titled dream and imperial vision, hows much was the airship . A nice combination of all of them, airships as it turns out were competing with airplanes in the early century, starting in the first decade. Nobody really knew what was going to be the future of aviation back then. Both of them crashed all of the time. The problem with airships as we will see as we talk today is that there was a fundamentally flawed idea that essentially 40 years to play out completely, the airplanes crashed all of the time in the early days and they were fundamentally sound that could be improved. Part of what i am riding about is the two writing about, it is the focus of all of this effort to persuade people that airships were the way to go. A good
This is bbc news. The headlines the israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, gives a statement saying the country is preparing for a Ground Invasion, but doing Everything Possible to bring hostages home. He encourages Israeli Citizens to carry weapons. Some aid gets into gaza, but the un warns it will have to stop its operations in gaza tonight if it runs out of fuel. The us House Of Representatives elects little known republican mikejohnson as its next speaker, breaking the three week deadlock in the chamber. And in westminster, mps vote to suspend former conservative minister peter bone after investigation found hed bullied a staff member. Hurricane otis hits southern mexico, Slamming Ashore near acapulco as a category five storm before weakening. Welcome back. More now on our main story. Next more on the war between israel and hamas and the bombardment of gaza from israel. The Hamas Run Health Ministry in gaza says more than 6,500 people have been killed since the start of the co
Jack smith has secured his most valuable witness yet, mark meadows. Prosecutors dont hand out agreements like candy. Mark meadows was at the center of so much of this. He could speak to trumps mindset in a very specific way. Welcome, everyone. Im poppy harlow with Phil Mattingly in new york. We begin with the federal election interference case against donald trump. The former president s Chief Of Staff mark meadows we learned was granted immunity by special counsel jack smith and met with his team more than once according to a abc news. He allegedly told investigators he didnt believe the election was stolen and talked about this moment on election day in november 2020. Frankly, we did win this election. We did win this election. [ cheers and applause ] meadows reportedly telling investigators that he believed trump was being dishonest and saying that cnn anchor of the source, kaitlan collins, joins us now. We have been asking for, i dont know, a year plus, whats up with mark meadows .
Crucially virat kohli was still at his end. Indias sports icon was there to guide his nation through. He scored 95, his team were there with balls to spare. At this home world cup, they have five wins from five. India at their peak atjust the right time. We got the result but also bumrah are, and siraj, they took wickets and that a0 overs held us back a bit but we knew if we could have taken wickets early, as we showed through the middle, try to apply pressure, then we can take the game deep and do what the black caps do and fight until the end and you never know. Pakistan have hit the fewest sixes of this world cup so far and their opening batter iman ul haq has been giving his team a bit of dietary advice to solve the issue. He believes it is time for his team to eat more protein and not that much carbohydrate. Pakistan will face tricky opponents afghanistan in their next match in chennai. Afghanistan have defeated the defending champions england during the tournament, while pakistan