good to be with you, i m katy tur. as you can see, president biden is in tampa, florida. using this week to sell what he was laying out during the state of the union, the economy and jobs and protecting medicare and social security. let s listen in. nice and warm like down here. talk about how we re building an economy from the bottom up and the middle out. i m so tired of trickle down economics. trickle down on my dad s table when we were growing up. i came to florida to talk about a critical piece of that plan, giving families and seniors just a little more breathing room, my dad would say, to lower your health care costs. and especially important here in florida, as not surprising to any one of you, you have the highest percentage of seniors of any state in the nation. the highest percentage. folks on fixed incomes, rely on social security and medicare to get by. they deserve a greater sense of security and dignity. that s what my plan offers. to many americans, laying i
we skipped ahead there. we re going to talk about mh-17. a dutch prosecutor today implicated vladimir putin in the shooting down of mh-17 in 2013 over eastern ukraine by russian separatists. what exactly did they say vladimir putin knew about it? and remember, this killed 298 people aboard a passenger jet that was headed for southeast asia. the joint investigation team, prosecutors of several countries, including the netherlands and ukraine, they announced that there are strong indications that putin was personally involved in sending the book missile, that downed flight mh 17 to eastern ukraine back in 2014. and there were also some other information, evidence of his personal involvement.
other stories now that are making headlines around the world authorities in pakistan have a rest of the suspected mastermind of a series of attacks on the indian city of mumbai back in 2008. founded the islamist militant group lashkar e tayyiba which india and the united states blame for the attacks you as president donald trump has praised pakistan for work the arrest turkey has said that it will retaliate after a gunman shot dead one of its diplomats in iraq at least one other person was killed when the attacker opened fire in a restaurant in your bill in iraq s kurdish region there has been no claim of responsibility in the netherlands families of those killed in the malaysia airlines of flight m.h. 17 tragedy are marking 5 years since the disaster most of the victims were dutch the plane was shot down in eastern ukraine killing all 298 people on board 3
while the families of those killed on flight m.h. 17 received justice the malaysia airlines flight was shot down over eastern ukraine 5 years ago today we look at where the investigation stands. times to me so much kind of thank you for joining us members of the european parliament have made history by electing the 1st woman as commission president germany s outgoing defense minister was enough underlined one lawmaker support for the role as she s promised her quote united and strong europe saying she would work constructively and pragmatically to achieve it she was voted in by a narrow majority. uncertainty until the very last minute. the members of the european parliament knew their vote on the next commission
real risk today the public has understand without the journalists that are being honored by time magazine today you know a lot of facts that are really important you just take the situation in myanmar where those two very brave reuters journalists are you know in jail i believe for up to eight years for just simply exposing the facts of what happened and in myanmar in terms of the outrages against our head and so without that kind of reporting democracy and you know could not function and that s i think what we have to remember today. you know there was a story when i spoke about two years now when corey. published a report about the shooting down of flight m.h. seventeen over ukraine and your report said that it had been a russian missile that had done that and what followed during that reported there before there was this campaign of disinformation misinformation and even there was a man reportedly was funded by russia to come in and says it please storm your