The and his daughter tamara are on their way to their refuge. And they can only get to it in a pinch collar and alter a military vehicle. Its not unusual full is still to be this much snow at over two thousand three hundred metres in light money its the start of the season for tamara and her father. The family look after the lots funds cross refuge. To do that they leave their home in the valley for five months and move up to the mt. You. All. Thats left of my little hints a sign that being back here for the first time after the long winter is a very nice feeling its like coming home when you enter the hut for the first time. It has its own special smell here weve been here for sixteen years now and i mean. When youre out here you think because i grew up here and this is where my love of the mountains was born. Its a summer jury in which tomorrow will experience a big adventure. And longer isnt just a hot war hes also a sacristan lets once crosses the highest altitude pilgrimage site i
European foreign fighters, than number of American Foreign fighters. The size of problem is completely different. European setting france, estimated 1200 individuals. Germany, the u. K. , in the six, 700s. Even smaller countries like belgium with staggering 400 individuals. Eastern European Countries, kosovo, very tiny country, 3, 400 individuals. These are completely different numbers from the u. S. Where the latest numbers given by the government, the fbi, talking about 200 individuals traveled or attempted to travel to syria. So, were talking about a much, much smaller number. A lot of people have actually been intercepted. People that went and fought there, that 200 number should be further reduced. I think numbers are deceiving from another perspective, here in the u. S. , there are legal tools, more general a certain attitude from Law Enforcement which is significantly moring a agressive than in most European Countries. A lot of very effective tactics that the fbi use, sting oper
Two minutes, then the ambulances took about eight minutes. I would say i was probably one of the first people on the scene that called the ambulances. Ambulances were here within 6 8 minutes. Ambulances. Ambulances were here within 68 minutes. Where is the vehicle . Im not sure. Its probably central, the middle part of the bridge that it impacted the most. Pedestrians, then it carried on up the pavement, around traffic, and carried on towards the shard area. Apologies for the noise, you can hear there are helicopters, at least five or six Police Searching the thames at the moment, all traffic is halted on London Bridge. You say police boats are on the river, why would that be . From the way i saw what happened, obviously it all happened quickly. There were about three people behind me. Three french people. These people are being treated by paramedics at the moment. They are injured, she told me in french that they did not know where the other people are. Police are checking the edge of
Please feel free as you come to your turn to introduce your family and friends who are here with you. We thank them for their willingness to support you and the efforts that youre getting ready to undertake. Thank you for being here. Thank you so much mr. Chairman. I dont have my two teenagers here. Many of you knew them when they were little babies and i was walking the halls with them because they are both back in dallas. I have my neighbor from virginia. We do hope to get you to nato by the time School Enrollment starts. Okay thank you. It is so important that my son start school on time so i think both of you for acknowledging that. I also want to thank you, mr. Chairman and mr. Ranking member for your courtesy throughout this process, and your leadership and the way you work this committee. I appreciate it so much. I appreciate all the members of the committee and i know how much you spend in time and effort to make sure our foreign policy, i ow our ambassadors and state departmen
Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We have a number of distinguished nominees here today and we welcome them. We also have a number of very distinguished introducers. We welcome you and thank you for coming to our committee. In order for you to be able to go ahead and do other Business Today we will defer relative to making Opening Statements and let you go ahead and do what you need to do. We look forward to those comments and we realize youll like to go elsewhere. I know senator mcconnel is coming today. Why dont we start in the order of seniority. We appreciate so much you being here. We welcome you all. Thank you for being here today. If you will, begin. Thank you mr. Chairman and Ranking Member of the committee. It is a pleasure to be back here. Sit the second time in less than a couple of weeks. Its not often i darken the door but as long as a president keeps nominating texans i promise to keep coming back often. She is truly someone that needs no introduction but i