I dont welcome im peter w. Watching the news hour live from my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes Iraqi Forces Say theyve seized key locations around kirkuk has there been some Kurdish Peshmerga positions plus. We cant understand this president and confusion. The Spanish Government reminds Catalan Leaders they have until thursday to withdraw their bid for independence. For the first time in fifteen years israel approves the construction of illegal settlements in hebron city in the occupied west bank also. Anger and sorrow somalis are in mourning over at least two hundred seventy six people were killed in the capital mogadishu. And support call in cap or neck fights back the american football quarterback who took aim at n. F. L. Games filed a lawsuit saying he hasnt been signed and f. L. Owners are called. We begin this news in iraq where theres a Major Military operation underway in the north the iraqi army and its allied militia are advancing on kurdish cont
Shouldnt pay a lower tax rate than my secretary, so we put in what we call the buffett rule so that there will be at least a minimum income tax charge for millionaires so that they pay at least as much on an income tax rate as their secretaries. Sound radical . I dont think so. I think it sounds reasonable. So does mr. Buffett. We take the revenue that comes in from charging the millionaires that we just talked about under the buffett rule and we apply it to the refinancing of college debt. Thats how we achieve this. Thats how we get it done. This bill would help people like grace staydy. She is from champaign. She took out a 33,000 federal student loan to get a degree in special education and shes just completing her first year at a teacher in a lowincome School District in illinois. In a letter she said haoeupl shocked and im shocked and distressed at the way my Student Loan Debt continues to multiply. She says she makes her faithfully every month but the debt continues to rise as th
Been arrested. Welcome to the programme. President trump has condemned those involved in what he called the heinous attack on the Capitol Building, after criticism of his response to the riot. In a marked change in tone from yesterdays comments, he said he was outraged by the violence and that he was turning his attention to a smooth and orderly transition of power. His video was posted on twitter, after a brief ban on his account appears to have been lifted. My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for healing and reconciliation. 2020 has been a challenging time for our people, a menacing pandemic has upended the lives of our citizens, isolated millions in their homes, damaged our economy and claimed countless lives. Defeating this pandemic and rebuilding the greatest economy on earth will require all of us working together. Our north america correspondent peter bowes watched the clip, heres his reaction. This is a very signi
Administration, leaving 13 days until the inauguration of joe biden as the 46th president. And what a uniquely dark time in our modern history. This was, of course, the day after our humiliation on the world stage, an embarrassing, violent spectacle of american citizens looting and defacing our own capitol, which they overran and entered with ease. Tonight donald trump in something of a hostage video recorded remarks written for him on a teleprompter. He denounced the violence that he incited. And in a shocker to his base, he admitted hes out of there 13 days from now. I would like to begin by addressing the heinous attack on the United States capitol. Like all americans, i am outraged by the violence, lawlessness and mayhem. I immediately deployed the National Guard and federal Law Enforcement to secure the building and expel the intruders. America is and must always be a nation of law and order. The demonstrators who infiltrated the capitol have defiled the seat of american democracy
House sergeant at arms, and he complied with that demand, and he has now resigned. The Senate Sergeant at arms is responsible for security concerns at the u. S. Senate. The majority leader in the senate, of course, is republican mitch mcconnell. Just in the last hour, he too asked for the resignation of the Senate Sergeant at arms, who then resigned immediately. Senator chuck schumer, who is the Democratic Senate leader, he had said earlier today that if the Senate Sergeant at arms didnt resign by the time schumer and the democrats take over with the majority two weeks from now, schumer said that he would fire the Senate Sergeant at arms on day one. Well, now mcconnell has asked for that resignation, and the Senate Sergeant at arms has resigned effective immediately. Speaker pelosi today also called for the resignation of the head of the u. S. Capitol police. After some sort of unexplained dithering over that, over the course of the afternoon and then a statement by the u. S. Capitol p