Threatening International Security with its latest missile test. Brazilian federal prosecutors have begun an investigation into the recent spike in fires burning across vast areas of the amazon rain forest. Jair bolsonaro ask for International Help saying his government lacked the resources to tackle the flames alone. Hisonaro repeated accusations that Environmental Charities started the fire to make him look bad. Amazon is bigger r than euro. How can you fight criminal fires in such an area . It is clearly criminal. How can you do it . You need to catch them in the act. Otherwise there is nothing you can do. Nongovernmental organizations are losing money. Money they came from germany and norway. They are unemployed, so they are trying to overthrow me. The number of fires currently burning is the largest since records began, up 84 on the same time last year. Theamazon produces 20 of worlds oxygen. Emmanuel macron has described the fires as an international emergency. Fires engulfing la
Union sign a deal to above the u. S. Beef exports to the e. U. , a small item on trumps long list of issues with the European Union but might win him votes from farmers. And new laws allow saudi women to go abroad without the consent of a male relative. The move is a game changer that takes effect at the end of the month. Welcome to the program. The west does not want a new global arms race, at least according to nato secretary general stoltenberg. He was responding to the collapse of a landmark Nuclear Weapons treaty dating back to the cold war era. The ending of the Intermediaterange Nuclear forces, agreement, or i. N. F. , removes limits from the u. S. And russia. Stoltenberg said russia failed to comply after it developed a new cruise missile. It was a tweet. U. S. Secretary of state mike pompeo put the blame on russia which he declared the treaty ends today. President trump had withdrawn from the agreement six months ago after russia d deployed a aw Missile System that contravenes
The chair on this vote the yeas are 236. The nays are 193. He amendment is adopted. The Unfinished Business is a request for recorded vote on amendment number 3 printed in part b of house report 11614 by the gentleman from california, ms. Speier, on on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes prevailed by voice vote. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 3 printed in part b of house report 116143 offered by ms. Peier of california. The chair a recorded vote has been requested. Those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a twominute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the c
Days. China will be a big topic. We are in the trades back, some would say a trade war. We have concern about their militarization in asia. What do we hope to accomplish regarding china at the g 20 . The first thing is not to have excessive expectations about anything that happens at g 20 meetings. They are a forum for people to have the more important bilateral meetings since it is not too different from the opening of the general assembly, not going for the thrill of the un but speed date with other foreign leaders and put a lot of meetings together but with respect to some of the meetings we expect to have with president xi and vladimir putin, these are Critical Issues at an important time. With xi jinping im sure the overall trade issue will be the dominant topic but there are a lot of other issues to discuss as well and we will see how it develops as we figure out how much time we have, talk to representatives of other countries and see what their priorities are. The chinese model
Part of a better america. A year and a half into this presidency, president reagan stood in westminster palace and declared before British Parliament and the world that freedom and democracy will leave marxism and leninism. The ash heap of history. In that speech, president reagan didnt just lay out his Foreign Policy. He called for america to support, a Global Campaign for democracy. It was a turning point in the cold war. It was turning point in history. It is so significant and central to the reagan presidency that we celebrated its 40th anniversary here at the reagan an Institute Just this year. That speech also provides the opening scene for new book the peacemaker. Ronald the cold war and the world on the brink. Its the book written our guest tonight. Hes the executive director of the Clement Center for national at the university of texas austin here at the reagan library. We are so grateful for dr. Evidence, incredibly thoughtful scholarship, a book like this is no easy task. It