President donald trump is set to stand trial before the senate the house of representatives has delivered the impeachment charges against him to the Upper Chamber trump is accused of abuse of power and obstruction of congress that makes him the 3rd president in u. S. History to face such proceedings has more now from capitol hill. Inside the locus are the articles of impeachment documents accusing President Donald Trump of abusing his power in obstructing congress the 7 newly ordained impeachment prosecutors follow democratic members of the house who will argue that trump should be removed from office as president is not above the law he will be held accountable he has been held accountable he has been a huge the senates reception of the articles marks the beginning of the trial phase of crumbs impeachment the 100. 00 u. S. Senators will soon be sworn in as jurors with arguments to Begin Next Week republicans hold the majority in the senate and their leader Mitch Mcconnell has voiced s
The plane killing all 176 people on board. Im burnt off its good to have you with us tonight there is mounting evidence that iran is shot down that Ukrainian International Airlines Plane which crashed near tehran on wednesday canadas Prime Minister has echoed u. S. Reports that intelligence sources indicate iran most likely hit the plane now the jet was on its way from the iranian capital tehran to the ukrainian capital kiev unnamed u. S. Officials have told American Media that Iranian Air Defense systems may have accidentally shut down the airline ukraine has asked western nations to provide any evidence they may have to help with its investigation. Now the plane was carrying 176. 00 people 63. 00 of them canadian heres what canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in just the last few hours we have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence. The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by in a rainy and a surface to air missile. This ma
Good evening, welcome. My name is matt abbott. Im director of development and diplomatic programs here in the Chicago Council of global affairs. Welcome to our program, today is on the record and we are live streaming. Please silence your phones though we do welcome social media engagement. Music by individuals are their own and do not represent views of the council. Before this Evenings Program begins we will here flash talk. The doctor is president of the people analytics. His work focussed on demystifying peoples behaviors and conflicts such as iran. He hails from Syracuse Maxwell school and ph. D. Of maryland. Following flash talk, ill introduce our candidates. Unfortunately, the director is unable to join us tonight. Please join me in welcoming the doctor. Hello. Hello. I appreciate the chance to be here. Hello to chicago. Its my first time here. Thanks for the welcome. [ applause ] thank you. My name is amir farmanesh. Im presenting on global affairs. It will be iranian Public Op
Recapped American Foreign policy for the next hour and half on cspan his washington journal, those of you watching on cspan American History tv, we look back at the vets as they enfolded on november 4th, 1979, and from a canadian documentary, just look at how it all happened 40 years ago. Soon it just before 11 the attack began. They were over the balls, change the main gate was cut. This was filmed by a student. Being overrun. Motor group was behind the main gates. To the right was the chancellor, the operational hub leaves in house the sensitive mecommunication system. Every front doors had been bolted shut. Inside were 45 americans in runyon staff. The marine guards inside had teargas divide time. What is realized help wasnt coming, what were the chances Security Officers, outside to persuade the students to leave. The sheet staff retreated four by four and one american john and spoke went out to troy to save people. He is it too was me lately blindfolded and bound. The. Americans.
Another longer, monograph coming on the north caucuses with the u. S. Army war colleges looking in depth at the military and security aspects and the history of the cob conflicts in north caucuses. But as he mentioned, this is now a conflict not just in the russian context, not just in the regional context of the north caucuses, not just in the russian statewide context but it has global connections. Just recently, a salafi cleric issued a fatwa, a religious ruling, justifying in the in vol ct the attacks fwmbings enbrad and exchanging that attacks on the russian civilian population is justified because the population is not standing up against the russian government when its persecuting muslims. Therefore, he says, any russian citizen, and he doesnt even he mentioned christians, orthodox, but doesnt distinguish the probably 20 million russian citizens who happen to be muslim, that these civilians, women, children, and be ly, are all allowed to murdered in terrorist attacks. Before tha