And countering the flow of foreign fighters and countering messages and we can build on current or local efforts being taken to counter daesh affiliates locally around the world. We must not forget that daeshs lit frp ledge legitimaty is tied to a caliphate with specific geography. This means our overarching objective must not be just countering daesh around the world but bearing down hard encore daesh in iraq and syria and squeezing and degrading and daesh there in its core makes it much more difficult for an affiliation to stand alone beyond the boundaries of the iraqsyria region. So as a coalition we cannot eliminate every rivalry, whether between nations or different faiths or those who hold power and historical grievances, one against another. But in coordinating the global effort to counter daesh, in championing muteure interest and respect over our many differences, we can and we have changed assumptions about how nations can come together to fight one of the great challenges of
And to washington and i look forward to chatting with you later today. So please reporters, behave. We have students in the room. We have some other guests here as well and i would like to welcome the director of the National Counterterrorism center. Like me, he is from wisconsin. Maiden name as his name as well. So, welcome. Director rasmussen of the and ctc in 2014 sworn in, today he will supply Additional Information on hezbollahs worldwide activity. I will also introduce you to our coordinatoror, the for counterterrorism, he is to my right. He joined the department in departmentleads the and the whole of government effort in counterterrorism abroad. I will start with director rasmussen and when we wrap up we will take your questions and i will do a little moderation and take your questions after that. Great. Thank you for that introduction, heather. As heather suggested, my role is to ride you with some background on the activity we see from hezbollah globally and here in the homel
This is live coverage on cspan3. Sub committee will come to order. After recognizing myself and Ranking Member duetch for five minutes each for Opening Statements. We will then hear from our witnesses and without objection the witnesses prepared statements will be made a part of the record. Members may have five days to insert statements and questions for the record subject to the length limitation and the rules. As prior, we hear that this is your first congressional testimony so well ask you the really tough questions. Kidding, kidding, kidding. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes. Since our sub committees last hearing on lebanon, much has changed in our by rilateral relationship. The picture in neighboring syria continues to look dire. Isis appears to be on its last legs yet again. But despite these changes and in some cases because of them, many of the same challenges and concerns about lebanon and u. S. Policy remain. As one of my israeli friends put it, lebanon is e
By Richelle Carey this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes concerns continue for lebanons Prime Minister as saudi arabia and kuwait tell their citizens to leave the country immediately. Leaked emails from the u. A. E. Ambassador to the u. S. Allegedly show a plan to destabilize qatar is economy. Well take you inside australias offshore prison camp abandoned by authorities the squalor has aid groups worried about the hundreds of stranded refugees. And a food revolution Scientists Say theyre close to a breakthrough allowing crops to grow and deserts. Kuwait has joined saudi arabia bahrain in the u. A. E. And ordering its citizens to leave lebanon it comes amid heightened tensions with the Lebanese Group hezbollah and its backers iran and there are questions over the whereabouts of former Prime Minister saad hariri that his Political Party is demanding he return to beirut five days after he announced in riyadh that he was stepping down raise office says he
For a fourth term. Reporter i will have the all the sport. Golf first major of the year underway. The defending champion has picked up where he left off. We will have all the action from augusta two boats carrying mainly pakistani migrants have arrived in turkey from the agreeing island of lesbos. It is all part of the deal with the e. U. To stem the number of refugees reaching europe. While the first bachelor of 202 refugees were sent to dikili on monday from lesbos and another island. Hundreds of refugees right across the greek islands broke out of camps into Holding Centers in protests against the deportations. Under the terms of the e. U. Deal all refugees and migrants who enter greece through irregular routes after march 20 face being sent back to turkey. Were live in dikili as the rev jeels arrive. First we cross to refugees arrive. First we cross to lesbos. There are still new arrivals coming in. Reporter yes. Today 124 people were deported to turkey like you mentioned the major