Well the beirut explosion lead to political change in lebanon people left to clean up the streets vent their anger what they say is a corrupt system in a dysfunctional state so can the country rebuild and rise from this destruction this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im wrong levanon deserves better its one of the main messages coming out of beirut after tuesdays devastating explosion the blast killed at least 138 people made 300000 residents homeless and destroyed much of the city center many lebanese are blaming government corruption for allowing the disaster to happen 6 years port officials reportedly asked judges for an order to move the nearly 3000. 00 tons of Ammonium Nitrate that was stored in a warehouse but they say they never got a response some Customs Officials are now under house arrest the president says those responsible will be punished but people in beirut say they dont trust their leaders to conduct a transparent investigation or even help clean up
Iran and north korea, and how the un is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. This is from the Aspen Institute annual security for him. We are privileged to have with us the current Us Ambassador to the United Nations, kelly craft. This is the first time the aspen security form has been able to host the Us Ambassador to the un so we are particularly grateful to you for making the time. Kevin kelly craft hails from the great state of kentucky and served as our permanent representative to the United Nations since september of 2019. Before then she was Us Ambassador to canada for two years and during that time, very complex time, she worked on the revisiting of the nafta treaty now known as the usmexico canada agreement. The interview ambassador craft we have a columnist at Bloomberg Opinion covering National Security in foreign policy. Ambassador craft, we look forward to hearing your views on the Trump Administrations engagement with the United Nations and other international institut
Country on the other hand by many in his or bridge claim nothing will fundamentally change so which is it or is it as always just about power. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest laura fink in san diego she is the founder and c. E. O. Of rebel communications as well as a democratic strategist and in Ellicott City we cross to Jason Nichols he is a political analyst as well as a senior lecturer in the africanamerican studies department at the university of maryland right across not rules in effect that means he can jump and he want and i always appreciate it oh as good as any angle are you that i always go to the person that gets up early for the program so im glad its you you know im a political junkie like the both of you and i watch a lot of Different Things i disagree with most of it great. A tiny bit of it but if you you know if were in this election cycle lets take for example fox ok the impending dystopia if joe biden is going to be elected now i think that things could
The committee on Foreign Affairs will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any point and all members will have five days to submit statements, materials and questions for the record subject to the length, limitations in the rules. To insert something in the record please have your staff email the previously mentioned address or contact of the full committee staff. I see that we have a quorum and before i go forward i understand the speaker of the house, miss pelosi, will be stopping by this hearing and i ask unanimous consent she participate in any point she arrives during the hearing. So ordered. There she is. Madame speaker, would you like to make some remarks . Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I thank you and mr. Mccaul, mr. Eliot engel for having this hearing today. It is with Great Sadness that i come here because we had such optimism and such hope. The u. S. Congress has always spoken in a bipartisan house and senate, democrats and republicans, with one
Land israels plans to. Territory in the occupied west bank which the u. N. Is urging israel to abandon now it is carrying on right now representative from vietnam is speaking in about i would say the next 5 to 10 minutes we will hear from the u. S. Representative at the United Nations kelly craft u. S. Ambassador kelly craft that will be interesting obviously the one Security Council member which we know backs israels position of. Already though we have heard from the likes of nickell who is the uns middle east peace envoy. Who is the arab League Secretary general but 1st it was the u. N. Secretary general and tony a good terrace he summed it up in calling for nothing short of israel abandoning its annexation plans. If implemented and accession of course into the most serious violation of International Law grievously harmed the prospect of a to spend solution and the current possibilities of a new will of negotiations. I call on the Israeli Government would ban is an exception class. S