To almost 10 years worth of its annual energy. Prime minister just in your journey enjoys a landslide election victory is New Zealanders reward her for curbing qubit 90. Sports News English Premier League leaders everton play out a thrilling 22. 00 draw with local rivals liverpool. So the protesters are gathering in lebanon to mark one year since mass antigovernment protests theyve been rejecting corruption and the ruling class lebanon has been experiencing its worst economic crisis since the civil war which is only deepened since the pandemic lets take a look at how we got here in october last year a newly announced tax on calls made through the whatsapp application triggered protests across lebanon and then it turned into a broader call to end government corruption unemployment and poor public. It led to the resignation of Prime Minister saad hariri and a political deadlock to replace him and then in early august a powerful explosion ripped through central beirut killing more than 20
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Welcome everyone, good morning. We will have senators participating both live and virtually. Since it is difficul the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We will have senators participating live then virtually as a result of that its difficult to determine to go in ty, seniority and we both come three witnesses the assistant secretary of state and the bureau official for the European Eurasian Affairs and Principal Deputy assistant for western hemisphere fears. We appreciate you being here. We will be talking about china obviously that presents us with manyy challenges and opportunities. There has been a lot of legislation introduced and there is a bill we introduced earlier this year to bring together as many as possible so the minority introduced ase bill senator schumer is the lead sponsor but this is not a partisan issue that is an American Issue. When i put the bill togetheren originally come i did so to
Chairman johnson good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, bell honorable christopher miller, director of the National Counterterrorism center, and honorable kenneth cuccinelli, senior official performing the duties of deputy secretary. This is an annual threat hearing. When i look at all the threats that this committee has considered and all the threats facing this nation, i think it is pretty interesting how many hearings we have held on so many of these things. Before i proceed, i guess i would ask for consent to have my written Opening Statement to be entered into the record. When you consider these threats, for example, i will just go down the list cyberattacks, ransomware, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned right now as we try to develop vaccines. But the hundreds of billions of dollars of Economic Loss due to intellectual
A criminal organization. The conflicts between azerbaijan i mean escalates as both sides accuse the other of targeting civilian areas. Because Pakistans Parliament named a new Prime Minister as the political crisis. 2 men have been found guilty for their role in a Shopping Center attack in kenya 7 years ago a 3rd man has been acquitted dozens of people were killed when government besieged the Westgate Mall in nairobi Catherine Sawyer reports from nairobi. Band and a friend were driving into the Basement Parking of the Westgate Mall when they had the 1st blast then got shots from moment he thought it was a robbery whats in it traumatizes me most is where i was hiding theres a Security Guard who was right next to me was shot in the head. And i didnt realize i was injured until you out a rescue team arrived and as i was trying to get up thats when i realized i had a lot of blood that Security Guard was among the 67 People Killed in a 4 day siege in september 7 years ago 4 gunmen stormed u
Langevin and others. Recognizeey i myself. The warnings we had and decisions made about the most recent worldwide Intelligence Committee in january of 2019, and i quote, the United States and the world will remain vulnerable to the next pandemic where large scale outbreak of contagious disease that could lead to massive rates of death and disability, severely affect the world economy, strain international resources, and increase calls from the United States for support. We must ask ourselves what are the warnings are going unheeded, and what can we do right now to protect the American People from other threats . Before the unthinkable happens in the future, how can we exercise strategic and precisive foresight to the best of our ability today to ensure are a nation prepared for tomorrow . That same worldwide threat assessment Cyber Attacks is a top global threat with china, russia, iran, and north korea, raging a silent war capable of shutting down with such Information Systems and cri