Were grateful for your service and your input today is going to be invaluable. I will now ill make an Opening Statement and turn it over to the Ranking Member. Also before i begin on my comments here, i would like to take a moment to express my condolences to the families and friends of the sailors killed in pensacola last friday, the three sailers dedicated their lives were taken from us far too soon. We need answers about the shooter and how this happened. Certainly at this point, the president and all of us must require the kingdom to give full and transparent cooperation with the United States investigation so we can understand what happened, identify any problems with the vetting process for our military Education Programs and importantly, bring the killer to justice. Since october 1st, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in cities throughout iraq, these protests largely driven by youth have called for political reforms, an end to corruption, improved service del
I welcome everyone to the subcommittee meeting today to hear testimony in iraq. Your witness appearing today, before recognizing myself for the purpose of making up statement i would like to take the opportunity to recognize and thank the members of our committee who served in iraq for your service and your interest today will be invaluable. Your input. I will now make statement and then turn it over to ricky member news we can make an opening statement. Also, before beginning my time, i like to take a moment to news express my condolences to the soldiers killed in pensacola on friday. Three soldiers will dedicated to our country. They were taken far is it too soon. We want answers about the shooter and how the septet happened. The president was quick to share condolences. And certainly at this. , the president and all of us must require the kingdom, and transparent cooperation with the United States in this issue so we can understand what happened. Identify any problems of the vetting
Take a moment to express condolences to the families and friends of the sailors killed at Naval Air Station pensacola friday. The three sailors dedicated their lives to serving their country, and were taken from us far too soon. We need answers about the shooter and how this attack happened. The president was quick to share saudi condolences. Certainly at this point, the president must require the kingdom to give full and transparent cooperation with u. S. Investigations so that we can understand what happened, identify problems with the vetting process for military Education Programs and most importantly, bring the killer to justice. Since october 1, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in cities throughout iraq. These protests, largely driven by youth, call for political reforms, an end to endemic corruption, and greater economic opportunity. Reassuringly, the democrats reassuringly, the protesters have voiced democratic views. These persistent, peaceful protests led
A vaccine is all set to be rolled out but some congolese say they are skeptical. Rockets are being fired from gaza into israel hours after a cease fire was agreed this would appear to have violated the truce struck earlier between israel and the Islamic Jihad on the group 34. 00 palestinians have been killed in israeli airstrikes the escalation began after the israeli army assassinated a Senior Leader of the group on tuesday our forces joins us live now from gaza harry is the cease fire still in place. It appears to be for now yes that that sporadic rocket fire limited rocket fire about 5 hours ago now consisted the Israeli Military says of 5 rockets that were fired out from gaza city here and the 2 of them were intercepted by the anti missile iron dome system so far theres been no claim of responsibility for firing those rockets there been some reports that it was one of the more minor factions neither Islamic Jihad nor hamas but we dont have any confirmation either way israel is sayi
A strong link between top russian officials and separatists in Eastern Ukraine. And were in the democratic republic of congo where a new era bowl of vaccine is being rolled out but not everybody is lining up to get the shot and in sports as much cricket is set to return to pakistan for the 1st time since 2009 pakistan will host sri lanka 10 years after the Sri Lankan Team by gunmen in lahore. Rockets have been fired from gaza into israel hours after a cease fire was agreed the attacks appear to a violated a truce struck earlier between israel and the Islamic Jihad group 34. 00 palestinians have been killed in israeli airstrikes and the escalation began after the israeli army assassinated a Senior Leader of the group on tuesday rob math and joins us live now from west jerusalem so rob it seems that already this cease fire is in danger with both sides trading fire now. Well the point in this ceasefire was 1st announced in the early hours of thursday morning the hours that came after that