We have quite a few more. This is the time of year, and we have general todd walters, and i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with the from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and th
Pandemic. We are all concerned about the health and safety of our fellow americans and citizen soldiers and airmen. Six members of the National Guard have tested positive for covid19. And we measures in place will keep our National Guard members informed as the situation develops. We play an important part in ensuring the health and safety of communities and this is a responsibility we take their sleep. We are here to support each other and communities. I want to talk about what the National Guard is doing. It is unlike any event we have faced in recent years. When there is a hurricane, you can see it on a map and you have a sense on how hard it will hit. It is like we have 54 separate hurricanes in every state and territory. Some are category 5, summer category three and one. We dont no one this was going to dissipate. It demands a historic response and that is what the national. Uard is prepared to do the National Guard is a unique military component. We are part of the air force and
Their welcome to weekend round up from international in moscow by name calling bright 1st then top officials from around the world are converging on munich this saturday for day 2 of the annual security conference its the biggest event of its kind and among the talking points is the wests a losing its role on the world stage the situation in syria and iran tensions our europe correspondent peter all of a look at what to expect. Its day 2 of this years Munich Security Conference and theres plenty for World Leaders to be discussing here at the bavarian capital what this is the overarching theme of this years conference described as the declaiming role of western nations on the world stage and the shaking up of International Relations in defense but choice for a theme theyd catch some by surprise but when you listen to the participants at the conference its clear that it struck a chord with those here in munich. In the era of American Global police and it is over think of syria africa afg
Morning at 9 here. Watching thanks for making our senior political news this hour 1st to germany where top officials from around the world converging on munich this saturday for day 2 of the annual security conference is the biggest event of its kind and among the talking points is the west losing its role in the world stage the situation in syria and tensions with iran our europe correspondent peter all of a look at what to expect. Its day 2 of this years Munich Security Conference this plenty for World Leaders to be discussing here at the very capital. This is the overarching theme of this years conference described as the declaiming role of western nations on the world stage and the shaking up of International Relations and defense choice for a theme the catch so by surprise but when you listen. To the participants at the conference its clear that it struck a chord with those here in munich. In the era of American Global police and it is over think of syria africa afghanistan not be
Is on the west and waning role of the world stage. Hi there and welcome to weekend world update from international in moscow welcome to the program 1st one of the biggest defense digital contracts in American History has been put on ice Online Retail giant amazon is taking on the pentagon in court after washington gave the 10000000000. 00 deal to buy microsoft the lawsuit argues that donald trump was biased in his decision against amazon supremo jeff bezos its called the joint enterprise defense Infrastructure Project for short and its a Cloud Computing storage contract at the end of last year but its all stressed the importance of the military project but as caleb maupin reports hes now hindering the deal that was awarded to microsoft. Remember when jeff bezos called out his tech rivals for not stepping up to the plate when the country needs protecting my view is this big tech is going to turn their backs on the department of defense this country is in trouble this is how were going t