Shortly after, police cleared protesters donald trump walks from the white house to st. Johns Episcopal Church to hold the bible and pose for pictures with members of his administration. The committee on Natural Resources will come to order. The committee is meeting to hear testimony on the park Police Attack on Peaceful Protesters at Lafayette Square. Any oral Opening Statements are limited to the chair and ranking minority member designees. This will allow us to hear from witnesses. Help members keep to their schedules. Therefore i ask unanimous consent that all other members Opening Statements be made part of the hearing record as submitted by 5 00 pm today or at the close of the hearing, whatever comes first. Hearing no objections so ordered. The chairman may also declare a recess subject to that. As described in statements and documents or motions as described in the notice, statements, documents or motions must be submitted to the electronic repository at h nrc. Additionally plea
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In the interest of time and because we are on air at cspan, we should get moving. Ill be giving opening remarks. Well get started on some of our opening remarks, and then swiftly alex will be here and well start the moderator discussion. First of all, as i say, welcome to the middle east institute. Thank you ever so much for joining us for this extremely important event. As someone whos work on syria and particularly on idlib nan stop for the last nine years, i can safely say that events like this kopt come as a more important time. Im also not aware of any other events like this one happening in washington these days. So im extremely glad its taking place. The humanitarian crisis thats developed in northwestern syria in recent months is entirely unprecedented. Not just after nine years of war in syria, but in this whole worlds modern history. And yet despite the sheer enormity of the crisis, the world has yet to do much more than issue public statements of concern. Im going to keep my
Indonesia. But according to the united orgagazation, or of it has been lost in e lastst0 years. Ucuch ofhis is the resulul of fillinto devoplargscale plantions alongside traditional slash and burn farming and illegal logging of protected trees. One ngo called telepack is working with locals to not only preserve the forests, but also establish forestry work that provides a steady income. Its led by sylverius. Ungel is focused on community logging. His approach brings the residents together to manage the trees themselves in a Sustainable Way including the logging and selling of the wood. Community logging is being carried out in ten locations across indonesia. All told, around 7,000 people are members. Today,y, we meet the residents workining together to maintain forests and create a better life for themselves. The kulon lies on the south coast of the island of java. Nestled in the hills, a Mountain Range with peaks of 1,000 meters, its a richly forested region where many local farmers a
Only 2 president ial terms well why is that a big deal this was a long a reason for public debate in russia actually since the year 2012 when Vladimir Putin was reelected for his 3rd term after a break when the president of russia was Dmitri Medvedev and heres what mr putin said about that in particular tional movement will be to do it what could be done is to cancel the 2 in a room and meant we have 2 terms in a row ules truly serve 2 terms then resigned and had the constitutional right to return to the presidency because it was not to to lose in a row the amendment confuses some of our political scientists and public figures so we could be counseled. A lot of our putin was even asked who he believes could become his successor and a few years well we didnt get any answer to that although mr putin did hint that he believes that a woman could become the president of russia at some point most of the reporters in that massive hall war from russias regions which explains why a lot of quest