The hearing of the permanent subcommittee on the investigation will come to order. Welcome everyone, particularly to the witnesses, some of you have come along way. And we greatly appreciate it. Just three days ago i sat across from president zelenskyy in ukraine along with me colleague senator hassan and three other members of the United States senate. As i sat across from him, what i saw was a steely determination to continue to fight, and that determination is shared by the ukraine people, overwhelmingly. Their courage and strength, again on this fifth visit inspired me a new. President zelenskyy handed me a folder that i took from him then. It was the result of a conversation i had with him a week earlier in munich. It was asking for evidence, if he had any, of american manufactured parts and components in weapons used by russia on the battlefield in ukraine. The folder that he handed me was a powerful indictment of our export control and sanction system. A really searing piece of
Democracy. Next, on capitol hill policy advocates testify on ways to protect consumers from unsafe online counterfeit goods. The Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing focused on the rapid growth of counterfeiting on ecommerce platform. This is about an hour and a half. [background noises] this will come to order like to thank our witnesses for participating today. I would also like to thank a Ranking Member tillis and his staff for working in a collaborative way to put this hearing together. I would like to welcome senator geraldo. This is our fifth hearing of the subcommittee this year. Center tillis you and your team continue to be great partners in moving forward. Just to set the stage more broadly on the focus of this hearing, Online Shopping has expanded your dramatic has exploded in recent years. Last year, sales exceeded 1 trillion for the first time as millions and millions of americans turn to Online Platforms for ebay to amazon to find the brands they trust at the prices they
Hello welcome to this aljazeera news hour live from doha im melting down is coming up in the next sixty minutes. Protests in pakistan when there weeks long battle against the government forcing a minister to resign. The worlds most prominent christian walks a political and religious tightrope as he arrives in me im a buddhist nation accused of crimes against his range of muslims. The u. N. Tries to revive its efforts to end syrias war as a skilled thousands more people where in geneva and in syria. Also predictions of an imminent major eruption raise balis volcano alert to the highest level. And with all the sports news as australia thrash england by ten wickets to take a one zero lead in the ashes cricket series there are more later in the program. But france protests in pakistan are now dispersing from the city and on the edge of the capital islamabad after the target of their fury a government minister resigned many theyre sticking around to celebrate. They were demanding step down
Live from studio fourteen here at aljazeera headquarters in doha im dreading obligates a welcome to the news grid of thousands of people welcome the leader of the Roman Catholic church to me in march the pope is set to meet leaders of thought nation including on science and cheek but there is one word hes been asked not to say will bring you the details with the end of the war in syria in sight another round of political talks in geneva are set to begin for the eighth time will the fast changing battlefield affect the outcome this time and how can the country rebuilds we have report and analyses coming up and in the new amount of gunk threatens to erupt thousands of people in bali have been moved out of harms way but the government says thousands more need to be evacuated well take a closer look at the volcano with the help of our weather presenter Richard Angwin im heading home and theres a Royal Wedding set. As britains prince harry marries actress Meghan Markle but its not only love
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