[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair has authorized to declare a recess at anytime. We welcome everybody to todays hearing on a free press and protecting journalists. Ill remind everybody the guests in the chamber are guests and youre free to be here, but this is no audience participation in the hearing. This is a hearing and were going to conduct it accordingly. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press. And that cannot be limited without being lost. Those words were true when Thomas Jefferson wrote them in 1786 and theyre still true today. First amendment guarantees freedom of the press and prohibits the government from making any law to that freedom. Just hugo black stated, the Founding Fathers gave the press the role. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. And the hale to the freedom of the press is the keystone upon which all
, kharkiv oblast. One of the Law Enforcement officers received a concussion. The car was damaged, the ministry of internal affairs said. The police were just on their way to evacuate people. Another crew had to be called. As the head of the Kharkiv Region, oleg syniguv, added up to 100 residents remain in vovchansk. The russians cover themselves with them and do not allow them to leave. The enemy also attacked nikopolshchyna in the Dnipropetrovsk Region three times. The marganetsk, myrivsk, chervonogrigorivsk and pokrovsk communities came under attack said the head of the Regional Military administration serhiy lysak. In nivachyna , there is an infrastructure facility, an industrial enterprise, 17 private residences and 10 farm buildings. The gas pipeline and power lines were also damaged. Fortunately, no one was hurt. The electronic queue has started working in all the tscs of the country in test mode. This was reported by the ministry of defense of ukraine. So you dont have to wait i
On the entire range of final status issues, the outcome of this process should be the implementation of the internationally approved twostate formula of israel and palestine within the 1967 borders with its capital in east jerusalem, coexisting in peace and security. It is precisely this fundamental task that our countrys work in the Un Security Council and the Russian Initiative to consolidate the approaches of key external players to middle east regulation are aimed at. Our efforts to restore in order to ease the troubles the situation of the civilian population, which is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe , the gaza sector, starting from october 19, 23 , 539 tons of humanitarian cargo were delivered by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry planes to egypt for subsequent delivery to the besieged palestinian enclave through the egyptian red crescent society, a largescale tragedy, i am talking about this only for in order not to repeat what is absolute. Humanitarian catastrophe, t
Hello everyone, this is svoboda ranok, my name is kateryna nekrecha, and in this stream we talk about the following topics the russian army received an order to return the lost positions in andriyivka and klishchivka to bakhmut, however, they say in the ukrainian general staff, without success. Meanwhile , the military says that near bakhmut they again noticed the wagnerites, who are no longer there subordinate to beauty. We are talking with the military about the situation near bakhmut. From lisbon to luhansk, the head of the German Foreign ministry at the visiting meeting of the council of ministers of the eu in kyiv predicts ukraines future in the European Union. Meanwhile, zelensky is asking partners not to add more than seven demands for ukraine to start accession negotiations, what are the demands and what are the results of the historic meeting in kyiv . From today, the nbu cancels the fixed Exchange Rate for the First Time Since the beginning of the fullscale invasion, but the
The advanced positions of bakhmutskyi. Direction the state budget in 2024 will be substantially expanded to stimulate Economic Growth activity, business support and creation of new jobs. In total , uah 42 billion will be allocated for this, that is, more than 10, more than one billion dollars. This was announced by Prime Minister denys shmegal during the government meeting. In particular, the state will continue the soft lending program, as well as provide additional grants for. There is work under the program, we plan to issue more than 12,000 micro grants, which means we will help create 12,000 new businesses, in addition , we plan to provide 1,300 grants for the expansion and start of veteran businesses, we will to support farmers, machine builders, creation and expansion of processing enterprises. 3 billion will be allocated for state support large investment projects in ukraine, this is important because it will help create new jobs, increase taxes and improve the lives of communi