Or confirm she had an affair with borisjohnson. Their friendship, she says, had nothing to do with the grants she got while he was london mayor. Hello and welcome im Christian Fraser in london, Michelle Fleury is in washington. Four years ago, the caliphate of the so called Islamic State stretched across a large swathe of syria and iraq. The group was busy murdering american and european hostages, its fighters had killed 138 people on the streets of paris. The americans turned to the kurds for help. And not only did they help to defeat the group, but today the kurds are guarding tens of thousands of defeated is fighters. But last night, President Trump turned his back on his kurdish allies, announcing that he is withdrawing the us soldiers from syria and will not be standing in the way of a planned turkish incursion into northeast syria. The decision has been slammed in washington. In recent weeks, the americans had persuaded the kurds to dismantle defensive positions, that were instal
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[background noise] [gavel] committeese judiciary will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on protecting america from assault weapons. I will now recognize myself with an Opening Statement. Assault weapons have been repeatedly used of weapons of deadly violence on our citizens. In just the last two years, las vegas, parkland, pittsburgh, poway, midland and odessa have seen Mass Shootings at the hands of a gunman with assault weapons. Last month we added el paso and dayton to the list of communities shattered by Mass Violence perpetrated by a gunman old with armed with assault weapons. Todays hearing is about whether america will tolerate weapons of war in our streets and in our neighborhood. Simply put civilian assault , weapons are just semi automatic versions of military weapons. Have passed bans on assault weapons, these have been proven too easy to evade. This is one reason i support a