hudson. my name is richard weitz, and the director of the center for political director of the center for political and military analysis here at hudson. today we are honored to talk about an important report and the port subject that is congressional efforts to oversee the u.s. nuclear security efforts. we are specifically going to talk about a report, copies of which are outside, by the partnerships to secure america and arms control association on empowering congress a nuclear authority, blueprints for a new generation. i want to take the welcome the c-span audience for joining us. to make everything easier, if people could silence any cell phones you might have now, that would be very helpful. the report and either work we have been doing with partnerships to secure america and arms control association has been over a year, and independent project over collaborated with these organizations last you doing through events on hill, congressional briefings on the nuclear threa
to suspend its involvement in the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty by saying russia will do the same. he said russia would also start to develop new mid range hypersonic missiles, but insisted the door remained open for negotiations. both sides accuse the other of violating the cold war era accord. from moscow, steve rosenberg sent this report. at the kremlin, vladimir putin and his ministers sent a clear message to washington over the inf treaty you intend to pull out, do you? well, two can play at that game. translation: our response will be symmetrical. our us partners announced that they are suspending their participation in the inf treaty. so we are suspending it, too. and there was more. moscow, president putin said, would develop new weapons, including a land based version of this cruise missile, and missiles more than five times the speed of sound. it s a far cry from us russian cooperation three decades ago, when presidents reagan and gorbachev signed the
it s 7:00 in the morning in singapore, and 4am 5am in pakistan where the government says a third of the country is now under water. millions of homes are now destroyed and much of its richest farmland is now flooded. the disaster has killed over 1,100 people and affected 33 million and the catastrophe isn t over water is still surging down the indus river and will flood the low lying sindh province even further over the next few days. latest reports say 45% of the country s cotton crop has been washed away. pumza fihlani reports from the city of sakur. a moment of quiet in the middle of chaos. inside a crowded hall, families that have been displaced by the floods in northern pakistan have found temporary refuge. for many, it was a narrow escape. translation: our houses have collapsed because - of the floods. we had a home and it was enough for us. now all our belongings are buried under 12 13 feet of water. when i left with my children, i saw my house collapse. the river
at d ao minutes. there were just too many technical problems to contend with. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 4am in pakistan where the government says a third of the country is now under water. millions of homes are now destroyed and much of its richest farmland is now flooded. the disaster has killed over 1,100 people and affected 33 million. and the catastrophe isn t over water is still surging down the indus river, and will flood the low lying sind province even further over the next few days. latest reports say 45% of the country s cotton crop has been washed away. pumza fihlani reports. a moment of quiet in the middle of chaos. inside a crowded hall, families that have been displaced by the floods in northern pakistan have found temporary refuge. for many, it was a narrow escape. translation: our. houses have collapsed because of the floods. we had a home and it was enough for us. now all our belongings a
announcer: this week on q&a, defense news naval warfare correspondent chris cavas talks about the navy s fat leonard bribing scandal, with more than two dozen navy officials including several admirals. brian: chris cavas, let me start by asking you what you do for a living. chris: i am a journalist. i cover naval affairs, things that are on, over, and above the water. i like to cover them worldwide. i like to talk about the industry that builds these things, the people who operate them, who buy them, the operations they do, and why does anybody need all this stuff and does any have it really work? and i ve write about stuff like that. brian: who reads it? chris: the industry, the hill, politicians. defense news is a worldwide publication. we are sometimes remarkably well-known. people in the naval industry around the world pay attention to us. senior officers pay attention to us, senior acquisition officers. brian: how big is the brian: how big is the publication and who