Afternoon live, im simon mccoy. Could host to much of the events for today at 4. The 19 year old british woman convicted of lying about being raped birminghams Commonwealth Games. I will explain later. And darren with in cyprus is allowed to fly back to the uk after receiving a 4 month the weather. A lot of interest in suspended sentence. The foreign secretary welcomes the news. We will be following up on the the weather. A lot of interest in the weather. A lot of interest in issues in relation to the case. The weather in the uk. Not least because his so mild but it is also i spoke to the Cypriot Foreign windy in some parts of the uk. We minister about that. Will look at that later. Scores of people are killed thanks darren. In a stampede, as iranians flock also coming up. To the funeral of qasem suleimani, killed by the us. Joker leads the way in this years bafta film nominations but theres criticism of the lack a teenager admits killing of diversity with only white newlywed pc Andrew
Do is allowed into parliament after a standoff with security who tried to block. Womens activists slammed the cypriot Justice System after a british teenager is given a suspended sentence for making false accusations of rape. And incest for african gets ready to celebrate its best footballers and all 3 nominees for the continents footballer of the year award star in the English Premier League. Its been another day of dramatic developments in iran where the burial of the top iranian commander assassinated in the u. S. Airstrike on friday has been postponed for at least 50 people were killed in a stamp a stampede during his funeral procession huge crowds that packed custom salaam on his hometown of command and the congestion in the streets led to a crush of people its not clear when the burial will happen now in the capital tehran the parliament passed. A bill designating the u. S. Army and the pentagon as terrorist organizations its also boosted the budget for the elite could force that
Qassem soleimani last week. Heres a look at his remarks. Good morning, everyone. I want to send out my condolences to former congressman fitzpatrick who passed away earlier this week, leaving a wife and family. S service to america was remarkable. If you have questions about the middle east and iraq ill take questions. But first i want to offer my condolences to the people of australia for the tragic loss of life and property caused by the devastating wildfires across the region. Americas thoughts and prayers are with the victims, families and Emergency Personnel putting their lives in harms way and the same for the u. S. Fire fighting personnel who are standing sidebyside with them. I was in sydney this summer, we have a truly greet a Great Alliance there. Staying in asia, we note appointment of the new head of the Hong Kong Central government liaison office. He hopes hong kong will return to the right path, end of quote. The right path is for the Chinese Communist party to honor its
Im recommending we will lever the last few minutes of the state of the state speech from idaho and remind you you can watch it online. Well take you now to capitol hill for a look at a recent report on low morale and Employee Satisfaction at the department of Homeland Security. Youre watching live coverage of this subcommittee hearing on cspan 3. Unfortunately, the results indicate a strong need for improvement. This here, as has been the case since 2012, dhs ranked last out of all large federal agencies. It also ranked last out of the 7 agencies. Im concerned by the fact after a few years of minor improvements in overall morale, in 2019 employee morale decreased again. Given the Critical Mission of the department, i fear the consequences should the department not take urgent and drastic action to improve employee morale, well have greater challenge to face. I also worry about this environment affects the well being of the more than 200,000 hard working dhs employees from Border Patrol
Ceremony for the Diplomacy Center a museum scheduled to , open in 2019. Up next, we visit the artifact storage area to learn about the history of diplomacy. The curator and a historian selected key items from the 7000 artifacts to help tell the story. The Diplomacy Center is the museum and Education Center currently under development at the department of state. It will be a multimedia, publicly accessible, engaging space with Public Programs that help the general public understand a little bit more about what is diplomacy. What is diplomacys relevance to their lives today, and how, possibly, they could become involved. We are actively collecting artifacts, researching history, and developing Public Programs. We are very busy. We have a very active Public Program already for students. One of the ways we will tell the story of diplomacy is through the wonderful items we have in our collection. Absolutely. Lets jump right in. The first object we would like to show is the oldest in our col