For a bushfire rest might in a stray a but its nowhere near enough to end an unprecedented disaster. There more warm welcome to the program irans leaders have joined huge crowd since iran for the funeral procession of assassinated general qassam salami is calls for revenge against the United States school loud irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and president has done without any help prayers the funeral proceedings in the iranian capital they express their grief as a radiance packed the streets of tehran where 3 official days of mourning have been declared salamis they also earlier told the crowds for their fathers death would bring quote a dark day to the u. S. Well amid the funeral for salon a u. S. President champus warned iraq elim poles heavy sanctions if that follows through with moves to expel american troops Iraqs Parliament voted in favor of removing American Forces in retaliation for the u. S. Strike that killed saddam on the last week near Baghdad Airport fall out o
Of a rare eclipse from the middle east to asia people have been marvelling at the ring of fire. Hello and welcome to world news today. Voting has now ended for the leadership of israels governing likud party which, for 20 years, Benjamin Netanyahu has led with an iron grip. Mr netanyahu and his rival made last minute appeals to likud members for their support. More than 100,000 Party Members were eligible to vote on whether the veteran Prime Minister should lead them into the next election. Barbara plett usher reports from jerusalem. The man who would be king. Gideon saar has issued the most serious challenge to the party in a decade. Translation i feel a great awakening on the ground. People understand that a change has to come today. With the help of god, together we will make that change today. He wants Party Members to vote for change because he says the Prime Minister failed to form a government after two general elections and has no chance of doing so in a third. There is a growi
On social media on twitter is at cspanwj. On facebook, and facebook. Com cspan. A very good friday morning, you can start calling you now. Whoas Lindsey Graham introduced a resolution yesterday looking to condemn the house impeachment inquiry. This is Lindsey Graham talking to reporters. [video clip] what is going on is a runaround of the impeachment process creating a secret proceeding behind closed doors that fundamentally, denies due process, and when you are talking about removing the president of the United States it seems to me that you want to have a process that is consistent with who we are as americans inconsistent and is consistent with what bill clinton, and Richard Nixon was allowed to do. The process i think is the danger to the future of the presidency. If you can drive down a numbers by poll having proceedings where you selectively leak information when the president is pretty much shut out, god help future president s. [end video clip] that resolution was introduced ye
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Joined by jason dick Deputy Editor at roll call newspaper. R and alana treene. Last weeks impeachment inquiry involved several current and former members of the Trump Administration testified behind closed doors, is that going to continue again this week and if so who is on the docket for the investigative committees . Alayna it will continue and i imagine it will extend beyond. Right now we are seeing the schedule for this week. The house committees investigating the president and ukraine and annie and propriety potentially and any impropriety, they are ramping this up quickly and moving fast. They scheduled on sundays this week, two people a day to come in and testify behind closed doors. People from the nsc, people from omb, the office of management and budget. Technically acting omb director which is a semicabinet position. We have im looking forward to tomorrows testimony by bill replaced the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine between Text Messages and past testimony weve seen lay