After brief opening remarks members will receive testimony from our witness today and the hearing will be open to questions. Good morning once again. Welcome to todays hearing receive testimony from the secretary of agriculture. I think my colleagues participating and secretary bill sec for his time we have a lengthy hearing ahead of us. I will be brief and might remarks nearly three years ive traveled across the country to different farmers, ranchers, foresters, Rural Communities and everyday consumers. Many of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle jointly for those travels. The message we have heard from those folks was very clear. They need a government to work for them, not against them. These men and women have struggled with a fractured supply chain, considerable input cost, relentless inflation, natural disasters, volatile markets and labor shortage each consistently worsened by illconceived halfbaked executive action. What seemingly is a daily occurrence taxpayer dollars be
Brought them. To move into the. Next. Determined. Political action. Network for an overnight siege at the Intercontinental Hotel in kabul gunfire and explosions can still be heard from outside the hotel despite the interior minister. Afghan Officials Say one hundred and sixty people including four foreigners have been rescued lets go. Now she is joining us on the phone from kabul what are you hearing jennifer. Well listen im just outside the Intercontinental Hotel where we know that explosions and gunfire have been going on over the last couple of hours or so as you said that this siege is going into its fifteenth hour we saw all Security Forces heading to the hotel where the enforcement heavily on just about an hour ago but the explosions and gunfire heavy arms as well as small arms fire has continued here you can see the hotel side of the hotel totally burnt out where fires burned overnight and at daybreak this morning we saw some very dramatic footage of people getting out of the ho
And welcome to aljazeera life for my headquarters in doha with me and of the parana im also ahead Turkish Forces move into the northern syrian on play off and warned that the largest city of man bush is next but u. S. Vice president arrives in jordan as part of his controversial middle east oil. And refugee said theyre feeling pressure to return to me to soothe. The taliban has claimed responsibility for an overnight attack and the Intercontinental Hotel in kabul gunfire and explosions can still be heard outside the hotel despite the interior minister earlier declaring the siege over. One hundred sixty people including forty one foreigners have been. Rescues lets go to accost on jennifer glass now she is joining us live from kabul has the security operation ended or is the siege ongoing jennifer what are you hearing. Elizabeth we think it is all over now just a few minutes ago we saw a long line of Afghan Security vehicles run down this road you can see behind me the Intercontinental H
Blogs in iran and you want to be al jazeera news our life my headquarters in doha in this sixty minutes we have teens in kabul on the turkey syria border also reporters everybody germany and in harare zimbabwe also escaping the gunfire at a luxury hotel in kabul six civilians are dead the taliban has claimed responsibility. Also turkish troops launching air and ground attacks against kurdish fighters in northern syria. And defending Donald Trumps israel policy shift the u. S. Vice president is in jordan on the second stop of his middle east. And our top story in force rappler a taliban says to the quarter finals of the australian it was straight forward for the brown family. Good to have you with us welcome to the news hour we start in south asia where the taliban has claimed responsibility for an overnight attack at the Intercontinental Hotel in the capital kabul the siege began when a gunman stormed the building on saturday night six civilians were killed along with five attackers du
Welcome to. Move into the northern. City of. The u. S. Vice president begins a controversial. President has polarized the nation. On the Intercontinental Hotel at least five civilians have been killed has been from the top of the five star hotel. To the. Three attackers have been killed. One hundred and fifty three people including foreigners have also been evacuated lets go to our correspondent jennifer glass now shes joining us on the phone from kabul we had heard from afghan authorities that the sea was over but. What do you hearing. Thats right a little bit im just outside the Intercontinental Hotel mini road i can see the hotel parts of it are charred black from fires that during the evening in the last hour at least half a dozen large explosion quite a lot of small and heavy arms fire and just five minutes just know we saw Afghan Security reinforcements getting to that hotel into trucks because large machine. And on the back of them so this siege by no means is over yet still hea