Hello and welcome my name is Christopher Spring it thanks for joining us a year into Donald Trumps presidency the u. S. Remains a country racked by Political Division on the very day marking the First Anniversary of trump swearing in ceremony the federal government has shut down after congress failed to reach a last minute deal on spending it means government workers will be staying at home halting all but the most essential operations recriminations have already begun. It was a night of partisan politics at the capitol despite hours of debate and last minute deal making there was no agreement on a government funding deal the user fifty three days or forty nine. The motion is not agreed the Republican Leadership couldnt find the sixty votes needed to keep the government open the Government Shutdown means hundreds of thousands of Public Servants night have to. Artificially. Following the senate vote the white house said the democrats were behaving like obstructionist loses its words wer
Weather conditions wreckage was scattered across snowy fields near the village of going over eighty kilometers southeast of moscow rescue teams were unable to reach the crash site by road and walked to the scene. I saw an explosion on the ground and i called Emergency Services they asked me many questions i told them there was a fire it was very visible and the debris of the plane is spread over radios of at least one kilometer investigators are using modern equipment taking into consideration the large territory there using quite a couple hours to get a view from the air the short hole set a lot of airlines jet took off from moscows dumb idea to airport early sunday afternoon on its way to the city of or sq in the urals most of the sixty five passengers on board were from the region at the airport their family and friends of those on board the flight began to wait for news with little hope that anyone had survived. We have found a breeze from an a n one for a plane and bodies of stupi
By the International Security program. Over 60 u. S. Government and regional, functional Security Experts and leaders from the n. G. O. And Civil Society communities from consulted for this project. We want to thank all of them for their insights and perspectives. The project was made possible by the open Society Foundation and open Society Policy center. Todays key note address will be delivered by representative adam smith who will give us a perspective from capitol hill on Security Sector assistance. Representative smith is washington states ninth District Representative and serves as Ranking Member on the u. S. House Armed Services committee. He graduated from Fordham University with a bachelors degree in Political Science and j. D. From the university of Washington School of law. During his last year in law school, representative smith ran and won an election for washingtons 33rd district, becoming the youngest state senator in the country at the time. Representative smith is now
A video released on twitter thanked his supporters but he also expressed regret for the many journalist inmates hes left behind did germany strike a secret deal to get him released. But im Christopher Spring a good to have you with us day two of the Munich Security Conference is just getting underway around five hundred senior government to military leaders from around the world meeting to deliberate on pressing security challenges d. W. News well be bringing you live coverage of the event throughout the day among the highlights today british Prime Minister to resume a jew to address the conference and set out a vision for Security Cooperation between britain and the European Union often breaks it germanys foreign minister cigar gabrial is also about. To deliver a speech so lets cross now to munich mckayla coup for our Political Correspondent standing by for us mikhail as mentioned were waiting for gabrielle to speak to address the security conference we have any idea what to expect fr
Slow for about four miles this morning. Beltway at kenilworth avenue, a little bit of volume. No problem there. In laurel, brock ridge road between Whiskey Bottom and 198, still the overturned vehicle. A look at 95 northbound here through dale city, the slowest spot at 29 miles an hour. Back in ten minutes with travel times. Right now, your commute is about to get easier. Heres a live look from inner loop of the beltway at virginia in Northern Virginia. In less than an hour the crews will open the shoulder from the express lanes to the g. W. Parkway parkway. News4s Megan Mcgrath will show you whats happening. Some relief, megan. Reporter well, this is the choke point, the merge area where the northbound express lanes end and that traffic has to go over into the regular lanes. Well start driving it now to see the merge point here up ahead. You can see all the traffic that we have here. Those are the folks in the regular lanes. Were in the express lane. Well have to go move over and that