Plus im Florence Looi in myanmar where villagers now have the task of rebuilding their homes and salvaging their farmland destroyed by the flooding. Reporter a sport invented in canada nicknamed murder board, makes its debut at the paraolympic panam games. The United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution to identify those behind Chemical Attacks in syria. An agreement reached between the United States and russia paved the way for the resolution to pass. Attributing responsibility for poison gas attacks in syria could pave the way for action by the Security Council. The council has threatened consequences for such attacks which could include sanctions. The Syrian Ambassador responded. Translator syria has upheld its commitments to the convention and resolution 2118 of 2013. [ inaudible ] has cooperated in all ways and positively dealt with this issue. All of this in spite of the ter shl challenges of an extremely challenging and complex security situation. This i
The hearing will come to order. I think committee is privileged to see our distinguished chairman joining us monopo. I thank him for his leadership on africa. So great to see you and thank you for your ongoing leadership and for yesterdays important briefing on nikki haley our ambassador to the United Nations and a major portion of that important briefing late in the afternoon was on the congo. So thank you, chairman royce. The democratic republic of congo was supposed to conduct elekdss one year ago this month to achieve the required transition of political power by december 19th. However, after years of stalling on making preparations for elections, the government failed to hold elections last year and relied on a provision that he could not step down until an election was held. Our Ranking Member have had had ongoing meetings with the roc officials, including high level people who have flown to washington and time and time again we haved a monished them stick to the schedule and ins
Thank you so much chairman, smith, Ranking Members for organizing this hearing and for inviting me. Im a researcher and officer of Political Science at columbia university. Over the past two years dip mats, politicians have focused mostly on the political crisis around general elections and on the struggle for power. Were so preoccupied with the up coming elections that were diverting our attention awae from the many other issues that are causing violence in congo. And were wasting the opportunity to tackle these issues. Based on peace building and several years of working in congo, i believe and i will show you in my state, theres a better way to help revise these conflicts. There are many other caws of violence beyond the electoral political issue. And by acknowledging democracy and peace do not always go together. The two most important measures congress can take are to increase the United States support to peace building and to put local actors in the drivers seat. The delay of Hol
Borisjohnson remains foreign secretary, amber rudd home secretary, and Philip Hammond stays as chancellor. It was a great turnout for labour, who won 40 of the popular vote, and Jeremy Corbyn insisted he could lead a minority government. We are ready to do everything we can to put our programme into operation. There isnt a parliamentary majority for anybody at the present time. The party that has lost in this election is the conservative party. And on the losing side were the Liberal Democrats, the snp, who lost a third of their seats, and ukip, whose leader paul nuttall resigned. The election was called to strengthen the Prime Ministers hand over brexit so where does this leave the negotiations now . Well bring you more on that and all the latest from Downing Street on this most unexpected of election results. To ta ke to take you straight over to kensington. The final seed has been declared and it looks like a labour victory. Thank you to my incredible family who supported me all the
Running our great crunchy country. And when elections go wrong how mansfield nearly got the Member Of Parliament they didnt vote. Hello and welcome to bbc news. British Prime Minister theresa may is trying to put together a new government, after the Snap Election she called backfired on her badly. She now faces the challenge of the imminent Brexit Negotiations without a majority in the house of commons. Heres the final result. Mrs mays conservatives have 318 seats, eight short of an overall majority. The Main Opposition Labour Party has 262. So there are questions about the viability of this new administration, which is hoping to rely on the support of another Political Party to stay in power. In this programme well have the results, reaction and analysis. But we begin with our Political Editor Laura Kuenssbergs report on a Night And Day of intense political drama. Is this strong and stable, Prime Minister . She who dares doesnt always win. The most votes, the most seats, but under thi