International space station. Why it took 35 years to happen. Finally. Its friday, october 18th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The kurds are very happy. Turkey is very happy. The United States is very happy. Reporter the president defends his ceasefire. Despite an agreement by turkey to temporarily halt the fighting in northeast syria, gunfire reportedly broke out overnight. Reporter White House Acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney backtracking on his statement about quid pro quo with ukraine. Get over it. Theres going to be political influence in foreign policy. Next years g7 summit will be held at a florida resort owned by President Trump. It will be completely and totally unfuneral. Its a domestic of the domestic emoluments clause. The son of el chapo free after he was detained by mix Security Forces following hours of intense gunfire. In support of chinese prodemocracy supporters in hong kong has cost the nba millions. Our games are not back on the air in c
Mr. Jeffrey is accompanied by Deputy Assistant secretary of state for european and eurasian affairs, matthew palmar. President trump announced the u. S. Would lift sanctions on turkey. Since they agreed to cease combat operations in Northern Syria. This is 3 hours 15 minutes. Committee will come to order. Without objection, will have five days to submit statements, extraneous material. We meet today to examine President Trumps decision to withdrawal from Northern Syria. Clearing the way for turkey to attack americas Syrian Kurdish partners. Its a decision i view as zab disastrous. To our witnesses, welcome to the Foreign Affairs committee. Welcome to members of the public and press and thank you to our friends from cspan who are broadcasting this important proceeding. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. This committee has a long tradition of bipartisanship. We work on that every day. I think were the most Bipartisan Committee in congress. The main reason is that members on
Its 11 oclock here in moscow and youre watching r. T. International live from our studio with me in india a tutor welcome to the program. A newly released report by a conservative watchdog alleges theres a covert multimillion dollar strategy to promote liberal values in the us the document on mass a scheme to push certain topics from supporting obamacare to slamming donald transportable. Takes a closer look at how it operates. Whats powerful in politics then money a strong candidate with a good program and idealist would say nothing a realist would say but a politician would say dark money dark money millions of dollars that behind the scenes donors are spending to some of the political train truck and according to the left clue. Media its a bad bad thing because the conservatives do it because others have made billions and want to ensure their government doesnt limit their ability to make more conservative donor david koch as one half of the Koch Brothers came to symbolize the influen
Human rights watch is research regarding the activities of businesses and settlements and the court just in april affirmed that the deportation was legally valid and gave me 2 weeks to leave and weve now appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court i know that the are now waiting this is Supreme Courts decision on whether or not there should be allowed to stand work within the country but it comes at a time when politically israelis say quite at a crossroads especially considering Benjamin Netanyahu is future political future do you think this Political Uncertainty in israel will have any bearing on the case absolutely i mean i think its not a coincidence that the Supreme Court a scheduled our hearing for november 11th these really israelis will go to elections on september 17th the process to form a government usually takes around 6 weeks so by the time were sitting in the courtroom will likely have unless theres some hiccups like law. Time with Coalition Negotiations a new Israeli Governmen
Remarkable what got you in trouble with the israeli leadership Israeli Government going back several years now has been restricting Human Rights Watch as access to both israel and the west bank it began actually several years ago in february of 2017 when the Israeli Government denied Human Rights Watch a permit to have a foreign employee at the time they allege that Human Rights Watch was engaged in propaganda for palestinians we went public it generated pressure the government relented and then last year the government accused me as the israel palestine director of Human Rights Watch of promoting boycotts in israel we sued a court froze the deportation order and in court the government cited as evidence Human Rights Watch is research regarding the activities of businesses in settlements and the court just in april affirmed that the deportation was legally valid and gave me 2 weeks to leave and weve now appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court i know that the are now waiting this is Supre