The dispute continued at the United Nations and in international courts for many years and this agreement was reached following two years of negotiations. Andrew harding has the details. A scattering of tiny islands deep in the Indian Ocean. British, for now, but after todays agreement, not for much longer. The Chagos Islands are all uninhabited, save for one, an important one, diego garcia. It is home to a big and secretive american military base. Today, britain agreed to hand the whole archipelago over to mauritius, but crucially, The Americans will remain in place. This is a very, very important agreement between our countries. Crucially protects the national security interests of the united kingdom and our allies and has been reached in full agreement with the united states retaining the crucial base on diego garcia. Also closes down a potential route for migrants. But some have warned that china could exploit the deal to extend its influence. It is over half a century since the in
More dangerous than Auto Races. Onetenth of 1 of the Auto Races die. Onetenth of 1 and a little more of the bull riders that looks nasty, doesnt it . They died. Presidents, i dont want to tell you the percentage, but it happens to be a very dangerous profession. The only thing i can say is they only go after consequential president s. Its true. [applause] they only go after consequential president s. We are going to be even more consequential because we are going to do things that nobody has ever been able to do in this country. When kamala is seen at The Border on friday, she will pass hundreds of miles of wall that was built by trump, and it is wall that really works. That is why, if you look at the arrow on the bottom, the Red Arrow on the bottom, that was the week i left office. That was the lowest level of illegal immigration in recorded history of our country. Look at that. Every time, i love it. But that is the lowest level of illegal immigration, and that includes drugs and lot
Have now is a challenge ahead of most of the bleak months of december in january where we have a baseline of inspections that literally is breaking records every day with regards to number of infections number of hospitalizations and numbers of deaths the numbers are really stunning we can do something about it but that something right now is Public Health measures the u. K. Is gearing up for a mass coronavirus Vaccination Program which is beginning on tuesday the 1st doses of the pfizer biotech vaccine will be given in England Wales and scotland a new and u. K. Negotiators have failed to make any headway as they attempt to reach a post braggs a trade deal but as Prime Minister Abbas Johnson said to travel to brussels this week to try to work out an agreement. Canada is set to receive its 1st doses of the pfizer and by own tech Coronavirus Vaccine within a few weeks farmers are just into those says if approval is granted this week the 1st shipments to the country could arrive by next w
The modern world. What i found even more telling was how things are invented. How invention itself is encouraged and nurtured. At least how it has been encouraged and nurtured in this country in the past. Its easy to say, as i do in my book, that we are a nation of tinkerers. We americans like to think of ourselves as natural adventurers, risktakers, entrepreneurs. But what does that mean exactly. . I am a believer in american exceptionalism. But as marines like to say, it has to be earned, never given. How did we earn it . How did we do what we did and . And how could we get back to doing it right . As the first nation to exist wholly in the modern age, United States has also insisted when timeed wholly in that making things when we were extracting them from the earth. We invented almost everything about america. We have constantly reinvented almost everything as we deemed it necessary, including our institutions, our customs, our laws. Above all, our definition of who is american and
Mr. Mccarthy youve heard me talk about the upcoming freshman class. Half of the Incoming Freshman class will be women. Yvette harold is the first republican native American Woman elected to congress. Steve nee bice is the first iranian American Woman elected to congress. This makes me very proud as a republican. And as an american. It shows the party of lincoln is also continuing the legacy of the first black american to serve in congress, Joseph Rainey of south carolina. Rainey was born into slavery and even after gaining his freedom he received little education as a child. He was drafted by the confederacy but escaped and went to bermuda and started a business. After the war he moved back to georgetown, south carolina. With his family in 1867 he became chairman of the countys republican party. Just a few years later he was elected in 1870 and became the first black american in congress. Where he worked tirelessly, fought for civil rights, education, and Economic Opportunity for all.