Go ahead. Hello . We will have to leave it there. That is it for the program today. Another edition of washington journal comes your way tomorrow morning. The house comes into consider several rules for future voting on bills. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. May 22, 2024. I hereby appoint the honorable Chuck Edwards to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 9, 2024, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties, with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate
Hours after ukrainian president s Petro Poroshenko accused russia direct and open aggression, authorities lost control of the luhansk airport. One month after Vladimir Putin called for talks on statehood for Eastern Ukraine. Al jazeera am peter sharp has more from southEastern Ukraine. 30 kilometers to the west is russia. This is russias second huge humanitarian convey, destination donetsk. The drivers of this military base tell us the drivers have yet to be cleared by the International Red cross but that didnt stop the first convoy pushing across the frontier and wont stop this either. Kiev says its not going to accept this convoy unless it goes through the red cross checks but whats clear is this convoy will roll and i think soon whether kiev likes it or not. The eu warned the kremlin on the weekend it would impose tough new sanctions within seven days unless russia curbed its issues with ukraine. There wont be a military solution in this situation. This is the view of the other eu m
Nine days after typhoon haiyan left parts of the country in ruins. Tens of thousands of victims are starting to get medical care as food and water is being dropped to isolated areas. Lets bring in craig leeson who is in tacloban. Is International Aid finally getting to the hard to reach places. It is starting to trickle through. We are seeing a lot of aid come in here at the air force base in cebu. Its piling in and being distributed to areas in need particularly tacloban in leyte, the epicentre of this disaster. But the challenge has been getting it from tacloban out into the the regions from there that are hard to reach. Many of them are still cut off. There is only power to four of the 30 provinces hit by the typhoon. There are difficulties that aid workers are still seeing that were there from day one. We travelled up to bantayan yesterday with a cargo shift, one of the first aid relief and witnessed the hunger of people as they crowded around the trucks of rice, trying to get food
Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America, im morgan radford. Relief efforts are picking up nine days after typhoon haiyan struck the philippines. More than 3,600 died. Those who survived are finally getting the help that they need. Food, water and medical supplies have started getting to areas that were completely cut off by the storm. The u. S. Military is now dropping food and water to survivors in the area. But more than 1,000 people are still missing. Some 4 Million People are homeless. For the latest we are going to talk about talk to craig leeson, who is standing by in the philippines. First lets tell you about an attack in afghanistan where more than 2,000 afghan elders will meet in kabul. Theyll vote on the future of u. S. Troops in afghanistan. The u. S. Is trying to hammer out an agreement to keep forces on the ground beyond 2014. That effort was dealt a blow on saturday after suicide bomb attack killed six people. Jane ferguson reports from kabul. It was an attack on the
Tonight hope is beginning to reach the far corners of the philippines, coming too late for many, and more than 1,000 people are missing from typhoon haiyan. Our craig leeson is live at the airport in cebu. Craig, in you can, describe to us the relief effort. To you feel help is getting to the people who need it . Well, certainly in the most immediate areas, the epicentre of where the typhoon struck in leyte, tacloban, we are seeing a flood of International Relief come in here at the cebu air force base. Thats been taken straight to tacloban, where its being distributed. What we are getting now is a bulge effect. More is coming in, it hits these areas and bulges out into the more remote areas, which then goes into a trickle. We have seen the u. S. Navy fly into gihan, taking evacuees from other islands bringing them into a base and bringing in food to that area. Up until this point it has not received it. That copped the brunt of the storm on the east coast, the first place that the tid