A 4 year ban of from all major sporting events including the tokyo lympics and football world cup in qatar. Paulo we begin in syria where russian and Syrian Government forces are escalating their assault on the last rebel held province and strikes have caused a mass exodus in observers say 18000 people have been displaced by the ongoing bombardment in just 24 hours dozens of civilians have been killed with mostly small villages in the countryside targeted so far this is all happening despite a truce being in place since august it was announced by russia but it has been continually violated in recent weeks but to smith begins our coverage now with this report on a live look there was a market here in the southern italy village when the strikes began. Did you know they were russian jet. Its according to the syrian observatory for human rights. Volunteer white helmet how medics are there within minutes to do what theyve done thousands of times during the civil war trying to save the lives
Of the presidium, today we are considering the draft state budget for 2024 by First Reading a total of 1,620 amendments were submitted to the budget. The Budget Committee held a working Group Meeting for two days, during which we, together with the authors and the ministry of finance, discussed and looked for opportunities to take into account all the valid proposals made by the honorable peoples deputies, but according to our assessment, in order to take into account the submitted proposals, in general, additional almost uah 12. 5 it is impossible to take into account all these ideas and wishes in practice, because all possible receipts of ukraine, income from placement of bonds of the domestic state loan and help. Partners amount to a maximum of uah 3. 960 million per year, and they have already been allocated by the ministry of finance to various expenses in the draft budget, therefore, in the Budget Committee, we concentrated our efforts on redistributing expenses from less importa
many of those lies are well documented. we know that mr. santos hide about his education, both graduate and post graduate. claiming that he attended universities where he was never enrolled. claiming that he obtained degrees that he did not earn. we know that mr. santos lied about his employment when he claimed that he worked for two prestigious financial institutions, citi group and goldman sachs. we know that mr. santos lied about his religious faith, when he said he was jewish, and when called out meant to say that he was jew-ish. and we know he lied when he said four employees killed in a mass shooting in florida. mr. speaker, while troubling, those lies did not justify his removal from this body. but these and other misleading statements reflect directly on mr. santos s credibility. in may, mr. speaker. george santos said that he looked forward to seeing the ethics process play out. and that if the committee finds reason to remove them, then that is the process. today, m
And combine forces command. You can see the last few minutes at cspan. Org. Now urban Affairs Hearing on diplomatic actions as the u. S. Seeks to deter north Koreas Nuclear program. We have asked each of our witnesses to shorten their Opening Statements to a couple of minutes each so we can get to opening request wes. I will ask the senator to follow the fe minute allocation for their questioning. Lets proceed. Thank you. Distinguished members of the committee im honored to appear before you to discuss the Treasury Departments strategy the destabilizing and repressing actions of north korea. Today i will share with you aspects of our strategy which we are executing at a pace. We are foe cussing on key financial vulnerability. It can be used to support directly oirn directly its Weapons Development programs. So a key part of our strategy is by targeting the regimes most profitable including coal, labor and sale of weapons and other goods. We represented dunzs that support these lines of
The dangers of increasing threats posed by russia and china. Held by the Senate Armed Services committee, this is two hours and 15 minutes. Good morning. All right. The Committee Meets today for a hearing on the posture of United States Cyber Command. Were pleased to welcome back admiral mike rogers, the commander, chief of the Central Security service and several other titles, i believe. We are grateful for your many years of distinguished service and for your appearance before the committee today. Threats to the United States in cyber space continue to grow in scope and severity. But our nation remains woefully unprepared to address these threats which will be a defining feature of 21st century warfare. As a result, this committee has focused its attention on Cyber Security. We have expressed our concern at lack of strategy and policy for addressing our cyber threats. We were hopeful after years without any serious effort for a cyber deterrence policy from the last administration, th