The week lawmakers are excited to start the week with 2020 federal spending bills. Focus will be in a culture, commerce and interior environment and transportation hud department. First vote at 5 30 pm eastern eastern. Not to live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, in spite of our d shortcomings, you have shortcomings, you have promised never to forsake us. In this decisive season of our nations history, grant our lawmakers wisdom and courage. May they remember that history is a fateful stenographer that will judge their words and deeds in the shining light of truth. Lord, provide our senators with the grace to glorify you as they remember you have appointed them for this moment in time. And, lord, we thank you for the courage and professionalism of the men and women in our nations military. We also thank you for the life and
And members will remember fondly serving alongside here and the facing of serious illness in the recent years was inspiring. Today the prayers of this entire body are with kays husband chip, children jeanette, tilton and carrie and with all of their family and friends at this extremely difficult time. Now, on a completely different matter on sunday morning, we woke up to a better and safer world because one monster was no longer in it. Abu bakr albaghdadi was the founder and leader of isis, in recent years made him the singlemost important target in the fight against radical islamic terrorism. His band of fanatics has committed heinous crimes and shed an unmant un unimaginable blood in an entire reason. Isis has been part of a civil war in syria that claimed hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. Theyve run slave auctions of women and girls, and affected the genocide of the yeazidi people. And isis established a socalled caliphate, imprisoned entire communities. Slaughtered vulnerabl
From studio fourteen here and out of their headquarters in. Welcome to the news group be a war of words between washington and london continues british Prime Minister to resume a stands by her criticism of the u. S. President and she says shes fully focused on tackling extremism that was in response to a tweet by dont trump. All this back and forth began when making ben transfer his. Tweets United States is calling for more sanctions in the complete isolation of north korea after another Ballistic Missile test at the latest. Yet proving that it has the capability of reaching United States mainland and we. Little interest in the what options are left protecting history United Nations looks at ways to preserve heritage from war torn areas in the middle east from monuments to historic museum. And im leon Harding Police and pakistan are cracking down on thousands of taxi drivers no parking tickets or speeding fines here though theyre being stopped because the art on the side of their taxes
Its newsday. Glad you could join us. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london, and 2am in the morning in syria, where Government Forces have carried out some of the heaviest bombardments in recent years on a rebel held area on the outskirts of damascus. Activists say that in three days of airstrikes and artillery fire, more than 200 people in eastern gouta, including children, have been killed. This report by our middle east editorjeremy bowen contains some distressing images. This could be the beginning of the end of a rebellion in Eastern Ghouta that began in 2012. All the other smaller rebel held enclaves around damascus have been starved and bombed into submission. Explosion screaming now, it looks to be Eastern Ghoutas turn as the regime pushes for decisive victory around the capital. Sirens activists in Eastern Ghouta say this is as bad as its been. You can hear the shout and crying of women and children through the windows of their homes and the missiles and mortars dropping on us li
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