Vote. Is there could be a mad Dash Scramble and nominate ago speaker and eight candidates seeking to acquire the gavel of this hour and watching that closely and updates as soon as we get them live from the hill. Meanwhile, from the middle east, it is day 18 of israel at war and idf cranked up air strikes against hamas targets in gaza overnight. Israel Still Deciding on major Ground Offenses or keep the jewish states powder dry. At least for now. Good morning. We await for more action on that im bill hemmer live in new york. Big couple of hours here, dana. Did i recollects im dana pree no and this dana perino and this is meshs news room. At this hour, a very large group of israeli supporters are gathering outside United Nations chanting bring them home ahead of a 10 00 a. M. Hearing. Amber lets get to it. Best of my recollections apologies, well try to get the audio in there a bit. Did i recollects President Biden will not consider a ceasefire till all hostages kidnapped by hamas are f
russians on targeting air strikes, especially since the russians say they re hitting one thing, isis, but the majority of their strikes are landing against rebels, including rebels that the u.s. has trained and supplied. so, i don t think you re going to see any sort of cooperation on that. the best you could hope for is that the u.s. could find a way to follow through with some of the promises it had already made. remember, this summer it announced that it would be this buffer zone along the border with turkey, where rebels would be able to go back and forth. it looks like the russians may be testing by flying over turkish air space, testing their ability to stop that. before i let you go, let me ask you, the u.s. just this week has pretty much said, look, we re going to do away with that program where we were training what we thought were friendly rebels. why, all of a sudden, are we ending this program that at one point had so much publicity connected to it? the cost and throwin
will bring the individual involved to justice. and he accepted that and hope that it could be a transparent process, so that the afghanistan people would see that the united states is, indeed, going to not only prosecute this individual, but ensure that he s held accountable. nbc s chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, is in kabul. richard, i know you ve been to these villages. you ve been covering this war from the start. can you give some context on how big a development this is? reporter: what we re seeing right now is the u.s. exit strategy from afghanistan changing, despite claims from the white house, from defense fishes that the strategy is staying the course. it is changing, it changed today. let s take it step by step. first, the taliban statement that it is suspending, not
the chinese navy issued eight warnings to the aircraft to move away from the contested territory. two days later, china said it was strongly dissatisfied with the action and called on the u.s. to stop. the u.s. has become increasingly vocal about opposing any further mill trazation of islands in the south china sea. yesterday at an annual security policy forum in singapore that included defense fishes from 30 other countries including china secretary carter called for an mediate and lastingle halt to land reclamation by all countries. it is unclear how much farther china will go, he said. joining me now, gordon chang from forbes.com and author of the coming collapse of china. and a fellow at the center for strategic and international studies, asia ram. okay. gordon, this story is one we reported on a long type ago as sort of, oh, this is happening.