In afghanistan, military readiness, and the importance of emerging defense technologies. This is an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. It is a sincere pleasure for me to welcome our featured an honored guest today, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley, United States army. Since becoming the 20 the chairman of the joint chiefs in 2019 general milley has worked to realize the u. S. National Defense Strategy which prioritizes competition with china and russia, and American Defense plenty. Chairman milley has worked tirelessly with civilian and uniformed leadership towards developing the u. S. Armed forces into a truly modern armed force, capable of deterring and heading off the threats of all types that we may be facing today including those emanating from nearpeer competitors that have now really pronounced once again the idea of Great Power Competition. He has kept a close and careful eye on the perennial defense issues associated with iran and north korea, v
Where some host nations say theyve lost confidence in their mission. Democratic republic of congo is among those calling for their withdrawal of who have already sent them. Packing. Critics, a peacekeeping needs reform, all other say it does important work. Despite its shortcomings. Well get the thoughts of our guest in a moment. But 1st, this report from phantom on un peacekeepers have been deployed to democratic republic of congo for around a quarter of a century. A large part of their mandate is to protect civilians from armed groups. But now the comedies present says theyve failed in their mission. And wants them gone. You looked at the approving it is to be deployed. Thats a peacekeeping mission is deployed for 25 years. And the democratic republic of congo have failed to cope with the rebellions and Armed Conflicts which are tearing apart the region, need north to protect the civilian population. They knew many civilians in d r c. Feel the same way earlier this month, protest was
It is my pleasure to introduce this afternoons speaker for this seasons final washington history seminar. Director and oxford. He received his doctorate in history from Harvard University and is the author of the war ,hat brought peace to mexico world war ii and the consolidation of postrevolutionary state. Published by the university of new mexico press in 2014. Dr. Jones is timothy had positions at Harvard David Rockefeller Center for that american studies and the office of the historian of the state department where he coedited the Foreign Relations for the United States volumes covering u. S. Policy toward latin america during the next and, ford, and carter administration. Onay he will be speaking crimes against securities of a nation, world war ii, the cold war, and the evolution of mexicos antisubversion laws. Mr. Jones. Jones thank you very much indeed for the introduction of for all of you for being here. Its a pleasure to be back in washington. I did spend a very rewarding few
Benjamin netanyahu tries to call the Prime Minister says after a series of stabbings in israel, there is no quick fix following a wave of terror. Molly we start with fresh violence in israel. There are reports of multiple stabbings and shootings over this past hour. A jewish suspect stabbed and wounded four arabs in southern israel while a palestinian suspect has been shot dead after stabbing an israeli officer. All of this after tensions that have been boiling over into deadly violence. We go to irris makler, who joins us from jerusalem. Bring us up to speed with what we have seen take place today. Irris stabbing attacks have been carried out by palestinians in two is really cities, one in jerusalem and one in the west bank. We have also seen something we have not seen up until now, which is an attack by a jewish suspect, and palestinians are the victims. We see that in the south of there has been it is interesting, it was almost like a copycat attack of what we have seen on the other
The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 410, the nays are zero. 2 3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, and the are suspended bill is passed, as amended. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. The Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from virginia, mr. Goodlatte, to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 1123, as amended, on which the yeas and nays were ordered. The clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk h. R. 1123, a bill to promote Consumer Choice and wireless competition by permitting consumers to unlock mobile wireless devices and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house swebled the rules and pass the bill suspend the rules and passion the bill, as amended. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of represen