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nonstop flights are available from most major airports. more information for your vacation planning is available at aruba.com. and now, bbc world news. laura: this is bbc world news america. reporting from washington, i am laura trevelyan. a breakthrough in the battle for mosul. we are there with iraqi troops as they retake the airport from islamic state fighters. quentin: i.s. might transform itself into something else, but here in iraq, we are witnessing the final days of the caliphate. national debt. laura: u.s. lawmakers get in your full from the voters. we are in iowa as a townhall becomes a forum for discontent. and where truth and fiction collide, a real-like kgb agent finds a story just like his in the plot of a popular tv show. welcome to our viewers on public television in america and also around the globe. it is being hailed as a major win in the battle against islamic state. after days of intense fighting iraqi forces have retaken the , airport outside the
woodruff: all that and more, on tonight s pbs newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: xq institute. bnsf railway. and with the ongoing support of these institutions: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: the battle over affordable care act, or obamacare is now joined, in earnest. house republicans pressed forward today, in the face of resistance from democrats, and from inside their own party. lisa desjardins reports from capitol hill. reporter: it was day one of republicans push to sell their long-awaited replacement plan for the affordable care act, obamacare. greg walden chairs the energy and commerce committee and helped author the bill. introduction of this bill is just the first step in helping american families across the country obtain truly affordable health care and we re eager to get started. repor
major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: xq institute. bnsf railway. and with the ongoing support of these institutions: this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: the battle over affordable care act, or obamacare is now joined, in earnest. house republicans pressed forward today, in the face of resistance from democrats, and from inside their own party. lisa desjardins reports from capitol hill. reporter: it was day one of republicans push to sell their long-awaited replacement plan for the affordable care act, obamacare. greg walden chairs the energy and commerce committee and helped author the bill. introduction of this bill is just the first step in helping american families across the country obtain truly affordable health care and we re eager to get started. reporter: named the american health care act, republicans are
prime minister cameron, your excellency s, parliamentary colleagues from both houses, ladies and gentlemen. it is for me an enormous pleasure and an undoubted privilege to be able today here in this room to introduce the prime minister of canada, stephen harper to you and to do so in a personal and official capacity. the prime minister is no stranger to the ways of westminster, being a politician of considerable range as well as outstanding international vision. there is far more he could tell you and me about this place then i could tell him about the parliament in ottawa. that said, it was my privilege to get to load the nonbiased the longest-serving one. speaking in your history, and more recently to have a rapport with the youngest occupants of the fear. your speaker.r, you re very welcome visit to britain, this is less a diplomatic engagement than a and-standing close friends, it is all the more appealing for having that quality to it. i hope you feel at home. the ti