He met to learn abandon trends across the globe and hear about possible solutions. Please come in and take your seats. We are ready to begin our hearing. Good afternoon, everyone. And thank you for attending todays hearing on global efforts to counter antisemitism. I would like to this our distinguished witnesses for joining us to offer their expertise and recommendations and i would also like to thank senator manchin and his office for securing this room for us today. The International Commission on religious freedom is an independent bipartisan u. S. Government advisory body created by the 1998 religious freedom act. Or irfa. The commission monitors the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad, using International Standards to do so. And we then make recommendations, policy recommendations to congress, to the president of the United States, and to the secretary of state. Today as were gathered here for this hearing, ucerf is exercising its Statutory Authority under the
Additional funding is provid by. Corporate funding is provided by. David miliband, welcome to firing line. Good to be with yoaret. You are the president and the ceo of the International Rescue committee, Global Relief organition that was founded by Albert Einstein in 1930. Hard to do better than that, can you . No, i dont think so. Ar yoalso the former foreign secretary of the United Kingdom and a member former member of the labour party in parliament. I first must ask you about developments in the news this week. President trump ordered the killing of Iran Quds Force Major General soleim last week. Had to say about it. Soleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attackson merican diplomats and military personnel. T we caught him in thect and terminated him. In your opinion, was President Trump co to do this . Well, obviously, we havent seen the evidence that President Trump referred to, in terms of the imminent attack on u. S. Forceset or on u. S. A is obviously whatuestion the conse
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Now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Britains election provided binary clarity. Borisjohnson has the kind of parliamentary mandate the conservative party hasnt seen since the thatcher era, to take the uk out of the eu and roll out a tory vision for the country. And the labour party . Well, after one of the most crushing defeats in its history, it faces an existential crisis. My guest is alastair campbell, close adviser to tony blair in the new labour years, passionate opponent of brexit. Where does the left go now if its ever win again . Alastair campbell, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. I want to begin with that election result itself. When you saw it, as a tribally labour man, labour all your life but who has run into a series of problems withJeremy Corbyn and his leadership, how did you respond to that result . I wasnt wholly surprised. I had privately predicted about 50, 60. Majority for the tories. Yes, and the reason for that
Thomas cook dates back to 1841 its sudden demise is reverberating around the world. Well be asking what went so wrong for thomas cook and finding out what its customers here and abroad should do now. Also tonight. Stop shouting questions at people, it is quite rude. Stop shouting questions at people, it is quite rude. Under pressure as delegates at labours conference vote on whether to defy Jeremy Corbyn and demand the Party Campaigns to remain in the eu. The 16 year old Climate Change activist Greta Thunberg accuses leaders of failing the worlds young people as she addresses a un conference in new york. The duke and duchess of sussex arrive in south africa at the start of a ten day tour meghan says as a woman of colour shes calling for an end to sexual violence. And coming up on bbc news. Wales get off to a win at the Rugby World Cup after a six try demolition of georgia. Reaction on the way. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. A huge operation, the biggest in peacetime,