One of the leaders in gaza. Israel has killed 23 palestinians in the territory. Venice suffers its worst floods in half a century, the second highest tide ever reported in the mayor is blaming Climate Change. Electric carmaker tesla will build its nuclear factory near berlin. The ceo says he is plugging into germanys reputation for excellence in engineering. Im brent goff. To our viewers on pbs in the United States and around the world, welcome. We begin with high drama and history being made on capitol hill. Lawmakers have begun the first public hearings in the impeachment inquiry against president donald trump. Democrats are trying to group you brute he abused the office by threatening to withhold millions of dollars in aid to ukraine unless the government investigated the family of joe biden. Lawmakers are hearing testimony from two top diplomats. Trump has called this process a witchhunt. Democratic House Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff highlighting what is at stake whe
Edition, official visit, ceremonial attributes. Vladimir putin votvartse independence. Economy, security, logistics, what else did the president s discuss today in narrow and broad formats . Eliminate obstacles in mutual trade . Economic sustainability of the cis, topic number one. Minsk and moscow maintain a course towards strengthening union integration, our president stated this at negotiations with his russian counterpart at the palace of independence. The leaders first discussed the bilateral agenda in a limited format, after a short protocol, negotiations continued behind closed doors for almost 2 hours. The heads of state exchanged views on the most pressing topics for minsk and moscow, touched upon the situation in the region, and options for responding to emerging threats and challenges. Our countries. For further development of these technologies, training of qualified personnel and even joint construction of such facilities in third countries in space. Another relevant topic
And the sudanese people. Over the past year, his people have been victims of a terrible war, a war he did not want. The purpose of these meetings is to mobilize the entire International Community so that the world sees sudan take action. How unlucky the longsuffering people of sudan were, thought residents of the entire african continent. It will be a disaster if suddenly the eyes of the french fall on a particular country. Not a year yet passed as the colonialists were finally driven out of the rich natural resources. Resources of west african countries, as the minister of Foreign Affairs of the peta republic, stefan sornet , immediately found a new point of application. Sudan. Poor we are, the french themselves thought. Another, in quotation marks, Peace Initiative 100 km from paris will make them even poorer, or even take the life of someone close to them. We are no longer even talking about france and its weakening by blind and irresponsible elites. The question is, are we willing
Im lauren taylor. Israel is marking memorial day, which honours its war dead as its offensive in gaza continues. Ceremonies are getting under way as we speak, right now, sirens are sounding across the country to honour Fallen Soldiers and victims of terror attack. Im not playing at santry because of Broadcasting Restrictions in the us. We are not playing at sound because of Broadcasting Restrictions in the us. This year, israelis are also commemorating the more than 1000 victims of the hamas attack on october seventh, which triggered the current war. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is attending the main State Ceremony at mount herzl injerusalem, followed by another event in memory of victims of terror at 1pm local time. 0ther ministers are attending ceremonies taking place right now around the country, despite some bereaved families urging them to stay away. Politicians from across the spectrum have urged keeping the deep political divisions and heated discourse out of the memorial d
An israeli bombardment in the Eastern Parts Of Rafah has already displaced Tens Of Thousands of palestinians. Mr blinken has been talking to cbs news as we look at rafah, they may go in and have some initial success, but potentially at an incredibly high cost to civilians. But one that is not durable, one that is not sustainable, and they will be left holding the bag on an enduring insurgency because a lot of armed hamas will be left, no matter what they do in rafah. Or if they leave and get out of gaza, as we believe they need to do, then youre going to have a vacuum and a vacuum that is likely to be filled by chaos, by anarchy, and ultimately by hamas again. So, weve been working for many weeks on developing credible plans for security, for governance, for rebuilding. We havent seen that come from israel. Weve been working with arab countries and others on that plan. We need to see that, too. Pick we have the same objective as israel. We want to make sure that hamas cannot govern gaz