of asian men is jailed for eight and a half years. china and russia have denounced a defence pact, agreed by the us, uk and australia, that will provide australia with nuclear powered attack submarines. russia said the pact would bring years of confrontation to asia. the chinese foreign ministry said the three countries were on a path of error and danger, calling the deal a violation of the aims of the international non proliferation treaty. here s the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson wang wenbin speaking at the daily press briefing. translation: china has repeatedly stressed that the aukus pact - and the three countries efforts to advance cooperation on nuclear submarines and other cutting edge military technology is typical cold war mentality. it will only spur an arms race and undermine the international nonproliferation regime and harm regional peace and stability. peace loving countries have expressed their serious concern and opposition. the three countries lates
sderot, israel. how is israel expanding its ground assault? reporter: i sat down with israel s top tank commander to talk about how tanks are going to play a central role in the offensive in the south as today the first israeli tanks were spotted in southern gaza. as israel expands its ground offensive into southern gaza the brigadier general, the head of israel s armored corps, said tanks will once again be central to israel s war strategy. reporter: israeli tanks were at the tip of the offensive into gaza in october, clearing the way for infantry troops to move into dangerous and densely populated cities. ibrahim says this kind of coordination is a lesson learned from russian failures in ukraine. translator: we saw where they only fought with tanks alone they were more vulnerable. this overcomes almost every problem on the battlefield. reporter: israeli tanks are pushing through, not around residential buildings, reducing entire neighborhoods to rubble to minimi
Law enforceme lawmakers approved a bill to remove the debt ceiling. They could not agree on a spending bill so at the beginning of the month the government started laying off 800,000 employees. Now fair lowed staff at the white house and government offices have returned to work. And museums and monuments and memorials are opened again. Im personally glad that all the memorials are open for the tour guiding business and so that students can learn. More than 100 people lined up to get into the Smithsonian National air and space museum. Translator the exhibition was great. I came all the way to the u. S. To see this. Many Business People welcomed the deal to pay the governments bills over the next four months. Others are skeptical. I think it was forced and not well thought out but we got to a time crunch and needed to be done. I mean, around the world, our reputation is slowly dwindling. The lawmakers reached their compromise hours before a deadline that would see the government default
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of faking itjust in order to get out ofjail. i m joined now by eduard saakashvili, son of the former georgian president, and bill browder, human rights campaigner and the ceo of hermitage capital management. theyjoin us where they ve been meeting members of the european parliament. first of all edouard if i can ask you, how was your father? when did you last see him? i actually last saw him unfortunately in the fall because they didn t let me in when i was in georgia in the winter. however, his condition is public knowledge at this point. we have seen footage that is very disturbing from the court appearance just some weeks ago and now we have reached a point where even the government hospital where he is being held recently held a press conference saying his life is really