Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. President biden has picked Denis Mcdonough to head the Veterans Affairs department. He previously served as white house chief of staff during the last four years of the obama presidency. His confirmation hearing he was asked about veterans access to healthcare, modernization efforts in the das responds to covid19. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] i i want to call this evening to order. I want to welcome everybody. I appreciate all that are here, all those that are online. The purpose of this hearing is due from the i president s nominate to serve as secretary of Veterans Affairs, Denis Mcdonough. Before i talk about him i just want to say i appreciate this committee all the reasons we sat on this committee thats been bipartisan and its been nonpolitical, and we tried to do the best by our veterans whether you are the republican side for the democratic side of the aisle. I particularly appreciate the re
And in thailand tens of thousands of protesters filled the streets of bangkok defining a ban on large gatherings and states of emergency. And on soundless and i have all the support the Los Angeles Dodgers put on the back called break in performance to win the 1st game of the National League championship series. But we begin this news hour in kyrgyzstan where the president has announced his resignation after weeks of political turmoil serum buy back of had been facing daily protests since the disputed parliamentary election earlier this month but the vote sparked widespread demonstrations with accusations the vote was rigged in the governments favor since then some leading politicians have been 4 states theres a new Prime Minister and another election has been. Promised so lets say turn out to charles stratfords hes live for us in eastern care to stand charles the president said he would resign after the election was really run so why has he done it right now. Its fair to say mr jeenbe
The country deeper into chaos. This is our to international bring your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. The belorussian interior ministry has confirmed several additional arrests strikes and demonstrations gripped the Country Police and belarus dispersed Peaceful Protesters outside the minsk tractor factory on wednesday morning dozens of people gathered near the entrance to greet and support workers on strike demanding that Alexander Lukashenko resigns protest over the disputed election are now into their 11th day heres what some of tuesdays rallies both for and against the president looks like. The situation in the country is very serious we are against unrest in our country i want to say one thing i stand here for valeries a president who did not condemn look. For the position so why. It should be condemned. I came here to support the protest because the only way to win is to keep getting out and keep showing our disagreement with the results of
U. S. And Afghan Taliban a just sign a preliminary deal in the coming hours that could eventually end americas longest running war its the result of 18 months of talks but once its agreed there is still a long way to go the 1st stage will be a 135. 00 day period of whats called a meaningful reduction in violence that is set to include the exchange of some 6000. 00 prisoners a deal is being described as a precursor to a Peace Agreement between the warring sides within afghanistan its hoped this will lead to talks between the taliban and the government in kabul as well as the withdrawal of foreign troops leading up to the signing theres been an initial weeklong reduction in violence mostly held although there were still some attacks. We have teams covering the story from several angles in a few moments well be speaking to alan fischer whos in washington d. C. Meet is standing by in afghanistans capital kabul but 1st lets speak to some of the devalued whos at the venue here in doha where
A terrorist act against the police did take place and illegitimate seizure of power of could the government offices were taken over. Again brings you our next update just 60 minutes away from now stay with us for. Hello and welcome to all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle on this edition of questions sent to us by you the viewers we received quite a few questions here we do our best to answer some of them. Cross talking fan mail im joined by mike. Yes robert bridges in our t. Website writer we also have Dimitri Bobbitt she is a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london we cross to Marcus Papadopoulos hes the editor of politics 1st magazine or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate we got a lot of questions sent to us were not going to be able to answer them all but ill get the worst one out of the way and go to marcus 1st ok we have a question from adrian holeman question pretty o