Safe for terrorists as the u. K. s new quarantine ruins Holiday Plans and efforts to restart the spanish economy. And greece steps up its campaign to get the u. K. To return the parthenon marbles and seeks to undo the damage done by the british aristocrat took them. Hello thanks for joining us he marched alongside Martin Luther king jr and campaigned for a social justice right up until his death 2 weeks ago and now john lewis one of the most influential figures in the American Civil Rights movement has made a symbolic final journey his coffin was driven across the Edmund Pettus bridge in selma alabama on the way to his mom oriel service its 55 years since lewis led hundreds of black demonstrators across that very same bridge and was beaten unconscious state police violently broke up the march the violence was condemned across the United States the world through a National Spotlight on the struggle for racial equality lets bring in Andy Gallagher who is joining us from miami to talk us
And federal agents deployed by President Trump. Argentinas police are accused of using the current virus as a cover for abuses. Hello from the beaches of spain to the streets of melbourne corona virus cases are surging on almost every continent the global death toll is racing toward 650000 with more than a 3rd of fatalities in just 2 countries the United States and brazil they and india account for nearly half of all confirmed infections in the world and the virus is also spreading faster its taken just 4 days for the global number of cases from to jump from 15 to 16000000 over the past week 37 countries have reported record spikes in daily infections including nations once praised for taming their outbreaks like australia and israel here in europe one report suggests spains actual death toll may be 60 percent higher because suspected cases were never included in its total of 28432. 00 victims but spain insists it is safe despite a new spike in cases prompting the u. K. To abrupt abrup
Chairman inhofe our hearing will come to order. We meet today to continue receiving our hearing will come to order. We meet today to continue receiving the posture statements. We have quite a few more. This is the time of year, and we have general todd walters, and i appreciate very much the time we spent together last week. And general stephen lyons, so i appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with it from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combata
Appreciate you two, the years of service that you have donated and given to your country. As stated many times before, the Armed Services committees top priority is to ensure the effective implementation of the National Defense strategy. We have that. Yeah. We have it pretty much surprised me, senator, how we have really stuck with it from the very beginning. With that from the very beginning. It means that we must ensure that in this era of great power and competition with russia and china, that our military services are resourcing commands to address the challenge of strategic competition. This is especially true of our two combatant commands that are here today, ucom is focused on deterring vladimir putin, who has repeatedly shown his willingness to use force to achieve his political objectives, and then there is transcom, focused on fullspectrum mobility operations. Both of which face capability shortfalls. I just returned from the security conference with several others here at th
Political level, as a result of recent documents that were approved at the political level, we are seeing greater cohesion. For the first time in over six decades, we at nato approved the first nato military strategy. It is a document that is classified, nato secret, that codifies the threat and codifies the activity we need to embrace to more comprehensively defend all 29 nations agreeing to the nato military strategy. I think that is a reflection at the political level, the military level, of improving cohesion. We talked about the shipbuilding program, can you give us a quick summary of where we are at and where we have to go . Gen. Lyons yes, senator. On toow, we depend carry 90 of our Cargo Capacity in a wartime scenario. Our readiness of the fleet is below where we needed to be. It is rapidly reaching the end of useful life. We are working closely with the nato the navy. I anticipate we will purchase two in 2021 working closely with the navy. My view is we should have the first v