Reauthorization act of 2018. In this portion of the hearing, Committee Members hear testimony from deputy faa administrator, among others. From september this runs about 3 1 2 hours. Good morning. I want to thank the witnesses for joining the hearing on the implementation of faa authorization act of 2018. One year ago this committee wrote comprehensive Bipartisan Legislation to raise the bar on aviation safety, improve the flying experience for the flying public, better prepare and diversify the aviation workforce and foster innovation in the usair space. Todays hearing is a critical milestone in the subcommittees oversight work to ensure the timely implementation of the law in accordance with our intent and to address new challenges. Although the faa has made some progress on fulfilling the laws directives, ongoing implementation delays threaten the important work needed to advance u. S. Aviation and aerospace and maintain our global leadership. Our first panel of witnesses are dan el
Dr. Afgani, on behalf i would like to acknowledge the government of Islamic Republic of afghanistan for putting the event together. Great honor to be able to host president ghani this morning for remarks on veterans day celebration. We will have a special guest joining us during the event this morning arriving in from the airport, the afghan current minister of finance, dr. Mohamed, we will welcome him a bit later when he arrives. President ghanis subject today is entitled service, selflessness and commitment. Those words could not be more appropriate given that here in the United States we are observing veterans day holiday in recognition of all American Veterans and military service past and present. Im dave, currently a visiting professor here sais, 30year veteran and a bit of time in afghanistan which i will mention as we go through this a little bit later on in brief remarks this morning. Veterans day in 2018 is a particularly noteworthy event. Many of you have been following the
Bam and save every day every hour every minute we receive a large amount of information what is really happening at the front what are the losses of personnel and equipment on the battlefield, how does the International Community evaluate our successes and what is moscow lying about from the stream of news coming from everywhere, we single out the most important ones, closely monitoring whether there will be weapons for ukraine and what and what the russians are whispering about occupiers behind the backs of the commanders news summary of the week this is an overview of only important events, events of important reliable this is analytics, fact checking, professional comments about this, much more today, who has Important Information in simple language available to all viewers , greetings koval and this is the summary of the week on the espresso tv channel, news, summary of the week that saturdays at 9 00 p. M. Mykola veresen Vitaly Portnikov and the main topics of the week are if god
Combat work of our units is not currently underway, earlier the painter said that in a week in the southern direction, the Defense Forces destroyed 18 tanks, 29 Armored Vehicles of ars systems and mortars , one helicopter, and together with special equipment and air defense means, the ground was burned journalist Yuriy Butusov published a video of the liberated village , which was fertile, what was left of it , houses were destroyed everywhere, torn by shells, burned trees, the occupiers tried for two days to regain control over the fertile but on august 20 they stopped their attempts and left and were met with unceasing applause. Volodymyr zelenskyi made a speech in the danish parliament, he thanked the country for its support and military assistance, and also emphasized that ukraine stands against russian aggression, otherwise it is under threat of the notion that other neighbors are terrorist countries. Now russian evil strikes with pain and death in ukrainian cities and villages ,
For the humanitarian efforts of danish and international of organizations operating in ukraine, also in copenhagen, the head of state spoke before a large crowd of supporters who held ukrainian flags in their hands. Zelenskyi said that russia will definitely lose in this war, adding that during the twoday visit of the president , he agreed on the supply of f16 aircraft by denmark and the netherlands, most of the creatures what we prove with our victory with our cooperation what you prove by supporting ukraine we together prove that life has value that people are important Freedom Matters europe matters sweden so far does not plan to hand over its rypan fighters to ukraine, swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristerson said about this, he noted that his country currently needs these aircraft itself and cannot share them at the same time , according to kristerson, sweden remains part of the socalled f16d coalition, cooperates with 14 countries in order to guarantee flight capacity for ukraine in