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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the government of Bangladesh today signed a $71 million loan agreement to improve flood control, irrigation, and water resources management in rural communities in Gopalganj and Madaripur districts to strengthen their preparedness and resilience to the effects of climate change.

Voicemail interception by the news of the world. since then, theyve been paying financial damages to people with proper claims. hugh grant had made the claim that it was £1 billion theyve already paid out. i think thats lawyers costs and settlement. but what they say is there are a number of disputed claims still going through the civil courts, some of which seek to involve the sun. the sun does not accept liability or make any admissions to the allegations. and they point out that a judge rece...

Whether he be able to keep this tiny majority in november and so i think this gives some some muscles where he can actually enact some of his agenda. he doesnt have that much because you have a senate controlled by democrats. but this secures some of his power because he doesnt look week where he puts up like bills like to impeach mayorkas you dont get any he had to do it another time to do that. and so this he is crying. he seems to have figured out this complicated puzzle today and staff just ...

That can prevent what happened last fall without a speaker. he can acknowledge hes a lame duck, doing things we dont want and acknowledging hes not the man for the job and announcing his resignation and give us notice so we can replace him in conference. neil: let me come back, it comes back to the aid package thats cobbled together im not on the rules committee and i dont understand the process fully. i want to ask you about aid outright. to israel it seems like youre for it, ukraine, youre not...

Or pass on supporting some of these measures. within the next hour and a half or so, we anticipate the house will start voting on these bills. the order, a little bit unclear, still. they will take up israel aid, ukraine aid, the indo pacific. there is also $9 billion for humanitarian aid, which democrats said was a redline for them. some of that money would go to civilians in gaza as they are experiencing those strikes from israel after that hamas attack on october 7th. overall here, the overar...

But we do expect all of this to be clear by mid week next week. president biden said he would sign it. >> generally speaking, these bills all have democratic support. so they dont need republicans to support them? >> reporter: you get into different coalitions when you look at the bills. you have aid to israel which is more contentious among democrats because of the continued aggression by israel in gaza in retaliation for the hamas attacks on october 7th. democrats did push for $9 billion in hu...

Does. joining us, democratic member of the foreign relations committee, senator chris of delaware. it is good to have you back on the show. what you make of what we are hearing from the speaker of the house? >> im relieved to hear speaker johnson speaking so clearly and forcefully that his values are rooted in the reagan republican era and he sees this key strategic moment we are in and he agrees that we need to fight for freedom in europe and by helping ukraine stand up to russias aggression an...

Another $8 billion and their economy is not what ours is. their debt to gdp ratio, you look at the united states, only nine other nations that have a higher debt to gdp ratio than the united states. many of us on the budget commit, economic security is national security. im going to be a no on taiwan, no on ukraine. i have a different take on israel, those who blessed themselves in israel will be blessed. a different take on israel. but ukraine and taiwan, you know, i noticed in your clip, talki...

>> shoppers all right welcome back were waiting for the first key house vote that would provide billions of dollars in aid to ukraine, taiwan, and israel. thats expected soon for israel, the aid would include $5 billion to restock its missile and rocket defense system in 3 billion for other advanced weapons systems, the vote follows this week skirmish between israel and iran that rattled nerves around the world. cnn senior diplomatic editor, nic robertson is in jerusalem for us, so a neck what w...

Industry than ukraine does at the same time, theyve been at war now for six months, not just in gaza, but theyve been also battling on a lower level with hezbollah in the north. theyre getting about $17 billion. director military aid. how needed is that in israel its very important for israel when you got to israel, i talk about things surrounded by a ring of fire fighting in gaza. >> they his bullet to the north, i have a friend from the west and also in the houthis to the south. so israel is f...