Lawmakers push for a cross party rescue deal to save the economy as the. Markets dealing with their worst week since the. 8 financial. With the top stories for the past 7 days on right up to the moment of elements well this is the weekly on r. T. International hello and welcome. We begin in croatia in Southeast Europe where a 5. 00 magnitude earthquake and 2 aftershocks struck just north of the capital a 15 year old found in the rubble of a building is said to be critically ill in hospital several others are reported to have been injured in the streets littered with debris and with significant damage to several buildings the quake was the strongest in the region in the past 140 years among the damage youre seeing here. Of the top of the wall of the spires on the citys iconic cathedral collapse there are also Power Outages problems with Water Supplies as well in some areas the quake so worried citizens come out onto the streets despite current advice to stay indoors to tackle coronaviru
Good evening. My name is arthur hessel. Im Vice President of the haberman institute for jewish studies. I want to welcome those you who are here in person with us. Its israel in rockville, maryland. And to those of you numbering at least 500 who were with on zoom, youve joined us from all over the country. Our normal lectures have about 30 states represented, several canadian provinces and people scattered the rest of the world. I also want to welcome the cspan cameras covering a haberman for the first time. For those of you who are new to haberman, a few things about us. For the past 40 years, weve sponsored programs chosen to provide adults with encounters with jewish thought history and culture before covid changed everything. Our programs were inperson and our parties events all from the washington, d. C. Metropolitan area. Today our reach is much broader through zoom. You can learn more about it on the are looking at website. Easy to remember haberman institute dot org. This is ou
Hearing that isis is merely a local threat but many people are using a cancer reference, metastasze around the world are conducting attacks in afanistan. Now we have attacks in eurorope, sewhere in the world. Why this change in isis strategy and what are they trying to achieve . It is a pleasure to be here. Objective has been building the caliphate in the borderlands of syria and iraq. Althouough they contitinue to hd sizable territory they have been under pressure by the coalition over the last year. And , their strategy has begun to shift to support affiliates operating throughout the globe but primarily affiliate in afghanistan, libya, and in the sinai in egypt. And the global reach is now a ao increasing into europe, witness the recent tragic attack in paris. The purpose of this is twofold. There itcrease theheir if, show these attacks to burnish their credentials as a formidable force. And a also to encourage recruits to join the cause. But it is also to disperse their efforts mor
What happens if the response is more aggressive and more violent. Hong kong, of course, is a vital city for global business. We will have a live report from the center of the turmoil and will be talking with some experts on where this may go from here. Meanti meantime, whens going on over there and here and affecting your money. Time for our Closing Bell Exchange today. We have sam stillball, larry glazer, renee norris, derrick gruden and our own Rick Santelli joining us, as well. Renee, you believe we suffered technical damage in the market last week. What do you think thats going to do here . Where are we going, do you think . You know, i am really watching that on top of the fact of a major divergence of the russell 2000 and the large cap index so i am watching that closely. I do think that this could be the Tipping Point for the correction. Between the geopolitical issues were seeing, this divergence and the fact that its a tired market. This is one of the longest periods of time w
Undersecretary for personnel and reiness testifies on recommendations of the independent review commission to prevent military Sexual Assaults and provide care and support for victims. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Welcome. Will callhe committee of military personnel submmittee to ord, and thi hearing today isbout an update on the implemention of recommendations of the independent review commission on Sexual Assault in the mitary and establishment of the office of special trialounsel. We are delhted that you a all here. This is a very impornt hearing because, in fact,e a doing a benchmarkeviewf the work of the dod as it implements the particular recommendations. Asou all of indendent review commission released the report and july 2021, so it is important that we closely monitor implementation of those recommendations. Also, last Years National fense authorization act included historic military justic reforms, so we need to ensure the implementation of ose pvisions