Rare. Hi. But friends dont have to be. This is joe. When youre connected, youre not alone. Cox supports cspan as a public service, along with these other television providers. Giving you a front row seat to democracy. Defense secretary lloyd austin talked about the attack by hamas on israel and continued u. S. Military support for ukraine. He was at a nato headquarters along with the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, general c. Q. Brown. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you so much for being here today. It is my pleasure to introduce secretary of defense lloyd austin iii and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general c. Q. Brown jr. The secretary and the chairman will have some brief opening comments and then well have time to take just a few questions. Please note, i will be moderating those questions and due to our time constraints, i just ask your followups to give your colleagues a chance to ask their questions. With that, mr. Secretary. Sorry about the delay. Its a busy day,
Spite of a time of great austerity in britain refused to balance the books on the backs of the poorest in the world or indeed in britain now this budget it contributes to the safety and stability and the prosperity of some of the poorest countries in the world it stopped conflict from starting once it stopped it it then seeks to reconcile people caught up in conflict and it also focuses absolutely on building prosperity by trying to make sure that Economic Activity increases because the way the poorest people lift themselves out of poverty is by being economically active so it has a real impact on the ground in the poorest parts of the world but its also in our National Interest every penny of this budget helps britains National Interest by making the world a safer and more prosperous place that increases our own trade and our own safety here on the streets of britain and as you look at the problems that are coming down the runway migration. Climate change terrorism protectionism the I
Bombs federation of course is based in scotland and check out the Scottish Government that we produced a few years ago as the full body of work in it no one from bradford for scotland and far beyond people be making their own celebrations of scotlands National Poet and when next we will now examine sure well make our own contribution to celebrating their mortal memory of robert burns. Under mitchell was the International Development set to stay for the first two years of the Coalition Government thats the one elected in twenty ten in that period he set the administrations course and finally achieving a United Nations target on International Development that was the one for set back in one nine hundred seventy. Today he states the case for maintaining that level of contribution lets hear from under. The conservative Coalition Government elected in twenty turn was the first government to implement britains promise to the poorest people in the world that we would spend no point seven perc
Here on the streets of britain and as you look at the problems that are coming down the runway migration. Climate change terrorism protectionism the International Development budget spent by britain really tackles all those things at the heart of those problems thats why i strongly support it and why i think its one of the best Public Expenditure we in britain support well welcome under mitchell you were the international who during the budget towards this target of zero point seven percent which was achieved in twenty fifteen for the first time but its not under a fierce time people say the daily mail the newspapers say that look because of the in large budget some of the spending years mr active put your answer to that well it is a large budget and we have to justify every penny and the way it is spent to the British Public we have to be clear that every pound of hard earned tax payers money that is spent. International development is actually delivering a hundred pants on the ground
Carnival as Rio De Janeiro gears up for the festivities these women are dancing for change they want to party in peace for good in the end was sexual harassment. Also on the program v. W. Travels to norway as part of our road to break that series breaking up is hard to do but could the norway model for britain no regrets in its post breaks a future. So im terry barton good to have you with us. Germanys two biggest Political Parties have finally agreed on a deal to form a Coalition Government they made the announcement in berlin after another grueling game of give and take more than four months after the countrys elections but both chancellor of the medical and her social democrat counterpart Martin Shultz say the agreement is the only way to guarantee german stability after a marathon thirty four hours of negotiations it was old strained smiles for the would be Coalition Partners with the working compromise achieved relief from the chancellor. Its been about sort i am convinced that th