Hello welcome to this aljazeera news hour live from doha im melting down is coming up in the next sixty minutes. Protests in pakistan when there weeks long battle against the government forcing a minister to resign. The worlds most prominent christian walks a political and religious tightrope as he arrives in me im a buddhist nation accused of crimes against his range of muslims. The u. N. Tries to revive its efforts to end syrias war as a skilled thousands more people where in geneva and in syria. Also predictions of an imminent major eruption raise balis volcano alert to the highest level. And with all the sports news as australia thrash england by ten wickets to take a one zero lead in the ashes cricket series there are more later in the program. But france protests in pakistan are now dispersing from the city and on the edge of the capital islamabad after the target of their fury a government minister resigned many theyre sticking around to celebrate. They were demanding step down
Rules. That is when i explain it in a goes through rep. Brooks you have no judgment a you cannot explain it to the committee . Admin mccarthy there is no specific definition i can offer you. A judgment that will be well documented by the science. Rep. Brooks how long has the epa been working on that . Admin mccarthy since we created the Clean Air Act. Rep. Brooks what year . Admin mccarthy 1990 . Rep. Brooks decades later you still do not have the definition. Admin mccarthy it is not apply to that away. Chairman smith thank you. The gentleman from virginia. Rep. Beyer thank you for being so patient and gracious this morning despite rather combative nature of the questioning. Our chair, my good friend and distinguished chair claims the epa has severely damage our economy. How do you reconcile that with 64 straight months of job growth and 12. 8 million private sector jobs and tripling of the stock market. If there is not perhaps better to look at the infrastructure bills we failed to pa
Questions intelsummit. Org for the first preliminary. And due to the short period ofs of time for each periods of time for each of the guests, get the questions in early and nice concise ones will be much appreciated. Also the opportunities to interact with the exhibiters and also our appreciation for the sponsor of this event. At this point id like to introduce ms. Suzanne kelly, who is the c. E. O. And publisher of the sigh ofer brief, who will moderate the discussions. Ms. Kelly. Ms. Kelly thank you vutch. Appreciate being here. Welcome to everyone this morning. I hope youre geared up for a great conversation. Congressman, thank you. Mr. Schiff im delighted to be in a situation where the house gets to go first. I want to compliment insa for recognizing the proper order of things this morning. Ms. Kelly yes. Well, i wonder what went on behind the scenes. Well have to get to the bottom of that. Its fantastic to have you here. With so much going on in the , so much ce community of it s
Welcome to a very important here ainley have berthing support the patient to have been Opening Statement and then to introduce the first panel with vr done the Senate Judiciary committee is holding a hearing will entitle their responses to the increase of religious chairman grassley welcome, everybody, to a very important hearing that we have. Thank you for being patient while we get started here. Ill have an Opening Statement. Senator feinstein will go, and then well go, ill introduce our first panel. Then when were done there go to the second panel and introduce that at that time. The Senate Judiciary committee today is holding a hearing that we entitled responses to the increase in religious hate crimes. This is a subject of great bipartisan interest in the committee. Religious hate crimes harm victims. And also have a great impact on communities. Many of these crimes would never have been committed but for hatred. They run counter to americas values such as religious freedom and to
European countries, about a dozen Eastern European countries before he gets here for the Worlds Largest economy. The country that has taken a front and center stage here is one that will be a part of none of these talks. That being north korea after the launch of its latest Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. The president was asked at the press conference what he might do about it. Does he think north korea will take a uturn . Is the president at this point willing to take military action . The president called it a threat that needs to be confronted. Other nations need to publicly demonstrate to north korea that there are consequences for their actions, but the president would not say exactly what the next step might be. Only as you said the two words to get a lot of play on this. The president saying that there could be severe things. Listen. As far as north korea is concerned, we will see what happens. I dont like to talk about what i have planned. I have some pretty severe things