Director of the Mexico Institute at the wilson center, here with us to talk about the u. S. Efforts, the mexican efforts to fight the drug cartels and this is also a followup to the horrible attack earlier this week in mexico of u. S. Citizens, members of the latterday saints sect that lives there. What does this is just about the cartels in that area of mexico . Guest good morning. In addition to recognizing the recognizee have to that this is a story that has repeated time and time again, week after week in mexico. Very few of the stories receive this kind of coverage, but there are communities across the country that face this kind of threat, this kind of violence from drug cartels. That particular part of mexico, in chihuahua, son othera, between the border of the two states, its clear the organized crime groups have the upper hand of the local authorities and the federal government has not been able to deploy sufficient force to dissuade them from engaging in this kind of action.
Hello and welcome to world news today. In the last couple of hours, hundreds of thousands of catalans have marched through barcelona calling on the madrid government to free the jailed separatist leaders. Most of the demonstrations have been peaceful. However one protest has seen hardliners surround a Barcelona Police station, where theres currently a tense stand off. Police say 350,000 people have attended the demonstrations overall. 0ur correspondent Sarah Rainsford is in barcelona. The stand off is still going on. The standoff is still going on. Our correspondent has been there throughout the evening. I know it is loud where you are, you may have a bit of trouble hearing me, but if you can hear me, tell me what is happening now. Well, you can see behind me what is happening now. As stand off has been going on for several hours but in the last hour oi several hours but in the last hour orso, several hours but in the last hour or so, the police basically seemed to lose their patience
Will come to order. I ask unanimous consent that the chair be authorized to declare recess recesses in todays hearing. And i also ask that the ranking chair member be recognized for a minute each during first round of questions. Without objection, so ordered. Before i begin, i want to expla explain an administrative matter regarding some of the documents we may use in todays hearing and may be entered into the record. Ill be making two unanimous consent requests in reference to two document lists, list a and list b. First, the documents contained on list b are marked export control. Weve been advised by the house General Council that the constitution provides ample authority for us to release these documents and the documents from boeing, boeings attorneys agreed to the release of these documents. I see nothing that is export sensitive in these documents. The faa stamped every document and they sent us as export control. However, to prevent confusion with regard to documents with marki
Continent it will tell you what is at stake british media are reporting that all 39. 00 people found dead inside a truck near london for chinese nationals thats as police ramp up their investigation including graves on 2 homes in Northern Ireland. Plus the worlds penguin populations are in decline well take a look at efforts to save the only penguin species native to africa. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us nato defense ministers are gathering in brussels today to discuss turkeys incursion into Northern Syria it is an unprecedented issue for the alliance because turkey a nato member is closely cooperating in syria with russia and nato outside. That sees the alliance as a threat a trick turkish and Russian Troops are now jointly patrolling a socalled safe zone in Northern Syria where turkey wants to resettle its syrian refugees. This area is now under moscows control Russian Military police made their way into the north Syrian Border town of kabbani on wednesday. U. S.
Weaker community to russian president Vladimir Putin welcomes African Leaders for a 1st ever sign that focused on trade moscow is looking to expand its influence on the continent we will tell you what is at stake. Plus the worlds penguin populations are in decline well take a look at efforts to save the only penguin species native to africa. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us nato defense ministers are gathering in brussels today to discuss turkeys incursion into Northern Syria its an unprecedented issue for the alliance because turkey a nato member is closely collaborating in syria with russia and nato outsider that sees the alliance as a threat turkish and Russian Troops are now jointly patrolling a socalled safe zone in northern. Syria where turkey wants to resettle its syrian refugees. This area is now under moscows control Russian Military police made their way into the north Syrian Border town of kabbani on wednesday. U. S. Troops had withdrawn from the region earl