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And honoring malala. The youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Tonight there are calls from around the world accountability and for prosecutions after the Senate Report on torture by the cia. The worlds media and even some American Allies are using language like scandalous, devastating and a grave violation of democratic values. There are many here in the United States defending the agency and the tactics it used on terror suspects. Libby casey reports. Water boarding, sleep deprivat...

Bring peace to bean Ukraine Eastern ukraine. Reporter in namibia guard dogs protect herd from cheetahs and lyo laons. Isil says it shot down a fighter jet near the northern stronghold of raqqa. Reporter this is the jordan pilot captured by isil fighters. His plane was brought down outside of the syrian city of raqqa. Jordanian officials have confirmed one of their warplanes did go down. They called the pilot a symbol of heroism and sacrifice. If you take a look at jordan, his father flew aircraf...

Tools. We begin in iraq where fighters belonging to the Islamic State of iraq and the levants have launched a series of attacks, 16 peshmerga fighters were killed, several others injured during an attack on the mosul dam. Also fighting in as Eastern Province and sinjar west of mosul renewed fighting there between isil and peshmerga forces. It comes as the top u. S. Official leading the fighting says more time and training is needed to retake mosul. We expect that well see the effectiveness of th...

That a couple of things that we were told, specifically by the Service Members is that theres theyre concerned about the service to their country and the gi bill. Those are two things that were very important to them in terms of why they would come in, what they were looking for. Get an education benefit, be able to take advantage of that, which is a strong recruiting tool, and then move on to something else. Very good. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you all for being he...

That i think the point needs to be made here is if you look at where we are, for example, the president s budget which was just submitted, by 2021, what we are paying in interest will exceed the defense budget. As i look at the work that you have done on the Bipartisan Commission and we look at what the biggest drivers in our debt are overall, looking at the bigbudget, mandatory spending, programs that we need to have similar looks at medicare, Social Security, very important programs to people,...

Forward. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Say to my good friend steve that i used to sit next on on the House Armed Services committee that i agree with you except im more concerned with todays war than i am with the war after next. Right now is when were having the problems that were having and we had a hearing last week. We had schlesinger, george schultz, madeline albright. And they reminisced over what our abilities were, capabilities at that time, what is expected an...

Of perus forests. The last olympic medal was in the 1900 games. We meet with frances cricket team. Petro portioning coast says his country is a long way from peace. Ukrainian forces and prorussian separatists are expected to lay down their weapons. After negotiations european leaders were cautious about the deal they brokered between russia and ukraine would stick area the agreement is fragile because the ceasefire needs to be implemented. If there are difficulties, we are not ruling out additio...

So ordered. Send those to you and we thank you for the testimony that you have given. Including my members who have submitted questions for the record. They should cement their questions by friday, january 24. The chair thanks everyone for in their attention. And without further ado, this meeting is adjourned. Chris christie apologized for what happened on the George Washington bridge. Heres what he said at his News Conference. Good morning. I come out here to this office what i have been many t...

All right. We begin with the deadliest day so far in the coronavirus pandemic. The u. S. Reported more than 3,000 covid deaths on wednesday. Thats more than the number of americans who died on 9 11, and its only growing worse. New infections are averaging 200,000 people a day, and hospitalizations are at an all time high. The best most immediate hope may be pfizers new vaccine. The food and Drug Administration will finally give had a hard look beginning in a few hours. If it gets the green light...

Anticonstitutional coup. In other news, the pistorius trial resumes day two of the crossexamination of a key witness. Reporter live from pretoria bringing you all the developments from inside the high court where the second witness has just begun giving evidence. Hello. A tense military standoff continues in crimea as the west tries to work out how best to respond to the Russian Military takeover. Now to ben brown in sevastopol. Reporter hello and to bbc world news for me ben brown in crimea whe...