[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] is recognized for five minutes. Thank you. Mr. Zuckerberg, thank you for being here today and i want to thank the chairwoman for having this hearing. Youve said a lot of things today that couldnt have been said during the last hearing. Your responses to questions has been very district and very helpful. Thank you for that and thank you very much for being here. I just had a few quick questions about the Libra Association. On the website, one of the benefits before mr. Marcus appeared before our committee was that those contributing, who joined the association, could derive dividends from libra investment tokens and thats since been taken off. Could you elaborate on that . Sure, congressman, i think that there had been an idea that in order to encourage marketing of the payment service, that there might be some investment that other companies could make into this and some return that they could make, but i think that that idea has eith
Cspan3. Walking and leaving everything they knew in a war situation. I dont think most americans, at least i wasnt until i went and had that experience, realized and most americans dont realize the history and delicacy of relationships in the middle east since at least world war i and the whole question of whether the kurds should have had a stay or not. The human aspects of this are getting missed in large part and the demands you had. So tell me what the humanitarian needs and demands were before the incursion and talk a little bit about whats happened since. In a sense, the demands are the same. Because the fundamental ask from the humanitarian community is that there be a lasting cessation of hostilities that civilian protection be upheld and that humanitarians be given, you know, unfettered access to people in need. I think those are the three sort of big policy asks from the humanitarian community. Yesterday, today and tomorrow. The difference is a difference i would say in scale
Government well blocking his reforms 72 hours to find a solution at least 2 people have died during the demonstrations Stephanie Decker reports from beirut for i for a 2nd day and night thousands filled the streets of beirut calling for the government to go. For the 1st time on such a large scale its not about where your religion says lie in this deeply divided sectarian country its not about class all walks of life are united against the Political Leadership here today thats what the rights of that country its what i meant by that but you know number that i mean why fed up with its value for the future. Theres no future for no job and im not acceptable anymore and we have stood up for a long time and now its time to turn protesters blocked all major roads bringing large parts of the capital to a standstill they remained on the streets well into the night the army used tear gas and water cannon to try to disperse the crowd. The army has said that it will from now on come down harder on
To date, which is difficult, as fast as this situation is moving. This hearing today is intended to assess the geopolitical and humanitarian impact of turkeys crossborder attack on u. S. Interests in the middle east, determined how best to salvage u. S. Interests moving forward and evaluate the state of u. S. turkey relations. Before we talk about the current state of affairs in syria, its important to recall the path that brought us here. To begin, the Syrian Civil War is a complex, multisided conflict that has drawn in russia, iran, the u. S. , nato allies, and other entities. Over the course of this eightyearlong conflict, syrias brutal dictator, ai bar shal ai said, with the support of russia and iran, has relentlessly bombed cities and towns across syria, resulting in over 500,000 deaths and leaving over 10 Million People displaced. We are all aware that many confirmed uses of chemical weapons by the russiabacked assad regime, adding to the humanitarian suffering in violations of
Weiwei toompts ai pull his work from museum shelves. Coming up in business, carnival for in venice, big bucks local artisans. How much it cost to get your outfit made. In french connections, frances love affair with strikes. Hassan rouhani is on the second leg of his european visit. Here in the french capital today to revive economic ties despite political differences. Lucrative deals with airbus and car manufacture peugeot are in the works but divisions over the large. Conflict looms the iranian leader says his country is ready for business despite this. We arent rouhani gathered to talk about the economy. And about increasing our relations with france. To work with france with renewed energy. We are announcing today that we are ready for this and on this visit we bring this message to all investors, economic bodies, that they are welcome in iran. Molly that was the iranian president speaking earlier today. More on the visit, latest developments. The iranian president Hassan Rouhani a