And will welcome to you know watching r. T. International with me because aaron now breaking news this hour on our tail turkey is said to be carrying out an asse strike on the syrian army in northeast syria as follows the death of 33 turkish soldiers and if they are province according to turkish officials and joining the studio by our correspondent. What do we know so far well the situation in the northeastern syrian province over the but has been. Has been very very heated i have to say and lately turkey has been saying that more than 30 of its troops have been killed and the. They say that the far as originated from the syrian army now again just a disclaimer all that we know so far comes from the turkish side the syrian army is yet to comment but is adamant i mean the old no punches. They are saying of that its the syrians who have killed the troops and theyre saying that essentially now they are designating all syrian soldiers as enemies. Time is running out the murderous regime ha
Nice to get started. This morning we will consider the president s budget request for the u. S. Forest service for fy 2021. Chief christiansen, its good to be able to welcome you back to the committee, thank you for being here. We say around here that the president s budget request is just that, it is a request. It does start the annual budget process. It gives us here in congress the opportunity to learn about the administrations priorities and how it would carry them out. But ultimately, it is up to us to determine what programs to fund and what levels. Although this years budget request is far from perfect, i agree that the priority must be on Wildland Fire Management and improving the health of our forests. Im encouraged that the administration is proposing to invest significantly in hazardous fuel reduction and other active Forest Management activities. We know such investments pay dividends in reducing the risk of severe wildfire. Hopefully we will see this important work planned
The 30year at 3. 222 and today is jobs friday lets look at expectations forecasters say that the economy probably added 160,000 jobs last month. The Unemployment Rate is seen Holding Steady at 3. 5 the backdrop for this mornings report, stocks at record highs the dow closing within points of 29,000 yesterday, 28,956 apple was a big driver shares of the neck giant up more than 2 and its also adding to the gains this morning its up another 2. 20. Apple last trading at 311. 84. On a trillion and a half. Trillion and a half market cap. It was a broad rally, all 11 sectors of the s p 500 closed higher. Are we taking the under on the jobs i just feel like it would be the under on the jobs. Youve got the weird seasonal things that take place. The number was so blow out last time. It revised higher than months before that, too. It seems like eventually theres a regression or whatever you want to call it to the mean. Im hoping its good. 160,000. 160,000 is a lot. Trade continuing to be a huge s
Reject a call for a cease fire going against a plea from turkey and russia. Iran is denying accusations that a missile strike was the cause of the ukrainian jet crash near tehran on weapons day its calling the allegations against them quote psychological warfare video posted by the New York Times appears to show the moment a missile hit the plane near tehrans airport the video shows a small explosion when the aircraft was so apparently struck but the jet did not immediately explode the plane continued flying for several minutes and turned back towards the airport whilst it was still on fire alan fischer as more. This was taken seconds before a ukrainian passenger jet crashed near tehran security cameras captured the dramatic moment of impact on the ground 176 people died including 63 canadians that countrys Prime Minister says it was down by in a rainy and missile we have intelligence from multiple sources including our allies and our own intelligence. The evidence indicates that the p
Well bring our next panelists here. Thank you again for keeping your conversations a little bit more quiet on the outside by the booths so we can listen to our panelists. So this next panel is very interesting called new models of public, private cyber collaboration. The moderator is mr. Will ash. He is a senior director of Security Sales used Public Sector global Security Sales for cisco. Joining him on the panel is Major General ed wilson, United States air force retired, secretary of defense, assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy in the office of the undersecretary of defense. Also joining us is claire caroma from the Defense Digital Service. Also Lieutenant General stephen fogarty, commanding general, United States army Cyber Command. Also ms. Tonya ugoretz, a Deputy Assistant director cyber readiness, outreach and Intelligence Branch for the fbi. And last, miss Jennifer Walsmith, sector Vice President and general manager cyber and Intelligence Solutions division, Northro