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we begin in the united states, where florida governor ron desantis has dropped out from the republican presidential race and endorsed donald trump. the surprise video announcement comes ahead of this week's republican primary in new hampshire where mr desantis was polling in the single digits. his departure leaves nikki haley as mr trump's only significant rival. here's what he had to say. if there was anything i could do to produce a favourable outcome — more campaign stops, more interviews — i would do it. but i can't ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their ...

Middle east into the abyss. Hes demanded hamas immediately release hostages and israel let in aid. It comes as the israeli Prime Minister, benjamin netanyahu, says his military is ready to begin a Ground Offensive at any moment aimed at crushing hamas, after its fighters killed more than 1,400 israelis and took more than 150 people hostage last week. An estimated 300,000 israeli troops are massing near gaza, but israel has given no indication of when an attack might begin. Meanwhile, israeli airstrikes on Gaza Continue. Israel says it is targeting hamas positions. Hamas is designated as a Terr...

The United Nations Secretary General has in the last hour made two direct humanitarian appeals to both hamas and israel. Antonio guterres issued a statement saying it was his duty as we are on the verge of the abyss in The Middle East. He called on hamas to immediately release the hostages it was Holding Without conditions. And urged israel to allow rapid and unimpeded access for humanitarian aid into gaza including supplies and workers for the sake of civilians there. Mr guterres said each one of these two objectives are valid in themselves. They should not become Bargaining Chips and must be...

In the region. From capitol hill, this is about 90 minutes. After recognizing myself and Ranking Member deutsche for five minutes, as soon as he shows up each for opening statements, i will then recognize other members seeking recognition for one minute. We will then hear from our witness and without objection, mr. Ambassador, members may have five days in which to insert statements for the record subject to the length limitation and rules. The subcommittee invited the department of defense to send an official to testify before us this afternoon built dod stated that they were unable to partic...

I dont think it is very helpful. Thank you, madam chair for holding this hearing. I want to say at the outset i have an honor flight coming in shortly. I have somebody from bangladesh here. I was clair of this committeehair of this committee a while back. I went to yemen and mr. Connolly is right, there have been problems there for years. But i would argue that they certainly have gotten worse under the administration and you know it was this administration that claimed that yemen was a Success Story and clearly it has been anything but that. When we were on our way over there, there was an a ...