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Democratic and republican members of the House Armed Services committee over the pentagon plan to devote 3. 8 billion to construct more border wall. The pentagon is asking congress to approve a 705 billiondollar budget for fiscal year 2021. This hearing is three hours 35 minutes. We will go ahead and call the committee to order. Good morning, everyone. We are gathered here this morning from secretary of defense doctor mark esper and chairman joint chiefs of staff general to hear about the proposal for the department of defense. I will start with some good news or start by thanking the witnesse...

And the discovery of oil in congo has environmentalists concerned about what drilling will do to the rain forest. And in sports olympic organizers insist the cancellation of julys tokyo games isnt being considered the torch relay through also set to start this month despite the coronavirus so. We begin this news hour with the latest on the diplomatic tensions due to turkeys intervention in the syrian conflict and the European Union Foreign Policy chief joseph brellier is an honor to meet with turkeys foreign minister. They are there and to president richard type bell says he told turkish offic...

I will start with some good news well, first of all, i will start with thinking our witnesses for being here and thanking them for their service to our country. Further service to the country. Both served their country in various capacities for a long time, not an easy thing to do. I appreciate that and look forward to continuing to work with you. Unlike last year, we have a budget agreement, and last year we spend a lot of time talking about how difficult it is to run while anything in the government but certainly the department of defense without Appropriations Bills in a timely manner. Last...

A 1000. 00 villages their lives. And what started a fire at a haitian orphanage killing more than a dozen children and investigations underway. In the latest move to stop the spread of coronavirus the Chinese Government is demanding that everyone returning to beijing from the new year holiday to isolate themselves for 2 weeks more than 2600 cases were recorded in china on friday about half the number reported the previous day foreign minister wang ye admits the outbreak is a challenge to china but criticizes some countries for causing panic. Some countries have stepped up measures including qu...

A volcano in the philippines threatens to erupt after spewing a massive plume of ash into the sky near manila it forces the cancellation of hundreds of flights and authorities ordered tens of thousands of people to back well go live to our correspondent. Nick spicer thanks for joining us angry protests have erupted for a 2nd day in iran after the government admitted its forces accidently shot down a ukrainian passenger jet killing 176 people in tehran thousands of demonstrators including many students criticize the government for initially denying it was behind the disaster protesters say chan...