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The East African Saturday December 12 2020 America is considering possible sanctions on a number of military and police officers over violence and human rights abuses in Uganda. PHOTO | FILE Summary Uganda government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo said the US government should stop “rhetorical condemnations” and work with Ugandan nationals and local non-governmental organisations to “secure accountability for citizens who have been subjected to arbitrary arrests, torture and extrajudicial killings.” Advertisement The United States Congress is launching an investigation into the actions o...

Abortion. brooke? >> those interviews are coming up. also a key ally rejecting the deal with iran. shumer voting he will go against it. it is an enormous duo. we have live in washington with the latest on that. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, brooke. this is a big blow for president obama. senator schumer's support would have been key for the white house. coming out against the deal saying in a statement, quote, i will phototo disapproval of the agreement. it is because iran will not change. now, this could pave the way for undecided democrats to go out and not support this deal. mayb...

Europe and the united states and other freedom loving countries have to ban together. you know, europe is so much closer to the middle east geographically than we are. they really need to give it this their full attention. >> representative engel, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you. president obama says that he's reached out to talk to french president hollande about this attack in a statement, the white house is saying u.s. officials are already in talks with their counterparts at every level and promising the kind of assistance we just talked about. for more on what french intel...

Back. so we get to the 2008 levels and begin to make cuts from there. >> heather: i do want -- before we toss to it representative engel, for your responsibilities, i want to let our viewers know in the corner of the screen we are keeping a very close eye on the situation going on in wisconsin and the capitol there, all of those protesters being told to clear out. or face arrest. so we're keeping a close eye on the situation and we'll monitor it for you and take threw if anything changes and representative engel talking about the national budget and problems there, do you think two weeks reall...

The reason we're having the debates now is because the democrats did not do a budget for the fiscal year and we have to get through to the first of october and we'll have a debt limit vote in april and the third in the series is a budget vote and going through appropriations this summer and i hope my colleague will join us, the american people have spoken out on this, and they want to see spending brought under control, they want to see these reductions. the government has overspent and we don't have a revenue problem, we have a spending and priority problem and it is time for us to be respons...