Thousands from the. Russian and syrian warplanes have resumed attacks on it led syrias last remaining rebel held province at least 21 people have been killed in recent days thats despite a cease fire that was supposed to have started on sunday but what helmets rescue group has recorded more than a dozen violations of the truce. Reports. The damage caused by one of several airstrikes in the Northwest Province of a planet survivors trying to salvage whats left. Emergency crews combed the rubble to recover the body of a child. Not the other civilians were among the casualties in it with city. Is that of a did it give us your point that. Afternoon it lip says he was targeted by stroke or 23 jets they hit the Industrial Area and alcohol markets must of those hurt have serious injuries. In a nearby hospital friends console a father grieving his son was a ceasefire which started on sunday was shattered on a one step below 6 i was in syrian and russian jets attacked it that city as well as sev
Charter is proud to be recognized as one of the best internet providers and we are just getting started. Building 100,000 miles of new infrastructure to reach those who need it most. Charter Communications Support cspan as a Public Service with these other television providers. Giving you a front row seat to democracy. Next, retired generals martelli and Kenneth Mckenzie discuss their involvement in the Lessons Learned from the 2021 u. S. Withdrawal from afghanistan, this Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing is almost 4 hours. Afghanistan. We will hear from the generals who advised President Biden against his disastrous Foreign Policy decision. I now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. On april 14th, 2021, joe biden announced the United States would unilaterally withdraw its military forces from afghanistan. For months before that announcement, the intelligence immunity and his senior military advisers, including both gentlemen testifying today, issued dire warnings about the withd
We addressed those to director munoz and greg starr. Today agreed at the meeting to improve coordination and collaboration. At a later date in a meeting with director munoz, she developed colleagues to work with senior colleagues in d. S. We believe the coordination is improving, certainly in washington. We are not able to speak to the relationship in the field. Thank you. I want to see if i can put this in context a little bit. Ambassador hayes, i would like to ask questions from the view of the Inspector Generals office. I understand staffing attica bull increased since 2002. Is that right . Thats correct. In 2009 there was bipartisan support for a drastic increase in troops and civilian personnel. They commonly called that a surge. Construction contracts. I would like to understand how state plans to adapt to such changes. Explaining that the total number of american personnel working for the americans in 2008 to a peak of more than 1340 in fiscal year 2012. Is that all correct . Is
I do. Thats the exact figurersment the scope of the project is 2. 2 billion. The em if a sis is on desks. Isnt it by the end of the year rethe administration is supposed to have all the troops out . Do you know . By the end of ethics year well have probably one of the best arrays of desks you have ever seen in any post. I was over there and some of the Foreign Ministry folks. Are are we going to be buddy 31 . Does anyone know . If i may this refers back to the point i head that we have tried to be flexible and responsive in terms of staffing. I know. But again, a desk would suppose a person is sitting there. Vacant desks are another matterer. We are building this is a 2. 2 billion dollar project. Its probably the biggest Infrastructure Project if the history of afghanistan. In a country that has revenue of about 2. 5 billion coming in. We are going to have this massive complex of desks. This will be will be the taj pa hall of desks and the complex the taxpayers are getting ripped off f
Notified the congress that they needed additional funds because the threat required over head cover for their temporary facilities. In 200 they contracted for temporary buildings that did not specify the need for overhead cover. Let me give an opportunity for miss muniz from your perspective on that question of not accepting all the standards and where youre at now. Sir the recommendation to have different standards for temporary structures has struck us as strange. We try there are different facilities . Well, the problem is that invariably when i have seen standards for temporary structures or interim facilities, its a lowering of the standard. What im afraid of is that we will by virtue of the fact that you a trailer is a trailer we will have lower levels of Security Standards for them, rather than striving to meet the real standard. An example is that for many years, all we had was construction trailers. Over the last several years we developed a heavily armored trailer that we can