knee-deep in our democracy, an all-out war on environmental protection, a justice department rowing back civil rights by the day, hatred and supremy proudly marching in our sreets, bullets tearing through our classrooms, concerts and urcongregations, targeting safest sacred places, and this nagging, sinking feeling, no matter your political beliefs, that this is not right. this is not who we are. (applause) folks, it would be easy to dismiss thispast year's chaos,

that struggles to keep itself open, russia knee-deep in our democracy, an all-out war on environmental protection, a justice department rowing back civil rights by the day, hatred and supremy proudly marching in our sreets, bullets tearing through our classrooms, concerts and urcongregations, targeting safest sacred places, and this nagging, sinking feeling, no matter your political beliefs, that this is not right. this is not who we are. (applause) folks, it would be easy to dismiss thispast year's chaos, as partisanship, as politics, but it's far, far bigger than that. this administration isn't just targeting the laws thatrotect us, they're targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of

, the environmental protection agency, as someone, who is in the private sector, been concerning witherceived and treated, i think a lot of those things, because of the climate that has existed under president trump, i think that on one hand it has been incredibly frustrating, but on the other hand it has motivated a number of democrats, particularly women to seek elective office in the mid—term election. in terms of tax cuts and the economy doing well, that will go down well with a number of people who feel that under him they can get a job who feel that under him they can get ajob and who feel that under him they can get a job and that nobody bothered about them before. how did the democrats respond to that? it is a good question and i come from a community like that. by community of more traditional democrats and the industrial midwest, who felt like they had been neglected. they had lost theirjobs in the industrial sector due to trade imbalance. there is still a lot of that success in the stock market that is yet to translate down to wage growth, for example. we hear statistics ab

the environmental protection agency, under the leadership of administrator pruitt, has been doing the hard work of protecting the air we breathe t water we drink, and the community where our families live. administrator pruitt has led the agency fairly. he has balanced the need to prioritize environmental protection with the desires of americans to have thriving and economically sustainable communities. his leadership of epa is vastly different than that of the last two predecessors. under the obama administration, the agency had lost its way. in some very high-profile cases, the epa harmed the very communities it pledged to protect. during the last administration, e approximate epa administrators created broad and legally questionable new regulations that undermined the american people's faith in the agency. these regulations have done great damage to the livelihoods of our nation's hardest working citizens. the regulatory rampage of the previous administration has violated a fundamental principle of environmental stewardship to do no harm. this failed environmental leadership has co

scott pruitt, the head of the environmental protection agency, testified at a senate hearing on epa regulations. he answered questions about the superfund program and efforts to remove lead from municipal water systems. senator john barrasso chairs the environmental and public works committee. this is 2 1/2 hours. >> good morning. i call this hearing to order. we have quite a full house today. i welcome the audience. this is a formal senate hearing in order to allow the committee to conduct its business. i'm going to maintain decorum. that means if there is any disorder or demonstration by a member of the audience, that person causing the disruption will be escorted from the room by the capitol police. first, i'd like to welcome the administrator of the environmental protection agency, the honorable scott prosecute, to the senate environment and public works committee for your testimony today. we're going to abide by the committee's five-minute rule for length of member questions in the first round. time permitting, we will also have a two-minute second round of questions until 12:30 when admin

they campaign for environmental protection, jobs, and political change. there are big problems in the country -- economic growth is slow, and terrorism is still attracting too many young people. youth unemployment stands at more than 30% in tunisia and the political situation remains unstable. >> we're convinced that ngos can bring about as much change as a political party. with politics, you get tied up in the election process. it takes so much effort. and tunisians have just had enough of politicians, especially after the revolution, when we had more than 120 parties. >> today, the activiststs and other ngos are meeting with the minister of the environment. they're discussing preparations for the un climate change conference in november in bonn, germany. zied says this never happened under the dictator -- politicians actually discussing things with young pepeop. >> they have an important role to p play in galvanising o otr people, soso that they finally take notice of climate change. it has to become part of public discourse, and every single citizen ne

on environmental protection. i justice department rolling back civil rights by the day. hatred and supremacy. probably marching in our street. bullets tearing into our classrooms. concerts and congregations. targeting our safest sacred places. and, this nagging sinking feeling that no matter your political beliefs that this is not right. this is not who we are. [applause] [cheers] rep. kennedy: folks, it would be easy to dismiss this past year partisanship, politics. but it is far, far bigger than that. this administration is not just targeting the laws that protect us, they are targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of protection. them, maybe it is not even something you're born with but something you measure by your net worth, your celebrity, your .eadlines, your crowd size not to mention the gender of your spouse, the country of your birth, the color of your skin, the god of your prayers. their record has rebuked our highest american ideal, the believe that we are all worthy, that we all count in the eyes of our leaders, our gods, and our government. that is t

potential creation of common market seeing real single market it's not yet fully completed environmental protection. and security matters you know broad sense i think that in these areas the european union can play a major role and it's needed is more countries especially in europe they need to scale and the european union can provide that scale that course the reason why finland decided to join also seemed gabrielle said that in order for europe to become politically stronger it needs to be even stronger in order to become more cyber and in decades to come i mean someone from russia's opinion from china is a painting from united states of painting and do you feel like brussels should have more power than the national capitals in the european states because becoming stronger politically kind of means that as well i think it's very critical question they were in the world what is the foundation of strength. is it political political integration is stability. or or what kind of capacities you need in order to be influential and politically powerful i strongly believe that at the end of the day everyt

the environmental policemen, the environmental protection agency will remove from service. we know what happens when the cop on the beat is not on duty. that's why wanted to tell you about campaign afge is working to inform the public. you can get that information on savetheusepa.org. we can tell the people how wo workers want to protect the environment, want to serve the american citizens, but aren't being allowed. >> gary, you're hearing anything from epa add minimum administrator so you can continue your work? >> no, we have not heard. the only thing we did hear is we would have funding until february. but i'm very concerned because also environment regulations are being repealed. the american public needs to be protected. our job is to protect human health and the environment, and when you repeal our laws and take away our teeth, we're not allowed to keep the american people healthy and safe. we want to make sure that you're safe, your children are safe, your children's children, generations to come, because americans deserve clean air, clean water, the same as every pe

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this risk is very high especially if they allow it everywhere almost everywhere and we have environmental protection areas which are very vulnerable and it's not really desirable to go in that is tell me is the business worth the when oil prices. so low and the cleanup costs of such disasters is so high. now the business is not worth it at this times because we have an oversupply on oil on the international markets the us is exploring already a lot because of fracking we have an oversupply and this is why the oil price is quite low at the moment it's unlikely that it will increase so the environmental damage as a potential potential environmental damages might be too high so as you say a political decision trump. giving a present to his supporters. yet to his supporters it's a fossil based a political position fossil industry and fossil fuels dominate all the political decisions of ministration and this is so one point of it so we see it again and our environment doesn't play a higher role or a specific role in this trial decisions or president's decisions and this is why they once again decided for

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that is that this one aspect but then there is another aspect if you look at the global environmental protection for example if the united states is not active and playing its role i think it's very difficult to save the world so so in spite of the fact that sometimes it's easier to make decisions without the united states i think that this is without the united states influence are not as influential as they should be on one hand if you talk about global issues but on the other hand if you talk about for an orgy of political issues maybe you want to be forced to be involved in wars that you don't know where you're fighting them for right and we look at how many worst europe was dragged into by united states that actually like at the end of the day resulted in a disaster for everybody i personally believe that that the world should be rule based and it's in the interest of everyone that there are as many common rules as possible in trade in economy collaboration in security area. finland was hosting the c s c european. the security in collaboration or cooperation conference nineteen seventy five

reclamation had water supply responsibilities and brought in the bureau of reclamation and the environmental protection agency was concerned about salinity standards and the e.p.a. was involved. and that was just at the federal level. there were state agencies as well. so it can get for large-scale ojects, these can be complicated administrative procedural projects and challenges. host: can that consolidation be done in keeping levels of safety and those things you have to consider as well? guest: it certainly can be done and we have examples of where it can be done well. again, with strong federal leadership about what the intent is to make sure that laws are being honored, that the public is being heard. this is doable. it's not impossible. but there needs to be a consensus and an undergo of what that should look like going in and not making it up as we go along. host: here's the report, not everything is broken, the future of u.s. transportation and water infrastructure funding and other topics in there if you want to find it on the website, you can go to the rand website and find it there, our gues

it would reward environmental protection measures, such as flood prevention, and support high standards well, we're very pleased with the gove announcement today, because it provides a level of certainty for farming... david exwood farms 2,000 acres in west sussex. he's grateful the uk government is promising to cover current payments till 202a. it's really important, it gives us a chance to sort of adjust our businesses, really study the impact of brexit and plan accordingly. you know, farming's a really long—term business. the wheat i have in the ground, the cattle we have on the farm, many of them will not be sold until after we leave the eu, so having a chance to plan ahead is really valuable to us. the government's offer seems ambitious, even speculative, given the next election is due in 2022. grain mountains, butter mountains, at times over the last 45 years the eu's common agricultural policy became associated with wasteful protectionism, but it also shielded farmers, including those in the uk, through bans or tariffs on products from outside the bloc. for example, cut—prices ch

shutdown some federal agency is that will be closed are the department of education and the environmental protection agency also the funding for the children's health insurance will be put on hold until it can be extended all of this happening on the one year anniversary of the inauguration of donald trump as president of the united states of america. let's take a closer look at the internet national impact a u.s. government shutdown could have joining us now in the studio is having rika head of the transatlantic program for the german council on foreign relations having welcome to the morning show the midnight deadline passed without enough votes in the u.s. senate to keep the federal government running why should we care here outside the u.s. i mean it's our strongest ally it's an important vibrant economy so headless government in washington would be a catastrophe for many aspects of the policies of a of a corporation of course this is the first focus the attention of the president towards washington even more and sometimes you need an outlook in president if a crisis comes and then of course the

people protesting) - there's a lot of anxiety around particularly consumer protections and environmental protections. and what it will mean for europe to tie its economy more closely to the united states, i think they worry that us corporations will take advantage of that to weaken some of the european environmental and consumer protections. - [narrator] the perspective is different in the developing world. wealthy nations became industrialized before modern globalization. emerging economies say they're at an unfair disadvantage because they're forced to compete on the global stage while their industries are still developing. - climate change is sort of a major area that we see this push, that developed nations are saying, you know, we have to pull down carbon emissions, that has to be a global effort. and so you're gonna have to sort of pull back on your carbon emissions as to india to brazil to china and those nations say hey wait a second, you got to globalize spewing coal into the air and now you know, you're expecting us not to do the same. - [narrator] growing anti-trade rhetoric has challenge

. >> he made that announcement on thursday that he was to expand essentially revoking environmental protectionsarack obama had put in place. the editors of "the wall street praise this decision, saying it would make the u.s. energy independent. the paper says as long as drilling safety and accident prevention measures are "is no goodheir reason not to exploit america's offshore resources for the notic good." obviously everyone agrees. it has drawn a lot of backlash from democrats, some republicans, and environmentalists in particular. law control the five kilometers separating land and sea, so essentially it comes down to state legislation on deciding permits for constructing oil platforms on land. passed bills in california have given them even more rights on deciding what activities take place on the coast. it's not all smooth sailing. molly: let's stay with the decision -- with the trump administration and the decision to cut aid to pakistan. >> trump says that pakistan is a safe haven for terrorists. the pakistani authorities do not agree. one columnist says it is a ruse by the u.s. to hide

support the scientists financially and logistically and to teach the villagers more about why environmental protection is vital to a government official explains the difficulties the country is facing. we would have to provide aid to the people here so they don't take resources from the forest but such projects cost money money the government doesn't have you know. that's why we need the financial support of the international community. the activists say it's imperative to develop a strategy that provides financial support for the entire region otherwise the congolese authorities will continue to permit looking which will eventually lead to the release of vast amounts of sequestered. unison internazionale because we need to find international solution is not only to help these countries protect these primeval forests but also to further study the peat bogs in order to protect them because they contain huge amounts of carbon into ships which there are some thirty billion tons of carbon trapped in their rice miyan that's the equivalent of three years of total global emissions from coal oil and gas combi

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the environmental protection agency is touting cleanups in seven of the nation's most polluted places as his signature accomplishment in the trump administration's efforts but records show the work was completed before donald trump took office. records show the seven superfund sites delisted last year fall short of the average pace set under president barack obama and george w. bush. have agreed to talk about reducing tensions in the run-up to the winter olympics in south korea next month. regime accepted a proposal to hold discussions on tuesday, they will discuss overall discussions and north korea's offer to send a delegation to the winter olympics, the first formal talks since 2015. the united nations security council will hold an emergency meeting this afternoon about iran, nikki haley passphrase the demonstrators, saying "the united nations must speak out on their behalf." russia has warned against external interference and what it sees as iran's internal affairs. 21 people have died and hundreds arrested in a week of antigovernment protests and unrest. global news 24 hours a da

pelosi blasted this move in a statement saying, the trump administration's latest assault on environmental protection there's throw open the flood gates to pollution. >>> police have arrested a man that broke into a home. the a little girl found noah holland naked and on top of the girl. police tracked him down and he is being hold a million dollars bail. police say he entered unlocked vehicles in front of the house, found the garage opener and used to it access the home. >> police have released the man shot and killed by a b.a.r.t. police officer. shaleem continuedle. police say he was armed. an officer ordered tindle to drop the gun but police say he did not and the officer shot him. in 2012 he was arrested on charges for assault and battery. they say officers detained him for not telling them he was on parole and assaulted and used a taser on him. ? some saying female inmates are being intimidated. >> they stay santa rita jail in dublin is not a safe place for women who are expecting. >> what the sheriff has been doing is either trying to pressure women into getting abortions or treating them in s

council is holding a hearing on the trump administration's plan to cut the budget at the environmental protection agency and they suggested that low income communities will be changed by environmental policy and it would effect funding to the obama era clean power plan. >>> coming up on "action news" tonight. swoop, swoops in on the lunch time crowd handing out eagles gear and hot tickets for saturday's game and the eagles take practice back to the linc trying to take advantage of the home field advantage. >>> two days and counting. look at the scene at the reading material nal market. reading terminal market interped into a cheering squad. and swoop handed out tickets and fans that received tickets were thrilled and emotional. >> my knees are shaking i can't believe it. >> how are you feeling right now? >> i am emotional. >> you can talk. >> one ticket or two tickets? >> my mom. >> mom you are going to the game. >> i want to win playoff tickets for my boyfriend. he couldn't be here so i came for him. >> jaime is bringing home tickets after a little rock paper sis or competition she walked away w

an all-out war on environmental protection. a justice department rolling back civil rights by the day. hatred and supremacy probably marching in our streets. bullets tearing through our classrooms, concerts and congregations, targeting our safest sacred places. in this nagging, sinking feeling, no matter your political beliefs, this is not right. this is not who we are. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> representative kennedy: it would be easy to dismiss this past year's chaos. partisanship as politics. but it's far far bigger than that. this administration isn't just targeting the laws that protect us, they are targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of protection. for them, dignity isn't something you were born with but something i measure by your net worth, your celebrity, your headlines, your crowd size. not to mention the gender of your spouse, the country of your birth, the color of your skin, the god of your prayers. the record is rebuked our highest american ideal, the belief that we are all worthy,

an all-out war on environmental protection. a justice department rolling back civil rights by the day. hatred and supremacy, proudly marching in our streets. bullets tearing through our classrooms. concerts and congregations, targeting our safest sacred places. and this nagging, sirvegging feeling, no matter your political beliefs, that this is not right. this is not who we are. ( applause ) ( cheers ) folks, it would be easy to dismiss this past year as chaos, partisanship, as politics. but it's far, far bigger than that. this administration isn't just targeting the laws that protect us. they're targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of protection. for them, dignity isn't something you're born with, but something you measure by your net worth, your celebrity, your headlines, your crowd size, not to mention the jerpd of your spouse, gender of your spouse, the country of your birth, the color of your skin, the god of your prayers. their record is rebuked to our highest american ideal, the belief that we are all worthy, t

investment for environmental protection. increase. it will counterbalance the lower production of the highly polluted raw materials. for green energy, it is rising in china. that will also help the production of energy. haidi: iris, will you talk to me about the pboc and the gyrations .e are seeing today unsurprisingly we saw a bit more volatility. the yuan 4/10 of at by percent. all, the factors withint been in effect my model for quite some time. no significant impact on the yuan en. it has largely followed the dollar index since the second half of the year. morenk that it is now external factors in play. rishaad: iris. thank you so much for that. watching then headlines as i've seen this news conference taking place of the south korean president saying he would meet kym johnson under the right -- would meet kim jong-un under the right circumstances. talking about this strange relationship and also weighing in on the south korean society and economy. but get the first word news. car: reforming the nation's -- conglomerates

a heightened concern about the environmental protection and environmental rights there has also been a growth in the number of small and medium sized businesses so i wonder if that is actually because again we we we hear this argument that threat from the why is that first you need to change the leadership on down everything will follow suit i want even if it just the other way around first you change the system you build institutions and then you will gather you will get the leadership that you deserve but i agree with you you don't just the leadership you have to change a system that's going to create the leadership you want in other words we'll teach is a culture we have to start you know with living to style through school for medication to teach the people not only to know but how to learn how to participate we have to develop a culture when people can disagree without being disagreeable and resulting skill to being disagreeing and that's in this bill to stuff on the issue of the bottom up it is not going to happen by media is no good to have been bred to be the same from now on

the environmental protection agency was concerned about salinity standards. -- not the federal level just at the federal level, there as well.l levels these can be complicated administrative procedural processes and challenges. host: can that consolidation be done to keep the level of safety and things you have to consider as well? guest: it can be done, and we have examples where it can be done well. beginning with strong federal leadership, if that is the arent, to make sure laws honored and the public is heard. this is doable. it is not impossible. there needs to be a consensus and understanding of what that should look like going in, and not making it up. report, nots the everything is broken, the future of transportation and water funding. you can go to the rand website. our guest from the rand corporation. the first call is from ohio, democrat's line. caller: i lived in cincinnati, west of cincinnati. we do not have an adequate bus system, no subway, no trains. before i would allow one cent of my taxes to get a better train, subway, or bus to someone else, i want that here. on

that struggles to keep itself open, russia knee-deep in our democracy, an all-out war on environmental protection, a justice department rowing back civil rights by the day, hatred and supremy proudly marching in our sreets, bullets tearing through our classrooms, concerts and urcongregations, targeting safest sacred places, and this nagging, sinking feeling, no matter your political beliefs, that this is not right. this is not who we are. (applause) folks, it would be easy to dismiss thispast year's chaos, as partisanship, as politics, but it's far, far bigger than that. this administration isn't just targeting the laws thatrotect us, they're targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of protection. for them, dignity isn't something you're born with but something you measure by your net worth, your celebrity, your headlis, your crowd size, not to mention the gendr of your spouse, the country of your birth, the color of your skin, the god of your prayers. their record is rebuke to our highest american ideal, the belief that we are all worthy, that we are all equal, that we all count in the eye

pennsylvania department of environmental protection is investigating a potential leak in the black creekty. it is thought to be coming from a nearby plant. the plant is checking the pipelines. >>> police busted what appears to be an under-age drinking party. you were dash police posting this picture with the officer standing next to the keg. attention young people you might want to hold off buying the red plastic cup for tonight's party for behind the swim club, there will be a lack of attendance now. don't go to that party and don't buy that red cup. the kid who doesn't have social media or a phone will be surprised tonightle. >>> double cross. two women are accused of duping a new year's date. >>> philadelphia shows the servers a little brotherly love, how it is ranked in tipping at 6:00 a.m. >> good morning it is 6:00 a.m., friday, january 1, matt o'donnell is off, gray hall is here. >> firefighters battle a pier fire at penns landing. >> happening today a final fir well to fall are philadelphia firefighter. family, friend and colleagues will come out to say goodbye to lieutenant matt

an all-out war on environmental protection. a justice department rolling back civil rights by the day. hatred and supremacy probably marching in our streets. bullets tearing through our classrooms, concerts and congregations, targeting our safest sacred places. in this nagging, sinking feeling, no matter your political beliefs, this is not right. this is not who we are. [cheers and applause] [cheers and applause] >> representative kennedy: it would be easy to dismiss this past year's chaos. partisanship as politics. but it's far far bigger than that. this administration isn't just targeting the laws that protect us, they are targeting the very idea that we are all worthy of protection. for them, dignity isn't something you were born with but something i measure by your net worth, your celebrity, your headlines, your crowd size. not to mention the gender of your spouse, the country of your birth, the color of your skin, the god of your prayers. the record is rebuked our highest american ideal, the belief that we are all worthy,

is a vital pa rt environmental protection is a vital part of any good regulatory regime.per role as an engaged and active participant, he finds our industrial strategy, and it is the approach we are taking in this environment plan too. —— defineds. together, they combine to form a coherent approach to boosting economic productivity and growth, while at the same time restoring and enhancing our natural environment. conservative governments have always taken our responsibility to the natural environment seriously. in the 19th century, it was benjamin kayser ale and's conservative government which passed the river pollution prevention act, providing the first legal environmental and for our waterways. —— benjamin disraeli. a conservative government passed the clean air act, making the great smog of london a thing of the past. margaret thatcher was the first world leader to recognise the threat of global warming and helped to protect our ozone layers through their work on the montreal protocol. and david cameron restored environmentalism to a central place in the conservative

environmental protection agency because from friends of the half in the united states thank you very much for your time and saturday we're going to have a one hour special at seventeen g.m.t. looking back at donald trump's first year in office and what to expect in the second year the u.s. is withholding another payment to the un's relief agency for palestinian refugees the forty five million dollars was promised last month for food aid this is on top of washington's announcement on tuesday that it was going to cut back more than hoth one hundred twenty five million dollars aid package u.s. ones other countries to step in then provide more money and non-con looks at what this means for people in the gaza strip. this house is typical of many in the gaza strip now currently there's an electricity blackouts they get like steve blackouts for about twelve hours a day now the u.s. is withholding food aid but what does that actually mean supply things like this sacks of flour rocks etc it's the basics that they supply now they only supply them about once every three months so a sack of flou