and the international press freedom institute is holding its world congress in nigeria the event focuses on the role of quality media and how it builds strong societies around the world how many trace has more from the capital. as a world congress of the international press institute open here in nigeria's top or teleporter there were concerns on the minds of media operators and journalists gathered here from different countries this side's continuous threat to the existence of media institutions and continuing detention of media practitioners in this institutions one of the journalists was an internationally renowned journalist raised concerns about the future of media organizations like al jazeera which are specifically targeted by governments that are outside of the state of qatar conference's opening in nigeria a time when at least one journalist has been in detention for more than two years an issue that came up at the congress here which the government promised her breast . in. the speech has become the. midges environment where she can. visit. level. meetings. as the world proceed

crisis well the international press freedom institute is holding its world congress in one area event focuses on the role of the media and how it can build strong societies around the global agreement it is in a butcher. as a world congress of the international press institute open here in nigeria's tropical abroad where there were concerns on the minds of media operators and journalists gathered here from different countries besides continuous threat to the existence of reduced additions and continuing detention of media practitioners in this institutions one of the journalist who's an internationally renowned journalist raised concerns about the future of media organizations like al jazeera which are specifically targeted by governments that are outside of the state of qatar conference's opening in nigeria at a time when at least one journalist has been in detention for more than two years an issue that came up at the congress here which the government promised addressed in a world where. speech has become the. metis where event where fig leaves a visit to. notice. we need to this.

the world congress of german schools abroad has just started here and it's hosted by the german foreign office that are moving five hundred participants from around the world to discuss the way forward for their schools of foreign minister i come out this was the opening ceremony to one another from our culture desk is via tell us well welcome robin german schools abroad why well i mean. one of the reasons is very useful for diplomats for diplomats children old business people who've children they want to educate the system because they're eventually going to come back to germany and then their children are on the same level as their peers when they return but actually much more so in recent years the fact is the education system here is very well full solve around the world and people want their children to get the b. tool which is the final school graduation exam a levels in england all the high school diploma in america or elsewhere around the world i mean you could compare it a bit to the better known. french baccalaureate which is very much internationally recognised the be tour is

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chairman's award to the al-jazeera although the challenge is some many the two thousand and eighteen world congress of the international press institute took some time to celebrate hard work and resilience by handing out warts including to al jazeera. but it reese al-jazeera. nigeria. the world's leading oil producers of re to pump up production by about a million barrels a day is a dramatic policy change for the organization known as opec and in the past eighteen months the group has kept output from more than a dozen countries including saudi arabia iran and qatar paul brennan explains why. the ministers arrived at opec h.q. with the threat of an iranian veto hanging in the air and the very real prospect of a deep rift forming saudi arabia and russia wanted an extra one point five to one point eight million barrels a day to address a predicted shortfall in supply iran and its allies were keen to keep the oil price up by sticking to the production limits agreed in twenty sixteen the main gathering was delayed by an hour as a last ditch diplomacy trying to bridge the gap by the time the ministers s

chairman's award to the al-jazeera although the challenge is some many the two thousand and eighteen world congress of the international press institute took some time to celebrate hard work and resilience by handing out warts including to al jazeera which it received al-jazeera. nigeria. well still ahead here on al-jazeera targeting trump and the states that voted for him the e.u. slaps revenge tariffs on u.s. imports worth billions of dollars plus. anyway you boy you one of the times they paint me like any indian immigrants who change the things of britain a special anniversary for the windrush generation. and in sports roger federer closes in on his ninety nine career title son i will have those details coming up in sports if you stay with us here on out is it. i. mean the weather sponsored by cattle i always had it was raining heavily again in china not a big surprise from the yangtze sox woods particularly the southeast corner for jiang down through ground zero it's been raining incessant these floods of course it has to be expected but every now and again the running gets that gets heavy on t

him the international press institute's annual world congress in nigeria's capital out of there as acting director general mustafa so args says it's vital that journalists be protected. without safety feeling sick. can not do the job they are unwilling to sacrifice yes and some of them actually. that you know because of the second bite but it will go on and on and not with everybody so we need first of all to fight for safe environment for dinner with journalism is not considered a crime it's a crown on the heads of people who do the draw still ahead on al-jazeera brazil fans finally have something to celebrate to this world cup when a big costa rica's supporters jumping for joy will have the latest on that game coming up.

a back in the real world, congress has the explicit constitutional power to oversee the fbi and all otherxecutive agencies, lessea that's the way supposed to work. apparently that fact infuriates the deputy attorney general rob rosenstein. earlier this year in january, rosenstein threatened to appeal the email sent on staffers because of her being too aggressive. the message from rosenstein, back o you don't investig will investigate you. fox's chief correspondent catherine herridge broke that story and she has more on it tonight. >> the emails written on government accerly douary meetingd for the house office of general counsel. the tough lawyer for protecting congress. fbi director christopher wray, their senior advisors as well as house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes and hisi senior staff. it came at the height of alleged government surveillance usage abuses aimed at the trump campaign. today they responded to allegations and rob rosenstein threatened to subpoena records and turn the tables on republican-led house intelligence committee and staff over the russia case. >> i

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chairman's award to the allergist although the challenge is some many the two thousand and eighteen world congress of the international press institute took some time to celebrate hard work and resilience by handing out warts including to al-jazeera. nigeria. with the has. a political chest causing controversy at the world cup and russia will tell you what it's all about and sport. on counting the cost a stronger dollar spells trouble ahead for developing market economies. digital addicks we look at how the tech industry uses human psychology plus the fight for control of libya's oil present. counting the calls on al-jazeera. it really is the international perspective that sets al-jazeera parts other news outlets even for instances of that will be adding up simply to our outages mean journalism is about public service and making a difference in people's lives i'm amazed every day by reporting on al-jazeera and the places that my colleagues go it inspires me to take a different approach to how i report news for. now. now. now. now. al-jazeera and news where every. when the news breaks. in the mail

president giani in fun tino has been taking part in a kickabout in moscow before football's world bodies congress on wednesday at member nations are expected to vote on the host for the twenty eight twenty six world cup already are going to shift sums up what the two competing bids are offering. the joint u.s. mexico and canada bid to host the twenty twenty six world cup looks like a done deal at least on paper the north american bids sole rival morocco barely passed the fee for the valuation scoring two point seven overall against four say games and accommodation in morocco were considered high risk the african country would need to invest a whopping sixteen billion dollars into infrastructure to host that event and the projected revenue of the north american world cup is two times bigger. the twenty twenty six bid is well presented and strong in terms of government commitments but would need to newly build most of its tournament related and going to infrastructure the united twenty twenty six bid on the other hand has promising levels of infrastructure already in place and fully operational but

but i was at vivatech last week, been at member of world congress, web summit as we closed out 2017. it feels like the conversation has moved now where every single item that we know is being transformed digitally somehow, and you saw that through apple yesterday, where they're talking about you don't even need a tape measure anymore. you can measure the distance or the length of certain objects. so, it feels as though we've sort of stepped into a new wave of change around technology. >> lots of things talked about artificial intelligence, machine learning, hyperscale data centers, these kind of technologies the key thing to think about is that in the tech industry, there's been a massive investment in capex over the last four to five years. it's built out the infrastructure so, much of this is being enabled actually by the cloud services the cloud infrastructure that means that for us as a user, we just see these seamless experiences on the internet, on cloud, on our devices, and that infrastructure's enabling massive advances in technology improvements. >> are we seeing a subtle sh

speaking at the international presence of his annual world congress in nigeria's capital and so as acting director general moustapha so ag says it's vital that journalists be protected without safety feeling sick journalists cannot do the job they are willing to sacrifice yes some of them actually are there because of the second part but it cannot go on and on and not with everybody so we need first of all to for you for save on vitamin for deliveries we're journalism is not considered a crime it's a crown on the heads of people to drop china's ban on importing plastic waste means other countries are being forced to find new ways to deal with their rubbish it could end up revolutionizing global recycling by making smaller countries improve their own collection and handling of plastic a report from malaysia's capital kuala lumpur. plastic getting a new lease of life as waste is refined and turned into small pallets they're packed in this factory in the southern state of johor and sold to manufacturers the plastic is then turned into other goods anything from piping to home appliances. c.r.

yesterday something that's become a tradition now just as it's a tradition to hold a few for congress the day before the world cup ultimately this could be. his three last congress as the fee for president next year is the election this time however it's about choosing the twenty twenty six world cup country host now there are two competitors for this for this chance that is the north american bid which comprises of the us mexico and canada and the best coming from africa that is morocco and if you look on paper it seems that the north american dead is well ahead because the overall inspection results gained by moroccan bid was two point seven just barely passing the needed threshold of two and the north american bit scored four according to fevers and practice so it looks like there would be no surprise and the world cup will be traveling across the pond to north america however there still may be a big surprise and here's my explain as to what could happen. there is one obstacle on the world cup is journey across the pond and its name is donald trump starting with purely practical things after all the us pr

mean in real life like i can just imagine when the story to you yesterday we heard that the world luger congress on is awesome mother passed away and she passed away on may on may twenty seventh but he'd just heard it just yesterday and he hasn't seen his mother for twenty four years because of what he is doing outside of the country and he didn't know what happened to him parents or anyone as well and then just yesterday heard that his mother passed away imagine what could be more worse than. that kind of tragic news you hear like this is twenty first century and you should be able to pick up the phone and talk to someone anywhere in the world but it's not happening to us china the chinese government say this claim that they are very powerful technology but that technology is does benefiting and evaders both inside and outside the wire unfortunately you know that story is tragic and unfortunately it sounds similar to this one although there is not a death that we know of yet this is how murat on twitter who says thank you for this program i want to testify to be a witness for my parents who are

world is sarka. largest international congress on the ballot july seventeenth with twenty seconds to your party business program. urban. forum dot com. welcome to day nine of the world cup coverage of football's biggest events we've got analysis of the brazil costa rica game underway right now as well as predictions for friday. host cities in russia welcome thousands of fans from all around the world. been finding out about some of their journeys and world cup experiences so far. fifty year old volkswagen has been driven. from brazil. and in other news iran warns it's on the brink of accepting the hard won nuclear deal with the struck back in two thousand and fifteen describing the cold as being in intensive care after the u.s. pulled out. happy with this is friday i had like news on the way a bit later plus three very different. football friday starts with one of the tournament favorites brazil taking on the underdogs of group costa rica. stadium the second half is about to get going with the game still goalless right now both sides of chances are still even have the ball in the net however. celebratio

united states canada and mexico will host the twenty twenty six football world cup beat beat morocco's in a vote at the feet for congress in moscow twenty twenty six will be the first time three countries have hosted a world cup told and it also featured a record forty eight teams and a poll of fee for members the north america bit beat the north africans one hundred thirty four to sixty five the presence of u.s. soccer. was overjoyed on behalf of our united bid canada mexico and my country the united states thank you so so very much for this incredible honor thank you for entrusting us with this privilege the privilege of hosting the fee for world cup in twenty twenty six let us also salute our friends from morocco at the end of the day we are all united in football that's the spirit of the world cup the beautiful game and game transcends borders and cultures. they don't expose correspondent jonathan crane and joins us from the fee for congress meeting in moscow welcome jonathan. what was it about the north america bed that many successful. specifically fail there are a couple of things one being revenue united is prom

world war ii. no one in congress you anything about the manhattan project and yet it was a huge item in the budget the united states and a black marked item and congress year after year voted to fund the manhattan project based solely on the guarantee by sam rayburn that was in the public interest to do so. the credibility of the leadership and what an amazing difference from today. that is not the fault of the leaders today but certainly marks a different time rayburn thought it was so important to have a sense of shared interest in making policy. the problem that we have a society do not go away simply because we don't work with one another. it's so important for us to show leadership into understand that when you make policy often no one will be happy. one of the great insights that i got from jim wright in all the years that i knew here if you ever let a conference committee meeting and one side was happy and the other side unhappy you had made a bad deal. the only time that you had a successful conference committee report is when both sides were unhappy because that meant that for the greater

world of sarka. largest international congress on the problem of july seventeenth or twenty second do your part business. forum dot com. welcome to day nine of the world cup on our coverage of football's biggest event we'll be keeping you updated with the game just getting underway between nigeria and how the special coverage. also this hour brazil and costa rica's world cup dream we got highlights and analysis from that match which is now finished in some. cities in russia welcome fact thousands of fans from all around the world all correspondents have been finding out about some of the journeys world cup experiences so far. fifty year old gold. it's been driven by mr bowles and his friend colleague from brazil. and other news iran war as it's on the brink of accessing the hard won nuclear deal that was struck back in twenty fifteen describing the accord is being in intensive care after the united states pulled out. and getting over me a push but tougher copyright laws in the e.u. to completely change the way we communicate on the internet. from. good to have you with us this friday we have a full nine

and watch the world cup. congress is still grappling over two possible immigration bills...e this week on a broad overhaul of the system. ( james ) happening today ... concord congressman mark desaulnier will host a facebook live town hall on immigration and family separations. the focus is the trump administration's plan to house detained immigrants at the concord naval weapons station. desaulnier will answer questions during the live stream... which is set to begin at 11:30 this morning. ( james ) also happening today ... the san francisco board of supervisors will stand together with immigrant communities... against the president's zero- tolerance policy. the event will take place at city hall. supervisors will call for an end to the detention of immigrant families at the u-s mexico border. the event starts at 12:30. ( darya ) new this new this morning... the lawyer for ghost ship master tenant derick almena says he will consider a plea bargin for his alleged role in the 20-16 warehouse fire. almena's lawyer said even though he believes almena is innocent of the 36 counts

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congress. laura: plus, tng u.s. is brinhe world cup back home with canada and mexico. how this multination b won over fifa and transcended tensions across boers. laura: welcome to our viewers on publ television in the u.s. and also around the world. president trump says there is no longer a nuclear th eat from norea. heni arrived back in thed states, hailing his summit with kim jong-un as a major win for american security. secretary of state mike pompeo has been to south korea ou begin talks the process on denuclearizaon, amid criticism from democrats who say little of substance has been agreed. john sudworth reports. john: in north korea, most of the formation-starved masses had heard thing about the summit until today. is, of course, being sold to them as a great victy. "donald trump is halting the u.s.-south korean joint military exercises," the newsreader say the suspension of the drills, for so long such a key feature of america's alliance with south korea, appears to have taken many in the region by surprise, not least south korea itself. the japanese defense min

you know, with the white house on fire, the congress in chaos. and the world to hell in a hand basket, we need happy news like this. this is why god created baseball late on the sixth day. >> bret: friends at fox news channel remember that quick whit and charles' love for talking to anyone. >> "special report" has a lot of people come in and watch it and they were always in awe of charles and very apprehensive about approaching him and i would always say, please, go say something to him. he would love to talk to you and always so friendly to everyone. bret gret in 2013, krauthammer released a book "things that matter" and summed up the survivor's spirit that has guided much of his life. writing, quote: the catastrophe that awaits everyone from a single false move, wrong turn, fatal encounter, every life has such a moment. what distinguishes us is whether and how we ever come back. >> there is an element of that in everybody's story, their low point. do you want it enough and are you lucky enough? that's a part of it, too. >> bret: in mid june krauthammer annou

from the united states canada mexico will host the twenty twenty six world cup a joint bid to come in and vote up the fee for congress in moscow the day before this year's told one begins twenty twenty six events will be the first top forty eight teams and three host nations also on the program. and ceasefire in yemen speaking exclusively to dump in humanitarian leon says the u.n. should take control of yemen's main port city of the data base as an assault by saudi backed government forces that is massive civilian casualties. just north korea traces the trump came some reasons a resounding success but questions are being asked about the concessions president trump made the lack of detail from the summit declaration. i'm still gal welcome to the program. united states canada and mexico have won the right to host the twenty twenty six football world cup they beat morocco in a vote of a few for congress in moscow it will be the first time three countries and. twenty twenty six twenty one each a record forty eight teams north america bid to beat the north africans by one hundred thirty votes one hundred thirty four votes

up and that is exactly what i am going to do i also think what is fas mating to see is the world that congress is or in this case is not playing, in issues like trade and potentially we'll see what comes out of north korea but if there is ainal deal there, will congress get a say or will be continuing what we saw a lot under the obama administration which is sort o an executive move, right, the executive makes policy whether it is tpp o paris, the climate accord, or the iran deal, that congress does not codsify. and so we have these policies that are in place for one president, only for them to get overturned, potentially when the new president comes in place i don't think that is a really great way to do policy. and members of congress can do something and th far they haven't done anything. >> and that's sort of the back drop a the president prepared and went into this meeting tonight. and he tweeted about it earlihe. aid the fact that i am having a meeting was a major loss for the u.s. say the haters and losers. we have our hostages, testing research and allissile launches have stopped and t

world. argentina's lower house of congress has narrowly passed a bill to legalize abortion in the first fourteen weeks of pregnancy following an all night debate one hundred twenty nine members voted in favor while one hundred twenty five more against the bill which is strongly opposed by the catholic church now goes to the senate. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei who has warrant there's still a risk of failure in efforts to bring peace to the korean peninsula following donald trump's summit with the north korean leader but he said he was optimistic the countries were on the right track peo is speaking after he briefed china's foreign minister on the talks accord in hungary has sentenced four members. a people smuggling gang to twenty five years in prison each for letting dozens of men women and children suffocate suffocate inside a truck in austria seventy one victims were part of a wave of people fleeing to europe at the height of the migration craze this back in twenty eight fifteen. back here in germany migration that is causing trouble for germany's chancellor angela merkel she's facing

"canada, mexico and u.s.a. have been selected by the fifa congress...." >>> the world cup is returningnorth america. >> canada, mexico and usa have been selected by the congress. >> the countries will host the premier event in 2026. it's the first time the world cup will be hosted by three nations. celebrates the announcement. it says the world cup is coming. running to host some of the games. 16 cities will be chosen for the tournament. this is at the world cup kicks off tomorrow. >>> the u.s. will not be playing because the team failed to qualify. but there are a lot of sycophants hoping to change that. -- fans hoping to change that. >> reporter: there is a fever in the air at this stadium as the earthquakes play the new england revolution tonight. lots of fans will be coming through and will be disappointed the usa will not be in the world cup this year. but that disappointment is being washed away by the fact we will get the world cup again in 2026.'s was -- one person but it today that the world cup is like putting rocket fuel on player development. >> good pass. >> reporter: ther

world is sarka. largest international congress. july seventeenth twenty second part business program. as a crushing defeat of the world cup in russia. the games already been the biggest upset of the. people many countries met up with already. the global feel of the world cup. supporters from each country in the competition. giving their all for. fifty year old volkswagen has been driven. from brazil. i do way from the football and some other headlines a push for tougher copyright laws in the e.u. threatens to completely change the way the internet looks and. using photographs of rescued migrants. a. day friday the twenty second of june just after the way you're watching r t with me kevin great to have you with us some of the big football to come up in a roundup of the world news too over the next thirty minutes. here we go then group c. and d. elvis. i could not she's in the world cup neil harvey pitt to smite for up there it is simply this but one of the lovely host cities for the latest tournament. welcome to another we use a full white knight here in st petersburg the finest of russ

great support from its neighbors as it looks to host an increased forty eight team world cup a decision from the fifa congress in moscow is expected shortly. back now from delhi a sports joins me now to talk about the myth dave mack the decision is imminent q talk little bit more about the two bed yet two very different bids both of those well to the countries involved i should say rather veterans of world cup bidding say usa host the tournament in ninety four and have bid to host it again since then in morocco this for them this is the fifth time asking so a lot of a lot of attempts from them and the north america bid which is made up for by mexico usa and canada is seen as low risk lots of profits can be expected from not one and low risk because of infrastructure and the stadiums that they already have . is rated as high risk that they have the lowest possible school in three of the categories which are stadia accommodation and transport it's very important aspects of hosting the world cup and it's no surprise seven out of fourteen stadia are yet to be built of those that they want to feature in the world

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found the e-mails on anthony weiner's computer and the 20-day gap until james comey told the world and the congress about that which was so close to the election. why the gap. that's one of the things i'm waiting to hear from this report. >> the whole question of andrew mccabe. were there leaks from the fbi office in new york city that were referenced by rudy giuliani. he said he have kind of just assuming it. he didn't have inside information. there's a whole lot at stake here for the fbi. >> we're all eagerly awaiting this 500-page report and will be reading it furiously. there's a couple of things we need to quickly search for. one is are there any criminal referrals coming out of this. does it look like anybody violated the law. second, will it recommend and likely so, any discipline for on board fbi or doj employees. say for example, pete struck. we know that lisa page who peter was having an affair with has departed but will there be any on board discipline. we have to ask if this journey looked difference or should we be in a different place today. should we not be investigating russia's inf

world of sarka. largest international congress on the development of july seventeenth through twenty second business. forum dot com. it's everything still to play for national pride hangs in the balance germany mexico and belgium all face group rivals this saturday in the world cup in russia will be across all those matches and follow the trail to . be. coming to sam to see the other games because we're in the world cup so that's what we want to do . really trusted you. you know the news a powerful photo on the time magazine cover is a damning indictment of trumps immigration policy is discovered to be misleading. and british royals take a day trip to reform a russian double agent and his daughter were poisoned in march to try and give the southern english city a boost we spoke to locals about the unsold spice cell. where.

our chinese-american community and honor them with the highest commendation that congress can bestow to chinese-american world war ii veterans. we urge our congress to move swiftly, as many of these veterans are no longer alive to see this happen. and i -- i'm aware of this because when i mentioned that there was a tiger unit, segregated, flying tiger unite, chinese-americans, there is a book that's been published to talk about this and in the book, i realizized it was my father-in-law that was in there. so i want to thank my -- i want to thank my co-sponsors, supervisor tang, fewer and kim for joining me. i also want to acknowledge the chinese-american citizens alliance and chinese-american world war ii veterans project for their leadership initiative. let us never forget the contributions of our community. let us rise together in paying our respects. the rest i submit. >> clerk: thank you, supervisor yee. supervisor cohen. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. happy election day. yea! anyone else excited? no. okay. i guess it's just me. two things i want to talk about today.

twenty twenty six football world cup is going to north america canada mexico and usa have been selected by their feet for congress to host a twenty twenty six people world cup thank you and it beats morocco with a photo op a fee for congress in moscow the day before this year.

for president gianni infantino has been taking part in the case but in moscow before the congress of football's world body meets on wednesday it's an important meeting as well member nations are expected to vote on the host for the twenty twenty six world cup or to go to shift the sums up what the two competing bids are offer. the joint u.s. mexico and canada bid to host the twenty twenty six world cup looks like a done deal at least on paper the north american bids sole rival morocco barely passed the feat as evaluation scoring two point seven overall against four say games and accommodation in morocco were considered high risk the african country would need to invest a whopping sixteen billion dollars into infrastructure to host that event and the projected revenue of the north american world cup is two times bigger. the twenty twenty six bid is well presented and strong in terms of government commitments but would need to build most of its tournament related and going to infrastructure the united twenty twenty six bid on the other hand has promising levels of infrastructure already in place and fu

congress. [applause] some people around the world call this american arrogance and i don't but we can no longerall our position in the world for granted and we know the importance of freedom and know god is the source of our freedom and that self-determination is always trump state control for such termination to around the world it has to in your home first because we are at the bastian for strength around the world. meetings like this are critical. people watch what you do here and they are encouraged by what we do everyday president trump is committed to defending our rights under the constitution including freedom of speech, freedom of religion and yes, freedom to bear arms. however -- [applause] >> we cannot become complacent. over the last 100 years america has been on a slow slide toward liberal progressive policies, bigger government, more government spending, and yes, less personal freedom. when a judge has asked the pastor for his sermon notes before he gives the sermon that we have a serious problem. president trump is fighting this and we have to stay united behind him and his agend

world is. largest international congress on the development of magazine july seventeenth twenty second so write your part. for him dot com. the kremlin and the white house confirm the first official summit between. the parties on brazil ahead of the final game as they hope to avoid the fate of fellow favorites germany who have just crashed out of the world cup. i. despair as the defending champions go crashing out of the world cup at the hands of underdog south korea. is nine pm here in moscow and you're watching all t. international live with me in a day or two to welcome to the program.

and watch the world cup. congress is still grappling over two possible immigration bills...ans plan to vote this week on a broad overhaul of the system. ( darya ) happening today ... concord congressman mark desaulnier will host a facebook live town hall on immigration and family separations. the focus is the trump administration's plan to house detained immigrants at the concord naval weapons station. desaulnier will answer questions during the live stream... which is set to begin at 11:30 this morning. ( james ) also happening today ... the san francisco board of supervisors will stand together with immigrant communities... against the president's zero- tolerance policy. the event will take place at city hall. supervisors will call for an end to the detention of immigrant families at the u-s mexico border. the event starts at 12:30. and happening right now city leaders in richmond are portesting the president's immigration policy outside of the detention facility there. we will have a live report from that protest coming up at ( james ) in the north bay... a man is dead...

world war i. in the second of a two point program, library of congress. her continues his tour of the exhibit echoes of the great war, american experiences of world war i. >> here you have a number of postcards of african-american soldiers. this is common for both white and african-american soldiers. they would have pictures taken and converted into postcards. some are taken domestically in training camps, some are taken abroad in europe. most are taken in europe. 300 is significant is 50,000 african-americans go overseas to serve in the military. mostly as camp laborers or clerical positions. there were about 50,000 soldiers that do serve in combat positions for the french. the three 69th, three 70th, three 71st and -- and 372nd.h, 371st, this is a regimental bands that played a lot of jazz and ragtime tunes and they are famous among another of regimental bands for the military. they got around and play for not only french, italian and american soldiers and sometimes even german prisoners of war but also, visiting american journalists. ♪ >> the impact of

congress has not declared war since world war ii. president. obama did not seek authorization for the use of military force, nor president trump seek congressional authorization for military action in syria. the 2001 authorization has now been used by three presidents to support combat in countries with known access to 9/11 and against organizations that didn't even exist. it offends common sense and that's why i supported the efforts to repeal the 2001 and 2002 authorizations. the world has changed since we last declared war. adversaries often wear no uniform and swear allegiance to know nation. the technology has evolved in ways that would be unrecognizable. our military can impact world affairs with the drone strike from inside the united states. how we authorize war must adapt to the changing threats and technologies but the principles of separation of powers is as sound today as it was then. the power to authorize military force is the most sacred responsibility. we must reclaim it. witnesses have spent a lot of time reclaiming these and i

the run up to this vote actually the transparency open public vote conducted at a few for congress electing a world cup host country so in the run up to that vote a lot has been said about how strong the north american bid is how little there is to be done in terms of infrastructure in terms of transportation whilst the big coming from morocco was somewhat inferior in that respect more than sixteen billion dollars were had to be invested if morocco had won the right to host the twenty twenty six world cup but in case of the united states not only in case of the north american but not only the actual spend the expenditure on the infrastructure would have been smaller but the profits the projected profits would have been bigger as well so the vote was overwhelming in. the side off the north american bed with more than one hundred thirty member states one hundred thirty four to be precise voting for the north american bid with around sixty placing their ballot for morocco that's about thirty three percent and now obviously the world cup in twenty twenty six will be going to north america despite all t