her didn't burn pretty. >> and another reason that chicago burn is because it started on the near west side, if you were the fire academy is, that is a block where they were, right there but the wind was blowing north and east. and it was ferocious in the fire help generate these updrafts in burning chicago and the wind blew it towards the downtown. select the south branch of the river and then it left the main branch of the river and burned a chunk of the west side and is stopped with the city had been burned the night before by the saturday at night fire and he jumped over burn the entire downtown and virtually the whole north side, 13300 out of 13800 buildings. >> and in those days something else that i learned from this book that some people would position themselves in various places to watch the fires when they start and is like a tourist attraction pretty. >> there's no photograph, no radio, there was a fire and watching the fires in the firemen's fighting the fires, what could be more fun and they go over and you watch it any minute earlier on, and during the saturday night fir

the heat is burnin: slashing and burning. the heat is burning now _ slashing and burning.he heat is burning now and there _ slashing and burning. the heat is burning now and there is - slashing and burning. the heat is burning now and there is ash - slashing and burning. the heat is i burning now and there is ash falling in the air. no attempt has been made to hide this. it is at the side of a busy road and when fires like this happen here it is not the work of nature, it is the work of man. the globe, globalfight against nature, it is the work of man. the globe, global fight against climate change this is one more loss. and here, too, lost ground. more wild west than wild amazon. cattle farming is driven by global demand for brazilian beef and backed by president bolsonaro. this man is a second—generation rancher. he says the forest is a living, not a fairy tale. but we got a very different perspective from this activist. she has spent her life defending the rainforest and its indigenous peoples. or trying to. this rich but fragile ecosystem is changing its colours. defor

of the burned area and the railroad tracks refining the stations were gone. but the tracks were there and most of the telegraph lines also but the one thing that could absolutely number even if all of the spread was the location. this was this nexus in this developing it national and internationally economy that too much had been invested in it and it was built by external capitol, by the inside entrepreneurs and inside workers in all of these others and then it was rebuilt by the same people in the same forces again. so for reasons why chicago bounced back so quickly and a place like new orleans so as not go back, is very important when braided is a terrible thing to say but chicago had to be burned down at any point, that was the right moment for it. all of the things that created it were there to re-create it immediately. >> what you think, i know this is an idiotic question to ask but are not one of your students and i'm not getting graded, what you think, a continuation of the assault fires and would chicago be chicago without the "chicago's great fire".

but we need big, transformational leadership on this issue. >> this trash, the burn pits, burning forms such as respiratory cancer, what happens now when you go to the v.a.? >> well, right now the v.a., first of all, should be ashamed of themselves. second of all, it is an adversarial relationship. the v.a. is basically victim blaming, telling the service member, prove to me you got this cancer from the burn pit instead of let me treat this cancer and go on the back end and audit it. we need a v.a. that is going to actually take the charge that lincoln set forth to care for him and her who have borne the brunts of battle. right now it's basically you're trying to pull crocodile teeth to get the v.a. to even recognize you have these diseases from the burn pits. >> on top of all of this on this veterans day we acknowledge veterans continue to struggle with mental health concerns understandably. between your last two deployments you were hospitalized in germany for post traumatic stress. is the government doing enough to address mental health issues when it comes to veterans? >> absolute

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burn. it's hard for v.a. to gauge what they should call a presumptive condition, something that yes, we know you got sick because of burn pits, because you have this illness. what might be some unfortunate life occurrence that might be happening with some of these bets. host: matt in concord, new hampshire. caller: yes, hello. it's a pleasure to speak with you today, leo. i am not a veteran. i want to make that quite clear. but what i am is a goldstar brother. i would just like to remind people, there are a lot of goldstar families out there who run organizations to do everything they can to support veterans. everything from 22 a day to honor and tribute, to recently i helped clean up my veterans cemetery, memorial walkway, as a volunteer. i go to soldiers funerals who have no family. goldstar's are important and we do a lot of work. we are just not very much talked about. host: let's talk about it, matt. leo shane, what are goldstar families? guest: goldstar families are families that have

. >> we are one minute away from entry burn of the first stage. hopefully we will get a camera view act. as they like the three engines, they will come back into the earth's atmosphere. >> dragon space x trajectory nominal. quite another good check in with the crew, confirming everything is looking good so far on both ends. that next milestone coming in at seven minutes and 30 seconds. >> currently waiting for the call out from the space x propulsion response will engineer. >> we have lit the center engine. we have the two side engines, three engines running. this is a 22nd -- 20 second burn . we will fire the single center engine as we approach the drone. confirmation entry earned shutdown -- burn shut down. >> a minute away from cut off. >> copy, shannon. >> there is that call for shannon. >> stage i, decelerating as we prepare for entry burn. [applause] >> the second stage has done its job. our crew three astronauts have delivered them into orbit. >> we earned the call out. the stage i landing is confirmed. >> a great callout. that next milesto

fires burned more than a million last year around mendocino county. while most wildfires are small, our investigative unit analyzed more than a century of cal fire data and found a clear trend for mega fires which burned more than 100,000 acres. the data shows thereby more since 2000 than the entire previous century. it's a reality says this professor of geology rich mennich. >> it's night and day. >> reporter: it has worsened exponentially in the 21st century. in 2021 alone there have been seven mega fires. there were only ten recorded in the entire 20th century. many fires are in wild lands but some are reaching communities. kale fire data shows mega fires burning millions more acre than compared to decades before. in 2018 the campfire, a mega fire, destroyed thousands of homes and milled more than 80 people, leveling the entire town of paradise. cal fire captain robert foxworthy says you should be on alert no matter where you live. >> if anything the past few years have proven, sit possibly for fires to burn in those populated areas. >> reporter: c

burns? mr. burns: i appreciate the efforts you have made, as you know our officer have worked very hard as well working with colleagues from state and elsewhere to ensure that u.s. citizens who are seeking to be evacuated are evacuated. that's continuing right now. from my own experience -- mr. mullin: i'm going to stop you there a second. why sit that i can't get help getting these other 124 out? i have 124 identified work paperwork. we've been holding on to them for three weeks. why can't we put pressure on tajikistan, uzbekistan or pakistan and say let them cross? why is it that i was told if i fly them out which we'll have to raise money to do if you fly them out we'll help get them to america. if they were serious about it, why can't they get them out? i can get them to the border and get them across, i can do that work. when you say you're willing -- that you're working as hard as you can, why can be the we move them? >> congressman, we're absolutely determined, the president has made clea

in large burn pits on his base. when he returned home the effects of breathing in those toxic fumes started taking a toll in his body. in 2019, alejandro was diagnosed with embryonal carcinoma, a aggressive form of testicular dancer -- cancer and they believe it to be linked from his burning jet fuel. when he underwent the excruciating chemotherapy process, his body fell apart. he lost 50 pounds. he lost feeling of his hands and feet and constantly heard ringing in his ears. despite being deemed 40% disabled, despite his repeated exposure to jet fuel fumes and despite the diagnosis, the v.a. denied his claim for coverage. and you know why? because the v.a. said there wasn't, quote, unquote, enough evidence to establish a connection between his burn pit exposure and the cancer he developed. look, i'm an emergency medicine physician and a public health expert and in public health and in medicine, it is practice if there is a high enough suspicion based on the evidence available of a harm that causes a severe enough il

at least and 91 people have been killed and others severely burned. after fuel tank exploded in earlier and capital abroad happened. after the time he collided with another vehicle in freetown, many of the dead and injured had been trying to collect fuel that was spilling out of the truck. the vice president has visited a hospital then treating the injured. the number of dead is expected to rise. iraq's prime minister has ordered an investigation and the violent confrontations that took place in baghdad. at least 4 people were killed when security forces tried to disperse, protest is on friday, they've got to challenge the results of last month parliamentary election. well, those are the headlines doreen. we'll have more news for you here after counting the cost and i will see you off. stay with us and there i lose . hello, i'm money. this is counting the cost on al jazeera. you look at the world of business and economics this week, the pick warms at why the pace of the rest, the planets who will protect it from oil and gas exploration. the big money

jennifer spent her last month as a leading voice for her fellow veterans exposed to burn fits -- burn pits, which she called the agent orange of our generation. wow. the agent orange of our generation. we all are infuriated with the way that our vietnam veterans were denied and their care was delayed and their recognition had been postponed when they were saying that we're sick. their children are born malformed. they're infertile. they have other issues and syndromes and symptoms that are life-threatening and debilitating and she's saying this is the agent orange of our generation and she knew she was going to die. she knew that her days were limited. she knew that pancreatic cancer is the most aggressive cancer that causes death within months after diagnoses. she didn't give up. despite the v.a. denying her the recognition that it was the burn pits that caused her pancreatic cancer, she didn't give up. despite the v.a. denying her the benefits that she needed for her family, she didn't give up. and her dying wish was to ensure two things. one was that other veterans didn't have to s

it showed the crowd alongside the burning building. the new york illustrated news, the newest and least solvent weekly, also rushed out images of the riots within days of the onset of the violence, such as this one, called, pillaging of the orphans asylum. these images lack clarity and they also are visually vague, regarding context. despite the murkiness of these illustrations, both renditions of the attack on the asylum feature one significant event. the number of women reported at the scene who are looting furniture, bedding and other possessions. in contrast, women were reduced to a few hazy figures in the 'harper's weekly'engraving of the sacking of the orphans asylum, published a week later in its august 1st issue. while the three american pictorial weeklies made a point of crediting the artists who covered the civil war military campaigns, no new york-based artist was identified as the source for the left right picture. frank leslie had learned after his paper broke the so-called swill milk scandal in 1858, which involve the dea

on the first panel, we will hear from nick burns. i understand senator markey will introduce ambassador burns. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, ranking member. it's my honor and pleasure to introduce our nominee today, nicholas burns, nominated to be the ambassador of the united states of the people's republic of china. ambassador burns is the son of massachusetts. later, as senior director for russia. those rules, he helped shepherd of united states through the collapse of the soviet union and the establishment of new relationships with the former soviet countries. in 1997, he was named u.s. ambassador to greece. in 2001, president george bush -- the handover to the people's republic of china. after his retirement from the foreign service, ambassador burns turned his attention to training the next generation of diplomats. in short, there's no more qualified person than ambassador burns to serve in beijing as our top diplomat. the men and women of foreign service will have no greater champion. he has the experience, knowledge an

showing the crowd along the 44 street side of the burning building. the new york illustrated news, the new and least solvent -- newest and least solvent pictorial weekly, also rushed out images of the riot withs within days of the onset of the violence. like those, these images lacked clarity the, and they also were visually vague regarding context. despite the murkiness of these illustrations, both renditions of the attack on the colored orphans asylum featured one significant detail of the event, the number of women who were reported at the scene and their looting of furniture, bedding and other possessions. in contrast, the pillaging women as they were described in both newspapers, were reduced to one prominent and a few hazy figurers in the harper's weekly engraved in the burning and sacking of the colored orphans asylum published a week later in its august 1st issue. while the three weeklies made a point of crediting in print their special artists who covered the civil war's military campaigns, no new york-based artist was identified. frank lesli

we need to increase the pace and skill. >> wildfires burn fast. they don't wait for us to fill out a million forms. and you know, so we need to increase the pace and scale of our treatments on the western slopes of california sierra nevada mountain range. i'm chip yost. >> well, and other national news ahmaud arbery's mother speaking out just days after the 3 men shot and killed her son were convicted. she says she's thankful justice was served wanda cooper-jones gather with family and friends in georgia. she says while she's thankful for that verdict. the murder convictions are not going to bring that person cooper jones also says the loss of her son leaves a huge hole in her family. not only does she lose a son but her children lost a sibling and our grandchildren lost an uncle. >> thank hope. it passes it. the first thanksgiving, they will happen. saying that we haleigh and justice for but again, i mean, heart still having that thanksgiving my babies. thank you. >> the man convicted burries death all face a mandatory sentence of life in prison.

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these fires have been burning across the jody. a coal field in india is eastern state of johnson for more than 100 years. they've destroyed thousands of homes and made much of jody a town uninhabitable. billet bowery is now a single parent. after his 30 year old wife call jani baby fell into a pit while taking the daughter to use a toilet the ground. he often caves in the cause of the fires. my daughter came running and said mommy has fallen into a bit. i rushed to the spot and i pray to god that no one has to ever see a site like that. julia is india's most lucrative coal field, but also the sight of one of its biggest environmental disasters on the ground fires were 1st detected in 1916 and abandoned mines, which went decommissioned properly. more recently, 2 decades of unrestrained open cost mining has brought fires to the surface, but the indian government is pushing ahead with plans to expand the sector in jack and, and beyond developing. it's just really, it's just realizing and for that we need power. more and more power is

and in total this would be enough to burn 22 percent of our global carbon budget by 2050. if we want to stay below $1.00 degree, which is the global aim, of course, and given the climate and environmental emergency that we're facing, the arctic should definitely be off limits for the oil and gas industry immediately . what's interesting is that many banks and financial institutions have made optic pledges, haven't they? but despite that their money, it's still getting to those oil companies that are drilling in the arctic. why is that happening? well, that's what i would call the object paradox and a very good example of the gaps that we can see between grand pledges and made typically a cop 26 and reality on the ground on the ground. because big, big banks across the world are pledging to become carbon neutral. they are pledging to supporting oil and gas extraction in the arctic. unfortunately, the numbers tell another story, support article and gas extraction has continued completely unabated in past year the pipe, despite all these policies being implemented, they are f

joie: they're burned by salt? literally just burned from the inside out?e: that's what it looks like, mm-hmm. joie: agroecology professor kate tully's team is tracking the saltwater incursion as it moves inland. and what does that mean for farmland? kate: well, if it's happening in the forest, it's going to be happening in the farmland, too. it's an invisible flood. the saltwater is moving through the groundwater table, and the trees and the plants, they all have their feet in that salty groundwater, and that's what burns them, essentially, from the inside out. bob: you can see where the tide comes up in the ditch, and the salt goes over, and what it does to the crop. joie: in neighboring somerset county, the poorest in the state, bob fitzgerald shows us how time and tide have reshaped his land. bob: i got a place that's down the road here, about a quarter mile, that we've abandoned because it drowns out. joie: you abandoned your crops. bob: yeah. joie: you just gave up that farmland? bob: yeah, yeah. joie: throughout the region, almost a third of the land

there were precincts burned.out of the precincts and they kept defunding your department. you know better than anyone, if you don't have plainclothes officers, is that something important to do in this day and age? >> we have officers out in the field doing surveillance, you know, contacting gang members, stopping the flow of guns. it has been beneficial. often believe it or not, many of those officers because they are work so closely. they can help prevent and curtail some folks getting involved in nefarious acts by adding in interrupters. there is a lot of good that can come from this as well it's an important part of the strategy to bring down violence. judge jeanine: what do you think of hawk newsome. do you see that as incitement to riot? that's very frightening for people not just in new york, but in big cities around the country. >> i don't know mr. newsome, i am sure he was feeling emotional at the time. we have all gone through a lot of ups and downs. the last thing any of us want to see is more violence

down this town and this firewood a burned through this many homes.s no tangible thing that you can hold up and say this is what we have repented. these people are left with its another week without power and we didn't have air-conditioning in our home but if you know that there's a point to that being inconvenienced or seriously inconvenienced by intricate medical care i think it's the reality that we are living in right now and it goes back to u what i was saying earlier abot making sure we are having the same conversation in understandingg it's not going away and we are living our legacies of how we have managed thewe forest and how we have approached climate change and where we have built homes and now we are back to some really hard choices and it means being inconvenienced. >> those are great points. they are really important points especially the national environment is our reality and it has been our reality but the impacts are nowan so significant with that. that leads me to my next question. you mentioned during town hall meetings that the c

>> well, can it be salvaged, not in its current enforcement it literally needs to be burned to the ground and rebuilt. that is the only way you're going to see a principled party come back. and again, we're not talking about -- juanita doesn't have to agree with me on tax policy, but she needs a governing partner or someone who's willing to have a conversation to get things done, and that's where that simply does not exist in leadership in washington or, frankly, in many other places right now. >> when you say burned to the ground, you're talking about

he wanted to just let it burn. i sent in a lot of people. you are supposed to wait for the governor's to call them in. i didn't wait. minneapolis was burning down. i would have liked to have done it early are. we saved it and we saved kenosha very early. it was a horrible couple of nights. they got individual stores. the place did not burn down to the ground because we sent in a lot of good people. this is supposed to be handled by governors or mayors. they are mostly democrats. the horrible things in portland and seattle where they took over a big chunk of the city. the crime in chicago and new york. you see what is going on with bill de blasio. >> laura: are you hopeful about eric adams the new mayor of new york city who at least seems to be standing up to the threats of black lives matter? when he said he might beef up some of the law enforcement in the city after bill de blasio guted it? >> i am hopeful. i know people that know eric adams. he is something that really wants to do the right thing. he is fair on both sides. he wants to make

so when it's burned or when it oxidizes, the problem is it releases so much. but why is thriving ally growing in the way it should be? it's incredibly efficient in a few decades time. this lunar landscape will be the lungs of island. the scale of this project is absolutely amazing. in the next few years, an area of land, the size of the mold, eaves will be restored. thankfully though the process is reasonably simple, the channels you originally drain, the peak bugs for extraction are all filled in, allowing pools of water to form on the surface. and eventually all important masses to grow that will capture carbon within 50 to 100 years. and those most is extremely good job and that's all that has been close for the last 5 years. but the pace of change has angered traditional turf cutters. many employed and industrial extraction found themselves suddenly out of work. member of parliament, michael fitzmaurice is defending what's seen as a historic right to continue extracting small amounts of pete the domestic use in rural island. this remains the easiest and ch

wenstrup are co-chairs of the house burn pit caucus. i thank them for their work on this bill and continued advocacy on behalf of veterans exposed to burn pits. many service members and veterans are grappling with serious health conditions they believe are the result of the burn pit exposures. that is why congress required v.a. to create an airborne hazard and open burn pit registry in 2013. the registry was intended to provide a forum for service members and veterans to document their burn pit exposures and health status so that the v.a. could better target research and outreach. the registry continues to be an born tool for veterans worried about burn pit and other toxic our environmental exposures. last congress two important stakeholders, burn pits 360 and v.f.w. recommended family members be allowed to update the registry in the event of a death of the service member or veteran listed on it. this would ensure that the registry contains a more complete picture of the possible effects of burn pit exposure. this bill would do that. wh

. >> host: dave rubin is author of "don't burn this book," his host of the ruben report. you dedicate this report to ben affleck. why is that? >> guest: i dedicated the book to ben affleck because ben was accidentally into a goal to my awakening. i was far left progressive, on the young turks network, youtube, there was a night about six years ago, very memorable night, when ben affleck was on real time with bill maher and was alongside sam harris, a neuroscientist who talks about mindful meditation, sam was releasing a book called wake up about spirituality without religion. they were talking about religion and the topic of radical islam came up and sam made the point that you have to separate ideas meaning you should be to criticize any idea whether it is the republican party platform or the doctrine of christianity or in this case islam but you wouldn't want to be bigoted towards republicans or christians or muslims so separate ideas and people. that was the way sam laid it out and ben affleck became incredibly irritated and red in the face and pounding the desk, in es

let them burn our wisconsin city. laura: out sharpton blamed last summer's rioting in kenosha on conservatives. >> violence in minneapolis was done by right-wingers who pretended to be burning down places in minneapolis. now we can see people baiting violence to have a reaction to justify doing what rittenhouse got away with today. this is a very very serious problem for activism. >> serious problem for activism, they have a kids show up using his own second amendment rights, he was almost killed and could have been put away for life so where is activism - >> where's the evidence for al sharpton's can gesture that there were other elements doing this? we saw again the video, it told us what happened. let's remember the entire scene that created kyle rittenhouse's scenario, the entire riot of kenosha that was not cause by but was inflamed and further instigated by the media. they fan the flames of the jacob bake shooting, some people now reporting the cops killed jacob blake, they did not. they shot him, he was shot so

catherine burns, in and out of mortuaries. catherine burns. thank _ in and out of mortuaries.e set—up a phone line for anyone who thinks their relatives or friends could have been affected — the number is 0800 0515270. the conservative mp 0wen paterson, at the centre of a row over lobbying rules, has resigned saying he will remain a public servant, outside the cruel world of politics. his decision came after the government was forced into a major u—turn today over proposed changes to the way mps are reprimanded for breaking the rules. 0ur political editor laura kuenssberg reports. a different kind of protest. a different kind of attack to green activists busy in westminster today. sleaze is the accusation against the government, corruption, they claim. a former minister has now quit as an mp after he was found to have lobbied the government more than a dozen times for companies who paid him thousands of pounds. standing down, 0wen paterson said... "my integrity has been repeatedly and publicly questioned. i maintain that i'm totally innocent. my children have asked me to leave

it burned through this many homes. there is no tangible thing that you can pull back and say this iswhat we prevented . so i think people are left with that taste in their mounts of it was another week without power. we didn't have air-conditioning in our homes so even if you intellectually know that there's a point to that , emotionally or experienced at is being inconvenienced. oregon seriously inconvenienced by intrepid medical care . that's a hard thing to overcome . so i think you know, it's just the reality that we're living in now. it comes back again to what i was saying about making sure we're having thesame conversations . an understanding that these fires are going away. that were living with you know, our legacies of how we managed discourse and how we approach climate change and where we have built homes and how we hardened the grid. so now we're facing really hard choices and sometimes those choices mean being inconvenienced . >> that was a great point. we it's a really important point especially again, t

to burn this part of the forest to create farmland in order to feed their families. but those trees are the linchpins of the amazon's biodiversity. i'm standing about 130 feet up in the canopy of an ironwood tree. now this is one of the keystone species of the entire amazon rain forest. and everything that you see in front of you right now is protected by the jungle keepers, but that is just a drop in the vast ocean of green that is the amazon. but rosolie says there is still hope. >> it's not too late. we're at the point now where we still have a chance to protect all these species. that's why we need to focus on it so much right now, because this is the last decade that we're going to have that chance. >> reporter: david, there is plenty that folks can do from their own home to try to stop the kind of deforestation you're seeing right behind me, like practicing responsible consumerism. and that means knowing where the things you buy come from and helping organizations you trust doing the good work on the ground. david? >> really good advice, matt, thank you to our

hs to go to burning— to reign in the funding. hs to go to burning him— to reign in the funding.ning him seems a little bit ridiculous.— burning him seems a little bit ridiculous. _ ., g ., ridiculous. indeed. lucy and joe, thank you _ ridiculous. indeed. lucy and joe, thank you both _ ridiculous. indeed. lucy and joe, thank you both very _ ridiculous. indeed. lucy and joe, thank you both very much. - ridiculous. indeed. lucy and joe, thank you both very much. i - ridiculous. indeed. lucy and joe,| thank you both very much. i think ridiculous. indeed. lucy and joe, - thank you both very much. i think we should all give up before our lips and brains give up! we're all up far too late. thank you very much for your company. the film review is coming up next and then get news name. good night. —— newsday. hello, and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, mark kermode is with me as ever. what have you been watching, mark? well, we have the new clint eastwood film, cry macho, which i know you're particularly looking forward t

every time we burn fossil fuels we are burning dead biodiversity that has been fossilised. to stop burning fossil fuels but if we could put nature into recovery that will suck carbon out there again and actually help us reduce carbon over time in the air if we also stop burning fossilfuels and the air if we also stop burning fossil fuels and that is absolutely critical if we are to have any chance of getting 1.5 degrees, restoring our peat bogs in woodlands and salt marshes and sea grasses and oceans and so many other wildlife habitats. but it is also about the role nature can play in helping us to adapt to the climate change we are already going to experience, the extreme weather events. i know you have been looking at plans from the wildlife trust to reintroduce beavers. that is one example of how they can hold water back on the landscape and protect communities from extreme weather events. i'm sure everyone of degree much better to have that water behind a beaver dam than the people's homes. making sure we are more resilient in our communities to extreme weather events t

ambassador burns, welcome.long believed china poses the single greatest geopolitical threat for the united states for the next century. there are many domains on which we're standing up to china. one of the most important concerns taiwan. and i worry that the threat to our taiwan ease allies is becoming acute. chinese filled ships with dozens of military tanks and practiced in preparation for, quote, future battlefields. earlier in the month, 149 chinese aircraft made incursions into taiwan's air defense zone over the span of just four days. u.s. commanders have publicly assessed that an invasion of taiwan is, quote, much closer to us than most think. meanwhile, taiwan has been asking the united states to expedite the delivery of several squadrons of f 16. number one, how do you see the chinese threat to taiwan and what should we be doing to deter that threat? senator, thank you. it's a growing chinese threat to taiwan. attempts to bully and intimidate and send 139 aircraft into the air defense zone of taiwan.

i understand senator marky will introduce senator burns. >> ambassador burns is a cherished son of na r massachusetts, fellow boston college alumnist and proud member of red sox nations. and also like to we can ambassador burns wife libby who's joined us today. name a diplomatic flash pont of the last four decades and there is a gad kpans ambassador burns was either a witness or active participant. in his exemplary career as member of the foreign service he served four u.s. presidents. among his assignments he spent five years at the national security council, first as director of soviet affairs under president george h.w. bush, and later as senior director for russia, ukraine and eurasia affairs under president clinton. in those roles he helped shepherd the united states through the clachs of the soviet union and establishment of new relationships with the former soviet bloc countries. in 1997 he was named u.s. ambassador to greece where he helped to expand our bilateral defense relationship and counterterrorism. in 2001 president george bush selected him to serve as u.s. ambassador

can give to them. >> what else did burns discuss with putin?e than one issue. >> they talked about cybersecurity. they talked about regional issues. they talked about the diplomatic crisis that is unfolding between both countries, namely the u.s. has roughly cut its staff by 90% since 2017, due to a tit-for-tat with moscow. moscow wants more diplomatic staff here in the u.s. as well. they sediscussed that. apart from the ukrainian issue, cybersecurity, ransomware. that was a big issue. of course, president biden issuing a pointed statement today after this big law enforcement takedown of ransomware operators saying i told vladimir putin in june i was going to hold these ransomware actors accountable and it's exactly what i've done today. clearly a strong message to vladimir putin being sent by the president and one of his top, you know, national security officials. >> how unusual for a cia director to talk to the president of russia? i could see a cia director talking to an fsb director in russia, their equivalent. but for a cia director to tal