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establish independence, energy independence from russia, because this is the main presidential and national assemblyifteen months in office. popular with younger voters, he has given the security and lawyer luisa gonzalez, who's aiming to become the country's first female president. will take place in april. our south america correspondent, ione wells, i asked her if it is correct to assume that daniel nobo would really like to remain in power. he took over after his predecessor had to step down to call for him to go. so noboa took over. that swept the country, including an armed attack to introduce emergency measures. he's given the security forces sweeping new powers as a result. overall, last year, the murder rate in ecuador did start to fall slightly, but other violent crimes like kidnappings have continued to rise. recorded in the country. crime in particular. to his main left—wing challenger, luisa gonzalez. failed to deliver on his promises, both when it comes we've seen in ecuador in recent years, but also improve the economy, which is another key and, ione, so she's his main challenger. tha

instructed security forces to detain and forces to detain lawmakers and also prevent from entering national assemblyficrfimcfit the prosecution decision, the prosecution insists that it was an illegal attempt to suppress political and remain in power. opposition and remain in power. be reporting from seoul. rachel be reporting from seoul. do stay with us here in bbc news. thanks for watching. hello, again. into a mild couple of days, especially so today and tomorrow. but with the mild conditions come wet and windy weather as well, with gales at times across parts of the north and the west. now, you can see the milder ambers across us today something fresher. temperatures just dropping by a couple of degrees, but not by that much. now, as we head through the rest of today, we've got outbreaks of rain. some sharp showers, and it's going to be a blustery day with gusty winds in the west, but temperatures in double figures more or less across the board, with highs up to 1a or 15. we lose today's rain. we see clear skies for a time, the winds ease, but then they pick up again out towards the west, reaching

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of so they all continuing to hear the impeachment a case against you that was passed by the national assembly. whether to uphold that or not. if it is upheld, then it's in south korea, they will have to hold you presidential elections within 60 days. rob mcbride, i'll just say era. so the trump and ministration has ordered the pentagon to cut us military spending by $50000000000.00 onto the plan. the defense budget will be flashed by 8 percent annually for 5 years. the defense departments as its focus will be on so q and us borders and building an anti missile defense system. adam clements has a full, a pentagon official, and a former us diplomat. he says may turn data should be taking notes from the rhetoric and possible action coming out of washington. so early in the administration, we don't know all the details of exactly what will happen. i don't think it's abnormal, that of incoming administration at the pentagon. a new secretary defense would one for a view all of its spending and expenditures. so i think it's the haste of how quickly this has been announced, the context of what's happ

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martial law allows us to send, but which was quickly lifted off, the members of the besieged national assembly voted to over to you and has argued it was meant more as a warning to opposition parties, so he says was stuffing in from governing teacher and all of us talk about who ordered floss and who received orders. it feels like chasing and light reflections on the lake. the quote also heard a motion from hughes lloyd is by his release from the detention center where he's been held since his arrest last month. i believe it has been explained that the current detention is no legal confinement, and that the grounds for detention have ceased to exist. the scots of this criminal case comes as the constitutional court, on the other side of soul, is wrapping up. it's he rings into humans impeachment to the side if he should be removed from office. as this drawer is playing out in the cold, the country remains in a kind of political and diplomatic limbo, the acting president joe, sighing. mock has no. yeah. to even spoken on the phone with president donald trump, the leader of south korea is most i

of so they all continuing to hear the impeachment a case against june that was passed by the national assembly. whether to uphold that or not. if it is upheld, then it's in south korea. they will have to hold you presidential elections within 60 days. run mcbride, i'll just say era. so the trump ministration has all just depends again to cost to us ministry spending by $50000000000.00 onto the palm. the defense budgets will be slashed by 8 percent underneath the 5 is the defense department says its focus will be on securing us food is and building an anti missile defense system. i'll just there as well as in george and has moved from washington dc. and the cuts are going to be aimed at programs that called reject what the presidency of donald trump wants, which is an end to diversity equity and inclusion programs as well as getting rid of other programs that deal with addressing climate change. the job cuts could possibly affect some of the 900000 civilians who worked at defense installations and at the pentagon headquarters around the world. now, how quickly can these cuts be made? well, the

of the palestinian tradition that has been completely seen on every single picture youtube or national assembly, or even festival, to be completely taken place in a garza so apparently such families bring groceries bring a celebratory suites. are they all dress beautifully with the policy and national dress up for such moments as we believe that this woman must not be gone without celebration without sharing the service there on a completely uncontrollable happiness that we continued to see on the faces on the words on the axe here in the rookie and hospital for them, the victim for good old the buttons that they have enjoyed since day one of the a russian of the is really minute 3 year old, the gaza strip. because this is a moment for them that will bring a ton of happiness. but it's absolutely it with different sorts of very a fridge island. 6 memories of the scenes of the blood, the scenes of destruction that they have been doing now they continue to celebrate . they continue to chit chat, this moment that has been widely seen as a big treat for palestinian people in fact, through antarctic.

the program president of the african peoples convention and former member of the south african national assembly . then, but go the mr. go to you're most welcome. the russian foreign ministry has introduced the department of african affairs. what impact could that have on cross continental . busy relations with things have been so it, me, me, me is it this can only be a positive as the tennessee i remember that way. ready when you start up row and i think a prison put in mention to think that trust you and will assist in strengthening africa. so that entity yeah, i think 2 or 3 is big our goal and i was really. ready in many applicants we have but we're not sure how this was going to have been, and i think the creation a dedicated section within the ministry is the exercise ition a whole that commitment. it can only have a positive impact. allow up to go to the boss that you will respond to, to the 3 people, but will owners had hedge and once you know fully, all that us without any helping hands, it not since the days of the soviet union. and now russia coming openly. i mean, the only super powe

. >> reporter: last year the national assembly voted to ban the dog meat industry. >> hi, pretty girl reporter: what's happening right now that in five, ten years you think people will look back on and say i can't believe we did that. >> i hope it's less than five or even ten years, but i think the situation with the factory farming is one that we will all look back on and say really, did we do that? did we confine animals in these terrible extreme situations, just because it was cheaper or easier or we just throw them all together and seal the doors people won't know it's happening. >> reporter: humane world for animals successfully defended california's proposition 12 at the supreme court. the law established minimum space requirements for certain species of livestock. >> confining animals in extremely terrible situations where animals are stacked in cages on top of cages, it creates conditions where there are illnesses. so there is swine flu. there is bird flu. we can't keep pretending that it has nothing to do with us. >> reporter: protecting the 600 or so residents of this ranch

>> it was a committee of seven senators and seven mp's from the national assembly who came up with aomise last week. no one was satisfied with it, which actually shows was indeed a compromise. in fact, the government themselves are saying the motion of no-confidence that made barnier collapse already cost 7 billion euros to the economy because of savings and a lack of confidence. 50 billion euros of savings are planned, and there will be a new supertex on the profits of big companies with more than one billion euros of french revenues. that will impact lvmh. the ceo saying we should not tax french revenue made in france for this company. the government decided to have this tax for one year, make it temporary to not impact jobs at these big french companies. lizzy: kathleen with the latest on french politics. we thank you for that update, and let's stay in france because we have breaking news. earnings are dropping surprisingly this morning on the terminal, and we have seen them cutting full-year organic net sales guidance with spirits. spirits dropping 25% in china and 2% in europe,

last year that country's national assembly voted to ban the dog meat industry.y i can't believe we did that? >> i hope it's less than five or even ten years. but i think the situation with the factory farming is one that we will all look back on and say, really? did we do that? did we confine animals in these terrible extreme situations? just because it was cheaper or easier or if we throw them all together and seal the doors, people don't know it's happening. >> reporter: they successfully defended california's proposition 12 at the supreme court. the law established minimum space requirements for certain species of livestock. >> confining animals in extremely terrible situations where animals are stacked in cages on top of cages, it creates conditions where there are illnesses. so there is swine flu. there is bird flu. we can't keep pretending it has nothing to do with us. >> reporter: protecting the 600 or so residents of this ranch is in a way a symbolic act. for an organization looking to improve the welfare of animals around the world, the symbolic like th

nations or russia, sort of rewarded countries that either abstained or voted against united nations general assembly resolutions condemning russia's aggressive foreign policy. so there was that kind of relationship. of course, supported the that the like minded neighboring countries, members of the collective security organization or the eurasian economic union. so, yeah, so we do find that when it comes to covid 19 assistance, many of the elements of that geopolitical logic played out as well. and if your words about the united states so the united states, i will use it in past term, had been the top humanitarian dollar in terms of just the dollar value of of of assistance. and it had also been the major contributor to covid 19. assistance and vaccines. this assistance, again, in terms of just dollar amount. this is not to say that the united states have traditionally li been driven by humanitarian concerns alone, not necessarily during the cold war era, for example, but the soviet union and the united states. they used humanitarian and development assistance as a way of countering either, you know

nations come so russia sort of rewarded countries that he the upstate or voted against united nations general assembly condemning russians policy. so there was that kind of relationship. of course they supported the like-minded neighboring countries, members of the organization or the eurasian economic unit. so we do find when it comes to covid-19 assistance, many of the elements of the two political logic played out as well. and a few words about the united states. so the united states i will use it in pastor has been the top she mentioned all in term of dollar value of assistance. and headed also been a major contributor to covid-19 assistance and vaccine assistance, again in terms of dollar amount. this is not to say that the united states has traditionally been driven by humanitarian concerns alone. not necessarily in the cold war era for example, both the soviet union and the united states used humanitarian and development assistance as way of countering communist ideology, talk about the soviet union. in the post-cold war era when various administrations would find a connection between for examp

parliament to have in the new governmental structures by the time it returned next return to the national assembly that i've ever seen. and i worked in the white house. i worked in the executive branch. i never worked in capitol hill, but this this abdication of the role of advise and consent, this, you know, give me maga, but give me a maga with a brain and a moral compass. it happened so quickly it seemed to destabilize mr. thune and mr. mcconnell and others. and i wonder what what you i mean, trump could appoint anyone he wanted to his cabinet, but picking people who had real personal trespasses, people like like mr. hegseth, he initially picked mr. gaetz, both of them credibly accused of criminal acts, picking inexperienced people, mr. patel and others. what what would that look like in your view, if again, if a if a sort of check on those kinds of people being in control of the military and the department of justice and the, you know, internal police, as you write in your piece, if that were happening somewhere else. >> yeah, absolutely. >> because i. >> think that. >> to. >> me is one of the

by the way, these resolutions were supported by all the nations that were assembled at our second annualpac international summit. we are working not as government entities but as entities outside government to push for these policies and gordon chang wrote very important resolution to combat the chinese communist regime in china. and i want all of these desperate sent dictators to know that donald trump might talk to you, he might make you feel like you are welcome because that is part of his job, but in the end, we have a president that is going to stop you cold in your tracks. and all of these countries accepted that resolution as well, and perhaps my favorite resolution, i wish i had it here to read to you on my phone, but i think i have the gist of it, which as we have a message to the globalists. last year we stood on this stage and we said globalism, at cpac globalism was going to die. we thought that was an audacious statement. let's just say it. and then it happened. it was kind of amazing. and so our message to the globalists is no matter whether you are at the world economic fo

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nation on striking for eh, for me, use now. and then somebody like 9, but a routine for the 1st few. nancy's is leaving us some of the sacrifice assembled off the government nation. and the fact that he's being released in this exchange deal for the 2nd time also proves to the brothers premiums, who is actually beside among the but a seniors which pharmacy among the palestinians is actually able to get those prisoners out of prison. this is a message that the i think is the end doesn't really understand. because as you know, there are, has been negotiations, but it's a good negotiations with the p. o added by the fact that the quantity for many years doing good is 99 things that later on during the, the years that the 1st became all for this century. but the go fish has been, but the actual indeed to that a lease of the main but a scene of prism this is i add that this criteria whereby if we're going to see the so called space way because right, you can blog, you cannot leave it to will not be at least for all the oceans, and the ones that are being able to leave those prisoners has been having us. and this actually makes the popularity

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fighting... that assembly election. insidejammu and kashmir who truly believe you are now no, absolutely not. by the prime minister, by the home minister, but in your own party, the national conference, in essence, is a demotion of your territory's statehood. isaid... well, you said recently, "hoping for the restoration..." as it's known, article 370 — that is the long—standing principle by which jammu and kashmir gets its special all we can do is keep "the issue alive." well, no, i didn't say hoping. so, you've given up? no, i haven't given up. no, absolutely not. in the assembly asking for special status of jammu in a recent event inside jammu and kashmir — i think it was the opening of a new tunnel — you stood beside prime minister narendra modi, photographic skills. i think working in a congenial relationship... ..is not something that should be mistaken for the national conference is opposed to the bjp. we have been, we will remain. which deals with muslim religious properties — orfor that matter, one nation, one election, we have months of my government — i owe it to the people of india has made to us, obviously we will relook at it. as long as mr modi is prime mini

assembly multiple members of the governor's cabinet, lieutenant general donna martin, the inspector general of the united states army, brigadier general andrew collins, deputy attorney general, maryland national guard. brigadier andrew dockery. commander maryland air national guard. brigadier general amy kritzer director. joint staff. maryland national guard. lieutenant general. stop dingle. retired major linda singh retired command sergeant major david senior enlisted leader maryland guard. we've seen a very special welcome to the family members of harriet tubman who have traveled today. flowers will now be presented to the family. this token of recognition is from the national guard association of maryland. and if i ask the family, please stand up. thank you. so. it is my pleasure to introduce the 31st adjutant general of, the maryland national guard, major general janine birkhead. thank you. thank you. thank. i am today the legislation to allow for the passage of this initiative. this summit would not have been possible without partnership of fashion chairs. and michael jackson, who helped lead the effort by serving as the bill's sponsor, sd 77. thank you, senator jackson, for the tireless

i the summer camp year the head the national guard for for california went up and they they all assembled to find out how they how the repression was going to happen in san francisco. they they were pretty freaked out so. occupy type type organizations anything where people are collectively getting together and challenging elites. i encourage and fully i want to that's going to continue to happen and the more we make it happen, the better the better chance we could get to address some of these things seriously. yeah, one more question. i i thank you. i just wanted to mention of all i think we're all heartened by increasing union participation. that seems to be something that we can also focus on and say yay, i can help change things. but i wanted to just quickly say you mentioned we should shame the titans and i think that there has long been a study of how to do adverse to try to control corporate malfeasance since the results show that it doesn't seem to have the intended deterrent effect would like to shame corporations even though pge indian wells fargo had to take out you know newspa

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