contact group adjoining from all around e world and across most time zones, including friends in the amicaseurope, the middle east, and indo pacific. today we are gathering to make sure that we continue to deliver on our promises to support ukraine's defenders. re than a year ago russi launched its illegal and unprovokedull-scale invasion. ever since, ukraine's foes have been fighting bravely to defend their sovereignty, their territory, and tir freedom. no ukrainian should have to endure daily shelling. no ukrainian parent should have to wry thatheir child's school will be bombed. no nation should have to fight for its survival against a foreign invasion force leveling entire cities and towns. countries here today understand the stakes of the russian war of choice for the ukrainian people and for the world. thiss the greatest that to european security sincthe start of the cold war in the aftermath of world war ii and it is airect attack on the rules-based international order at keeps us all safe and sere. over the past year, ukrainian armed forces have had several striking victories on the

. ♪ david: welcome to "world news amica." in the u.k., on pbs, and around the globe.than 150 million americans use tiktok, that's almost half the population. with the focus on capitol hill today on one man, the social media company's ceo. the singaporean executive was cast in the role of human shock absorber from every concern that congress could possibly throw at him. be it data security, protecting children, covid this information, you name it. he was called before congress to testify. he argued that tiktok's data is safely stored on servers located here in the u.s. and that teenage users are procted. our correspondent has this roundup of the days events. >> 150 million americans. >> even before he arrived, he was on tiktok arguing for its existence. and even before he started speaking, lawmakers made it clear how they felt. >> tiktok has repeatedly chosen the path for more control, more surveillance, and more manipulation. your platform should be banned. >> he hit back. >> but politicians and many parent activists here don't believe that. former president donald tr

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amica doesn't know their military. they areecoming less connected. what can you d in the communities, the schools an churches and everywhere else, talk about service whether it's inhe military or any kind of servi. right now, i think we could use a rejuvenation of public service period. ta it up d use yourselves. i know it's hard and you don't want to brag about your service but we have two. or you will rootalked by -- or you will walk right by people who ow nothing about military and you are ccessful. if i ask you how you got where you are, you say i probably learned some of it in the litary. they gave discipline and time managent, i need you to crank up the volume. >> we have about 900 u.s. troops in syria. are they marines and what is the mission there? >> some of them are marines, that's correct. syria is one of those areas in the world where left alone, if we were to pull out everybody, it would become another ghanistan which ia fertile ground -- that's where isis is right now. it's largel the biggest portion of them are in jail. if we pulled ou

under that system, the ability of new immigrants to come to amica depended upon the country of their birth. only three countries were allowed to supy 70% of all the immigrants families wereep apart because a husband or wife or a child had been born ith wrong place. man of needed skill and talent, or denied entrance because they came from southern. our eastern europe or from one of the developing countries. this system violated the basic principle of american democracy, the principle that values and rewards. each man on the basis of his merit as a man, it has been un-american in the high sense because it has been untrue to the faith that brought thousands to these shores, even before we were a country. today, with my signature, this system is abolished. we can now believe that it will never again shatter the gate to the american nation with the twin barriers of prejudice and privilege. america would. our beautiful america was built by a nation of strangers from 100 different places or more. they have poured forth into an empty land, joining and blending in one mighty and irresistable,

with real intelligence sharing at the same time staying te to core values and rule of law which made amica the greatest country the world has ever seen. this will take a whole nation approach, will take time, such approach must start with awareness campaigns with a broad audience from every level of government, to university campuses in the boardooms to business schools because it matters. the boards of directors must look beyond the next earnings and think strategically on the long-term threat and not only their busess model but economic natural interest in the united states and inonclusion, i investigated after september 11 for the fbi and i wld suggest it's much more dangerous and longevity in the nation than y terrorist threat aor. thank you and i look forwa to the questions. >> i n recognize general for opening statement. >> ranking member and members of e committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. as an individual, spent three decades in service to our nation. i am deeply concerned about the threat the chinese communist party drives toward u.s. home and espe

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