the united states commander in burma and india inspects the city.inese flag. ♪ ♪ announcer: 75 years ago in early 1945, the u.s. marines invaded the pacific island of iwo jima and fought japanese forces in one of the bloodiest battles of world war ii. next, hershel "woody" williams recounts his experience as a marine in the pacific, including iwo jima. his actions earned him the medal of honor. the national world war ii museum conducted this interview in 2006. woody: i was born and raised in the country.

bomber] [explosions] northernresistance in burma begins to totter.ush forward. machine gun fire] and fighter-bombers have devastated the city. the japanese garrison has been annihilated. the united states commander inspects the city. over the city flies the chinese flag. ♪ >> 75 years ago in early 1945, the u.s. marines invaded the pacific island of iwo jima and fought japanese forces in one of the bloodiest battles of world war ii. hershel 'woody' williams recounts his experience as a marine in the pacific, including at iwo jima. his actions earned him the medal of honor.

veto. >> host: you mentioned burma. how did you get interested in -- that was an excellent rating that lasted over 20 is the i remember what you stand up and make speeches on the senate floor really wondered what you are doing. >> guest: i started following her after shehe won the nobel peace prize in 91. and for blisters were not play with her, she is, her father was sort off the founder, modern burma but he did live very long. he got assassinated. she went off to europe and went to school and that in the united states are welcome married a guy from britain, had two sons, come back to burma in 1988 to care for her sick mother when this movement started. she was sort of thrust into the leadership and the military junta about the couches into early '60s decided to have free and fair election. they got creamed. their reaction to getting creamed in the free and for election was too rest all the people who would got elected and put under house arrest in her own house where she remained most of the time for 21 years. so we w

burma,ke a country like you had the international court of justice that ordered burma to take all measureso protecting muslims from genocide, and the court issues the ruling last the, week before, calling 600,000 rohingya remaining in irma extremely vulnerable to military violence. now no one from burma can seek political asylum in the united states? omar: the way many people come to seek asylum in the united states as they come on a visa and then seek asylum. so parts of that route will no longer be available to people from burma. again, if you look at the numbers and you look at the way that this ban i is currently shaped, it is very much a reflection of the presidents prejudice specifically against muslims in africa. nigeria has the nigeria has the sixth-largest largest christian population in the world. it also has the fifth-largest muslim population. so how is the aclu, how is this being dealt with? omar: right, so we have an ongoing case against the ban as it stood or as it continues to stand, the ban that has been a place for three years now, so we actually just had an argument in t

blair said this morning that he talked to you and burma and pakistan were sort of the two focal points for chinese control of the region and he saw the region if i understood him correctly as really the focus of chinese interest and if we can maintain our position in that region, we will have to worry less in terms of global competition. nobody so far has mentioned chinese activities in cambodia. you mentioned that doctor cardin in your testimony. i'm very interested in the chinese i think colonization is a fair statement of cambodia and in particular the port and airfield that they have underway and i'm interested in your assessment of where are they in that process and how it fits into admiral blair's assessment that burma and pakistan are the valued military assets as opposed to the role that cambodia might play and we can talk in the nexthour about those three questions but please, mister peltier . >> sure. on the issue ofunmanned assets and expeditionary operations i would say that in part , that is to some degree speculation on my part but it is informed by some of the writings t

how many muslim refugees, if you are a hate rohingyan muslim thing —— fleeing what is happening in burmauying your rates like this? let's mention brexit, johnson future brexit deal ground rules. this is an intriguing story. it looks like it's been briefed by number ten basically suggesting that the prime minister is going to say that he's not going to be bound by the political declaration which of course we spent much of last year hearing all about because there was lots of arguments about what was in and not in it, this was of course attached to the e withdrawal agreement which was going to the houses of parliamentjust after the general election and now downing street or basely saying that actually the political declaration does not hold any weight any more going to rip it up because it's superseded by the commitments made in the conservative manifesto. play confusing because the conservative ma nifesto confusing because the conservative manifesto cannot prior to the e withdrawal agreement going through parliament and also some of the things they're saying you're going to be ripped out

military has poured weapons into me and maher is up to no good because they change their name from burma very suspicious. zimbabwe your next what was wrong with their old name rhodesia was involved it was a. used to be named after a white guy named cecil rhodes oh then why did not go. oh they don't want to be confused with sincerely and. shadiest italians they only get 000-000-0000. 00000 feeling that you are selling continues to be a godsend for telecom companies telecom companies that are now free from regulations and willing to put your personal info up for sale for more on this we go to our troops bomb now we do. desperately want people to like them and others who embrace being evil while president trump is somehow trying to do both trump spec for actually see chair time is really leaning in to be after repealing that neutrality in 2018. reminds me of nokia except instead of his news growing with his kids. i find the really offensive i only use till the truth yeah that's debatable or maybe pies thought he was telling the truth when he repeatedly argues that repealing regulations that

. >> reporter: the new list of six countries included in this extension, aratrea, burma, tanzania. they remain the other bans that remain in place. now dhs says this extension "places new visa restrictions on six countries that fail to meet a series of security criteria demonstrating they could be a risk to the homeland." the ban was first put many place three years ago, but soon there after, struck down by the supreme court which cited insufficient reasons for keeping people from the countries from entering the united states. only after the white house submitted several revisions and added venezuela and north korea to the list did the courts ultimately uphold the ban. >>> advocacy organizations tell fox news thousands of american children have been separated from their parents as the result of the first ban and insist the president's national security rationale doesn't pass the sniff test. the white house has fiercely disputed claims that the travel ban singles out muslims or any religious or ethnic groups. in washington, gillian turner, fox news. >>> switching gears now, seems fo

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i have to say, i felt i have seen worrying signs out of the bernie sanders burma campaigns that theyr to the other side, which is it is not worth having a democrat facing donald trump unless it is bernie sanders. even today people were sending me conspiracy theories from the bernie sanders camp about problems in iowa. there are always conspiracy theories and things like that. are there? there a lwa ys things like that. are there? there always are. the democrats in america are so always are. the democrats in america are so deeply split about how to defeat donald trump. the fact many people felt that bernie sanders would have done much better than hillary clinton. the last time around in the so—called progressive campaign, i hate that word. the fact that the democratic national committee has now changed the rules for who gets to participate in debates so that bloomberg, even though he does not have a large number of donors, which used to be one of the qualifying characteristics, they changed the rules last week, can i take part in future debates is a very interesting thing. you can see

reporter: eritrea, kirnlg and, burma, and tan.ictions on six countries that failed to meet the criteria for security. they cite insufficient reasons for keeping people from entering the united states. only after the white house made several revision and adds north korea and iran to the list. thousands of people were separated from their parents as a result of the first ban. the white house disputed claims the travel ban seeks to single out muslims or any other religious or ethnic group. mike: palestinian president mahmoud abbas threatening to cut security ties with the u.s. abbas feels the plan heavily favored israel. it would give the palestinians limited self-rule and allow israel to annex its settlements there while keeping most of jerusalem. up next, how the lakers paid their respects to kobe bryant last night and what investigators are learning from the fatal helicopter crash. me y. ahh no, come on. i saw you eating poop earlier. hey! my focus is on the road, and that's saving me cash with drivewise. who's the dummy now? whoo

should we do something more like the war refugee board for places like syria or burma? let me ask one more. how did the war refugee board deal with the populists as a whole? did they try to keep what they were doing quiet? did they try to fly under the radar? dr. erbelding: the question was, was the board secret at the time? some of it was. the opera to take hungarian jews certainly was. much of it public -- you can't really bring in refugees to the involved.ut getting negotiations, those are secret, of course. they are very aware that when they do something public they need public support. before roosevelt announces the refugee camp, the board goes through about a month of rough again the getting sympathetic journalists to write columns or make radio speeches. with an announcer giving a letter to john paley. you're such a great war refugee board to rector and i think it much make your life so easier if we open a refugee camp in the u.s. because were not taking any refugees of our own. so, they planted all of these seeds so they had all of these look, the show him, amer

meanwhile the people of burma denio were trying to come to terms with the sheer scale of the disaster. on a ritas 28 year old nephew was in the canteen when the mudslide hit home. he went to work and never came back but i'm the one who now is lying and. it's incredibly sad to see you my dear. people prayed for the missing at the church next door but 4 days after the disaster sorrow was turning to anger at mine operator of ali. yes this was no accident it was a crime. no amount of financial compensation will bring our friends back to conspire god and vali is now under investigation by brazil's justice department which has frozen over 2000000000 euros of the company's assets. and so these are more that i heard you this is a human tragedy because it involves such a large number of victims rindge you've each of us. ringback environmental activists protesting outside the company headquarters. they say the commodities giant invested too little in safety and oversight. is one of the world's biggest iron ore exporters. many people have accused the company of deliberately flirting with disaste

plus when i say need a fire inside burma some things are definitely improved since then and soul of danger zones have been expanded meaning there are more areas that can't be built on one or only using special measures like think awards and tougher glazing was the how but the main improvement has been how we manage avalanche warnings it's gone so nowadays we can issue them much much sooner than for you know for vonage. every day roody meyer checks the snow conditions when it comes to determining hazard levels austria's alpine regions work closely with italy game. yet it's the 1st collaboration of its kind worldwide across border multi-lingual avalanche report black hole southern to roll and trentino with a set of milestones we have one of the best systems in the world at the moment reeks. with. winter sports enthusiasts often across national borders in pursuit of their hobby they don't care which country they're in it's the snow that counts. this is the 1st season avalanche reports are available online in a choice of languages. international avalanche warning services meet every 2 years to

obviously it has done very well, but we expect the monetary policy in burma to force investors find ofs outside of intra-trades to try to protect capital. is likely to play a role in that context. nejra: gold has been supported even with the stronger dollar. is your central case that we do see dollar weakness in 2020? it has been a painful tray for anyone betting on that, two-state -- to say the least. jub: a lot of investors came in expecting a weaker dollar. there is still scope for that to happen but it's going to be pushed to the back end of the year. in the short-term as it relates to the dollar versus the g10, is likely to be supported. other currencies by a more growthve to non-u.s. stemming from the virus impacts. in the short-term the dollar is a difficult currency to be. nejra: you mention real rights a couple of times. pretty sure yesterday we saw the 30 year yield rate turned negative and we've recently seen that on the tenure as well. do you see that turning around? jub: that's the world we are in a global fixed income at the moment. it looks attractive on a global basis.

mislabel a dog for a cat it with the just the burma and there's a tiny bit and then after seeing probably a 1000000 off examples the system food norm to differentiate between cats and dogs as well as people do. when is my next making the next thing on your calendar is today at 1 pm it's called context. he leads a team developing a next gen voice command assistant a project very much in keeping with the ambitions of big companies. thanks to progress made with image and voice recognition the assistant can answer any questions a user could ask who printed this. we saw it was created by leonardo da vinci. translate this this might be right check out the translation. how many calories as it hath. 95 calories in one medium apple. this virtual assistant slips into the heart of your home as a smart speaker. descent gets better the more you use it it both learns from the interactions more personalized to words my needs but also i can teach things to the assistant for example i can just say ok google my favorite team is barcelona. ok i'll remember that you said my favorite team is barcelona and now

trump administration extended the travel ban to include six more countries, those added to thelit are burmaa, tans an tanzania and s. the move comes after almost a year-long review by the department of homeland security which says those countries failed to meet u.s. security and information sharing standards. the new restrictions will only apply to some categories of immigration visas. and finally, federal a agencies cracked down on those trying to cash in on the super bowl. they say an estimated $123 million in counterfeit merchandise was seized in miami in the days leading up to the big game. items include jewelry, hats, phones, fake jerseys and thousands of other items. of ills say they were taken from flea markets, retail markets and street venders. lauren: let's take a look at your money this morning after a major selloff friday that took the dow and s&p 500 down for 2020. some relief this morning, dow futures higher by 97, nasdaq up 43, s&p up by 14. as we get set to kick off the iowa caucus, what's the best scenario for investors? tracee: as the number of confirmed cases in the unite

should we do something more like the war refugee board for places like syria or burma? >> let me ask one more. how did the war refugee board deal with the populists as a -- the populists as a whole? did they try to keep what they were doing quiet? did they try to fly under the radar of population resistance to refugees? dr. erbelding: the question was, was the board secret at the time? some of it was. they offered -- their offer to take hungarian jews certainly was. much of it public -- you can't really bring in refugees to the u.s. without getting involved. -- without life magazine getting involved. ransom negotiations, those are secret, of course. they are very aware that when they do something public they need public support. before roosevelt announces the refugee camp at fort ontario, the board goes through about a month of rough again the getting -- a month of propaganda and getting sympathetic journalists to write columns or make radio speeches. there is one with an announcer giving a letter to john paley. john paley, you are such a great war refugee board directo

president trump signed an order on friday to impose restrictions on travelers from nigeria, burma, kyrgyzstan eritrea. citizens from sudan and tanzania are banned from the diversity visa lottery. they can still apply for other visas. this now brings the total number of countries on the restricted travel list to 13. restrictions are set to take effect on february 22nd. >>> well, a woman is under arrest after a security breach in mar-a-lago just hours after the president was set to arrive. police say 30-year-old hannah roemhild drove a black suv through two of mar-a-lago's security checkpoints. secret service and sheriff's deputies opened fire hitting that vehicle, but she sped off. police later found her bullet riddled suv at this west palm beach motel tackling her as she attempted to flee. fortunately no one was hurt. >>> okay, we want to turn to another big and developing story this morning, the latest in the coronavirus outbreak. the u.s. government has declared a public health emergency as a new case is confirmed and the president restricts entry of foreign nationals and american citizens

this could make the united states one of only a few countries, including burma, syria, and north korea, that would continue to use landmines despite an international treaty banning their use. human rights groups are condemning the mexican government for its crackdown against central l americans who travel through mexico en route to seek asylum in the united states. mexico has deported over 2000 central americans over the last two weeks and has temporarily suspended all ngo's and faith organizations from accessing detention centers. this is tania reneaum of amnesty international. >> we are talking about the signals that are given that give clear indicators of a micra policy that does not respect human rights, which also goes with the zune of the policy of this event trump's ideology. -- xenophobia policy trump's ideology. amy: this comes as the trump administration says it will expand the "remain in mexico" policy to brazilian asylum seekers, who will now be forced to await their u.s. court dates in mexico. 60,000 asylum seekers have already been subjected to the "remain in mexico" poli

supposed to sit down themselves with the taliban let's discuss this on the other issues here at munich in burma from the racial group joins me on afghanistan in present ghani in a very difficult place well sure i mean in part because the unite america and people are truly done with being the global policeman we see in syria we see it in iraq we see it in afghanistan and president trump has tried very hard to put an end to this war he wants deals and those aren't wars those are you know sort of the ability to show the american people he can move on whether it's china whether it's iran whether it's north korea whether it's afghanistan and you know it failed on the $911.00 anniversary coming commemoration this last year this time around he's got a pretty significant push as you say the u.s. giving up its glow. policeman role is giving up and i think it's the big question of this conference it's global leadership role and he's china taking the place china is not becoming of the world's leader at something not being the world's policeman it's a regional military power but but the west listening this

the united states commander in burma and india inspects the city. over it lies the chinese flag. ♪ ♪ announcer: 75 years ago in early 1945, the u.s. marines invaded the pacific island of iwo jima and fought japanese forces in one of the bloodiest battles of world war ii. next, hershel "woody" williams recounts his experience as a marine in the pacific, including iwo jima. his actions earned him the medal of honor. the national world war ii museum conducted this interview in 2006. woody: i was born and raised in the country. at the time i was growing up, my father was in the dairy business, so we were farm people and we lived in a farm community. there were 11 kids born to our family. some of them back in the teens, when the flu hit, 1918 flu epidemic came along, we lost most of them. about five of us survived. i wasn't born yet. i wasn't born until 1923. the flu epidemic ended in 1919. but we had no military influence in our community at all. there were no bases. people went into the army at that time and we didn't know there was any other branch of

and now adding a few new countries, kazakhstan, burma, nigeria, tanzania. take us through sort of the general thought process hyped those countries and do you feel as though you all are on stable enough legal ground that we're not going to have the same problems in roll out of travel bohn 1.0? >> remember how that ended up? it ended up in hawaii v trump and the chief justice writing the opinion for the supreme court said the president could hardly be on stronger legal footing. he has natural article two authority and congress passed the law that he's using. we're on strong ground and all of these are targeted additions to what you call the travel ban, i use nigeria as an example. the president of nigeria used a blue ribbon, he didn't call it that to fix the problems that led to the security concerns that got them on that list in the fairs pla-- first place and he's committed to getting off the list and that's exactly what we want. we want the cooperative security with the other countries. leland: thank you for coming in and the beautiful blue ridge mountain

in other words, we have heavy traffic coming in from malaysia, thailand, burma, the surrounding area,ike a place like macau that is solely dependent on tourism, china, we are in an area where we have 200 million plus in southeast asia, flights coming in from india -- indonesia. even close to 100%. 60% of our vip business comes from southeast asia. and i do anticipate we are still going to have some of the macau junkets coming our way simply because of the slowdown in macau. but having said that, no one knows. extent how long or the that this virus might last, but we are less impacted, is what i am saying, and i anticipate that , you know, during this period, we will continue to operate, closely monitor, but we are also very well-positioned because of our southeast asia location. we are in the center of the gaming universe. we have got southeast asia, and obviously, when this recovery occurs and more chinese travel -- we are a low-cost destination. i mentioned right now that this millionr, we have 6.4 visitors to cambodia. four chinese. out of that, one .3 million were chinese business

limiting global persecution taking place under the blasphemy laws and --ological against the rohingya in burma. , vladimir putin is injecting poison into social media and helping to activate the most dangerous and unstable elements of our society, crating a wave of white supremacist care against black churches, hispanics shopping at walmart, and anybody deemed to be an outsider. get a hold on rising white supremacist violence and gun violence. we must continue to pressure the federal government, as we have been doing, and create a plan to battle white supremacy and domestic terrorism. safirwe can focus on mr. west dear, that 82 years old, he became the only holocaust survivor known ever to skilled mount kilimanjaro. the feet he accomplished by keeping the words in mind of his father that he spoke to him, never give up. but you back to you. honored you and we are to have you. congratulations on your recent achievement. we look forward to your testimony. we are also fortunate to have , he is former director of community security for the jewish federation and writer pittsburgh. resident --ank rep

apostasy laws including the internment of millions of muslims in the genocide against the row hinda in burma. the last decade of dirty work with vladimir putin injecting racial poison into the social most has activated the white supremacist violence and terror against lecture just, synagogues, jews, hispanics, and anyone deemed to be an outsider. thee got to get a hold on white supremacist violence. we must pressure the federal government to devise a strategic plan to combat white supremacy and mystic terror. today, we can focus on mr. should fear. ir.shaf he was the only survivor known to scale mount kilimanjaro. a feet he accomplished -- a feat by keeping in mind what his father told him which was never give up. we are honored by mr. shapiro's presence. we are honored to have you. congratulations on your achievement. we look forward to your testimony. we are fortunate to have brad orsini. the national security advisor for the secure community network and the former director of community security for the jewish federation of greater pittsburgh i want to thank representative doyle for puttin

including the internment of millions of muslim leaders and the genocide against the road and get in burmahere at home, the last decade of dirty work by cambridge analytic and vladimir putin injecting racial and religious poison into the social media has helped to propagandize and activate the most dangerous and unstable elements of our society creating a wave white supremacist violence and terror against synagogues, churches t, jews in their homes, systemic walmart and anyone the outsider. we got to get a hold on the convergence of rising white supremacist violence and off the charts gun violence. we must continue to pressure the federal government as we been doing in this committee to devise a strategic plan to combat the rise of violent white supremacy and domestic terror here in the united states. today we can focus on mister shafir whose resilience is a lesson to all americans in these dark times. last year at 82, remarkably he became the only holocaust survivor known ever to scale mount kilimanjaro, a feat accomplished by keeping in mind the words his father spoke to him in the holoc

these brave men and approximately 3,000 others were delide to northern burma to tight behind enemy lines. only nine of these volunteers are still alibe today and deserve to be honored for their bravery, sack cry ties and love of country. pennsylvania had more volunteers than any other state and one other russell handler from pittsburgh is still with us today. i'm proud to co-sponsor h.r. 906 introduced by representative pete king of new york. i would like to encourage my colleagues to support this bipartisan legislation and honor the legacy. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: are there any further requests for one-minute speeches? the chair announces the speaker's appointment pursuant 4303 of the following member on the part of the house to the board of gallaudet university. the clerk: mr. bucshon of indiana. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced toll si of january 3, 2019, the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority read -- leader. mr. gohmert: under the new rules , since rules ss have b