the new c.r.-v. is barely any bigger than its predecessor it's only fifteen millimeters longer even so it's wheel base is four centimeters longer and the ground clearance is now thirty eight millimeters greater. looking inside the navigation system isn't exactly state of the art but the s.u.v. offers plenty of space especially in the trunk. the honda is a very comfortable cruiser that's thanks not only to the well matched drive train and steering the noise and so asian also promises relaxed driving over longer distances. i listen i would be money well feels all in all the c.r.-v. hybrid is a success that's especially thanks to the hybrid drive system which appears very reliable in our test and delivered average fuel consumption of just over six liters per one hundred kilometers pretty good for a car of this size. the reason is actually quite simple a hybrid vehicle consumes less fuel because it can cover many routes purely electrically or with electrical assistance less fuel means fewer emissions so

however by including the already failed c.r. in the rule, puts partisan politics above bipartisanship. i cannot support this poison bill package, especially after all we have heard from our democrat colleagues about letting the legislative process work. members from the southeast to california to hawaii to all the communities in between represent districts with agriculture and rural constituencies that have suffered devastating losses in their livelihoods. from cotton to vegetables to livestock to losses in my home state of alabama, as well as georgia, florida, north carolina, and including south carolina means lost income now nd lost income for the future. unfortunately constituents are being used politically as human shields. everyone in democrat leadership knows the president p will veto this c.r. and it's unfortunate to house this in the rule our farmers put food on the table, clothes on the back, they put in countless hours of labor and take risks. putting the c.r. in this bill is making it 100% veto bait. madam chair, i en

both of them would vote for a clean c.r. that have already passed in the senate by a voice vote back before this whole thing got started. the problem is that's not enough. it will take more pressure on that on mitch mcconnell to break with the president, the democrats appear to believe that's not going to cut it. they need to see more rank and republicans starting to say this is not worth it. you start to look at other places where there are large percentage of national workers and parks, places that may feel this sooner. voters expect to make sure trains run on time and if this shutdown is to feel for pain and stops are happening. right now mitch mcconnell has the key figure here but right now he's not budging. >> the idea that democrats don't want a concrete wall, they want steel flats. democrats want nothing of this kind at the southern border. they're willing to give him a lot of money for border security but they're not willing to give that money to any physical barrier. what's the game that the president is playing? >>

the only new priorities in the c.r. authorize the department to provide back pay to reimbursed personnel and state or other federal grantees consistent with prior president following a lapse in appropriations. mr. speaker, there are only two approaches to take. either we reopen the department and the rest of the federal government without conditions, or we continue to use federal workers and everyone who depends on them as bargaining chips in funding negotiations. it seems to me the choice is straightforward. i hope my friends on the other side of the aisle will reconsider the necessity of opening up the government and paying federal employees without any preconditions. there have been a number of funding lapses over the last few decades, all ill-considered, all harmful to our country, our economy, and our federal workforce. history has shown that the american people do not approve of using the federal government and workforce as pawns in a legislative chess game. the side that has tried to use in shutdown to leverage n

i'm a little disappointed that a short-term c.r. for a few weeks to re-open government and people get their paychecks is controversial. we should be able to work out our differences and come to some sort of accommodation to wherever we can, without having to hold farmers hostage and federal workers hostage and department of interior hostage. so i just don't think it should be controversial and we should want the government re-opened and talking about a three-week extension. t in any event, we are where we are and i'm thrilled that representatives lowey and representative granger and i think -- we are not in this mess because of the appropriations committee. you guys did your work. maybe we have three weeks we could come together on these spending bills so the house priorities could be represented. but i'm happy that you are here and anything you bought in writing will be entered into the record without objection and i recognize mrs. lowey. mrs. lowey: thank you very much, mr. chairman. i do want to tell my good friend, mr. hastings,

craig kaplan tweeting that the senate has passed the three-week c.r. to fund the government, reopening it through february 15 by voice vote. it goes to the house now. one more thing they announced the majority appointing conferees on border security. republicans appropriations chair senator shelby from alabama. senator capito from west virginia. north dakota senator hoeven. senator blunt as well. the democrats on that conference committee will be the appropriations ranking member senator leahy of vermont, minority whip dick durbin, and jon tester of montana. the u.s. house is gaveling in sometime this evening take up the measure that's now been passed by the senate. of course we'll have live coverage here on c-span. next up, we'll show you the news conference shortly after the senate came into session with the democratic leaders from the house and senate reacting from the -- to the president's announcement. mr. schumer: well, good afternoon. first, i am proud that this is the first time this year that leader pelosi is appearing as speaker pelosi in thi

how it will work, a three-week c.r. should be cleared by this evening. the house will consider the motion to go to conference. the senate will follow suit. if no deal is reached, the president likely to sign an emergency declaration. next call is from fair hope, alabama, republican line. husband is active duty coast guard so we have been going on a month with no paycheck and deployed in the middle east. it has been a huge relief we have something in the works and i'm sure other coast guard members are feeling the same right now. it's positive. we are a little nervous for three weeks, but a positive move in the right direction and gets our families paid and our bills paid. host: have you ever had to go a stretch like this where you hadn't received a paycheck? caller: no, this is the first time in history this branch of the military. it was a shock for us because we expected something to be done before then. and thinking about this going on is paying a lot of stress on our families and service members. we are still working and still protecting and serving

however by including the already failed c.r. in the rule, puts partisan politics above bipartisanship. i cannot support this poison bill package, especially after all we have heard from our democrat colleagues about letting the legislative process work. members from the southeast to california to hawaii to all the communities in between represent districts with agriculture and rural constituencies that have suffered devastating losses in their livelihoods. from cotton to vegetables to livestock to losses in my home state of alabama, as well as georgia, florida, north carolina, and including south carolina means lost income now nd lost income for the future. unfortunately constituents are being used politically as human shields. everyone in democrat leadership knows the president p will veto this c.r. and it's unfortunate to house this in the rule our farmers put food on the table, clothes on the back, they put in countless hours of labor and take risks. putting the c.r. in this bill is making it 100% veto bait. madam chair, i en

the only new priorities in the c.r. authorize the department to provide back pay to reimbursed personnel and state or other federal grantees consistent with prior president following a lapse in appropriations. mr. speaker, there are only two approaches to take. either we reopen the department and the rest of the federal government without conditions, or we continue to use federal workers and everyone who depends on them as bargaining chips in funding negotiations. it seems to me the choice is straightforward. i hope my friends on the other side of the aisle will reconsider the necessity of opening up the government and paying federal employees without any preconditions. there have been a number of funding lapses over the last few decades, all ill-considered, all harmful to our country, our economy, and our federal workforce. history has shown that the american people do not approve of using the federal government and workforce as pawns in a legislative chess game. the side that has tried to use in shutdown to leverage n

the c.r. passed unanimously through the house -- through the senate last year, and four of the six bills came to the floor and passed the senate 92-6. the vast majority of democrats and republicans being for them. so these are not democratic bills. they were crafted in a bipartisan way by a republican-controlled senate appropriations committee and a republican-controlled senate. now, if these bills passed, they'd allow us to continue discussions on border security without leaving large portions of the government shut down. now, we obviously disagree about the best way to secure the border. we believe the wall is wrong on many counts. the wall is ineffective. most experts agree with that. the wall is expensive. the wall was promised -- the wall, when promised by president trump -- he says it is a campaign pledge he must keep. that was not his campaign pledge. his campaign pledge was to i would about the wall and -- his complain pledge was to build the wall and have mexico pay for it. the presid

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that the house will reconvene shortly to vote on a three-week c.r. to reopen the government through february 15 and go to conference with the senate to negotiate the homeland security and -- department and border security spending. that's already been done by the senate. next up is the house. it will liely -- likely be voice voted in the house and the next step forward after that would be signature of the president at the white house. let's hear from roy, next up. north carolina. you're on the air. go ahead. mute your television. o ahead with your comment. caller: hello. host: you're on the air, roy, go ahead. just mute your television and say you what want to say. i think we may have lost him. he'll go to rafael, california, independent line. caller: hi. i just wanted to talk about the border wall and why i think it's immoral. i just think that the only reason they want a wall is because they don't want people of latin descent to come over. if they really were worried about illegal immigrants, they would worry about visa overstays or fraud or if the

said look, there is a debt ceiling, c.r. and worried about the wall. you had two years to make this happen and repeatedly, you chose not to in favor of other things and only now you are putting up this fight. >> i disagree with the premise. we did put up a fight. look what we put up. unfortunately, in this house, the rules and the senate are different. it takes 60 votes. it wasn't us denying them but the democrats on the senate side. they said no. it's the same action that is taken today, when leader schumer decided to shut the government down after we passed a bill to pass the house, that's the challenge. when you look today, jobless claims, 49-year low. we made sure a tax bill went through. not one democrat voted for that. they said it would be armageddon. it's armageddon because we are at a 40-year low in jobless claims. 800,000 federal workers are not being paid and telling members to go home. that's a problem. >> do you think the country is less safe now when it comes to air travel or other services that are not being provided. should the american

hastings: the short-term c.r. for the d.h.s. would allow the men and women employed by this agency to return to work while we continue the very serious discussion about how to effectively address worder -- border security. considered together these two bills will fully open the government. i hope my friends on the other side of the aisle will join with us to end the trump administration's needless shutdown so we can finally get hundreds of thousands of federal employees back to work. i might add a the residual damage that's done not just with those federal employees, is considerable and needs to be considered by all of us as we cast our vote. if judged on its merits, the mini bus would get veto proof votes in both chambers and we could then end this shutdown regardless of the latest whims of the president, and that's what we should do. i'm now very privileged to turn to my very good friend, our ranking member, mr. cole, distinguished gentleman from oklahoma, for any remarks he would like to make. mr. cole: thank you very much, m

i know my friends on the other side of the aisle have criticized the consideration of clean c.r.'s on the basis that the senate will not pass them and the president will not sign them. mr. speaker, to my friends on the other side of the aisle, i -- say y, change that that change is to reopen the department -- i'm sorry. to my friends on the other side of the aisle, i would say that in order to change that, it is to open the department of homeland security by having every member of the minority party support this c.r. this possibly could help change the thinking of the senate majority when it votes on reopening the entire government later today and perhaps even change the thinking of the president. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves her time. the chair now recognizes the distinguished gentleman from tennessee, mr. fleischmann. mr. fleischmann: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today in very strong opposition to the joint resolution. before i do that, i wish to thank our full ranking member, ms. granger from texas, my dear f

barricaded herself in a hotel room at the airport she is saying that she will only talk to us eight c.r. and we continue to press the thai government to allow u.n. h.c.r. to have access to her and and to offer her the kind of protection that she needs because if she sent back we have very very serious fears that she would suffer great and let's cross now to do w.'s florian as she was covering the story for us from bangkok so we just heard it there florian human rights watch saying that she is in danger if she is returned home why. well basically because saudi arabia does not like women to be independent to be to lead a live as a modern woman to just go out by herself there is this principle of guardianship so a woman and woman in saudi arabia always has to have a male person either her brother or father with her before she basically can do anything even going to the hospital and this woman she has tweeted that in the past she had been locked up for six months and how groom just because she decided to cut her hair short so that was basically enough for getting house arrest from her famil

. >> yeah, but you were talking about a clean c.r., were you not? >> we didn't whip one that -- no, the senate passed one like that, but not the house. the house passed their version over the senate that had $5.6 billion in it for border security. the senate did not pass that. so now we've got to find a compromise. the problem with what speaker pelosi is doing is she is prolonging this shutdown. what needs to happen, the president is correct, in 45 minutes we can get this done. i have been in every single meeting. never once have i heard the democrats make any offer of any direction. that's the holdup. what she's doing this week is political theater. it's going nowhere in the senate. it's prolonging the shutdown. i think now's the time to make sure we take this serious, come together and find a place that we have common ground. >> given congressman king's recent comments on white supremacy, should he resign? >> i think that's up to steve king. the voters have elected him. the house republicans denounce his language. we do not believe in his language

barricaded herself in a hotel room at the airport she is saying that she will only talk to you in eight c.r. and we continue to press the thai government to allow un h.c.r. to have access to her and and to offer her the kind of protection that she needs because if she sent back we have very very serious fears that she would suffer great harm ok you've been talking to the government to make sure iraq gets the protection that she needs she wants to seek asylum in australia as she says she has a visa to go there why then is the thai government not letting her simply move on well that's an excellent question what happened was when she arrived from kuwait in thailand she was met at the. at the gangway of the first of the plane coming off the plane at by a thai official from the saudi embassy who see sir passport and since then that passport has been kept from her you know and they're now saying that they're going to send her back to kuwait they say that she applied for and failed to get a visa on arrival in thailand but in fact she didn't want to go to thailand she was a good plane to go to aust

departments opened you negotiate -- there aren't the votes in a senate for a c.r. certainly on the 0 threshold. how do you see getting around that? i understand your position. but that's the reality of the, mathematical reality of the senate, how do you seem to get over that total to get to that point? mr. jefferies: it's a good thing that mitch mcconnell has finally exited the witness protection program and has decided to show up and hopefully move the senate forward at least having a a meaningful debate and discussion which will take place tomorrow. it's my understanding, based on conversation that is have been had at the highest level between house democrats and senate democrats, that there is a chance that a bipartisan agreement could be reached with respect to a continuing resolution related to the department of homeland security. we have indicated we're willing to agree upon a date certain, our suggestion has been february 28, where we reopen the department of homeland security, continue current funding levels, but allow for a real, robust negotiation to take

hoyer: these c.r.'s carry orward the spending in 2018. the c.r.s you voted against. they have $1.3 billion or $1.6 billion in them. you voted no. would the gentleman tell me why you didn't bring a bill to the floor for 11 months and 20 days that would have done what you say is such an important work to be done? can you tell me why you waited 11 months and 20 days to the floor? mr. scalise: i think the gentleman knows one of thedy lem -- dilemmas we have been facing is the senate has a 60 vote requirement. they have had that 60 vote requirement back when were you in the majority last time, when we were in the majority they had that 60-majority vote as well . when we were negotiating all those bills. all the bills that fund our government, we were able to get an agreement on 75% of government funding. we had that negotiation with the senate. we can't just negotiate with ourselves. as you you see, can you pass bills in the house and they go nowhere in the senate. we brought a bill in december, by the way the gentleman from maryland said we didn't have the votes, that's

next bill says you will sign a c.r. president bush: i want to see the system disciplined. if what bob dole said is correct, i will sign one. but discipline on the system. if it does not discipline the system, i stay with my current position. i'm glad you brought that up because it would strongly support that. president, the leadership made a strong point that it is average americans who will be hurt, federal workers, hurt by this. president bush: the average american is smart. the average american knows what is going on, i think. and i think they know that congress has continued to kick this can down the road and they've got to act. i am very sorry for people inconvenienced or hurt by this. device one the only has for making something happen. and that is to get the congress to act, to do its business. >> mr. president, you seem to be blaming congress. in fact, a lot of constituents to vote against this because they say the burden is unfairly divided with the poor and middle class paying too much. this program you proposed with leadership was not acceptable to the american

and then we came to the december date to which that c.r. ran and lo and behold the majority leader of the united states senate sent us over a bill. not our bill. it was a bill from the republican majority leader. it came here under unanimous consent. republican-led senate sent it here. and lo and behold the senate leadership and the house would not take that bill up. -- why? the president, who had told senator mcconnell he would sign it changed his mind -- sign it, changed his mind. i don't know whether it was ann coulter, sean handity, rush limbaugh, i don't know who the principal adviser in that decision was. but one person communicated, i won't sign that bill, and so the republican leadership decided, we won't put that billen the floor and they put a -- bill on the floor and they put a bill on the floor they said over and over again, this week we put bills on the floor that wouldn't pass the senate. they put a bill that they knew would not pass the united states senate on the floor, sent it over there, it didn't pass. and government has

my sense is he'll sign the c.r. to get the government open again but we might be right back in the same place again in three weeks. >> he can't quit the wall so says jim acosta. jim, thank you. >>> it is this upside down world. how do all these federal workers get right side up? we've been pointing out this is a deal he could have had 35 days ago. you could have copy and pasted this speech and gave it back on december 22nd. >> precisely. this is everything the democrats asked for and some republicans. we also have to remember, this is actually everything that all the republicans and democrats and president trump agreed to before christmas, before he completely reversed course. that's what this is. extending funding for a limited period of time so that the debate over border security in the long run could be dealt with. that's actually what mike pence went and agreed with mitch mcconnell was the deal and so it begs the question, how is this not all for naught? the entire 35-day period was completely for naught. it is

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hoyer: these c.r.'s carry orward the spending in 2018. the c.r.s you voted against. they have $1.3 billion or $1.6 billion in them. you voted no. would the gentleman tell me why you didn't bring a bill to the floor for 11 months and 20 days that would have done what you say is such an important work to be done? can you tell me why you waited 11 months and 20 days to the floor? mr. scalise: i think the gentleman knows one of thedy lem -- dilemmas we have been facing is the senate has a 60 vote requirement. they have had that 60 vote requirement back when were you in the majority last time, when we were in the majority they had that 60-majority vote as well . when we were negotiating all those bills. all the bills that fund our government, we were able to get an agreement on 75% of government funding. we had that negotiation with the senate. we can't just negotiate with ourselves. as you you see, can you pass bills in the house and they go nowhere in the senate. we brought a bill in december, by the way the gentleman from maryland said we didn't have the votes, that's

i would like to point out that the c.r. that will be voted on today does have border security funding, over $1 billion in new funding for border security. i know that the republicans said they want to reopen government and security our borders. i also know that my party has said the same. let's do it. i urge my colleagues to support the rule. support the c.r. today. let's reopen government. let's put people back to work. let them work. they are public servants, they want to serve the people. let's start securing our border w that extra billion dollars we can can move on to a moreau bust debate of our border security i look forward to. thank you very much, madam speaker. i yield the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from pennsylvania reserves. the gentlewoman from as a as is recognized. mrs. lesko: thank you, madam speaker. i yield five minutes to my good friend, the representative from arizona, mr. biggs. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. biggs: thank you, madam speaker. i thank the gent

the one who's the host of i remain between the ponderosa also based on the c.r. and also based on the structure of the security i mean. common sense i understand but it doesn't mean much when sad in words also pledges don't mean much in the long term when the russians have learned their lesson with nato so what concrete guarantees can japan provide to moscow to rule out the u.s. president's own carole's out of good this is exactly the point the president promised and they're. going to be discussed i'm saw i'm sure that they will find something especially for money on the basis of research the rest on site buying trustworthy you see we talk money you know no up front of the peace treaty that used to be sort of the greatest on the mutual confidence mutual trust if trust me look emerged through just. three feet i think it is very difficult to foresee. we'll see a bit of confusion of a peace treaty and precisely this you soon will enter into the school of the trust we know you're going to create between the two countries. so i remember the last time when japan offere

had the senate going a lot with a clean c.r. and to move this into february. they left town andhe president decided to not follow through, the housean republ- so mitch mcconnell does not want to get burn and embarrassed twice. he sitting down saying we need to figure this out. he'll stand up for the president. he's watching this to see which way he needs to go. >> think about how unusual that is. mitch mcconnell cherishes hisim e of being three chess moves ahead of everyone else and the ultimate deal-maker. and help said point-blank, i n't have a role to play here. he's basically washing his hands here. this is t president's fight. you know, mitch mcconnell didn'n o go to the mat over border funding. this is not his fight. robert: i'm trying to understand , dan, on one side the president threatening a national emergency and sending troops to the border and have the army corps of engineers to dig and build a wall. and then we have aredent who said we could have steal instead of concrete. >> see-through steal. robert: which trumps the real trump? >> i don't thin

reason the senate should not pass the package given that they wrote the six full-year bills and passed a c.r. through february. i urge you to vote yes and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: all time for debate has ex-pied. bill under consideration. today is the beginning of the 116th congress. the first and most basic responsibility this house has is to re-open our depoft to serve the needs of the american people. call has st object ta been disagreements of how to spend homeland security dollars. this is why in the best interests of the country it makes sense to pass the and to g six billings re-open the duste through a short-term continuing resolution. the resolution before us would do just that. it would re-open the department of homeland security through february 8 of this year. this would give us time to negotiate a d.-h s. funding bill yearhe rest of the current and meeting the needs of children and border custody. he ability to reach a full funneleding bill will not be possible if the president is unwilling to change his focus om a campaign promise that address

the protection of human rights is more important than diplomatic relations or any trade deal with any c.r. . or a place in this time when. we were involved in those conversations as. antenna the plan to bring able to. say to my friend you see i'm pretty blessed here and offering two percent in the sling. here it was the snow stage from a hotel room in thailand that. couldn't century the power of social media confirmed and an example perhaps for others seeking their freedom. mike hanna al-jazeera toronto. from ottawa stephen chase national correspondent for the globe and mail your time very much so why did. government make this move. well it's smart politics and from the canadian standpoint it's the right thing to do many kony this government has made a great deal of how it has a feminist foreign policy and it's for reelection in under a year and so it has been looking for opportunities to demonstrate its feminist foreign policy in action i mean while it's been criticized quite heavily for not canceling a major erms deal in saudi arabia and so this is an opportunity to show once again and

a relative calm has been restored to the north eastern brazilian state of c.r. after troops were sent in deployment was a response to a rise in violent crime has this report. this is what the government promised tough on crime tough on the criminals a military presence on the streets and the freedom to shoot first and ask questions later but is in jail. has sent five hundred state troops to say era with the option of more to follow. the move comes after drug gangs operating from within prisons or did several days of violence on the streets outside his burned bridges and state buildings attacked and shopkeepers forced to close. that was the first time we were forced to close usually work with the daily risk of being robbed and now we need to worry about this too. the cartel bosses were reacting to efforts to curtail their powers including the use of mobile phones in their jail cells twenty one have been moved to other prisons more than two hundred protesters arrested in. previous government put the gang members in different prisons if not they killed each other h

for two reasons there may there is a rather more pressing issue for her now that is that she's got to c.r. and not the leadership challenge but now this time it's the lead out of the opposition party labor jeremy corbyn immediately after terri's made a last attempt he said that she tabled a motion of no. for tense in the prime minister so for the entire day they're going to be debating whether they've got confidence in to reason with his leadership and at the end of the day it will be put to a vote now it looks as though it's reason they will be able to see off this leadership challenge of course many of us will remember that she managed to see off the leadership challenge from within her own party just at the end of last year so it's expected that all her road conservative politicians will support her otherwise they'll risk a labor government which is something that despite all their disagreements they can all agree that they don't want and also the democratic unionist party of northern ireland which supports to reason may they have a confidence and supply agreement in parliament they ha

i ask you to consider a c.r. which would fund our government through a short-term solution and tell you and your bipartisar bipartisan colleagues can fix a long-term problem. my family and i are out of funding now. i ask that you publicly announce what you will do and help lead the bipartisan change to help virginians. a family from loudoun county, one a 20-year government employee. i'm scared not knowing when i am get paid. our two young children should be signing up for spring sports this week, but we're cutting out optional spending. we're eating out of the food pantry instead of going to the grocery store. real people are hurting, working and not being paid. it's 800,000, but the broader fear and economic impact is tremendous. opal from hampton, my name is opal and my husband kenny is an inspector with the f.d.a. as you know, he has been unable to go to work for the past few weeks. i'm writing to you to keep our story and our situation at the forefront of your agenda. please continue to push for our congressi

side of the protest is on the police then responding she that you might be able to see a row over the c.r. as the gendarme coming there and that looks like they're trying to put out the fire that was created by the protesters i think that's water cannon yes i can confirm that water cannons have now been brought in to try and deal with this situation you can see more security forces there as these pellets which were literally in the part of the moment being chucked to wards the police now this comes as france is in the middle of a national debate just behind this that they've smashed. the bus that's all going down really is coming into quite k.s.c. as i said in the middle of a national debate here in france and that itself has been angry people look at that the water cannon trying to push that to. three barricades that the protesters have put up pushing it away you see it can get closer into this crowd these rule that the protesters are throwing are actually coming incredibly close to us we're going to just try and get some cover behind a tree here at the moment we do have our safety gear

c.r. protection for expressing a very basic human rights while her country is a u.n. men that she's an example of many saudi women and the window into the pricing environment that saudi women are living tell us more about that yes exactly right i mean this is the fruit of dictatorship in the gulf. and the fruit very impressive laws against women and girls you know that any guest says that he's going to modernize the country he has given some provisional. rights to saudi women to drive which many people mean you out of but that is such an elemental basic right that is still far ahead of other arrangement if you want to go to another country in your study would you to get rid of your father rather grand father in some cases receive the sounds your son we women are basically permanent legal minors. can if we are off who is executive director of human rights watch a jumping off the back of this story. another person his name is kim al arabiya and he's a bahraini soccer star and he's a dissident in the hazing thai detention even though he has refugee status in australia wh