the cancellation of overseas votes and those of displaced people in some provinces it's the election commission as well charles stratford reports from baghdad. allegations of voter fraud have been mounting since the may the twelfth parliamentary elections but no one expected this iraq's parliament voted for a total manual recount of all ballots across the country and to cancel results gannett's through the electronic voting system that was used in the poll there if it is for the political stability of the country if the recount is vastly different to the original result. of iraq i believe we are about to witness much changing dynamics and variables and could also be dangerous some political blocs might agitate the iraqi street and the country weapons are not restricted to the government alone there are proofs of frauds according to reports. the warnings have been clear from prime minister hydrilla body in his weekly news conference on tuesday he banned all high ranking members of the election commission from traveling abroad he said a ministerial committee had found what he called dangerous vio

hydrilla body in his weekly news conference on tuesday he banned all high ranking members of the election commission from traveling abroad he said a ministerial committee had found what he called dangerous violations jurong the election yet it did criminal charges might be brought against those responsible on wednesday parliament voted to freeze the work of senior election commission members nine judges will be delegated to oversee the manual recount instead. prime minister hyderabadi has blamed the electronic voting system for this crisis he says that it proves that the system was not properly tested before the vote now it's believed a manual recount across this country could take at least two weeks and that means the process of forming a new coalition government will be delayed child strafford al jazeera baghdad. farm and the farm is a lecturer in politics and international studies that the university of cambridge she says the recount is a good first step. there was a great deal of concern about the corruption and also the credibility of running this particular election especially as in kirkuk for

cancellation of overseas votes and those of displaced people in some provinces and it's actually election commission tell stop and reports from baghdad. allegations of voter fraud have been mounting since the may the twelfth parliamentary elections but no one expected this iraq's parliament voted for a total manual recount of all ballots across the country and to cancel results gannett's through the electronic voting system that was used in the poll there are fears for the political stability of the country if the recount is vastly different to the original result of them up when i learn to read out of here i believe you are about to witness my changing dynamics and variables it could also be dangerous some political blocks might agitate the iraqi street and the country weapons are not restricted to the government alone there are proofs of frauds according to reports. the warnings have been clear from prime minister hydrilla body in his weekly news conference on tuesday he banned all high ranking members of the election commission from traveling abroad he said a ministerial committee had found what

warned of the election commission have found dangerous violations the president of argentina's football association has apologized for counseling a friendly much with israel saying the players' safety was at stake have been widespread palestinian protests against being held in jerusalem over physical normalise israel's claim to the contest. and new evacuations have been ordered in guatemala where you go continues to spew all over at least seventy five people have been killed and two hundred on missing after sunday's eruption. fighters loyal to renegade libyan general khalifa haftar have reportedly captured the seaports of the eastern city of burna the city is held by isolating but the self-styled libyan national army has besieged it for two years the u.n. says the fighting has reached unprecedented levels and there also via shortages of electricity food water and medical supplies. has more from the libyan capital tripoli. the war in the eastern libyan city of that has become a guerrilla warfare between hefted his forces that his forces loyal to libya's libya's litigate genitally for hav

hydrilla body in his weekly news conference on tuesday he banned all high ranking members of the election commission from traveling abroad he said a ministerial committee had found what he called dangerous violations jurong the election yet it did criminal charges might be brought against those responsible on wednesday parliament voted to freeze the work of senior election commission members nine judges will be delegated to oversee the manual recount instead prime minister hyderabadi has blamed the electronic voting system for this crisis he says that it proves that the system was not properly tested before the vote now it's believed a manual recount across this country could take at least two weeks and that means the process of forming a new coalition government will be delayed child strafford al jazeera baghdad roxana. in a lecture in politics and international studies that the university of cambridge she says the recount is a good first step. there was a great deal of concern about the corruption and also the credibility of running this particular election especially as in kirkuk for example ther

council ation of overseas votes and those of displaced people in some provinces and it's the election commissioncharles stratford reports from baghdad. allegations of voter fraud to be mounting since the may the twelfth parliamentary elections but no one expected this iraq's parliament voted for a manual recount of all ballots. cross the country and to cancel results gannett's through the electronic voting system that was used in the poll there are fears for the political stability of the country if the recount is vastly different to the original result of the new up when i learn to read out of here i believe you are about to witness my changing dynamics and variables it could also be dangerous some political blocks might agitate the iraqi street and the country weapons are not restricted to the government alone there are proofs of frauds according to reports . the warnings have been clear from prime minister hydrilla body in his weekly news conference on tuesday he banned all high ranking members of the election commission from traveling abroad he said a ministerial committee had found what he

he banned all high ranking members of the election commission from traveling abroad he said a ministerialcommittee had found what he called dangerous violations juror in the election yet it did criminal charges might be brought against those responsible on wednesday parliament voted to freeze the work of senior election commission members nine judges will be delegated to oversee the manual recount instead prime minister hyderabadi has blamed the electronic voting system for this crisis he says that it proves that the system was not properly tested before the vote now it's believed a manual recount across this country could take at least two weeks and that means the process of forming a new coalition government will be delayed child strafford out to zero by. rocks on the farm and from a and is a lecturer in politics and international studies at the university of cambridge she says the recount is a good first step there was a great deal of concern about the corruption and also the credibility of running this particular election especially as in kirkuk for example there will be a further ele

cancellation of overseas votes and those of displaced people in some provinces and it sacked the election commission charles strafford has more from baghdad. allegations of voter fraud have been mounting since the may the twelfth parliamentary elections but no one expected this iraq's parliament voted for a total manual recount of all ballots across the country and to cancel results gathered strew the electronic voting system that was used in the poll there are fears for the political stability of the country if the recount is vastly different to the original result and to have them up when i learn to read up here i believe we are about to witness my changing dynamics and variables it could also be dangerous some political blocs might agitate the iraqi street and the country what plans are not restricted to the government alone there are proofs of frauds according to reports . by the warnings have been clear from prime minister hydrilla body in his weekly news conference on tuesday he banned all high ranking members of the election commission from traveling abroad he said a ministerial committee had

hydrilla body in his weekly news conference on tuesday he banned all high ranking members of the election commission from traveling abroad he said a ministerial committee had found what he called dangerous violations jurong the election yet it did criminal charges might be brought against those responsible on wednesday parliament voted to freeze the work of senior election commission members nine judges will be delegated to oversee the manual recount instead. prime minister hyderabadi has blamed the electronic voting system for this crisis he says that it proves that the system was not properly tested before the vote now it's believed the manual recount across this country could take at least two weeks and that means the process of forming a new coalition government will be delayed it out zero by roxanne farm and from iran is a lecturer in politics and international studies at the university of cambridge she says the recounts is a good first step there was a great deal of concern about the corruption and also the credibility of running this particular election especially as in kirkuk for example the

brought against those responsible on wednesday parliament voted to freeze the work of senior election commission members nine judges will be delegated to oversee the manual recount instead prime minister hyderabadi has blamed the electronic voting system for this crisis he says that it proves that the system was not properly tested before the vote now it's believed a manual recount across this country could take at least two weeks and that means the process of forming a new coalition government will be delayed. back that. jordan's incoming prime minister. has pledged to work with all the parties to form a tax so that suits everyone. despite that promise thousands of people rallied near the prime minister's office and i'm on for a seventh straight night as a tax plan hurts the poor and the middle class. so has hair on al-jazeera protest rally against a neighboring countries name. the weather sponsored by cattle. hello it's got much cooler in eastern europe but that's about to end is partly full sunshine but the west is still plagued by slow moving thunderstorms in what is a rather warm and humid

in his weekly news conference on tuesday he banned all high ranking members of the election commissionfrom traveling abroad he said a ministerial committee had found what he called dangerous violations jurong the election yet it did criminal charges might be brought against those responsible on wednesday parliament voted to freeze the work of senior election commission members nine judges will be delegated to oversee the manual recount instead prime minister hyderabadi has blamed the electronic voting system for this crisis he says that it proves that the system was not properly tested before the vote now it's believed a manual recount across this country could take at least two weeks and that means the process of forming a new coalition government will be delayed child struck at al-jazeera baghdad. well just hours after that announcement there were twin bombings in iraq's capital which killed at least ten people in one thousand others were incher injured in a statement iraq's interior ministry said the bombing was a terrorist aggression on civilians it's believed have targeted a mosqu

parliamentary elections last month well the blasts came hours after iraq's parliament sacked its election commission and ordered a manual recount of every vote cast in last month's elections and this a day after prime minister had that are led by the said there had been serious violations parliament also approved the cancellation of overseas votes and those of the splays people in some provinces show. stratford reports now from baghdad. allegations of voter fraud have been mounting since the may the twelfth parliamentary elections but no one expected this iraq's parliament voted for a total manual recount of all ballots across the country and to cancel results gathered strew the electronic voting system that was used in the poll there if it is for the political stability of the country if the recount is vastly different to the original result of the new up when i learnt of it at the theater i believe you are about to witness my changing dynamics and variables it could also be dangerous some political blocks might agitate the iraqi street and the country what plans are not restricted to the governmen

iraq's parliament orders a manual recount of all votes cast in may's election and sacks the commissionbut over soon. barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program uproar in israel as argentina cancels a world cup warm up which had been moved to. rescue operations cautiously resuming guatemala despite more explosions from the volcano and shops closed in jordan's capital as unions press on with a strike over tax hikes despite the prime minister being replaced. thank you for joining us iraq's parliament has sacked its election commission and ordered a manual recount of every vote cast in last month's elections it comes a day after prime minister hi there are these said there had been serious violations parliament also prove the cancellation of overseas votes and those of the placed people in some provinces shall strafford reports now from baghdad. allegations of voter fraud have been mounting since the may the twelfth parliamentary elections but no one expected this iraq's parliament voted for a total manual recount of all across the country and t

minister had to lie about he said there had been serious violations and banned high ranking election commission officials from leaving the country business owners in nicaragua as capital are calling for a national strike to pressure the government to end its violent crackdown on protesters nearly one hundred thirty people have been killed since demonstrations began in april homes are still being evacuated in guatemala as mount flingo volcano continues to erupt at least ninety nine people have been killed and hundreds of gone missing since sunday as a russian. tens of thousands of people have rallied in cities across northern greece they're protesting against a possible compromise in the country's long running main disputes with macedonia johnson ruffle us reports from one of the main demonstrations in pella. to the people of northern greece macedonia and the renault. is their second national anthem the folk song celebrates an identity they cherish as much as greek innocent self it's not just ancient history they're proud of their great grandparents fought to wrest this land from the ottoman emp

well iraq's parliament has sacked its election commission and ordered a manual recount of every vote cast in those elections it comes a day after prime minister had that the said there had been serious violations parliament also proved the cancellation of overseas votes and those of this placed people in some provinces it's all strafford reports from back that. allegations of voter fraud have been mounting since the may the twelfth parliamentary elections but no one expected this iraq's parliament voted for a total manual recount of all across the country and to cancel results gannett's through the electronic voting system that was used in the poll there if it is for the political stability of the country if the recount is vastly different to the original result. of it out of here i believe we are about to witness much changing dynamics and variables it could also be dangerous some political blocs might agitate the iraqi street and the country bumpkins are not restricted to the government alone there are proofs of frauds according to reports. the warnings have been clear from prime mi

hydrilla body in his weekly news conference on tuesday he banned all high ranking members of the election commission from traveling abroad he said a ministerial committee had found what he called dangerous violations juror in the election yet it did criminal charges might be brought against those responsible on wednesday parliament voted to freeze the work of senior election commission members nine judges will be delegated to oversee the manual recount instead. prime minister hyderabadi has blamed the electronic voting system for this crisis he says that it proves that the system was not properly tested before the vote now it's believed the manual recount across this country could take at least two weeks and that means the process of forming a new coalition government will be delayed. by. roxanne farman firm aiyana is a lecturer in politics and international studies at the university of cambridge she says the recount is a good first step there was a great deal of concern about the corruption and also the credibility of running this particular election especially as in kirkuk for example there will b

historically, the federal election commission is -- it's a commission with five people and it is stockedh people from the -- who are political from the various parties and has a majority pf of people supportivf the president's party. it has been known to be a commission that doesn't necessarily bring enforcement actions quickly. that's been true in democratic and republican administrations. the irs i think it depends on whether or not you have independent people who are going to go through the proper process and dot all the is and cross all the ts. from what i can see in reading from this afternoon of the lawsuit, there are credible allegations that tax laws were broken. >> let's turn to the justice department's inspector general report. you have had time to go through it by now. what's your nanalysis of the findings? >> with respect to the report, it's thorough. it's detailed. it's reasoned. it's not histrionic. it was authored by a team of people. it's everything i expect it to be. i expect and have seen on television and on social media people cherry picking pieces they want to emphas

day after prime minister has said there had been serious violations and banned high ranking election commissionofficials from leaving the country the vice president of the argentine football association along with other members of the team have welcomed a move to cancel a friendly match with israel the decision comes off the pressure mounted from pro palestine activists who say israel is sports washing its crimes against palestinians the president of argentina's football association did apologize for canceling that match saying player safety was at stake palestinians who protested against the match being held in jerusalem over fears that will normalize israel's claim to the contested city business owners in the capital are calling for a national strike to pressure the government and its violent crackdown on protesters nearly one hundred thirty people have been killed since demonstrations began in april at apollo has more from the capital. what we're really seeing the biggest impact to the economy here and you could i well is when it comes to the tourism sector because the guy was been working f

his opponents claiming state media and the election commission manipulated the results. let's go to sam kiley. sam, what is the word here? is this a clean election? >> reporter: the results of the election have been developed by the coalition led by the presidential candidate most likely to be able to force a runoff if anybody was against mr. erdogan. that did not come to pass. both sides have accepted election results showing mr. erdogan got close to 53%. his rival around 30%. mr. erdogan also took with the coalition the majority of the seats in turkey's parliament. in fact, the erdogan party coalition and erdogan himself now have emerged from the process stronger than when he went into it. this, of course, following the constitutional changes that was brought in after the referendum last year means power is heavily concentrated in the hands of the turkey president. he can appoint his own cabinet and rule by decree and rule in the way the second chamber, legislation, effectively watered down. he now controls it and his power is going to be much more absolute than it was

more recently in the 2018 congress appropriated $380 million to the us election assistance commission to help states enhance their election infrastructure. as of this week 38 states have requested $250 million of that money and about $150 million has already been disbursed to the states. finally the 2016 elections have spurred many calls for additional laws. i remain open to learning more about where those gaps are and how we approach those gaps in a way that continues to let local officials do their job but be sure that there is maximum confidence in what happens on election day. glad all of you are here and certainly it is a pleasure to get to work together on this and particularly for me to get to work with her and we have had a long history of working together but just this year starting to be the top two individuals on this committee and senator recognize you for your opening statements. >> thank you. this committee jurisdiction is clearly a jurisdiction of federal elections and there has been a lot of committees looking into this issue as part of the vestigation. in the end if w

after winning sunday's presidential poll he thanked his supporters and encourage after the election commission to clear his victory. although. the winner of this election is democracy. really. our nation. the winners of this election every one of the eighty one million citizens. his supporters were overjoyed. just. told. them look that's it we're at the capital of democracy and human rights elections were perfect we've won a victory again so i've heard one is the best president the world can also. not celebrating is the main opposition c.h.p. party but a once main challenger mojave mincha had hoped to force one into a second round runoff and unite the various opposition groups behind him. inches back as i'm now dismayed since there's misinformation and we're devastated we already have no freedom of opinion no civil rights if the systematic changes for the worse with finished we should only for country i but there was some opposition groups celebrating in other parts of turkey in the parliamentary contest the pro kurdish people's democratic party or h d p managed to surpass the ten percent thre

. >> i think this has been covered here expensively by the election commissions office. and covered in my previous testimony. we undertook some scoping work to look at the data, unfortunately, whilst of the work was undertaken, we did not agree on the terms of the contract and as a consequence, the deliverables were not handed over. the invoice was not paid. therefore, the election commission was absolutely satisfied that we did not do any work for leave .eu and that includes . mac you did in. and we talked a [ indiscernible ] and now talking about work for [ indiscernible ]. not leave .eu. i take it this wasn't paid. notwithstanding any transfers that may have been made to uk. do you know what use was made of your work for [ indiscernible ]. >> as i just explained to you, we didn't hand over any work to [ indiscernible ]. >> that wasn't the question? do you know what use was made of the work that you did for [ indiscernible ]. >> no. do you mean by cambridge analytica? >> do know what use was made of the work that you did for [ indiscernible ]. >> i'm afraid i don't und

recommendations in the findings of this ministerial committee that that recommended that the election commission was frozen and that there would be a partial recount in certain areas of the country but it's today this vote in parliament it's fair to say has taken everybody by surprise it's expected that the recount could take at least two to three weeks and of course it jeopardizes the formation of a new coalition government prime minister a body only last week said that if these allegations continued then we could be looking at what he described as a constitutional vacuum here in this country because of course the current parliament session constitutionally is juju and on the thirtieth of june all about he also yesterday his threatened anybody found proven to have been involved in violations during this election could actually face criminal charges but there's no there's there's no two words about it it's come as a great surprise this vote in parliament today and tell us what's going to be actually some of the major players especially the likes not to know a father who is the surprise of victor

commission to take and enforce to stop the election meddling we saw in 2016? >> so, i absolutely agree that the honestha ads act is a good first step and i do support it. .. >> you know, how any of the interventions will address restoring public trust in both our news and journalism efforts, as well as our public internet. so, i'd love to see something to try to address those. >> mr. battelle, i'm out of time so maybe you can help me with that one for the record. i'm going to submit additional questions for the record on especially specific kinds of action, whether you support it or not. >> i'd be happy to. >> mr. chair. >> thank you, senator udall. senator blumenthal. >> mr. soltani, the record before us leaves us no doubt that facebook violated its dissent deagree and -- and the only thing what to be done about it, facebook was supposed to establish a privacy program to obtain audits to ensure that the privacy of consumer information is protected, yet, virtuall none of those tasks, and in fact, in testimony before us sitting exactly where you are, mark zucke

to the election process secondly there are internal rifts among the commissioners within the election commission and then there are concerns among the candidates in regard to fraud in the upcoming election because this time the usual we're going to just ration id cards are not being used but rather the national id cards are marked for the for the voting where a lot of people have this concerns that there are so many fake id cards being used as part of a station process and those could be used for doing as well so so many challenges that are emerging in front of elections but the afghan government is coming to proceed ahead with election because they have elections are already over due by three years and any delay will certainly impact the upcoming presidential election which has to take place in spring of two thousand and nineteen all right good thoughts on that month. plenty more still ahead on the news hour including examine why there's been an increase in migrants and refugees trying to reach spain. and why millions of syrian refugees living in turkey fear for their future as the economy slow

that there are some in the direction that i can see that this victory to miss out on since the election commission also got out of i don't know but as you can have. two of us today on the right says by my own supporters. and that is as. i believe. in the parliament everyone's a.k.p. also has the majority but the procrit ish h.t.t.p. has made a strong comeback they're likely to become the second largest opposition party what does that mean for our two on. one that that is not the fair yes what it means to add on the for the h t p the brokerage leftist h p that's a huge success people who are not sure if they will actually make the ten percent threshold to pass this actually make it into parliament interesting since their presidential candidates. and many of them are in. the failed coup attempt here in turkey so this is going to be interesting how this is going to play out as you have on and across around about some very vocal aired on supporters thank you very much. the leaders of sixteen you countries have stressed their willingness to find a solution to the blocks longstanding migration debate bu

election commission or both are not doing enough to protect our privacy and democracy. during the april facebook hearing with mr. zuckerberg, i asked him to commit to the honest ads act. he assured me that the most effective thing he could do was implement the bills policy on the facebook platform since facebook and permitted his version of political advertising thatparency, we have seen the break things and move fast culture does not work for elections. said thatrk times news articles about politics were being categorized as political advertising. what impact will this change have on the reach of political journalism for the 2018 elections russian mark -- elections? >> we don't know. with much of this technology, it is true that the executives and product -- project managers behind them don't think about scenarios they don't want to happen. they think about what they want to wish to affect. in the case of facebook, that has nothing to do with the impact on society the end engagement with the user or engagement for advertising if you are on the advertising team. i think

unfortunately, the federal election commission and other regulators are no better equipped to detect foreign identity laundering in your selections for while foreign corporations and foreign nationals are prohibited from spending money in elections, our lack of effective disclosure laws would allow for an interest to set up shell companies, hide their identities and engage in illegal political spending. quite simply, vladimir putin can use the exact same tactics that american special interests use to spend money now elections. criminals have long used shell companies to hide ill-gotten assets. as we have learned more and more about russian interference in our own elections and about their playbook abroad, much thanks to previous subcommittee hearings, we now see how these devices can be used to hide meddling in our elections. last year a homeland security advisor to george w. bush noted that it is critical that we effectively enforce the campaign-finance laws that would prevent this type of financial influence by foreign actors. i could not agree with him more. but we don't, and we do

commission to tighten and enforce rules to stop the election meddling we saw in 2016? >> i agree that the honest ads act is a good first step. i do support it. one of the issues resulting from this whole debacle is not necessarily about the effectiveness of the advertising or how well these cambridge analytica techniques work. it is the undermining of trust. in our news and fact-finding ability online. is how anyen't seen of the interventions will address restoring public trust in both our news and journalism efforts as well as a public internet. i would like to see some efforts to address that. senator udall: i'm actually out of time, maybe you can help me with that one for the record, i'm going to submit additional crunch -- questions for the record, especially on specific kinds of actions, whether you support it or not. >> thank you. senator blumenthal: the record before us today and in our previous hearing seems to leave no doubt that facebook has violated its consent decree. would you agree? >> it is my opinion they have, yes. senator blumenthal: what should be do

there's been a conversation within the elections commission for $4 million allocation.body i don't know and i don't believe that you have been as the ethics commission engaged on this particular policy matter. but overall i would imagine this is a commission that it would support transparency and that would support the highest ethical behavior when it comes to our technology and counting votes. are you looking at this at all? >> no, you're correct, we have not been engaged in those conversations with the election commission about open source technology and open source issues. to the extent that we have a mandate for transparency, it is something that we very seriously and enthusiastically embrace. we have done a lot of work with open data so that the voters can ok directly on our website and to see the campaign information and expenditures and fundraising activity by candidates and ballot measures as well as by third parties that attempt to influence the races. we have information available on what the tech people call a.p.i.s that enable the folks to decide what they want to do with th

the elections commissions requested $4 million which would be matched -- actually i'm sor sorry, advocacy group requested $4 million matched by the state and department of election indicated they need to do more study over the remaining coming year to create a use or rollout plan for that money. that's why i am honoring the request that's come this bed by the election commission to put that money in year two and $2 million allocation. also, i'm proposing that we maintain a third position that we move third position at the h.r.c. for the sharp program. the original request come from the supervisor for three positions. this morning the budget that we moved from the department of public health and h.r.c. has two allocation. would be enough to fill a third position. i'm not sure that the third position is warranted. i do want to bring that issue to the committee for a discussion. finally, i heard that there was a clear need for dedicated funding for transgender groups separate and apart from the general lgbtq services. i suggested that a $200,000 allocation annually go to additional discussio

our efforts are focused on helping to empower the independent election commission and make sure they have the resources and capacity to undertake a critical reform this electoral season by having voting be based on phone centers so that you can stop the industrial level stuffing the ballot boxes. i think the afghan people we have seen and registered are vested in this democratic process. >> i'll stop; can get his question. >> we go now to florida. >> thank you for being here. this is one of those things where everybody wants it to come to an end. i don't see a clear strategy of how we'll do that. answering the question about the cost of u.s. military since 2001, we spent 750 about -- were well over a trillion dollars trying to bring peace to afghanistan. it's a very tribal and separated culture. these things that happen at major open areas. if i understand my notes correctly there's no more opium being grown in afghanistan today than there was before we started our war on drugs, as there is more cocaine in columbia after we started the war on drugs. now mexico has 72000 acres of opiu

the government sank senior members of the election commission which oversaw the vote counting prime minister hydrilla body has banned them from leaving the country and warned that anyone suspected of being involved in election food could face criminal charges iraq's first election since the defeat of eisel was praised for the lack of violence in the run up to and during polling day on may the twelfth since then much has changed allegations of fraud leading to parliament's vote for a countrywide manual recounts of throwing the transparency of this election into doubt a fire at a building containing potential proof of how people voted will only make accusations of voter rigging even louder strafford al-jazeera baghdad at least seventeen people have been killed in syrian government has strikes on a village in the rebel held province of idlib the northern province is meant to be one of the so-called decker's exhalations those activists say the truth was respected in it for months until friday when a government attack in saddam killed forty four people. hundreds of protesters in ramallah demandin

programs director at the department of homeland security prior to this role, he served as commission of u.s. election assistance commission along with several other positions in that agency. and and a also served as chief taf for the ohio secretary of state. both of you probably though that if you have a very long statement beyond your five minutes that that statement will be put in the record and we'll start with mr. hickey, then mr. matherson then we'll have a round of questioning for anybody that wants to ask questions. mr. hicky. >> good morning, chairman grassley, ranking member feinstein and distinguished members of the committee m thank you for the opportunity to testify concerning our efforts to combat election interference. the department appreciates the committee's interest in hamakin sure law enforcement has the tools we need. i know the committee has my written testimony, so i won't repeat it here. instead, i'll cover a few key points. first, the attorney general himself identified this issue as a priority. when he created a cyber digital task force this year. he specifically directed the

warned the election commission had found dangerous violations which he said could prolong the formation of a new government let's get no more from charles structured who is in baghdad so basically for it to be charles it seems parliament has almost hit the reset button a month for most often the election why now. well there's been a gradual build up to this news today this parliament vote. voting for as you say the full manual recount right the way across the country it started or really really kicked in in the last week or so and certainly yesterday we heard from prime minister a large body and his weekly news conference that he gives indorsing the findings of a ministerial committee that had investigated these allegations of voter fraud and as you say he said that there was evidence of dangerous spiral ations having taken place and he also interestingly said all banned sorry senior members of i hacked the independent iraqi election commission from leaving the country and said it would not be unforeseeable to possibly see even arrests of people responsible if indeed these allegations o

iraq's top judicial authority is taking over the election commission to oversee a manual election recount ordered by the parliament the supreme judicial council will select judges to supervise the process after complaints of fraud in last month's parliamentary election promises he said there'd been some serious violations a blog led by cyclone it went out of one the election last month. stay with iraq or at least eighteen people have been killed and more than ninety injured in the explosion in a in baghdad on wednesday a weapons stash exploded in the basement of a share mosque in salah city district it was ignited when cooking materials are being moved to the mosque. the united nations says human rights must be on the agenda at the summit between us present donald trump a north korean leader kim jong un's envoy to muscle hurrican tyler has been speaking in geneva ahead of the twelve june summit he says too many north koreans don't have adequate access to food ten million people relying on aid and wealthy welcome north korea's release of three u.s. assistance last month he said hundreds mo

iraq's independent election commission council votes at one sawzall and twenty one of the country's fifty three thousand ballot boxes they were mainly in the predominantly sunni provinces of dana nineveh and sixty seven outside the country for many iraqis including those who voted a broad allegations of voting fraud comes as no surprise i'm sorry to say that you have no. hope. it's the same. result also. change. yes because if we keep electing these people people are not going to have a change in the future in order for any country wide recount law to be passed it would have to be ratified by fifty percent plus one of iraq's three hundred twenty nine member parliament before then being signed off by the supreme court but no matter the kind of legal difficulties that these twenty eight m.p.'s are pushing for this country wide recount face the issue highlights just how difficult it is to form a government in iraq after years of violence and political instability. inside story baghdad. if the recount does go ahead it would impact about ten percent of votes cast overall but that could prove d

sultani, what actions you support by congress, federal election commission, or the federal trade commission to tighten and enforce rules to stop the election meddling that we saw in 2016? >> actually, to be honest, this was a good first at. >> do you support it? >> i do support it. i think one of the issues resulting from this whole debacle is not necessarily about the effectiveness of the advertising or how well the techniques work, but it is the undermining of trust in our fact-finding ability on line. what i haven't seen is how any of these interventions will address in restoring the public's trust in both our news and general efforts as well as our public internet. i would love to see something to try to address those specifics. >> i am actually out of time, so maybe you can help me with that one for the record, and i'm going to the submit -- submit additional questions to the record especially about specific kinds of actions whether not you support it or not. thank you very much mister chairman. >> thank you. mayor blumenthal. >> mr. sultani, the record before surveying in the previous

had been serious violations and banned high ranking election commission officials from leaving the country the president of argentina's football association is apologize for canceling a friendly match with israel saying players' safety was at stake palestinians have protested against the game being held in jerusalem which is a contested city business owners in nicaragua as capital are calling for a national strike to pressure the government and its violent crackdown on protesters only one hundred thirty people are being killed since demonstrations began in april and while repeller has more from the capital managua. where we're really seeing the biggest impact to the economy here and you can i what is when it comes to the tourism sector because the guy was been working for years trying to build up this reputation as the safe country as its popular tourism destination for all the travels all around the world if you look around the city of managua if you look to to some of the more popular tourist cities like that now then later on there's been a lot in optic in violence in the cities and the

the last two years of service the commissioner at the nitrates election assistance commission working to modernize standards used to test voting systems and provide best practices to help support election officials and since 2016 respond to threats against our nation's election systems. noise serve as senior advisor for dhs focused on the work that apartment is doing to support the thousand election officials across this country and this decade of war i can tell you the absolute best part is working on the professionals seated at the table that administer elections. in the face of real sophisticated threats these officials have responded by working with us, state and local resources in the private sector and academia to mitigate risk and improve the resilience of the process. election security is a national security issue. our mission at dhs is to ensure that the system of the necessary information in support to assess risk and protect, detect and recover from this. the support can come in many forms whether offering no-cost technical assistance or specific threat information we stand

iraq's top judicial authorities say the election commission to oversee a manual election recount ordered by palm and the supreme judicial council will select judges to supervise the process after complaints of fraud in last month's parliamentary election earlier the prime minister said there had been serious violations a block led by the shia cleric. won the election last month. and we say in iraq or at least eighteen people have been killed and more than ninety have been injured in an explosion in baghdad on wednesday a weapons cache exploded in the basement of a share mosque inside a city district it was ignited when cooking materials were being moved into the mosque the u.n. says human rights must be on the agenda at the summit between u.s. president trump and the north korean leader next week the un's envoy tomas or hair can donna is calling for the release of prisoners and says too many north koreans don't have adequate access to food the ten million people relying on aid and while the world cannot korea's release of three u.s. citizens asked month he said hundreds more prisoners sh