the truth is that the government are not doing anything to bring down inflation, this government are stoking inflation. first, we had above-inflation pay rises for the unions. then, we had a budget that the office for budget responsibility said would increase inflation -- >> order. i am going to hear the question. i suggest that we all hear it together -- then our constituents can understand the answer as well as the question. alex burghart. >> first, we had above-inflation pay rises for the unions. then we had a budget that the obr said was going to push up inflation. this morning, we had city economists -- real economists -- saying that next year inflation will hit 3%. does the right honorable lady agree that this government's decisions mean higher inflation for working people? >> i ask the honorable gentleman, 11.1% or 3%? >> we have already talked about ukraine. it was ukraine and covid that drove up inflation, but this government are doing it to the british people. high tax, high inflation, low growth, low reform -- there is a word for that, it is starmerism. yesterday, like man

the government didn't even make the argument that the government argued is making here.that a foreign speaker or a foreign government can be suppressed from ownership or speaking or curation or any of person acted activities based on a viewpoint. remember the reason i'm standing at the podium here is this is an just a case about a foreign speaker. this is a case -- americans wanted that, i think you'd have a victory for the american listeners under lamont and certainly the supreme court case has ever held to the contrary and there's no history or tradition in her country of the bandages speakers from hearing from foreign governments even if the hostile to her country simply to express their ideas. that's that even this case. this case is american speakers like the creators who want to speak to other americans on an american platform, and at the very most to be alleged to say they want to coordinate with the foreign publisher when it is a. >> lamont, so if you look at justice barrett's concurrence in that choice it very presumes in her view that foreign control changes th

my name's governing coalition has collapsed. no, but or not. schultz has called a confidence volt, only in january. why is that? as well, this is because of germany's governing system. now unlike other systems where for example, the chancellor himself or the president can just dissolve parliament and call for new elections like that. the german procedure is having to go through parliament that the chancellor has to call for a vote of confidence. and if he loses that vote only, then the president can dissolve parliament and call for new elections after having consulted with the chancellor. and we've heard from the chancellor himself saying that he wants to take the time until the end of this year to carry out some measures that his government planned to bring to the table and to pass. he wants to get that work done and only then a call for this vote of confidence in january. and then once that vote is non good to elections likely until the end of march. but we're already seeing from some of the conservative opposition here in ger

he said, yes, this is a government crisis, the government has collapsed, but it is not the end of the world. and the german constitution provides the tools to overcome the situation of crisis. he also mentioned the great uncertainty that people in germany might be feeling right now. both domestically with let's go a collapse of the governments, but also internationally did explicitly reference the re election of donald trump in the us. a situation that is likely to post challenges for germany with a trump possibly trump, and the republicans possibly cutting support for ukraine. and possibly also questioning the us supports for europe's defense. and these are all issues that the german government is going to have to be able to handle. so the 2 leaders in this part of the german chancellor and the opposition leader will make the tools. now, what can we reasonably expect from making? so on the one hand we have chancellor all of shows who basically the fact so now leads a minority government with just his social democrats and the greens. they do not have a majority in parliament. and what

as well as the impression off insolvency, which the military establishment and the govern government has pride very hard to send off of iran con strategy right now is essentially that of the gorilla insurgent he doesn't necessarily have to show that he has, he's able to rodney huge crowds, but he simply means to show that the, the stablish mind and the current government is unpopular and doesn't enjoy the mass support of the country to the point where governance is actually difficult. and i think he's able to do that quite effectively, even though he's behind bars of the fact that he's in jail and makes him immensely popular. i think it's important to remember that uh, 2 thirds of pocket stones population are turnkey, under the age of 30. many of these young people are either unemployed, don't have good economic prospect and see in m, ron assigned um, you know, the as british or the hopes or a political future that will sort of digs, digs on board of their, their aspirations. okay. so how something there is a huge economic pressure on the government is another one estimate. i got was

we're not rights by government. and because if government gave you rights, it has the right to take them from you. but if government didn't give them to you, if a higher authority gave them to you, they can't. and jefferson is the one who said that if those were given to us by our creator, we can't take them from you because they're his gift. and i think that's a much better place to be as a nation and as a people. even if you don't believe would argue if you're an atheist. and that's fine, you can be an atheist. that's part of religious liberty is to not believe. but even then i think you would find comfort in the idea that the populace believes that you have these rights that are essentially inalienable you can't sell them, you can't have them from you, they are yours stuck with them. and that's that's think a great place to be. you also quote c.s. lewis, by the way, what is c.s. lewis appeal to conservatives and libertarians? well, i think a lot of it is, at least to me, there's a faith component to him and he is

the government feel that anyone talk about the oil is touching the heart of the government.k for asylum and i was given an asylum to sweden. my spirit, all is tied back home and i miss it so much. in south sudan, we really cultivate on our natural soil nyakuma has recovered from her bout of malaria. she is determined to go home as soon as she is strong enough. i'm back to juba. the next plan is to meet the first deputy speaker for the council of states, honourable mary ayen. she will tell me more about the facts that are happening in northern part of the country. mary ayen is a senior politician from the ruling party from an oil producing area. she's been raising concerns about children with birth defects with central government, and thinks there could be many more cases. i've seen myself, my own relatives giving birth to children born with deformities. i know that also in most of the villages, it's only areas that are around hospital where those cases are reported, but most cases are not reported. this is one child. this is the other one. they are twins. so they were born i

and it's not just shoe box you these government. the problem is that we did have an election that the people are focused on in spite of many, many challenges participated in. and those election results have been, you know, not only perceived as misreported, manipulated. they've cost, you know, that is in the cloud over this administration that this administration has not been able to recover from. and while the macro economic fundamentals have stabilized to some degree and we're seeing on arresting of some of the negative trends, the public have yet to be the beneficiary of any of that. in fact, in they seem to be there, mr. con has become the beneficiary of logic public discontent because the process, the persecution of his political party has been perceived as unfair because the of the, the way the election was conducted has been perceived as unfair. and again, there is a larger grievance around the economy, a wrong taxation around the unfair distribution of taxation. so there's a large wave of public sympathy that supporting this

they criticized the government. they criticize the policies by the ice is calling for a 2 state solution. along with the 67 lines, and now this became a kind of the opposite of the narrative. and it became the position not only to the government designers. because once you have basically as much where you're sitting in the cabinet and deciding to close down how it's, i think that this is somebody that if you would have body this, technically though, i would ask you what kind of drugs you think we keeps on it okay, nice, we keep talking about closing down hearts, but that is not what's currently happening. they're trying to har parts and they're doing it in a way that is, i believe villages and the way the confuses the state with the government. the companies are funded by the states are not owned by the government and they're crossing that line. interestingly, perhaps the most, the, the, the media oriented israel is most credited with being a little bit like car. it's on the broadcast side. is channel 11, which is t

hay did it with branches of government, federal, local and state governments.hey create all kinds of limits. in fact, i would w even argue tt the bill of rights is not a statement of rights. if you read it, it doesn't say you havegu the right to speak. whatat it says is congress shall make no law. in other words, it's a limitation on the ability of congress saying we don't care what the populace wants to do. hay don't like your opinions, they can't silence you. and religious, the populace doesn't like the church you choosese to go to or the fact tt you don't go to church, they have no i say in the matter. in that sense it's a limitation on the majority because our founders were worried about a majority being, you know, they wanted government from the exercise of three sheep -- excusep me, the three wolves outvoting the sheep, that's what's for dinner. and we wanted to shining -- make shoe we didn't have democracying with that sort of exercise. they wanted to limit what the policy could be to that if i'm unpopular, i still have a right to live. they can't just v

if the government didn't give them to you they can't. if those were given to us by our creator we can't take them from you. i think that's a much better place to be as a nation and as a people. i would argue if you're an atheist that's fine you can be a part an atheist and that's part of religious liberty but even then i think you'd find comfort in the idea that the rights you have are inalienable. you can'tro sell them you can't have them taken from you. they are yours and you are stuck with them. and that's a great place to be. you also quote c.s. lewis. by the way what does c.s. lewis' appeal to conservative's and libertarians? >> well i think a lot of it is at least there's a faith component to him and he's very smart so he explains things very deeply. he was a smart man and so i think there's a certain level oo appreciation for the way he expressed things because he made the concept bright in the minds of his readers. c.s. lewis quote of all tyrannies a tyranny is to sincerely exercised for the good its victim would be better to liv

or federal government handouts. in terms of lower gas prices and when we talked during that time with the private-sector most every one of them was saying we need government support. we need lower prices. if the private-sector but is there that we can't do much for the country long-term because where i see huge promise and that's why he moved back to the country and most of the time is the younger generation. the younger generation has learned a great deal. they have innovated incredibly. i was here in 2017 and i remember the time a new 40 young startups. as bars today we have everything in terms of delivery apps literally almost everything and large numbers of startups. they cover almost all sectors. again the point that you mentioned where they operate pretty much informally. it makes it incredibly hard for start up. without registering and paying taxes they are impossible to grow. access is challenging as well because they don't have an ecosystem of let's say investment network or in a market or private equity th

should the government be doing this?er is no, i would work on reducing this across the board, not just for specific programs that you don't like, or i could explain to the public what's the logic, what is driving this move to reduce subsidies to the private sector. the other big part is like the federal government is doing a lot of things that are purely state and local functions. i would work on reducing this by devolving some of these functions to the states. >> host: i want to play something for you and get your reaction to it. this is elaine kamarck, she let a company efficiency project in the clinton administration and she's talked about doge and the goals are not realistic. >> the federal government each year since about $6.1 trillion. most of that money, more than half, is spent on what's called mandatory spending. that means it social security payments, medicare payments, retirement payments for veterans, et cetera. so you can't touch that unless you want to raise a great big political stake which you guess what,

some 45 people sentenced — government. some 45 people sentenced to _ government.entenced to prison including | sentenced to prison including some really high—profile pro—democracy activists. how do you think this is going to affect the democracy movement within hong kong? that definitely _ within hong kong? that definitely has _ within hong kong? that definitely has sent - within hong kong? that definitely has sent a - within hong kong? thatl definitely has sent a very strong, chilling effect across the hong kong civil society. you see people like bernie tie and joshua wong getting sentenced and they have been the iconic figureheads for the hong kong movements for the past four years. so definitely, people are not encouraged to go out and to speak voices any more. and even today, people in hong kong feel they do not have the power or the right to mourn the power or the right to mourn the sentencing is, just because of how grave and strongly the government is intending to crack down on all political dissent. , ., ~ crack down on all political dissent. ~ , dissent.

another issue is government ethics and responsibility. under title v, avoid losing impartiality or appearing to lose impartiality in carrying out official duties. it is an important tenant of the system for the people, for our country and for national security. i believe there is too much ambiguity on the scope of schedule f. when we read most of schedule f, it talks about confidential policymaking, policy determining or policy advocating. it is important to know the specifics here and one is the word or, which means that anyone that deals with anyone confidential could be put under schedule f at the discretion of a current administration. i think that is really dangerous to have that much ambiguity. additionally, under section 5 of schedule f, it introduces an element of operations. substantial discretion to determine the matter of how it exercises dysfunction. it is like making to exercising policy. another one is viewing, circulating, or otherwise working with proposed regulations. then, at the end, it throws in collective bargaining a

government. this time we take action. went to reference to other things it. that letter also said and i would refer to you i know some of you are aware of this. but that had another comment in it. this very last paragraph is a letter from secretaries austin and blinken part lastly it's vitally important that our governments establish a new challenge a new challenge through which we can raise civilian harm incidents. our engagements today have not produced the necessary outcomes. the virtual meeting by the end of october. i don't that's been held this is a very consequential statement. there's about 500 incidents that are being reviewed by the department of state or u.s. weapons were used. where there is believed to be unnecessary civilian harm prints the obligation to u.s. government to follow through on those cases and determine whether or not there was a clear violation before sending more bombs and more weapons. and yet that is not been done profoundly point out, bernie, this letter to other t

governments.to support growth. in terms of local government, as you said, they have been suffering contracting because of the property downturn. that comes to another point the market is closely watching for, how to restructure local government debts. using local government financing vehicles. it could be a programme announced as soon as this week, or it might happen next month... that will help local governments to address debt.— help local governments to address debt. thank you so much. china's commerce minister has urged france to start taking an active role in helping reach a solution that benefits both european and chinese ev industries. in a meeting with his french counterpart, weng wentao also said the eu's anti—subsidy investigation has "seriously hindered" cooperation. this comes after the eu went ahead with tariffs of up to 35% on chinese—made evs last week. boeing workers are set to vote later today on a new contract offer from the company that provides slightly bigger wage increases th

and then we have the level of the regional government and the level of the national government. and at the moment, especially the regional governments here in valencia has been under heavy criticism because they're in our system obviously did not work properly. the alerts, the rent outs to media houses and mobile phones on the hours after the 1st people had been tracked already. so thousands of people went strip brenda for it 1st, a large spread activated and people use sites that's part of the disaster, which has been a part of this process would have started earlier. the damages experience. if we've seen that some people have lost everything, rebuilding will be a huge task. what supports can the people expect from their government? so this is also unclear at the moment. i have been able to speak to some officials and also to some insurance representative. of course the insurance put on the pay a part of that. so the government has to come in, especially when it comes to public infrastructure to the many streets. how is it the richest in the schools but has been privately destr

another issue is government ethics and responsibility. under title v, avoid losing impartiality or appearing to lose impartiality in carrying out official duties. it is an important tenant of the system for the people, for our country and for national security. i believe there is too much ambiguity on the scope of schedule f. when we read most of schedule f, it talks about confidential policymaking, policy determining or policy advocating. it is important to know the specifics here and one is the word or, which means that anyone that deals with anyone confidential could be put under schedule f at the discretion of a current administration. i think that is really dangerous to have that much ambiguity. additionally, under section 5 of schedule f, it introduces an element of operations. substantial discretion to determine the matter of how it exercises dysfunction. it is like making to exercising policy. another one is viewing, circulating, or otherwise working with proposed regulations. then, at the end, it throws in collective bargaining a

another huge government shift. government had this incredible need.if the private sector was right there. the private sector did not cost the government a dharma. all of the billions of dollars of capacity was in orbit. what was the government response? well, thank you. and, we will go a different way. so it is a complicated environment we live in. there have been a million reports on commercial space. the defense science board just released another one. i think it was a couple weeks ago. i want to read from it. because i think that in a few short words it captures the government opinion of commercial space. i will come to nasa in a second because i think that in some ways nasa is it an to this. but the government is wary of the commercial services long-term liability particularly during acute crisis. and if i can add, parenthetically, i think in all the crisis you can point out in the past decade the commercial sector in the u.s. and our allied countries have been there . but the concern exists. firms, and this is their word, not mine, in hopping to

government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including comcast. >> you think this is just a community center? it's way more than that. >> comcast is partnering -- >> comcast supports c-span as a public service along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> next, a joint hearing on government research into unidentified anomalous phenomena. independent journalist michael shellenberger testifies on what he alleges is a secret government program called immaculate constellation and a report by an anomalous whistleblower that government agencies withheld evidence from the public. other witnesses include former defense department and nasa officials. this is two hours. house subcommittee on federal government research into ufos, otherwise called unidentified anonymous phenomenons or uaps. live coverage on c-span3. >> -- opening statement right now. good mornin i want to thank my colleagues on the oversight committee committe including mr. bu

you say in your testimony advanced technology not by our government or any other government are monitoring sensitive military installations around the globe." these technologies are not made by any government who is making them private companies or are you implying they are crafted by nonhuman intelligence? >> man that's precisely where we are here. the problem is over decades, not just the last 10 years to put this into perspective. >> of these private companies or nonhuman intelligence? >> it may be both. i would not be able to discuss. >> you read into secret uap crash retrieval programs question request would have to have a conversation or close session pi send documentation three years ago that restricts my ability to discuss crash pressuretrips i submitted throuy books to the dobbs process a year for it should be reviewed. what's in the book is what is told i'm allowed to talk about. >> of government conducted secret uap crash retrieval programs yes or no? >> yes. where they designed to identify reverse engineer in the craft yes or no? lex yes for. >> works yes records as u.s. govern

i'll start first with the government, the central government, the government under the articles of confederation. as i said, it is a product of its time. right. so if you're trying to throw off what you regard as onerous, central. then you don't want to replace it with another onerous central authority. right. so you look at the confederation congress and the emphasis is on the congress the way in other words, it's on the legislative it's not on the executive. right. they have an advisory board that handles executive decisions, but the focus is on the legislature, the congress. right. you might say sort of people power. right. and it's very, very weak. it has to by this time in the 1780s, literally, members to attend. it can only beg attendance, can't compel. right. it can. provision an army on paper. it can pay for it. it can ask for money from states. but it can't compel them to turn money over. if you want to change the articles of confederation, it's very, very difficult. you have to get unanimous to even amend that. so it's not very impressive from the standpoint of nationhood to look at th

governments have to own those. and around the world there were other natural monopolists who were connected. nonetheless, on that day, that launch, and that was a successful launch. relayed through space the first television pictures, phone calls, telegraph images and provided the first live trans atlantic television feed. at that day in 1962, the commercial space industry was fully born. what happened? what happened was, it's a little murky. i wasn't there, thankfully. i was still quite young at the time. but the kennedy administration did not want things to go in that direction. so what they did was decided to create comsat. it was a public company privately owned. they gave them a monopoly in long-distance communications. so there was a debate in congress, a huge debate that summer over the comsat act with many congresspeople thinking it was totally inappropriate to give this important vital national resource to a commercial company. they thought that just was odd. senator russell long of louisiana, and you have

but it's also to see how some of the position i d 's who had a very strong roylene governance and government renting the last couple of decades . how be fair? because it's, it's showing that they said change that people are looking to and that change may come in the phone after pricey doesn't spotty. yeah, the president, cope's, it's a gets a mandate to advance as anti corruption agenda after this election. how crucial do you think that would be and helping the country out if it's economic struggles while the pregnancy during one's a majority? um, so from at least having $113.00 seats in piney mind, i need to part of the amount of $225.00 seats. and what they say is we talked her monday. it's going to be difficult to deliver on the wrong says me during the pricing to insure the elections. so really it's with the people see the way the, the in p b, that's a freshly done, spotty. should get done monday. i mean, what? farmington, so how many seats? but it's also important considering sri lanka is history that we always have a strong opposition in government to ensure that our check in the, in g

government. we heard that commercial pilots that encounter uaps may be hesitant to speak openly due to stigma or fear of retaliation. we know that aro has reported that, and i want to quote, that most reports still reflect a bias towards restricted military air space, a report towards military personnel. the lack of ability for civilian pilots raises real safety concerns and limits our ability to understand uaps. this is a particular piece of this conversation that i am very interested in. our last hearing inspired us to introduce a safe air space for americans act joined by a bipartisan group of co-sponsors. i see some of our leaders from safe air space for americans act here. and that would create a safe reporting for uap processes, if we want to continue to do. members of both parties and senior officials in multiple administrations have now taken an interest in this issue. mainstream media, in many cases, have begun to take more of an interest in this issue, and we should all be proud to carr

the french government says it's there to support the child in government effort to fight off arm groups in this house. but many of this house said the french military has failed to stop the violence which has greatly effected civilians. after being forced out of molly burkina faso and these, they're now a 1000 french soldiers are being asked to withdraw from todd must keep on. we are changing our military past year with the intention of reconfiguring out partnerships in coordination without african partners so that they can be more flexible and better able to respond to the present moment. debbie who took over after his father was killed in 2021 is now turning to russia, seeking new security ties across and much of this a hell region of west africa. the winds appear to be shifting from west to east with the french military. no longer seen as a source of security, but as it relic from the past that chad and others no longer need nicholas hawk algae 0 south africa as a policeman. as the says and former miners trapped in a disuse goldmine could soon be rescued. he made the comment soft and

and not only this government but also as a previous governs the field to invest enough. not only in infrastructure drum, this infrastructure is in a disastrous condition, but also in future technologies. and that's what's missing now. and i, i'm not sure if the recent government what it, what if it was fully clear how we germany is lacking behind in comparison to the us and comparison to a lot of east asian countries even in comparison to some european countries. and that this government has failed little while has collapse. now is also a, i think, a big political disaster because they are huge steps which has to be taken in the next few weeks because of a trump got elected in the us. and this is, i'm afraid this is not going to happen. what do you think that was the main reason, the fact that they didn't read the necessity of these economic reforms? i think it was one of the big reason because uh, in germany we talked about the debt break, which is a huge a hurdle or it even the future government is not an 2. we still are hold onto the step break. even the future govern

and so this is of course, where the government comes in. in the 1st statement, a government representative spoke about an emergency fund of 250008 1000000 euros. of course this can only be a tiny fraction of what has really been it was going to be needed here at the spanish government. this also hoping for the european union. and so commission, president funded life has already signaled the willingness to, to have spent we are really talking about billions and billions of bureaus ends and rebuilding efforts that will take months probably yes, state w corresponding against that of schultz in valencia for us. thank you again for the and here are some old stories making headlines around the world. a bombing in southwest and pac, his son, has killed 7 people, including 5 children. the bomb was attached to a motorcycle when it exploded near a vehicle carrying police officers in by law just on purpose. no group has a responsibility but separate has have stepped up a tax on security forces in recent months. the is really ministry has carried out a

they're not in governments anymore . the finance minister consented in them is not in government anymore. but there is, there seems to be an avoidance on the stage in the public debates of wanting to rehash what went wrong with the now collapsed government coalition. but behind the scenes, we also hear of some, some release in a way, not having to constantly deal with the conflicts happening within that closing government, especially with the fcc and also some disappointment to the dream. so it was important to continue with this quote lucian government, especially at a time of geo political unrest after the re election of donald trump. and they didn't think it was a good idea to let the governments collapse now. so disappointment with the f b p. behind the scenes, we're hearing definitely here at the green party congress that was the w correspondent, jolissa valley julia. thank you so much for your reporting. you're watching the w news before we go. a quick reminder of our top story. german chancellor all of scholes has

of the most important things and i know the previous government a current government here emphasis thiss raise the growth rate. we have by historical standards, low potential growth. if we raise the growth rate, the feasibility issue gets easier. >> if the government and public spending degoes up by the great portion, then we're stuck in a terrible loop where we have higher debt for longer and greater interest payments as a nation which eats up more of the growth going forward. >> i agree with the chancellor and the previous chancellor as well. raising the growth rate is a way to ease the situation and tackle these very big structure headwinds that -- >> then you would agreed with the quasi budget. that was all about growth, wasn't it? >> no, sorry. there are many -- there are many ways to raise potential growth. they have to be credible. they have to be credible. >>> stay with us on the program, when we come back, china announcing the fresh round of stimulus after the week long meeting of the national people's congress. we will bring you all of the details on the other side. stay with

since then, the 26 year old has been propelled into a government position every time a government espinoza, thrown in bangladesh. students were on the front line, but they wouldn't have made a pontiff in the government. how movement has shown that that can happen. i will always be your friend and your brother, and i want to begin serving you as soon as possible together we will solve the problems of students and teachers and improve education in this country. thank you will very much. the, as one of those who spearheaded the protest movement, no heat is none, was arrested and tortured by the police. he's now in a very different row that will take some getting used to the, the system. because this product, so the do not know or feels it up before i live in the campus. she does more likely can and easy means before that place was better within the interim government night, as mom was named adviser to the ministry of telecommunications and information technologies, a post with strategic significance as much of the countries media had become propaganda. outlets school shakes casino and had gov

k government's quotes, claiming that the strategy great pay climate they believe the government's proposals for show the requirements of the climate change on a landmark piece of legislation, making the u. k. the 1st country to set legally binding comp and target friends of the it was instrumental in guessing at austin 2008 choose a color. is that in house? no. in the climate change at such a pioneering piece of legislation, it's usually exciting is the 1st time a case site. this has come before a court and it has the opportunity to actually set a precedent friends with the cause represented in quote, i'd say the to move casey. this is the case base of something which is absolutely enormous. what's really at stake here is whether the government in this country and elsewhere around the world actually takes the action that needs to be taken out. tackle climate change. we talk about net 0 and 2050, but to bring about and that 0 in 2015 things have to happen now. the hearing last 2 days, it could be months before the judge reaches his decision. cases in which citizens home, those empowered to a

problems these a lot, while the government in the hague is trying to limit the democratic rights they, i'm here to define a protest that they say we need to speak out against the genocide and got them after allowing them to protest for our police doctor to detain more than 200 demonstrators by one, the advancing south proposition fighters in syria see the vented parts of how my city is just 200 kilometers north of the capitol, damascus. the army and fish fish repelling the attacks. the syrian government launches s y x on the left for a day after opposition sizes captured the 2nd largest, the . so i'm fully back to where you're watching l g 0 live from to ha. also coming up, i saw a charity suspenses operations in casa, after 3 of his workers accusing on is ready as strike and counting the votes in islands national. he mentions the initial results, suggest a close race between the 3 biggest parties. the thank you for joining us. it's 19 gmc and we start with fast moving developments in syria with president bush on the side is facing the biggest challenge to his role in years. oppositio

the vibes of state event at hama and government troops have withdrawn from the positions that the government has rejected. those claim saying its forces are ready to repel any attack. meanwhile, has been as twice on the northwest and city of a level a day after opposition fighters capture the city, including its airport. the escalation has led to a ferry of diplomatic activity. the rainy and turkish and russian foreign ministers of health talks on the phone and a ron sword minister is said to travel to syria on sunday and then to to our kids. i'll just say we're a simple sale blue has more from high tedney at turkeys border with syria. in a surprising move on saturday, the opposition factions locked by the h. d as a a tough or else some are addressing towards hama after they took control of the city of elect people. and it's a conference size. also the position sections to control of many other places in it live. and they announced that they have full control of the province along with important a ports like a full, a port in northwest syria. and where is a report and it's an alaska? no one

with the government is for 5 years, for example. that's about the new can it's duties and mr. 40 years, probably because people wonder look faster time of their good. so it should be under 40 years that 1st year. it movies that so it is all question of what people want. the police, the political parties, one, he's supposed to go to the party, say, forget about it and give the election. let's do it. we'll do it. we do, you have a chance. you didn't take it so you could be interim head full for us, which is pretty much an electoral times. i didn't say that that would be for, for here. so i'm saying this is the time the maximum that one can go right. but this no doubt intends in. huntington jumped to get it done as quickly as possible would use done for let you know, i'm not the politician. i enjoy my role would have been doing. and my last stage of my life, i'm not going to take that amnesty international have raised concerns about your administration handling of minority rice. how do you plan to address those issues? we keep on focus

the government stopped. it's each entry bid following a decision by the european parliament to reject the results of georgia's election last month, alleging significant irregularities. george's prime minister accused the e. u. a blackmail. demonstrators assembled outside george's parliament building in tbilisi, as well as the governing parties. headquarters protests were also reported to north or george and cities, georgia, seeing several anti government protest this year, but they grew following an election and october. the opposition claims the criminal intent to fusion. the campaign in favor of the governing georgia dream party. critics say it has been moving georgia in the north are tearing direction for months, but the thursday marked a watershed moment. i'm very devastated because we were not expecting this thing to go so soon and for a ever met to make the statements that they say today. and i think that this makes us feel very hopeless. but at the same time, i think that we're becoming stronger becau

government efficiency?aller: not really because -- i don't want to say which in -- which one, but an independent federal agency. we are not really subject to political appointees as much as other departments. host: next up we have karen in alexandria, virginia, also a federal worker. good morning. caller: good morning. i am a federal employee. i will be retiring the friday before trump takes office. federal employees -- coming to an agency near you. vivek ramaswamy and elon musk have no clue as to what they are doing. the woman that was interviewed from the brookings institute that you showed, she was entirely correct about what she said. however, the federal government employees are in the crosshairs and so federal employees, take care, protect your retirement. thank you very much. host: thank you karen. she made reference to schedule -- a policy which would give greater authority to remove people as federal workers, here is an article in government executive the trump is expected to tap the schedule f arc