i've got to assume that russia, china, kazakhstan, ukraine -- they all have a dossier on hunter biden have talked long before the release of this book about things that are on this laptop that are devastating to hunter biden. what can you tell us specifically and why has he been so far able to prevent being arrested? >> i think that when you look at the totality of his life as i've charted it through the nine use laptop covers, he had so many close calls. he even mentions using his own memoir. he was a, he surrounded himself with pretty dangerous people. he was swimming in the oligarchy. he was right in their in moscow meeting with the very interest sanctum of vladimir putin. he was in china, in shanghai, in beijing meeting with the operational communist party. he was doing business with them. these people were his partners. they were lavishing him with money, supplying him with. and he was off his head most of the time. at one point he did wave it away and he was getting production from bodyguards from the corrupt ukrainian and energy company when he was in monte carlo. at one point,

western side of syria. beyond that is looking fairly dry, but if you go to the east, coming out of kazakhstan is the winter frog, it's bring significant snow on the western side of the tibetan. plato during wednesday, answer. see where it spreads down to afghan is down with rain shares quite significant ones all the way through around. as a result, that of course it should keep going further south. and there is a hint, and we'll just take a look at this that on friday though, shasky is full beyond the southern shores of iran, and may even end up somewhere like doha. it's a small risk, but it's a possibility. may feel the change all the same. in tropical africa, a few shaft east, the refining most of them further west. and as you see in the last few days, d. r. conquer is the focus. ah, ah, 25 years ago in television news in the middle east began in a 2 part documentary series. the 25th anniversary of al jazeera, telling the story of the channel. now it became recognized global brand. ah, the story of knowledge is even the unique path in the vietnam war. the u. s. army used to heidi talks to c

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they thrash, kazakhstan, ain't nail now. belgium also through but as davis folks reports, the netherlands, we'll have to wait. so the defending will champions france, you are win against cassock, stand with secure thy world cut place and they didn't hang about. killing him by pape took barely half an hour to rack up his 1st international hattrick. and he went on to get another, becoming the 1st french player to school for in one match since 1958, 8 neil the final score and did the a, the shops team now have the chance to defend the woke up trophy next year. wilson, so local move, the players are happy and so am i. we can only try to get as close as we can to perfection. but we weren't far away from that tonight. so jim of the world's top rank solid, currently ebay to punch that ticket to cattle with a $31.00 whenever estonia that gives them an unassailable 5 point lead in that group as they aim for their 1st major international trophy grade, try quite yet to carrasco and it looked like the netherlands would join them in qualifying automatically. they would soon electing its montenegro aft

the further north we go, it is going to cool down thanks to a cold snap that's blowing down from kazakhstan. and as we had further east, it is looking lot finer and dryer, but it is going to get rather cool for more than parts of china. we've got siberian cold wind blowing down across mongolia that's going to knock the temperature down. and beijing, if we have a look at the 3 day, we'll see about quite a dramatic drop by the time you get to saturday and no wet weather comes into play . for southern areas though, we are seeing that rain pickup is going to be a wet. we can for shanghai, but it dries up to the korean peninsula and southern japan, that sure weather for the weather sponsored by katara always. ah, 25 years ago, a lease or 2 part documents with the story of the channel became recognized global brand. ah, story of al jazeera, a unique path. ah ah, welcome back or could come out of our top stories here. this our talks to revive the 2015 iran nuclear de la shuttle to resume at the end of november. in direct negotiation stole in june off to iran, held elections, and wrongs accused the

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but the further north we go, it is going to cool down to a cold snap that's blowing down from kazakhstan. and as we head further east, it is looking lot fine and dryer, but it is going to get rather cool for more than parts of china. we've got siberian cold wind blowing down across mongolia that's going to knock the temperature down. and beijing, if we have a look at the 3 day, we'll see about quite a dramatic drop by the time you get to saturday and the wet weather comes into play . the southern areas though, we are seeing that rain pick up, it's going to be a wet we can't for shanghai, but it drives up to the korean peninsula and southern japan. that sure weather lou with sponsored by cassandra ways. oh, it's the was both populous democracy. diverse dynamic and undergoing women to seen context india dixon in depth. look at the people and politics of india. exploring how the coven 19 pandemic struck the nation. it's continuing impact and the lessons learned for the future. join me feed. those are for context india analysis either lou ah, welcome back. quick remind about top stories here

place had an exit next year's football world cup finals and cut our after an absolute hammering of kazakhstan and paris, the host beat them opposition 8 nil. carry on by pays for the 1st half hatch. i can then added a 4th late in the 2nd half, having been sent mom also scored twice. france joins brazil, belgium, denmark, and germany who've also made it through. ah, this is odyssey. these are the top stories negotiators at the u. n's cop $26.00 summit have agreed on a revised deal to fight climate change and kit the goal of capping global warming at $1.00 degrees. but some countries wanted more action to end the use of fossil fuels. me one second to general acknowledge the disappointment, felt by some nations, but said it is an important starting point. the outcome of cop $26.00 is a compromise. it's reflect the interests, the contradictions and the status. political lillian world. today, it is an important step, but it's not enough. we must accelerate climate section to keep alive the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees. it's time to go into emergency molds. we must have f

he was beaten in three sets by alexander bublik of kazakhstan, who's 12 places below him in the world marwin gonzalez scored a two—run double as the houston astros beat the atlanta brave 9—5 in game five of the world series, but still trail 3—2 over all. the best of seven series now returns to houston for the sixth — and potentially seventh — game with it all to play for. as you'll hopefully know by now, the shortlist for the bbc women s footballer of the year 2021 has been revealed. there are five players in the running and it's time for you to vote! england's lucy bronze won it last time around, this year there'll be a new winner. we're putting all the nominees under the microscope across the week, and we're starting with barcelona's champions league winner from norway, caroline graham hansen. i got injured in the final but i still won. i don't know if it'll be like this. i might have to start doing something else. it was a dream, and i remember it from the days before until the end of the game when we won. we had a calmness about, it will happen one day. you aren't so caught up in

she grew up in kazakhstan. >> i don't know whether to call you professor or comrade?senator, i'm not a communist. i do not subscribe to that ideology. i could not choose where i was born. >> we will have more of that clip on twitter. we are watching the vote. follow me on twitter. i'm @scottmcgrew. >>> when it comes to standardized testing for undergraduate applicants uc schools will continue to check the no box. the uc regents shut the door on using an alternative to the sat in the future. last year schools threw out test scores, but now they are going to depend on grade point average. >>> a live look this morning right there, and the supervisor confirmed his plan was approved. the proposal now moves to the board of supervisors. >>> the historic partial lunar eclipse overnight over before most of us got a chance to see it. >> this is new video that shows how it looked elsewhere where the skies were clear. the earth's shadow blocked almost the sun's light from reaching the moon. and one man captured the progress from his home. the clouds not making it easy there. this

from mexico, china, russia, kazakhstan. he met them in washington, d.c.. he met them in his own residence, the vice presidential residence. he met tony twice in california. he met them in beijing. so, he was intimately involved in hunter biden's business dealings. this was of course and influence peddling operation that had been internationalized. joe biden had been doing this in delaware for many decades, but when he became the vice president and was in charge of american policy around the world, particularly in china, he internationalized that operation, and he was involved in hunter biden -- they were making millions of dollars from overseas business partners. based solely on the fact that they had access to joe biden. and what's more, we also have evidence from the laptop that joe biden benefited financially from these deals. >> john: you mentioned this dinner at cafe milano. this is something that was arranged by hunter biden and his compatriots. we have an email that details a suggested guest list. you say that this flies in the face of claims by joe

>> she was born in kazakhstan when it was part of the soviet union.te a paper at moscow state university on marxism and economic theory. jon tester said he had real concerns about whether she was committed to free markets the same with g.o.p. pat tomby. >> it's radical because she has a clear and obvious aversion to drank capitalism its sufficiently in other words, the central organizing principle of american society. >> sherrod brown accused republicans of mccarthyism. ironically she worked at treasury under president george w. bush. mike? >> mike: interesting. chad pergram live on the hill. chad, thanks a lot. new fallout from the controversy surrounding a northern virginia school district and problems over curriculum and student safety. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie tells us many residents want to hold the school board accountable. >> domestic terrorists. >> these are our children, not yours. >> time to face the music or get off the podium. >> angry parents confronting loudoun county school board members, putting them on notice during a

omarova grew up in soviet kazakhstan and camto the u.s. in 1991. as a child, she was quired to join a soviet youth group. th became the basis for senator kennedy's questioning. >> i don't mean any disrespect. i don't know whether to call you professor or -- >> senator, i'm not a communist. i do not subscribe to that ideology. i cannot choose where i was born. amy: elizabeth warren rushed to her defense. >> the attacks on your nomination have been vicious and personal. we have just seen it most sexism, racism, page out of joe mccarthy's 1950's red scare tactics. it is all there on display. welcome to washington in 2021. amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. a new york judge has exonerated two men convicted in the assassination of malcolm x in the audubon ballroom on february 21, 1965. this came after the manhattan district attorney's office and the innocence project conducted a nearly two-year investigation that uncovered key evidence was withheld at the trial o

from kazakhstan. >> still, there are a number of allegations in the book.ng operation as well as hunter and the president's brother jim making millions, in effect, by selling access to the former vice president and current president. there also appears to be evidence from the laptop that joe biden himself benefited financially from these deals; however, the white house has repeatedly shot down the allegations, even referring to them as russian disinformation at one point. for some in washington that has little doubt about what actually happened. >> absolute corruption and it's a great problem in america because our elites have become corrupted to such a degree that having this conversation would be impossible in a number of networks because their owners wouldn't tolerate it. >> now, there has been no official word tonight from the white house on the book's claim but it should be noted that previously there was no reported income on joe biden's tax returns supporting any allegations of income related to business dealings to hunter or anyone else. and corpora

here is part of the exchange with saule omarova, was born in kazakhstan during the soviet era. >> i don'tl you professor or comrade. >> senator, i am not a communist. i do not subscribe to the ideology. i could not choose where i was born. i did not remember joining any facebook group that subscribes to that ideology. i would never knowingly join any such of a group. there is no record of me ever participating in any marcus a communist discussion of any kind. my family suffered under the communist regime, i grew up without knowing half of my family. my grandmother, herself, escape death twice under the standard regime. this is what's steered in my mind. that is why. am i remember that history. i came to this country, i am proud to be an american. >> our own nicole wallace, reacted to kennedy's comments on deadline white house, earlier this afternoon. >> this is a disgrace, not just to the country, it's a disgrace not just of the united states senate, it's a disgrace to the party of ronald reagan. who described the united states of america and shining city on the, hill not just because it

here is part of his exchange with saule optimism rove who was born in kazakhstan. >> i don't know whetheri do not subscribe to that ideology. i could not choose where i was born. i did not -- i do not remember joining any facebook group that subscribes to that ideology. i would never knowingly join any such group. there is no record of me actually participating in any marxist or communist discussions of any kind. my family suffered under the communist regime. i grew up without knowing half of my family. my grandmother herself escaped death twice under the stalin regime. this is what's seared in my mind. that's who i am. i remember that history. i came to this country. i'm proud to be an american. >> our own nicolle wallace reacted to kennedy's comments earlier this afternoon. >> this is a disgrace, not just to the country, it's a disgrace not just to the united states senate, it's a disgrace to the party of ronald reagan who described the united states of america as a shining city on the hill because it was a beacon for people like this biden report from port of newcastle. it's the larges

he was relocated from kazakhstan to mauritania, where they didn't have a good health system.be treated, because he needed emergency surgery. and his doctor told him, "you have only six months." so he needed $30,000. cage organized, raised fund for him. and they said his surgery will be covered. he needed just a travelocument, either to travel to tunisia or other country, just to have the surgery and get back. he lost his life. you know, it's one of the saddest moments. like, when i was talking to him, -- talking to icrc, was talking to human rights organizations, to governments, nobody cares. simply, nobody cares. amy: former guantánamo prisoner mansoor adayfi. when we come back, he will talk about how faith and art often survive guantánamo as well as what he insisted on having a woman voice the audiobook version of his new memoir "don't forget us here: lost and found at guantanamo." ■■ [music break] amy: "is it for freedom?" sara thomsen. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we continue our conversation with mansoor adayfi,

. >> she grew up in then soviet-controlled kazakhstan and says her family suffered under the communist in limbo because many lawmakers, including some democrats, do have questions on big banks. dr. oz apparently thinking about a run for senate in pennsylvania. the tv doctor has not said that but he's reportedly hiring a scheduler and policy director and off to ohio. since republican candidates running to replace senator rob portman gather on thirst. j.d. vance and former state treasurer josh mendel argued, they say, won the 2020 election which, of course, is a lie. >> technology rigged the 2020 election. >> let me say this very, very clearly. i believe this election was stolen from donald j. trump. >> reprehensible. >> a smile. it's beanpot butter and jelly time. two turkeys will be pardoned a bit later today by president biden. those turkeys are named peanut butter and jelly. the birds spent last night at the willette hotel here in washington, d.c. they will move to the rose garden this afternoon where justice and a little pumpkin pie will be served during the ceremony. later, these t

things about free enterprise and how she'd like the federal government to control -- i've been to kazakhstanring around the halls trying to find his office. they were reeling from the years of soviet domination and they've turned around to create a reasonably capitalist country, which is also a strong ally of the yiet now. >> congressman, as you know, my father is a cuban refugee. if you flee a communist country and come to the united states, i mean, that is the ultimate american story. people come here, they want to make a better life for themselves. their families and of course they're going to reject communism totalitarianism if they're fleeing those countries. doesn't make any sense. >> i agree. i think this lady's tostory is story of moving to the united states for people who have moved to the united states, just as you described, but she has written some incendiary things about the role of the public and private sector in the banking system and those i think should be questioned and she should clarify where she stands on that. i believe a private sector banking system is better than a

she was born in kazakhstan. she loses half her family to the stalinist's. literally, her family, much of her family was murdered by them. she wants to come to the united states, she comes to the united states, she studies at an american college while she is here, the seventh union collapses. and she gets to stay and build a life here. she is a well respected academic, not someone who sought the limelight, she has just worked through how she believes banking regulation should be run for the american people, not for the big banks, and that's how she ends up in this crazy joe mccarthy meets trumpism in the senate banking hearing. >> and as you know, to your point here, this is cover, essential, for interest don't want to be regulated. rebecca chaser wrote a great profile of professor saule omarova, i was in new york magazine, it made this point. these are obscure positions, most people don't the wheel with this, the icc, in the early audits, they became notorious to making a also tried to big banks, as regulator whose looser rules would supersede stricter stat

she was born in kazakhstan, loses half her family to the stalinists. family was murdered by them. she wants to come to the united states. she comes to the united states. she studies at an american collect while she's here, the soviet union collapses and she gets to stay and build a life here. she is a well-respected academic, not someone who sought the limelight. she has just worked through how she believes banking regulation should be run for the american people, not for the big banks, and that's how she ends up in this crazy joe mccarthy meets trumpism in the senate banking hearing. >> as you know, i mean, to your point here, i mean, this is cover essentially for interests that don't want to be regulated. rebecca tracer wrote a profile of her. noting this, in the early aughts, the occ became in courts for making itself so attractive to big banks, the banks like jpmorgan eagerly took federal charters over state ones. because there's all these different entities that regulate banks, there can be a race to the bottom. >> oh, yeah, totally. >> this is a

distinguished nominee for controller of the currency in history who was born in soviet -controlled kazakhstanber of a group called the young communist, didn't you senator, are. you? referring to my membership in the youth communist organization while i was growing up in the soviet union? >> i don't know, i wanted to ask you in that question. >> i was born and grew up in the soviet union. >> yes, but were you a member? >> everyone in the country was a member of the communist youth organization -- >> so you were a member? >> that was a part of normal progress in school. >> i don't mean any disrespect. i don't know whether to call you professor or comrade? >> senator, i'm not a communist. i do not subscribe to that ideology. i could not choose where i was born. my family suffered under the communist regime. i grew up without knowing half of my family. my grandmother, herself, escape death twice under the stalin regime. this is what is seared in my mind, that's who i am. i remember that history, i came to this country. i'm proud to be an american, and that's why i'm here today, senator. i'm here

he was beaten in three sets by alexander bublik of kazakhstan, who's 12 places below him in the worlde — as we've been hearing, spurs have sacked their manager nuno espirito santo after a string of bad results. and they're now in talks to appoint antonio conte, who won the premier league with their london rivals chelsea. well, we can speak now to theo delaney, who hosts the long—running spurs show podcast. hejoins us live. let me pick up on that first of all, this is the manager who they were talking to so very long ago. that is riuht. talking to so very long ago. that is right- they — talking to so very long ago. that is right. they seemed _ talking to so very long ago. that is right. they seemed to _ talking to so very long ago. that is right. they seemed to try - talking to so very long ago. that is right. they seemed to try to - talking to so very long ago. that is right. they seemed to try to get i talking to so very long ago. that is i right. they seemed to try to get him in the summerand right. they seemed to try to get him in the summer and talks broke down pretty quickly and

he was beaten in three sets by alexander bublik of kazakhstan, who's 12 places below him in the worlders do this evening, but they tend to fade away and lend overnight, allowing tipsters to tumble, some mist and fog and southern areas and a touch of frost in rural parts of england and wales. so much colder to start is we wake up so much colder to start is we wake up on tuesday morning, a little bit of fog around, perhaps for the midlands and southern areas will be slow to clear this time of year. otherwise it's a day of sunny spells of showers, the majority of those falling in northern and western areas brought in on this notably chilly northwesterly breeze. lighter thanit chilly northwesterly breeze. lighter than it has been, but because of the change in wind direction, we will all notice a chill in the air despite some sunshine for the day ahead tomorrow. and it stays chilli through wednesday as well, another day of sunny spells and scattered showers, perhaps a little bit drier towards the end of the week. today at six we're in glasgow where the climate summit has opened with a barr

lot of crazy things, i think what congress has to figure out, she is an immigrant from russia, kazakhstan the old soviet union and they come to the u.s. and they become capitalists, because they see how bad the old system wants, congress with the confirmation hearings is this, pin her down, she went to moscow university on a lennon scholarship, is she still a communist? that's what we need to understand is if we are appointing to one of the top banking regulators is now an all-out communist, they need to ask her, because it is unclear if she shed her ideology from those old bases, a lot of people come from russia and come here and they love america, they hate the old soviet system of economics, but i don't know if she does, i think she still is in love with it. >> john: we will find out all 50 republicans are supposed to vote against her and three democrats including kyrsten sinema and joe manchin, all because she also said this about getting rid of the oil and gas industry the way that we basically get through the financiers is we starve them of their sources of capital. so it's not just

biden when he was vice president with the business partners from mexico, russia from china from kazakhstanem in beijing and cafÉ milano and washington, d.c. he brought them onto air force to. there is no getting around that not only did he know about hunter biden and also his brother jim biden business dealings and influence peddling but he was also intimately involved. lauren: the book laptop from hell, miranda divine, congratulations. >> thank you so much. lauren: let's go back to the market shelley scott. good to see you. the dow down half of 1%. there is the future of how our investment depend on our response to omicron.. is that what this is about or is there something more. >> is a worried responsible to administration is going to do about omicron. there is a lot more letters in the greek alphabet. we will have to get used to this every six months. our psyche has got to get over the fact that we will eradicate any type of virus. they will mutate and we have to mitigate. what i think the markets are worried about how to have the chair, the fed come out and say this is going to cause i

she was born in kazakhstan when it was part of the soviet union and moved to the united states in 1991s times as an expert witness on financial regulation. she also works as a policy adviser during the george w. bush administration. yesterday republicans senator john kennedy of louisiana appeared to suggest that she may have communist sympathies because of her upbringing. take a look. >> you used to be a member of a group called the young communist, didn't you? >> senator, are you referring to my membership in the youth communist organization while i was growing up in the soviet union. >> i want to ask you that question. >> senator, i was born and grew up in the soviet union. >> are you with a member of it? >> everybody in that country is a member of -- >> you were a member? >> that was a part of normal progress in school. >> have you resigned? >> from the youth? >> from the young communist. >> you grow out of it with age automatically. >> did i send them a letter of resigning though? >> senator, this was many, many years ago as far as i remember how the soviet union works at certain a

>> i became an american citizen in 2005 and immediately after that i renounced my kazakhstan citizenship. >> do you have any loyalist to marxist or leninist ideas. >> no i don't. i absolutely don't. i lived through that system i have no affection or affiliation with any of those ideas. >> and you, some of o your family members, before you were born but some of your family members were murdered by that regime, correct? >> thaz that is correct. i come from the people that have been oppressed by the soviet regime. probably a quarter of its population to -- my own family has suffered persecution. so yes, that is absolutely correct. >> thank you for your candor. i -- i hope the rest of this hearing will be focused on what's really at stake. american family, the financial system and just last question. what is your vision for the job the president's nominated you for as comptroller over the currency? >> senator if am, i will do my best to uphold the mission of the occ which is to safeguard the safe and stable and competitive operation of the national banking system. i would do my best to ensur