i'm a member of the national executive committee of the anc, and i'm quite convinced that the majorityhe national executive committee will keep the party together, and those who want to disobey the decisions of the national executive committee will find themselves out of the door by their own volition and by their own deeds. just another thought about the anc. your own fellow countrymen and women, they want to know that your government is truly focused on the crisis you're facing. but they know that jacob zuma and ace magashule are going to be facing trial. and they know that both men deny all of the very serious charges. they know this could run on for a long time. i just wonder whether you accept the words of william gumede, the chairman of a big ngo in your country, democracy works, who says that this has become a battle for the soul of the anc, particularly the fate of zuma. do you, as a senior member of your party, agree with that? i've known william gumede for a long time. he has been saying that for the past 20 years, it's not a new expression he has used. so i don't think there

the scottish national party mp joanna cherry has resigned from its national executive committee.er what she calls issues of "transparency and scrutiny" in the party. police scotland is assessing whether to launch a fraud investigation over allegations relating to £600,000 that had been "ring—fenced" for a second independence referendum. the authorities in china have announced that couples will be allowed to have up to three children, raising the limit from two. it follows census figures showing a steep decline in the birth rate. five years ago, the chinese communist party had to abandon its one child policy for the nation implimented in 1976, which aimed to limit population growth. with more, here's our china correspondentjohn sudworth. the announcement may have looked a little mundane but the news was momentous. chinese women can now have three children. for decades, china's one child policy was brutally enforced, with millions of involuntary sterilisations and abortions. it was not only cruel, it was a disaster. china doesn't have enough young people to sustain its economy, and

legion leadership roles serving as commanding at post 120 for 15 years and tennessee's national executive committee man for 22 years. he remains committed to his military fraternity until this day. our country's heroes are the men and women of our armed forces and those that wear our country's badges. like corporal bradshaw who served and sacrificed for our freedom, thank you for your service and, brother, i'm truly sorry to hear about the passing of your sweet wife. thank you, madam speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from ohio, ms. kaptur, for five minutes. ms. kaptur: thank you, madam speaker. as our nation approaches memorial day, 2021, i'm deeply privileged to enter into the congressional record the true story of a great soldier and an agonizing battle during the war in vietnam. the story recounts the superhuman valor of a great army soldier named john eid, heroic son of my hometown of toledo, ohio. john is held in the highest esteem to those who know him. he's a faithful friend and true patriot,

all coming at a time we are headed to the tokyo olympics area the national olympic committee executive on friday, the tokyo olympics must go on despite the fact that we continue to see the states of emergency around the country. a scout -- let's now get over to vonnie quinn with the first word headlines. vonnie: thank you, sherry. the interception of an airplane flying from athens by belarus is military. violation of travel protocols led to the plane enforce to land in. local authorities boarded and arrested a journalist. before the flight was allowed to eventually resume. toronto's likely to temporarily extend the nuclear agreement expired over the weekend. a rainy and state tv -- iranian state tv reports washington's return to an abandoned 2015 nuclear record, and removal of trump era sanction within 30 days. antony blinken told the u.n. the u.s. was prepared to return to the original deal. an egyptian court has rejected an appeal to allow the giant container vessel to block the suez canal to leave the country. they're claiming more than $900 million in damages from the japanese owne

beckett, who is standing for the leadership of the unite union, is also on labour's ruling national executive committeeist party will elect a new leader today. 36 of the dup s senior elected representatives will choose between the stormont agriculture minister edwin poots, and the mp for lagan valley, sirjeffrey donaldson. the contenders put their names forward to succeed arlene foster, who announced her resignation last month. the health service executive in ireland has closed down its it systems after being targeted in what it said was a "significant ransomware attack". the hse said it had temporarily shut down its systems as a "precaution". it said covid—19 vaccination appointments were not affected by the incident but the rotunda maternity hospital in dublin has been forced to cancel many routine appointments. in scotland, the snp has won the airdrie and shotts by—election, with a reduced majority over labour. anum qaisar—javed will take over the seat vacated by neil gray, who became a member of the scottish parliament last week. the duke of sussex has said he wants to "break the cycle" of the "pai

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james zogby — founder of the arab american institute and a member of the executive committee of the democratic party's national. thank you forjoining us on bbc news. how much pressure is biden really putting on benjamin netanyahu? he call for an immediate ceasefire, did he? he call for an immediate ceasefire, did he? ., ceasefire, did he? he did not. and i think — ceasefire, did he? he did not. and | think the _ ceasefire, did he? he did not. and i think the pressure - ceasefire, did he? he did not. and i think the pressure is - ceasefire, did he? he did not. j and i think the pressure is not enough and they will continue to be pressure on president biden to put more pressure as long as benjamin netanyahu does not end this rather savage bombing. and i think that it is important that the us put pressure not only in order to stop the bombing but to create an american role in the post conflict situation. the extent to which we are seen as the reason why this ended, to that extent we will have leveraging israel, support and leveraged with the palestinians in the broader arab world. if this ends when netanyahu says

national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> coming up today on c-span, chief executives from the nation's largest banks testify before the banking committee about their operating practices. homeland security secretary ellen hundred mayorkas had a senate appropriations subcommittee hearing. the senate returns at 10:30 a.m. on c-span to consider legislation authorizing science and technology research programs. at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span three, a house energy and commerce subcommittee looks at ways to build public confidence in covid vaccines. that's followed by the head of the

committee. and founder executive director of the national security institute. jim eel, good morning. thank you for being with us. >> morning, lindsey. >> israel says that this targeted high-rise in gaza was used by hamas military intelligence. the ap says they had no indication hummus operated from the building. should israel provide proof here? >> look, i think is important to see what they know. school they has long been the concern for the court was really. they did inform the ap ahead of time they were able to evacuate their boats from their as much as possible, within an hour. that being said, honestly, the international criticism about the strikes which did in crude a number of analysts and algae. we're not clear who was in the killing at the time. they were given a notice ahead of time. >> jamil what should be done right now trying to de-escalate. and whose responsibility is it? who steps into that role? >> it's a really tough situation. obviously, you've got the is really saying we had 20 rocket launch a us. nearly a dozen is really killed. on the palestinian side there sayin

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nation's largest banks testify before the senate banking committee about their operating practices, including their response to the coronavirus pandemic. they were asked about the pay gap between executives and employees, leadership diversity, and political issues such as voting access. this hearing is just

nation's largest banks testified before the senate banking committee, about operating practices including the response to the coronavirus pandemic. we were also asked about the pay gap between executives and employees, leadership diversity, and opposition on political issues like voting access. this hearing is just under three hours. how you come of the nation's largest financial institutions use other people's money. you are the six most powerful business leaders in the country. your decisions affect the lives of millions of americans, their paychecks, their opportunities, their retirement savings. your power is so much greater than that of your predecessors, 30, 40, 50 years ago. create and they are working harder than ever. we have a route -- racial wealth and income gap and in the aftermath of the 2008 recession where millions are their jobs, wall street made record profits in a pandemic or half a million americans died, we have the highest unemployment, wall street still made record profits. i sense a pattern. like most americans, i want businesses to make money. some people will be wealthy, that is fine with me. here's the problem. under the current system, wall street profits n

♪ >> coming up wednesday on c-span, chief executives from the nation's largest banks testify before the senate banking committeebout their operating practices. that's at 10:00 a.m. eastern. at 2:00 p.m., homeland security secretary at a senate appropriations subcommittee hearing. on c-span two, the senate returns at 10: 30 a.m. to consider amendments to legislation authorizing science and technology research programs over the next five years. at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3, the house energy and sub commerce committee looks that way to build confidence in covid-19 vaccines. that's by the head of the small business administration. now a committee reviews gun storage laws to prevent gun violence. it was fatally shot with an improperly stored firearm in a texas resident who used his own rifle to chase after a gunman responsible for killing 26 people at a church in 2017. this hearing is one hour 40 minutes. >> the senate committee will come to order. i think all of our witness for being here. i apologize for the delay, but we had a vote, and i thank the witnesses who are participating remotely today. before we beg

in jamil jaffer, founder and executive director of the national security institute, also former chief counsel and senior adviser for the senate foreign relations committeecases, you want to start with why. why is russia doing this? why now? why the targets, and what do they want? >> well, look, arthel, i think part of what they're trying to do is to get in through the u.s. government through a usaid e-mail account. these are human rights organizations, organizations that operate around the world to provide humanitarian and other assistance to people that the u.s. wants to support and, for example, in russia, you know, we conduct activities whether it's in russia or eastern europe or the like. the russians want to know what's going on, what are organizations doing, and they went in through a u.s. official account run by an outside company, and they were able to get in and now start exploiting these systems. arthel: exploiting them how? what do they want to do? >> once they're n you -- they're using a phishing attack, right in they're coming in, you click on the link, and then it downloads malware to your system. it allows them to take control of the comp

executive committee member. who says that the international community's response and reactions where armstrong going off to enforce israel to calm the situation down and he says that the nations aren't enough when it comes to that serious escalation we've also heard from different palestinian officials including top aides to president he tweeted saying that the palestinian leadership is going to convene and study what options they have to confront the israeli escalation in east jerusalem but that has been met with a lot of criticism in the streets where be people say that they've been calling for gaza to respond and they've seen a response from the military wing of hamas and islamic jihad to gaza while the palestinian authority is studying what to do this is. caustic remarks we've seen them a lot on social media and there is some feeling that the palestinian authority can do more but isn't but when it comes to palestinian officials they will tell you that they are so. king. national community they want do you want to go to council to arab. islamic cooperation to deal with the situation and kind of put pressure on israel of that cigar that we've also heard from the palestinian

nations security council the arab league though to get into the shin of islamic cooperation to hold and to have more condemning remarks and even we've talking to someone from the palestinian authority from the p.l.o. executive committee who says that the international community's condemnations we're a bit too soft on israel and they're not going to be deterring it from its actions so as far as the palestinian authority is concerned there have been and dealing with this diplomatically but many palestinians in the street they say they're being too soft many thanks for that correspond need for us live in ramallah and occupied west bank keeping across all the latest lines coming in from reach. 2 breaking news now coming in from russia where at least 8 people most of them students have been killed in a school shooting in the southwestern city of khazan at least 20 people have been wounded local media is reporting that one suspect a 19 year old has been arrested witnesses have described hearing explosions while such attacks are rare in russia incidents have been rising usually involving students. well. there was one explosion or maybe 2 it was strong we jumped up and thought it was a truck and we heard a lot and ran out. l

the chief judge circuit on the executive committee of the pretrial services agency for the district of columbia. that is a statutory appointment. that agency has a nation leading reputation for analyzing pretrial detainees about which ones need to be detained, which ones don't and which kind minimal conditions can be required. very good method of figuring out on the lease or after the lease. both the judges, the federal court in the superior court are happy with the cul results f that. so one thing to help model that program with participants. the federal law permits pretrial there's no combination of other kinds of conditions that would ensure been arrested and secure the safety of underlying tests to honor provisions that provide a presumption of detention when the sentence face is extremely high even in those circumstances is presumed in assumption. >> according to justice, spent one or $27 million a year on pretrial detention in today's dollars. today that is over $2 billion, yet our prison population has been reduced significantly from where it was three decades ago. does it seemed like somewhat of an outsized increase to you when these crime rate

nation's largest banks testify on their operating practices. topics of diversity in the workplace and lending practices as well as start pricing and corporate taxes, the executives are appearing before the senate banking committee wednesday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. listen on the free c-span radio app. >> on capitol hill, house speaker nancy pelosi and california representative karen bass met with the family of george floyd on the one-year anniversary of his death. representative -- is the author of the george floyd justice in policing act which passed the house in march and now is awaiting action in the senate. >>

. >> coming up wednesday on c-span, chief executives from the nation's largest banks testified before the senate yanking committee about their banking practices. then a senate appropriations subs -- subcommittee hearing. on c-span2, the senate returns to discuss legislation authorizing science and technology research programs over the next five years. on c-span3, the house looks at ways to build public confidence in covid-19 vaccines, followed by the head of the small business administration on the implementation of covid-19 relief programs for small business. >> on sunday, june 5, max hastings will be our guest on "in depth." >> inflicted humiliation on the planet's largest population. on the evening of the 29th of april, fugitives ascended to a rooftop helicopter, secured a place among the symbolic images of their world. for me and all the generation of war correspondents, the struggle was among the four most of our careers. i was one of the ones who flew out of the u.s. embassy. >>'s most recent book is the soon to be released "operation pedestal." other books include "catastrophe," "1914: europe coastal war,"

. >> on c-span, chief executives from the nation's out largest banks testify before the senate banking committee about their operating practices, that is at 10:00 a.m. eastern. at 2:00 p.m., amen security secretary alejandro mayorkas at hearing, on c-span2, the senate returned at 10:30 a.m. to consider amendments to legislation authorizing science and technology research programs over the next five years. at 11:00 a.m. on c-span3, the house, energy, and commerce subcommittee looks at ways to build public confidence in covid-19 vaccines, that is followed by the head of the small business administration, isabel guzman on the implementation of covid-19 relief programs for small business. >> book on c-span2 has top nonfiction books and authors every weekend, saturday at 10:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards, maverick, a biography -- by wall street journal columnist, syndicated by dennis prager, sunday at 10:00 p.m. eastern, the premonition of pandemic story, best selling author michael lewis writes about the early warning signs of the covid-19 pandemic and the trump administration's response, watch book

executive committee member of the palestine liberation organization. joining me is a staff writer with "the new york times" magazine, a senior political and military analyst for a nationally newspaper out of tel aviv and the author of "rise and kill first," the history of israel's targeted assassinations. he is somebody i turn to to understand what is going on in the middle east. ronan, i want to start with this issue, the idea that every time there are these fights, these wars, whatever you want to call them, they often end up with something that feels like the status quo, no meaningful change, but something that feels meaningfully different here is opinion in the united states about that. how is that going down in israel? >> i think it is reflected in the way that the audience of israel, that this is not just a war between israel and hamas and that the fate of this war and the identification of the winner or loser or who gained more is not just in the number of skull counts of the enemy, but also a war that is being conducted over international media, especially over the american media. israel sees that. i think that prime minister netanyahu also paid attention when h

committee chairman thompson and members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to today. i served as senior vice president of policy advocacy executive director of washington bureau for the national n league. i bring you greetings on behalf of our president and ceo. i was i loved every minute of it. the national urban league is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to providing economic empowerment, educational opportunity, and the guarantee of civil rights. of the nation's 10 busiest airports, the urban league has an affiliate in all 10 cities. i appreciate the opportunity to share the perspective and the need for the rights for the transportation security and workforce act. we want stable employment with benefits and a pathway to the middle class in the urban and rural communities. it is vital tsa workers are protected and compensated fairly. the tsa workforce is diverse and reflects the communities they serve. they supply 65% of the 60,000 workers of the tsa are of color. black americans make up about 11% of the population but nearly triple that of transportation. latino and asian americans also make up a large amount of the transportation security workforce. within t

attorney general's civil rights bureau, and as president and executive director of the lawyers committee for civil rights under law, one of the nation's preeminent civil rights organizations. kristen clarke's credentials for this job are unimpeachable. unable to undermine her nomination on the merits, senate republicans have engaged in a vicious smear campaign against kristen clarke because they are afraid she'll actually do her job. they are afraid she'll enforce our civil rights laws, challenge discriminatory voting laws, combat systemic racism and policing, and protect the lgbtq community. this work is urgently needed after the civil rights division endured four years of intentional neglect and outright hostility during the trump administration. during his four years in office, the trump administration brought only a single case -- one -- under the voting rights act, even as states like georgia, ohio, and wisconsin worked to suppress the votes by targeting people of color. the previous administration also effectively ended the use of consent decrease to bring police departments into compliance with the constitution. it abandoned th

members of the united states house committee on house administration, i bring you greetings on behalf of the executive board, members and constituents of the nationalrganization of black law enforcement executives, noble. professor and practice of criminal justice and retired deputy assistant director and chief security officer for the united states secret service. i've served for more than 30 years in the law enforcement profession. it is an honor for noble to provide written testimony on today's topic and i'm honored to participate in this ongoing important work of root cost analysis and remedies to strengthen the leadership and technical posture of u.s. capitol police force, to ensure the safety and security of our democracy, the stewards of our democracy embody in our congressional representatives, the many visitors, staff and musilts. like you i watched in horror as the events of january 6, 2021, unfolded and developed into what has been appropriately describe as a domestic terrorism attack on our country's democratic process. and more directly an all-out assault on the men and women of the u.s. capitol police force and u.s. congress. the afte

chairperson the house committee and house administration, i bring greetings on behalf of the board and members and constituents of the national organization of black law enforcement executives. i am linda williams, national president, professor of practice of criminal justice at the state university and retired assistant director and chief security officer for the united states secret service and served more than 30 years in the law enforcement. and it's an honor to provide written testimony for all of the topic and participating in the ongoing and important work to strengthen the leadership and posture of the u.s. capitol police force to ensure the safety and security of our democracy. the stewards of our democracy embody and our congressional representatives, the very visitors, staff and facility. like you i watched in horror the events of january 6th, 2021 unfolded and evolved into what has been appropriately described as a domestic terrorism attack in our democratic process and more directly and an all-out assault on men and women in the u.s. congress. and it brought many questions, direct scrutiny and methodologies around intelligence gathering and dissemination, opera

national emergency declared in executive order 13611 with respect to yemen. signed, joseph r. biden jr., the white house. may 11, 2021. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the committee on foreign affairs and ordered printed. the chair lays before the house a message. the clerk: to the congress of the united states. section 202-d of the national emergencies act, 50 united states code 1622-d, provides for the automatic termination of a national mgs unless within 0 days prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the president publishes in the federal register and transmit to the congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond anniversary date. in accordance with this provision, i've sent to the federal register for pubbledation the -- publication the enclosed notice stating that the national emergency of may 15, 2019, with respect to securing the information and communications technology and services supply chain, is to continue in effect beyond may 15, 2021. the unrestricted acquisition or use in the united states of information and communications technology or services designed, developed, manufactured or supplied by persons owned

nation's largest banks testified before the senate banking committee, about operating practices including the response to the coronavirus pandemic. we were also asked about the pay gap between executiveses, leadership diversity, and opposition on political issues like voting access. this hearing is just under three hours. how you come of the nation's largest financial institutions use other people's money. you are the six most powerful business leaders in the country. your decisions affect the lives of millions of americans, their paychecks, their opportunities, their retirement savings. your power is so much greater than that of your predecessors, 30, 40, 50 years ago. create and they are working harder than ever. we have a route -- racial wealth and income gap

nation's largest banks testify before the senate banking committee about their operating practices, including their response to the coronavirus pandemic. they were asked about the pay gap between executives and employees, leadership diversity, and political issues such as voting access. this hearing is just under three hours. >> stock prices are soaring, your own compensation as a stratosphere, the workers are getting a smaller share of the wealth they create and they are working harder than ever. we have a route -- racial wealth and income gap and in the aftermath of the 2008 recession where millions are their jobs, wall street made record profits in a pandemic or half a million americans died, we have the highest unemployment, wall street still made record profits. i sense a pattern. like most americans, i want businesses to make money. some people will be wealthy, that is fine with me. here's the problem. under the current system, wall street profits no matter what happens to workers because those profits now come at the expense of workers. your banks are what build that system. we often hear about the invisible hand, but the economy is not physics, it is not governed by scientific la

. ♪ >> coming up wednesday on c-span, chief executives from the nation's largest banks testify before the senate banking committeebout their operating practices. that's at 10:00 a.m. eastern. at 2:00 p.m., homeland security secretary at a senate appropriations subcommittee hearing. on c-span two, the senate returns at 10: 30 a.m. to consider amendments to legislation authorizing science and technology research programs over the next five years. at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3, the house energy and sub commerce committee looks that way to build confidence in covid-19 vaccines. that's by the head of the small business administration.