want to transformed itself from a humble and peace center into in the via able to coalition wants to impose conditions not only on astley's but also on the i.o.c. which actually created the agency that said water has lost the war against doping more than once but it admits that reluctantly and with reservations. against doping and we need i am optimistic for two reasons basically the first one is that if you look at it carefully we can find some satisfactions we can find some victories in the fight against doping so yes there are the so on point is it cannot get worst. the agency always needs to prove it's capable of beating the monster the question is who will be the monster the decision is always made behind the scenes. that's just. your. turn you. know i think. we. want them to get back to not going to be a bit different a little bit down. year after year the winners podiums in major competitions are graced by norwegian representatives as the publication discovered seventy percent of norwegian olympic medals since one thousand nine hundred ninety two have been won by us magics. to

the president of the international center for peace in the middle east. >> thank you. genie: one year ago today, the syrian army took back the city the rebebels. thousands of people they're marked that anniversary thursday with flags and a military parade. the cymer 2, 2016, the army announced it was in full control of syria's second city, after clearing it up writers things to a massive offensive backed by russia. aleppo marked the syrian president's biggest victory since the beginning of that war, and set off a a domino effect of opposition losses around the country. peru's parliament has voted not to impeach its president. that is the latest twist in the political crisis that began over a week ago after allegations that table pollack a kinski received -- that pedro pablo kuczynski received bribes linked to a corruption scandal. reporter: late-night band ring in his success. pedro pablo kuczynski has escaped impeachment by the skin of his teeth -- i just eight votes. the surprise victory elicited applause in congress after his opposition had not reached the to impeac

also this this week a mechanism which is supposed to guarantee peace and help facilitate peace the joint center for control and coordination in ukraine basically broke down russia pulled out its officers on wednesday and today german chancellor i'm going to america and french president. called for russia to bring their officials back to restore that and to uphold the cease fire and for the cease fire to be upheld excuse me but so far things aren't looking so great well sure when for us in moscow thank you very much more than one hundred people are dead in the philippines after a tropical storm brought devastation to the south of the country rescue operations are underway to find the dozens who are still missing ten it is the second deadly storm to hit the country this week it swept over the southern island of mindanao leaving destruction and its wake. this man and child and lucky to be alive. the effects of mudslides and flooding have been devastating. entire villages under meters of water. others swept away. volunteers have been digging through mud to try to recover bodies. houses will being f

also this this week a mechanism which is supposed to guarantee peace and help facilitate peace the joint center for control and coordination in ukraine basically broke down russia pulled out its officers on wednesday and today german chancellor i'm going to america and french president. called for russia to bring their officials back to restore that and to uphold the cease fire and for the ceasefire to be upheld excuse me but so far things aren't looking so great well sure when for us in moscow thank you very much and speaking of russia nato says russian submarines have dramatically stepped up their activity in the mediterranean and the north atlantic the alliance fears that moscow could use its navy to damage or tap into vital undersea data cables that run between europe and north america in an interview with a german newspaper nato secretary general yen stoltenberg said quote russia has invested massively and its marine capability especially in submarines he also pointed out that russia's submarine activity was now at its highest level since the cold war. more than one hundred people are dead

group city want to build peace and corporations visit was organized by a jewish group the simon peace intel center in los angeles but one expert says the timing sends a terrible message that i lose they were trying to do. this. in the media. this group coming from bahrain and all time go. forward with the. usual routine protests across jerusalem in the occupied west bank says donald trump and i used his unilateral decision that the u.s. would recognize to. as the capital of israel has been widespread condemnation across the world to the group says its trip had been planned for months it was reported locally that the bahraini delegation wanted to visit a mosque while they were here a senior official at the mosque said that given the trip was facilitated by the israelis they would not be welcomed look at this important social media suggested the group was heading to gaza it sparked protests at the crossing with israel with locals determined to block them there's no confirmation the group ever planned to visit gaza one palestinian political analyst believes the bahraini visit is part of a bigger glob

peace in washington d.c. for remarks by the outgoing director of the national counterterrorism center niclas rasmussen. : >>. [inaudible conversation] >>. [inaudible conversation] >>. [inaudible conversation] >> c-span2 live at the carnegie endowment for international peace, remarks by the national director of the counterterrorism center, nicholas rasmussen. he is expected to talk about his tenure and address the growing terror threats and also live later tonight here on c-span2 we are hearing from president trump was holding a rally in pensacola florida. he's expected to talk about the republican tax reform efforts. we are live happy as a: a center starting at 8 pm eastern here on c-span2 and reporting president trump signed a short-term spending bill to avert a government shutdown. he signed a day after congress send it to his desk december 22. lawmakers say that. two more weeks to negotiate a broader spending agreement. read more than hill.com and waiting for remarks by outgoing director of the counterterrorism center nicholas rasmussen here on c-span2. >>. [inaudible conversation] >>. [inaudible conversat

peace process. live from our international news center here in moscow this is r.t. good to have your company on union only our top story u.s. regulators have voted to end so-called net neutrality which now could significantly alter the web experience from millions of people. internet providers to charge extra to prioritize their traffic effectively creating a slow lane for smaller websites and here's a brick donna have it all works we access the web through internet service providers i espied. at the moment companies have to treat all online traffic equally but the us federal communications commission says that's preventing websites from investing trillions of dollars in their services a no with net neutrality regulations goldman i s p s will be free to charge a premium to prioritize certain services breaking down what happened earlier see your account well the f.c.c. is latest decision will repeal obama's regulations that were passed in twenty fifteen and as expected the vote was three to two along party lines with republicans voting in favor of the deregulation or

on thursday in vienna ivan eland senior fellow and director of the center on peace and liberty gave us his thoughts on what is next for syria following defeat. there is always a question of who is going to you know occupy the land that i saw all of our had had occupied before after they were defeated and i think us always has trouble leaving theaters of war and the troops still in korea you know almost seventy years after the war ended there and we see troops still in europe after the cold war is over so i think i predicted that. u.s. would probably stay around in syria and with the help of the kurds of course and so they don't want to give the that that territory dak to assad the assad. regime in syria let amir put in says he is running for a fourth term as russia's president next year details on his big announcement after a short break this is art international. so you know. the coalition that it has been its has been basically destroying yemen killing yemeni civilians and now it's a common. international talk the saudis refrain from even killing babies. in dead of indiscriminate bom

peace this minute. there is no center in the united states' political discourse it's all center right ever since the clinton people came into power the center right has become the right and there is no peace party that exists in my country and i don't see any evidence of it except this third party that is so criticized the green party. this footage is unique because there's a tribal lands on normally off limits to the public eric's allowed in because he's this is personal don't. people here know him simply as dr eric he's rich and famous some always on the move saving yachts and flying aircraft that that's what's on. cars now because. he's considered one of the best neurosurgeons in brazil. that's happening amazon. how are you so sis going. to busy doing math is going to do the population roughly what is going to people on his own. north korea accuses washington of them begging for nuclear war just a days after pyongyang tested its most powerful missile today. a story that shaped the week on our teen suicide at the hague

ivan eland a senior fellow and director of the center on peace and liberty gave us his thoughts on what is next for syria following eisel defeat there is always a question of who is going to you know occupy the lands that i saw that are had had occupied before after they were defeated and i think the u.s. always has trouble leaving theaters of war and you see troops still in korea you know almost seventy years after the war ended there and we see troops still in europe after the cold war is over so i think i predicted that they put us would probably stay around in syria with the help of the kurds of course and so they don't want to give the that that territory back to assad the assad. regime in syria vladimir putin says he is running for a fourth term as russia's president next year the details on his big announcement after a short break you are watching our contest. if you trust the mainstream media well then you're in the minority sadly a great deal of media today is not designed to inform but rather confirm political biases this approach of the news is not only polarizing but it's al

netanyahu also said this into the palestinians except jerusalem was israel's capital the center there would be peace i asked our correspondent in jerusalem tanya kramer how anetta now how. intends to make that work that is really a good question because that is really a nonstarter for the palestinians they're saying well we are also a reality here and they want of course to see. for lay to be the capital of their future state so it was quite rather an uncompromising stance to echoing also the words of the u.s. president who had recognized jerusalem asked a capital of israel last week so also a rather straightforward statement by the french president in this press conference he was basically reiterating again that france is opposing this recognition and he also the israeli prime minister to make some gestures towards the palestinians fix some is talking about a possible settlement freeze so you also had very clear verts to mr netanyahu on this issue now to some of the other stories making news around the world. several thousand people have marched turkey have ukraine in support of opposition politici

it was inland now, miles from the the harbor, the peace river, the center of the town whose warmth haddrawn them to the gulf coast. the bus stopped in the middle of a quiet neighborhood. driver opened the door. it was 3:45 p.m. >> we got off the bus and walked home. >> reporter: "we" means veronica ord, then almost 14 years old, and her yor >> and i remember halfway down the road, remembering that i forget my key. but the closer we got to the house, i had seen my sister's car. so i said, "oh, okay, cool." you know, i don't -- i don't need the key. you know, she's home. >> reporter: then she noticed the door wasn't quite closed. >> it was closed, but it wasn't latched. like you could just pull on it and the door would open. i remember walking in and oprah was on the tv. >> what did you assume when you saw the door open and the tv on? >> i thought maybe she left in a hurry. maybe she went with a friend, you know, and she just didn't close the door all the way. >> reporter: "she" was tara, veronica's older sister, not quite 20 then. veronica called out. no answer. she walked through the h

qualifies itself from play in a peaceful process the turkish president takes center stage in the regional resistance to both the us and israel an extraordinary all muslim nations summit is hosted in istanbul by president who wasted no time in calling trump's decision no and void and branding israel a state of terror. are you back in this country israel. and terrorism is that what you are defending even more violence and a possible third intifada from nine hundred eighty seven to ninety one and two thousand to two thousand and five the region saw two deadly palestinian uprisings against the israeli occupation known as the into fargas now we could be on the verge of a third slaughter in the name of allah firstly how mass is called on the palestinian people to face the israeli occupation and adopt the blessid into fodder against that and the hateful and racist recognition of jerusalem into america river. says its decision the palestinian people were involved in a continuous battle and into fodder against the israeli occupation and we are calling for it to be escalated in the west bank occupi

center. relatively peaceful.towards the american administration, president trump, the international community, for allowing this decision to go forward. there have been call against the palestinian authority but as the days progressed, the protesters made their way to outskirts of ramallah. there's an israeli military base not too far away from where i am and this tends to be the scene for the clashes for this particular area. the protesters have been burning ti tires, barricading the roads, trying to prevent access in and out of this particular area, throwing stones at the soldiers who were on the base and who have kind of deployed in and around the hilltops overlooking the roads here. they've been firing tear gas. been firing rubber bullets in the direction of the crowds. the ambulances have been cominged an going, so we know there have been some casualties, but no fatalities as of yet. and these situations reflect really the kind of growing anger, growing tension on the street. the question, though, stephanie,

next year will be the 50th anniversary of the construction of the japan center, including the peace plaza and pagoda. so it is the most fitting time to recognize these places, these structures, and to have -- if not in physical embodiment, at least to show that we do recognize, we treasure, and we're going to move forward, to protect these assets. and, again, i know, having sat on that side of the commission bench, it can be difficult when you've got different people telling you different things, but i appreciate how much thought and consideration you put into this. thank you. >> commissioner wolfram: thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is john osaki, executive director of the japanese committee youth council. board member of japantown task force and co-chair of peace plaza committee. the history of our community is one where historically we've had individuals or institutions tell us what we could do. we've had people tell us what is good for us. and the japan town task force was specifically put in place so that our community would have a voice on matters related to the

. >> my name is maria, i'm at the center for peace building. thank you for this discussion.my question is about talks and what is the right way to go about encouraging those talks and who are the right players. it seems the situation is to polarize between the u.s. and north korea for there to be direct talks without some facilitation. my question is, first of all, when you talk about the elites, are there people within that group that can be harnessed to come up with some sort of platform for talks? further intelligence that can be john or is it only people from the political party that can be engaged? if you could just talk about the potential for talks and how that might come about, that would be great. >> jean would you like to take that one?lkje >> i want to reinforce the point andnd provide some background. in early 2015, northd r korea originated their proposal for a dual freeze which now china has sort of taken up the mantleze on later in the fall, they also proposed peace party talks.s. they have been proposing talks in recent years but i think anthony is right, rec

peace. >> i was at parker center, which is the police headquarters at the time, when the verdicts were announced gather. it began to turn more and more violent. parker center has a glass entrance and people were throwing rocks at the doors. i was inside with the police commissioners and they were frantically searching for gates. it turned out the gates were unreachable, because he was at a fund-raiser. >> i was standing in front of parker center trying to protect the building, and my wife said, are you watching television? they're beating a guy up in the middle of florence and normandy. >> terrible, terrible pictures. >> in our living rooms, we saw in realtime reginald denny smashed with the big cement block. >> and there's no police presence down here. they will not enter the area. >> it sent a message to everybody else that, this is a free for all. there are no police. there's nobody that's going to stop you. and so people poured into the streets. and the violence spread from that. >> no justice, no peace. >> where's lapd? what the hell's going on here? and once you don't control something lik

you continue to be the source of our peace and the center of our joy. may our reverential awe provide us with the foundation of true wisdom. empower our lawmakers to make a positive difference in our nation and world. give them generous, righteous, and compassionate hearts so that they will transform discord into harmony. as they turn to you in humble, fervent prayer, hear our prayers, forgive our sins, and heal our land. lord, we thank you that you will never give us more to do than we can do with your power. we pray in your mighty name. amen. the president pro tempore: please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: under the previous order the leadership time is reserved. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i move to proceed to calendar 165, s. 1519. the presiding officer: the clerk will

they will turn home to leave peace projects in their own community. shaheen resource center in the old city of india, these girls are muslim undelete which used to be called untouchable cast another backcourt, an official government category in india. the girls first met they made drawings. one girl trooper but it had no wings. the woman there said, is that missing something in the girl rush back to her seat to finish the drawing enter a cage. she had almost no freedom. they cannot leave their homes without being accompanied by a brother, father, or uncle. pass the police to protect them so they could walk to meetings. today they trust safety maps that show places in the neighborhood they have been harassed or molested. they signed the maps and give them so they can redouble their surveillance of those areas. they teach each other moneymaking skills such as hannah, so they will not be financially dependent on their brothers or fathers or future husbands. after taking this picture i asked the girl who is doing the teaching if she considered herself an activist and she said ye

but in the center of this city, a symbol of peace.r may have kept some tourists away but not all. >> i like being here for christmas because jesus was born here. >> reporter: and christian palestinian families gather round their own trees. but this family worries about what the coming years will bring. >> ten years ago i used to see the light at the end of the tunnel. now i don't see at all. i don't see any opportunities for peace. >> reporter: at the vatican, pope francis presided over mass at st. peters basilica, a prayer for unity and for peace. that prayer echoed in bethlehem's church of the nativity where they celebrated the birth of christ amidst uncertainty across this contested land. lucy kafanov, nbc news. >>> now to a little holiday magic on this christmas morning. that moment when you see your loved ones for the first time in a long time. many of you know what we're talking about. you know those unforgettable greetings at the airport that truly capture the meaning of home for the holidays. ♪ ♪ >> i'm waiting for my husband.

in the center of this city, a symbol of peace. fear may have kept some tourists away, but not all. >> i like being here at christmas because jesus was born here. >> reporter: at home, christian palestinians gather round their own trees. the musalam family worries about what the coming years will bring. >> ten years ago, i used to see the light at the end of the tunnel. now i don't see it at all. i don't see any opportunities for peace. ♪ >> reporter: at the vatican, pope francis presided over mass at st. peter's basilica. a prayer for unity and for peace. that prayer echoed in bethlehem's church of the nativity where nay celebrated the birth of christ amidst uncertainty across this contested land. nbc news. >>> now to high drama that played out high above the french alps after more than 150 skiers were left stranded in chairlifts which a gondola broke down near a resort. the rescue operation lasted three hours. in fact, helicopters were seen swooping in to save the people that were on those. about 80 feet off the ground. they were

but in the center of this city, a symbol of peace, fear may have kept some tourists away, but not all. >> i like being here at christmas because jesus was born here. >> reporter: and at home, christian palestinian families gathered around their own trees. but this family worries about what the coming years will bring. >> ten years ago i used to see a light at the end of the tunnel, now i don't see at all. i don't see any, any, any opportunities for peace. >> reporter: at the vatican, pope francis presided over mass at st. peter's basilica. a prayer for unity and for peace. that prayer echoed in bethlehem's church of the nativity where they celebrated the birth of christ amidst uncertainty across this contested land. lu lucy kavanov, nbc news. >> the president and first lady attended christmas eve, the same church the two were married in just 12 years ago. the president and his family spending the holidays at his private mar-a-lago trump, the president sharing a moment with the troops to wish them a merry christmas while still finding time to take aim at a very familiar target. the med

when the republic of korea air force acquired block 32 aircraft under the peace bridge program korean industry built the center fuselages, the korean fighter program k fp, they discussed and enabled korea aerospace industries to become world-class manufacturer of combat aircraft. in phase when we produce the first 12 aircraft in fort worth, texas. in phase 2, components for the next 30 aircraft were built in fort worth but sent to korea for assembly, in phase 3 the final 72 were produced under license, the follow-up on program as well. they wanted to develop aircraft design capability and it started as offset for the kfc program. initially the k 262 for full-scale development in 1997. also invested in full-scale development program. not only has it transformed pilot training in korea, providing better pilots and overtime for less money, the light combat version has reached full operational capability. the t 50 has seen continued success as lockheed martin and k ai collectively promote the platform to meet customer requirements around the world. several international customers including philippines, indonesia,

i'm with korean center for peace building. thank you for this discussion. my question is about talks. and what is the right way to go about encouraging those talks, who are the right players to, let's say, mediate those talks? it seems the situation is too polarized between the u.s. and north korea for there to be really direct talks without some sort of facilitation. so my question is, first of all, when you talk about the elites, are there people within that group that can be harnessed to be -- to come up with some sort of platform for talks? are there intelligentsia that can be drawn, or only people from the party, political parties that can be engaged? if you could talk about the potential for talks and how that might come about, that would be great. >> jean, would you like to take that one? it's not dennis rodman, i know that. >> does one of you want to take on the background? you're talking about direct talks? >> well, i'll make a quick point. i'm sure glynn has something to say. so i want to re-enforce a point that anthony made. i'll provide some bac