okay, thank you for that. rosalind jordan that for us in washington, a prominent us senate says announced a stepping down next year. republican senator, mitch mcconnell says he won't seek re election in 2026. the 83 year old has recently been critical president trump, who said mcconnell was mentally incompetent and to do his job. mcconnell is the longest southern senate policy and data in history remaining in congress with 35 years now the us trump administration has designated 8 lashan american drunk hotels as foreign terrorist organizations move classifies games like m. s the teen and i'll follow the door and mix goes, send a low, a condo, as threats to us, national security be on that posed by all the organized crime organizations. that designation, opens the door to possible american ministry action against the cartels, including drugs strikes. so even boots on the ground in some countries next sco said it will not tolerate an invasion or any violation of its sovereignty. look at him was i got a letter in the eye as to what we want to make clear in the face of this designation is that

political arrivals. patel has called for reforms and promised what he called quote, profound changes. rosalind jordan has more from washington, dc, casper told will now be the 9th director of the federal bureau of investigation or f. b. i. the law in storage and long notorious national law enforcement agency here in the united states. patel has buried a reputation in recent years as being a very strong, sorry, good for president donald trump, a choosing those in the federal government and particularly in the agency that he is now going to be in charge of, of running a political vendetta against trump and those of his political persuasion patel has promised that he is going to investigate some of the 38000 people who worked for the agency. notably, some of the special agents who are took part in investigations into allegations that trump try to throw the results of the 2020 presidential election and also mishandled classified documentation to $51.00. republicans voted to confirmed patel's nomination on thursday, but 2 republicans voted with all senate democrats against the nomination. they say that ha

payments are classroom community to educational support, to infrastructure and scientific expertise. rosalind jordan elders era, washington across syria, access to electricity is extremely limited with many having power for only 2 hours a day, years of civil war and sanctions of worse and the energy crisis. and your government says it is working to fix the problem. so a bunch of aid reports from damascus. and yeah, the different of the neighborhood is one of the most impoverished areas in damascus . it's at least go dark and the sun goes down. well, mohammed has had to ask her teenage daughters to quit school so they can help her to good food off the table, the inside like thousands of syrians, she struggles the basic necessities. and even if the empty fridge was broken, there's no electricity to run it. to the side of the month to just kind of electricity comes on for only one hour, twice a day. the situation with that electricity is miserable. i con, describe how bad the conditions we can't wash it will take showers. my children have no light for studying. my husband's respiratory device needs ele

first administration is rosalind jordan explains a lot of very positive things going to come out of the relationship. so vladimir, thank you very much. us president donald trump has never missed a chance to show his affection for russia or his just gang for ukraine, and it's liter reload him. here's the landscape whom he has long called corrupt and a crony of former president, jo bike is just recently trump put on social media to labels and quote, a dictator with all the elections. so landscape better move fast, or he is not going to have a country left. still, trump promised to play peacemaker once the russian troops invaded ukraine 3 years ago. before i even arrive at the oval office, i will have the disastrous war between russia and ukraine. settled, but in the white house, his 1st round of diplomacy had only americans and russian, no ukrainians, sitting at the table in saudi arabia. that angered salons already feeling pressure to hand over to trumpet $500000000000.00 worth of ukrainian, where earth minerals trump is argued. this is payment for the military a given to keep during the

long mosque who heads the department is trying to make them dismantle critical public services. rosalind jordan reports from washington more than 20 career us government employees quit their jobs on tuesday. according to the associated press, the senior level tech employee, say the department of government efficiency or judge, run by you on most is endangering both us citizens, private information, and the integrity of government's computer system. in a statement, the white house spokes person said the resignations would not stop president donald trump's efforts to make government smaller. the latest resignations come as a few of the thousands of federal workers all ready laid off. crowded inside republican senator, lisa mccallski is office to protest. i came to us aid intending on staying there for as long as i could. and i really loved the work that we were doing and how i don't know what to do. and i have cried every day i'm i think that that's normal. i've a 15 month old at home and i'm looking at him and thinking, well, what's this country that we're now living in the meantime, other fire

and i urge my colleagues this morning to vote now that spring in rosalind jordan in washington, dc for me on this. so r s k ross has cleared a crucial senate power vote didn't come as a surprise 1st or it did not come as a surprise, even though there was some speculation that at least one republican senator rob bill cassidy of louisiana. who happens to be a medical doctor might have voted against his nomination because of kennedy's longstanding though skepticism about the effectiveness of vaccines and whether they caused autism. multiple health authorities say that vaccines do not cause autism yet. kennedy has a perpetuated this myth. this lie as, as it were, for many years now and has a rather all a popular uh, fan base here in the united states because of his, uh, so called vaccine skepticism. now it is a thought that cassidy, the louisiana center termite and voted to us and his nomination to the full senate for vote because he is up for election in 2026 and could be facing a primary challenge. now, if uh this vote does happen, and we don't know yet when the boat is going to be sched

let's discuss this further with correspondence, rushman jordan, she joins us now from washington, dc, rosalind at dorcas through some of the highlights of what we had today from donald trump as well. you just went through the highlights of the us. president said that he believes that the pastor ending the war and ukraine is now being established. donald trump also said that he would not be in favor of having us forces in ukraine as a peace keeping a component once a durable. busy of into the war has been achieved. that is not surprising because trump has been very critical of efforts to have us forces deployed in so many places that he says the us does not how the national security interest. and of course, so those governments in europe would beg to differ, given that the us is the pre eminent talk, member of nato, the security alliance. trump also said that he would not be opposed to seeing your p and countries deployed their forces as a peace keeping a mission inside ukraine. once the war is over. of course, this comes a couple of days after the british prime minister. care storm are said th

jordan. she is in washington dc for us, rosalind. what else and from say about those us, russian talks and saudi arabia, of what we heard from the us president donald trump, is that he believes that are trying to end the war between russia and ukraine. is off to a good start. he did say when he asked by one of the reporters at this event down in his home in florida that he did not think that they had not been raised. the prospect of removing us forces from their physicians across western europe, as part of the terms of reaching an into the war between russia and ukraine, and trump. alex also said that he would not be in favor of removing us forces. and that's all perhaps in part because of the us is the parameter tom military of factor as part of the nato security alliance in western europe. trouble also did say as well, we just heard in that sound bites that the ukrainians could have resolved this. a long time ago, but he did not indicate exactly how the cranes could have done it, given data just about 3 years ago, minus a few days.