citizens to tibet. last week i had the pleasure of meeting with richard greer and activist who helps to bring more attention and awareness to this very important matter. as his hollyness has said, in is -- holiness has said, it essential that we in congress advocate on behalf of the people of tibet and join forces to combat the chinese regime's increasing aggression. mr. speaker, today marks the democratic jewish state of israel's 69th independence day. for the jewish people to have not only survive the holocaust and the nazi effort to eradicate them from the planet and then to establish a state of their own in their historical and biblical homeland is nothing short of a miracle. and in just seven decades, not only has israel arisen, it has thrived, becoming one of the world's great democracies and the epicenter of high-tech all over the world. i'm frequently asked, why israel? why do i so strongly support israel and the u.s.-israel alliance? it is because in israel i see a nation and a people who share

this is the earliest known film of tibet. it was shown in cinemas all across the uk. this astonishing footage of a strange and mysterious new world. they were taken by a young army officer on the first attempt to reach the summit of mount everest in 1922. before they set off, the climbers seek a blessing at a monastery. they're treated as honoured guests and shown ritual dances. this one is a tale of reincarnation. around their waists are aprons made from a lattice of human bones. and theirface masks are made from stretched human skin. the cameraman was captainjohn noel. although it was shown in cinemas, his daughter has actually never seen the film — until now. he suggested to the mount everest committee that they took film, and they pooh—poohed this idea, said, "no, it would have vulgarise the expedition." but he nevertheless persuaded them, and he said, you know, "this is a record that we need to make, like scott of the antarctic." this was going to be a world event. it was a bit like the moon landings. yes, it was, it was, yes, we'd just come back through the war,

he fled tibet. he came through, and settled in india. he is a person that raises china's heckles. this matter. india has try to keep a lid on it. the previous indian government, ithink, did better than the present one. there is certainly an element of rhetoric going on, which i dare say will not lead to war or any of that kind. but you find the border violations are taking place all the time. i think it reflects the aspirations of india to be a global superpower. the two most populous countries, as neighbours, india in the shadow economically and geopolitically, of china, which is much wealthier, much more powerful, has a much stronger army. india, with its own internal issues of extreme poverty and corruption cannot be an equal player with china. but this bellicosity, as i think you rightly call it, reflects this desire to be seen as not being taken advantage of all taken for granted. there is also rising nationalism in both countries. the ruler in china, the ruling party in india, we have seen nationalism in both countries. i tend to agree, this has been going on since the 1960s

, accusing china using the economic power to oppress tibet and the tibetan people.>> it is the brutal tactics of the chinese government to release -- erase religion, culture and language on the tibetan people, challenging the conscience of the world. we will meet that challenge working together, we will meet that challenge. >> in the meantime china says the himalayan region has been part of china for over seven centuries despite the claims by the people of tibet that they are their own country. >>> the west virginia journalist is arrested by trying to ask the health and human services secretary question and he was arrested during the tom price visit. he wanted to ask the price about whether domestic violence is a pre-existing condition under the healthcare proposal, and got no response so we tried again and again.>> i think that if you ask the ordinary person they would say that they want reporters to be aggressive and to ask tough questions, and to try to get the answers to the questions, and that was all i was trying to do, trying to get an answer to the question and do my job. >> p

i think you were intending to go to tibet as well. >> yes. but very productive, very fruitful, talked about some of the issues that have just been raised but also issues of trade and senator portman is our former u.s. trade rep, brought up a number of issues, one was on soda ash, many u.s. industries experience a wide variety of concerns that they're surrounding china's trade policies and practices. as we've discussed in this committee, soda cash continues to face unfair trade practices from china, from other countries, the united states is the most competitive supplier of soda ash in the world due to the abundance of a raw material called troena in the united states and wyoming is the world's largest naturally occurring troena. soda cash is a key manufacturing comb ponment of glass, detergents, soaps, chemicals. china is seeking to capture the global market share from the united states soda ash producers and they do it through unfair trade practices. they've given its own synthetic soda ash producers a significant rebate on the china's value

and i think you were intending to go to tibet as well. >> yes. and very productive and fruitful, talked about issues just raised but also issues of trade. senator portman, former trade rep brought up issues, i did as well. soda ash. many u.s. industries experience concerns surrounding china's trade policies and practices. as we've discussed, soda ash faces unfair trade policies from china and other countries. united states is most competitive supplier of soda ash in the world. wyoming is the world's largest area of naturally occurring. china is seeking to capture the global market share from the united states soda ash producers through unfair practices. given its synthetic soda ash manufacturers a significant rebate. if confirmed will you continue to work and highlight these things that harm u.s. workers and producers? >> thank you. answer is yes. look at this very much like the steel issue where they're being unfair and providing unfair subsidies. this is the kind of thing we have to strenuously object to and do everything we can to try to corre

more elaborate teach, that were evolutions of the initial buddhist precepts that were introduced in tibet. how you have an example that is incredibly politically and socially savvy of suggesting that a belief system is mallablely to time and can adapt itself. just as we have to dew point ourselves as societies to changing consideration. that allowed the lineage to be referenced back to the past and get authority and yet be virtually independent as a means of discovery and revelation. and eye think it would make on uncannily exhibition? what do you think? i can't tell the future, of course, i don't know whether it would ever happen but let's see. okay. time for three more questions. have to be quick. >> i wonder about how time relates to pain perception? you have this stress tolerance, you have pain and agoetz going to go away. some people have the capacity to endure that time and some people do not, and i wondered it you could speak to that. >> i think einstein -- this is anecdotal story. don't know if it's true, was asked if time is relative, and sitting -- having a conversation, relativ

china claims arunachal pradesh as its own, and refers to it as southern tibet.duce travel time by up to eight hours. bbc news has been given exclusive access to historic footage filmed by young adventurers exploring parts of the world that were completely new to western eyes. some of these remarkable films, from the frozen mountains in the himalayas to the searing libyan desert, haven't been seen for a century. 0ur science correspondent pallab ghosh. this is the first ever view of mount everest from the air. it was shot in 1933 by a group of pilots who risked their lives to help create an aerial map of the mountain. the film is part of the royal geographical society's archive. it includes the very first attempt to climb to the top of mount everest, in 1922. the climbers are treated to a ritual dance at a tibetan monastery. around the dancers' waists are aprons made from a lattice of human bones. the cameraman was captainjohn noel. it was a new men's sinclair camera... his daughter recalls how her father filmed the expedition. he had a purpose—built tent he'd tak

it was students for a free tibet. >>> reports that president trump asked his fbi director to drop his investigation of his national security advisors russian contacts. >> whether it is obstruction or not it sounds like it. >> janna is here with more. >> they don't have comey's memo. someone read it to them over the phone. the new information he might have asked comey to drop an investigation raises questions of obstruction of justice. >> the country is being tested in unprecedented ways. >> chummershummer expressed shock that comey was asked to drop the investigation into michael flynn. he failed to disclose dealings with russia. comey documented the meeting in a memo saying the president told him i hope you can let this go. 3 months later trump fired comey. >> trying to persuade to director to back up a specific investigation of a specific individual is obstruction of justice. that is a serious matter. >> democrats and republicans called for more evidence. >> i want to see the memo and talk to director comey. >> a white house statement said the president has never asked comey or anyo

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what this investigation, though, this probe, also going forth, the congressional investigation do tibet is that it does create though lingering crowd over the white house. traditionally you would see presidents let that play out but say, look, we're going forward with our agenda. here's what we're going to do. donald trump has shown no indication he is able to do that. we saw the tweets coming out this week, calling it a witch-hunt and so forth. if he continue toss chime in and distract from the road -- >> it keeps the focus on this russian investigation. >> and ongoing investigation, right? so anything that comes out in the process can be used as well. >> i want to remind everybody candidate trump gave this warning about what would happen in hillary clinton won. let's listen. >> if she were to within it would create an unprecedented constitutional crisis. he is likely to be under investigation for a long time, conclusion probably in a criminal trial. >> doug, did president trump make the right prediction, just about the wrong person? >> oh, wow. >> that's one of the problems with donal

new arrivals from tibet being an example.d. >> ali: this particular neighborhood that we are in no jackson heights, has historically been the first stop for the newest immigrants. it's a big latino neighborhood but the south asian's community's presence is pretty well known and i think it's very fitting that now this huge tibetan community which is very new looking for a home where are they going to go? they're going to go near the indians right? >> anthony: so you guys grew up together? >> ali: yeah we grew up in queens. >> heems: i remember we were in the same little league. >> anthony: what position did you play in little league? >> heems: oh, they put me in the outfield. i was terrible. >> anthony: which outfield? that matters. >> heems: i would usually go to the right side. >> ali: the right field. >> anthony: yeah, yeah. >> anthony: heems joins me for dinner along with his friend and neighborhood advocate ali najmi. >> man on podium: i now would like to call up a close friend of mine mr. ali najmi. [ applause ] >> ali:

and all the while we still do not know if the dalai lama will be allowed to return to tibet, we don't know theys about of the pen she lama, we kont know if authorities will release laureate loud in 2020 and we do not know if the people of hong kong will be able to continue to exercise genuine autonomy. but we do know that president xi is set to remain in power for the next five years. so i'm very interested in hearing your thoughts on how, if confirmed, you will stand with civil society and with the chinese people, including when it comes to labor rights where i must say your record as a governor in iowa has raised some concerns, and assure the human rights and universal values are at the heart of u.s. policy with china. i'm also interested in your thoughts as to what we may see by way of cooperation with china on north korea going forward. i understand that what the president has asked of china, but i remain concerned that we've seen this movie before and we really haven't seen any change in china's position as it relates to north korea. many of us are concerned that they'll only go

the protest was organized by students for free tibet. >> one of the climbers said he would help identify weaknesses and the two hope they don't face any charges. we will put that to you in the form of the question of the day. should the golden gate bridge climbers be charged or should the district work with them to fix security flaws. let's look at the results. this poll has narrowed over the course of the morning. 53% say charge the climbers. 47% say work with the climbers. those two numbers were further apart earlier in the morning with more of you saying charge them. robertson writes the boys did wrong but did right. the two can be an asset to our country. no such thing as 100% security. >> leo says the climbers should be charged. the same way that people get fined for parking in a no parking zone. >> what they did is a violation of the law. however if they help, give a lenient sentence. rules are rules for a reason. >> if you give them a lenient sentence -- they sat on the video for a minute because they didn't want copy cats. >> i'm with you on that one. you need to punish them beca

. >> sreenivasan: gutmann says he's interviewed ethnic minorities from tibet and xinjiang who all tellilar stories about medical examinations while in prison. >> when you start to hear the same description of an examination in a completely different language from a completely different group, but it's the same examination. this is one of the big tip offs that this is really directed towards china's enemies. it's political and religious enemies. >> sreenivasan: matas and gutmann say there's another possible motive driving this practice: profit. in the past, some chinese hospitals even advertised the costs of new organs: $98,000 to $130,000 for a liver, $130,000 to $160,000 for a heart. by reviewing chinese medical publications, hospital website data, and making calls to hospitals, gutmann and matas estimate there could be 60,000 to 100,000 transplants still taking place each year in china. the chinese government rejects the accusations. in 2016, it says there were just over 13,000 transplants performed in china. compare that to the united states-that had 33,000 transplants last year. in

this is a chance to inject the other party ‘s policies in tibet thinking in the last few minutes.u. just a reminder that that debate starts at 7:30pm tonight on bbc one. tune in, it will be interesting. back to you. thank you very much. at the risk of repetition... you can watch the bbc election debate 2017 here on the bbc news channel. we'll have live coverage with clive myrie from 7pm this evening. and the debate gets underway at 7:30pm. the health charity says tens of thousands of pensioners living in the eu may return to the uk to use the nhs after brexit — unless a deal can be done to let them keep receiving care abroad. the nuffield trust estimates the cost of treating them on home soil, rather than abroad — could double to £1 billion pounds. at the moment, the uk gives around £500 million a year to eu countries that care for british pensioners. police investigating the manchester arena attack are searching a house in rusholme in the south of the city. greater manchester police say a cordon is in place at the address in banff road. 11 men are currently being held in custody

bilateral relationship with china mentioning the problems of religious minorities, including the people of tibet would you be willing to take advice from members of congress on individual cases and champion them and work with us as we try to raise the eligibility on these issues? >> yes, senator. in fact, as i met individually with members of the tenant foreign relations committee, a number of those have been brought to my attention and it would be my intent to work with all the members of this committee and others in the senate on these issues. i believe that's part of the responsibility of the ambassador we need to be there, on the ground in china and to be an advocate for our interest. >> my last request would be that i've asked staff to keep in touch with embassies -- respect that you mention in your opening statement the professionalism of the people that serve in the mission that are critically important. they take direction from the ambassador. i would ask that you respond to our staff, both staffs, as two steps being taken to advance the human rights agenda so that we can work together i

the democratic leader in house, nancy pelosi going to india and to meet the dalai lama in tibet-our delegation visits dalai lama in his first, also tweeting that our delegation to india was pleased meet with the prime minister modi to discuss the importance of our shared values that bind our two countries and this one as well. an honor for our delegation to visit the tibetan children's village. that from nancy pelosi who is joined on the congressional delegation by a number of members, including elliott ingles back home town hall meetings, some democrats adopt a district to talk hawk hawk and write that one house democrat was in enemy term on monday night. on a mission, sean patrick maloney, the new york lawmaker told a crowd at an industry events, where is your congressman? talking about republican congressman who was not holding town halls this week. and in fact on huff post.com you can see one of the photos, that they had the maloney meeting and simply labeled. >> honorable john fasto." one town hall meeting you may have heard about. tom macarthur, a key republican in the passage of the ame