all right, let's discuss this now with far the smile of a full month's senior software in the us congress. not joining us here live during operate can use on all to international faddie. welcome to the program. thank you. the idea has confirmed that limits does what we're watching across the middle east in syria. in particular, the idea of can funding is really tang so crossing into the syria buffers owners, they call it. they say this will provide security for israel for the. what do you make of it, as well as, as bars of, um, i'm the wider preparedness operation. we know that there is a, almost a little more than 2 entire army divisions right now in the golden heights, including one of them is a commander division. and we also know that the i a i a s the is randy. air force is current to these moments. so striking use some of the strategic missile silos and so on and what is left in eastern syria. it is ready to someone nervous about what's going to happen. so with the, with the rebels. so whenever you want to call them, that's all right now in the connecticut area right there on the bo

my guest is a trump loyalist in the us congress, mark alford.ill the legislative branch put any limits on the scope of the trump 2.0 revolution? my guest is a trump loyalist in the us congress, mark alford. will the legislative branch put any limits on the scope of the trump 2.0 revolution? congressman mark alford in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, steve, good to be with you. last time we met, you were here in my office. good to... indeed, and here you are on my big screen, but it's still great to see you. let me start with a very simple opening question. it's based on something you said about donald trump as president—elect. you said, "he is going to clean house in america." i would put it to you that the transition is only a few weeks old, and already it's beginning to look a little messy. well, i think this is the most rapid transition team that we have seen in recent presidential elect history. the president—elect wasted no time. he actually had his transition team in place before the election, paid for by his own funding. an

saying things that may run counter to the beliefs of donald trump's elected allies, those in the us congress. and what really caused this first profound fracture was a set of social media posts by ramaswamy arguing that companies may be better positioned and better acclimated to attract foreign workers through the immigration process instead of using us workers. and he made a series of cultural arguments why he thinks people from other nations would be better situated for us companies than those who live in the us because of the cultural dynamics at play, among other things. that runs so very counter to what donald trump's political allies in elected office are arguing, that it should be america first, that american workers should be be championed, lionised and prioritised. you already have a butting of heads on that issue, with likely more to come, because there is this frustration, if not resentment, among some of the elected officials that these non—elected outside billionaire influencers have the ear of the president—elect. and, scott, what this also illustrates, doesn't it, is how poten

you went to the us congress to raise awareness about maternal mortality.you said there, and i quote, you said, "a level of racial bias exists within our health care system. "that is troubling and will be difficult to tackle "but that doesn't mean we shouldn't." have things changed since you said that? not enough. you know, it's still a problem that continues for women of colour. there's still an implicit bias in our health care system, and we're not seeing the numbers change quick enough. and so a lot of the things that i spoke about in front of congress are still issues today, and we have a lot more work to do. what do you think is the biggest support that is lacking that women of colour especially need when it comes to maternal health? when i talk to many women, one of the things that i always hear is that they are not being heard. when you're in a doctor's office and you are saying that, "i think something is wrong." being dismissed, not being believed, that is a huge problem. the statistics says 80% of the complications in deaths that women of colour g

the us congress moves closer to avoiding a government shutdown out of the house of representatives approves a new funding. the thanks for joining us to us is taking a step towards the just advising the news to be an administrator. and by meeting it's need to. but i'll shut off top middle east diplomatic barbara leaf, let the delegation to syria for the 1st engagement between washington and the new leadership and damascus. following the meeting, she confirmed that the us is lifting a 10000000 dollar bounty for how sarah, who is the head of high attorney, and i'll show him a designated terrorist organization. leaf added washington. we'll look at this sections and post on syria. however, she set the new lead to ship would have to be responsive and demonstrate progress before restrictions are lifted are and based on these agree to work together to find you unless austin ties and other american citizens when missing, joining the shaw alessandro will serious new administration is planning to launch a national dialogue with political groups, admin fee functions to shop the countries pa forward. bu

the us congress moves closer to avoiding a government shut down. the house of representatives approves a new funding bill. the thanks for joining us for us is taking a step towards legitimizing the news to me. the administrator and by meeting is lita augment. i'll shara top middle east diplomatic barbara leaf let the delegation to syria for the 1st engagement between washington and the new leadership in damascus. after the meeting, she confirmed to the us is lifting a $10000000.00 bounty for our shara, who is the head of high atoria option, which the us considered as a terrorist organization. leaf said, washington would also consider lifting sanctions on syria, but the new leadership would have to be responsive and demonstrate progress 1st. and both parties agreed to work together to find you in this austin, tyson, of the american citizens when missing during bush, auto sags rule. so what's there is new administration is planning to launch a national conference with political groups and menefee functions to chop the countries pa ford. but the challe

and the us congress means closer to avoiding a government shutdown off to the house of representatives approves a new funding. the next, joining us to us is taking a step towards that just advising the news. to me. the best ration by meeting is lead to i'm at. i'll shara top middle east to prevent barbara. lee fled the delegation to syria for the 1st engagement between washington avenue leadership in damascus. following the meeting, she confirmed that the us is lifting a $10000000.00 bounty file. shara, who is the leader of high attorney, i'll show um a designated terrorist organization leaf added washington. we'll look at the sanctions imposed on syria. however, she said the new leadership would have to be responsive and demonstrate progress before restrictions are lifted. and both policies agreed to work together to find journalists, austin tice, of the american citizens who went missing during pasha alessandro with serious new administration. his plan is to launch a national dialogue with political groups and military factions to shot the country's pa, forth. but the challenges ahea

, uh people entering the us congress. and yet during this time that you've been asking us to stop funding, israel, the country actually to continue sending israel money and weapons, $44500000000.00 us dollars from october last year through september this year. to be exact. how does this make you feel? it makes me feel like this is not a democracy that we don't have officials who represent us when you see the changing opinion polls over the last year. the number of people who want to stop sending weapons has gone up and up despite what they hear in the mainstream media in the united states. so now it is a majority. the last pole was 61 percent. and when you look at young people, it's an overwhelming 77 percent. they don't want to keep sending weapons, and yet our congress keeps authorizing more weapons. so we feel unrepresented, but we're not gonna stop. in fact, we keep going every single day into the holes of congress, as well as to some of their homes. we go to the white house, the state department, everywhere they're s

first things that i think you'll see is a demand from the new administration and from all of us in congress that federal workers return to their

congress to especially the present one? but how do you see getting a group of champions to to finally bring this to a much better conclusion for of us who treat the patients and those who live with them. well when i went to congress, i went on the armed committee because i represented rhode island. we have all the navy there. i didn't think i could do anything for the labor guys who helped me get elected or my environmental friends who went out and organized for me or the portuguese that came out for me. but when i got there, the labor union guys came in and said, got a whole bunch of issues in the dod that. we need to get fixed. i'm like, oh, what are they here? they and then the environmentalists came and i said, listen guys, it's army, navy, air force, and that's what i'm about. and they said, no, wait a second. the department defense has a bigger environmental budget than any of even the epa. and i'm like, i had no idea. but my point in this is we're not organized so that every single committee in congress has a list of to and. by the way, like i said, we those two dues all match whatever your diagnosis at the end of the day. an

her crossbow using congress to see what i thought would be a dream come true.e seen sovietli jews liberatd from the former soviet union. the berlin wall torn down, former communist controlled countries now nato allies. political prisoners released to freedom. it's great to see my friend is that reform leader of the czech republic said there is only one thing i will not concede it might be meaningless described good cause. each of us can make a difference, never give up hope. doctor martin luther king jr. l said everybody can be great because everybody can serve. my friend and classmate in the houseof representatives along wy classmates representative john lewis said we should all be willing to get into good trouble famous philosopher from baltimore babe ruth stated never the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. i often speak about the need for value -based approach to policymaking. this is wrong true iny healthcae dignified retirement treating economic opportunities for all. perhaps nowhere has this been more fundamental event when it comes to f

republicans in the us congress have said they have come up with a new stopgap funding bill to avert a looming government shutdown. they say the deal includes a suspension of the debt limit until 2027. luigi mangione, who's accused of shooting dead the head of america's biggest health insurance company, has appeared in court in new york after being extradited from pennsylvania. he faces four federal charges, including stalking and murder, in addition to the state charges he was already facing. the french prime minister, francois bayrou, has praised the courage of gisele pelicot — following a mass rape trial in which her ex—husband and 50 other defendants were found guilty. dominique pelicot was jailed for 20 years for organising the repeated drugging and rape of his former wife by dozens of strangers over a decade. good evening we start with that breaking news that lord peter mandelson has been named as the new uk ambassador to the united states. he will replace the outgoing ambassador karen pierce. (boxed ambassador karen pierce. it is a political gamble. lord mandelson was a huge fig

r. strategy, right, his speech is in fact when, when uh, zalinski address and us congress and invoke martin luther king's i have a dream speech. yeah. my own the, just a lot of it don't mean for the most of us. so or the more just because that the john, my, you bought that. so what's the most obvious? and that's the one that, that was written in advised $55.00. these, these case read lobbyists. so you have essentially, you can ukrainian american lobbies who understand how to operate the levers of power here in washington, dc. and you really have to wonder who is working, who's working on, whose behalf is, is the united states working for the landscape or to help ukraine's for zalinski actually just working as a figurehead on behalf of the united states. i know for a fact that's a loose case twitter account, just as twitter is 50000 dollars dollars a month. there's a one company just for is twitter to create brand zelinski and doing what they're doing now we're talking about the entire uniform. and we're talking specifically about a concept called information operations. you're looking

why does congress need a library? can't they use the regular library people have? dr. hayden: congress, think about this, in 1800, a new nation, a new legislative body, there was the thought they needed some reference books and they were mainly law books, the first books purchased, about 600 books, and that's how the library of congress started. think of the name, the library of congress. it is a reference and research tool for congress, and they knew that. they have parliamentary libraries and the knew those types of things. they knew as legislators they might have to refer. david: now in 2024, the library of congress is much bigger than it was when it was first started in 1800, but is it properly named the library of congress now? isn't it more than just a library for congressmen and women? dr. hayden: it has evolved. and over time it has evolved into not only a reference tool for congress, and there are still about 500 experts in just about every field dedicated to being researchers and nonpartisan experts for congress. that is still there. but the library has expand

in theory, the legislature should pass budgets, but the us congress rarely does. instead, they mostly fund the government for months or years at a time, effectively lurching from crisis to crisis. this time the money runs out the minute saturday starts. it's not uncommon since 1977. there have been 20 governments shut down, ranging from one day to 34. analysts say it's a sign of the polarization in congress and the country. we're probably going to really interested in things like tax cuts. donald trump has started talking about doing things like entitlement reform, and democrats are much more interested in different kinds of social welfare spending and doing things like fixing college and it loans for students and helping people out with housing and so forth. so the parties are really far apart. policy wise, it's happening this time because incoming president, donald trump stepped into killed the bi partisan deal that had been reached. if a deal is not reached, it will severely impact the more than $2000000.00 federal workers around 40 percent are considered essen

me then us as narrowly avoided a government shut down with congress, passing a funding bill at the 11th hour. the bill is past and the bill extends us government funding until march and includes disaster relief, failure to pass. it would have seen millions of government workers sent home without pay and the most recent government shut down was in 2018. and last and more than a month, had eco hain explains what shutdowns mean for the american economy and millions of workers. it's a recurring uniquely american issue. in theory, the legislature should pass budgets, but the us congress rarely does. instead, they mostly fund the government for months or years at a time, effectively lurching from crisis to crisis. this time the money runs out the minute saturday starts. it's not uncommon since 1977. there have been 20 governments shut down ranging from one day to 34. analysts say it's a sign of the polarization in congress and the country we're publicans are really interested in things like tax cuts. donald trump has started talking about doing things like entitlement reform, and democrats ar

my guest is a trump loyalist in the us congress, mark alford.

us congress has struck a bipartisan deal to keep the government funded beyond this friday's looming parcels the funding deadline to 14 pushing the funding deadline to 1a march, giving donald trump and congress time to decide how the government should be funded next. and karl nazanin, stay with us on bbc news. —— i'm carl nazanin. hello there. we again saw temperatures reaching 13 celsius on tuesday, but the cloud this time brought with it more rain. and into the southwest, we'll find this rain arriving later in the day on wednesday. but at the moment, this area of low pressure is bringing the rain into the night. it's also bringing some strong and gusty winds — and that's all keeping the temperatures up. it's very mild, these are the temperatures of 12—13 celsius by the end of the night. but it will still be windy into the morning, and the strongest of the winds are likely to be over and to the east of the pennines. gusts 50—60mph in the morning — could be quite tricky if you're travelling on the m62 or the a1, for example. may well be some early rain across northern england to move through

now before us is are expected to launch at congress, the phil guy, and welcome to the program. we're beginning south korea web presence in june. so k o now says he will lift marshall low just hours after declaring it. he said he would respect a vote by parliament calling on him to withdraw the measure drive. it's got it outside the national assembly building all night in a position to his original declaration made light on tuesday. troops was sent to the parliament building at one point in full stairway in but have said, spring withdrawal. jim, the stuff i've been that credit is that in the south korean capital. so welcome a 5 year quite a night for south korea just to walk us through what happened so yeah, really a turbulent night and now it's 5 am local time. so what has happened in the evening or the late evening president of june? so if your basic key to clear emergency martial law now it's just for context during the military dictatorship in the south square during the sixties and seventies, the even early eighty's. this was quite common and it was always justified with th

unlikely. donalds, trump would pull out from the alliance altogether, after all, he would needs do us congress to sign off on such a decision. but during his 1st term and the white house, trump didn't high to school and for nato and experts say there are many ways in which he could, we can it. he could start pulling q s troops out of fuel, or still providing equipment that is needed there. think about the command and control functions. think about the satellite, imaginary. think about strategic air lifting. these are all things where you're up for really depends on the americans to and that will be a problem. critics say you opinions have become complacence relying on you asked protection. but in the last few years, they actually have stepped up their game with 23 out of 32 natal members. no spending at least 2 percent of the ttp on defense. syrup is also ramping up its arms and ammunition production. but its defense industry is still very much fragmented. whereas the united states provides its troops with a largely unified sets of equipment. the, you are peons have a vast variety of, of them

let's speak to scott macfarlane, who covers congress for cbs news. thanks forjoining us, scott.p base, just bring us up—to—date on how we got here more specifically in terms of whether mr musk was involved. just give us a little bit more of the background to. this all felt inevitable, _ of the background to. this all felt inevitable, and _ of the background to. this all felt inevitable, and there - of the background to. this allj felt inevitable, and there was going to be some fracture at some point among the sphere of influencers who are aligned with donald trump. you had these outside of a nongovernmental, unelected, forceful voices in donald trump's year, elon musk, the billionaire, the vic ramaswamy, the long—time trump ally and one—time republican primary candidate —— vivek ramaswamy. who are saying things that may run counter to the beliefs of donald trump is make elected allies, those in congress of those in—state offices, and what really caused this first profound fracture was a set of social media posts by ramaswamy arguing that companies may be better positioned and be

just like when nothing yahoo went to the us congress and the, the senator was in congress. people were just constantly standing up and stopping, sitting down, standing up again in fantasies like one of those utopian regimes in hollywood movies. it is quite studying what the us has become in house, openly. it is, it is a, it's a regime that is both a controlled at all levels. it controls the media to the state and then also how it attempts to some to some degree effectively how it attempts to maintain cup and to be in public. now, why don't you thing, washington, once the government to new run to change what's behind such a policy? because the wrong is independence because since the revolution iran has assumed policies that homes, that advocate social justice of the running a policy has been to make sure the force of the for are listed out of poverty. of course, the one is other sanctions. one has base warranty on his face. many tara tax by the west and iran is not under ordinary circumstances. but he runs model is not a liberal capitalist model. it is a model where it tries

for more on this and reaction from the us congress, i spoke to daniella diaz, congressional reporterion to commute those death row sentences and vowing to pursue the death penalty in his coming term. this is a divisive issue politically, what has the reaction been like on capitol hill? well, namely when president biden decided to do this, it's important to note that right now, lawmakers are actually gone from washington and back in their home district, so we are not seeing the reaction that we would see had this been a busy week, but we are seeing a lot of democrats support presidentjoe biden's decision to do this. the death penalty is not a very popular measure within the democratic party, but we are seeing republicans be very staunchly oppose to this decision from president biden because they argued that they were, a lot of these being violent offenders and that is why they are dismissive of the fact that the president did this and we expect a lot more criticism once lawmakers are back in washington after the holidays. you're looking at live pictures in hawaii where one of the worl

i'm using congress timing now to another big story that we, i think i really would like to touch upon quite divided one to the events that are unfolding in georgia in tbilisi. uh, 4 nights, 4 or 5 nights of terrible protests. what's the view or from budapest, i'm with a very simple, very simple um, if it had to be in the position to when that actual that would be no protests. that would be no external pressure. and everybody, everybody would praise the fund bostic shape of the georgia democracy. but it's not. brussels is not washington, it's not the lien is not very useful besides, but the georgia people, the 200 people made a very clear decision. high turn out more than 50 percent support to the ruling party period. that shouldn't be respected. my problem is that this is very general in your in the case, it is not the liberals to win in the election on the democratic nature of the whole concern to hold political system is being questioned immediately. if it is, uh, i believe it or else the when everything's fine. if it's betsy else the when, if it is conservative story and if it is t

seem like the most basic job for any legislature decide on how much money to spend and on what the us congress doesn't often pass full budgets instead voting on continuing resolutions, basically keeping the same funding for a few months. at a time. republicans and democrats had a deal to do just that, plus spend $100000000000.00 to help those impacted by recent hurricanes and given additional $10000000000.00 in a to farmers. but then billionaire, eli and musk step to post you more than $150.00 times that the social media site ex, demanding republicans killed the deal. it's a total dumpster fire. i think it's garbage it. this is what washington dc has done . this is why i ran for congress, try to stop this. an incoming president, donald trump agreed, threatening house speaker mike johnson's job is using drop the agreement, demanding. they also raise the debt with it, which will expire early next year, so that it would appear. joe biden raised the deficit, not him. in assigned, the trump has total control over his party. republicans agreed, it appears. they will now strip out all of the provisio