last but suny. oh it looks perfect. it sounds even better. vonsha good, a for months. this song, roger or friend about the region of baluchistan, has been playing incessantly on pakistan's tv channels. not just on entertainment outlets. it pops up in ad breaks on news channels too. oh, there's something uncomfortable suit, ian, about watching the song about pakistan's most impoverished, most militarized, and most under reported region, playing on a loop. this me being presented this way. it's very consistent with bonus, don staves, mentioning misses that blow, design is a beautiful place. it's people are beautiful, they to sing and dance on the mountains in the desert by the beach. yes, there are some hinge that there were some dark shadows, but they have been lifted. i saw it spiked send through how bugs dining states and may be decimal about your son wants to see below, just on a beautiful land vowed it's troublesome. people baluchistan has always been a sight of territorial anxiety for the by his son. he stayed in borders of on his son, iran, and the indian ocean. i

we tech sports from ukraine in this 3rd on the approval, but suny, the blocking of exports of wheat from ukraine is very worrying because the lives of millions of people depend on it, especially in poor countries. i make a heartfelt appeal so that every effort is made to resolve this problem to guarantee the universal right to nutrition. please do not use wheat to a basic food stuffer as a weapon of war. for many countries are concerned about food shortages and putting the brakes on exports. and he has begun restricting sugar exports and says wising local prices are to blame to weeks ago, a band of me text for spanning mutare for some auto pradesh on our local farmers are feeling the impact ah, after being packed and see this batch of sugars headed to the port, india has already exported a record 7 and a half 1000000 tons the season. now the government has kept shipments to ensure there's enough left over for domestic consumption. get to look in our log she lamps . company has been refining sugar for 90 years and he says the new rules could affect farmers incomes. the sugar season starts

but suny, the blocking of exports of wheat from ukraine is very worrying because the lives of millions of people depend on it, especially in poor countries. i make a heartfelt appeal so that every effort is made to resolve this problem to guarantee the universal right to nutrition. please do not use wheat to a basic foodstuffs as a weapon of war. and another better blow, india has announced its restricting sugar exports. and many countries were already alarmed after india band. we tech sports a few weeks ago suddenly to our reports from to pradesh on our local farmers are feeling the impact ah, after being packed and see this batch of sugars headed to the port. india has already exported a record 7 and a half 1000000 tons the season. now the government has kept shipments to ensure there is enough left over for domestic consumption. get you look in our local amps, company has been refining sugar for 90 years and he says the new rules could affect farmers incomes. the sugar season starts in november and the government would always like a minimum stock in the country of about 2 months. co

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yeah, although suny scald, with sicily chemical surrogate roscoe was a construction worker before russia invaded ukraine. when the war started, he volunteered as a civilian evacuation driver for his now missing who would fear dead. this video shows him after he had rescued civilians from the besieged town of port persona. in the east of the country, the liberal eagle was his co driver on that day. he says, saturday, told him, if he could save another 20 people, his life would not be in vain. we, i was in your y'alls. i could see the entrance to pal puzzler says eagle, what russian soldiers suddenly jumped out from the left. it happened so fast. they fired a rocket propelled grenade, but it miss risk when they started shooting machine guns and rifles was the windows shut. it said gay kept driving, but he was hit and began falling. dragging the steering wheel to the left. we bade off the road, crushing through small trees where i was crouched down, pushing up against the dashboard. i looked at set again so much that he wasn't moving or making any sound. here when i reached the door, handle

entirety on tuesday actually it doesn't because he still simmering from anger that he had earlier at the suny berks turn the cameras off and walks off saying very dishonest about me. i've never had that experience with him. i think was partly to do with the interrogation about the stolen rigged election as he puts it and partly because by then he kind of convinced himself he shouldn't of given me so much time and thought he did i think president donald trump watch the whole interview actually will calm down i suspect to give me a call and i'll thank me [laughs] from one of the best interviews he's given in a very long time. >> hannity: i'll tell you one big difference that he can sit for an hour any talk about any topic at length with great specificity and i would argue our current president cannot. that to me has now become very apparent of the american people. let the audience decide. coming up part two of my interview with piers morgan now i'm and ask him what he was really thinking when he walked off the set of good morning britain and why he got mad at bill marr coming up. ♪ ♪ - hell

agreement and of course, iran is you know, not -- the friends of saudi arabia and emirates you've got suni shiite acrimony over there as a result they are unwilling to help out united states at this juncture. dagen: before we go from israel gas going here in the u.s.? >> unfortunately i don't have good news for the consumer, i see it rising another 10 to 15 cents a gallon, up to 4.20, on a national average. >> andy thank you so much we've got national gas prices approaching high thereabouts, andy lipow awesome to see you. thank you for everything that you are doing be well that thank you very much for having me. >> sure always coming up, "saturday night live" has their take, big buzz of the morning next. . . . any facing an avalanche of demand? to ensure more customers can buy more sherpa-lined jackets, you call ibm to automate your it infrastructure with ai. now your systems monitor themselves. what used to take hours takes minutes. and you have an ecommerce platform designed to handle sudden spikes in overall demand... ... dagen: time for the big buzz of the morning saturday night live t

disobeying orders and now the regional military administration reporting that forces are also leaving suni, in the northeastern part of the country, and they are shift ing their focus specifically to the eastern side of the country, but that does not mean that the rest of the country is untouched, just here on the western side of the country in lviv, last night, there was an attack about 80 miles from where i'm standing stuart? stuart: alex hogan in ukraine. thank you alex. all morning we've been showing you the pictures of these atrocities as russian troops retreat in ukraine. curt kurt volker joins us the former nato ambassador. mr. ambassador, can you force peace on to ukraine after its been brutalized like this? >> well, you know, everybody wants peace but you don't want peace to be a recognition that russia can survive, that they can tell people like this , take territory and get away with it so at this stage, we have to be doing everything we can to help ukraine push the russians out of their country, save as many lives as possible, and as quickly as possible, so time is of the essen

suny brockport will host anthony bottom this april. he was convicted of killing patrolman waverly jones and joseph in 1971. the school also told students who may be, quote, traumatized by a large police presence on campus during the engagement, that because there were going to be so many cops, they didn't have to go to class. the professor who stepped down, daniel varrenti, joins us right now. dan, what was it about this event that you just said, i have had it up to here, i can't take what the school is doing? >> good morning, steve. it started in 2020 when the college president disseminating e-mails where she drew conclusions about law enforcement actions that had taken place in the country and even in rochester, new york, where she was condemning law enforcement for their actions without having any of the facts. then fast-forward to now, inviting a convicted murderer to college, wanting that individual to speak to their students goes everything i have worked for and believed in. that was enough for me to say i have had enough of teac

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of course, kharkiv, suni, mariupol, these remain hot and remain massive targets for the russian forces to break through and try to go deeper into ukraine from those. so i think the images that we've been seeing in the past day are far from over. and we're going to continue seeing devastation like this. until something is done to prevent this kind of, these kinds of strikes in ukraine because otherwise, there's nothing much that we can do. >> romeo, it's been described as war crimes. it is clearly the targeting of civilians. for as sturdy and defiant and strong, the ukrainian people are, what is, what can you do? how do you defend yourself against these indiscriminate attacks against civilian centers? >> i mean, you can't, right? that's why they're made. to instill terror. we've seen this playbook before. we saw this in 1999. we've seen this playbook over and over in syria. this is what the russians do when they have no other method of subduing the population. and they have been successful in the past. they have no reason to think they won't be now. ukrainians though, we have seen the s

i understand, trey, that a russian air strike on the city of suni, left civilians and children dead, what more do we know about this? reporter: yes, stuart really disturbing news according to local reports russian air strike s overnight killed at least 20 people including children, in the northern ukrainian city of sumi. this is an area where people were trying to evacuate over the past 48 hours. it's very close to the russian border, and has been targeted by the air and ground a number of times by russian forces, as those evacuations continued to, we do have new images just west of the capitol of kyiv from zoltamir, where an oil depot was hit with a russian strike another example of the russians targeting ukrainian energy infrastructure. this is significant as we get more videos of russian forces across this country, operating from the ground and the air, these russian helicopters here new video, but it gives you a sense of the air power, the russians have brought into this country, and it's part of the reason the ukrainians are asking for so much support in the form of surface to a

. >> suni lee wins gold. >> katie ledecky basking in the glory of having made olympic history like again and again and again. number two. a big theme in 2021 was athletes continuing to campaign for meantli mental health awareness. >> sorry. >> no, you're supergood. >> okay. i think we are just going to take a quick break. just, we'll be back in one moment. >> naomi osaka revealing press conferences give her anxiety and she had dealt with depression since winning her first u.s. open title. the four time grand slam winner powelling out of both wimbledon and u.s. open to work on her mental health. and number one. major breaking news out of the olympic. we just learned simone biles has pulled out of the team competition. >> at the end of the day, we are not just entertainment. we're humans and there are things going on behind the scenes that we are also trying to juggle with as well. >> a spotlight on mental health showing the world no matter who you are, even if you are superwoman, it's okay oh not feel og. she is going to go down as one of the greatest ever for the impact she had. she took

suni lee wins gold. number two, a big theme in 2021 was athletes continuing to campaign for mental health awareness. >> no, you're super good. [ crying ] >> okay. i think we're just going to take a quick break. just we'll be back in one moment. >> naomi osaka revealing that press conferences give her anxiety, and she had dealt with depression since winning her first u.s. open title in 2018. the four-time grand slam winner pulling out of both wimbledon and the u.s. open to work on her mental health. and number one, major breaking news out of the olympics. we just learned that simone biles has pulled out of the team competition. >> at the end of the day we're not just entertainment, we're humans, and there are things going on behind the scenes that we're also trying to juggle with as well. >> the way biles put a spotlight on mental health, showing the world that even if you're superwoman, it's okay to not feel okay. she's going to go down as one of the greatest olympians ever. >> she took the bronze medal

. >> suni lee wins gold. >> katie ledecky is basking in the glory of having made olympic history like again and again and again. >>> number two, a big theme in 2021 was athletes continuing to campaign for mental health awareness. >> sorry -- >> no, you're super good. >> okay. i think we're going to take a quick break. just -- we'll be back in one moment. >> naomi osaka revealing press conferences give her anxiety and she had dealt with depression since winning her first open title in 2014. the four-time grand slam winner pulling out of wimbledon and the u.s. open to work on her mental health. >>> and number one -- major breaking news out of the olympics. we just learned simone biles has pulled out of the team compet competition. >> at the end of the day we're not just entertainment but humans. there's things going on behind the scenes we're trying to juggle with. >> she put a spotlight on mental health. no matter who you are, it's okay to not feel okay. she's going down as one of the greatest olympians ever for the impact she's having. >> she'd return to competition to take the bronze

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closing arguments begin monday skp. >>> and now to this just a few months after american gymnast suni lee brought home an olympic gold medal, she says she was targeted in a racist attack. >> lee told pop sugar she was pepper sprayed while in los angeles for her appearance on dancing with the stars. you'll recall that attacks against asian americans rose dramatically during the pandemic. here to discuss is pop sugar associate editor of trending and viral features. thanks for being with us. this is terrible. explain what happened here. >> yeah, hi, thank you for having me. i'm excited to be here. i think, you know, as i mentioned in the interview, i'd spoke to suni about a month ago on october 5th and she had told me that about a week prior, she found herself facing a racist attack while she was waiting for an uber after a night out with her girlfriends who were all of asian descent. they were startled by this group speeding by, and they were yelling awful racist slurs, and insisting them to go back to where they came from, and one passenger, suni told me sprayed her arm with pepper spr

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what suni lee is saying this morning. it is friday, november 12, 5:00 a.m. exactly here in new york. thanks for getting up early with us. i'm christine romans. >> and i'm laura jarrett. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. we will have some extraordinary reporting this morning from the poland belarus border this hour. we start with breaking news overnight from washington. the january 6 committee giving a top aide in the trump white house an ultimatum. the panel is now demanding former chief of staff mark meadows show up for a deposition and hand over documents today or risk criminal contempt. this after his attorney made it clear that meadows had no plans to cooperate until the courts ruled on trump's claim of executive privilege. >> and that, by the way, is now delayed as well. a federal appeals court has paused the release of trump white house documents to the select committee. the national archives was supposed to start handing them over today, including handwritten notes from meadows himself. cnn's daniela diaz is live on

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prior to serving in congress representative higgins was a history and economics instructor at suny buffalo state college. he also served in local state elected office. congressman higgins has been a fierce advocate of stronger regional and national economic policies. he currently serves on the ways and means and budget committees. he's also the democratic chair of the house northern border caucus. he is a chair of the house cancer caucus. and he is a house lead on the canada-u.s. interparliamentary group. at this time i yield five minutes to congressman brian higgins of new york. mr. higgins: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i was listening intently to the other side extolling the virtues of nothing. but a cynical assessment of the american economy, when the american economy in fact, needs investment. a couple facts i want to clear up here. if the united states economy had grown at the increased rate seen under democrats since 1933, the average income of americans would be more than double than it currently is today. economic growth since 1933, 4.6% under democrats, 2.4% under republica

an olympic gold medalist setting her sights on scoring the mirror ball on "dancing with the stars," suni lee is in the house. plus, we have a special performance from amy grant. i'm so excited. oh, my god. i'm so excited. i'm going to lose my voice more with that performance. but first, with selma, 13th, and when they see us, she is one of the most impactful creators and talented of our time peered she has to cope projects out right now, one is called "colin in black & white" which premieres on netflix on october 29th and the other is "home sweet home" and you can catch that on nbc. everybody please say hello to ava duvernay! ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] oh, my gosh. i want that dress bear that's my favorite color. we called each other. >> ava: yes, we did. >> kelly: how are you? >> ava: i'm good. >> kelly: i was backstage like weight, i've never met her. you are so badass. >> ava: thank you, as are you. >> kelly: i'm a very busy woman but you are far busier than me. >> ava: busy, but blessed. booked and busy and blessed. >> kelly: i love that. you are so busy that i said even shonda rh

because quite frankly, even if you look at pakistan, pakistan is mostly suny. and if you look at the weaker issue in the changing province, that's mostly sunni. so there doesn't seem to be a lot of cohesion there in regards to pakistan in china, essentially grouping together. but the enemy of an enemy can be a friend, and as we know, that can be a potent combo. and that is exactly what we've seen happen in the past few years. in regards to this region, the enemy of van, we do become, they become allies in this case. but let's just say they do work together. do you feel like indian force they're actually strong enough to handle a war on both fronts? or are they going to look to other countries to help them? and then who's kind of what countries would that be when they'd actually step up to the call? well was again, if you look at the chinese communist party, they study of the art of war really well. they like to divide and conquer and essentially keep a unified front from ever happening. the only way they can get things done is to really make different countries

you have the suni and kurds voting along sectarian lines. many of them paid for the demands with their lives. some 600 of them demanding an end to the sectarian, the backward looking form of politics that has so been problematic in iraq over the decades. no sign that's going to change. many people have turned out with the polls. >> sam kiley, thank you for that. appreciate it. >>> sports for you now. the red sox pushed the rays to the brink of elimination. coy wire has this morning's bleacher report. hey, coy. >> it is marathon monday in boston. the red sox and rays battled it out. top of the 13th tied at 4 with two outs. runner at 1st for the rays. blast to right center. looks like a home run but upon closer review you'll see the ball hit the wall, bounce back in and off of hunter renfroe. by rule it's a ground-rule double. sox out of the nick and to the bottom of the 13th, christian vasquez is gone. you know it's a good night when you can barely find home plate because your best mates are there waiting for you to celebrate. red sox win 6-4

we have a real problem with how some of the other suny lead states are operating and we want to keep this divide. sure, i think it's a great question and i think that it ties nicely to, to glimpse boy which, which i think is really important. that i do the way we think about the u. s. turkish relationship has been largely defined, but the cold war, which been over now for, for decades. and what we're seeing enlarge part is both countries sort of negotiating what a relative decline in u. s. power is going to look like and turkey's role and i think that's where i would where i would ship the language a little bit from, from gallium, is that i think the turkey sees itself as a and emerging great power. i think the turkey sees, sees the world as developing into a mode, multi polar system, in which turkey can play a very large role, not just in the region, but, but around the world. what i think to go to your question, i think what's going on with in the middle east is a certain d escalation from a pretty ideological conflict. that was, that it emerged between, between state cutler and tu

. >> ana and suni. >> and we'll tell you why. >> more information later. it's a tease. >> we'll tell you why in a couple minutes. should i introduce the vice president? okay. so vice president -- what happened is that they both apparently tested positive for covid, no matter how hard we try, these things happen. they probably have a breakthrough case and they'll be okay, i'll sure, because they're both vaccinated. >> so what we'll try to do now is an interview with the vice president remotely. >> so joy behar did go on to interview kamala harris remotely. the vice president did not come into contact with the show's hosts. >> jonathan, white house reporter for the associated press, susan page, best selling author and long time bureau chief for usa today, and cynthia, former federal prosecutor in the civil rights division of the justice department. a good friday evening to all of you. how critical are these next few days for joe biden's next term? >> extraordinarily critical. we've had the president himself become far more personally involved with the negoti

on the suni shia divide, that is something we became familiar with primarily through the conflict in iraq. and maybe you can answer jimbo's question, do you agree with and afghanistan effort that argues that there is no support from the shia community in iran for a taliban-controlled afghanistan? guest: there is a significant number of shia muslims in afghanistan. they mostly happen to be from an ethnic minority, and that minority is thought to be of a more asian, east asian origin. many people would say they were descendants of genghis khan's army when they passed through afghanistan, many centuries ago. but, they have been integrated into the republic of afghanistan very successfully, and they actually have had a good deal of peace and they are part of afghanistan, but they have been the target of extremists from the sunni community, including isis of afghanistan, which we believe was responsible for that horrific bombing of a girls school in kabul, which was mainly of that ethnic minority's girls several months ago. there is great concern that they could be the target of at least

on the suni shia divide, that is something we became familiar with primarily through the conflict in iraq. and maybe you can answer jimbo's question, do you agree with and afghanistan effort that argues that there is no support from the shia community in iran for a taliban-controlled afghanistan? guest: there is a significant number of shia muslims in afghanistan. they mostly happen to be from an ethnic minority, and that minority is thought to be of a more asian, east asian origin. many people would say they were descendants of genghis khan's army when they passed through afghanistan, many centuries ago. but, they have been integrated into the republic of afghanistan very successfully, and they actually have had a good deal of peace and they are part of afghanistan, but they have been the target of extremists from the sunni community, including isis of afghanistan, which we believe was responsible for that horrific bombing of a girls school in kabul, which was mainly of that ethnic minority's girls several months ago. there is great concern that they could be the target of at least

on the suni shia divide, that is something we became familiar with primarily through the conflict in iraq. and maybe you can answer jimbo's question, do you agree with and afghanistan effort that argues that there is no support from the shia community in iran for a taliban-controlled afghanistan? guest: there is a significant number of shia muslims in afghanistan. they mostly happen to be from an ethnic minority, and that minority is thought to be of a more asian, east asian origin. many people would say they were descendants of genghis khan's army when they passed through afghanistan, many centuries ago. but, they have been integrated into the republic of afghanistan very successfully, and they actually have had a good deal of peace and they are part of afghanistan, but they have been the target of extremists from the sunni community, including isis of afghanistan, which we believe was responsible for that horrific bombing of a girls school in kabul, which was mainly of that ethnic minority's girls several months ago. there is great concern that they could be the target of at least

up until now, the taliban has done nothing but occupy suni -- the tele-banner sun -- taliban are suni -- occupy sunni provinces all around the shia settlement in the middle of afghanistan. china will pay the taliban whatever it costs to settle down afghanistan, possibly allow them to put a pipeline through to china so they can increase their influence throughout the entire middle east. host: those are donald's thoughts. we will hear from alan in wisconsin, the republican. caller: good morning. my comment is i think we armed the taliban for maybe 8 years. do not blame trump, do not blame biden. we stuck our nose in and we pay for our consequences. that is all. host: clarence page? guest: he is right about that. it is interesting, talking about china again, china is an example of a country that we call communist. it calls itself, pianist -- itself communist. the government controls it, but since 1980, they have had the freedom to be capitalist in their various enterprises in cooperation with the government, and they have prospered as a result. i was over there 12 years ago. it blew me a

up until now, the taliban has done nothing but occupy suni -- the tele-banner sun -- taliban are suni -- occupy sunni provinces all around the shia settlement in the middle of afghanistan. china will pay the taliban whatever it costs to settle down afghanistan, possibly allow them to put a pipeline through to china so they can increase their influence throughout the entire middle east. host: those are donald's thoughts. we will hear from alan in wisconsin, the republican. caller: good morning. my comment is i think we armed the taliban for maybe 8 years. do not blame trump, do not blame biden. we stuck our nose in and we pay for our consequences. that is all. host: clarence page? guest: he is right about that. it is interesting, talking about china again, china is an example of a country that we call communist. it calls itself, pianist -- itself communist. the government controls it, but since 1980, they have had the freedom to be capitalist in their various enterprises in cooperation with the government, and they have prospered as a result. i was over there 12 years ago. it blew me a

there came the rise of caeleb dressel and suni lee and a bright promise of others. alyson felix's two medals raised her to five games. it makes her the most decorated track athlete in american history. there was the enduring excellence of usa basketball, extending record championship runs for both the men's and women's teams. nine medals from u.s. wrestlers, and the breakthrough gold for the american women's volleyball team. the united states once again on top of the world with 113 total medals including a leading 39 gold ahead of china and the russian olympic committee. meanwhile, thousands gathered near the eiffel tower yesterday to celebrate the handover of the olympic flag from tokyo to paris which will host the summer games in 2024, but not before the olympic torch passing through beijing for the winter games in less than six months away. >>> turning now to be able, toronto blue jays hosting the boston red sox, two runs, two outs, two runners on base. george springer connects for a three-run go-ahead homer. toronto hangs on to beat boston, 9-8. they beat them o

. >> the minnesota governor declared friday july 30, suni lee day. >> today we commemorate the closing ceremony in san francisco historic japan town peace plaza. the oldest of the three remaining japan towns in the country. that man right there, the emcee. making us all proud. families came to watch traditional dances and celebrate japanese heritage. >> it's always special to have a japan town in your city. this year because of the olympics it's extra special. to be able to celebrate the culture within the olympics as a backdrop. it's a great opportunity. >> we have been to japan. we lived there. we love celebrating. this is the end of olympics. great time to be here. >> tomorrow morning on the today show, stanford alumni and her teammate stopping by. with their gold medal. and sharing what it was like to battle it out in the sand. during the unprecedented games and what it's like to reunite with family in the u.s. watch the today show right here. right after today in the bay. all right. rob joining us. we'll have a cool week. >> in the cooling is actually helping with the air quality.

. ♪ >>> suni lee, gold medal. >> it's a world record. >> what a massi >>> >> yes, sir. ♪♪ >>> tokyo, japan, on a scenic sunday night, the 17th and final night of the games of the xxxii olympiad, a games that began surrounded by uncertainty and doubt but gave way just as so many more conventional olympics have before to a parade