Investors, and the American Financial system. I will now give an Opening Statement for five minutes. Today we are here for a hearing on its books proposed Digital Currency, libra, and digital wallet, and the impact on consumers, investors, and the Financial System. David marcus, following his testimony, a panel of experts will share their views on this book plans, is there are serious concerns about the creation of a Digital Currency and digital wallet to expand its reach, like mastercard, paypal, visa, uber reggie lyft rideshare, and specify. Is trying to create a new global fund to rival the us dollar this venture is slated to be based in switzerland, which has a history of creating a haven for criminals and shady corporations. This plan includes serious privacy training, and monitoring of policy concerns. With 2 billion users, will have immediate access to these products, but also from consumers, festers, and the global economy. In addition, facebook has proposed government guarante
China has condemned the actions of protesters in hong kong and its harshest words since huge crowds began taking to the streets one month ago to call the storming of the Legislative Council building a blatant challenge to the one country 2 systems bottom line and also said we express our behavior at condemnation against this once inside the legislative chamber protesters unfurled a british era clone youll flag over the speakers podium and also to face the territorys official seal anniversary sparked by yet another huge march the 3rd in as many weeks around half a 1000000 people packed the streets protesting not just the controversial extradition deal but also the governments response to begin our coverage with this report from katrina you and beijing. This is the hong kong the Chinese Government wanted the world to see celebrations marking the 22nd anniversary of its return to the chinese motherland instead bs with the scenes broadcast around the world dismissed by beijing as little mo
my name is dwight bashir and i m the director of outreach and policy at the commission. and i know many of you are looking forward to this week s the irfa summit, which has officially got underway. we have with us the co chair of the irfa summits congressional advocacy day. so i wanna invite him, just for a minute, to say a few words. amjad khan. [applause] amjad: good afternoon everyone and welcome. this is an amazing event. on behalf of the international religious freedoms summit on the steering committee, ambassador sam brownback and dr. katrina lantos swett. we welcome all of you also to this week of the summit. one of the reasons that we planned to do this event was the amazing synergy between this amazing body uscirf and civil society and, you know, here in congress on capitol hill, why it s so important to do it here today. we have coalitions, multifaith coalitions, over 70 organizations, dozens of faith communities speaking for each other on the hill today. over 50 li
earlier this month 8 soldiers were killed in an attack by syrian army in the same area and ask that increases the risk of a full blown military confrontation between ankara and damascus. the main aim is that the cease fire should be respected as soon as possible in a labor the regime must stop its aggression for a permanent under stop the ceasefire. offensive grows a sudden counter offensive by the rebels they launched an attack to retake the town of sirte that is now under the control of syrian government troops. as the turkish backs syrian national army fighters will close in. to the bombardment intensified. turkish army units in targeting syrian troops positioned in the town while turkey sends more troops and vehicles into it at an unusually fast pace problem the plan and we hope that this convoy will do what they promised and force the regime back to where they were we hope that they will do what is promised and not to be deceitful straddling the intersection of the beta
Syrian opposition groups meeting in the saudi capital have renewed that amount for the removal of president Bashar Al Assad in a draft resolution the communique states that a governing body could include members of the government those are the headlines ill be back with more news right after my inside story next. Young rich and famous in china one of the news goes behind the great chinese firewall to meet the cyber celebs of a booming multibillion dollar business. But this time on aljazeera. Hopes running high in zimbabwe following Robert Mugabes resignation as this african country enters a new era we ask what difference will a new leadership make this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program im Adrian Finnegan Robert Mugabe has been in charge of zimbabwe ever since the country was born thirty seven years ago the African Nationalist helped lead the rebellion against British Colonial rule of what was then rhodesia and he was a political prisoner during white minority rule in the on