Im british by the day. Welcome to news asia. Glad you could join us. He highways leading to the indian capital of delhi, blocked as thousands of farmers protest against new agricultural laws passed by. The government. Farmers are demanding a rollback of the laws. Claim me, they removed a government assured grain purchase scheme that acted as a safety net for them. The government has assured the scheme will continue, but farmers convinced these 20000. 00 farmers arent going anywhere. Their trucks and tractors are blocking the major highways near indias capital. Each one of our tractors is loaded with rations up to 4 months. Until the time the government reverses these new agricultural laws, none of us will go back to the farmers field. Their livelihoods are threatened. They fear that the government will stop buying grain at guarantee prices. The worry is that this could leave them at the mercy of corporations who wont pay enough for their crops. Prime minister, Narendra Modi is trying t
Trump 2021 budget request for his department. This is two hours and 15 minutes. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. Good morning everybody. I think before i give my statement, we have several visits and 30 and i think we worked it out with senator white biden, and other people that we will keep this meeting going. So i am going to believe that the 1030 and vote once and then come back and i think the first vote always takes a long time. And then when he gets back, then he will vote. In other words, i will vote for the second there but i will stay over there and do them together. You know how it works out. I may not explain it very good. I want to welcome our witness, our secretary of health and Human Services. Honorable alex i appreciate the secretary a czar, your pairing before the committee to discuss the budget. The new budget, he oversees very Strong Department with programs that are crucial to the health and wellbeing of Many Am
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Subcommittee on Border Operations will come to order. It is meeting today to receive testimony on the adequacy of dhs efforts to prevent child deaths in custody. Without objection the jurors authorized an endpoint. It has unanimous consent there would be permitted to sit and question the witnesses. The chair asked with unanimous consent dissent as the witnesses. Without objection, so ordered. Jacqueline hall mccain. Seven years old. In the big gomez angel. Darlene valley, ten years old. One areas, 15 years old. Will mayor two years old. Carlos hernandez frescoes, 16 years old. They used to six children died in the custody of the United States government just in the past 18 months. They used to children were migrants from Central America who died of preventable conditions that went untreated. Three of they used to children since the spent the last hours of their lives in detention facilities on the southern border. We must never forget their names, their suffering, their terrible losses
Once they arrive in customs and Border Protection custody. [inaudible conversations] s with this subcommittee on border facility operations todayod people will receive testimony how to prevent child death and custody. We can declare recess at any point. Chair asking them as consent we can sit and question the witnesses. Without objection so ordered. Jacqueline mckeen, seven years old. Felipe gomez alonso, eight years old. Darlene cordova, ten years old. Juan gutierrez 15 years old. Willll mayor one wilmer ramirez, two years old. Carlos fernandez, 15 years old. These six children died in the custody of the United States government in the past 18 month months. They were migrants from Central Americaa who died of preventable conditions that went untreated. The last hours of their lives were in detention facilities on the southern border we must never forget their names or suffering or the losses their family has had to endure. We are here thiss morning to examine the conditions that led t