Of the tourism season where some hoteliers are warning that their livelihoods of being put at risk because some visitors are failing to follow basic guidelines to control the spread of the virus. Walk into the program lebanons cabinet has agreed to put several port officials under house arrest in connection with cheese days devastating explosion in the capital beirut at least 100 people were killed and thousands more injured when a fire tonight at more than 2 and a half 1000 tons of Ammonium Nitrate in a port warehouse beiruts governor says up to 300000 people have been left homeless describing the situation as in the city as apocalyptic reports. The people of this disaster stricken city are starting to assess and comprehend the extent of the damage of a blast that was far more destructive than any explosion lebanon has ever seen just before sunset on tuesday highly explosive material stored at a warehouse at beirut port caused the blast sending shock waves across the city now in ruins
You very much. The committee on Natural Resources will come to order. The committee is meeting to hear testimony on the questions of the u. S. Park police june 1 attack on the Peaceful Protesters at Lafayette Square. Under Committee Rules, oral Opening Statements and the ranking minority member or his designee. This will allow us to hear from the witnesses sooner and helps members ge keep to the schedule. Therefore i ask unanimous consent of the members o memberg statements be made a part of this hearing records submitted by 5 p. M. Today. Hearing no objection, so ordered. Without objection the chair will also declare a recess subject to the call of the chair. As described in the notice of documents and motions will be submitted to the electronic. Additionally please note members are responsible for their own microphones and as with the in person meetings members can be muted only to avoid inadvertent background noise. Anyone present in the hearing room today must wear a mask covering
Were behaving peacefully thank you very much. The committee on Natural Resources will come to order. The committee is meeting to hear testimony on the questions of the u. S. Park police june 1 attack on the Peaceful Protesters at Lafayette Square. Under Committee Rules, oral Opening Statements and the ranking minority member or his designee. This will allow us to hear from the witnesses sooner and helps members ge keep to the schedule. Therefore i ask unanimous consent of the members o memberg statements be made a part of this hearing records submitted by 5 p. M. Today. Hearing no objection, so ordered. Without objection the chair will also declare a recess subject to the call of the chair. As described in the notice of documents and motions will be submitted to the electronic. Additionally please note members are responsible for their own microphones and as with the in person meetings members can be muted only to avoid inadvertent background noise. Anyone present in the hearing room t
And hundreds of millions of children desperately needing food we look at the difficulties for a agencies. Now yemen syria the rebels have told aljazeera they wont stop fighting while the country is under siege the Spokesman Says there have been continued land attacks and as strikes thats despite an announcement from the saudi u. A. E. Military coalition a 2 week unilateral ceasefire they say is to prevent a corona Virus Outbreak were but mentally as is reported. I haul in military operations in yemen. But in the days and even now essentially ceasefire came into effect. All too familiar scene supply lines across the country injured people taken to hospital after hutu rebels shelled the port city of her data more injuries to entails of the heavy shelling the hostess say the saudi u. A. E. Coalition also bomb targets in all just had to and cider although the coalition called for a cease fire spokesman told our just era they have not agreed to it so long as the siege is not lifted we have
A deal to cut production iran says its exempt from the agreement along with libya and venezuela. A 2 week cease fire comes into effect in yemen but the heathy say they wont stop fighting while the country is still under siege. And hundreds of millions of children desperately needing food we look at the difficulties for aid agencies during the coronavirus crisis. So that the damage to the worlds biggest economy from the current of our shutdown is really hitting home in the past week another 6600000 people in the United States have joined the jobless queue and that means nearly 17000000 americans have now filed for Unemployment Benefits in just 3 weeks that figure is around one in 10 workers White House Correspondent can be help it says there are fears the figures could be even worse. Nothing like this scene in modern history and it is expected to be more because heres the reality the states unemployment offices are overwhelmed they cannot keep up with the processing of claims so weve ha