[inaudible] [inaudible] the hearing will come to order. 2020 has been a year of challenge and triumph for americas space agency. The covid19 pandemic has disrupted planning and daytoday operations, but nasa and its commercial partners have achieved many successful outcomes. These include launching american astronauts to the International Space station and returning them safely to earth. And returning that launch vehicle safely to earth. Launching a perseverance rover to mars and preparing the space launch systems sls rocket and orion crew capsule for the first deep Space Exploration Program Mission next year. Im pleased that nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine is here to provide us with an update on the missions and programs and the agencys plans for the future. Further progress on the program is critical to achieving the goals of landing the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024 and establishing a sustainable presence opresent on or around r circus by 2028. Congress has given su
A german port town threatened with the u. S. Sanctions struck a defiant tone. There is trying to tell us what to do here its really she least we believe that its teachers trying to manipulate german law so european interests are so big you insist you come out and talk. Moscow demands answers from washington amid reports the u. S. Is arming groups in crimea the russians use those terrorists. Hello and welcome this is our to the International Court asking to you live from moscow with me. Moskos said its been left chasing its tail and its assets to see the test results concerning the alleged poisoning of kremlin critic Alexei Navalny germanys directed russia to the Global Chemical weapons watchdog but the o. P. C. W. Says it should talk to berlin now the office of russias prosecutor general has requested sweden and france the 2 countries germany had certain of on these samples to to share their findings. Their excuses are completely contrived germany says it cant tell us anything in direc
2020 has been a year of challenge and triumph for americas space agency. The covid19 pandemic has disrupted planning and daytoday operations, but nasa and its commercial partners have achieved many successful outcomes. These include launching american astronauts to the International Space station and returning them safely to earth. And returning that launch vehicle safely to earth. Launching a perseverance rover to mars and preparing the space launch systems sls rocket and orion crew capsule for the first deep Space Exploration Program Mission next year. Im pleased that nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine is here to provide us with an update on the missions and programs and the agencys plans for the future. Further progress on the program is critical to achieving the goals of landing the first woman and next man on the moon by 2024 and establishing a sustainable presence opresent on or around r circus by 2028. Congress has given support for many key components of the arguments, notably
Congressman james clyburn, republican from South Carolina and the majority whip for the democrats in the house. Lets begin with the weight representative john lewis. As you bid farewell at the Memorial Service this week in the rotunda what was going through your t head practice share your thoughts with us. Thank you very much for having me. I was thinking of our early daysoh together when john and i first started in 1960 to help organize the student nonviolent coordinatingvi committee the city and started february of 60 and two weeks later and then to organize citizens and march 515 and so spontaneous to come together so april of that year in raleigh north carolina. And then we decided to meet again. And to organize ourselves. Thats when i met john that same evening and it was that night 10 00 oclock in the evening to 4 00 oclock the next morning. We had been in and out with each other ever since. When he was ousted as chair we got active i was in charleston South Carolina he was in ge
U. S. Canadas Prime Minister says hes disappointed that china has charged a former diplomat as a businessman with spying. Testers called from all these president to resign for a 2nd time this month. Tello the World Health Organization has the liver at an alarming warning on the coronavirus pandemic rather than easing the outbreak is in fact accelerating and the world is now in a new and dangerous phase globally 150000 new infections were reported on thursday thats the highest number in a single day nearly half of them were in the americas and w. H. O. Is urging people everywhere to maintain extreme vigilance the world is in a new and dangerous phase. Many people are understandably fed up with being at home countryside understandably egger to open up their societies and economies but the virus is still spreading fast it is still deadly and most people are still susceptible it. We on all countries. To exercise extreme vigilance the w. H. O. Drew particular attention to brazil which has n