Lockdown as the coded 19 2nd wave gathers pace more than 100000 people are affected more strictures on public life are tightening elsewhere 2 clubs touch and go in outer space and nasa Spacecraft Lands briefly on an asteroid where its matches a rock samples look at the details of the daring mission. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program Authorities in nigerias biggest city lagos are vowing to investigate reports that Security Forces have opened fire on protesters Rights Groups are citing what they call credible reports that some demonstrators were killed now the army calls the reports fake news i jury and have been protesting for weeks against Police Brutality and corruption. Protesters gathered in lekki a wealthy suburb of lagos to protest Police Brutality they came out in defiance of a round the clock curfew imposed by the state governor after previous protests had turned violent. Tuesdays protest reportedly started out relatively peaceful until men in green uniforms were seen settin
Forced labor disclosure act of 2020. Important legislation introduced by representative wexton, a valued member of the committee on Financial Services. Group urs are a muslim and are one of a member of muslim groups that are persecuted, arbitrarily arrested, detained in forced labor concentration camps and even executed. It has been reported by human rights advocates that over one Million People are being held by the Chinese Government in detention camps across the uighur autonomous region. The government of the peoples republic of china falsely refers to these concentration camps as vocational camps or reeducation camps. Make no mistake, the truth is that today in 2020 one million human beings are being held in concentration tramp camps where they are beaten, starves and starved and forced to work long hours in conditions that can only be described as inhumane. Their relatives often have no idea where they are or whether they are alive. They are dying each day due to the cruelty of th
Uighur muslims. Also today possible work on a covid19 aid bill. Live house coverage here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. God of the universe, father to us all, we give you thanks forgiving us another day for giving us another day. During these days, these few days before the house breaks for the final weeks of the campaign, send us your spirit of peace. Inspire the members to complete their charge, to promote the common good of our nation. Comfort those who continue to suffer from the coronavirus and protect those who labor still to treat the disease and bring an effective vaccine to the world. May all that is done this day be for your greater honor and glory. Men. The speaker pursuant to section 4 of House Resolution 967, the journal of the last days proceedings is approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from virginia, mr. Cline. Mr. Cline i pledge allegian
Amazon billion offer to goes from rivals to partners as jeff bezos is willing to take a 40 stake in his indian retail revolution. At thelets take a look set up for the session of trading in asia. We saw that resumption of the loss in the u. S. How are we setting up in this part of the world . Sophie a pickup in volatility once again. In asia, futures are mixed, but we are seeing s p eminis. Chicago adding. 3 . The yen is stuck in the range with brexit risk also a consideration. We are watching tiktok reaction to trumps extension of that tiktok watching reaction to trumps extension of that tiktok sale. Jupiter Asset Management is cutting its exposure to debt of Chinese State linked borrowers so that is something to consider as well. Ahead of the u. S. Election, you are seeing one vol bets can yuan vol bets. Keeping an eye on korean bonds with potentially 6. 3 billion of supply coming through. The government may submit its proposal to parliament this friday. The global rush of Corporate
Good friday morning. Were going to kick things off this hour, of course, with tiktok as the president orders downloads of the platform and we chat to be blocked beginning on sunday does this put the oracle deal into jeopardy . We have every angle good morning. What we know right now is the e commerce officials is that as of midnight on sun theyre going t stop people from using the apps. The quality will be degraded pretty quickly it is after the president ial election, carl of course we chat is used for Many Americans to communicate with family back home, also for payments, logistics, and i know you were talking about this perhaps being a bit of a climb down, but we dont really know the implications yet yes there are 19 million we chat users here in america versus 1. 2 billion in china, but we dont know how many of the 19 million users are businesses meanwhile the app will continue to operate as it is. Does it not protect some of the bigger american businesses like starbucks and disney