I would like to thank everyone for being here. The scourge of Human Trafficking as modernday equivalent of slavery. Eradicating this horrific crime and helping its victims have been a top priority for president Trumps Administration and the department of justice. I think the president for his steadfast commitment to this issue and i thank avoca for her issue for her support and hosting this meeting today. I also thank all of these survivors and their advocates here for their courage and determination to end this evil scourge. In late january, a number of us were here for the white house summit on Human Trafficking. We noted that this year marks the 20th anniversary of the trafficking victims protection act. A law that has enabled great progress in this fight. I promise the Justice Department would do everything in our power to stop Human Trafficking and to help survivors port and today im pleased to announce an important step in keeping that promise. The Justice Department is awarding
Receive Occupational Training and counselling. Good afternoon. Id like to thank everyone for being here. The scourge of Human Trafficking is the modern day equivalent of slavery. Eradicating this horrific crime and helping its victims have been a top priority for president Trumps Administration and for the department of justice. I thank the president for his steadfast commitment to this issue, and i thank ivanka for her leadership and for hosting this meeting today. I also thank all the survivors and their advocates here for their courage and determination to end this evil scourge. In late january, a number of us were here for the white houses summit on Human Trafficking. We noted this year marks the 20th anniversary of the trafficking victims protection act, a law thats enabled great progress in this fight. I promise that the Justice Department would do everything in our power to stop Human Trafficking and to help survivors, and today im pleased to announce an important step in keepin
And the people around the world the top at home because of the coronavirus pandemic we take you to a lot of qatar where life is booming. Thank you very much for joining as hong kongs leader is trying to ease fears about beijings planned new security dolls kerry has appealed for people to wait to see the details before they launch into another round of mass protests as a proposed laws are being discussed behind closed doors in beijing lamb insists the legislation wont trample on hong kong and freedoms. We are very free society is sort of all the time being people have this freedom to say whatever they want to say but ultimately what is to be provided in this piece of legislation is for or of us to see in order to be assured that hong kongs freedoms will be preserved and hong kongs vibrancy and the core values in terms of the rule of law the independence of a traditionally the various rights and freedoms enjoyed by people will continue to be there or claudia mo is a prodemocracy member o
What you are saying but others will say all of this is such a great area because of our unwritten constitution. We dont know exactly where we do stand and its a question of balance of powers between parliament and the government and the courts, but it shouldnt be this unpredictable in a sense. I agree it shouldnt be unpredictable and it wasnt unpredictable. The law does not permit judicial unpredictable. The law does not permitjudicial review of the prerogative to Prorogue Parliament. It is subject to political control. That leaves space for a serious political controversy, a disagreement between mps and the Prime Minister and eventually there has two. We will have to leave it there because we are back inside the Supreme Court. Lets listen to the governments representative here. Supreme court. Lets listen to the governments representative herelj paraphrase of course from the opinion of hodge in the case of her goal. Mark reference has been made to constitutional principle. Constitution
Over to the u. N. Security council in new york there you can see mark who of course is the emergencies change for the u. N. Hes giving a briefing hes giving a briefing on the various emergencies around the world i believe hes talking about syria right now and we will be will listen a little bit to that but were also waiting to hear the very latest from the Security Council as to the situation in yemen but lets just listen to what he has to say about syria the displaced people compromising their ability to provide education for children. On 22 oldest following advances in many areas of northern hammer in southern italy the syrian authorities announced again the opening of the crossing point for civilians wishing to leave the area we understand the syrian authorities of station buses in the area and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent has been asked to prepare for possible population movements there are 2 shelters identified in iran to see if people with a capacity of 150 families the u. N. And