So we welcome you back to the committee. Its good to have discussion with you last week. I want to thank you really want to thank you for all youve done at the department, for your willingness to serve to this point, and for your willingness to step up in this new and higher capacity. Weve got our colleagues here this morning to introduce the deputy secretary, both texas and louisiana are well represented. Mr. Deputy secretary, you should feel very welcome by having these gentlemen next to you. So we will start with senator cassidy up here at the dais followed by senators cruz and kennedy to introduce the deputy secretary this morning. So senator cassidy, if you would like to proceed. We do have a full complement here this morning and a full house behind you. Hopefully the introductions do not consume our full morning, but we certainly welcome all the good comments. So senator cassidy. Madam chair, what a wonderful way to tell me to be brief. But its a privilege to represent my fellow
A very warm welcome to you youre watching r. T. International with me and. Now our top story this hour a whistleblower has cast doubt on the way the International Chemical weapons aimed employee at the o. P. C. W. Claims the organization cherry picks and misrepresented facts in its official report released by wiki leaks coincides with the o. P. C. W. s 5 Day Conference which is now underway in the hague. On the agenda of this annual meeting is just routine administrative stuff but this thing this in this whistleblower email is certainly the big elephant in that room because it was compiled by one of the co all of those over the o. P. C. W. s report on the 2018 the chemical attack in the syrian city of duma and while his words i should say sum up better than anything his feelings when he saw what the report that he was working on turned out to be as hes accusing the o. P. C. W. Of manipulating facts after reading the modified report i was struck by how much it misrepresents the facts an
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Administration has largely avoided hitting consumer items this represents a crucial Inflection Point in the trade war with china as now the tariffs threaten the u. S. Economys main driver Consumer Spending despite headlines i go back and forth calling for progress has become ever more clear now that the trend is towards escalation not to deescalation in addition to increased duties on american exports china has now lodged an official complaint against the us at the w t o saying that the latest actions by elated at the consensus reached by leaders in osaka this lawsuit is now the 3rd that beijing has brought to challenge the. The us says that they are penalizing china for theft of intellectual property that is not covered by the rules although many trade experts say that any tariff above the allowed maximum must be justified at the w t o under the washington now has 60 days to try to settle this dispute. Then china could ask the w t o to rule a process that would take several years this
The future of the peso an argentine economy 3 day weekend is over were roasted or ready for a great show lets go. We lead our global report today with new allegations from why we technologies accusing the United States government of using every tool at its disposal to stymie its business and a press release issued tuesday waterways said the u. S. Had used one foresman to quote menace its employees launch Cyber Attacks on their networks and detain shipments related to its business the release was specifically in response to the opening of an investigation into whether wall we had stolen for Smartphone Camera technology from portuguese multimedia producer rui olivera in the release a Telecom Chinese Chinese Telecom giant accused olivera of quote taking advantage of the current geo political situation without citing any specific examples a company said the u. S. Had sent f. B. I. Agents to while away employees homes tool up to attempt to collect. Information on the company the release als