2020 last week. Police chief Shawny Williams says that 16 of those deaths were African Americans kron fours dan thorn joins us now live from the late show with more on how the city plans to stop the shootings. Dan obviously easier said than done. Thats right vicki in grand the police chief and other city leaders are looking into making Community Connections out here theyre calling it operation peace because the chief believes that they cannot enforce their way out of this problem meanwhile, the Vallejo Police Officers Association has made it clear that by hiring more Police Officers they will be able to curb crime in the city. In an effort to hold Violent Crime in valais how the Police Department launches a new initiative operation peace aims to stop a significant spike in shootings unfortunately when we look at gun violence in our city the last. This last august we had up to 209 shootings in our city. Weve had 21 murders. Thats a 300 increase from last year police chief Shawny William
Starvation at a crocodile talk in india as the coronavirus keep spain visitors away. Im told me a lot of welcome to the program the lebanese Prime Minister and his antiair cabinet have resigned almost a week after the massive explosion in beirut has and their departure would make possible the changes lebanon needs but his announcement has so far done little to placate protesters even as speaking demonstrators are back in the streets demanding an end to the corruption that they say set the stage for last weeks tragedy. Country in pain. On the streets of beirut clashes gained momentum protesters vented their anger out at thors in palo leaders who they say are incompetent and corrupt. 7 this scenario only reignited by last weeks disaster. Police tried to free gang control turning teen gas at protesters telling starnes. Not to go they want the government gone and made mounting pressure its a demand that was granted on monday. Night that today we are heeding the people and their demands to
Be also not seeing the robust gains we have seen the last couple days. Looks like we are snapping out of six days of gains for mainland shares. Hang seng also down 53 points or so. Nikkei futures slightly positive. We are watching currencies and other bonds as well. We are looking of course at the dollar which is holding pretty steady after we saw some strength in the u. S. Session. Chinese 10 year yields, yields actually falling lower by two basis points. Offshore room and be back above 710, 702. Aussie dollar continuing to see weakness with victoria, melbourne under a six week lockdown. And of course we mentioned the yen earlier. We are watching the hong kong dollar very closely here. Our scoop on how president trumps aids are waiting proposals to undermine hong kongs dollar. Seems like right now it is just talk, a lot is hypothetical. You are seeing a lot when it comes to the spot rate, but you see of the bit of movement in some of these markets, up slightly. Of boostingback interve
Theyre just gone midnight here in moscow the watching r. T. International. Militants backed by Turkish Forces launched an offensive against the syrian army in the water one province earlier today russian strikes did help to repel them. Gave me the details. Basically what happened terrorist factions launched an offensive on the Syrian Forces who were holding one of the villages a village in that Northeastern Province a very large scale offensive supported by artillery strikes by the turkish army so that offensive or that was of such scale that the troops the syrian troops on the ground could not withstand it on their own so the ask the Russian Air Force to help out so it did but again that offensive that terrorist offensive was supported by turkish artillery so moscow had to intervene and reach out directly to ankara and ask them to stop the support to prevent militants from moving deeper into syria into the 24 aircraft of the Russian Air Force at the request of the syrian command have
Ms. Pelosi today, we celebrate a wedding in washington, d. C. I convey that to you because it is a source of joy to us as she is a source of joy to the country and her personal happiness is lovely. In any event, here we are. Iran, impeachment. Let me start with iran. Today, we will have a resolution on the floor put forth by congresswoman alyssa slotkin. Were very proud of her experience, in terms of National Security, under democratic and republican president s, now a member of congress putting forth a resolution this week. Last week, in our view, the president the administration conducted a provocative disproportionate air strike against iran that dangered americans and did so without consulting congress. When i was informed of this attack the administration took responsibility for it over the weekend, i said, why did you not consult with congress . Well, we held it in closely. We held it in closely. No. You have a responsibility to consult with congress. No, we held it close. Whatev