Hi there thanks for joining us this is art. And we begin with an update on the latest global coronavirus figures the total number of infections that is now above 4200000 more than 287000 lives have been lost more than 1000000 people have now recovered. Ok lets head 1st to germany where thousands of protesters have been taken to the streets demanding a complete end to the lockdown there for the demonstrations descended into violent clashes with the police. The. These protests began at the weekend they continued into monday in major german cities the government has already condemned the violence used against police and journalists balance being gradually easing restrictions in the country over the past 2 weeks but now there are concerns of a possible new surgeon infections to speak to oliver explains. While germany has received international praise for the way in which it has handled the early stages over the coronavirus recent figures concerning the rates of infection in the country hav
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Hearing for state Department Nominees Including ambassador at large for Global Health security and diplomacy as well as u. S. Ambassadors. This is about an hour 20 minutes the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Our hearing today is to hear from five of the President Bidens nominees in dealing with career positions and ambassadorships. Its wonderful to have you all here. We thank you all for being here. Thank you do senator ricketts for being here to lead the republican side of this hearing. Its not always easy to find members that have or willing to adjust their schedules in order to accommodate these hearings, and i think senator ricketts for always being available to this committee to carry out our important work. I want to add some opening comments and senator ricketts wont opening comments but first i want to recognize senator reed and allowed to make an introduction and thank him for being here in the committee. We sometimes have a friendly rivalry between Arme