Welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. The former ceo of Global Fashion brand Abercrombie Fitch and his british partnerface allegations of exploitation from men recruited for sex events they hosted Around The World. A bbc investigation found a highly organised operation running the events, with a Middleman Finding Young Adult men for mikejeffries and his partner matthew smith. Jeffries is regarded as the modern day founder of abercrombie and fitch, which also owns the Hollister Brand. Eight men told the bbc they attended these events, some of whom alleged they were exploited or abused. Two former us prosecutors who independently reviewed evidence uncovered by the bbc have called for an investigation to determine whether charges for Sex Trafficking could be brought. Mrjeffries and mr smith did not respond to requests for comment. In the early to thousands, sexualised imagery and provocative billboards turned the teen retailer,
There was testimony on the budget request and where theyre working to find more efficiencies in certain programs. This hearing is about 90 minutes. Subcommittee will come to order. Good afternoon to everybody. Thank you for being here. Really deeply appreciate our two distinguished witnesses here today to give us an inside look at the budget as it relates to africa. And where the challenges are, where funding will potentially increase. As you know, the appropriations budget that has passed the house clearly indicates that there were some differences of opinion as to how much and where we should be spending that money. And i think we have come to a consensus at least on the republican side that extraordinarily important programs like pep far, the emergency plan for aid relief, a number of refugee plans and a lot of other programs that deal with Infectious Diseases, like tuberculosis need to be funded in a very robust way in order to save lives and to mitigate dangers, especially to wome
In fact, every signatory of the nonproliferation treaty which is every country except five in the world right now except inspections. That is why we have international thank you for being here. We deeply appreciate our two distinguished witnesses here today to give us an inside look at the budget as it relates to africa and where the challenges are and where funding will potentially increase. As you know, the appropriations budget has passed the house and clearly it indicates there are some differences is opinion as to where we should be spending that money and we have come to a consensus, at least on the public inside of extraordinary programs like the emergency plans for aids relief, refugee programs and a whole lot of other programs that deal with Infectious Diseases, like. Ellipsis. They need to be funded in a very robust way in order to save lives and to mitigate dangers to women and children. We also have a strong commitment on this committee and from our leaders in the state dep
Commitments weve made. And potentialsing military threat in the area. Do we close up shop and abandon our Alliance Systems . Or south korea doesnt believe we are a credible partner in the area, japan goes nuclear. South korea goes nuclear. You have a Nuclear Arms Race in northeast asia if the United States cannot uphold its alliances. Furthermore, if china allows to take over the South China Sea and name it as its sovereign territory, that means that the ,rinciple of the Global Commons of which we have been the main defender of world war ii, if we pull out we are also abandoning that commitment. Tough decisiony to make. It involves a lot of tradeoff in the wrists are going up. Risks are going up. We should be shooting for human welfare. Host what faces the next president . Difficultabout those relations between those two countries. Guest there is complexity and uncertainty. The next president will have to deal with some of the callers questions. Do we see china as a partner or adversar
Mr Eric Atuahene Agyemang, Adansi North District Director of Health Services, has called on the people to take the interventions of various stakeholders serious to help reduce the incidence of malaria in the district. He said though the incidence of malaria had reduced significantly, there was the need for the…