And subcommittee on Global Competitiveness will come to order. I know this seems a little strac strange with an empty room except for three witnesses live in front of me and many of our colleagues are going to be joining us virtually. But i want to welcome all of you nonetheless to this important hearing. This subcommittee continues to do its work in exploring the unfair trade practices of foreign governments, especially china and russia. The topic of censorship in china is a common one because it is growing effect on business in the United States as well as culture. Last fall, for example, the National Basketball association had the Market Access blocked in china because an individual american citizen using a media platform not allowed in china expressed a political opinion. Now the topics have become more manufactu important. The timely information about the spread of covid19 due to chinese censorship has contributed to the havoc wreaked on our economy and health and indeed the pande
Towards full environmental destruction with get ahead just made it sound like no fun. I mean think of the positives. Lets move on only one thing matters to the oligarchs it is the primacy of Corporate Power which has extinguished our democracy and left most of the working class and the working poor in misery. As well as the continued increase and consolidation of their wealth was in their the National Anthem thats kind of our thing i think i remember as one of the parts most people mumble through in fact chris hedges is of course right were witnessing the largest consolidation of wealth ever seen while more people than ever face eviction in the land of the free you are not free if you were beaten down and imprisoned by Economic Force that is not freedom that is full frontal oppression but the 2 corporate conventions dont want to talk about that because it said jim bob her much better to talk about had joe biden took the train to work 2 for a bunch of years and once said hi to an elevat
And trying to keep the lessons going to meet the pandemic the lengths theyre going to remote areas of indians. And foreign belgians Thomas Peters is new to the lead on day 2 at the u. S. Open hes overtaken Justin Thomas who had a course record in his helping round on their estate. So then taiwan has scrambled 18 fighter jets to track nearby Chinese Military planes in an escalation of tension over the visit of a u. S. Official china says the drills were necessary accusing the United States and taiwan of colluding to stir up trouble from abroad explains. Taiwan scrambling gets jets after 18 Chinese Military aircraft entered its Defense Identification Zone before turning back. As its done previously in the Taiwan Strait this military exercise by china was its way of showing displeasure at increased diplomatic exchanges between the u. S. And taiwan it comes as u. S. Undersecretary keith crock the most Senior State Department official in decades continues his visit to the island that follow
A new site on lesbos but many still need food water and medical help. A controversial turkish vessel returns to port after its Research Mission in just waters we says its a positive 1st step. In the horrifying aftermath of u. S. Wildfires fears there could be mass casualties buried by the oregon. And sport world title leader Lewis Hamilton won an. The race had to be stopped twice after a series of crush of the italians. Hello welcome to the news hour we begin in baton rouge where 250 people have been arrested in the capital minsk following an escalation of violence against protesters. A police have been seen beating demonstrators tackling them to the ground and forcing many into military vehicles roughly 100000 people flooded the center of the city making their way to one of the president ial compounds early at the Government Shutdown the internet in response to the continued opposition activists have been demanding the resignation of president Alexander Lukashenko following the disput
A new home thousands of refugees in greece weave into their camp but there are growing concerns about conditions that. What we fear is the before all that it will be a 2nd border to work at the same of europe. And we have all the schools scouring sparrow edges closer to return to English Premier League title tut tut known all to 7 trophy laden years and real madrid. In corona virus cases across the United Kingdom has forced the government to announce more restrictions as infections wild wide now topped 30000000 official estimates showed the number of new daily cases in england has nearly doubled to around 6000 in just the past week and leaders are warning they could be another full scale lockdown if the situation doesnt improve on new measures to stop the virus from spreading also being rolled out in parts of france and spain it comes a day after the w. H. O. Warned of an alarming rise in cases across europe and israel has now entered a nationwide lockdown for a 2nd time as infections