A load workers returning to work in the u. K. The Economic Impact of the pandemic has seen major cities including london become ghost towns. Youre watching our to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. Condolences are being sent from all over the world to lebanon where a devastating explosion ripped through the capital on tuesday the nation is in mourning as the catastrophe has claimed lies of at least 100 people and left over 4000 injured according to the countrys red cross. Now these are live pictures from beirut its about 1 pm there right now theres almost nothing left of the once bustling port as you can see here the citys governor says about 300000 people have been displaced a blast destroyed nearby buildings causing chaos across the lebanese capital. Given a large number of injured hospitals are under immense strain the field is already dealing with the Coronavirus Crisis were quickly field beyond capacity issue pleas
Also this hour despite millions of for a load workers returning to work in the u. K. The Economic Impact of the pandemic has seen major cities including london become ghost towns. A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. Condolences are being stolen from all over the world to lebanon where a devastating explosion ripped through the capital on tuesday the nation is in mourning as the catastrophe has claimed the lives of at least 100 people and left over 4000. 00 injured thats according to the countrys red cross. We now bring you live pictures from beirut you can see emergency workers there are still looking for that missing almost nothing left of the once bustling area the citys governor says about 300000 people have been displaced due to the tragedy a blast destroyed nearby buildings and caused chaos across the lebanese capital. Given the large number of injured hospitals are under immense strain facilities already dea
Host welcome to book tv and in depth. This is a Monthly Program with one author, talking about his or her book and we are pleased this month to be joined by west moore who is the author of three books plus Childrens Book in a novel. In his first book came out in 2010. Its called the other west more braided is a bogeyman in 2015 in this most recent book is about baltimore during the arrest and death of freddie great and just come out five days. Thats what that is called but in your folks, you write is a military save your life. What you mean by that. Wes moore i think of the military played an incredibly Important Role in my life where some of the most important times of my life is wearing suits, tshirt and jeans were is very uniform in this country. I was first introduced in the military system actually one is about 13 years old. I was into a military school. And there was issues and challenges and when i was younger, my mom was pregnant when we went to military school. I was eight yea
Want their voices to be heard kron fours dan thorn was at the protest late today, he joins us tonight in martinez and dan it seems like there was some tension here at this demonstration, but but no violence or anything like that. Now i am for the most part this protest was there was a lot of anticipation that was leading up to this of course possibly protesters that might get out of hand or counter protesters here that would want to clash with them, businesses here were concerned they boarded up whether that was restaurants or shops on the cops are also standing by and watching what was happening. But throughout the day we saw nothing but peace. Hundreds of people make their way down court street waving signs and chanting for racial equality, the demonstration taking place where a man and woman recently defaced a black lives matter mural thats the disgraced that were fighting against this White Supremacy and White Supremacy in a to white people and this is unfortunate that this is wher
While it is understandable that during this Unprecedented Health care and economic crisis, congress has decided to spend all this money, it is also a great opportunity for congress to undertake serious efforts to reduce wasteful spending. That effort should start with the elimination of earmarks. For the third year in a since the suppose it earmark moratorium, congress has set a record for earmarks according to the criteria we develop in 1991 with the bipartisan Congressional Court busters coalition. A 3. 1nouncement was percent increase over the 3. 3 billion in fiscal year 2019. Since fiscal year 1991, cagw has costinged earmarks taxpayers 375. 7 billion, so those little projects at up over time. The increase in spending occurred behind closed doors without taxpayers knowing what is going on. There are no names of legislators attached to each earmark and few details. We know in the agriculture appropriations act, theres 9 million for the Appalachian Regional Commission and Delta Regio