Education interrupted and children and teachers be kept safe in the classroom. On wedlock thank you so much for your Company Everyone the inauguration ceremony for a new motorway bridge is underway in genoa italy the bridge replaces a structure that collapsed almost 2 years ago 43 people were killed when the marandi bridge broke up as vehicles drove over its in 2018 it was one of italys worst civil disasters in decades a new bridge called sun georgiou was completed in near record time in attendance at the ceremony are among others at least the Prime Minister just a conte and star architect renzo piano you see right here who design the new bridge on lets take you now word to a genuine to our correspondent some because she is standing by for you show it set the scene for us how is it really celebrating or marking rather the inauguration. That ceremony has just got under way a short time ago on the bridge behind us we are expecting a jets to fly over the bridge trailing behind in the colo
Returning to work in the u. K. The Economic Impact of the pandemic has seen major cities including london become ghost towns. Good afternoon and welcome to the program this is R T International coming to you live from the russian capital bring you your life news update condolences our beings time 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 injured according to the countrys red cross. Here we can bring you live pictures from beirut theres almost nothing left of the once bustling port au you can see rescue teams continue to search through the rubble the citys governor says about 300000 people have been displaced the blast destroyed nearby buildings causing chaos across the capital. Given a large number of injured to hospitals are under immense strain as well hes already dealing with the crowd a virus crisis were quickly fi
Come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Today, a select subcommittee is pleased to welcome our distinguished panel, dr. Ben bernanke and dr. Janet yellen. Dr. Bernanke was appointed chair of the Federal Reserve by president george w. Bush in 2006 and oversaw the Federal Reserves response to the Global Financial crisis. Before his tenure as fed chair, dr. Bernanke served as the chair of president bushs council of economic advisers. Dr. Yellen served as vice chair of the Federal Reserve until 2010 to 2014, before being appointed chair in 2014 by president barack obama. Dr. Yellen also previously served in the white house as chair of the council of economic advisers. This is the first time that either dr. Bernanke or dr. Yellen has testified before Congress Since stepping down from the Federal Reserve these extraordinary times require congress to seek out advice from expert
Clerk thank you, very much. All right. We have quorum. Thank you. Greetings and welcome for joining todays board of education meeting. Knowing that we all know this, i would like to say these are stressful and strange times, times we never thought would be visited upon us. I thought it was strange enough trying to wait out and resist the person currently occupying the white house. But now things have gotten more bizarre with the same person trying to bully students, families and teachers and other staff back into school buildings. Thats what were dealing with. Thats what its come to. Today we will be absorbing our fall learning plan. I know many will find aspects they will object to but this will find solace in the approach. This is the time for us to pull together collectively to row lie upon one another to make this year as good and meaningful as it can be for our childrens sake. And to continue to find, within ourselves, a sense of grace and compassion and flexibility as we move for
Person of usfld and make ends meet and showing support of people who have been experiencing something thats so, like, difficult during a pandemic and has affected so many families across the board . I want to fo know if theres any specific resources that youve given to staff that have been potentially laid off or have been, you know, reduced in hours because i know that affects a lot of nex income and families. Can you repeat the question . My main question was, basically how are staff and personnel being affected through phase one . I dont want to make any assumptions off the bat. But what are some resources that have been shared with staff and personnel whose hours might be cut or have been cut . I know personally, i know someone whose hours have been reduced to two hours a day and thats on minimum wage. And i would like to share that we have solidarit solidarity wif our workers and i want to know if there are any resources that come to mind, that would help these people or if anythi