The us attorney general takes the unusual step of authorising federal prosecutors to investigate allegations of voter fraud in last weeks president ial election. The uk Unemployment Rate rises to 4. 8 in the three months to september compared with 4. 5 in august with redundancies reaching a record high. The education standards body for england ofsted warns that some children have regressed in basic skills and learning during the pandemic. And coming up this hour. Researchers say the discovery of a two million year old skull in south africa has uncovered a new chapter in the story of human evolution. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Well bring more on the vaccine news in a moment, but first our breaking news that the chief palestinian negotiator saeb erekat has died at the age of 65. He had suffered Serious Health problems for several years before contracting coronavirus la
Caused this surge. I dont know. We should be asking that question. But where are the mexican officials on pursuing their southern border strategy, and how do you see that as a tactic to basically dispel this crisis . Thank you, senator. Mexican president nieto announced finally on monday this longawait the southern strategy his government had been working on for some time. We expect that it will allow the Mexican Government to improve its interdiction capabilities along the border, that theyre going to be dedicating more resources to disrupting some of the alien Smuggling Networks and the traditional routes they use up through grauatemala, through southern mexico. In addition, theyre trying to also implement better documentation of people who are crossing their border so that they can track them better in the country. Theres no question, it is a very big border with guatemala and belize. It is open in a lot of places. So they have quite a job in front of them. I would suggest that ther
Gentleman from california for your leadership on this issue, the leadership on the alzheimers task force and your bringing people together on both sides of the aisle, trying to leverage resources, be wise in how we do this, but recognizing a responsibility that you and i and or colleagues have, and that responsibility is to do everything we can to try to alleviate this burden and ultimately drive toward the cure. Mr. Garamendi thank you. Representative roskam, its been great working with you this evening, well call this a beginning, working on an issue that affects everyone on both sides of the aisle and across america. We can deal with alzheimers, we need to put our shoulders to the wheel and push forward with programs we know are successful. I, too, am happy to be a cosponsor of todays piece of these piece of legislation. So much for tonight on this issue. Well come back to it in a few weeks and see what progress has been made, in the mentime, we have had our discussion this evening
Mr. Mccarthy do i not anticipate that coming up i do not anticipate that coming up next week. We will certainly notify the members if that will be considered on the house. Million hoyer again, i mr. Hoyer i did understand its not coming up next week. The reason i mention time, we have so few days, legislative days left, we are going to need to plan to address some of these issues that i think are going to be very important to our Economic Growth. I know the gentlemans very concerned about that. We are very concerned about it. On our side. His members are very concerned about that. We believe that that Exportimport Bank is a an Economic Growth, Economic Confidence building measure. We would hope we could address that. There are also, as the gentleman knows, 41 House Republicans who signed the letter urging that be passed and indicating their support of it, which we believe every democrat on this side will vote for that. Thats almost 200 people. With the 41. Clearly makes a majority of t
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