Number of migrants arriving in Southern Europe from africa. Most of them start their journey across the sea and from to thousands have already crossed the mediterranean on rubber boats to italy where authorities are warning that the situation could get out of hand. Those who make it to italy are desperate to find ways to earn money many end up as farm workers on tomato or lemon plantations but they have no rights and for years theyve been toiling away for countless hours and for a minimum pay these workers are called the invisibles and by now and there are hundreds of thousands of them reason fame and you alone was introduced to improve their lives but the law is having little effect as our italy correspondent found out he travelled to the southern part of the country to the region of bus known as italys a breadbasket there he met some of the migrants. Somewhere in the middle of nowhere among the vast wheat fields of southern italy we meet them on a chain who found shade under the pine
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The republican senate. We are living through one of the greatest failures of president ial leadership in our countries history. Did you hear that donald trump . You have created one of the greatest failures of president ial leadership. We are going to this last portion of the conversation because the senate is about to gamble back in after their weekly caucus meetings. Senators continue work on the 2021 Defense Authorization bill with votes scheduled later this afternoon for five Senate Coverage on cspan2 a senator madam president. The presiding officer the senator from wyoming. Mr. Enzi madam president , i rise today to discuss our federal finances and the need to address our unsustainable fiscal debt and deficit. The federal budget has already been on an unsustainable path before covid19 reached our shores and before the pandemic and our governments response to it, which has accelerated what i believed is a coming day of reckoning. I recognize the unprecedented crisis presented by th
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Simply based on the long delays that the public has been observing with the work with public works. But we should have an update soon i would imagine. But, yeah, the timeframe i think that theyre reevaluating right now. Theres been many of our smaller projects, however, that were not allowed to proceed during shelterinplace and like neighborhood and traffic on main and the required work by actual work crews working together, they were deemed nonessential. Okay, thank you. Okay. Commissioner safai. Commissioner safai thank you, chair peskin and thank you mr. Tumlin. So i understand the fiscal outlook. Can you talk a little bit more about what some of your adjustments would be if and when and hopefully the cares act passes and theres additional moneys that come down to the transportation agencies, because i know that you have to present the situation based on the funding scenarios that we have. But i also know that the state and the federal government are going to do everything they can