A phone call with the ukrainian leader u. S. President donald trump thursday called on china to get involved what. Is just about as bad as what happened with. You phrase the unconventional request to beijing comes as trump faces questions over his administrations request to foreign governments to help investigate former u. S. Vice President Joe Biden his potential democratic rival in next years president ial contest. Trump was chinese authorities and other countries to investigate bidens son hunter and his business dealings overseas members of the u. S. Congress are investigating allegations trump abused his president ial powers in a july phone call with ukrainian president vladimir selenski we need real support in a trunk calls for an investigation into the bidens which is now the foundation of an impeachment inquiry led by democratic lawmakers on capitol hill 3 committees in the house of representatives on thursday question former u. S. Special envoy kurt volker about his orders from
Fire wall between the 2 sections on hong kong and those on the mainland that has been met but then the remainder lets look at it in a very quick very quickly the setting up of the independent commission of inquiry may be a good thing a big big or necessary. To the protests have subsided but introducing it now or for a century to lie because because any evidence given would give them exemption from any course occasion now the imaan for ready the arrests of all those lives is theres now busy nearly 2000 who committed various crimes and charge some of them are in charge. Of the rest of or of them and also dropping the charges on why a team or together could only weaken the whole homes a defense mechanism against this time of while others and lawrence that is now the most important demand agenda with the moslem is universal suffrage bill together at a time of the Umbrella Movement there was a package introduced but it was rejected for not being democratic enough but here in lies the contra
Hong kong throughout the day they started gathering even before kerry lamb made that announcement and they went into the financial district and then it kind of shrank a little bit but then they were blocking major intersections right in the center of monklands financial district and then they marched over here to causeway bay and there are thousands here now and theyre really just kind of coring in now how are they reacting to this announcement they say its kind of business as usual theyre continuing on theyre not going to go up by this band theyre not worried about this facemask ban as you can see a lot of people here have a face mask they are just going to continue with their protesting they say it was interesting one protester even said that this is an issue thats bigger than just bank on this is something that china is doing that is dangerous for the world so the prostatitis here for the most part is saying were going to stay steady on and continue what theyve been doing for the la
Military aid about 4 100000000. 00 to ukraine and apparently that caused some confusion among u. S. Diplomats ambassador bill taylor who was of the embassador to ukraine said are we now saying that sect that Security Assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigation he wrote that in a text the answer came from ambassador to the e. U. Gordon sunderland who is a trump supporter and was a donor prior to his appointment he said call me bill taylor pressed forward a few days later saying i think its crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a Political Campaign then suddenly and immediately responded bill i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions the president has been Crystal Clear no quid pro quo of any kind so as you see that last statement is what trump has been pointing to in these Text Messages changes as. His own defense but its notable kemal that when ambassador sunland sent that and sent that text it was just as whistleblower report w
Ekkebus talked about the World War Ii Nuclear Weapons Program known as the Manhattan Project, the programs aftermath and the impact on the Main Development facility in oak ridge, tennessee he focused on the years 1945 to 1950. The American Museum of science and energy and oak ridge hosted this event. Thank you very much. Please to be here in the American Museum of science and energy. The talk tonight is focusing on the first five years after the war. A great many changes have occurred. Im including what i consider some of the less frequent he mentions topics of this. There we have images of the beta cal you trond and the top, jackson square, a great high and the sppy valley 50 plant and steam plant at the kate when he five site. K 25 site. The theme of this time is change. There was a change from the army corps of engineers to the Atomic Energy commission both leaders and goals. There was change in the town. And labor, congress, the Atomic Energy act, there is the search for spies that