1. 00 and there south africa at just under half a trillion now in host country brazil the leader once described china as a predator a year on with a sluggish economy in mind he softening his tone as the president welcomes his chinese counterpart xi jinping the billboards however arent as welcoming freedom for hong kong china. And china brazil it would seem chinas growing influence on the continent isnt the easiest to sell to the public. And were joined by Carlos Dsouza hes the lead emerging market economist at Oxford Economics he focuses on latin america while carlos now give us a sense of the stakes here how important is china for latin america. So simon singh is growing more than for latin america but i think we need to understand the kind of relationship is very good and china have is very different from the kind of relationship in china with stan economies are in very different from relationships of china has advanced economies like here in the United States so what were looking at
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Thank you very much, director kosinski, and your staff. I think these mostly addressed the concerns. The question whether it should be an ordinance or in the charter, to be clear. All of the commissions are in the charter. If we would create this by charter, it wouldnt be a Charter Commission that has all the responsibilities and duties defined in the charter. So we think its important that we have something that has. I think this is in many ways recognizing that this department is here to stay. One of the reasons why this this department maybe the main reason why this department doesnt have a commission currently is because its a new department. Its only been around a couple years, and the advisory structure that we have is here from a time when we didnt have a Single Department with the authority that your department has, had a single director and all of that. So i want to be clear that one of the things that were doing here by having a Charter Commission is recognizing the critical
Devep over the next couple of hours. Ill take you hour by hour. See you back here in a minute. Thank you, doug. Follow the weather on the nbc washington app, and can you stay connected with storam 4 even if you lose power. Well, a desperate plea from d. C. Leaders after a deadly we end. Seven people have been shot to death since thursday, and that includes 11yearold karon brown. A suspect was arrested this weekend in that case and made his First Court Appearance today. News 4s Mark Segraves is outside the courthouse with the latest on that case and the message from the mayor this evening. Mark . Reporter thats right. You know, he just appeared before a judge an hour ago and was ordered held without bond despite his insistence that he only fired into that car in selfdefense and had no idea that the 11yearold boy was in the back seat. But thathuncident on tday all led up to what turned out to be an extremely violent weekend. Four days of violence, four days nfire. Nobody want to live in