Repression against ecuadorian demonstrators and indigenous ecuadorians. Throughout the day smoking tear gas filled the air as more and more demonstrators filled the streets once again in doubt take a tour it appears as though mayor people are saying your up to participate and joining in the front lines of these demonstrations these people are coming from all parts of the country to china these demonstrations clearly are legitimate to reverse course id cannot make versailles that they say are damaging for the country was at one point demonstrators set fire to one of the governments main administrative buildings another group of protesters set fire to a local television station many here have a deep distrust of the National News media with unrest spreading to other parts of the capital ecuadorian president lenin modano announced a mandatory nationwide curfew sending the military to restore order to city streets and public spaces. In the book today we have declared a curfew in quito and t
Only Committee Members will be allowed to make Opening Statements. Hearing no objections, so ordered. The chair recognizes herself for five minutes for an opening statement. First of all thank you, everyone , for being here this morning. It is an honor for those of us that are not from on a very serious issue. This is the very first energy and Commerce Committee hearing on the gun violence epidemic in our country. As a Public Health issue. And this subcommittee has to has jurisdiction over Public Health issues in our country. I want to recognize first the members of the committee who represent the parts of chicago and the region, starting with congressman bobby rush, whose district we are in. Thank you, bobby, very much for inviting us, asking the subcommittee to come here. Congresswoman robin kelly, who is here to my left. Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky from the chicago region. And to representative Adam Kinzinger, from the state of illinois, a little further away, and mr. Kinsinger mak
Today who are not members of the committee that they be recognized for three minutes to ask questions after Committee Members have asked theirs and note only Committee Members will be allowed to make Opening Statements. Hearing no objections so ordered. The chair recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. First of all, thank you, everyone, for being here this morning. Its an honor for those of us that are not from chicago to be here here. Im anna eschew and this is the midwestern part of my family and its an honor to be here with my colleagues on a very serious issue and this is the first energy and Commerce Committee hearing of the gun violence epidemic in our country as a Public Health issue. This subcommittee has jurisdiction over Public Health issues in our country. I want to recognize first the members of the committee who represent the parts of chicago and the region starting with congressman bobby rush whose district we are in. Thank you, bobby, very much for
Years in the house. New figures reveal uptake of all 13 routine vaccinations for the under fives has fallen in the last 12 months. Strong words from the duke of sussex on a tour of botswana prince harry takes aim at Climate Change deniers. It is a race against time and one in which we are losing. Everyone knows it, there is no excuse for not knowing that, and i think the most troubling part of it is i dont believe there is anybody in this world that can deny science, undeniable science and facts. And coming up, the uks new Polar Research ship, originally due to be called Boaty Mcboatface, is launched, now named after Sir David Attenborough. Good morning and welcome to westminster where borisjohnson is facing calls to moderate his language after the commons witnessed some of the most furious exchanges its seen in recent years last night. A number of conservative mps, including a cabinet minister, have urged him to pick his words carefully, after he accused his opponents of surrendering
Its its had for the past you know 2 decades nearly so what were looking for now is whether there is a precipitating action from the iranians or from the saudis once they finish this investigation the u. S. Seems perfectly content to sit back and remain defensive for now but what we understand is that there is u. S. Involvement in this investigation as to the location of the launch of these attacks furthermore what we do understand phenomena at least is that President Trump clearly in the run up to an election the for 2020 does not want to get the u. S. Involved and another. Military adventure so he put it in the middle east at a time when hes trying to draw down troops from syria and indeed from afghanistan. Absolutely trump campaigned saying he was going to pull troops out of afghanistan pull troops out of iraq youve heard that hes been following through with that talk about afghanistan in the last thing he would seem to want with that 2020 election coming up would be another engageme