The meeting will come to order. Good morning and welcome to todays hearing, the u. S. Policy responses. This is the secondna Commission Hearing on the situation hong kong. During the may hearing, the commission heard compelling testimony from prodemocracy advocates. They expressed serious concern about the extradition bill that was moving towards becoming law at that time. That legislation wouldve put anyone in hong kong including u. S. Citizens at risk of extradition to Mainland China. Where a lack of due process and custodial leos have been well documented. Over the last six weeks millions of people in hong kong have taken to the streets and unprecedented and sustained show of unity. The protesters have inspired the world and everest their lives, health, jobs and the education to fight for the future of hong kong. Thank you for your courage and thank you for your bravery, we stand in solidarity. As protests get continue, Hong Kong Police use unnecessary force to target those in peace
That we are welcoming students and u. S. Institutions. I teach a human rights course and i have some mainlanders who didnt want to take my course because they were afraid to take the course. Other people were reporting on who took it for human rights in china and the director, and then even recently if i had the students in the class, observers and whatever in the mainland, the census is on the mainland students as well so we do have them protesting, but we also have to recognize that they are all under surveillance with families back home. They really want to echo the call to bring in the role of the companies ended together, as they protect hong kong act moves forward and discussion is going through a legislative process, i think it would be good to think about and address the u. S. Companies because not only will the denial of these export licenses address the issue that will address the issue of no longer being complicit but will it address the issue of the actual category of letha
Independents 202 7488002. If not by phone, you can use your phone to give us a text. 7488003. Comment ono post a social media. You can post a comment on facebook. We look forward to hearing from you. Here is an article we found recently that starts to highlight all of this. Can policy make it more affordable to have a family . They write that the annual American Family survey has been released recently. It suggests that while most americans considered cultural concerns the most important problem facing families, they now see economic concerns the most pressing issue. Not surprising that young couples report having fewer children than they would like for economic reasons. Last year, a morning consul parents said they expected to have fewer children than they considered ideal. Three of the primary reasons were child killed expenses, financial instability, childcare expenses, financial instability, and the general state of the economy. Families need to raise about a dollars,f a million 23
Their good morning is just gone 9 oclock here in moscow watching r. T. International the u. N. Has sent a team of experts to saudi arabia to investigate last weeks strike in a missile attack on the kingdoms Oil Refineries the u. S. Says is confident though that iran is to blame. New sanctions on iran just to remind you last saturday doesnt cruise missiles and over 20 Major Oil Fields an all refinery in the east of the kingdom. And rebels claim they carried out knocked out 5 percent of the Global Oil Supply and saw the price of oil iraq it. Takes a look now at what is behind washingtons version of events. It has been decided that iran did it and that started opinion all finding were the result of an investigation its a decision guilty this was an iranian attack we were blessed that there were no americans killed in this attack but any time you have an act of war of this nature theres always a restructured hoppen trub is doing what trump does best signing pieces of paper bringing to bear
Yesterday. Today. Lls not deterred keep an eye on the bank stocks. We saw them significantly higher yesterday, getting a little bit about bid today despite a lot of the expectations for additional fed rate cuts. Definitely a big factor in what we are seeing in the markets on the u. S. Side. Guy thank you. Front and center in europe today, stoxx 600 up. The banks execs is up. Theres a whole lot of factors. We have seen the ecb and the market with another trove being kicked out. Extra liquidity going into the Banking Sector of the ecb. The takeup was not as big as anticipated. Yet the general rate policy story that is a factor as well. All of that contributing to a big bout of european banks, peripherally particularly peripheral banks. The other story is Credit Suisse will be charging rick clients to have a bank account, rich client staff a bank account, basically. More stories coming out of the gulf. Romaine were going to begin with our big story, the Federal Reserve divided. Policymake