Point the Security Forces the boys here gas to push them back in the protesters subsequently weave through were were not hearing at this point of any. Any any relief or violence that its actually claimed the lives of a protester so far only fear of gas well those have been used to repel a protesters who have tried to penetrate the fortified green zone home protestors have also been out in the thai capital bangkok after their demand for the Prime Minister to resign by saturday was not that Prime Minister prior says he will not quit demonstrators say his hold on power is illegitimate off to last years disputed elections they have had mass protests for weeks now calling for the reform of the government and the monarchy and protesters and ballerinas say time is up for president Alexander Lukashenko to resign dozens of people were arrested in the western town of lida opposition need to spend on a to kind of sky a must step down by midnight or face a crippling general strike. The United Nati
Back now to syrias leader ibrahim is in ramallah. President. To international. Israel to end its occupation of the palestinian. Many political analysts. Have much to offer more than 100 it has a very economic situation. So poor ethiopias Prime Minister says that his nation wont be deterred in a pound threat by President Trump regarding construction of the renee. Suggested that egypt might blow up the dam if construction continues ethiopia sudan and egypt have failed to reach an agreement on severely a decade of negotiations. And its a very dangerous situation because egypt is not going to be able to live that way. And they have to do. This for more fighting in the going to both armenia and azerbaijan accuse each other of shelling residential areas that Foreign Ministers have met separately with the u. S. Secretary of state mike pump a 0 in washington the u. S. Has posted 84000 new corona virus infections this office insulation in washington is highlighting the growing death toll and th
Chambers testify about their concerns. From february until april of 2020. But the closure rates for minority owned businesses are significantly higher with 41 of blackowned businesses, 32 of latino acts owned businesses and 22 of asian businesses. They closed over the same time frame. Now, in april of this year the federal return bank of new york reported that minority and women owned businesses are significantly more likely to show signs of limited Financial Health and are twice as likely to be classified as at risk for distress then nonminorities Small Businesses. Further, companies are three times likely as healthy businesses to close because of [inaudible]. The pcp program established under the cares act and administered by the Small Business administration and treasury as funding lifeline for distressed businesses responding to the culminating pandemic. What recent analysis by the color of change and the u no space United States found only one in ten African American and late lati
Austrias chancellor tells us shared debt is not the answer to the coronavirus crisis. Meanwhile, chancellor merrickle here in germany has a workaround for the dispute over e. C. B. Bond buying. Testing times. President trump says the u. S. Has prevailed in the battle to boost coronaVirus Testing to capacity. This as Boris Johnson is forced to water down his plans for rebooting the u. K. Economy. Plus, the fed dips into credit on the corporate side. Today marks the opening of a much anticipated facility to buy corporate debt e. T. F. , a key part of the Central Banks coronavirus strategy. Just you said an hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe and the u. K. Lets take a look at futures here. Ftse n see that we have futures it is changed. Futures across the board are not moving very much, although at least in europe we see some direction. Everything moving to the down side. And more so when you look at the da x, the ibex and the ftse down a third right now. Take a look
[taps gavel] all right. Never, the than meeting will come to order. Sorry. The constitutional obligation of the job. I will now recognize myself for five minutes to give myself an opening statement. I will not take five minutes because we are doing Something Different today. Oversightthis committee likes to shake things up and we are looking to develop the next generation of leaders in congress, which is this committees mandate. Have actively participated in the work of this committee. Representative demings dutifully gets here early and waits and waits and waits to question witnesses. His patients has not gone unnoticed. I will yield to the representatives. They are running the meeting today. Vice chairman graves, i know you will agree we are in very capable hands. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I think you will recall, in the early days scanlan . Think we should all just adjourning go for ice cream. Ok. Thank you, chairman kilmer. I would like to begin by our expert witnesses. Sorry we are