Covid19 and other biological threats facing the u. S. Good morning. Welcome to the hearing [inaudible] emerging threats and capabilities. In a moment in accordance with house rules and relations the host will mute all participants other than german [inaudible] and all participants are asked to keep themselves muted when not actively engaging in the discussion which should help limit echoes and other asruptions. When the yield back i do not renumber to retweet themselves others will doo so to limitit efforts and background audio background audio. Members and witnesses are responsible for unwitting himself anytime they wish to w e heard. It may take a few seconds for your microphone to be t unmated. If you are on the computer you can view the timer by reaching your personal view in the upper right corner of your screen for the active speaker and you can also pin the timer by right clicking or hovering your cursor over the timer and pressing that contact icon. With that, we are ready to b
Joe bidens plans might not be that helpful for the market no matter what moodys says. We raised a issue about moodys. Theyre saying it would be stimulative to the recovery. Moodys is a Municipal Bond rating firm. Under democrats generally a very a buoyant. News out of new york, Governor Cuomo says movie nighters outside of new york can open at 25 capacity. Here is the trouble. Those in the city dont think about it. One in Staten Island, owner of that theater does everything and anything he can to protect those that to go to his theater. Looks like he cant. For wait some time. Is that fair or balanced . We pick apart the theaters. You decide. Were keeping a very, very close eye on the real life movie playing out over stimulus. Right now growing confusion over nancy pelosi socalled 48hour deadline to come up with something from the white house, presumably. Republicans more generally to respond to her sort of bottom line deadline, get it done by tuesday or it is after the election. Lets g
Required before we need reforms the u. N. Must continue to develop in order to muster the Global Challenges of the 21st century. As the un faces questions whether its still fit for purpose many feel its the right time to assess its strengths and shortcomings. Lets talk about those strengths and shortcomings we have our chief International Editor Richard Walker with us here in the studio richard and well be following the u. N. General assembly were expecting president trying to speak within the hour well be listening to that live but just hearing what we just saw there in that report where does the u. N. Stand now 75 years then yeah well its a mixed picture and i suppose as you would expect for any institution after such a long time. But i mean the overall picture and World Affairs is obviously looking pretty battered at the moment and i think that applies to the u. N. Especially. Obviously the purpose of the u. N. Is a vehicle for International Corporation is buzzword of multilateral i
Youre watching R T International coming to you straight from the russian capital 247 welcome to the program this hour. Moscow says that it fails to understand what prompted berlin to claim that russian Opposition Leader and expand on it was poisoned by a nerve agent a spokesperson Dmitri Peskov also revealed that the russian president and german chancellor havent discussed the issue on wednesday berlin announced it had found traces of never choke on the volley meanwhile the president of belarus has claimed that the countrys Security Forces have intercepted a call which cast doubt on berlins poisoning allegations. We have intercepted a call as we understand between warsaw and berlin that clearly sounds its all a full sophistication. Didnt take place. They have done it to discourage putin from interfering in the internal affairs of belarus. The kremlin says it has no details on the claims as of yet and they have not been verified the german chancellor Angela Merkel also spoke about the c
War crimes. One minute past 9 pm here in moscow this wednesday thursday excuse me september the 3rd my names you know neal youre welcome to r. T. International. Top german officials are calling for an e. U. Wide response against moscow over the alleged poisoning alexina the russian opposition figure is in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator in a burley in hospital 2 weeks after being earth did from russia berlin said on witness they had been poisoned with a novacek nerve agent russia is calling for dialogue stating its still received no data from germany on the findings meanwhile the president of bella reuss has weighed in Alexander Lukashenko claims that his Security Forces have information which casts on berlins poisoning allegation. We have intercepted a call as we understand between warsaw and berlin that clearly sounds its all a full suffocation. Didnt take place. They have done it to discourage putin from interfering in the internal affairs of belarus. The German Governm