A deal that could revive yemen peace talks. The u. S. Is on track to break all records for the most early votes cast ever before election day. And im peter stemmed with all day sports news Will Champion south africa withdrawal from the Rugby Championship citing player welfare as their main concern. Lets begin in thailand where police and antigovernment protesters a fault in the center of the capital was a can was used to break through a barricade set up by demonstrators in bangkok for a 2nd night in a row thousands of people defy the government ban on gatherings calling for the Prime Ministers resignation and reforms to the monarchy the recorded statement the thai king said the country needs people who. Love the country love them all mickey scott high the has more from bangkok. There was that major confrontation at. A barrier that the protesters makeshift bury the protesters had used even using Police Barricades and thats resell the water cannon use there was another a secondary barrie
After almost a year of online learning. In chicago, teachers are considering a strike tonight to stay put, to stay out of the classroom. In cincinnati, a judge threw out a Teachers Union lawsuit over safety concerns. The politics and Health Experts here seem to be at odds on some items. We have fox team coverage. Dan springer is in the Pacific Northwest where a pair of states are putting teachers near the front of the line or at the front of the line for vaccines. We begin tonight with mike emanuel and the confirmation for the nominee to lead the Department Of Education. Reporter good evening. President biden set a goal of students reopening for in Person Learning in his first 100 days, but so far unions are not budging. Today his Department Of Education secretary nominee said it is still up for interpretation. We want to make sure we can get our students back into school safely. Reporter he side stepped a question about the Teachers Union in fairfax, virginia, that all teachers and st
Escalate to the point of violen violence. One of the things that makes this particular crisis different, and there have been three others of this sort during, since xi has been in office. This one is different because it has done violent. Which is concerning because it suggests that those agreements and protocols are no longer working. It also tells you what the triggers could be, which is that they were supposed to be in the process of disengagement. They had met on june 6th to actually disengage and on june 15th, something went wrong during the process. Both sides accuse d the other o instigating the clash, but what essentially resulted in deaths as chairman schiff mentioned, for the first time in a number of years, and that suggests they both first need to get back to what they were doing. Theyre in dialogue with both the military and diplomatic levels to at least disengage. The problem might be in where the triggers might be if either theres a misunderstanding or not respecting the
Coronavirus pandemic continues. Spoken policy experts about chinas global influence and why continued engagement with china is in the best interest of the u. S. Without objection, the chair may declare a recess at any time. Before we proceed to our topic the National Security implications of the u. S. And china relationship in a post covid world, housekeeping matters. The session will be conducted on an unclassified basis p all participants should refrain from discussing any class of either other information protected from public disclosure. The committee is conducting this virtual hearing with House Resolution 965 and the regulations for the conduct of Remote Committee proceedings. It is being broadcast on the committees website. Like many of you, i would have preferred to hold this hearing in person but because of the threat posed by covid19, it remained serious and widespread. We are proceeding in the best manner we can, remotely in todays case, in order to ensure the safety of our
Because the threat posed by covid19 remain serious and widespread, we are proceeding in the best manner we can, remotely in todays case in order to ensure the safety of our witnesses, members, staff and the public. Todays conversation is essential to the oversight of how we should adapt and meet the challenge of increasingly assertive china especially in the backdrop of a Global Pandemic. I had hoped this would be a bipartisan discussion. Unfortunately, without reason or justification, republican colleagues have decided to absent themselves from the committee. I repeat my hope they will reconsider and join us for future unclassified public hearings and unclassified closed roundtables. We will continue to have them as they are being used to frame the oversight issues and requests and inform our members of the various threats facing the country. The American People expect congress will continue doing its job even in a pandemic and that means showing up at a minimum whether we want to or