Moment and a reflection of the part we all have to play when slowing the spread of covid19. In light of this remote format i also some reminders to the members about conduct of the hearing. Members keep their video feed on as long as they are present at the hearing. Members are responsible for muting and unmuting their microphones and please keep your microphones muted when youre speaking. And finally if members have documents they wish to submit for the record please email to the committee whose email address was circulated prior to the hearing. Well, good afternoon, and well coom the First Virtual hearing of the committee on investigations and oversight. Today were discussing a critical issue. Research into repurposing existing therapeutic drugs for covid19 treatment as well as scientific basis for the federal governments evaluation of such drugs. I appreciate our witnesses being here under these unusual circumstances, but these are very important issues, and we look forward to your
As they did in the past but while slimming down fact politicians is popular other cuts in the Public Sector and less so cost cutting the Public Hospitals with poor waiting rooms precarious medicine supplies and Staff Shortages said the head of social services he resigned but protests like this will continue. To follow education and child care programs have also been cancelled the budget for the arts has been slashed as of funds for scientists you know when this causes. In some cases institutions have had to cut back so much that theyve been asking people not to plug in electronics and to go home before sundown to save on Electricity Projects and lines of research have stopped institutions that were going to be inaugurated have been cancelled. Some are seeing the far reaching of stare at a drive with more and more along the most minute skins would agree that some major surgery was needed to cut out the overspending and corruption in much of mexicos Public Sector the complaint for many l
About the opposition and the government but it is russia and turkey that brokered this deal the 2 powers who support their warring sides on the ground and both of them really have to reach some sort of a compromise because turkey had political leverage if the rebels were Holding Ground the government was not able to make any significant advances the russians and the Syrian Government were targeting civilian areas killing civilians pressuring the rebels to try to surrender so there was a need to reach some sort of an agreement that specially since turkey and russia dont want to rupture their relationship but whether or not it will be short term or long term well we have to wait and see how the u. N. Has a welcome the cease fire. According to the office of coronation of humanitarian affairs nor strikes have been reported since midnight but there are reports of artillery shelling in northern hama the pause comes after 3 months of intense hostilities that have resulted in close to 500 civi
And the people have still not started to return to their homes of course many of them dont have homes to return to they were destroyed but many others are still afraid to return and if it works will it work because the deescalation zone works because thats been such a difficulty its been such a Sticking Point when it comes to setting them up and making sure that they are policed and implemented properly. It libya is supposed to be a deescalation zone but what happened was last year in september turkey and russia reached the socalled sochi memorandum agreement in that agreement Demilitarized Zone was supposed to be created around the southern edges of provinces zone free of fighters and free of weapons and turkey was given the responsibility to create this zone but it faced a lot of difficulties because there is a group especially the share which many in the International Community believe is still linked to al qaida refused to withdraw its fighters have heavy weapons from the area and
Each other the way people greet each other is by hugging this is also how it gets transmitted through sweat through fluids and things like that so and also of course because of the stigma attached to it this is a country thats very much dependent on tourism they do not want to be seen as having this as even a potential threat having said all that theres never been a case of a boat in rwanda but they are preparing they have vaccinated Health Professionals there are drills being take taking place in hospitals here in the capital because they do want to be prepared but at the same time again i think they do want to stress that theres no such cases here but its something that they need to take very seriously they do because caylee in the d. R. Scene is a major struggle in containing the latest outbreak of what is the latest information youre getting about this. Thats right and the challenges are if you even just look at the numbers at the moment we have 4 confirmed cases just in the last c