The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. July 31, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable Dianne Degette to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Loving god, thank you for giving us another day. We turn to you, much as the psalmist did of old. Though we walk in the midst of dangers, you guard our lives with when our enemies rage. You stretch out your hand, your right hand saves us. And again we are surrounded by enemies who are like lions hungry for human flesh. Show your greatness in the sky, o god, and your glory over all the earth. And yet again look, your enemies are in an uproar and those who hate you have raised their head against your people. They devise deceptive schemes and lot toget
Office. I quite agree that the cyber impact skills fund is a crucial driver of written out when it skills in this vital and growing area. I would like to commend the dcms officials and those at the National Cyber Security Centre who have managed this fund. I would however ask him to look closely at the performance fun in relation to the grant given to hacker house in light of the information in a shed with the house this afternoon. I do think close scrutiny of what they are dealing with this money is of paramount importance. dealing with this money is of paramount importance. I think the honourable lady for her question, andi honourable lady for her question, and i pay tribute to her work as my predecessor, it is an honour to follow her this dispatch box. She is com pletely follow her this dispatch box. She is completely right, she will know that we asa completely right, she will know that we as a department routinely talk to those who are in receipt of grants, and that we make sure th
Fbn a. M. Starts right now. Cheryl here is how your money is moving at 5 00 a. M. After learning the fed is in no hurry to raise Interest Rates this year, investors turning to earnings. Its a slightly lower open this morning. S p is down three quarters of a point, nasdaq down 6. Big news on brexit, the e. U. Giving britain until october 31st to work things out. Stocks in china leading the declines, as you can see, the hang seng, shanghai and kospi unchanged, the nikkei gaining a quarter of a percent. Lauren welcome to fbn a. M. This thursday morning. Good morning. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl good morning, im cheryl casone. Lauren if you blinked you missed the news yesterday. Attorney general william barr says he believes spying on president Trumps Campaign did occur. During his testimony before a senate panel, the Justice Department chief also said he plans to review how it all started. Cheryl Katherine Herridge is on capitol hill with details. I think spying on a Political Campaign is
Being used and people are being arbitrarily dragged from their homes and being beaten up if they are suspected of having taken part in the demonstrations that took place between monday and wednesday its a very heavy handed approach its very reminiscent of the mcgarvie era theres also been arbitrary arrests of people who are Simple Society leaders and activists and the internet was completely closed down from tuesday afternoon. Wins day evening and social media platforms remain closed by the government of zimbabwe so its a very heavy handed response whether in fact and then find out why nigerias big political spending the whole thing back in this president ial election season. Hello again were here across parts of north asia we are going to be seeing some clouds up here towards another part of japan down here across the southern part of japan for tokyo not really looking too bad over the next day you can be seeing some partly cloudy conditions with a temperature there of about ten degre
A war of attrition that has been going on for at least four weeks now between protesters and the government they are demanding the resignation of the government of course president omar Bashir Ahmad Bashir during his visit to darfur a couple of days ago said there is no way for testers can change the government the government can be changed only by as he said the people of sudan vague expression they are everyone here not everyone but you know in the dorothy are people are talking either cant participate in the protests or say that you know things cannot go to back to normal since what happened now is never is unprecedented in sudan and this means the people are really angry with the government and they need serious change this time around indeed to not only do you think the government in khartoum is going to heed the warnings of the u. N. About Excessive Force because sudan has never really been in the uns good books historically certainly in the last three decades. Yes so there is a