Steph told us is 50000 and branded a traitor over the nagornokarabakh ceasefire. Deal the future hangs in balance. As Prime Minister us president elect joe biden has named white house chief of staff despite Donald Trumps refusal to concede and allow a smooth transition of power. Ron klain is one of bidens most trusted advisers. Hes already served as chief of staff to both biden and Vice President al gore during the obama and clinton administrations. Biden has been most recently congratulated by the leaders of australia, japan and south korea. The state of georgia has announced it will be recounting old votes by hand, which was requested by the trump campaign. Now joe biden is to kill the election without georgia. Theres also leading that by just over 14000. 00 votes. Officials say the recount will begin at the end of the week. The kind of margin stands that 1310911 between the president and senator biden, Vice President biden. My office will continue to invest the group each and every
The speaker the house will be in order. Pursuant to the order of the house of january 4, 2021, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. With time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Quigley, for five minutes. Mr. Quigley thank you, madam speaker. And now mr. Speaker. By rejoining the Paris Agreement, President Biden has promised the world the u. S. Will retake its position in the fight against Climate Change and be true to its word to meet our commitments to reduce Greenhouse Gases and now it falls to us, it falls to congress to prof. The president right. Prove the president right. Despite the confused, disingenuous and false rhetoric around the Paris Agreement, in reality, it is catalyzing, measur
In terms of the euro, that is firmly in focus. European leaders meeting in brussels at loggerheads over how to rollout the plan. The offshore currency is essentially flat. The fix is essentially 6. 99. That is what the aussie yen is doing. The u. S. Dollar has ticked up 2 10 of 1 after a number of weeks of weakness. We can move it onto look at some of the commodities in the 10 year. A bit of concern about demand destruction for crude given the infection rate in the u. S. Florida, some policymakers saying the virus is out of control in that state. That will be a concern. 40 for wti. You still have this significant divergence between the 10 year, u. S. And china. Rishaad just getting some news from a motor company. It is secured funding from a variety of private equity companies. What it does show is chinese startups promising vehicles. Attracting funding even as we are seeing the industry having a rough time of it. This is leading to x peng saying the Company Managed to achieve the 400
A big problem for farmers in germany whats behind it. But 1st we head to the amazon where the brazilian Forestry Commission is putting up a fight against a powerful timber lobby. Ever heard of flying rivers this is the movement of launch quantities of water vapor released into the atmosphere by the amazon rain forest which causes precipitation across south america and is key to the health of our climate a single tree with a crown diameter of say 10 meters releases up to 300 liters of water in the form of vapor into the atmosphere every day on a sunny day the same tree will absorb up to 10000 liters of c o 2 and transform it into oxygen the amazon rain forest is home to tens of thousands of plant and animal species as well as 320 Indigenous Peoples but for how much longer. No gang is on the rise in 2019 twice as much timber was felt than in 2018 and since the coronavirus pandemic began illegal loggers have become increasingly ruthless. It doesnt just look like a wall it is one and its l
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