At Strategic Energy innovations. Stephen and i will be discussing the details of the workshop. Please join us when we come back and take another set up to the year of mercy. Welcome back to mosaic. Today we continue our journey into the year of mercy which pope francis began december 8 2000 15 and is going out through november 20th 2016. Today we will stop more deeply into the air of mercy by examining the newest encyclical issued last may. Before we begin the conversation today i want to invite you to begin with me in prayer. We begin in the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit we recall that we are now in as always a god present as we say this prayer for our earth. All powerful god, you are present in the whole universe. In the smallest of your creatures. You embrace with your tenderness all that exists. For autozone upon us the power of your love that we may protect life and beauty. Fill us with peace that we may live as brothers and sisters harming no one. Oh god of the
Gentleman from texas, mr. Castro. Mr. Castro madam chair, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and tend their remarks the speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Castro i yammings. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman virginia tech. Mr. Castro i rise in support of the uighur forced labor prevention act. The human rights atrocities, the Chinese Government is perpetuating are now wellknown. More than a million uighurs and muslims, ethnic north have been thrown into detention camps where they face torture, brainwashing, sexual abuse, and even forced sterilization. These atrocities are horrific, and the congress has acted to hold perpetrators of these crimes accountable by passing the uighur human rights policy act. We must not stop there. The legislation we are considering today focuses on a specific form of abuse. Forced labor, an abuse of human rights, which also has grave implications for supply chains and consumers worldwide
Russia. Any other countries . Stephen . Eritrea, thats correct. Patrizio. [inaudible] prof. Garcia thats correct. Thank you. So they are traveling very long distances to find refuge in europe, and this map gives you an idea of the routes and distances they are traveling in order to reach safety. Some are traveling alone, others are traveling as part of family units. Some are traveling in search of economic opportunity. Others are literally fleeing for their lives to escape war, devastation, rape, and forced conscription into armies. The vast majority of the refugees are syrian. Can anyone tell me why the syrians are fleeing . Ok, thank you. Albert. Civil war. Prof. Garcia civil war, absolutely. Would anyone else like to venture talk . Meredith. The civil war is very violent. People are getting killed publicly and ritualistically. [inaudible] health care, the economy. [inaudible] prof. Garcia absolutely correct, all of you. Thank you. The country has been locked in a bloody civil war fo
Month but many scientists are skeptical. And japan marks the 75th anniversary of the russia a bombing the 1st atomic bomb remains the deadliest single act ever perpetrated by humans we meet one of the survivor. Flow im terry martin good to have you with us rescuers in beirut are digging through rubble in a desperate search for survivors following explosions that left much of the lebanese capital in ruins at least 137 people are dead thousands more injured and nearly 300000 lost their homes in an instant the blasts of liberated a warehouse storing a huge. Quality of fertilizer the chemicals exploded with of course of an earthquake several facials are under house arrest and a 2 week state of emergency is in force. A day of grief for levanon as the country reckons with the losses and destruction caused by tuesdays explosion. With many people still missing rescue workers are desperately searching for anyone still alive under the collapsed buildings. That this man was rescued after over 16
Safe from coronavirus . Soledad im soledad obrien. Welcome to matter of fact. Restrictions, the big question now is whether the numbers of coronavirus cases and deaths will surge. Itll take weeks to see the effects of lifting the restrictions. Thats one reason medical experts strongly cautioned against a rush to reopen. Theyre warning the risks of a resurgent virus might be more dire than even the 70,000 plus deaths weve seen so far. Historians have urged us to take the long view, reminding us of another time and another pandemic in which warnings that were ignored led to a wave of death. Our special contributor joie chene world was at war. A silent threat loomed at home, and yet the band played on. America entered the great war a year earlier with patriotism at a fever pitch. Everyone was supposed to contribute to the cause. Kenneth thats right. We have to remember that america, in 1917 and 1918, was really a nation going to war. And they were going to war with a very profound propaga