Committee heard from the president of urdu and lane college, they talked about Financial Assistance provided by the cares act and the important of addressing the hardships of minority students and those of lower socioeconomic status are facing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. Hearing of the Senate Health Prevention Committee will come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank the senators that are witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we will turn to our witnesses for their statement of about 5 minutes each, if they could summarize. There it is. Senators will each have five minute round of questions. We
Track and trace people exposed to corona virus. Dangerous prospect. Is a growing. United nations criticizes israels plan to annex parts of the occupied west bank saying it violates International Law. A stand off in the South China Sea the us in australia weighed into the dispute between china and malaysia. To begin in the u. S. Where figures released just hours ago paint a devastating picture of the economy in just 5 weeks tens of millions of jobs have been simply wiped out take a look at the numbers last week another 4400000 americans filed for Unemployment Benefits thats fewer than the week before when more than 5300000 registered for jobless so. Port but the scale of these weekly figures is unprecedented you see in total now more than 26000000. 00 americans have applied for Unemployment Benefits since the end of march that was when President Donald Trump made the 1st of his covert 19 outbreak declarations our White House Correspondent Kimberly Howard live for us from washington d. C
With us. And today, as you know, we are going to examine the president s department of education budget request for fiscal year 2021. As i was reviewing the budget materials, madam secretary, this much was clear to me. That you are seeking to privatize Public Education. I believe, and ive had this conversation before with you, i believe its the wrong direction for our students and for our country. Instead, we ned to be moving toward expanding Public Policies, lake Early Childhood education, that we know helps students to succeed. We see this in our countries around the globe. They are not shrinking public support, but in fact, are expanding it. Ill get more into the consequences of the cuts that you are proposing, but i want to start by examining your privatization philosophy. The false premise on which it is built, and the research that it ignores. Contrary to your claims, the nations Public Education system, which 90 of our children attend, has witnessed significant progress for all
Decades leaves at least 27 people dead. Thousands of people turned out to welcome the return of cameroons Opposition Leader. And she was once atop the world of tennis one of the richest female athletes in history earning millions on and off the court for real sharp over the tyrants. Hello the United States and south korea have indefinitely postponed joint military exercises as a result of the corona Virus Outbreak south korea has recorded its highest number of cases in a single day so far pushing the total number of people in fact its almost 16 hundreds and in the middle east saudi arabia has announced its temporarily halting visas for both on the pilgrimage as well as for people coming in from affected countries iraq has closed schools universities and by. Public gatherings as well as flights from several countries qatar has ordered the evacuation of cattery and kuwaiti citizens from iran due to the spread of infections there and in the us president s arnold trump is appointed Vice Pr
A deepening economic crisis. Also warnings that cities powering the worlds economy and soon be lost beneath the waves. The Syrian Government has launched a counter offensive to recapture the town of sort of keep in italy province. It was captured by Turkish Backed rebels overnight to turkey soldiers were killed by airstrikes jurong but fight. Or heres why set a key is important it sits on the junction of the m 4 and m 5 highways both of which the government seized last week whoever controls the highways gains considerable military and economic advantages the m 5 links aleppo with the capital damascus in the south the growing red areas are controlled by the government. The shrinking green are rebel territory yellow in the north and the west is controlled by the kurds live now to aljazeera bar on the turkey syria border in a moment 1st shelagh bellus tells us more about the ongoing situation in syrias last rebel stronghold. Syrian troops on the move it live province is the holdout the on