A moment of silence in honor of the victims. Also ahead strict restrictions are imposed across europe as a surge in the coronavirus impacts life on the council. We begin then with continuing coverage of the knife attack in france 3 people have been killed at a church in the Southern City of nice several others have been injured or was wounded by police that is in custody in hospital. Frances antiterrorism prosecutors have taken over the investigation the mayor of nice says that it was a terror attack and is called for a crackdown on what he describes as islamofascism. Looking for the use we are hurt to once again see that our city is taken like this i want to tell the families of the victims of this barbaric attack that everyone in the community is by your side i want to say that with exonerating the laws of peace in our country we will wipe out islamofascism just as david chase has on the line now from nice stated describe the scene there right now. Adrian yes im a few 100 yards away
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News headlines for this hour make sure to check out r t r t dot com and on your favorite social media platform so im donald quarter see you again soon. Time after time if you were going underground 24 hours of the renowned medical journal the lancet exposed britain as having one of the highest infant mortality rates in western europe thanks to tory bank bailout all 70 something that may have contributed to britains poor response to coronavirus coming up in the show in the wake of these perfect storm revelations we asked dr Jacob Glanville star of netflixs pandemic about the race for a vaccine with lockdowns seem to be the only cure some nations understand. And as the u. K. Government sparked outrage with its approach to everything from the arts to refugees a man who came to this country as a refugee from somalia sheffields youngest lord mayor and former green party and legend magic about fighting a system led by politicians blind to the damage they caused all the some more coming up in
Advantage, we hope the republican majority on the Homeland Security committee has not become a sympathetic audience and a potential Entrance Point to foreign influenced campaigns wittingly or unwittingly. What a disastrous and disgraceful fate of affairs. The senate should pass this resolution today. I yield the floor to my colleague from oregon. Wyden wyden mr. President. Mr. Wyden mr. President. The presiding officer the senator for oregon. Mr. Wyden mr. President , i rise in support for this resolution, the democratic leader. We are calling for an end to a horribl horribly flawed investigation, attempts to poison it with disinformation and to sew distrust are an established matter of fact. And it is especially troubling because for periods over the last year, two Senate Committees have conducted an investigation involving the ukraine, former Vice President biden and his son hunter. Homeland security and Government Affairs committee, led by our colleague from wisconsin, chairman john
Our nation recently observed the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001. Nearly two decades later we continue to mourn the nearly 3,000 lives lost that terrible day and keep their loved ones in our prayers. This committee and the department of Homeland Security were established in the wake of 9 11 to help prevent future attacks on our soil. Regardless of who was chairman weve held regular hearings examining worldwide threats with leaders from the department of Homeland Security, fbi, and National Counter Terrorism Center. And regardless of who has occupied the white house, whether democrat or republican, weve received cooperation in that effort. Today was supposed to be no different. Unfortunately as we see from the empty chair in front of us mr. Wolf is not here to represent the department of Homeland Security. Let me be clear about how we got here. The committee began engaging with the department over three months ago to secure participation alongside his col