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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. Welcome everyone, good morning. We will have senators participating both live and virtually. Since it is difficul the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We will have senators participating live then virtually as a result of that its difficult to determine to go in ty, seniority and we both come three witnesses the assistant secretary of state and the bureau official for the European Eurasian Affairs and Principal Deputy assistant for western hemisphere fears. We appreciate you being here. We will be talking about china obviously that presents us with manyy challenges and opportunities. There has been a lot of legislation introduced and there is a bill we introduced earlier this year to bring together as many as possible so the minority introduced ase bill senator schumer is the lead sponsor but this is not a partisan issue that is an American Issue. When i put the bill togetheren originally come i did so to
Currently on trial in germany these are some of the victims families in front of a court in cordons a visual to remember those who are disappeared or killed in syria its the 1st time suspected perpetrators are standing trial to face charges of crimes against humanity the principle of going to wrestle jurisdiction allows prosecution to take place in germany even though the crimes against humanity were committed in syria. Mood is one of those who are closely following the Court Proceedings she is one of the countless syrians whose families have fallen victim to the civil war thats why she left her home country and fled to germany and now she has hope for long awaited justice. Mahmoud in her apartment in the german capital of berlin the opponent of the regime in syria lives here on her own in exile isnt she this is my husband. Says 2012 hes been missing disappearing in a prison run by the syrian secret service. Just like her son my here. Baby mediators for the opposition and have been on
Currently on trial in germany these are some of the victims families in front of a court in court lins a visual to remember those who were disappeared or killed in syria its the 1st time suspected perpetrators are standing trial to face charges of crimes against humanity the principle of universal jurisdiction allows prosecution to take place in germany even though the crimes against humanity were committed in syria. Mahmud is one of those who are closely following the Court Proceedings she is one of the countless syrians whose families have fallen victim to the civil war thats why she left her home country and fled to germany and now she has hope for long awaited justice. Mahmud in her apartment in the german capital of berlin the opponent of the regime in syria lives here on her own in exile isnt she this is my husband. Says 2012 hes been missing disappearing in a prison run by the syrian secret service. Just like her son my here. Theyve been mediators for the opposition and had been
A queue ation in big cities like right here in berlin in fact but also now in some concrete measures for example a nighttime curfew and also contact limitations on Germanys Health minister actually also referred to the Current Situation in but what he had to say about this specific situation. It is a step by step and we have to be careful not to undermine our success in dealing with the coronavirus. Situation here in berlin shows that callous and at times ignorant behavior during this pandemic can quickly change the situation for the worse. And thats why i welcome the new measures taken by the city council. And all of that thomas i mean it goes back to the message the numbers are expected to rise further though in the coming months what would germanys response be and what lessons have been learned from the widespread restrictions back in march. And thats why the German Government has also been discussing the plan for the coming months in particular because the next few months will be c