A changed world with graduation ceremonies swofford socially distant ceremonies. As the original epicenter of the krona Virus Outbreak but chinese officials insists life is slowly resuming and thats despite a new clusters of infections being reported in Jilin Province so lets take a look at where things stand in china right now an ambitious Mass Testing Program is being carried out and where the virus was 1st discovered its aim to test all of the citys 11000000 residents in just 2 weeks Old Health Organization has advised countries to test as many people as possible but most just dont have that capacity with the virus largely under control across the country the rest of china is slowly reopening production is up and lockdowns of ease with more schools and businesses reopening as well as more flights resuming on sunday. And chinas Vaccine Development is moving forward with some drugs already on their 2nd phase of Clinical Trials officials hope they move on to wider testing by july but a
Indeed we just happened over the last. Period of about 10 years but it is specially since 2014 is of the crisis in ukraine i think is crystallized russian doubts about the extent to which a partnership with the west is possible and what we saw after 2014 is that there you can take the russians by surprise you can never panic them and they will always adjust very rapidly and very effectively to changes in policy by the west and to aggressive moves by the west so what has happened is that the russians firstly adjusted their Energy Policy and they werent going to let ukraine continue to sit on top of their transit pipelines and try to block all control russian gas exports to europe so the russians full steam ahead with all these other part lines north street to turk stream which are birds now rapidly coming to an. End the end there being they have been theyve been built and theyve been successfully built and attempts to stop them have not succeeded it and of course they have successfully
Congress and the media have speculated wildly about deep state conspiracies against his presidency. Theyre based on the claim that the fbi opened an investigation into the president s campaign with political motives. Today we just got a report from the department of justice Inspector General that puts these conspiracy theories to rest once and for all. This report conclusively debunks the baseless conspiracy that the investigation into mr. Trumps campaign and its ties to russia originated with political bias. Let me repeat so that all of those conspiracy netheorists ou there hear it, this report confirms that the predicate for the fbis investigation was valid and without political bias. In fact, the report quotes the fbi deputy general counsel as saying, the fbi would have been derelict in our responsibility had we not opened the case. Im sure my republican friends will do their level best to reject the reports conclusion. But fbi director wray appointed by President Trump has already
With. A welcome to cross talk were all things are considered im Peter Lavelle with ukraine remaining in the headlines we have a look how russias Foreign Policy is changed since the 2014 kids and the impeachment circus continues but its anything but funny. Talking some real news im joined by my guest here in moscow dimitri shes a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london we crossed alexander macarius he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to 1st in london. Well ukraine remains in the headlines and the 2nd half of the program well talk about the impeachment circus but lets focus on how ukraine the ukraine the ukraine project that the west has had since the coup in 2014 is changed russias Foreign Policy and its something thats beginning to worry people. In and i mean worrying people at th
Testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god . Let the record show that the witnesses answered in the affirmative. You may be seated. The microphones are sensitive so you will need to speak directly into them. Without objection, your written statements will made be made part of the record. Mr. Holmes, you are recognized for your Opening Statement and when you conclude, dr. Hill, you will be recognized thereafter for your Opening Statement. Mr. Holmes thank you. Good morning, mr. Chairman. Members of the committee. My name is david holmes. Im a Career Foreign Service officer with the department of state. Since august 2017, i have been a political counselor at the u. S. Embassy in ukraine. While it is an honor to appear before you today, i want to make sure make clear i did not seek this opportunity to testify today. Since you determined i may have something of value to these proceedings and issued a subpoena, it is my obligation