Democracy in hong kong emergency laws used to perspire elections for a year the plane laid on the pandemic. Zimbabwe sends out the military to enforce a ban on antigovernment protests and dozens of people around it up. Monies it has about off the coast of normandy french fishermen worry the breaks it will deny them access to water has destroyed the livelihoods. A once in a Century Health crisis thats how the head of the World Health Organization is now describing the coronavirus pandemic director general ted was good has told a meeting of its Emergency Committee that the effects will be felt for decades his comments were made as u. S. Health officials were facing congress over the response to the virus their countrys top Infectious Disease expert says that he is now hopeful the vaccine by early next year pandemic meanwhile has left the eurozone reeling from its largest economic drop on record despite the reduction affecting the entire block Member States remain divided on how to addres
Beware increased risk during the covid19 pandemic. Due to the covid19 Public Health emergency, todays hearing is being held remotely. All the members hey, jan. We cant hear you. I dont know, are you are you muted . Im not muted. I can hear her. I can hear you, jan. I cant hear you at least, not yet. I can. I can. Can you hear me now . Not yet. Oh, i think it must be on your end then. Youre coming in loud and clear here. Okay. Can republicans hear jan . Is it just me . Im not hearing anybody. Yes, jan, we can hear you fine. Okay. Im going to continue while somebody helps fix the silent person. Okay. Due to the covid19 Public Health emergency, todays hearing is being held remotely. All the members and witnesses will be participating Via Video Conference as part of our hearing, microphones will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members and witnesses, you will need to unmute yourself, unmute your microphone, each time that you wish to speak. Additi
Soldiers in afghanistan. And egypt says its dispute with ethiopia over its megaton project on the nile could lead to a conflict if the u. N. Fails to intervene. Into the program its the development hong kongs prodemocracy movement feared the most chinas top legislative body has unanimously approved a National Security law for the territory that may crush Political Freedoms acts of secession subversion terrorism or collusion with Foreign Forces could face a maximum sentence of life in jail now critics say itll be used to stamp out all forms of dissent it comes after months of mass unrest sparked by fear of chinas tightening grip on the whole cold legislation aims to cement beijings control over the 77 autonomous territory and reshape the future of. One of the worlds major financial sentence adrian brown is standing by for us with reaction out of hong kong but 1st lets cross over to beijing where katrina you is there forcing between or just talk us through the process in terms of what we
Efforts in a cooperative manner. The smallpox virus likely originated more than 300000 yeas ago and is one of the most devastating diseases ever in the history of humanity. He was barely visible under the most powerful microscope. And was known for very bumps covering face and body. And profuse in internal bleeding. Black vomit. Pieces of destroyed skin shut off ones body. Smallpox is estimated to have killed up to 300 Million People in the 20th century. 300 million. In around 500 million in the last 100 years of its existence. In 1967, the World Health Organization launched an historic and intense effort to eradicate smallpox. At the global eradication effort initially used the strategy of mass to achieve 80 percent Vaccine Coverage in each country and thereafter fusing contact tracing. Familiar with the word. To reduce additional outbreaks. Ultimately the global eradication of smallpox was certified endorsed in 1980. Making it one of the most successful collaborative Public Health in
First actions of the committee is we are going to take over the roles and Means Committee to make this a rules committee but first let me say that i appreciate, wanted to say this from the beginning i appreciate the flexibility of our Ranking Member mr. Cole. Im incredibly proud of how we have worked together here in this congress. We have examined a lot of things in the committee and no matter how politically alike we are doing things in the constructive when and i look forward to working with you mr. Cole in a bipartisan effort that was announced today and we will examine how congress can better adapt to the emergencies of the coronavirus pandemic pandemic. I know we both care deeply about this institution in one way or another congress is going to have to adapt to whatever the future may bring. The cdc said this fall could be worse than what we are going to right now. And we need to be prepared and that may mean working remotely. Changes when we operate should be done whenever possi