The country, is ready to join the alternative rapidly growing economic block. It comes as analysis suggests us lead alliances appear to be losing globally with just after one in the afternoon. Here in moscow this tuesday, august the 2nd. Welcome to the news roundup. In our t. Im union. Tensions are. Hi, ron taiwan, the head of a potential visit by the u. S. I. Speaker, china is wrapping up military activity with nancy pelosi expected to land in taipei, at some stage on choose the night. Now the u. S. Cs little issue with the potential touched on, but beijing has labeled the move a breach of that. Sovereignty will say so that we would like to warn the u. S. Side once again, that the chinese site is ready. The Chinese Peoples Liberation Army will never sit idly by and china will certainly take a resolute response and effect of countermeasures to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity. And so if the speaker does decide to visit and china tries to create some kind of a crisis
Hill reporter to look at the week ahead on capitol hill. A look at the week ahead in congress. He is a conner responded for he is al journal correspondent for national journal. Reaction . E the reaction has been kind of quiet. The members are only trickling in here for the week. They will have a special election and a special time for those who want to run. Two or three people are expected to run. Including connie mack. This is unexpended, but in terms of right before the state, good to get the bad news out. Tomorrow, the state of the Union Address. You recently wrote about a memo that Republican Leaders in the house sent to members about the hetero federal health care law. What are its implications ahead of the speech . It was an interesting memo sent out today by Kevin Mccarthy of california. Clearly intended to remind and underscore that House Republicans have in the last session and the first part of this session focused on dismantling or undoing parts or all of the Affordable Care
Of folks who dont provide Health Insurance, they need to make sure that they meet their responsibilities to their employers arent going to the emergency room, jacking up everybody elses costs. What we did yesterday was simply to make an adjustment in terms of their compliance because for many of these companies, just the process of complying yeah, they are midsized between 50 and 100 folks, it may take time even if they are operating in good faith, and we want to make sure the purpose of the law is not to punish them, its to make sure they are providing Health Insurance to their employees or that they are helping to bare the costs of their employees getting Health Insurance. And thats consistent actually with what we have done on the individual mandate. The vast majority of americans want Health Insurance. Many couldnt afford it, we provide them tax credits, but even with the tax credits in some cases they still cant afford it, and we have phaseins to make sure that nobody is unnecessa
Five days after Malaysia Airlines flight 370 vanished in mid flight there is still no sign of the plane or the 239 people on board. Today the search area was expa expanded to 36 mouse square mile36,000 square miles,the siz. With no notes of distress they say they are not sure of the direction was heading in when it disappeared. Jonathan betz with more on this massive search effort. Reporter sobering news. A lot of contents and a lot of misinformation about this missing jetliner. It was last seen in the gulf of thailand about 1 30 in the morning yesterday the m the maln government said that they picked up the plane on radar in strait of malaka. The plane could have made a sharp turn over the country. But there is no evidence that have. The strait of malaka picked up radar of the plane but no one is sure if its the missing jet. If the transponders had been working it would have automatic identified itself to these military radars but it did not do that. And they need help with the inform
Murder and fire arm battery charges. I understand the chief was fairly graphic about everything tonight. You know the reward had hit 40,000 and although the tips were coming and they were not the right steps Police Superintendent Gary Mccarthy says the target audience the people they really needed to speak up still refused to break that code of silence until in the end he said work and surveillance led them to these two Kenneth Williams and the alleged Shooter Police say that the motive was retaliation the suspects are trying to get back at rival gang members believe had shot williams back in july but they targeted the wrong group. Michael ward has confessed and indicated that pendleton was not the intended target in fact the offenders had it all wrong they saw the group they shot into included members of a rival gang but instead it was a group of all outstanding determined kids like Pendleton Mccarthy announcing the charges tonight officers who worked around the clock on this case, th