Of threatening the Global Economy restrictions coming into effect today all materials bound for seoul used in south korean chips and spot for displays this will affect the countrys tech firms and could slow down the whole export process by several months relations between the 2 countries have sowed dramatically in recent months after according to south korea or Japanese Companies to compensate for wartime labors at a fine japan says the issue was settled decades ago and is now could explode spiral to south koreas Tech Industry citing National Security so as trade minister says the move violates World Trade Organization rules even if the. Measure damage the economic relationship between our countries but it is also expected to grossly affects the well trade and corporations in 3rd party countries. Michael paine joins us from tokyo how much is this going to affect global trade do you think. Well as the actual measures which the japanese put into place i dont think are going to have a hug
This runs one hour 45 minutes. The hearing will come to order. Good morning everybody. It is wonderful to welcome all of you here to washington dc. This is our 11th childrens congress and it is always a privilege to work with jd rs families whose commitment to promoting lifechanging research to prevent, treat, and ultimately here type i diabetes inspires me. I want to welcome not only our Ranking Members, senator casey and senator scott from florida, but also we have a special guest and that is the cochair with me of the Senate Diabetes Caucus, senator jean of new hampshire. Thank you for joining us here today as well. Let me shorten my opening comments this morning because we do have votes beginning at 11 00 and i want to make sure that we have time to hear from all of our witnesses. As i said i want to begin by welcoming the more than 160 children who have traveled to washington from all across the country to share your personal stories. You will tell us what it is like to live with
Import bank with chair Kimberly Reed. This is an hour and 20 minutes. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come t the committee will come to order. Today the committee turns its focus to the export import of the United States. Just last month the Senate Confirmed Kimberly Reed to be president and chairman of the Export Import Bank along with board member spencer bach cuss and judith pryor. The nominations of claudia slei Board Members are approved by this committee and pending on the full senate floor. United states exporters are able to compete very effectively in intern International Markets on the basis of price and quality. However, when foreign governments provide subsidies as a matter of policy and general practice to their exporters, u. S. Exporters are placed at a competitive disadvantage purely because of such financing arrangements. According to the 2017 xm bank, competitiveness report, chinese export credit agencies provided more medium and longterm investment suppor
We are delighted youre here today. This committee has jurisdiction over the department of energys vitally important science and Energy Research and development activities. The laboratories and facilities , so i hope we see you more frequently and i look forward to working with you throughout this congress. With the budget season mostly behind us, id like to bring just a few minutes and a few items to your attention. Ill start with the good news which is that despite the administrations best effort to make cuts across the board to deo research and Development Programs most faired well in the house of representatives. Im particularly pleased to see the increases to the budget for arpae and the long Programs Office both of which have yielded truly transformative results for Energy Technologies of all types. Im also quite happy that the house supported a substantial increase in the International Fusion project which i advocated for as well. I went to visit that project a couple years ago,
Often empty allegedly assaulting a woman goes viral nigerias having a conversation about immunity and impunity is the countrys constitution part of the problem. Will go to a school and god that we children are being told about the harmful effects of plastic and house of recycled. Pristine wonder welcome to news africa im glad you didnt bloody and just those are the words of the un envoy to libya describing the deaths of more than 40 migrants mainly africans who died in an air strike on a Detention Center on the outskirts of the libyan capital the internationally recognized government in tripoli has blamed forces loyal to general. For the air attack well be hearing from the. About conditions on the camp in just a moment but 1st this report on last nights bombing. Most people here were sleeping when the attack happened in the early hours of the morning reports say many of the dead are women and children emergency workers say those killed are mainly african migrants heading for europe tho