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21st. i m ali velshi. the bipartisan infrastructure bill has been signed into law by president biden and congressional democrats are optimistic about passing the build back better spending package before the end of the year. after passing the house entirely along party lines on friday, the transformative legislation is now headed to the senate for review this week, but it still has a difficult road ahead. its passage in the senate is not guaranteed. it will need all 50 democratic votes, and if it does pass, it might come out looking very different, based on the mercurial moods of joe manchin and kyrsten sinema, but at least it s moving. however, another crucial piece of the biden agenda, the agenda of anyone who cherishes democracy, by the way, has largely stalled, and i think it s voting rights. the washington post reports that kyrsten sinema, quote, remains firmly opposed to changing federal election laws on a partisan basis, signaling that a planned last-ditch voti ....
a blessing or a curse? president irfaan ali. welcome to hardtalk. thank you. mr president, you lead a country which by many measures, has the fastest growing economy in the world. it is down to you to ensure that this massive windfall your country has is used wisely and fairly. do you feel the pressure? i don t think it s a pressure. it definitely is a challenge, but it is an opportunity. and to understand this growth and what it means for our country, i think you have to have an appreciation also from where we came and the type of difficulties we ve overcome as a country to be where we are today. and that gives you an understanding as to the starting point. and the starting point for guyana has never been oil and gas. we are a country that came through a very painful past, 28 years of dictatorship. we had democracy reinstalled in 1992, and then from then we had, we were the second poorest country in the hemisphere. 0ur debt to gdp ratio was insanely high. we are using ....
authorities in the us city of baltimore say the bodies of two construction workers have been recovered following the collapse of the francis scott key bridge when it was struck by a cargo ship. four workers remain missing and divers are unable to safely reach the area where it is believed they may be located. the search for the men has been suspended due to bad weather conditions. chair of the national transportation safety board jennifer homendy said investigators have also identified hazardous materials in the ship. one of ntpc s senior hazmat investigators began to look at the cargo and the cargo manifest today. he was able to identify 56 containers of hazardous materials, that s 764 tonnes of hazardous materials, mostly corrosives, flammables and some miscellaneous class nine hazardous materials, which would include lithium ion batteries. some of the hazmat containers were breached. we have seen sheen on the waterway. the federal, state and local authorities are awa ....