Procedural vote will take place this morning on the nominee. The confirmation vote later this afternoon. And the negotiations are continuing on a coronavirus aid package. Live coverage now here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate with prayer. The chaplain let us pray. O god our shield, we rejoice in the gift of your salvation. Look with favor upon our senators today, delivering them from fear and guiding them around the obstacles that hinder their progress. Lord, unite them for the common good of this great land. Lord, manifest your purposes to them, making clear your plans and guiding them with your love. Give them the wisdom to have confidence in your power, as you inspire them to use their talents as instruments of liberation and healing. Almighty god, have compassion upon our nation and world. We pray in your holy name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge a
Celebrating 50 years of elmo big on the cookie monster we look at the global success by the iconic childrens show sesame street. Larkin darwood sports as liverpool beat of Manchester City in the English Premier League plus Rugby World Cup win in south africa parade through Port Elizabeth the home town of kalak to see our colleagues. We begin with breaking news this hour bolivias president obama has announced his resignation follows comments from bolivia as military chief calling on morale is to step down so that stability can be restored to the country on sunday morales declared he would hold new elections after the organization of american states said there was serious it regularities in octobers vote the president won that election with just enough votes to avoid a 2nd round runoff but it did trigger suspicions of. And its nationwide protests have been taking place over the past few weeks and that puts south americas longest serving leader under increasing pressure as opposition grou
A bloodbath. After 2 years under house arrest for treason cambodias Opposition Leader kem succot is released. But we begin with breaking news out of bolivia where president has announced his resignation in the past hour or so now this does follow comments from believe his military chief calling on morality to step down so that stability and order can be restored to the country. Sunday morale is declared he would hold new elections after the organization of american states said there was serious it regularities in octobers vote president won that election with just enough votes to avoid a 2nd round but it triggered suspicions of fraud and spawn nationwide protests in the country. Ceremonious year i am resigning from my position as president in order that the people of course and the poor people are not strident on any more i am resigning for them if we dont want there to be confrontations early this morning we need to ministers and we decided to resign in order for there to be new elect
Our event today its not just democracy, integrity and elections but in the 2020 elections. Wewe have a time horizon of 14 months. I think michael put it off very well, in terms of what the scenario looks like, its sort of a butterfly ballot on steroids, if we have a close election, if we have a contested result and even just a couple of counties and there has been a Disinformation Campaign that is exposed that may have skewed the results, what i worry about is i dont know how we quite survived second election here in the country, a second president ial election that comes into serious question and at pan america we come at this at slightly different angle, we are freespeech organization and we see guardians of open discourse and of truth and we are not digital specialists, we are not election specialists, we are an organization of writers and journalists and editors and publishers and people who are invested in the quality of our discourse and our ability to sort facts from falsehood a
If you remember back in april president and he had hoped to hold a parliamentary session in aden and his arguments but in fact that wasnt able to go ahead because the Southern Transitional council wouldnt allow it to me had to hold it and had remarked so it was only a question of time this all the sucking up indications at the moment from the Southern Separatists that they are committed to a ceasefire at the same time the United Arab Emirates is withdrawing or scaling down its military presence in yemen when of course we know that thats where their military and financial backing comes from does this mean that there might be a pathway towards some sort of dialogue. I think we need to disentangle those 2 points the u. A. E. Drawdown of its military and yemen indicates more than anything that it is tired of the war in the north with the who sees it has all these local forces are treated on the ground who are in the south and you cannot help this use of an separatist ngs so in a sense it s