Color, irrespective of party affiliation. We are one america. And lets try to act that way. And i close this briefing. Thank you. As that herring comes to a close, lawmakers discussing how the Veterans Affairs department, this is a live hearing getting under way now on cspan 3. If covid19 turned into a pandemic and portions of the United States Health Care System broke down the va may need to come back and ask for additional funds and since then congress has appropriated 17. 2 billion for vhas covid19 Pandemic Response and i was glad to help advocate for that funding. Now im not sure that many of us here on the dais know what to expect during that february hearing nor did we fully grasp the enormity of the Public Health challenges americans would soon face from the pandemic. This is largely because the administration failed to recognize these risks and communicate them to the American Public in advance of the crisis. Here we are a little more than three months later and exactly 90 days
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In the morning here in moscow you watching international. After pulling troops out of Northern Syria and essentially clearing the way for the military operation targeting kurdish fighters President Donald Trump has offered to mediate between the 2 sides you have the choice of bringing in the military and defeating everybody. Or you have the choice of for they actually doing some very strong things to turkey or we can mediate i hope we can mediate. Well the 1st phase of the Turkish Operation began with air strikes on the 2 kurdish controlled border towns the kurds have ordered a general mobilization along the border with turkey to confront the attack and they call washington street withdrawal of betrayal the International Community meanwhile has condemned turkeys assault and current turn as one that it will send millions of Syrian Refugees currently in turkey to europe if the e. U. Calls its operation and invasion middle east analyst out of sundry bruno says that turkey may not benefit
Good morning just going to have an a clock here in moscow you with r. T. International ukrainian and pages published documents that he says reveal corruption involving kiev and u. S. Democratic president ial hopeful joe biden in 2014 biden was u. S. Vice president and to go to man for ukraine while his son hunter was on the board of a ukrainian gas company. Reports. With its big personalities and explosive revelations politics is like a good t. V. Show take the bidens ukraine plot for example which is currently stealing time former Vice President joe biden his son hunter trump of course and the ukrainian president have recurring roles but a new character has appeared on the scene ukrainian m. P. Andrey catch now captures and to center stage and accuse biden of making a pretty penny from his dealings in ukraine and with one company in particular was considering to this was the transfer of the barisan groups funds for lobbying activities as investigators believe personally to judge the o
Sides. Hello there is may day here in moscow youre watching international our top story this hour hundreds of people have been protesting in the central russian city of surat of after the strangled body of a 9 Year Old Girl was found they are demanding that the suspected murderer be put to death. It was. Was it was i. Was ok well lets get more on this now if negotiate an author who joins us eagle what further details and can you tell us well lets just focus as to what happened exactly on wednesday a 9 Year Old Girl lisa as she went to school and never came home and for about 24 hours there was no information as to about her whereabouts what happened to her or whether or not she was alright or not and so that wait that information vacuum that was what drove people to the streets because the 1st information they got about the girl was not from the officials but from local media sources and those were unverified reports suggesting that the girl had been dead that she that she had been kil