Up next testimony from dacts lien kraniger. She talks about her agencys role in protecting consumers during the pandemic. This hearing will come to order. This hearing is another remote video hearing. Ill go through quickly some of the standard reminders to remind everybody, once you start speaking, there will be a slight delay before your picture shows on the screen. To minimize background noise, please remember to click the mute button until it is your and if theres a technology issue, weve move on until it gets resolved. The fiveminute time still some senators say they dont seem to be able to find that. If you go to the righthand side of the screen and move your mouse, some options will show up. One of them is the grid view. If you click grid view, you will see a grid of everybody, and one of the things youll see is the clock. Ill try to gently remind people, because some senator have asked for the reminder because they cant see the clock. Again senator brown and i have agreed to go
Ongoing global chaos how far will optimism carry this ball run and is it sustainable we bring you that and more today so lets jump right in. And thousands of protesters continue to take the streets worldwide calling for reform to the Justice System after george floyd was killed in Police Custody in minneapolis minnesota couple weeks ago here in the United States demonstrators continued in nearly every major city including washington d. C. New york philadelphia chicago los angeles and San Francisco just to name a few meanwhile in germany 15000 protesters marched in leipzig on sunday and an estimated 25000 gathered in munich on saturday officials in australia said more than 20000 demonstrated in sydney with smaller protests taking place throughout the country in london thousands gathered in Parliament Square and outside the u. S. Embassy to protest injustice and again this is just a small sample protest also erupted in paris rome toronto and numerous other cities. Throughout the world on
October 2018 and march 2019. Including rulemaking and supervisory and regulatory activities. The report provides insight into what the cfpb plants undertake in the coming work period, since stepping into a roll last december director can injure understands consumers have access to a wide range of Financial Products and services that meet their individual needs, fostering innovation and vigorously protecting consumers. Reflecting this commitment to the cfpbs mission, director crandall conducted an extensive Cross Country listening tour with the full spectrum of cfpb stakeholders during her first month on the job area director creditors conversations with consumers, industry and fellow federal and state regulators have improved engagement, informed their supervision and regulatory processes and improve Agency Transparency area in the semiannual report, director preminger also highlighted the cfpb has taken steps to strengthen the consumer marketplace by providing Financial Institutions c
with president biden at the white house on thursday. it promises cooperation on advanced tech, clean energy and critical minerals. but it falls far short of the comprehensive free trade agreement with the us that the british government has been hoping for and had promised as a benefit of leaving the european union. our north america business correspondent michelle fleury has hopes of a full free trade deal were dashed sometime ago because it was clear that biden had been interested in that. there were noises for some time that we might get something more about an alliance against external threats to economic security and furthering ambitions on net zero. while this might seem like a pick and mix trade alliance, little bits here when it comes to talking about protecting supply chains, a little bit about making it easier to swap data between us and american firms and a little bit here about green energy and nuclear, it is very much tied together in looking at what of those co
the energy regulator ofgem has asked suppliers to pause the forced installation of prepaid metres. it follows revelations that a debt collection company working for british gas broke into the homes of vulnerable people to install the metres. prepayment metres require customers to pay for their energy in advance. it s more expensive than paying by direct debit, but are sometimes the only option for people who have struggled to pay and are in debt to a supplier. ben king has more. an undercover reporter from the times newspaper joined a team of debt collectors, entering the home of a single father with three young children. they count as vulnerable. but, these workers from arvato financial solutions, working for british gas, opened the door and installed a prepayment meter anyway. installing prepayment meters by force is legal, but it s meant to be a last resort, and should not be done to vulnerable households. if people cannot afford to top up the meters, they will be left wit