Remote committee proceedings. First, i would ask all members to keep themselves muted or when they are not being recognized. This will minimize disturbances while members are asking questions of our witnesses. The staff have been instructed not to mute members except where a member is not being recognized and there is inadvertent background noise. Members are also reminded they may only participate in one remote proceeding at a time. If you are participating today, please keep your camera on and if you choose to attend a different remote proceeding, please turn your camera off. If during the hearing members wish to be recognized, the chair recommends the members identify themselves by name as so to facilitate the chairs recognition. I would also ask that members be patient as the chair proceeds giving the nature of the Online Platform the committee is using, and with that i yield myself five minutes for opening statement. Today this committee convenes for our very First Committee heari
Pakistans Top Court Upholds the acquittal of a man convicted in the murder of the wall street journalist daniel pearl. Also ahead love overcoming barriers how the elderly in italy a connecting with their family and friends during the pandemic. And eyepieces them for the sport along the bosses say it would not be irresponsible to hold the tokyo games in july and i. O. C. President thomas but insists a plan for every possible scenario is being put together and its a question of how not if the olympics will happen. Lets get going with the news hour for you the latest developments out of russia a court in moscow today ordering that president Vladimir Putins most prominent critic alexina should stay in jail he was arrested 10 days ago soon after returning from germany where he was being treated for poisoning an attack in a valley blamed on putin but denied by the kremlin the valley appeared in court via video link and said hes being denied proper access to his lawyer and. I understand my ri
Rights and human rights. Thousands of people descend on the polish capital after a Court Imposes a near total ban on abortion. Also this out students in greece are angry at a proposal to put Police Officers into universities to come on Violent Crime. Bosses say it would not be irresponsible to hold the turkey games in july i. O. C. President thomas bach insists a plan for every possible scenario is being put together and its a question of how not if the olympics will happen. Ok lets begin in the chinese city of new han where investigators from the World Health Organization who ended the Hotel Quarantine and begun the task of finding out how the pandemic started theyll be interviewing people from Research Institutes hospitals and the Seafood Market linked to the initial outbreak for a long delayed inquiry comes after months of negotiations between the government in beijing and the World Health Organization. Katrina you reports now from. Well the debate has said that plan for the next fe
Plus fullscale wartime effort against covid. Let me be the clearest on this point. Help is on the way. We need more vaccine. We need more vaccine. Mr. Biden reverses the trump approach, launching a centralized response to fight the pandemic. If we get 70 to 85 of the country vaccinated, lets say, by the end of the summer, by the time we get to the fall, we will be approaching a degree of normality. Also, impeachment part two. The senate trial begins in two weeks. What could impeachment mean for the new president s call for unity. Its unconstitutional, sets a bad precedent for the presidency and comes continues to divide the nation. I dont think its unifying to say lets forget it and move on. Ill talk with senator dick durbin of illinois and mike rounds of south dakota. Joining me are nbc News White House correspondent andrea mitchell, New York Times david brooks, yamiche alcindor, White House Correspondent for pbs news hour and tim alberta, chef Political Correspondent for politico. We
Virus. News tonight on help for American Families and businesses crushes by the pandemic. Joe biden laying the ground work to raise the federal minimum wage to 15 an hour for federal workers. Calling 1,400 direct payments to some americans. News on former president trumps impeachment trial. Nancy pelosi says she will send the article of impeachment to the senate on monday. So, will the trial begin at 1 00 p. M. The next day . Or will Senate Leaders grow tla or come up with an agreement to divide their work with the trial . What our mary bruce learned tonight. Reporter the outrage after hundreds of National Guard members call in the to defend the u. S. Capitol for the inauguration, they were then ordered to leave the capitol, seen getting rest on the floor of a parking garage. Layups on both sides furious tonight. So who made this decision and why . What weve learned. And this evening here, we celebrate the life of hank aaron, who became baseballs home run king. He broke barriers and di