nearly all of the funds for completion of the pipeline. the company said almost 100 percent of required funds have already been provided by the shareholder and financial investors. the us is expected to announce new sanctions against the pipeline in the coming weeks. united states is imposing new sanctions against a chinese tech company for doing business with venezuela. the u.s. treasury department accuse the chinese national of tronics import and export corporation of supporting the illegitimate maduro regimes efforts to undermine the next on democracy. as artie s alex, my hilditch explains, the move is ramping up tensions with the 2 nations, just ahead of the transition of power here in washington. it s the latest move by the u.s. to try to contain venezuela. and this time washington s aim was to hit 2 birds with one stone. the u.s. treasury department has imposed sanctions on the china national electronics import and export corporation. the chinese company is accused of p
[inaudible conversations] . we will come to order. good afternoon this is a fourth in a series of hearings we are holding as part of the inquiry without objection the chairs authorized to declare a recess at any time. there is a quorum present. we ll proceed today as an opening statement than the ranking member can make his opening statement and then we will turn to the witnesses and then two questions. without a now recognize myself to give an opening statement into the impeachment inquiry of donald j. trump the 45th president of the united states. this afternoon we ll hear from two witnesses ambassador special representative for ukraine negotiations and to morrison former senior director for european affairs at an sei appreciate the minorities request for these witnesses as well as undersecretary of state from whom we will hear tomorrow progress we have heard from other witnesses when joe biden was considered whether to enter the price one - - the presidential race in 20
for all the violence. to defend the palestinians from the. media in the us come up with a new catch phrase denigrate conventional use of presidential hopefuls. hello there is 10 am here in moscow you re watching international. madrid protests have been raging catalonia with prime independent supporters angered by the jailing of separatists leaders a week ago 2 years on from the region s failed independence bit the issue is dividing spain again on sunday people rallying dioxide the spanish government s residence in barcelona they were calling for the release of 9 jailed separatist leaders found guilty of sedition for their involvement in the referendum the vote was deemed to be illegal by madrid activists or bags of rubbish in front of the building meanwhile a national newspaper has also been dragged into the castle and control of a say has been a question of now explains. one country one nation well not when it comes to spain the status once again divided over catalonia and i
and what you do with all the stuff we no longer want most countries have a trash problem only a few really recycle. rubbish piled high in the streets of beirut after lebanon s largest waste dump closed in 2015 it was already groaning under 15000000 tons of excess trash sounds took to the streets to protest against the situation has anything changed since then. the beaches in the lebanese capital beirut could be beautiful but the reality is they re often half buried under garbage. so these young people are getting ready to transform their local beach they re taking part in a campaign called run unclean it s the brainchild of eddie p.h.r. and his n.g.o.s live love beirut the group spends part of the time jogging and the rest picking up litter the events store up to 200 people. many young people in particular are fed up of waiting for the lebanese government to take the initiative. this is part of the outcome of the crisis that we had a few years ago we see that people are more
thank you all for being here today. it s been an incredible forum so far and i just want to introduce our panelists. star wars what does it teach us about tech and military competition. sitting next to me is senator john kyl representing arizona. dr. tom kennedy, chairman and ceo of raytheon and general hoch carlisle, four-star retired u.s. air force general and president and ceo of the national defense industrial association. so great to speak with all three of you today. and to you. so i think the first place to start is what actually was sdi, the strategic defense initiative and how did it birth modern-day missile defense and the technology we re now talking about today. so, senator kyl, i would like for you to start with a little bit of background on this given the fact that you have been a lifelong advocate of nuclear defense and your public service does date back to the reagan years. thank you very much. you can think about sdi as a roughly decade-long effort