United Lebanon Special concert special consulate. Hours correspondent joins us from paris. \ thank you for joining us. Lets go straight to the concert hall here in paris. The whole program performing to raise money and boost awareness of the plight of the people of lebanon struggling to rebuild in the wake of the huge explosion that destroyed the court on august 4. Lets listen. [speaking forereign language] [speaking foreign language] that was a Favorite French artist. We will get more t throughout te program. 192 people lost their lives in the explosion in beirut. Those responsible perhaps not held to account. For the victims, its an all go ash ongoing ordeal. There was already chaos caused by corruption and poverty. 300 million is a conservative estimate of former government inside beirut who spoke earlier to france 24. Lets go to our reporter who is outside the concert hall. She was there for all of the buildup backstage. You have had to come out of the venue because of covid19 rere
Protesters in bellows heckled president Alexander Lukashenko now the main Opposition Leader is calling on the military to switch sides. And south africa lifts most of its lockdown restrictions to try to pump life back into the economy. The u. S. Democratic party has begun its National Convention the event usually packs a stadium with huge crowds but because of covert 19 its all being done online from a 1st Lady Michelle obama and vermont senator Bernie Sanders were among a number of prominent democrats and republicans who made speeches backing joe biden for president alan fischer reports. A moment of american political history the 1st but chill president ial convention the democrats gaveling to order online large gatherings cast aside because of covert but a party torn by infighting 4 years ago this was about presenting a united front but its not easy to unite the Democratic Party were rebuffed just group joe bidens pulled it off on the 1st night the man many thought would secure the n
The committee will come to orde order. Thank you all for coming today and for our witnesses for joining us as we examine the current state of the us russia relationship to deal with the Russian Federation. Its time to assess our relationship as we have recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of events leading to the collapse of the soviet union, fall of the berlin wal wall, solidarity selection victory in poland many former soviet states with prosperous democracies with memberships in the eu. Mister putin has taken russia down a darker path many suffer while oligarchs enrich themselves russia make sure only kremlin approved officials make the cut with those who military and organization in those outlets the russian people are inhumanely present and tortured to disagree with the government. Not only does the Russian Federation make it painful for the average russian but also makes it harder for those around the world he has meddled in american intellections sewing chaos propping up the
Working. This is about two hours 20 minutes. s. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to orde order. Thank you all for coming today and for our witnesses for joining us as we examine the current state of the us russia relationship to deal with the Russian Federation. Its time to assess our relationship as we have recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of events leading to the collapse of the soviet union, fall of the berlin wal wall, solidarity selection victory in poland many former soviet states with prosperous democracies with memberships in the eu. Mister putin has taken russia down a darker path many suffer while oligarchs enrich themselves russia make sure only kremlin approved officials make the cut with those who military and organization in those outlets the russian people are inhumanely present and tortured to disagree with the government. Not only does the Russian Federation make it painful for the average russian but also makes it harder for those around the w
Leadership as at all other interAgency Meetings on this topic of which i was aware the National Security Community Expressed unanimous support for resuming the funding as in the u. S. National security interest at the july 26th meeting there was also a discussion of how ukrainian anticorruption efforts were making progress do you do you reiterated what we had said and our earlier certification to congress stating that sufficient progress in defense reform including anticorruption had occurred to justify the usa i spending. I and others at the interAgency Meetings felt that the matter was particularly urgent because it takes time to obligate that amount of money and my understanding was that the money was legally required to be obligated by september 30th the end of the fiscal year in the ensuing weeks until the hold was released on september 11th i pursued 3 tracks 1st starting on july 31st and an interAgency Meeting i made clear to the interagency leadership my understanding that once