A hell of a truck a full report we have a lot to get to so lets get started. The house clear legislation on wednesday that threatens to kick Chinese Companies off u. S. Stock exchanges if they continue to deny u. S. Regulators access to their audit when the measure passed the house by anonymous vote after it passed the Senate Unanimously in may well now the bill has gone to president Donald Trumps dust for his signature joining me now to discuss the trafficking of journalist ben swan but whats in this bill exactly and what was it spelled out to do specifically. Yeah its kind of an interesting things there its called the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable act essentially bars securities of Foreign Companies from being listed on a u. S. Exchange if they have failed to comply with u. S. Public accounting oversight boards audits for 3 years in a row so essentially the idea here is that if youre going to be on a u. S. Exchange you have got to have the u. S. Agency doing audits to make su
To face in person, so thank you for tuning in and obviously doubledip honored that youve agreed to speak with me tonight about the book ron kovic. Right. Not kovac. We were introduced by tom come sport media writer years ago. Ron has been very encouraging and helped quite a bit with this book in terms of background and research and so forth. Ron of course was a vietnam veteran. Most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans and a just want to give you a little background before we start speaking. Before world war ii if you were paralyzed you were pretty much a dead ender, a no hope for as they were called. If the average lifespan was a team is for someone wounded in world war i. World war ii was a game changer. The advent of penicillin, sulfur drugs. They had surgical units right behind the battlefield come right behind the front lines and they had better evacuation back to the mainland so by the end of world war ii you had a cohort of about 2500 u. S. Veterans were paral
Making progress in his recovery. Efforts. With stories from the past 7 days and right up to the moment of elements as well welcome to the weekly on our to international. Opposition crowds. With a major protest currently underway in. The president ial election has been driving people to the streets for 6 weeks or. Earlier described the tactics the protesters being using. What they do is they gather in little groups over the city in various districts where they live and then they could show all of that into a into a huge rally huge much asss happening barden knowledge crowds merging together right now its difficult to tell with the with regards to numbers for perhaps 5000 people behind me more maybe joining the but the impression so far is that there are fewer people than there were last week at this at this time last week last sunday there were many more demonstrators a much larger much nevertheless theyve got their plan theyve got a route through that theyre going to take the organizer
Police used to prevent him from green. The israeli pm signed peace deals with the u. A. E. And bahrain in washington something Donald Trumps called a historic breakthrough but the movies met with outrage in palestine. A warm welcome to you watching r. T. International with mina carrying. The moscow has for the alleged poisoning case of opposition figure alexina valmy not to be politicized after talks with his german counterpart russias top diplomat stressed the need for cooperation heres what the Foreign Ministry had to say any further evasion from satisfying the stated requests will be perceived as a lack of desire on the part of our partners to help establish the truth in the framework of comprehensive investigation of what happened. The alleged nerve agent poisoning of the russian opposition figure was high on the agenda of a European Parliament session on cheese day the vast majority of speakers pointed the finger of blame squarely at russia although no evidence was presented our e
A review of the week russian opposition figurehead. Says he is making progress in his recovery as. Over evidence in the lead poisoning. Broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is R T International recapping the weeks top stories with our weekly program. Now belarus has seen another day of mass unrest a 6 weeks on from the contested election thousands gathered in minsk on sunday calling on president lucas shango to resign. Earlier describe the tactics used by the protesters. What they do is they gather in little groups over the city in various districts where they live and then they could show all of that into a into a huge rally huge much asss happening barden knowledge crowds merging together right now its difficult to tell with the with regards to numbers for perhaps 5000 people behind me more maybe joining the but the impression so far is that there are fewer people than there were last week at this at this time last week last sunday there were many more demonstrato