The conditions for bringing a lawsuit against a foreign state. The Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing is chaired by senator Lindsey Graham of south carolina. Generally speaking, we have a foreign sovereign immunities act , basically shutting off lawsuits against other nations because whatever we do to them, they can do to us. We made exceptions to it. We have amended the act regarding terrorist activities. This is not an issue i take lightly. Ive thought ang lot about. My colleagues have worked to put together legislation, they have reconciled the legislation. Want to have a hearing about what it would mean if we amended the act to allow suits against china. And why would we take this unprecedented step . This is the third pandemic to come out of china. The coronavirus came from hunan province, but it was a mistake in a lab or spread at a wet market, i dont know, but we do know where it came from. We know china failed to inform the world about the nature of the virus that did restrict
Certainly china is to blame and has to be held accountable. View, doesr point of the sovereign immunity act need to be amended at all to allow you to move forward . We are moving forward because we believe that is how we proceeded on our lawsuit which we filed in the United States Federal District court of mississippi. That onportant to note the foreign sovereign immunities act, the commercial activity section is an act based on commercial activity in china that has a direct effect on the United States and they may not be immune. A reference to the nature of the court of conduct and a particular transaction or act. China was engaged in commercial activity, including the production, purchasing, import and export of ppes. Even essentially nationalizing the manufacturing. We believe this exception is workable and that is why i am proceeding with our lawsuit. Now, certainly the amendments of the Foreign Policy immune act would be helpful. Providing additional exceptions provides us broader
From him and refuses to concede despite a lack of evidence. Now hes sacked his defense secretary, mark esper. And understanding the history of Human Evolution we find out what a team of researchers has learned after digging up a two million year old skull. Welcome to the programme. Leading scientists are cautiously welcoming news of a new vaccine against coronavirus thats proved more than 90 effective in early results. The vaccine, developed by pharma giant pfizer and its partner biontech has been tested on nearly a4,000 people in six countries, with no safety concerns being raised so far. Some experts though point out that the announcement was made on the basis of very early analysis, with the vaccine not yet formally approved. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. This is a huge day for science, and perhaps the world. For the first time, a covid 19 vaccine has been shown to protect against the disease. Plenty of caution is needed, but the preliminary results of the Pfizer Biontech
Will the two go after each other in front of america . And can the three guys at the bottom of the polls get any kind of boost for their campaigns . And how many snarky tweets will donald trump send out in two hours . All of these will be answered in our showdown. The candidates, no doubt, making lastminute preparations as well. I want to go inside the debate hall to the suddenly very famous senior White House Correspondent jim acosta. We knew you when. We knew you when. Well, you know. I always remember the little people. These podiums behind me are empty right now. They will not stay that way for much longer. Well see candidate walkthroughs later on this afternoon. At least we hope so. Hillary clinton, we know shes in town. One of the very first thing she did, she went over to the trump hotel looking past her democratic rivals and was trolling the tycoon, going off on donald trump in front of his hotel in las vegas. She has a lot at stake tonight. She has not debated anything like th
National security. He they are drawing protesters. Sara sidner is with them. She joins us right now. Whats the scene outside . Reporter ill tell you, there is about 250 people, walking through the crowds, lots of different signs, anderson, behind me ill flip you around. That is the uss iowa there. On the back of the uss iowa, trump is speaking. About a,000 people expected to attend the trump event. Down here, these arent folks who have tickets. They are angry with trump. They have all sorts of signs, this one here says im maddon alleged trump and you got other ones where you have lots of children here saying were not illegals. There was a fight earlier between supporters and folks who want trump out, speaking dont trump at him. Certainly, theyre a very, very vocal crowd here tonight trying to get trump to hear their message while he tries to give his message to the crowd thats here to see him. Anderson. All right, sara sidner, appreciate. That Vice President biden took a veiled shot at