Inquiry uncovers a series of horrific killings by the countrys forces in afghanistan. Dozens of civilians are believed to have been tortured and murdered. The World Antidoping Agency accuses the us of double standards after the Senate Passes a bill to jail those behind doping in sport except an american leaks and rescue workers from countries including russia, help refugees to return to the disputed number in a car bomb and rebuild their lives, but many find their homes in ruins every day drug. Why this house and this is sides, every dog house the be destroyed and the family. But isnt this a welcome to the weekly here on r t into national, where we bring you the top stories from the past week. A french bill intended to protect the police, has sparked outrage and several days of rioting in paris. The new measures would criminalize the filming of officers, if its done with quote, malicious intent. Its been passed by the National Assembly and will later go to the senate for approval. Hold
Apple reports, by the way, apples plan for new faster chips behind that. And you see it there call it snowflake soar since its ceo raking it in every month jim cramer says hes worth every penny, carl. Thats a lot of pennies well talk about that, guys. We mentioned, jim, all the stuff thats coming at us in the coming weeks or the coming days, rather including some investing meetings, crm, adobe, disney and starbucks. A lot of companies that are doing incredibly well and we should also be thinking not just here but worldwide i think its kind of shocking to see that other than the banks in europe, almost everything is doing well all over the place, including these companies which are very international companies. But i think disney has a great story to tell when it comes to plus adobe has a great story to tell when it comes to all the things theyre doing and starbucks it looks like were getting comments saying, look, theyre doing better than we thought and thats also international. All th
Yesterday has introduced further doubt about claims that the vote in georgia was in any way secure and in any way honest. The video appears to show election workers in fulton pulling out suitcases from beneath a table and then illegally counting ballots without supervisors or republican watchers present. Even though state Election Officials call that perfectly normal, if you can imagine. Georgias governor, brian kemp who has fought against a further recount after looking at that is now calling for an audit of the vote. I called early on for a signature audit. Obviously, the secretary of state per the laws in the constitution would have to order that. He has not done that. I think it should be done. I think especially with what we saw today, it raises more questions. There needs to be transparency on that. I would again call for that, and i think in the next 24 hours, hopefully, well see a lot more from the hearings that the legislature had today, and well be able to look and see what t
Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. I welcome our witnesses in person and those that are appearing distancely. We look forward to their testimony and getting a better understanding of where the department of Veterans Affairs and the Third Party Administrators are in administering the mission act. Im also very interested in hearing more today about the caregivers implementation, as well. Almost every member of our committee, though not physically present at the moment, some are joining us in person and others will be joining us, almost every member of our committee will be participating and is expected in todays hearing. The focus of todays hearing is the implementation of title 1 under the mission act by the department of Veterans Affairs related to Veterans Community care programs and the program of comprehensive assistance to family caregivers. I scheduled this hearing because of my dissatisfaction with the pace of mission implementation. While va officials were
Down days for the markets. Right now s p down by about 11, dow by 96, nasdaq off by about 47 we were so close to you dow 30,000 earlier in the week, but that seems to be slipping away a little bit 29,400 and change is where the dow is right now and again, down two days in a row, down again this morning and after yesterdays declines, all three of the major averages are in negative territory for the week a lot of things happening with covid and well talk more about that in a moment, but some of those concerns creeping back into what you see in the markets. If you are looking at the treasury market, the yield on the ten year right now is sitting just at about 0. 852 and the vix also spiking yesterday, probably a little bit on concerns about what happens as we go back into some of the lockdowns. The seesaw of good and bad news on covid. And well give you a bit of good news that happened overnight in the vaccine wars developed by the university of oxford and astrazeneca found to be safe. An