Good afternoon great to have you with us this is a party. The u. S. Secretary of state has accused the u. N. Human Rights Council of hypocrisy after it released the resolution drawn up in the wake of the killing of george floyd almost a month ago. Also pointed his finger at cuba china and iran where he thinks Racial Disparities are truly systemic however the u. N. Document itself has also been criticised by activist groups for being too mild as the explains. When the entire world gets these agri this few reus something must be done right scoops in Civil Society have mobilized armies of activists to do is to make sure that it does its now or never here is that chance to get rid of xenophobia and make this world a better place. The undersigned family members of victims of Police Killings and Civil Society organizations from around the world call in Member States of the un human Rights Council to urgently convene a special session on the situation of human rights in the United States in o
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Are being told, President Trump is expected to speak in the next few minutes and it could be a declaration of a National State of emergency, we are also being told that it will be dealing with the coronavirus, less than an hour ago House Speaker nancy pelosi said house lawmakers are moving forward on a relief bill that will ensure one keeping, testing, testing, testing. The bill would also have free coronavirus test kits and there will be paid emergency leave and strengthening the Food Security initiatives. Its a bill of pelosi and my new chin were optimistic about. We are going to go tofoan increase in sba authority. Ive spoken to the speaker, and Mitch Mcconnell and Kevin Mccarthy and the president about airlines that is something we can expect to deal with quickly. What you are looking at now is the big board, its up about 900 points, which is huge, rebounding a little bit after yesterdays single biggest one day percentage drop. As far as more testing, dr. Fauci spoke with us this m
A gauge of 91. 00 look at his legacy of his 30 years in power. Hello live from moscow the national with me daniel hawking this wherever you are tonight thanks for joining us. Now this tuesday was the 2nd day of wiki leaks founder Julian Assange is hearing on extradition to the u. S. Where the whistleblower is wanted on espionage charges if handed over you could be facing a 175 Year Prison Sentence for his role in the publication of classified intelligence data. The latest. Day 2 with willage crown court and we have this song cheering supporters have been out in full force again we can hear them chanting throughout the proceedings now we had the defense talking today talking about why these allegations should be thrown out of course they talked about mrs mannings involvement in the release of the 2002006200 extension 7 iraq talk documents the iraqi diaries and obviously the release of the collateral murder video saying that she felt that her conscience required her to release those docu