Installed within a whisker of februarys alltime high. The cash trade is less than one hour away. Your are your headlines. Germany extends its Job Support Team until the end of next year, spains or rules out another National Lockdown as cases rise. Britains vaccine bet, the u. K. Backs a plan for a dnabased maxine. We look at a 50 million rates for a solution. And caveat emptor, u. S. Consumer confidence drops to the lowest level in six years. We will get the latest french figures out this hour. Just under one hour away from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets look at how futures are trading. Right now across europe, we are seeing slight green arrows. And i mean slight. You can call dax futures and euro stoxx 50 futures unchanged. In the u. S. , we see most futures contracts falling this morning, although also very slight drops. S p futures are unchanged after another record high yesterday. Nasdaq futures gained about 1 10 of 1 . Anna, what do you see on the gmm . Anna feel
A load workers returning to work in the u. K. The Economic Impact of the pandemic has seen major cities including london become ghost towns. Youre watching our to international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program. Condolences are being sent from all over the world to lebanon where a devastating explosion ripped through the capital on tuesday the nation is in mourning as the catastrophe has claimed lies of at least 100 people and left over 4000 injured according to the countrys red cross. Now these are live pictures from beirut its about 1 pm there right now theres almost nothing left of the once bustling port as you can see here the citys governor says about 300000 people have been displaced a blast destroyed nearby buildings causing chaos across the lebanese capital. Given a large number of injured hospitals are under immense strain the field is already dealing with the Coronavirus Crisis were quickly field beyond capacity issue pleas
Also this hour despite millions of for a load workers returning to work in the u. K. The Economic Impact of the pandemic has seen major cities including london become ghost towns. A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for joining us this hour. Condolences are being stolen from all over the world to lebanon where a devastating explosion ripped through the capital on tuesday the nation is in mourning as the catastrophe has claimed the lives of at least 100 people and left over 4000. 00 injured thats according to the countrys red cross. We now bring you live pictures from beirut you can see emergency workers there are still looking for that missing almost nothing left of the once bustling area the citys governor says about 300000 people have been displaced due to the tragedy a blast destroyed nearby buildings and caused chaos across the lebanese capital. Given the large number of injured hospitals are under immense strain facilities already dea
Good morning. I call this hearing to order. Before i address the topic of todays hearing i want to say a few words about whats happening in communities across our country today. This is a time of great pain and unrestfor our nation. Americans are truly outraged by recent killings. Anyone who watched the video of the murder of george floyd has to be horrified and heartbroken. The resulting peaceful protests about police abuse against any american citizen are important and necessary our nation needs to listen to the voices of africanamericans about police brutality. Every american citizen deserves justice under the law. Some of the peacefulprotests have been hijacked by violent criminals. The destructing and looting and arson must stop. Those who commit these crimes dishonor the memory of george floyd and dishonor the cause for which the Peaceful Protesters first took to the streets. Now in a moment of americans to come together to listen and to heal. The goal of this hearing today is to
Were going to convene a committee on Homeland Security. Were going to ask the members of the press to please part the center aisle so members can have access to the witnesses. The committees meeting today to receive testimony on global terrorism threats to the homeland part two. Good morning, the committee, as i indicated, is meeting to hear from four expert witnesses on where we are as of this date with threats to the homeland. This committee was created in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of september 11th, 2001. Since the establishment of the department of Homeland Security, the committee has focused on insuring the department is fulfilling its mission to secure the homeland. I take this responsibility seriously, as has every chairman of this committee. This is why its been the committees practice to hold a hearing to assess Global Threats to the homeland and evaluate the federal governments efforts to confront them. Congress and the American People deserve to hear about the t