Good morning. So this meeting will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of doe, during covid19 pandemic. Members will be participating in todays hearing finally in person or remotely via video conferences. And just as a reminder weve had some technical difficulties in making sure that our remote video was operating up to standard. As part of this hearing, the microphones of members participating remotely will be set on mute for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Members participating remotely will need to unmute their microphones each time you wish to speak. For members and witnesses participating in person, i encourage you to wear your mask whenever you are not speaking. Dr. Monahan, our physician, stressed in attending physician covid19 guidelines that use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case someone was unknowingly infected and does not have symptoms. But wearing our mask when we are not speakin
Workers facing a long term jobs battle in the u. S. Despite an unexpected drop in unemployment figures. And u. S. Police being too heavy handed to shove thats putting their actions at anti racism rallies into more scrutiny. Also a taste of life after breakfast that people out of work during coronavirus answer a pick for britain rallying call. I do not doubt that the work will be our glamorous and at times challenging but it is of the utmost importance. Good to have you with us welcome to the news our fighters linked to libyas u. N. Recognized government and celebrating the sudden collapse of ward cleaver have to 14 the battle to take over the capital they were taken to see. Good to whom a strategically important base to have to the forces in western libya its about 65 kilometers from the capital tripoli also to bari begins our coverage. Celebrating another important game. Forces for the un backed government of National Accord in control of tarhouni the city was the last major stronghol
Under the spotlight state governors act against the use of chokehold and types of restraints plus. Forces loyal to libyas un recognized government celebrate the collapse of Khalifa Haftar as 14 month offensive to take tripoli. Hello here the u. S. President donald trump has been criticized for invoking George Floyds name while taking a victory lap over lower than expected jobless numbers his likely election rival joe biden called his remarks despicable floyd was killed in Police Custody after a Police Officer knelt on his neck for almost 9 minutes the death has led to 10 days of protests right across the u. S. Hopefully george is looking down right now and saying this is a great thing thats happening for a country theres a great day for him its a great day for everybody this is a great day for everybody this is a great great day in terms of equality so the new figures for may suggest the American Economy is already starting to recover from the pandemic but its not great news for everyo
Protestors come under the ease ght, police try to tronk restrictions. Lus, the task to take tripopol. Hello, the u. S. President donald trump has been criticized for invoking George Floyds name while taking a victory lap over lower than expected job numbers. His likely rival joe biden called his remarks despicable. Floyd was killed after a Police Officer knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes. The death has led to 10 days of protests right across the u. S. Hopefully george is looking down right now a saying its a great day for our country. Its a great day for everybody. This is a great, great day in terms of equality. So the new figures for may suggests the American Economy is already starting to recover from the pandemic but its not great news for everyone. In march, 1. 3 Million People lost their jobs due to the lockdown measures. Taking the Unemployment Rate to 4. 3 . A further 20. 6 million jobs were lost in april when unemployment hit a record high of 14. . Inway may that rate
A court ban protesters in australia say they are running for Racial Justice and an end to aboriginal deaths in Police Custody. The fear is that perus hospitals are running out of oxygen for coronavirus patients the president orders plans to ramp up production. And france says its killed the leader of al qaeda in north africa in an operation in mali. A growing number of Us Police Departments are enforcing changes to their tactics in the wake of George Floyds death the city of minneapolis where he was killed is Burning Police chokeholds and will require officers who see colleagues using improper force to step in and stop them as well as banning chokeholds new york state plans to classify false race based calls to Emergency Services as a hate crime and california will stop training its officers to use a type of restraint that killed george floyd across this country we train techniques on strangleholds. That put peoples lives a risk now we can argue that these are used as exceptions but at