Exploitation. And the opposition hits out of the government for breaking their promise to protect renters from eviction ensuring the crisis ill be discussing this with a housing lawyer. Welcome to r. T. U. K. The government has implemented lockdown measures across the United Kingdom in response to the ongoing Coronavirus Crisis but was no clarity on essential work and no help so far for the self employed many continue to travel flouting rules on social distancing while r. T. U. Case it was dashed joyce for now with the latest hi there shot here so can you bring us up to speed well of course none of us have ever heard the message quite like here and that is because the Coronavirus Crisis is a situation that the United Kingdom has never faced in modern british history and that is why Boris Johnson the Prime Minister announced a National State of emergency just last night he initiated a knock down scenario he really felt he had no other choice but to do so and today weve heard from the ho
Development administrator mark green testified before the Appropriations Committee and Donald Trumps 2021 budget request for his agency, he fielded questions on the various foreign aid programs run by usaid and his agencys involvement in responding to the global coronavirus outbreak. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee on state, foreign operations and related programs will come to order. Administrator green, thank youou for joining us today. I really do want to thank you for your stewardship of usaid during very difficult times and for the dedication of our Development Professionals. Usaid helps the worlds most do need a kleenex . We are all carrying them around. Usaid helps the worlds mosta vulnerable, assists in recovery from natural disasters and humanitarian crises, and supports countries efforts
Burning in amazons brazil rain forest. The council on Foreign Relations hosted this hourlong event. Hello, everybody. We good to go . Hi, my name is mark. Until recently, i was the ceo of the nature conservancy. Im delighted to berece nthere, the moderated of todays s discussion. We have a greattdi scupanel. To my left is monica. She is a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for international economics. To monicas left is daniel, director of programs at the climate and land use alliance. And then on the screen is my good friend peter, the cofounder and ceo of neoterro, a new ngo focused on a lot of the issues well be discussing today. Petetedaniel, direct ser wer is founder and ceo of Conservation International, where he is the chairman. Our topic today is the Global Impact of the amazon rain forest. Weve been reading about it in the news. Of course, this raises so many issues. First of all, whats really happening . Its hard to tell on the basisl of the news how much ofl this due to
Fragile 26 Team Migration deal to the degree of the European Union. The next vice or thanks for joining. On kong is preparing for another weekend of prodemocracy demonstrations some recent protests have been marred by violent clashes with police but on the day of the chinese midautumn festival when families traditionally gather to gaze at the moon and eat moon cakes activists are protesting peacefully theyre taking to forming human chains and singing a new democracy anthem called laurie to hong kong. Ha. Ha theyre still singing their protest anthem glory to hong kong and they didnt stop for one of the most important celebrations in the chinese calendar the mid autumn festival. Activists are forming human chains they using the event as a way to keep their movement in the spotlight. Some of them took to the hills of the city to shine laser pens released lanterns with protest slogans and to sing the anthem. Of the but they also probation demonstrators trying to make their voices heard was
Welcome to news asia its good to have you with us over the past 3 months pictures such as these have come to define hong kong hundreds of thousands of residents demanding greater autonomy for their city but there are other pictures as well of defined hong kong like these violence on the city Streets Police clashing with protesters more than 1300 arrests have been made since june and that the 70 people have been charged with the offense of writing an offense that carries a 10 year. 10 years in prison for demanding rights that for promised way back in 1970. 2 much did have a corresponding. The shore new Hong Kong Legislature has been a hot spot of the antigovernment protests daniel chan has spent a lot of time here but that could change soon daniel not his real name was arrested and charged with rioting in july he faces up to 10 years behind bars now about liable holiday the moment i was arrested i was very calm i was thinking about what i needed to do in a situation but when i was told