And extended Unemployment Benefits until january 2021. The heroes act will provide significantly more funding to cities and towns and also would clarify treasury guidance that currently prevents State Governments from using [indiscernible] alternative bills provide zero dollars to states, zero dollars for financial assistance, and clawed back hundreds of billions of dollars that could be used to support struggling businesses. In addition the president cut funding to states. The protestsike against racism and Police Brutality in the streets in many communities. Families across the country suffer [indiscernible] about the challenges their faces and the response needed from the federal government in this international crisis. I recognize the Ranking Member of the committee for four minutes. I think the chairwoman for yielding. Here we are again. We are having hearing about a bill the house passed four months ago that has no chance of becoming a law. The committee is being used to prioriti
To justice nato steps into the issues surrounding the alleged poisoning of the russian Opposition Leader alexian abounding saying the attack on him is an assault on fundamental rights. Not a super tanker on fire for a 2nd day off the coast of sri lanka its carrying 2000000 barrels of oil. The. Also this half hour standoff the eastern democratic republic of congo where an armed group has surrounded the prison calling for the release of their members. Ok lets begin this half hour in lebanon has been a month since the massive explosion at the forts in beirut incredibly rescue teams may have found signs of life underneath a collapsed building theyre digging there right now scanning equipment picked up indications of breathing the disaster on august the 4th was caused by large stockpiles of badly stored Ammonium Nitrate igniting at the port about 200 people were killed 6000 were injured hundreds of thousands were left homeless rescue workers say there were initial attempts havent been succe
Leader Alexei Navalny stoltenberg called it an appalling assassination attempt by moscow and said it was an assault on fundamental rights time and again we have seen Opposition Leaders and critics of the russian regime attacked and their lives threatened seoul have even been killed so this is not just an attack on an individual but on for the mental democratic rights and it is a serious breach of International Law which to moms an International Response. We wish mr noel now a full and speedy recovery. Translation of its got through it has more now from moscow on what stoltenberg had to say. Yes stoltenberg called for russia to cooperate with what he called in passionate International Investigation into what happened with no value but also to cooperate with any zation for prohibited of chemical weapons and to disclose fully and completely the novacek program this is a program where that made this chemical weapons basically for military military use from seventys to the ninetys this call
July 21, 2020. Before we begin with this item on maf o behalf of my fellow commissioners we approved to help equity resolution declari declaringit was based by the Human Rights Commission during their june 25th meeting. Ours had the addition of some resolved statements that were tailored to health and programs. On behalf of my fellow commissioners i want to acknowledge the critical work of the commission and their staff along with members of the Community Group mega black sf. And develop the resolution of the same name that was approved of the commission and all the hard work and energy they put in to creating that resolution. The commission is very proud of the resolution that contains some measurable outcomes to achieve equity and combatant eye black racism. It was apparent that there were some issues with respect to the development of the resolution and the process by which the commission approached the discussion of this item. Last week the secretary and Staff Department of Public
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