Mining company Vale expects to reach a final agreement with authorities for reparations for the collapse of the Samarco tailings dam by the end of the first half of this year, the company told Reuters in a statement on Wednesday. The collapse of the dam, which belonged to Samarco, a joint venture of Vale and BHP and located in the southeastern city of Mariana, caused a giant mudslide that killed 19 people and severely polluted the Rio Doce river, compromising the waterway to its outlet in the Atlantic Ocean. A new proposal for an agreement was presented by the mining companies to the federal government and the states of Minas Gerais and Espirito Santo, two sources close to the negotiations told Reuters, without giving any figures.
Reparations have a troubled history, and rightly. The word itself, in its familiar sense, seems to have been a euphemism thought up by lawyers after the first world war. President Woodrow Wilson had promised a peace ‘without indemnities’. So no indemnities: ‘reparations’ instead. It sounded less objectionable. It was further agreed that liability should cover
ukrainians which they have said are basically non—negotiable, are basically non—negotiable, are not peace terms, they're terms for complete ukrainian victory — total russian withdraw from all the occupied territory, including crimea, war trial and reparations. there's very few russians and nobody within the russian establishment who would accept those terms and they would require complete ukrainian military victory which does not look at all likely.— look at all likely. you have written actually _ look at all likely. you have written actually that - look at all likely. you have written actually that you . written actually that you believe the united states should begin to seek negotiations to end the war diplomatically. why do you believe that?— diplomatically. why do you believe that? ,, _ , , believe that? simply because i think it should _ believe that? simply because i think it should be _ believe that? simply because i think it should be quite - think it should be quite obvious that time is not on ukraine's side. as you reported it has taken eight months to get this aid bill through the us congress.— get this aid bill through the us congress. get this aid bill through the us concress. , ., us congress. somebody may ask now that it _ us congress. somebody may ask now that it has _ us congress. somebody may ask now that it has been _ us congress. somebody may ask
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not even half of the students in california are meeting the standard of california's standard in english. you have more than 180,000 people experiencing homelessness. you also have people questioning this in general. a billion dollars in debt, the flesh and is getting larger and larger and is it going to stoke divide between people, where to the reparations stop? what about asian residents and native airmen -- native american residents. at this point you have to wonder where this is all going to come from but i'm happy to hear that you're going to help out. >> trace: big time. the headline is foundation for individual rights and expression quoting here at third of stanford students say using violence to silence speech can be acceptable. we see all of these protests and these people saying we've got to have free speech and now stanford says it's okay if you want to punch somebody to shut them up. >> i'm here on the east coast and i'm tired. limit tell you what i'm more
rich folks. and 800 billion might not be enough because the categories keep shifting. we are hearing about the racial wealth gap and racial terror and racial trauma. that could mean trillions. common sense looked up reparations. it means to make amends. it's hard to make amends when you can't even make ends meet. let's bring in the fox nation host and... thank you both for coming on. the genealogy office it is to figure out who gets reparations in california and who doesn't. the big dream is where they going to get hundred million dollars. >> i heard you were going to give them 700 million of that. i didn't even realize until this moment that would be the first thing that you establish. the genealogy task force to make sure that the right people are getting the money. you said it right there in your intro you have the test scores
>> sharp as a butter knife. thank you both we really appreciate it. coming up, california is billions of dollars in debt and oh does billions more to the federal government. spent billions on homeless programs and they are now look -- pushing to spend hundreds on reparations. the commonsense common sense department has advice on this. plus what you know -- you know what they say about the elephant in the room but what about the elephant in the row. he saved his neighbours lives. the best viable videos next. first live look, detroit ohio named after the ancient greek city of troy. we are coming right back with common sense and a few surprises.
for compensating the descendents of slaves. so far this year the california legislature has introduced 14 reparations bills including the brand-new call for a genealogy office to determine who is and is not eligible to make sure the right people get the money. what common sense has and questioned what money irgc california has a $73 billion deficit. the state owes the federal government an additional $21 billion that it borrowed to cover unemployment benefits during and after covid. california is also carved -- cutting state funding including $500 million from schools. that should help the test scores. the state has so little money the mayor of los angeles is asking rich people to buy houses for the homeless. and even if the rich pay most of the taxes and pay for the homeless, the reparations bill is estimated at 800 billion. not even callie has that many