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And a sudden turn of events. A freshman republican with a documented history of publicly supporting dangerous and violent Conspiracy Theories refusing to back down when faced with her own words and also a Republican House conference that despite a dramatic meeting last night, that went late into last night, they have decided to do nothing to rebuke her and what she stands for. So today there will be a full house vote on a measure that will strip Marjorie Taylor greene of her committee assignments. A vote that will also force republicans to go on the record on where they stand when it comes to the Conspiracy Theories that led to the January 6th Insurrection on capitol and are being embrace ....
and i said dan aykroyd was in animal house with john belushi. he was in other movies with john, but not animal house. thank you, sir, may i have another? i m very sorry. that will do it for us tonight and this week. now it is time for the last word with ali velshi tonight. good evening. it s a totally plausible thing to say. i wouldn t have given it another thought. your conversation with osha really interesting. somebody told me at one point, if osha systematically went through every business in the united states with an inspection, if it were sort of routine, you d get an inspection about once every 100 years. that s how badly funded it is. and there is, you know, there are real efforts particularly in the time of covid and immediately post-covid to wrap that up and it is being met with a great deal of resistance from america s corporations. because they don t like regulation. but if it ever matters, in the 50-year history of osha, it matters now that somebody ....
fukushima nuclear disaster we ll visit a site transformed and meet those still clinging to the past. the house of representatives, the lower house of congress, has passed a major covid 19 stimulus package worth $1.9 trillion. the plan was approved in the senate on saturday, despite every republican voting against. and the same thing has happened in the house every republican voted against, along with one democrat. the measure will be signed into law by president biden on friday. here s house speaker nancy pelosi announcing the result. on this vote, the yeas are 220. the nays are 211. the motion is adopted. applause the bill s aim is primarily to address the impact of covid on the us economy. but there are broader ambitions to tackle longer term causes of poverty. here are some of the details. the so called american rescue package gives one off payments worth $1,a00 to most americans. it allocates $350 billion to state and local governments, and $130 billion to schoo ....
that s it from me. now on bbc news. hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. it seems myanmar s military is prepared to kill as many pro democracy protesters as it takes to safeguard its grip on power. so what options do the opponents of the coup have left? my guest is doctor sasa, representative of the committee that represents the ousted parliament to the united nations. why has myanmar s democratic transition gone to so tragically wrong? dr sasa, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for having me, stephen. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i cannot say where you are because i know you want to keep your location secret. but it is clear that you escaped from myanmar in the hours and days after the february one coup. as i understand it, you were with aung san suu kyi in the hours before the coup. can you tell me exactly what happened to you? it was the 1st of february that the military coup stolen democracy from the people of myanmar. so there was n ....