Explosion that killed 139 people. Ethiopias race against time to save more than 1500 years of christian heritage. Up to 50 refugees have been found dead inside a truck in austria. It appears they suffocated. It comes as european and balkan leaders are meeting at a crise summit in vienna. The u. N. Refugee chief said europes asylum system is completely dysfunctional and the e. U. Needs to coordinate its response. We are covering europes refugee crisis at every point along that perilous journey, the border between hungary, serbia and romania. We are on the greek island of lesbos, nearly half of all reef gees arrive on that island and we are on the turkey border, many refugees are from syria, turkey is their first stop on that journey west. We were talking about before we came on the air about the fact that in that particular town now, Syrian Refugees outnumber the local turkish population. Yeah, a government spokesman describes it now as a syrian town, 110,000 syrians now living here aga
All members will have five legislative days in which to submit materials for inclusion into the records. The hearing is entitled a legislative proposal to impede north koreas access to finance. I recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing will examine legislation that would impose a secondary legislations on foreign banks whose business support north koreas regime. By encompassing virtually all of north koreas economic activity, these measures would represent the top list financial sanctions yet. This means going after coal, petroleum, textiles and minerals. And north korean laborers abroad. The bill would incentivize greater compliance with u. S. Sanctions by where certain countries with lax enforcement go to seek assistance. The bills countries on notice. The proposed legislation has been informed by the committees ongoing work on north korea as well as the u. N. Panel of erts evaluation of existing sanctions effectiveness. North koreas six tests o
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