and it ensures that funding from eda is accessible to distressed communities. it also codifies and authorizes dedicated funding for eda assistance to coal communities program, one of my top priorities for this legislation. this program ensures communities in my home state of west virginia, which were decimated by the downturn of the coal industry, have the resources that we need to recover and grow. the bill also includes consideration of coal communities when eta a -- eda assigns represent tivers. the legislation -- representatives. the legislation also reauthorizes the regional commissions that were expiring or expired. it expands the times of activities those commissions can carry out in their communities and modernize their administrative procedures. the bill also includes a provision to increase transparency and reduce waste across our federal real estate portfolio. finally, the bill contains a provision that unlocks the significant backlog of funding in the tiffia program and provides funding the state needs to use for transportation funding. it also incl

my grandma eda emigrated to present as a small child and 1925 with foster parents. she never saw her siblings again, never met the defendants. it was only when i was working as a journalist in germany that we found each other again in those mode i go sense of the call. we looked at each other and i thought yeah, with family, this is for me area. yeah. yeah. so i could tell straight away, is this, oh, stop the of my father who fell to his mother's longing in brazil, all his life was almost have already moved fine as well. but all the hug i gave them was the hug. they could no longer give each other all the google. i cried a lot, but i was very happy when to fill is all family history is interwoven with a history of german immigration and brazil with the weights of migration and the 19th century when poverty hunger and to span were widespread in german speaking regions off to the napoleonic wars, the, the migration that followed in the 20th century when many sent off in search of a better life after the 1st world war. the mice y'all was going on. most people left for

my grandma eda was a gap in the family story. she had an a great to to brazil with foster parents in 1925 while have full biological siblings. stayed with that father in germany. she never sold them again at em gods and never got to meet her aunt. now and god has met me eat his grandson. she suddenly has a present in, in the family. most of my grandmother was born in this small town in northern germany. she was baptized in this church. but why couldn't she stay with a father and a siblings? the one of us has been what happened to the family is alive as my grandma are adult and not something that's fun. sick from 9 to 120 to 1925 the odd years. you cannot make me, especially here in the country side. it wasn't easy to raise children without some of the facts and auntie lead us methodology is getting best to toby's tom's on the ground. tom was left alone with 5 children, so he left this was due to the care of the have folk family from the, from the they had all the game. but these nights that they went to present was even those giv

but it seems they refused to come to terms with the reality center for their elders. eda said no yeah, damascus. the family of of are not necessarily inactive. it's just confirmed that his body's been fine. it said not a prison, but as well how much was arrested. i'm tortured in detention several times before the flight to europe. he returned to syria him off to the side, regime declared an honesty. then he disappeared in an interview before his return. mazda was us, how he felt about his captives. how do you see the people he did not see a tale of a lot of as well as i left remind you one of the now the leader of the city is new administration says is going to pursue senior military and security officials implicated in torture under the outside regime, tens of thousands would torture to death or executed farmer, prison, employee. se bodies were brought to a military hospital in the damascus countryside, just in his own little hutch reports in the hot us, the military hospital. what's on the, how the and the can we have just arrived here at the moultrie, where bodies are being capital

where they have been displaced for more than 14 months right now across the send them to the address eda alexa hospitalization, but because of policy now funerals have been held for 5 john list killed in and is really strike in central garza. the men were sleeping in a brood costing vine marks as oppress vehicle when it was struck. it was faults outside the outer hospital in the same road. these really military says it conducted a precise strike on a terrace. so honey, my mood has moved from darrow bala with a funeral. took place for this to address vehicles just pulled off in the courtyard of along the hospital, transferring the bodies of the 5 journalists were killed in past midnight in a jerome is of inside their satellite of broadcasting van parked outside to allow the hospital this the top right here, highlight the danger and the rest journalists are taking most of the time, covering these really atrocity the gathering here. this crowd inside the house with a mid of journalist colleagues and from the community who knew the 5 journals do work with them to work their colleagues at som

eda did a southern syria. was we had on avenue so in government has committed to securing chemical weapons sites across the country. the punch getting his course just about the pad, say it will be judged by his action. is what this leader is saying on the ground about chemical weapons. i mean, these are good things we want to we, we welcome this type of rhetoric, but we have, you know, actions have to meet words as well. so we're going to continue to work with the groups that we have relationships with. again, our focus is that these chemical weapons do not fall into the wrong hands. meanwhile, as well as being, carrying out so major offensive across syria. it says it's targeting that she bases on weapons sites. the army has launched only $500.00 strikes since sunday many on the capsule, damascus. others had to naval facilities with 15 vessels, with adults as well says it is destroyed. 80 percent of serious multi capabilities including buildings linked to chemical weapons is where the ground forces are also mo

so sakina says gentle eda has dismissed the prime minister and the government's abraham troy hasn't yet made public a reason for the decision. he made the announcement on state television on friday night. the prime minister has been in post since 2022 in troy, came to power in a cuz the chief executive of the social media, john tick tock says he promised to take his case all the way to the supreme court after his company lost some appeal against an older requiring a sale or by another company in the us. the app is set to be banged of accusations of links to the chinese government. i'll just say what's for level has more now from washington dc. what this ruling does is it opposes decision taken by the bite and administration back in april of this year that sets a bike down. that is the company that i will take talk, look, you've got to sell this service or it won't be bound head in the united states at the start of next year. now on the face of it, that seems like terrible use for those breakdowns. i'm the 170000000 americans who use the service here, but there is some new ones as to why

us up to you and there are basically takes you yes mix and you see the better see that it might is eda but history disagrees is actually the pressure can play. busy image of gorge embarrassed by using their, their situation in their city. okay. uh. ready it seems to be different and the police click here to position the investigator, then do not get states or ron or is it i it? or the key. the question is, is that that that actually has to be decisively a good one. as we buy these to bring them to that a big group and they're not to give them the chance to to mess around the have i yeah, the basically banking on the game but, and insisting that you only have to put your act together. this is really the only way quick sign up for you know, a back in 1996. that document was prepared full benjamin given y'all a cold, a clean break for 6.

kriti: the bank of japan holds, as attention turns to governor u eda's press conference with the gun under pressure. the bank of england expected to hold rates later today amidst stagflation fears. a u.s. government shutdown looms again. president-elect donald trump a stopgap budget bill. urging lawmakers to raise the debt ceiling. tom: a hawkish cut from the federal reserve, a raining in of expectations around rate cuts to come through in 2025 from four to two. wrong-footing the markets yesterday. the s&p having its worst fed day since 2001. stocks falling around 3%, yields higher around 10 basis points on the u.s. 10-year. the focus shifting from the labor market of september to inflation again, a new dynamic into 2025 from this federal reserve. european futures looking to drop around 1.6%, european stocks flagged by these futures, ftse 100 futures also pointing lower a full percentage point as we lead up to the bank of england decision expect it by the markets to stay on hold. s&p futures currently flat after the losses of yesterday. nasdaq 100 futures pointing to losses of 0.2%.

the the house passed wrda and eda with overwhelming bipartisan support last week.e expect it to pass here with equally robust support and we'll work with our republican colleagues on finding time to hold a floor vote. i thank them for working with us to get these bills done. finally, before i get to the social security fairness act, the senate will also be working on nominations. later today i will file cloture on the nominations of benjamin cheeks to be u.s. district attorney for the southern district of kravenlth and serena raquel murillo to be district judge for the central district of california. i'll have more to say on our outstanding nominees throughout the week. now on soegz, this week the senate will vote to take up a bipartisan piece of legislation that impacts millions of retirees and their spouses, the social security fairness act. i'm proud to sponsor this bill with my good friend senator brown as a staunch advocate for working americans, and he is a very staunch advocate as well. the senate has a golden opportunity to deliver for our firefighters, and

wrda and eda are examples, great examples, of bipartisanship in action. so i hope we can reach agreement to get this important bill done as soon as we can. now, it about my dear friend senator carper. this week, two of our longtime democratic colleagues have delivered farewell addresses, senators tester and cardin. today, another senator, another dear friend, will deliver his farewell address, the senior senator from delaware, tom carper. when i say dear friends about these individuals, it's really true, not just verbiage. we are really friends, as we have become in this caucus, and that is certainly true of tom carper. last night was the annual taste of delaware event, one of my favorite events of the year, where everything that is amazing about delaware is on full display. if you spend just a few minutes there, you notice something -- the state of delaware loves tom carper, and tom carper loves delaware. he hates being away from home, which is why half the time when i call him about all the issues that we can about together, he's on that amtrak, hopping

how much santa for their elders, eda did a southern syria millions of syrians, us celebrating the 4 of us sides. but the week economy means many of finding it difficult to make ends meet festivals and brad, have become a luxury for some. there is no commotion. thing finding out in damascus as we are here in one of the local and traditional markets in the city of damascus. and as you can see now shops, the vegetable shots of the grocery stops, jobs are now open in the markets of the city of damascus. however, we talked to the shop owners, as they told us, that even though the price is i've gone down a bit, but the ability for the people to buy their basic necessities to buy the groceries and vegetables are somehow absence. after the fall of the. busy a sod redeem and old uh, the country uh, as they say, is going through a sort of a paralysis of phase. now that they don't have jobs and the jobs up your opportunities are now. busy absolutely, absence and people are basically don't have any source of income amount at them and how that people can no longer afford to move. we must have acces