billions of dollars every year from oil exports global witness says it's traced tens of millions of dollars of stolen revenues. a mansion in the suburb of paris is among around 20 properties belonging to members of the 1st family that french prosecutors are investigating along with other purchases including more than a $1000000.00 spent on suits and shirts from their shop. in brazzaville it's easy to find pictures of presidents are suing grass on the street it's hard to find anyone who criticizes him or his government. but a handful of activists meet every week they try to hold the government to account for corruption and rights abuses it's risky work. this is the most recent member of the group to be imprisoned he's accused of threatening state security their leader . says. he is stealing his money while the president. is in power activists say through a national money laundering network congo's wealth and being spent on luxuries abroad like the apartment in new york the trump organization says it has no connection to the deal and didn't own the apartment when it was sold to people living

congo billions of dollars every year from oil exports global witness says it's traced tens of millions of dollars of stolen revenues. a mansion in the suburb of paris is among around 20 properties belonging to members of the 1st family that french prosecutors are investigating along with other purchases including more than a $1000000.00 spent on suits and shirts from their shop. in brazzaville it's easy to find pictures of presidents are suing grass on the street it's hard to find anyone who criticize. ize him or his government. but a handful of activists meet every week they try to hold the government to account for corruption and rights abuses it's risky work. this is the most recent member of their group to be imprisoned he's accused of threatening state security their leader. says it's all to hide a simple truth how would you explain that while this country is so poor it's just. that the country. is leaving. while the president. is in power activists say through a national money laundering network that congo's wealth and being spent on luxuries abroad like the apartment in new york

witness global news that matters. made some minds. to. play. this is date of the news live from italy reports the highest single day death toll of any country since the coronavirus outbreak began a grim picture and merges from dugan model where hospital mourners are overwhelmed and the army has to carry away the dead also coming out of germany begins the biggest repatriation effort in its history i mean to bring back.

several yes many military officers are been jailed some have been dismissed and it's now interests global witness says despite a 50 year all boom which transformed nigeria's economy into the largest in africa 80 percent of your people live on less than $2.00 a day they say that an estimated $400000000000.00 has gone missing from state coffers are you going to tell the people of nigeria where that money has gone. on and our watch between 201521000 nobody can supply suffered in such allegations and i can only speak for when i became minister and i can say that between 2015 and 20 nobody can talk about all the money missing. my mama thanks very much for being accomplished so thank you very much. world war 2 the final months of 1945 nazi germany and the deep end of its military strength. to mourn its raging on all fronts but defeat is inevitable blind fascism continues to anonymously countless lives as a final contingent children are sent to the front. 15 minutes on d w 6 the time of. the markets. the momentum of the working world. your business magazine made in germany. if 19 minutes on t.w. . the g

many managers are been guilty some have been dismissed and it's in our interests global witness says despite a 50 year all boom which transform the jury's economy into the largest in africa 80 percent of your people live on less than $2.00 a day they say that an estimated $400000000000.00 has gone missing from state coffers are going to tell the people of nigeria where that money has gone. on and our watch between 205020 in 80 nobody can suffered in such allegation and i can only speak for well education minister and i can see that between 25th and today nobody can talk about oil money missing. my mama thanks very much for being so thank you very much. i go to college. keep learning merged reality wait a 2nd we want the whole picture out facts instead of make ideas shift deliver us. from atlanta to reality to cryptocurrency to your topics for live in an ever changing digital world let's start with to devise a simple shift. to 15 minutes down the road 77 percent of the street debate from if the opium lock out of the country and indeed africa and the rest of the world to find that line

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several yes many managers as i've been guilty some have been dismissed and it's now interests global witness says despite a 50 year all boom which transformed nigeria's economy into the largest in africa 80 percent of your people live on less than $2.00 a day they say that an estimated $400000000000.00 has gone missing from state coffers are going to tell the people of nigeria where their money has gone. and our watch between 2015 and 20 native nobody can subsist suffered in such allegation and i can only speak for when i became a minister and i can see that between 25th and today nobody can talk about oil money missing. my mama thanks very much for being so thank you very much. europe's tools are closing. in italy lessons have been taking place at home for several weeks now because the internet is a drastic measures an exceptionally challenging time for teachers and students. come much when students learn during this time of corona. focus on europe. in 30 minutes on d w. move towards noon the final months of 1945 nazi germany as that weekend of its military strength. 2 more events raging on

yes many military officers are been jailed some have been dismissed and it's in our interests global witness says despite a 50 year all boom which transformed nigeria's economy into the largest in africa 80 percent of your people live on less than $2.00 a day they say that an estimated $400000000000.00 has gone missing from state coffers are you going to tell the people of nigeria where their money has gone. and our watch between 2015 and 20 native nobody can suffered in such allegations and i can only speak for when i became minister and i can see that between 25th and today nobody can talk about all the money missing. my mama thanks very much for being so thank you very much. mistreated murders displaced nearly a 1000000 bringing down have fled their homes in myanmar and most are now trapped in neighboring bangladesh such a good job goodness this plan's ethnic cleansing and if so who was responsible should come to a documentary looking for answers to. these teens. to the point that strong opinions clear positions international perspectives. more than a 100 countries around the world are in

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many military officers are been jailed some have been dismissed and it's now interests global witness says despite a 50 year all boom which transform the jury's economy into the largest in africa 80 percent of your people live on less than $2.00 a day they say that an estimated $400000000000.00 has gone missing from state coffers are you going to tell the people of nigeria where the money has gone. and our watch between 2015 and 20 ladies nobody can supply suffered in such allegations and i can only speak for when i became minister and i can see that between 1015 and 20 nobody can talk about all the money missing. my mama thanks very much for being accomplished so thank you very much. thanks. to the point of strong opinions clear positions from international perspectives. more than a 100 countries around the world are in the grip of the coronavirus thousands have died and many more are infected and this business is struggle to stay alive the great fears of a global recession sad to deal with the angst find out on to the point shortly. to the point. of the end 13 sponte w. . the good s

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witness global news that matters. a big turnaround don't exchanges global stocks rebound and that's despite even more economic news that's bad the coronavirus is showing a hole in the global growth in the airline industry is looking into it and. the market for peanuts. but rising prices create a hard nut to crack for producers. and these women from nigeria or maybe a rather have all been invited to work in hospitals in europe but there is a catch. i think for the one. the i.m.f. and world bank say they stand ready to help fight off the crowbars there's a lot to do airlines reporting up to hoffer all airline passengers and showing up for flights because of concerns over the outbreak the international air transport association thinks the virus could cost the industry as much as 30000000000 dollars this year. planes are taking off half empty airports are deserted. as new coronavirus cases spread around the world the costs are piling up for the global airline industry. carriers have reported that up to half of passengers

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and we have witnessed a global economic meltdown, which will impact millions of workers in our own country terms of potential deaths, and in terms of the economic impact on our economy, the crisis we face from the coronavirus is on a scale of a major war. and we must act accordingly. nobody knows what the number of fatalities may end up being, or the number of people who make it ill. we hope that number will be as low as possible. but we also have to face the truth, and that is that the number of casualties may actually be even higher than what the armed forces experience of world war ii. in other words we have a major major crisis and we must act accordingly. therefore, it is an absolute moral imperative that our response as a government, as a society, as a business community and as individual citizens meet the normandy of this crisis. as people stay or work from home, and are directed to quarantine, it will be easy for us to feel like we are all alone. i am working at home not in my office or we must only worry about ourselves and think that everybody else should fend for themselves. but

and we have witnessed a global economic meltdown which will impact millions of workers in our own country. in terms of potential deaths, and in terms of the economic impact on our economy, the crisis we face from the coronavirus is on a scale of a major war, and we must act accordingly. nobody knows what the number of fatalities may end up being, or the number of people who may get ill, and we all hope that that number will be as low as possible. but we also have to face the truth, and that is that the number of casualties may actually be even higher than what the armed forces experienced in world war ii. in other words, we have a major, major crisis, and we must act accordingly. therefore, it is an absolute moral imperative that our response as a government, as a society, as a business community, and as individual citizens meet the enormity of this crisis. as people stay or work from home and are directed to quarantine, it will be easy for us to feel like we are all alone. i'm working at home, i'm not in my office. or that we must only worry about ourselves and think that everybody else

witness global news that matters to me. in. the end. this is data real news live from berlin and italy reports the highest single day death toll of any country since the coronavirus outbreak began a grim picture and merges from bergen model where hospital mourners are overwhelmed and the army has to carry away the dead also coming out germany begins the biggest repatriation effort in its history i mean to bring back 100000 german tourists stranded in destinations around the world after airlines cancel flights on the mast . and the european central bank announces a $750000000000.00 euro bond buying program in an attempt to stave off the pandemics economic fallout european markets initially went out on the news out of since shadows gangs. i'm record has welcome to the program italy has reported more deaths from the corona virus in a single day than any other country so far officials say nearly 500 people died on wednesday the region of lone body is the worst hit hospitals are overwhelmed by the number of patients and the number of deaths

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of global aviation and containing the spread in infectious disease. customs and border patrol commissioner is among the witnesses expected to appear before the senate commerce aviation subcommittee. >> for month senator bernie sanders spoke to supporters in as x justice -- essex junction, vermont. is expected to win four states and is running neck and neck with joe biden in maine and texas. >> ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the united states, bernie sanders. [applause] >> ♪ power to the people [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: thank you, vermont! [cheers and applause] you know, it is a funny thing. 31 years ago today, we won the mayoral race in burlington, vermont. [cheers and applause] and we won that race against all of the odds. everybody said it couldn't be done! [applause] and when we began this race for the presidency, everybody said it could not be done. [cheers and applause] but tonight, i tell you with absolute confidence, we are going to win the democratic nomination. [applause] and we are going to defeat the most dangerous president in the history of this country. [cheers and applause]

when we close our doors, not only turn our backs to those in need, we send a global acceptable to 's do so as well. our witnesses here, of course, these questions. they have done extraordinary things, from exposing the regime's barbarity to ensure that same barbarity and lvrg to to enduring, i should say, this same barbarity, rushing towards the scene of an air strike to save lives. ut they cannot change u.s. policy. i hope, however, their powerful us to does will compel more. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator menendez. going to turn to our first witness, caesar. room, ose of you in the you can see the photos displayed in recent esar file, photographs from idlib province. these are just a few of the of images that caesar smuggled out of syria to show of the syrianlity regime. aesar is a syrian military defector and former military police photographer, who 55,000 d out almost photos of detainees who were ortured and executed in the assad regime, intelligence prisons. and caesar is the namesake of the act.an protection of ontinues to be a voice conscience on behalf of the hundreds of thousands who rem

global aviation in containing the spread of the infectious disease. acting u.s. customs and border protection officer mark morgan is among one of the witnesses scheduled to appear before the senate commerce aviation subcommittee. >> former new york city mayor mike bloomberg spoke as the results of super tuesday primaries were started to be reported. voters go to the polls on march 17. ♪ mayor bloomberg: well, hello, florida! [cheers and applause] what a crowd. thank you all for coming. judy and i were just going to sit home tonight. her at her home, i at mine. watch a little television. have a drink or two. i want to thank judge judy. isn't she amazing? [cheers and applause] and also a big thanks to all the elected officials in florida supporting our campaign. including the mayor and congress members ted deutch and stephanie murphy. let's hear it for them. it is great to be here in this beautiful state. i know you are not used to seeing a new yorker in southern florida in late winter. [laughter] but unlike the president, i did not come here to golf. [cheers and applause] or to reveal classified information to mar-a-lago members. [cheers] i c

our doors we not only turn our back on those in need, but they said the global message that it is acceptable to do so. our witnesses here of course cannot answer these questions. they've done extraordinary things. from exposing the regime's barbie ready to enjoy the same barbarity and living to talk about it and two indoor the same two rushing towards the scene of an airstrike to save lives. but they cannot change u.s. policy. i hope however their powerful testimonies will compel us to do more. thank you mr. chair. >> thank you, senator menendez. we are now going to turn to the first witness. for those of you in the room that you can see the photos displayed from the file and recent photographs from inland province. these are just a few of the thousands of images, thousands that he smuggled out to show the true brutality of the syrian regime. caesar is a syrian military defector and a former military police photographer who smuggled out almost 55,000 photographs detainees were tortured and executed in the regime intelligence branches in prison. he is the namesake of the civilian protection act. he continues to be a

coronavirus continue to grow expotentially here in the united states and around the world and we have witnessed a global economic meltdown which will impact millions of workers in our own country. in the terms of potential deaths, in terms of the economic impact on our economy the crisis we face from the coronavirus is on the scale of major war and we must act accordingly. nobody knows what the number of fatalities may end up being, or the number of people who may get ill and we all hope that that number will be as low as possible. but we also have to face the truth and that is that the number of casualties may actually be even higher than what the armed forces experienced in world war ii. in other words, we have a major, major crisis and we must act accordingly. therefore, it is an absolute moral imperative that our response as a government, as a society, as a business community, and as individual citizens meet the enormity of this crisis. as people stay or work from home, and are directed to quarantine, it will be easy for us to feel like we all are alone. i'm working at home, not in my office. or tha

we need a global response to what we are witnessing right now. think it would be terrible for the market if we get a market holiday of one week, but definitely the probability has because despite what germany has been saying today, what the fed restarted q. week, buying all the way out of to the 30 year on the curve, the market is still weak, it is not a positive sign. vonnie: i was reading one trader saying liquidity in the front end is gone. frontloaded this month. more than half of what it plans to buy in march, 37 billion to 30 years. will that do anything to help the markets? peter: can you repeat the question the last bit? vonnie: does what the fed plans to do today help market liquidity? peter: they are trying. for now it does not seem like it is working. that is what scares me at this point going into the weekend. it is clear a lot of people do not want to have risk exposure going into the weekend. two days is a lot of time. where we are looking at the covid-19, i think the lockdowns we are seeing took in denmark and italy, it will spread

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of the end and thanks he says there is a been an increasing amount of global pressure to cancel this year's event we're witnessing a remarkable upsurge in athletes seeking out against the international olympic committee who has been very slow to act in the face of the coronavirus situation and in that sort of leadership vacuum you've seen athletes in sport bodies rise up and what canada has done just moments ago is absolutely remarkable basically it's a defacto boycott they're saying they will not attend the olympics in tokyo this summer if they happen this summer absolutely remarkable it depends on how the corona virus is corralled or isn't but at this stage many people are giving the olympics a 2nd thought in terms of attending it it all depends how it perceives the pace of the coronavirus right now there are the cases of coronavirus in japan itself are still rising and so who knows what the case will be a year out hopefully everybody starts practicing social distancing in a very rigorous way and we can work collectively to get this under control you know i've said that people within the olympic movement can sh

global aviation in containing the spread of infectious disease. acting customs and border protection commissioner is among the witnesses scheduled to appear before the senate commerce aviation subcommittee. >> on super tuesday, former vice president joe biden spoke to supporters in los angeles. mr. biden was joined onstage by wife, dr. jill biden, and his sister. an animal rights activist attempted to interrupt the speech at one point. [cheers and applause] biden: hello, hello, hello! it's a good night. and it seems to be getting even better. they don't call it super tuesday for nothing. by the way, this is my little sister, valerie. i am jill's husband. they switched on me. this is my wife, and this is my sister. they switched on me! [laughter] folks, it is still early, but things are looking awful good. [applause] for those who have been knocked down, counted out, left behind, this is your campaign! just a few days ago, the pundits had declared the campaign dead. then came south carolina and they had something to say about it. [applause] we were told when you got to super tuesday, it would be over. well, it may be over for the other guy. [cheers a

this is what i want i want to see survivors a witness documentary on al-jazeera. in response to global warming germany is gradually shutting down its coal industry but is it happening fast enough we don't have any time to waste any more we can't wait so we're taking direct action to call for the immediate phase out of culture might as climate change activists challenge communities reliant on the industry for jobs people in power who will win the cold war on al-jazeera. there is no child coverage world views like we do live it is like nothing you've ever. done but we want to know how those things and people you revisit places stay even when they're no national headlines. al-jazeera really invests about that's a privilege as a journalist. i hope we can do this by easter. i think that would be a great thing for a country the u.s. president says economy could be open for business again within weeks as coronavirus cases soar and state governments feed for more equipment. and fully back he will this is al jazeera live from doha with comprehensive coverage of the coroner virus pandemic includ

. >>> stocks closed lower witness again as the coronavirus created global uncertainty about the global economy. the nasdaq was off 162. and the s&p 51. one bright spot is the february jobs report. the u.s. economy added 273,000. >>> the mayor is proposing a temporary moratorium on evictions in san jose due to the outbreak. his plan would suspend evikzs of people who can't pay their ren because their work hours were cult as a result of covid- 19. >> any worker who has lost income result of the coronavirus epidemic, or the emergency announcement from the county, and any of the consequences from that, anyone who has lost income and no longer able to pay rent, we are doing everything we can to keep them housed. certainly that is of great interest to them, but to our community entire. >> the mayor says this is a public health and safety dwrsh. issue. the san jose city council is set to discuss the proposal at next tuesday's council meeting. >>> testing the state's moratorium on the death penalty. coming up next, we'll tell you about the southern california case that has the d.a. there seeki

at 2:30 p.m., a hearing on the global aviation and containing the spread of infectious disease. mark morgan is among the witnessescheduled to appear before the senate commerce aviation subcommittee. our c-span campaign 2020 bus team is traveling across the country, asking voters what issues should presidential candidates address. >> the issue most important to me in campaign 2020 is foreign policy. i know the candidates have addressed it already, but i think it is important for the candidates to focus on issues that they constitutionally have control over. i think it is important because compared to others, the government is something people have control over. >> the issue most important to me is three of them -- i am looking at candidates' stance on the second amendment, immigration, and on abortion. >> the most important thing for me is in the 2020 campaign, health care. so many of my family and friends have not been able to make ends meet with medical bills and medical debt. so being able to get medicare for all would be really beneficial, same with everyone i know. that is the main issue i have for this elect