Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin with an explosion of covid19 nationwide tonight as the country closes in on nearly eight million total cases of the virus. The number of new infections in the u. S. Hit nearly 60,000 on wednesday. That is a single day high not seen since the summer. And with the country now racing toward what experts call a third peak in cases, tonight, the c. D. C. Says it expects the virus will kill another 23,000 americans by the first week of november. As we come on the air, 37 states are now seeing infections growing, hospitalizations and deaths are rising, too. And with falling temperatures forcing people indoors, we are told the surge will only get worse. It is a sobering assessment just 19 days before the election as President Trump and joe biden face off tonight not on the debate stage together but in dueling town halls in separate cities. Theres a lot of new reporting to get to. We have our team of correspondents standin
A conspiracy theorist but over the last few years and particularly i have in mind russia gate ukraine gate even go further with saddam and weapons of mass destruction being the theres plenty of official conspiracy theories that have been thoroughly debunked but a many of the conspiracy theories that i consider conspiracy theories in the official discourse are theres no even attempt to acknowledge that they can be debunked. Oh well you are absolutely right 2 because look just started from. Facebook. Even to you to be shut down hundreds of thousands on a cost of people connected to what these companies declared to be conspiracy theories organizations you know i wont name them not to you and to them but. Everyone knows these names you know the Mainstream Media reports about them every day and if you look at the theories for which these groups were paralyzed are biased basically every one of them has some. Kind of shared though in reality i like ok its a Conspiracy Theory that the western
Iranian you know child safety child sex trade yes thats a Conspiracy Theory but Jeffrey Epstein exists that and he is circle exist and is the circle included people from there what we can call high society so why cant people just you know make their own conclusions and go further thats absolute in nature oh. And the problem with the conspiracy conspiracy theorists spread by the Mainstream Media is that theyre not based in reality at all theyre based on ideology for example. You know Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction he was a maniac who wanted to destroy the world that was a huge Conspiracy Theory let no one shove down New York Times. Twitter accounts no one says you lied to us how many times did New York Times report that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction then so files and sometimes tens of thousands they got they say its not a Conspiracy Theory and mr trump is a lie you should be labeled and the New York Times would continue business as usual right and im goi
Often called the alternative nobel prize are announced we take a look at the people on earth for their activism by this years right livelihood award. And in soccer heres another trophy for by munich this time beat dortmund to win german super cup. Welcome to the program and we start with breaking News European Commission president also a funnel line says the u. Has begun legal action against the u. K. Government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson for violations of the brakes it Withdrawal Agreement she made the announcement earlier in brussels lets hear what she had to say good morning. As you know we had invited our british friends to remove the problematic parts of their draft internal market bill. By the end of the timber this draft bill is by its very nature a breach of the obligation of good faith laid down in the Withdrawal Agreement moreover if adopted as it is it will be in full contradiction to the protocol of Ireland Northern island. The deadline lapsed yesterday the problematic
Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. In ireland, all of the talk earlier this year was of a political earthquake. The radical nationalist Party Sinn Fein won the most votes in irelands general election. They promised to smash the status quo. Well, so much for that. In fact, irelands two Old Established parties formed a grand coalition, and they are guiding the country through the covid i9 pandemic and brexit. My guest today is Mary Lou Mcdonald, the leader of sinn fein. Has her party missed its moment . Mary lou mcdonald in dublin, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. After the february election, when you and your party did remarkably well you won the most first preference votes in irelands general election you talked about a revolution at the ballot box. Well, five months on, whats happened to that revolution . Well, five months on, we are into really uncharted and unprecedented times, no more than yourselves, with a global pandemic, with the Public Health eme