Year now the Economic Growth was a sharp rebound after the worlds 2nd largest economy contract by 6. 8 percent year over year for the 1st quarter of this year now china was the 1st nation worldwide to start lock downs and stay at home orders in january but most restrictions have since been eased more positive data came as industrial output jumped 4. 8 percent year over year for the month of june better than initial estimates from economists now some experts see these data points as a sign of an economic recovery for china however retail sales fell by 1. 8 percent for the month of june worse than analysts expectations but better than the loss of 2. 8 percent in may now meanwhile here in the United States the u. S. Commerce department announce retail sales for the Worlds Largest economy grew by 7. 5 percent in june after a massive jump of 18. 2 percent in may now this of course comes as restrictions have softened in certain areas of the country despite recent spikes in coronavirus. Cases
The freeman foon. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Outside source. A twoweek state of emergency ir declared in beut after last nights deadly explosion. A number of port officials have been placed under house arrest,t pending investn. Rescuers continue to sift through the rubble, searching for survivors. At least 135eople were killed. Many are still missing. Thousands were injured. You were here when this happened. Where you were standing would have made the difference between life and death. There have been rarkable stories of survival. We will hearm f a doctor whose hospital continued to work through the devastation. We had patients in the parking lot of t er and emergency doctors were rushing to them, trying to intubate. We were doing intimations in the parking lot. Help flood it inlo ed in from around the world, including from the u. S. And u. K. , whi
Japan and australia and how chinese influence works there. Todays conversation is to look at how russian influence works in the United Kingdom. As part of that broader work, we also looked at germany. The reason that Malcolm Turnbull was so important is because we used his framing of influence activities. We looked at covert, coercive, and corrupting influence factors. Many reports have certainly examined the supply of influence activities, but very few look at the demandside, how democracies use and accept these influence activities. So our report focused much more on the demand, how do democratic governments and societies internalize that influence activities. This report was made possible by the state Departments Global Engagement Center through the Information Access fund. Were grateful of course for the support but these are the authors and not of the state department views. If i may, let me briefly go over some of the key findings from this report. Russia and china certainly have
This episode we really did not have all the preparations that we thought we had. We have been unable to find as a nation a medium thats causing death and suffering thats acceptable to enough people to have some sort of approach that enough people find socially and culturally and economically acceptable. For continuing to see spread around the nation particularly in the south right now. Marilyn is among states it have grappled with epidemic spread and bring virus levels down. We i wanted to talk to the governor today about the things he did to try to a lot of activity in the states to bring back to maryland or and try to open schools and restart the economy and do the things that are people continued risk from the epidemic. So governor thank you for joining us and when to start with the question just generally, what do you think is going to evolve . What are you looking out of respect to the following the risks right now . So first of all, doctor godley, let me thank you for hosting her
Southwest travis to 25. Concord, napa have an onshore breeze. A little onshore breeze oakland and novato. A lot of activities in the mountains. Pretty good thunderstorm activity. For us, near normal temps. Just not lot of change. The average is slightly below for some. Okay. Over to sal, so far so good out there, sal, is there something new on the screens . No. Itnow, we do have traffic that is moving along very well. And we are easing into a monday. Lets go to the bay bridge. And you can see there are people there. But theres not a crowd. Thats probably the way you would like it. There have been no major problems here on interstate 880. So we are off to a noise start. Its 5 01, lets go back to the headlines. Thanks, sal. New this morning, Antioch Police investigating a double shooting outside of a 7eleven. It left a woman dead and a man seriously injured. Now the two victims were in their car outside of the store, which is locate on buchanan road and gentry town drive. This is around