Hundreds of Rohingya Refugees to an isolated island despite concerns from the un and Rights Groups and the show must go on law and Warner Brothers announces all of its films next year will be released on a streaming platform and in cinemas at the same time. Thank you for joining as more than one and a half 1000000 people have now died from covert 1000 worldwide a 3rd of those days have happened in just the last 2 months several countries have been reporting record numbers of deaths among them italy where nearly a 1000 people died on thursday the highest daily toll since the beginning of the pandemic new measures are being imposed to curb the outbreak and the worlds worst affected country the u. S. Continues to experience a surgeon infections with hospital admissions and fatalities reaching new highs president elect joe biden says hell make masks mandatory during his 1st 3 months in office. Isnt the 1st day im annoyed to say im going to ask the public for 100 days to mask this 100 days
2020 election and the qs of the u. S. Electoral process. We are about the legal challenges brought forward by the Trump Campaign and how the American People perceive the integrity of the results. The center for American Progress is the host, this is about an hour. Subject this year we saw significant strength in our electoral system. Ultimately our system deck demonstrated democracies resilience we saw a higher share of the voting eligible population than any time in the last 120 years. That is a great site of the vibrancy of democracy but at the heavy load for a lecture to biggest ration vertically during the pandemic the conditions around covered for states to adopt quickly to a once in a century pandemic that meant shifting to mailin ballots recruiting new and younger poll workers and confronting prohibition in some states against counting mail ballots prior to election day. Sadly we also saw the effects of disinformation shared by politicians. And amplified over digital platforms a
O the computer histy museum i hope everyone is well and fe but the pandemic we are close but the dital doors are wide open im pleased to welcome you today featuring the director of mit initiative on the Digital Economy and conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist markoff. And those with the generosity under these unprecedented times we need your hp more than ever to sustain museum to dever on our mission for technology for everyone. In the future impact on humanit humanitys please continue to join and giv now to iroduce mr. Hancock to introduce todays program and speakers. I am delighted you can join todays program. And deeply influenced by social media conctions sometimes a love hate relationship and the power for od. And directorf mit initiative with Technology Writer for questions such as e aftermath of the us election and interference in 2016 and 20 what steps can we take a look at social Media Companies do on the platform without cial and with these actions we can take
Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. Senate debate on Amy Coney Barretts nomination begins at noon eastern. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary committee voted yesterday to move the nomination from the committee to the floor for consideration. Democrats boycotted the vote. The committee voted to authorize subpoenas for the heads of tech and social media companies. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good morning. I appreciate all of my colleagues being here properly. As you know, our democratic colleagues informed the Committee Last night they will not participate in the hearing. That was their choice. It will be my choice to vote the nominee out of committee. Were not going to allow them to take over the committee. They made a choice not to participate after allowing judge barrett four days, two days to the question. I thought she did an exceptionally good job of handling the questions asked. I thought she was aggressively challenged but not inappropriately. What to co
The german capital the man is charged with gunning down a former chechen commander in a park last year german russian ties already tense this trials outcome could make them worse plus. Legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen dies after a long battle with cancer considered one of the bravest rocker tars of all time he sounded ben hell in the band that rocks the charts in the seventys and eightys. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program we begin with some breaking news the winner of this years nobel prize in chemistry has just been announced in stock all this year the. Prize is going jointly to the french scientists emmanuelle a shop and he and jennifer doomed from the United States it goes for the development of a method for genome editing or as the academy called it rewriting the code of life the award comes with a shared prize money of around 1000000 giraffes very much thank you and we will have more on the nobel Prize Winners later in the program 1st though we go to greece for a historic v