Answers and there are many stories make up your double made for mines. , infection rates are rising and so are jobless claims. U. S. , economy, braces for another blow as chase numbers reach, new heights. More states impose business locked outs with the latest from new york. Also on the show deal or no deal. Time is running out for brussels and london to agree to a trade agreement. Before the new year, a coven is complicating the negotiations. And will drop in on the french film industry. Actors and production numbers are bouncing, worked with safety, made a 2nd wave of growth of hers infections. Welcome to the show. Im Stephen Beardsley in berlin. Its good to have you with us. The new figures show u. S. Jobless claims have risen for the 1st time in more than a month. The countrys Labor Department reporting that 740000 americans applied for Unemployment Benefits last week. Thats up about 30000 in the previous week. The rise suggests that climbing infection rates and tightening business
Foreign policy. Im tired. Ray, thank you for joining me. E. U. Leaders have not managed to end a diplomatic route that is stalling its long term budget and the release of a message and see coronavirus stimulus funding. Now poland and hungary are unhappy about plans that would allow the e. U. To block payments to countries that it decides are corrupt or violate the rule of law. Now the 2 countries say that these takut stem, the deadlock, involves some 1. 8, trillion euros, nearly half of which is aimed at helping the e. U. Deal with the effects of the pandemic. Possible to need to do in this hugging room is providing some comfort. The 2nd wave of covert 19 is heating italy just as hard as the 1st wave did in the spring, and the economic consequences are equally rough. Italy, along with many other e. U. States, is anxiously awaiting a multimillion euro e. U. Finance package to help ease the coded 19 crisis. But the funds are being blocked at a Virtual Summit on thursday. Hungary and pola
And italy was the 1st country in europe to be hit by the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death tolls. Now the country is struggling to cope again with the 2nd way. Plus germany is soccer team saw 1st, its worst defeat in almost 90 years. Its 6 nil loss to spain in the u. S. , our nations. Theyve asked some questions to the future of culture. Often look, im going to Office Welcome to the program. The United States says its sharply reducing troop numbers in afghanistan and iraq. By mid january, the deployment will be cut to 2 and a half 1000 soldiers in each country present on all trump is making good on a companion promise to end what he called for as a wars. But theres opposition, both from leading republicans and from nato allies. The sun could be setting on the us presence in afghanistan. American soldiers have been fighting here since 2001, helping stabilize the country after overthrowing taliban rule, but suffering over 2000 deaths over time. Troop numbers have winked. Now o
Expects surge upon surge the c. D. C. Or centers for Disease Control saying that the next 3 months could be among the worst or most difficult in u. S. Public Health History what americans are bracing for is the fact that its known that there will likely be an uptick in infections as well as deaths given the fact that Many Americans did not listen to the Public Health officials warnings over the thanksgiving holiday and as a result traveled and so the seeds of an increased outbreak have been planted all across the United States there is some optimism of course knowing that by the end of the year its likely that a vaccine will be approved emergency authorization for pfizer as well as mcdermott but its just going to be a drop in the bucket some 40000000. 00 doses this is a population of 330000000 and of course you need not one but 2 of these inoculations in order for it to be mostly effective in fact as the United States is continuing its process of certifying these drugs to be safe to us
Makers had hoped or even expected. But the irony is that these clinical trials, racing to completion, is really enabled by the spike in infections happening now in the United States with now 11400000 cases in the country. But todays good news is that by either says, it has a 95 percent efficacy rate for this vaccine. Boeing 737 max jet has been given approval to fly again by the u. S. Aviation regulator once a planes are fitted with new software and pilots are retrained. The fleet has been grounded worldwide for nearly 2 years after crashes killed nearly 350 people u. S. Secretary of state. Mike has praised the normalization of ties between israel and the number of countries. He made the comments during a press conference with these really Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and bahrains foreign minister. In the us. Donald trump has fired his chief of Cyber Security just days after he rejected the president s claims of electoral fraud. Chris crabs and his agency are responsible for elect