Showed evidence that congress pandemics spending is riddled with corruption, bonsa critics trying to hold the powerful to account fear they will soon be silenced. Im as welcome to the program. 3 weeks after the u. S. Election, president elect joe biden has finally been given the green light to start. The transition process president on the trump tweeted stus day that he was directing his administration to cooperate in the handover process. Its the closest hes come to conceding defeat. Meanwhile, biden has pushed ahead and begun announcing nominations for his own administration. President elect joe biden has officially revealed his picks for the top positions of his cabinet, making a clear shift away from trumps america fust doctoring. Instead, a lot of familiar faces from the Obama Administration signaling bidens intention to return to a more established approach to interacting with other countries. Bidens choices of policy veterans like his longtime adviser, anthony blinken, named a s
Conservative south korea. Choosing to become morticians. Welcome to do that you could join us. China launched a rocket today to the moon seeking to bring samples of new no rocks and dust back to the john 5 name for the ancient chinese moon goddess. Took off successfully from china. Its the 1st mission in 4 decades. And if successful, it would make china only the 3rd country to bring back samples from the morning after the u. S. And the former soviet union. And for more on this launch, im joined by mark mccall cohen, Senior Advisor for science, an exploration of the European Space agency. Mark, welcome rocks have been brought back from the moon before all. What is the scientific importance of this mission . Well, as you know, the Apollo Missions and also soviet Unmanned Missions brought back rocks in the sixtys and seventys. But the Chinese Mission is going is actually interesting. Its a much younger region of the moon than the Previous Missions have been to the top of a volcano, a very
Believing in Multilateral International organizations, the kind of International Order that the europeans would like to retain. But i think in europe, many people have believed that this election was really open. Many were afraid think that the polarization and the infighting between trump and biden, and the insistence of the trial team that he has won the election well, actually result in 2 more protests, damage the american democracy that isnt possibly not as likely as before. Nobody has considered the transition, but recently, weve heard a lot about how europe needs to do more on the global stage, but it could it now be just as easy for the u. S. The e. U. To sit back and wait for the u. S. To take the lead again. I think this is, this is no longer the case and people in europe have understood that america might be a great partner where the president wants it, but this is not a really, really reliable option to bank on i think the europeans have understood that they must do more if
The bill awaits signoff from the president. Akron turns up the heat. France threatens to veto a brexit deal if it does not like the terms, piling pressure on the e. U. Not to make further concessions. Welcome to the program, everybody. 7 00 in london. 8 00 in paris. Lets look at the futures. We are fairly flat on futures. The young stock x50 futures flat. Yesterday, we saw some decent gains for the ftse, up by more than 1 and that was a standout compared to the rest of europe which was more mixed. It was mixed in the u. S. Session as well. We did actually see a bit of a late rally in u. S. Equity trading, up to some of those new highs we were talking about in headlines. All of that in the context of the hopes and dreams around u. S. Stimulus. The concern about what can legitimately be done in the shortterm and a lot of hope around vaccines. Perhaps oncent day some parts of the equities space and a late rally in the u. S. Yesterday and we are now pausing. We are pausing somewhat here. W
Conflict, and five years on, france remembers the victims of one of the worst atrocities in its history. 130 people were killed when islamist militants went on a killing spree in paris. Well meet one of the survivors. Im phil gayle. Welcome to the program. U. S. President donald trump is due to speak at the white house in about an hour to give an update on efforts to combat the Coronavirus Vaccine. These would be his first comments since last week his first Public Comments since last week when he repeated his refusal to acknowledge the outcome of the election. A court in the state of michigan refused his request to delay certifying results. The president s team is continuing to contest the election outcome. Donald trump in a bad mood. His only official appearance this week honoring the dead at Arlington National cemetery outside washington, d. C. No comment, but his years long tweet storm continued. His most senior officials refused to concede anything. There will be a smooth transitio