On Peaceful Protesters in october, killing 12. This comes after cnn aired of military using live ammunition. We will speak to cnns Award Winning Foreign Correspondent nima elbagir about the killings in nigeria, as well as the crisis in ethiopia. Then we go to india where an estimated 250 million workers, farmers, and their allies recently participated in what is believed to be the largest organized strike in history. India is my country and delhi is the capital. Im not even allowed to enter. Our Home Movement has been peaceful. Theyre shooting this with Water Cannons. We were also beaten. But no farmers retaliated violently. Amy this comes as Indian Farmers continue to protest Prime Minister Narendra Modis move to deregulate agricultural markets. We will speak to indian journalist p sainath, founder of peoples archive of rural india. We will speak about Narendra Modi and covid in india. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. I
Astrazeneca is to resume vaccine trials. Virus numbers rise but travelers defy warnings to stay home. Imports of u. S. Goods closed slowed last month. David amidst all of that and a overnighthat markets we are getting futures coming online in about 60 minutes. Been a veryt has good past two weeks for global equities. The nikkei 225 flirting with 27,000. Kiwi dollar has been standing on the platform. They are not getting a lot of action. It has been about a weak dollar. About vaccineing reflation trade. Astrazeneca will run another global trial. Amid questions about the program and the level of protection. Initial test claims varying degrees of efficacy, sometimes as high as 90 . Our Deputy Managing Editor has the story. We have been asking a lot of the experts whether they can explain the gap between efficacy depending on the number of doses. No one has managed to come up with much of a thesis. Is that why there saying more trials are needed . Is that why they are saying more trials ar
Cu through its time to risk less and make more options action starts right now. We start with a news alert. 13fs are hitting lets get to leslie with some of the details. Leslie hey, melissa, thats right. 13 app deadline is not until monday but weve seen a couple of notes hit the third point filing is out. Dan lopes made interesting moves in the tech world, notably increasing his exposures to some chinese ecommerce plays alibaba, upping that stake by about 26 , worth about 742 million at the end of the third quarter. J. D. Com, upping that stake by 37 to about 345 million at the end of the quarter in kind of the faang space, increased his space on facebook while keeping in kind of other u. S. Tech world, keeping his stakes in microsoft and pinterest at the same level. He also took stakes in two ipos. Palantir he bought for 21 million and goodrx worth 27 million. As with all of these 13 f filings, the stakes and values are as of the end of the quarter, the end of september and may have c
Cause. To prove. Only was poisoned with. Us Vice President ial hopefuls. Only t. V. Election debate but it was a flying. Headlines. Transformed d working life as we know it so if you go speak to the president of Global Workplace and find out. With your latest global news update join us again. Social media. Millions of people together how to control what we think and how will leave without us even knowing it im joined today by tim kandel former facebook director online to zation expresident of contrasts and the c. E. O. Of moment at. Tim kandel former phase of director former president. App great to have you with us and i have so many questions for you where do we start. Right so obviously during this pandemic radar screen time on social media is way up i mean do you feel that this increase will be permanent or are we going to sort of when else once were allowed to freely roam again. Its hard to argue predict the future. I mean i think weve seen a surge. In doing this because people tur
Using technology to complete to compete for our attention which they then sell to advertisers but heres a question from someone that has worked on television for most of her life hasnt he been doing the same thing for decades now i mean i mean weve heard the same arguments against brainwashing its manipulating break throw it out isnt social media just. New sort of t. V. Yeah i think its a great question. There are a couple things that id say one is that t. V. Is just not as good at being as addictive as social media and thats for thats for a couple reasons one is its not interactive and 2 is its not personalize to us right the content that i see on t. V. Is not about my social world it doesnt it doesnt reflect. My popularity and my standing it doesnt it doesnt allow me to compare myself to other friends or colleagues in the way that social media does so social media really allows me it really it really preys on a bunch of things in kind of my animal brain that really get me addicted yo