Hackles, vice becoming the 1st u. S. Secretary of state to visit a jewish settlement in the occupied west bank. And a different kind of emergency on Spains Canary islands. As growing numbers of migrants arrived by boat from africa, critics accuse the e. U. Of turning a blind eye to a burgeoning new migrant crosspost. Welcome to the program. Germanys Public Health authority says that the rate of corona virus infections is still too high, even though theres been a stabilisation in taste of this. There were more than 22000. 00 new coronavirus cases in germany over a 24 hour period. But there are signs that the latest measures to curb the pandemic are working with case numbers. Seeing a plateau, despite hopes that the positive trend will continue, the chief of Germanys Health authorities said the pandemic situation in the country was still very serious. But because of the overall case, numbers are much too high. The number of civilian cases and the number of patients in intensive care are
Talks to secure a trade deal between the uk and the European Union are resuming later on monday. They broke up last night with the trickiest areas of disagreement like fishing richts, Competition Rules and enforcement of the deal remaining unresolved. If theres going to be a deal, it needs to be done by december 31st. Our Political Correspondent chris mason reports. Last night in brussels, the lights on, the talks ongoing. Huge amount at stake. It is serious. Its at 50 50 right now and i dont think one can be optimistic about resolution emerging. Speaking to some of the key principles here, this isa the key principles here, this is a very challenging issue to resolve, and particularly around the level playing field. There are three main sticking point, the so called level playing field, how any deal is enforced and fishing rights. Eu sources suggest a deal on fish is close. The british sources say it isnt. It seems the two sides cant even agree on what they disagree on. After todays ne
Vaccines wont solve all the problems with the virus. Goes your headlines my colleague nick yarnell be here in just under an hours time with a full and fresh look at news this is our intention national by taking the. Time after time saying were going underground one week since the alleged u. K. You armed israeli assassination of irans top physics professor coming up on the show what was the role of mossad in the assassination of Iranian Nuclear scientist muslim factors a death we ask the organizations former director Efraim Halevy who also served as the head of Israels National Security council and we go to be a rainy inside to investigate the potential scale of the iranian retaliation and president elect biden is already destabilizing the middle east before even taking office only some more coming up in todays going on the ground 1st despite New York Times anonymous senior u. S. Official sources claiming israel is behind the assassination of Iranian Nuclear scientist most of the factor
Going forward what lesson should policymakers learn from this recent rise of populism on both the left and the right . Today i were discussing these issues with two great guests, first Casey Mulligan is professor of economics at university of chicago and he served as chief economist for the council of economic advisers in the Trump Administration from september 2015 august 20 because most recent book released last month is your hired, untold successes and failures. Michael strain is a john scholar and director of Economic Policy studies here aei, the author of the American Dream is not dead but populism could kill it, released in february of this year. Heres how the event is going to go. To start up k she will speak for about ten minutes and then mike will offer a ten minute response and after that we will have a Panel Discussion for a while, and towards the end of the discussion about 10 45 we will do a q a so please submit your questions on twitter with the hashtag ask aei econ. With
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