With many facing significant pay cuts if they remain, amid a dispute between the airline and its staff. President trump has signed an executive order banning any us transactions with the Parent Companies of tiktok and wechat two of the biggest chinese social media apps. And the 10 year old boy who was swept out to sea speaks about his rescue by lifeguards. Hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world 7 and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. I may people arriving into the uk from belgium, the bahamas and andorra will have to quarantine for m days. The uk transport secretary grant shapps said the changes start at 4 oclock in the morning on saturday except in wales, where restrictions started midnight on thursday. The countries are the latest to have a change in rules, after quara ntines were reimposed for spain and luxembourg. Up to 1. 8 million british nationals visit belgium every year, while 150,000 visit andorra. The ba
Taking a break yesterday, but we have apple climbing again. Investors want in on this defensive and growthy tech stop. Facebook up 4. 7 after facebook and twitter both blocked President Trump, a video on covid misinformation. Facebook getting a bounce on that considering they had not taken a strong action in the past, something some investors wanted to see. Making it interesting, when we take a look at the vix on the nasdaq 100, it is higher. That tells you going into the payrolls report or some expectation volatility tomorrow could pop. David stocks may not be moving much yet, but there is action on the bond side. My question is how low can the 10 year yield go. We are well into negative territory on the real yield. Abigail this is a great question. We have had this rally for stocks, not just out of the march lows, but more recently as the nasdaq has been carving out alltime highs. Over the last five weeks, bonds have been rallying. A very persistent rally in stocks and bonds. Many fo
The eventsmore on that led to the bombings when we talk president Harry Trumans grandson, Clifton Truman daniel. 75 years ago today, the uso and the Nuclear Weapons bureau. Gay,ed from the b29 enola the bomb called little boy would explode with an impact of 15 kilotons and be responsible for the death of 237,000 people. That and the bombing of nagasaki on august 9 would propel japan to surrender and the end of world war ii. Good morning. It is washington journal for this thursday, august 6, 20 20. We are going to spend the entire program on the 75th anniversary of the bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki and the end of world war ii. Would like to hear from you. Your thoughts on the decision to use the abomb, the end of the war and hiroshimas legacy. Zones, and central time 2027488000. Mountain and pacific 2027488001. World war ii veterans and their families 2027488002. Japaneseamericans, 2027488003. That line also available for your texts. Make sure you tell us where you are texting from
Why do you think your grandfather made that decision . Guest my grandfather always said that he made a decision to end the war and save american and japanese lives. I understand that thats a simplistic answer, but that was something that he stuck to all of his life. For me i have been listening a little bit to the Previous Program the previous guests. It is still today a complicated issue whether it was the right decision to end the war. Whether a blockade would have done the same thing. Whether or not we would have had to invade. For me working with survivors, working with the truman library, for me its more important to listen to the stories, to understand why it happened, why the decision was made. So that we dont do it again. And more broadly so that we can avoid future conflict. I think if we look at all the reasons that we got to where we got in 1945, well have a bert understanding how to head it off again. Although sometimes i dont have much hope for that. Host what sort of reso
White house is openly collaborating with a Us Company Microsoft to buy part of talk which we have banned so its so bad that it has to be banned why are we buying it or did we ban it so we could buy it seems to the 5 a very free market principles that we portend to stand for and of which we often. Accuse china just saying. But im not going to go there im going to go there i want to tell you about Something Else Something Else that is taking place as we speak that the media world tends to not be reporting on you know how were always hearing about how Chinese Companies are stealing this and stealing bad and stealing our Technology Well i want you to listen to this hey siri. Call and. There you go and siri you know it right its a technology thats become part of our new normal anywhere in the world. And guess what. It may not be an american invention. A chinese Artificial Intelligence Company Named chow why his father a lawsuit against apple for stealing it they say they patented this Voice