Amazon workers plan a mass sickout refusing to work in protest against the tech giants handling of the pandemic. A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at r t h q in moscow thanks for tuning in this hour lets begin with the latest figures on covert 19 the Global Pandemic is still raging the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has now surpassed 3000000 more than 894000 people have recovered but the number of fatalities has risen to more than 207000. But the World Health Organization warning that the worst of the coronavirus may yet be to come for africa some countries on the continent are taking a novel approach to stopping the spread artist my contact explains on the surface africa appears to have escaped the worst of it so far so many about 30000 cases and a 1000 deaths for a continent thats home to more than a 1000000000 people but thats on the surface and already Health Care Systems that they call it means a crumbling at the same time while were dealing with govan
The pandemic. Watching our to International Coming to you straight from the russian capital thanks for tuning in this hour lets begin with the latest figures on code 19 the Global Pandemic is still raging the number of confirmed coronavirus cases has now surpassed 3000000 more than 888000 people have recovered but the number of fatalities has risen to more than 207000. With the World Health Organization warning that the worst of the coronavirus may yet be to come for africa some countries on the continent are taking a novel approach to stopping the spread artist if explains. On the surface africa appears to have escaped the worst of it so far so only about 30000 cases and a 1000 deaths for a continent thats home to more than a 1000000000 people but thats on the surface and already Health Care Systems at the colonies are crumbling at the same town while were dealing with govan night eat pandemic were also on the break of a hunger pandemic for the crawler virus even became an issue i was
Contains on a timely subject that the height of stocks of amazon and google and others and with a broad scope why this book and why now . Thank you for having me by the way. I started this book in 2017. I had just taken a job as a columnist the mandate was to figure out the World Biggest business in opinion form which is a rather large mandate and in order to narrow the funnel, started to look through corporate numbers i saw how well they transition from the Financial Sector to the Technology Sector since a great financial crisis and one number that stuck out was looking at how 80 percent of corporate wealth was being held than 10 percent of the firms. Those were the richest in personal data and intellectual property. You are holding the majority of the worlds corporate wealth and the majority of those are that i profile in the book. Netflix and google. Host there are some overlap like facebook and google with Digital Advertising and apple has shunned advertising and technology. Huber
Lineup of guests coming. Federal reserve vice chairman will join us exclusively in a few minutes for his first interview since last weeks fed meeting. Well also pespeak with the ceoo human there is a and a massive afternoon of earnings headlined by disney, ea, beyond meat and activision and well peek with actvisions ceo ahead of his Earnings Calls after the numbers come out as i said, were at 1. 9 with 59 minutes left lets moex fowlkes on the big stories. Meg has new developments on the treatment and vaccine front but mike, lets kick things off with you in the markets yeah, another day of fairly orderly levation in the indexes. Today its a broader rally even though its been led by the big tech stocks. A chart of the s p going 50 0 going back a year, were back up to the upper end of this crash levels last september, october, sort of going back to early 2018, an area where we gave a little friction to the rallies, but clearly, a market is acting as if big investors feel u underexposed to
Less attainabletoday the later , Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Nicholas Kristof and sheryl wu dont report on the issues facing the working class in rural america. An enjoyable tv now and over the weekend on cspan2. Great to sit down with you and your book, dont be evil is contained plenty on a timely subject given the political times we are in , given the heights that the stocks of apple, amazon, google and facebook and others have reached but you normally have a pretty broad scope to your coverage. Why is this book, why now mark. At you for having me by the way. I started this book i guess it was in 2017. And i had just taken a job as a columnist for the Financial Times and my mandate was to figure out are the worlds biggest business and economic stories and cover them in opinion form is a rather large mandate and in order for the to narrow the funnel i started looking through wealth figures and i thought i saw an amazing numbers in terms of how well to transition to the technolog