But mainly to rich countries. Developing nations. Germany of playing for the kremlin spokesperson repeated requests for information. We want the truth. If you have information that we please share it with your churning in from across the globe are welcome to international my names. You know, your company. We will get headlines stories in just a moment, but we start with news coming into us from montreal. Encountered a police, there are saying theres a major tuck to cooperation underway after reports of a hostage situation. According to local media, dozens of people are trapped inside an Office Building so far theres no information on who is holding them there or possible casualties. We do know that the building being spoken of by houses, the offices of the video gaming firm, soft, best known as the creators of a number of games. Assassins creed, far cry to name a few images on social media are showing several people climbing onto the roof. Of the building we are of course keeping track
President trump reverses course after canceling negotiations for a new Coronavirus Relief bill. He now says he wants an even larger deal before election day. The president has approved a revised package. Has approved a revised package. He would like to do a deal. The white house is upping its price tag, now offering a 1. 8 trillion Coronavirus Relief bill. Good evening everyone, im heather holmes. President trump says tocsin moving along but an agreement is far from certain. We have more in the president s offer. Reporter this is a complete turnaround from last tuesday when he actually walked away from the Coronavirus Relief talks. Now hes saying he wants to get a deal thats even bigger than both republicans and democrats proposals. Just three days after President Trump said he was ending negotiations on a federal coronavirus release package he announced friday he is not only reversing course, his raising the price tag. I would like to see a bigger stimulus package then either the demo
How should Drug Companies handle the coronavirus pandemic pharmaceutical firms rushing to find a vaccine could potentially make billions of dollars. What was be done to ensure they dont put profit before saving lives this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im Maryanne Demasi scientists around the world on our racing to find a vaccine and a cure for the coronavirus governments are pledging millions of dollars of taxpayers money for research in both public and private funds the Global Vaccine Market is estimated to be worth nearly 60000000000. 00 annually pharmaceutical companies have been criticized in the past for being too slow in combating diseases like saws and it botha and charging high prices for new drug treatments the president of the European Commission hopes of vaccine will be available vote later this year. In addition we are accelerating research yesterday i spoke to the managers of an innovative European Research company they work on a Promising Technology to
Is a crisis for democracy is a crisis of concentration the bottom line. How should Drug Companies handle the coronavirus pandemic pharmaceutical firms rushing to find a vaccine could potentially make billions of dollars. What was be done to ensure they dont put profit before saving lives this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im Maryanne Demasi scientists around the world on our racing to find a vaccine and a cure for the corona virus governments are pledging millions of dollars of taxpayers money for research in both public and private funds the Global Vaccine Market is estimated to be worth nearly 60000000000. 00 annually pharmaceutical companies have been criticized in the past for being too slow in combating diseases like saws and it botha and charging high prices for a new drug treatments the president of the European Commission hopes of vaccine will be available vote later this year. In addition we are accelerating research yesterday i spoke to the managers of an
Funding from Tech Companies, foundations, and private individuals. Reportt put out a new called the crisis of social media. What is the main take away in this report . The main take away is that the internet is becoming less free around the world. There are many trends we have seen around how Free Expression and privacy are under threat. The main thing we look at this year is how governments around the world are using social media to manipulate elections and monitor their own citizens. To help us dig into this issues as our guest, sarah. I want to dive into that dynamic. You say some governments of weaponizing social media to target their own populations. What does that mean . There are three distinct tactics that we saw in a 65 countries that we covered. That translates to 87 of all Internet Users around the world. The most common tactic we saw particularly around elections was the use of disinformation campaigns. That is something that has been in the news around foreign meddling and