A looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. Hello im sam this is counting the cost on aljazeera look at the world of business in economics this week called wall to the United States punish china for tightening its grip on hong kong by great trees pegged to the dollar. Turkeys theater of war does the country on the verge of another currency shark have the money for conflict. And president putin hope to kick start the economy this year but how will it pay for his big plans amid low oil prices and the pandemic. Xi Jinping China has put aside the niceties of economic power for a more aggressive posture to neighbors and liberal democracies President Trumps america 1st policy triggered a trade war that morphed into a technological war but chinas security measures to rein in hong kong and Human Rights Violations of wiggle muslims have pushed the u. S. To sanction chinese officials
Hey welcome to the stream im josh rushing sitting in for me ok today from my home here in Fairfax Virginia think you for joining me now right off the bat if youre watching on you tube you see that chad over there the box those are those are live get your questions in there will try to get him to me and well try to get him in the show as were going i want to be a part of this with me now today were talking about. A chick kids return to school in the u. S. Now on committee from Fairfax Virginia this is one of the 10 Largest School districts in the country all around 190000 students here and i had to make a decision as a parent this week do i want my children for the entire school year either to return to school in person or to do it online and what you made that choice you were pretty much committed to it i have 4 kids in School System here that meant it so were going to kindergarten so were going to high school so were going to miss school on one going into 5th grade and we had to make
Florida cases soar past 100048 6th straight day. And finding a new way to Show Team Spirit this College Football season the pandemic is forcing campuses to adapt. We begin with the fight against covert 19 and a breakthrough in the race to develop a vaccine the Lancet Medical Journal has published encouraging results from scientists at Oxford University whove been conducting early human testing well they found their vaccine appears to be safe and produced a strong immune response right now its being tested in large numbers in the u. K. South africa and brazil there are more than 250. 00 different vaccines being worked on around the world with 23 of them already in human trials the World Health Organization has welcomed the progress but says that any viable vaccine must be available to everyone we split you can call me them and of course. Thats the only way you can get you know Fair Distribution but. One of the warring part of this we see is. Some countries moving the other direction of
Going to join us in that you to chat over there so that i can get some of your discussions and during the show. Lets go right to the issue you know in the u. S. Right now about 9000 miles a pipeline with another 12500 miles already kind of announced or in the approval process so that comes out to what 2122000 miles of pipeline just to give you a sense of what that means the earth at its or come prince is about 25000 miles around so were talking about be able go all the way around the planet just from the pipelines here in the u. S. They are often problematic particularly environmentally speaking and so there has been resistance and they often go across native lands and so that resistance has been led by the nations here in the u. S. Now some of the decisions that have come down just recently a judge set down the Dakota Access pipeline now you might remember this one because they had the big battle of Standing Rock my colleagues a fault lines were out there for that battle heres what so
Some areas of our country are doing very well others are doing less well it will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better something i dont like saying about things but thats the way it is thats enough for my kind who has more from washington d. C. Well its certainly a very subdued president compared to his previous appearances at that particular podium on this particular subject using the phrase theres going to get worse before it gets better now in the past President Trump present system that his role is that of a cheerleader he wants to give the citizens of this country some kind of hope people came up with various possibilities for cures he came up with figures that many experts said were completely under inflated so certainly there is a greater reality it would appear in a President Trumps a perspective of the situation although he continues to make claims such as the u. S. Has the lowest wont tell it the rate in the world which it does not all that the u. S. Leads th