Crossroads millions of voters will decide this weekend whether to scrap the nations constitution written under dictator Augusto Pinochet. Plus a big birthday for a football legend pele turns 18 today did resilience been named player of the century and the king of football after decades at the top well hear his take on the beautiful game. Im gather as well come to the program u. S. President s donald trump and his democratic challenger joe biden of faced off in a final t. V. Debate less than 2 weeks before election day the exchange was a lot more civil than the ill tempered 1st debate the coronavirus pandemic dominated the agenda along with Race Relations taxes and the economy. Republicans in longwood florida were thrilled with their candidates performance we love and adore him and tonight he was doing a fabulous job but back in 2016 i voted against hillary not necessarily for trump but now im 100 percent on board. But biden supporters seemed equally satisfied getting its hard to sum up
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Yet the man brought it. Back. To get it that. Is playing with fire in the sky and postings. And twitter sets its sights on our t. V. Flagging one of our u. S. Election reports as potentially misleading right after the platform itself is accused of anticonservative by. Those your headlines my colleague neil harvey will be here in just under an hour with a full and fresh look at your news this is our international but never with us. Hello and welcome to crossfire all things are considered im teetotal about. Even after russia gate was debunked as a hoax this Conspiracy Theory lives on in fact it appears to become part and parcel of our political discourse if you oppose someone or an idea all you have to do is blame putin and russia no fats necessary slurs and in fact was claims now suffice. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Patrick Lawrence in norfolk he is a Foreign Affairs commentator whos columns appear in Consortium News and other publications and in lake jackson we have
Battery day event. He announced a 25,000 electric car within three years. The u. S. And china clash again. This time, at the virtual u. N. President trump slammed beijing for the coronavirus. Xi jinping warns no one should profit from the problems of another. Haidi lets take a look at how we are setting up for the start of trading proper here in asia. We had a reasonable session in the u. S. , that tech rebound continuing to keep things afloat. This as we continue to get a little bit more news flow as to the stopgap measure being reached between the democrats and the gop. U. S. Stocks in the overnight session climbing. Tempering some of these concerns that came through from jay powell, pointing to slow economic recovery as well as Charlie Hedman saying the recession could worsen without more fiscal support. We see the nikkei 225 flat at the moment. We saw that japan markets have been closed. Futures have been dropping. We have seen during that time asia extra pen falling 2 asia x japan
Ronen absent. Safai absent. We have corium. Thank you madam clerk. Do you have any announcements . Gentlemyes, i would like to announcement about Public Comment. Please proceed. Public comment will be available for each item via telephone by calling 8882045987 and the access code is on the screen. Dial 10 to speak. Each call will be allowed 2 minutes. Calls will be taken in the order which they are received. Best practices are to speak slowly, clearly, and turn down the volume of anything around you. That completes my announcement. Thank you, could use please read the next item. Sorry, this is commissioner ronen. I can sort of hear you. Did you hear me when i said i was here. Now we can hear you, see you, and you are counted present. Good morning commissioner ronen. I think were just missing commissioner safai. With that, could use please read the second item madam clerk. Yes, item two, chairs report. This is an information item. Good morning chair peskin, vice chair mandelman and comm