Eastern on cspans q a. Ceos of facebook, twitter and google appeared virtually at a Senate Commerce hitting Senate Commerce hearing. Republicans question whether the companies were censoring conservative viewpoints while democrats raised concerns about the spread of misinformation. Throughout the hearing, there were several references to section 230 of the committee occasions decency act, which shields social Media Companies from liability for content posted on their sites. This is three and a half hours. This hearing will come to order, senator cantwell is going to join us in person but she joins us remotely at the beginning of the hearing, we have convened this morning to continue work of this committee to ensure the internet remains a free and open space and they are sufficiently uptodate, it is a Great American success story, thanks in large part to the regulatory and legal structure our government put in place, we cannot take that success for granted, the openness and freedom of t
That really has been down to currencies. The dollar index is up at the moment, but if you look at it over 24 hours, actually, its down by. 3 ,. 4 percent. One of the main beneficiaries of crown weakness has been strength. Sterling has been propelled about 1. 5 in the last day or thereabouts. The dollar weakness has been felt with the yen also moving to the upside. Theres another reason we are seeing upside on equities in japan. Gold not a major beneficiary, though it was at oneweek highs at one stage after the dollar was sagging earlier on. Thats a look at markets. Lets head over to tom. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the other first word headlines. The Trump Administration is ramping up tensions with china once again, designating six asnland Media Outlets foreign which it says are controlled by beijing. They include the economic daily, which provides a look at beijing economic news. The Administration Says all six are substantially owned or by atively controlled foreign gov
Country has weaponized its Cyber Capabilities as maliciously and it responsibly as russia. The Us Justice Department charges 6 members of Russian Military intelligence over alleged white scale cyber times thousands in bangkok to fire a ban on protests for a 6 day forcing a change of tone from the Prime Minister. And more than 50 u. S. Lawmakers demand the release of political activists and journalists facing dangerous conditions in egypts prisons. So the number of people around the world who have contracted coronavirus is now exceeded 40000000 a quarter of those are still active cases iran has reported its highest ever daily death toll at least 337 people have died of covert 900. Past 24 hours and that brings the total number of fatalities up to more than 30000. 00 and more than 10000000. 00 cases have been reported across latin America Brazil argentina colombia theyre among the top 10 worst hit countries in the world and other nations across europe including poland and italy are impos
A curfew is declared across parts of france as europe battles a 2nd wave of coronavirus. The rebels in yemen have released 2 u. S. Citizens in exchange for 250 of their fighters who was released have since arrived at yemens capital sanaa after transiting through among the white house says that humanitarian worker sandra lowly businessman michael good data have been released and the remains of a 3rd american have been returned as bringing out a serious. Question tell us more about this prisoner swap deal well this is an extraordinary operation which is underway its a very delicate operation for Different Reasons until about a few hours ago ago there has been some huge differences between the whole theories of the government representatives about some what the what the who thiis described as de lay of the 1st batch of who the president is to be transferred from flown from in saudi arabia all the way to sinai and that delay were almost going to undermine the whole operation a senior offic
Were imposed after a military coup. Turkeys top diplomat accuses armenia of committing a war crime a massive. As the border frights takes a toll on civilians from both sides and back in the white house donald trump infected sprue coronavirus says hes ready for next weeks president ial debates plus 3 scientists are awarded this years nobel prize for physics for their discoveries about one of the most mysterious objects in the universe. And in sport there is a record breaking run at the french open is over the 1st arab woman to reach the last 16 at Roland Garros was beaten by americans danielle calling. But we begin this new site with the political turmoil in kurdistan the Election Commission has a no holds the early results old sundays faults and the speaker of the parliament has resigned now this comes after a night of violence where the protesters storm. In state buildings they were accusing the governments of rigging the election in its favor and now the protest is also freed former