A more forceful approach towards dissent. D. W. Correspondent florin missions in bangkok and he says these latest protests are extremely high stake thailands students are risking it all by challenging not only the incumbent military backed regime but also the until now untouchable monarchy this is nothing short of revolutionary in a country that has had its fair share of violent crackdowns against dissenters now the genie is out of the bottle and its not likely to go back in any time soon many expect this weekends protest leaders to be slapped with lawsuits and long jail terms for what the government calls inciting unrest or for supposedly defaming the monarchy but the self declared leaderless revolution is set to continue protestors are vowing not to stop until their demands are met whatever the costs may be. Opponents of bella who says hardline president Alexander Lukashenko a gathering for more mass protests in the capital minsk weekly demonstrations have become the focus for prodem
Website r t v dot com we will be back in an hours time with a full world news update in the meantime though it is the big picture stay with us. A lot from rhode island where i live like you probably are were sticking close to home riding out the pandemic and while there are worse places to spend your summer than the great ocean state i miss baseball i mean going to games we can see games but theyre in empty stadiums with fake crowd noise and fake fans and cold plus players are disrupting team rosters and whats going to turn. Out of being an asterisk season meanwhile were seeing hockey and basketball played in august some College Teams have already started canceling their seasons what of the n. F. L. Lets go to sports h. Q. At least remotely and ask steve crist aco steve welcome to the big picture. Good to be with you alan thank you. Although our world series champion Washington Nationals were deprived of a standing o. To get their rings of proper homeowner i did read with interest that
Ive taken this quarantine times to update a couple of bathrooms. Not. Light bulbs i have always wanted to be handy. These numbers are expected to be insane i did change a couple of light bulbs. They are all different so finding the right one for all the Different Things my wife has, it is not easy. I have changed a couple of them but thats about it. Rising to the challenge, im sure before we get those numbers from home depot, lets start with the overall markets. The s p 500 finished the session just shy of the high just shy, we are talking 4. 15 points away from the record it is sitting at at this point. 3,386. 15 is where it closed. The record from february is 3,393. 52 the record close of 2020 up another 1 to 11,129. Looking at record futures. Two dow components reporting home depot and walmart big numbers expected from both of those dow futures up by 64, nasdaq up by 40 and s p up by 7. Dow component reported 4. 02 a share. Consensus was 3. 71. I noted revenue gain was over 23 . Com
On the ground in berlin to break down the new developments and why the u. S. Is pulling out all the stops to halt the project. Amid rising social pressure something passionate sports teams are looking to change their mascots but what could the economic consequences look like we take a look at the issue and the sponsors putting pressure on the team to change with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And china is the greatest long term threat to the United States those words are from the f. B. I. Director Christopher Ray who bless the Chinese Government in a speech made at the Hudson Institute race comments about beijing are wide reaching and include everything from accusing china of attempting to become the worlds only superpower to claiming that china has engaged in a campaign of theft and malign influence. Its now reached the point where the f. B. I. Is opening a new china related counterintelligence case about every 10 hours of the nearly 5000. 00 active f. B. I. Counterintelli
Is pulling out all the stops to halt the project. Amid rising social pressure something passionate sports teams are looking to change their mascot but what could the economic consequences look like we take a look at the issue and the sponsors putting pressure on the team to change with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And china is the greatest long term threat to the United States those words are from the f. B. I. Director Christopher Ray who blast the Chinese Government in a speech made at the Hudson Institute raise comments about beijing are wide reaching include everything from accusing china of attempting to become the worlds only superpower to claiming that china has engaged in a campaign of theft and malign influence now reached the point where the f. B. I. Is opening a new china related counterintelligence case about every 10 hours. Of the nearly 5000 active f. B. I. Counterintelligence cases currently underway across the country almost half are all related to china an