Thousands rally to mark polands independence. And hong kongs prodemocracy legislators resign en masse. Together, we stand. Brent 15 lawmakers walked out after four colleagues of theirs were sacked under a new law banning representatives deemed to be threats to National Security. Im brent goff. To our viewers watching on pbs in United States and around the world, welcome. The European Commission has signed a deal to secure up to 300 million doses of a covid19 vaccine. The vaccine, developed by biontech and pfizer. The eus health minister, saying today the eu is setting up a healthy union to improve the response of coordination of Member States and future health crises. The next scene is seen as the best chance to break the chain of covid19 infections. Biontech says it could start shipping the vaccine to eu countries by the end of this year. To talk more about this, im joined by the European Parliaments Public Health committee member. The eu has a population of 450 million people. This i
At what point is it delayed, and 1st transition is risk National Security. There will be a slew transition to a 2nd drug administration. Right. President trump didnt win the election. Every single one of my colleagues knows this. He is declaring them so himself to be the winner of an election that hes lost. I dont think were going to have an interrupted transition to whoever is the next ministration. Well, i just think it should have bearish. And frankly, also coming up do the police need policing. A new study in germany claims officers are more likely to use Excessive Force on immigrants and people of color. They called us lebanese dirty foreignness. And so on later, my sister told me that after they took me away, one of the offices set, this isnt your country and you cant behave like any months here. Or to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world. Welcome. We begin the day with americas unfinished elections. It has been more than a week since vo
Sparked by a regulatory crackdown. Tencent earnings are out later today. Kongs of hong prodemocracy lawmakers resign as beijing tightens control. Carrie lam supports banning those not deemed sufficiently patriotic. Lets look at how things are shaping up when it comes to the start of the session. It continues to get some of that rebounding onring concerns might want to stick to. Rade could berecovery somewhat stop start. It did not move on rates and did at stimulus and effectively pushed back expectation for the timing of relative rates aired the kiwi market not pricing that in all of 2021. The nikkeis little bit negative but the top x are wiping out all of its losses for the ear and looking like that momentum could be sustained. Take a look at futures up about s p hittingsaw the the 10 week i. High. Prodemocracy lawmakers in hong kong are set to resign en masse after beijing passed a to ban politicians not sufficiently stock. I would not say that for members remaining in a Legislative
Welcome to the program the coronavirus keeps pummeling europe. Italy and spain have tightened restrictions as new infections are surging across europe italian Prime Minister tzipi conte on sunday ordering all bars and restaurants to close by 6 pm for at least a month the government in spain has meanwhile imposed a curfew on bars and restaurants from 11 pm to 6 and lasting until may last weeks they became the 1st western european nation to surpass 1000000 confirmed cases. Lets get more now from our financial correspondent conrad boos in frankfurt conrad bad news coming out of italy bad news coming out of spain we have the german chancellor just yesterday giving her very grim outlook speaking of a very difficult winter ahead what a market is making of all of this. Well chris more and more economists on the markets are giving out all pissant mystic outlooks for example the chief economist of the o. E. C. D. The organization for Economic Cooperation and development says that this years slu
Support. Michael keenan welcome to conflict zone thank you hong kong has started off this new year with mass arrests 53 prodemocracy politicians and activists detained on the grounds of subversion under the new National Security law the move has been condemned by the worlds leading democracy has Rights Groups law associations as being nothing more than a crackdown is hong kong witnessing a dismantling of its freedoms and its opposition wont i dont think so 1st of all just like you were never deals in the world we are busy fighting the pandemic. Certainly the massive arrest that happened earlier this year is about a primary being held there last year it involving 5060 people who participated in a primary in preparation for last years election ok so so far the basis of the. Primaries involves a lot of candidates whose election platform. Volley. Article 22. 00 of the National Security law which is to paralyze the government to stop everything from functioning to basically opposed every si