Coronavirus cases spike outside china now moscow emphatically emphatically rejects accusations that its been waging an Online Disinformation Campaign and undermining the Global Response to the epidemic. Is a pretty old news afternoon at International Live from our world news h. Q. Here in moscow mornings kevin 0 in here for the next half hour or so this monday to take you through our top stories are some breaking news to tell you about as well 1st going to got about german media reporting that at least 10 people have been injured in the town of volks marson after a car drove into a carnival procession you see what is on the map there police say theyve arrested the driver peter all of your correspondents in berlin is across it pete details skills still sketchy still trying to get the detail on this youre telling me just before we went to where their fingers crossed nobody killed but there are people her. Yes were hearing at least 10 people have been injured after a car crashed into crow
Citizens are complicit in the spread of alternative facts. We reject news we simply dont like the danger we become lost in that fog of unknowability if truth is pushed into a wood chipper, leaving us to say, i dont know what to believe, then alternative facts have just havent just fought truth to a draw, alternative facts may have already won. Sean spicer our press secretary gave alternative facts to that. But the point is what do you mean, alternative facts are not facts. Alternative facts are not facts. Theyre falsehoods reporter on the first full day of the trump administration, the president directed his aides to sit on a disprovable lie about his inaugural crowd size, a touch point in an era when facts are under attack of course, twisting the facts is nothing new in the politics. It depends on what the meaning of the word is that sound a lot like this. The truth is truth. I dont mean no, it isnt truth. Truth isnt truth. But the scale is new. As of december 10th, the president made
Not obeying the rules they are supposed to and there is concern this could lead to a new spike in cases and maybe even ultimately deaths. Colleges this morning remain a big source of the virus spread. Thousands of cases in all 50 states are being linked to the reopening of colleges and universities. On the vaccine front, new reporting about President Trump putting pressure on Health Officials for a Coronavirus Vaccine before election day. This as the wall street journal reports at least three of the companies who are working to develop a Coronavirus Vaccine are joining forces in an unusual pledge. They have promised not to seek approval before the vaccines have been proven safe and effective. Joining us is dr. John, the chairman of the story county iowa board of health and dr. Martin burke, professor of chemistry at the university of illinois and one of the developers of the saliva based tests. You are testing the heck out of students at your university. Youre testing the heck out of e
Were waiting on the fda to give emergency approval to a second coronavirus vaccine. The Moderna Vaccine is expected to get the okay today. Great news, that is being tempered by some major distribution issues. Governors across the country, democrats and republicans alike, say they were told they will be receiving significantly fewer doses of the Pfizer Vaccine than they were initially promised. The white house is blaming pfizer for the shortages, while pfizer is blaming the white house. It says it has millions of doses ready to go, but has not received guidance from trumps team on where to send them. Former fda commissioner under donald trump scott got lean who now sits on the board of pfizer explained the problem to stephanie ruhle. Theyre holding back doses. In part they say they want to hold back a second dose for everyone who receives the first dose. The 25 million doses that the companys promised for december has largely been manufactured, and many more of the lots are released, re
Interviews with political figures and news updates. Were talking about mens suits, andrea. Mens suits at 25,000 a pop. I dont know. Peter alexander, you know more about mens suits than i do. You can also tell me about Donald Trumps tweets, because this has been a storm of tweets today and its been a rather creative one. He is also tweeting about al capone. He wrote, looking back on history, who is treated worse, alphonse capone, legendary mob boss, killer, and public enemy number one, or paul manafort, political operative and reagan dole darling, now serving Solitary Confinement although convicted of nothing. Where is the russian collusion . Im not sure who his target is there. Reporter andrea, the president has a series of targets today, one thats clear is Attorney General Jeff Sessions in some of those earlier tweets when the president went further than he has been, more explicit than he has been at any point, basically calling on sessions to stop the russia investigation. To the jur