Us president ali trump has accused germany of not pulling its weight in the Nato Alliance and now hes taking action against it hes ordered a major scaling back of the u. S. Military presence there maybe 12000 troops a 3rd of those based in germany will be withdrawn around half will be sent to other bases in europe the rest will head back to the United States the european command and special operations h. Q. Would also be moved from germany to belgium and the changes are expected to cost the u. S. Billions of dollars as anyone can see the repositioning of our forces in europe constitutes a major strategic and positive shift wholly in line with the n. D. S. And consistent with other adjustments to the United States just the United States has made within nato in previous times. These changes will achieve the Core Principles of enhancing u. S. And nato deterrence to russia strengthening nato reassuring allies and improving u. S. Strategic flexibility thats enough from a white house course
And scaling back the harsh concerns of the growing a virus or change the annual pilgrimage to mecca. Hello too big to dominant and too powerful thats what the bosses of 4 of the worlds Biggest Technology firms are being told the companies have become in an ongoing hearing in washington even the u. S. President has joined in the criticism threatening that hed bring the fairness if congress doesnt take action chief executives of Facebook Google amazon and apple are all being questioned at a hearing over accusations of anticompetitive behavior together their companies are worth almost 5 trillion dollars but they say they operate fairly and within the rules the politicians leading the hearing say the coronavirus pandemic will only serve to make them stronger. They have too much power these power steves are preforms competition creativity and innovation and while these dont have promise me still produce some new Innovative Products you dominance is killing the Small Businesses and you fract
Process of. Defeating the radical left the marxists the n. R. Kids the agitators the looters. The more you. Tend to mean and. The more credibility and. Also coming up tonight the pandemic forced it to shut down 4 months ago today the worlds most visited museum the louvre in paris reopened the crowds are once again admiring the mona lisa but now she is the only one in the room without a face mask. Normally whenever it comes before it was crazy the number of people trying to get into it i think you know you just have a few people moving around a new school and also the space thats going through its really surprising. Good note. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day at the start of what is expected to be a horrible week that is how some doctors are describing the outlook for the United States and its losing effort to contain and slow the coronavirus in the 1st 5 days of this month the u. S. Reported a record high of new infection
Latin america could go hungry this year because of covert 19. After weeks of protests u. S. Federal agents may be pulling out of court. U. S. President ali trump has long accused germany of not pulling its weight in the Nato Alliance and now hes taking action against it hes ordered a major scaling back of the u. S. Military presence there maybe 12000 troops a 3rd of those based in germany will be withdrawn around half will be sent to other bases in europe the rest will head to the United States the european command and special operations h. Q. Would also be moved from germany to belgium changes are expected to cost us billions of dollars. As anyone can see the repositioning of our forces in europe constitutes a major strategic and positive shift wholly in line with the n. D. S. And consistent with other adjustments to the United States just much the United States has made within nato in previous times these changes will achieve the Core Principles of enhancing u. S. And nato deterrence
Almost 5 trillion dollars they say they operate fairly and within the rules the politicians leading the hearing say the coronavirus pandemic will only serve to make them stronger. They have too much power these power steves are preforms competition creativity and innovation and while these dumb reforms me still produce some new Innovative Products youre dominance is killing the Small Businesses and you factoring in the overall dynamism one of the engines of the American Economy alan fischer is monitoring the hearing in washington. Well pretty strong words and if companies are phone guilty of antitrust theres always the possibility that we can start an inquiry into them youll remember that bill gates was in front of the committee 12 years ago to talk about the dominant position then of microsoft that killer theme was picked up by Mark Zuckerberg said look youve got these 4 companies here but if we dont keep innovating if we dont keep investing then in 5 years time theyll be Different Co