Of a looming election. Steve clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. Counting the cost on aljazeera a look at the world of business and economics this week as rich nations cornered the market for covert 19. 00 vaccines and treatments what does that mean for the worlds poor we find out about the real cost of developing drugs. Im joined now in scotlands East Kilbride where the Worlds Largest trial of possible coded 19 treatments has produced results that are already being used to save lives. And a hack possibly by teams that took twitter by surprise we talked to the c. E. O. Of a Silicon Valley company that does away with the need to remember possible. The race to develop vaccines and treatments for the coronavirus pandemic is entering a crucial stage with large scale trials on the way the debates of opaque pricing has raised concerns that pharmaceutical companies could be charging way too much for covert
Time despite claims you know hong kong already also coming up australia appears to have largely contained its covered 19 outbreak but now authorities have been forced to order iraq down for millions of people in the 2nd largest city while big as new infections rage out of control. And this video shows the last man attacking refugees trying to come ashore in greece but who is behind the assaults and why is there no outcry from the european union. Hello im christie want to welcome to the program hong kongs lead a kerry lam has defended the controversial new security law that china imposed on the city last week she said it would make hong kong safer by preventing violent protests she also wants citizens not to break. So the government will vigorously implement this law and i forewarn. Those radicals not to attempt to violate this law or crossing the red line because the consequences are breaching this law very serious. Critics fear the new bill will end freedom of speech in hong kong has.
A 2 state solution also the race to find a vaccine for the corona virus that has never been more crucial for rural parts of south africa and the show must go on somehow the future of british theatre under a pandemic as the industry struggles to find its way forward. And Sport England insists their cricket series against pakistan will go at and thats despite pakistan announcing that tan and their players have tested positive for corona virus. Hello everyone after weeks of increasing tension on the Korean Peninsula including the destruction of a joint Liaison Office north korea has now announced it is suspending plans for military action against the south and the state media says the decision was made during a meeting of the ruling Partys Central Military Commission that was chaired by. Kim jong un his sister kim your xiong who is in charge of relations with the south remember she had warned all of possible military action those pictures there of course that joint Liaison Office which wa
With civil Rights Groups today to address the growing boycott the organizers of stop hate for profit calling the meeting a disappointment saying that Mark Zuckerberg and Cheryl Sandberg are not ready to address the hate on that platform and did not respond to demands of dozens of its largest advertisers the ncaa color of change, Antidefamation League and free press saying Mark Zuckerberg did not offer any tangible plans on how facebook will address the rampant discrimination and violent conspiracies on their platform the meeting that we just left was a disappointment facebook has had our demands in multiple ways and they showed up to the meeting expect an a for atte attending. Attending alone is not enough. Civil Rights Groups saying facebook did not address their list of demands, saying zuckerberg offered no automatic recourse for advertisers whose consent runs alongside hateful posts. They did not address why facebook recommends hateful groups and didnt address rampant disinformation
A coronavirus cases. Hundreds of protesters have been arrested in hong kong as chinas contentious new security law comes into force. Also ahead a yemeni rights group documents abuses including deaths in secret prisons as a devastating war shows no sign of ending. Our top story this hour ethiopias military has been to have deployed to the capital addis ababa as armed gangs roam the streets in a 2nd day of our rest following the murder of a popular singer and activist more than 80 people have been killed during protests over carlo hernandezs death on monday his murder has exposed deep seated grievances over decades of government repression and decent was a leading voice for ethiopias biggest ethnic group the a moral a spokesman for the. Romeo region held a News Conference on ethiopian t. V. Accusing egypt to being involved in the unrest earlier the Prime Minister condemned the killing calling it an evil act orchestrated from abroad in order to divide the country has a look at the one as