Responsible for that. Live why this is r. T. From moscow good to have you with this is just turned 1 am on friday here in the russian capital on call a break with your Headline News at this hour a 1st for you here so he may putins outline where russia stands over the unfolding situation in belarus to remind you its now nearly 3 weeks since the long standing president claimed another election victory over the opposition says it was rigged and there have been large protests there ever since he closed on of reports next from minsk. Lattimer putin has said that for russia it is important for all sides of the story here to be put out there both of the story of those who are supporting the incumbent government and those who are opposed to it you see belarus and russia are really close to each other not just geographically just the 1st layer they are important and close to each other culturally story clear linguistically just you name it in many many aspects so according to the russian presid
Panels focus is going to be on Voter Suppression, Election Integrity and security and maybe even gerrymandering if we can get to it and normally we would know what those things mean because its been a long history but its a different scenario now, we all want fair, secure, timely elections but we have three essential problems that are facing this upcoming president ial election, first the Global Pandemic which none of us have ever seen, live through or voted through before, second the emerging tactics of the white house that is moving very broadly and very clearly to suppress the vote and third, the impact of the white house strategy in the Global Pandemic on march penalize groups that include black, brown or those with different abilities, et cetera, and the passenger this administration were Voter Suppression came out, they be put squarely, how it lies, how it lost the ballot and that sort of thing, having been targeted and disenfranchised by the state and federal policy, its a bit m
Whats the latest on the trade front were just 10 days ago we heard that schedule negotiations were broccoli canceled the now were learning that there actually was a phone call carried on monday night between representatives for the u. S. And china now weve got statements from both sides and its interesting to see the u. S. d trade representative said both sides see progress and are committed to taking the steps necessary to ensure the success of the agreement then Chinas Ministry of commerce also released a statement in which they said the 2 sides agreed to create conditions and atmosphere to continue pushing forward toward the implementation of this trade deal of the major topics here were the protection of intellectual Property Rights and also chinas commitments to purchasing significantly more products from the u. S. Now this call was largely seen as a way to clear the air between the 2 countries to talk about how phase one of the trade deal has been implemented and then also to loo
Mary, what does ill tell us it tell us about the economy . Mary i think its good news and what we had to say in all of this is we are not getting back to february any time soon because unless we have the virus basically solved, there are lots of economies that are not going to open and the fact that we are doing better than just threading water here, make gains, thats good news. In the in the half halffull camp i would say theres less momentum. We had better momentum in june and may and we are still down 13 million jobs and as we try to get below 10 unemployment, now at 10. 2, thats where it becomes more difficult to restore those jobs short of a vaccine. Paul jason, it would seem on marys momentum point that the flareup in the summer to have virus in the south and South Western States did seem to slow the growth of of jobs, you did see a lot of restaurant jobs, a lot of Leisure Hospitality jobs come back but theres still millions that that are on the sidelines. Bill yeah, striking in
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