Least 300 inmates of escape some 36 people were killed in an isolated on a high security prison in afghanistan. Antigovernment protests show no sign of letting up in mali demonstrators are demanding the president step down plus. Im rob mcbride in and on south korea the countrys cultural hot line as it celebrates its World Heritage traditions. And in sports after almost 5 months tennis is making its official return on the palermo open is the 1st tour event to take place since the coronavirus lockdown. We begin this hour with a stark warning from the World Health Organization as the rush to find a corona virus vaccine intensifies while the w h os applauding the efforts of more than 140. 00 Research Teams around the world it says that people should not pin their hopes on the discovery of an effective vaccine. We all hope to have a number of effective vaccines that can help prevent people from infection however there is no Silver Bullet at the moment and then might never be for now stoppin
President trump also made news in this impromptu get together which we werent exactly expecting on a monday morning, saying the coronavirus briefings are making a comeback starting tomorrow from the Briefing Room at 5 00 p. M. Start our coverage with chad pergram who covers capitol hill. Chad, that meet meeting in the oval office set the table for next few weeks negotiations. What are we looking for . Reporter a lot of negotiations will be with republicans, make no mistake on that. Republicans are all over the map on this by there is major disagreements how to do another bill. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin said they will be about kids and jobs. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said he will take control to write the bill in his office. There is lot of questions whether he can finish a bill at all. Mitch mcconnell is confident they can. Listen. Begin the process of socializing what weve been discussing with the administration over last two weeks with our members. Were looking fo
Republicans are now diving into each different part of this h. E. A. L. S. Act as leader mcconnell termed this deal. It stands for healthic economy assistance Liability Protection and schools. The trillion dollar package has 105 billion for schools. That is more than was in the democrats heroes act from back in may. It has another round of direct checks and it has an add unemployment benefit of 200 a week. Thats a decrease of what its been for the last several months. But Senate Finance chair Chuck Grassley just noted this is going transition to 70 of a workers pre pandemic wage over the course of the next few weeks. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said that the virus doesnt care how fragile the economy is, but that the u. S. Is not write a blank check. It needs to be tailored for these specific times and crossroads. But democrats are already saying its far too tailored. After mcconnell took the floor, Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer said there needs to be Food Assistance f
Donald trump from his former National Security advisor in a new tell all book. A new report on racism and xenophobia in france finds that black people face increasing discrimination. Sworn in 2 months early burundis the president takes office after the sudden death of his predecessor. Would begin in the United States where the Supreme Court has dealt another setback to the Trump White House this time in a case involving young immigrants the court has rejected the administrations efforts to end the program shielding young undocumented immigrants from deportation its known as dhaka deferred action for childhood arrivals there are around 700000 socalled dreamers who were brought to the u. S. As children who can breathe a sigh of relief well trumps responded via twitter calling the. Supreme court ruling horrible and politically charged and essentially its an attack on republicans and conservatives lets go live now to mike hanna monitoring the courts rulings for us out of washington might d
Defer paying their income tax and we expanded tax refunds, very substantially. Thanks to our efforts and incredible resilience much our nations Small Businesses, and i really think we can add the foundation that we built. We built the greatest economy ever built. And that foundation was so strong, instead of coming weekly back, or going in the other direction, because this is coming back and we havent totally succeeded yet. We will soon, but we havent killed all of the virus yet. And yet you look at these numbers. That is based on a very Strong Foundation we built, a Foundation Like no other, a foundation had we not been attacked by this virus, this horrible virus we were doing things and had things planned that nobody else had ever even thought of. Paying off debt, building numbers, the likes of which nobody has seen. And yet next year well be in a position where i believe in a certain respect i think well even be stronger than we would have been because of what were doing but only th