Much of this moment and forces us to confront challenges that our society has had trouble with in recent years, this is a time that makes us wonder how stronger institution will prove to be, how we will rise to a challenge i and i think i cant help but see it as a time of a crisis but because it is a time of testing at the time to think about what americas strengths are, what were good at as a country how we can build on that to address the innermost problems. How did we get here . Thats an awfully complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and equality in the individual one hand and some form of strength of community on the other, every free Society Faces the tension in our society has in the past halfcentury emphasize individual, emphasize liberty and emphasize freedom and diversity and that has brought enormous advantages and benefits but there is another side to that coin and the other side can look Like Division and fragmentation and
Try and i has Just Announced sanctions against the United States which target some of beijings most vocal critics this comes one week after the u. S. Sanctions several chinese officials over reports that they are targeting some ethnic minorities arties racial blevins is joining us now to break down the latest developments here so rachel what explanation did beijing give for the sanctions well a spokesperson for Chinas Foreign Ministry spoke out and she said that these sanctions are specifically in retaliation of ascensions that were imposed by the u. S. Last week and which they accuse several chinese officials of human rights abuses against ethnic and religious minorities now china has denied these accusations repeatedly and it also accused the United States of trying to meddle in its internal affairs take a listen to vicious harassment. Terror threats by the United States seriously damaged the legitimate rights and interests of chinese citizens in the us and also interrupted and destr
States setting another record for new cases of cope with 19 on thursday with the nation seeing a spike in cases as certain regions attempt to reopen their economies Johns Hopkins University Reported more than 40000 cases on thursday in the us eclipsing the previous record of more than 36000 cases reported in april this comes as the director of the center for the centers for Disease Control dr Robert Redfield said he estimates that for every case reported in the country there are likely 10 other infections unreported meanwhile and speaking about the end of the 2nd Ebola Outbreak the director general of the World Health Organization just how similar measures have been taken to fight the 2 diseases and spoke about what it will take to see an end of the kobe 9000 pandemic. Its clear that to bring coded 19 and of control and to save lives we need effective vaccines diagnostics and therapeutics in unprecedented quantities and im president to speed. And its clear that because old people out o
No say in its formation some of threaten to tear it down today in fact while the president has vowed to send in the National Guard if he has to try and stop you in this newscast with one word one word its a word that a year ago would have met very little but now seems to mean everything to almost every Single Person living on the planet earth and fact to many it means the difference between living and dying and that word is vaccine so let me get to it here is the news on the vaccine front there are 4 major laboratories racing right now to try and get a covert 1000 vaccine out right away they are johnson and johnson. Theyre u. S. Based by the way sanofi which is a french firm lab. Its also american and astra zeneca which is a British Laboratory there is news on 2 of them so let me bring you up to date on that going to start with madonna dern a is announcing that it is about to begin its 1st large Clinical Trial how large its going to inject 30000 adult trial participants volunteers they
The titanic is making news once again an Expedition Team wants to retrieve the telegraph radio used right before the ship sank to the bottom of the ocean well tell you all about that all right its time to move through news i q. Fed chairman Jerome Powell is testifying before Congress Today on the health of the u. S. Economy in a current and post pandemic america hell be cruising in on the good morning news from the retail sales sector posting the best data they have seen in a while so for more analysis and discussion lets go to ben swan hes an investigative journalist and cohost of boom bust and host of news with Rick Sanchez Rick sanchez gentlemen good to see you both ben i want to go to you 1st have we finally turned a corner since the pandemic hit and also. Whats driving the market. Well we got some very good numbers as you said in terms of the numbers for may end retail kind of coming back about a 17 percent increase in retail sales that was not expected and it shows that obviously