In the last several decades, one of the most important people in International Finance is not that wellknown to the public. Her name is kristalina georgieva. She was a senior commissioner of the European Commission, chief executive of the world bank, and now shes the managing director of the imf. In that position, she heads an organization whose purpose is to help countries that have financial problems. Today, because of the pandemic, there are many people that are calling her and many countries with financial problems. You have been a senior commissioner of the European Commission and now you are the managing director of the imf. In getting these positions, was it more difficult because you are a woman, or you are from a small country called bulgaria . Where was there more prejudice . Kristalina ultimately i got this job, so whatever the prejudice was did not hold me back. If i am to make a call on that, i would say being from a small country always requires to work twice as hard to p
The rba signaled for their willingness to ease. And the other big story at this hour lawmakers in washington take aim at the power of big tech. An antitrust investigation says they are abusing their dominant status. Check lets get a quick of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures down at the open, extending gains after we saw the regular session seeing a bearish reversal at your after trumps of fire called off negotiations. Already, market have been trading mixed and about flat after the fed chairs cautious tone on the economy, warning that too much support was better than not enough. The s p 500 saw the largest drop in two weeks and fell to session lows after the president ended stimulus talks. The losses were led by discretionary talks. Airlines also tumbled and we saw the nasdaq losing 1. 6 . After the close, we saw that House Democrats released antitrust reforms to curb the power of u. S. Tech giants including amazon and alphabet. We will be watching that space very closely. Doin
Mta looks at the Surveillance Video on a week by basis. Were able to take a look at the service on the streets from week to week to see how well the mask compliance is going. Reporter the sfmta also reported having trouble with a few passengers when told to mask up. According to their data from april to august 31st, this are 63 verbal altercations specifically dealing with masks and nine operators have been assaulted. One driver was struck several times with a wooden bat in july. There was a minute toiature involved, as well due to facial compliance or lack thereof. Its a scary situation, indeed. Reporter roger out Transit Workers Union local 250 a believes many more drivers are not reporting passengers who dont compile to avoid any interruption to their bus route. We would like to see more assistance out there, boots on the ground in terms of people, workers, assisting us with more compliance. Reporter the sfmta says a few things are helping. Its mandatory for bus drivers to use the p
Targeting civilians in the fight for nagorno karabakh. Protests against Police Brutality in chile after an officer was accused of throwing a teenage boy from a bridge. My. Fellow donald trump has briefly left the hospital where hes being treated for a coronavirus to do a drive by for hundreds of his supporters who were gathered outside the u. S. President to a scene waving to crowds from a motorcade that did a lot of the streets directly outside the Walter Reed Military Medical Center minutes prior to his trip outside he posted a new video on twitter saying he now understands covert 19 having experienced it firsthand. Were getting great reports from the doctors this is an incredible hospital well to read the work they do is just absolutely amazing and i want to thank all the nurses the doctors everybody here ive also got to meet some of the soldiers and the 1st responders and what a group i also think were going to pay a little surprise to some of the great patriots that we have out on
Thank of all the nurses that doctors everybody here ive also got to meet some of the soldiers and the 1st responders and what a group i also think were going to pay a little surprise to some of the great patriots that we have out on the street and theyve been out there for a long time and theyve got trump play and they love our country so im not telling anybody but you but im about to make a little surprise visit so perhaps ill get there before you get to see me but i just when i look at the enthusiasm and we have enthusiasm like probably nobodys ever had our people that love the job were doing we have more enthusiasm then maybe anybody so its been a very interesting journey i learned a lot about cove it i learned it by really going to school this is the real school this is in the lets read the book school and i get it and i understand it and its a very interesting thing going to be letting you know about it john hendren has more from outside that hospital and bethesda well it was perh