Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Russian Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny is the most resilient opponent Vladimir Putin has everfaced. Navalny survived attempted assassination by novichok, returned to russia and is now orchestrating anti putin protests from his prison cell. My guest is navalny s Chief Of Staff leonid volkov. The Opposition Movement has supporters willing to take to the streets in hundreds of russian towns and cities, but do they have a strategy capable of forcing putin from power . Leonid volkov in lithuania, welcome to hardtalk. We need to begin, i think, by establishing what kind of contact you have with Alexei Navalny right now. Do you have any means of contacting him . Now the only way to contact him is that his lawyers, not even the relatives, but the lawyers are allowed to visit him two, three times a week and they dont enjoy privacy during those visits. So its like supervised contact. But still, we manage, at least, to pass some basic information about, l
Of play for stocks as we build into our discussion. Youve got dr. Birx on the task force. The covid surge, quote, the worst event the country will face coming this winter. Stocks have run a lot coming into november. The vaccine is getting closer day by day values been outperforming lately the value etf coming off its fifth positive week in a row thats the First Time Since its fiveweek stretch ending the end of december of 2019. So my question to you to start things off, where do we go from here it seems like the market wants to go higher i think its been incredible all year it seems to definitely be picking up steam in november and pt fir the first part of december, investors are leap frogging, the political discord in washington, the lack of fiscal stimulus and leap frogging that and buying stocks in general and buying growth stocks, buying momentum stocks, buying value stocks, airline, energy, all of the above. It a really good time to reflect as investors, you got to be in it to win
Have been on fire and what exactly are the pricing in . Hopes of a vaccine, hopes of stimulus . How can that fed wire without some sort of his fiscal lifeline . The day was so bad it looked good because as many events started to set in that we see Congress Actually pushed through some sort of deal, so many angles to digest today, but what is clear is this rotation trade is on the front and center. Joe absolutely, everything is flying but was what has really been flying are these deep cyclical commodity linked equities that have been dormant for most of the year and they continue to have really strong weeks. Stocks, youenergy look at the end of november basically right ever since we got the vaccine news they have been shooting straight up and have had another strong week. If you look over all still down 31 on the year. Thatne a lot of those have been left for dead a few months ago are rallying hard on this day. Diamondback finished a day up about 13 , apache, you get the picture. There
Volume of traffic and notice the low clouds in this shot that getting across the bridge the low clouds have hit the bridge there and the fog is an issue for the rich mamond san rafael bridge. All have fog advisory from chp and a possible crash near the toll plaza and well track that off the berkeley curve and dense fog through the trivalley a major issue for drivers. Back to you. All right, thank you very much, mike. So, lets check in with bob redell for more on the breaking news overnight. This is were talking about a third player just announcing some promising results with its vaccine this morning, bob. Correct, marcus and laura. Astrazeneca and the university of oxford announced their vaccine is safe and is triggering an immuno response in all adults. This is according to preliminary results from a phase two trial that was published in the medical journal. You have pfizer and biontech and they found they are 95 effective. That is higher than initial results suggested. The companys p
Great question. I wanted to write a book that would be a first draft of the history of the long epidemics for the year of covid and beyond but that would speak to an interested reader, not just a specialist in the field. There are lots of specialists in the field and i thought my valueadded might be to translate from specialists in the field to reader who are fascinate by the blizzard of legal issues that werent really on most peoples anda until now. We never thought about pt epidemics but think about them now, particularly what we can learn from them andhat do we know when its going to be over. I want to begin, john, if i can, really at the end of your book, and then ill pivot book at the end of our interview to ask you more but this question. You write, america has two histories, one ugly,he other far more appealing. In the months and years ahead, americans will hold the power between them. Lets hope the make the right choice. Im going to be asking you more but what that right choice