The freeman foundation. Blby judy and peter kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Source. Thousands of peoe in the u. K. Haveit been injectedh a covid19 vaccine. The 90yearold margaret was the first to gett. I am thankful for it. It is free and the best thing that has happened. And joe biden has introduced his health team that will fight the pandemic and set out a threepoint plan. Masking, vaccination, opening school. These are the goals for my first 100 days. Donald trump has held events on the vaccine rollout, but used it to repeat unsubstanated claims he won the election. Next administration will be the trump administration. You cannot steal hundreds of thousands of votes. You cant have fraud and deception and all the things they did. There is no evidence that happened on that scale. Boris johnson will go to brussels for dinner with the president of the European Commission to unl
President elect biden good afternoon. Today, im very proud to be announcing our health care and covid team at a critical time, as we near the end of one of the toughest years weve faced as a nation. More than 285,000 dead americans because of covid19, and counting. Last week, covid19 was the number one cause of death in america. Of covid19 and counting. Last week, covid19 was the number one cause of death in america. For black, latino and native americans, were nearly three times as likely to die from it, covid19 is a mass causality. For families and friends left behind, its a gaping hole in your heart that never will be fully healed. As a country, weve been living with this pandemic for so long, were at risk of becoming numb to its toll on all of us. Were resigned to feel that theres nothing we can do. And we cant trust one another. That we must accept death, pain and sorrow. Were in the midst of this deadly pandemic that has infected almost 15 million americans. 1 out of every 22 peo
The u. N. His bio is Available Online so let me be very brief in introducing him. Mark has more than 30 years of experience in both humanitarian and development context. Most of it spent with the u. K. s department for international development, which he eventually led as permanent secretary. He had led their humanitarian responses to such context as iraq, syria, nepal, several cases in africa, and haiti. He was also their directorgeneral for policy and corporate performance and finance. An extraordinary wealth of experience both in the context working where operations occur and on the infrastructure that helps to manage them. So were delighted to have sir mark with us today. Mark, there are innumerable humanitarian crises under way right now and at large scale. I know you Just Launched the u. N. s consolidated humanitarian appeal for the funding to support that effort. But today we want to focus on covid. And what the pandemic has meant for the crises that you helped to manage and for
The russell 2000, another alltime high, up 2. 1 . The s p 500 up a solid 1. 5 . Important is the cyclical reopening rotation we had happening in recent weeks, often it comes at the cost of tech but that is not happen today. The nasdaq 100 is up 1 . This is a bully lock cyclical rotation on the expectation of normalizing economy this is a goldilocks cyclical rotation on the expectation of normalizing economy. I know we have been talking about whether or not it will last. If we take a look at the sectors on the month, it does suggest the cyclical rotation is on the way. Take a look at energy, up 30 . Heading toward its best monthly performance ever. That is the foam oh buying we have around that is the fomo buying we have around energy, but also financials. We have stocks off to the races. Taylor is interesting as we talk about the reflation trade in the outlook for politics. We are looking at bond yields up three basis points on the 10 year, five basis points on the 30 year that goes in
Nevertheless, there is a huge amount of false and misleading information strong winds, especially in the sloshing on line about what some south. Strong went combined with a high tide means they could be the people claim to be the risk which is chance of flooding. All the details com pletely people claim to be the risk which is completely unfounded. The potential throughout this mornings programme. Risks of taking the vaccine are its sunday the 15th of november. Unfounded. An agreement between our top story this morning is a call for social Media Companies facebook, twitter and google and to face tough financial and criminal penalties if they fail to clamp down others and government to take steps to work with Public Health on anti vaccine content. With a Coronavirus Vaccine authorities and also to sign up to a on the way, labour wants principle of not profiting from any the government to bring in emergency laws to deal with what they describe as dangerous online material. Misinformation