Box challenge sonys play station 5. Welcome to the show im Stephen Beardsley in berlin good to have you with us well there are nubile such or is growing at record pace that despite the Economic Impact of the krona virus according to the International Energy agencys annual report winds and Solar Photovoltaic panels are on course to replace coal as the largest source of Electricity Generation worldwide by 2025 and this year 90 percent of the increase on overall Power Capacity is from Clean Energy Even so analysts warn that governments are not on track to meet their paris climate agreement commitments. Now one of the Major Players in the renewable sector is Siemens Energy it was carved out of the german engineering giant just 6 weeks ago in a bid to create a smaller more Nimble Company in the surging sector of the economy. Energy released its 1st Quarterly Results today its 1st yearly results i should say with a fiscal year loss of 1900000000 euros in a moment well hear from its c. F. O.
A connector between 880 and 101. Youll have to take local roadways. Meanwhile, a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. That is looking clear for the morning commute and no major problems. A smooth drive for the other freeways outside of that. Well talk about the delays for the north bay coming up. Back over to you. This morning a rocky start for the biden transition team. A look at the white house as the president elect focuses on covid19 and health care. The Trump Administration is refusing to take the turnover heat. Attorney general william barr sent a memo to federal prosecutors around the country about investigating allegations of voting irregularities. Today in the bays tracie potts live with more details including the immediate fallout from that announcement. Tracie . Reporter and the defense secretary getting fired on twitter. There is a lot happening here in washington, but lets start with the transition thats not really transitioning right now because of some delays from the Trum
Situation there was no chance of making another decision a plan to give more details such as why and what the reason was behind last months events i cant do it right now for one simple reason because stopping military actions is the main focus right now and if i Say Something i couldnt danger people. Ethiopias Central Government has vowed to continue a military operation in the Northern Tier great region until a number of conditions and that they want the regions leaders to face trial for a new administration to be set up and for all of their missiles to be destroyed the u. S. Supreme court has begun hearing arguments in the latest challenge against the Affordable Care act the landmark legislation known as obamacare was signed into law by the former president a decade ago now President Trump and other republicans want it struck down a decision is expected by the end of june next year. Police in peru have fired tear gas to Disperse Protesters angry over the impeachment of former preside
Morning for all of these lawmakers. Bring us up to speed on whats going on now and what it means for americans who need help in the pandemic. Reporter i thought when i woke up this morning i thought it would be over and its still going on. Voterama is still going on. Marathon session to try to pass amendments for budget reconciliation. First step that needs to happen so that they can pascoe individual 19 relief without any support. Now the senate doesnt do this very often. It shows how important it is. There was one amendment that all senators agreed on except for rand paul. Targeted stimulus checks for the next round of covid19 relief. This comes as 10 senators were clear with biden they want to continue this dialogue. They want to continue talking about covid19 relief. They have concerns about his 1. 9 trillion package. They want something smaller. They want something more targeted. They sent a letter to him hoping to continue that conversation, but janet yellen has been clear, she s
Not kovach. We were introduced i tom, local scribe here years ago and ron has been very encouraging and helped me quite a bit with this book in terms ofbackground and research and so forth. Ron of course was a vietnam veteran. Most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans and i just wanted to give you background before ron and istart speaking. Before world war ii if you were paralyzed you were pretty much a dead end her, i know hope as they were called. Its the average lifespanwith 18 months for someone wounded in world war i. World war ii was the game changer. The advent of penicillin, they had surgical units right behind the battlefield, right behind the front line and they had better evacuation back to the mainland. So by the end of world war ii we do have a cohort of about 2500 us veterans who are paralyzed and returned home and they had a chance at a normal life and this was the first cohort that was going to have this and it presented a dilemma and a bit of an issu