Years. And lots to come on the show. Two big ceo interviews on the back of earnings in a few minutes well speck to the owner of Outback Steakhouse blooking brands and later the ceo of boston beer will join us that stock surging after the truly hard seltzer brand helped boost sales. Looking forward to both of those interviews were down. 6 lets get to the big stories were watching meg tirell has more on the signing. And mike san totoli is joining s meg, let aers start with youen that executive order news. Hi. Drug pricing hasnt been in the conversation as much this year as the drug industry has been racing to develop vaccines and drugs for covid19 but the president reportedly planning to sign an executive order with a few different aspects on drug price this is afternoon. One could be allowing importation of drugs from canada where theyre price moored cheaply. Another could focus on tying prices to basket of prices from other wealthy countries. And a third could focus on providing free i
Has ordered china to close one of its most important consulates in the United States you see it there in the video the fires burning are apparently the folks there in the embassy burning some of their personal papers the chinese consulate in Houston Texas is shut down and china is responding with an apparent ultimatum already wow this shutdown of the consulate is only the latest sign in a growing trend of countries being punished by the u. S. State department in fact its not just china. As of this writing the United States has a whopping 7967. 00 sanctions and place 7967. 00 sanctions its a somewhat bizarre and almost a stunt to shing list that includes not to. Countries but even individuals People Stores Small Companies and tire corporations governments types of governments even branches of governments the usual suspects of course on the sanctions list are countries like iran and north korea russia venezuela turkey on and off and now the biggest target of all china but then there are
People the right to end their own lives even if they are not suffering from any medical condition. The u. S. Accuses china of sponsoring. American Companies Working on a vaccine for 900. On the back with more headlines in about an hours time but right now it is news with rick sanchez coming up. Live from the World Headquarters of the r t america our Nations Capital this is the news with rick sanchez. Hi everybody im rick sanchez i want to welcome all of you who are watching us from all over the world including those of you who are watching us on your phones using the portable t. V. You are there this morning in a dramatic escalation at apparent breach of diplomatic protocols the. U. S. Has ordered china to close one of its most important consulates in the United States you see it there in the video the fires burning are apparently the folks there in the embassy burning some of their personal papers the chinese consulate in Houston Texas is shut down and china is responding with an appa
Sound man is accused of sending a hit squad to canada to try to kill a former top intelligence official and that all suit filed in the u. S. And americas powerful National Rifle Association Gun lobby group is being sued and threatened with disillusion for alleged financial mismanagement. Are new warnings that the sports news is the biggest all star to donald trump the president says he tones off what he sees social justice protest before but says he couldnt care less who hear from him. Now french president emmanuel background has called for a new political order and lebanon while announcing measures to help beirut recover from its massive port explosion has been meeting with lebanese political leaders after surveying damage from that blast on tuesday mccrone said health work as a. It meant an International Aid will all be sent to the country over the coming days now in addition to announcing a global Fund Raising Conference he also said urgent reforms and levanon on needed just. What i
Parliamentary elections a poll that could cement the president s grip on power. Remembering the victims of hiroshima japan marks 75 years since the worlds 1st atomic bomb which killed a 140000 people. To the sport go 1st major coronavirus pandemic gets on the word as the worlds greatest players compete at the p. G. A. Championship. French president emanuel macron has pledged his support during a visit to beirut 2 days after a large explosion devastated parts of the lebanese capital hes visited the harbourside blast zone where angry crowds have vented their anger the government told them that french aid would not go to corrupt hands and that hell negotiate a new political pact with lebanese traitors. Its similar to our its my duty to help you as a people to bring you medicine to make sure you are fed and to help you reconstruct i can guarantee to be transparent and i will guarantee you will not go into corrupt hands. 7 while the explosion on tuesday destroyed the citys port where more t