Americas Largest School system closed. The Ripple Effect of our kid being sent back home and a cnbc special investigation. Faster payments mean faster fraud. Criminals using popular apps to launder cash meant for americans. Good evening more good news to report on the vaccine front tonight and it comes at a dire point in the pandemic just an hour ago we got word the United States has now topped more than a quarter Million Deaths thats more than strokes, suicide and car crashes typically kill in a full year. The virus killed more than 1,700 americans yesterday alone. Johns hopkins reports its the deadliest day in six months. In addition, hospitalizations hit another high more than 76,000 people in the hospital for covid, according to the covid tracking project by nearly every available metric, the pandemic is worse than ever, everywhere across the country. For months new york city kept its positivity level very low. Now its rising and forcing the Largest School District Court in the nat
Good day. Welcome to the Hudson Institute. Im todd linberg, a seen the yor fe senior fellow here. Were having a conversation today with peter burkowitz, the developer of planning at the state department. Peter is on leave from the stanford university, peters undergraduated years, he has an m. A. In philosophy from the Hebrew University in jerusalem, and then a j. D. And ph. D. From yale. And so hes obviously rather overqualified for any position he finds himself in. But were glad hes able to join us today to talk about this report. The elements of the china challenge. This is a report by the policy planning staff in the office of the secretary of state. Ill just say a word or two about that office. The policy planning staff is an office within the secretarys office. So it is tasked principally by the secretary to undertake such research and policy planning, indeed, as he zeem deems fit and this staff is, of course, a political appointee and has led the office since early in 2019. Let m
Things compounding the humanitarian disaster. Here is the sheer look goodness of the mountainous country. The refugees were taught home to nagornokarabakh because russian peacekeepers secured the only routes in linking the region to our media team takes the trip. Untested safety. Youre watching out international, beside say the one thing, 19th. But good to have your company. Well, blood lost and competition killing may have provoked Australian Special forces to murder 39. 00 afghan civilians that acquiring has found that out. And some killings appear to be part of an initiation ritual. For new troops. There is credible information, the junior soldiers required by their patrol commanders to shoot a prisoner in order to achieve the soldiers 1st kill in a practice that was known as bloody. So essentially, the general idea behind this report is that some rogue soldiers, some rogue members of the most elite, the strain is unit s. A. s, that they have been fusing excellence, military excelle
Supporting the occupation and pakistans Prime Minister visits afghanistan for the 1st Time Since Taking Office and pledges to help promote peace there. And joining us go with sports, as leno messi returns to spain and says hes tired of always being blamed for the problems of oslo. No thank you very much for joining as we start this news hour with the coronavirus pandemic and the race to find a vaccine. British pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca says its phase 2 trials show promise in protecting the most at risk groups. A strong immune response was shown in those aged over 70. The vaccine is being developed in partnership with oxford university, and its now in the final stage of human testing to confirm those findings that a positive news on the vaccine front comes as cases continue to rise. More than 2000000. 00 cases have been before today in africa, but low rates of testing means the caseload is thought to be much higher across the continent. In the past cases of increased compared to
Morning, thevember imf is direct. There is real risk to any form of international recovery. They look at the pandemic data, they look at the gdp data, and they look at the lack of fiscal stimulus nation to nation. This time is different. These headlines are original before a g20 meeting, but we got to get right to this. This is a real wakeup call of the immediacy into december. Fromhan its an echo chairman powell and president lagarde over the last few days as well. I think market dispenser quick to untangle be shortterm from the longterm, to bear their hope in the sands of in the back end of 2021. I think what policymakers are suggesting is that the shortterm matters. It can shape what the longterm looks like area when you look at the balance of risks, they are tilted aggressively to the downside. Abramowicz, this headline, elevated asset values point to Financial Stability risk, and i am surprised that is a judgment by imf on where fixed income and equities are. Lisa this is somethin