Good morning and good afternoon from brussels and the 15th edition we are very pleased to welcome you secretary ofnd state Michael Pompeo for a special conversation we have hosted the secretary be for and are pleased to have him back again which is a closely watched conversation on those critical challenges on both sides of thend atlantic. Let me say a word of thanks toou our partners into all associate we are grateful to all of them also a very special thank you to the European Union and all three missions for their consistent partnership also let me say about the forum today, the secretary will make some brief remarks that we are pleased to turn this over for a conversation you have a conversation with the secretary then he has kindly agreed to take a few questions so once again thank you for being with us and brussels thank you for joining. Thank you welcome to secretary of state to tell us what is on his mind i and then i will take some questions from the audience. Please go ahead.
But never this kind of. The Award Winning journalist maria ressa failing to appeal her conviction of cyber liable by a court in the philippines she says the ruling is meant to silence critics of president. And funding the vaccine the German Government by 23 percent stake in the german biotech firm. Its the same company that the u. S. Government reportedly trying to buy. Our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we start tonight in the United States with a big victory for the community the Supreme Court in the u. S. Has ruled that it is. Legal to fire workers based on their Sexual Orientation or their gender identity the court said the nations landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act which bars Workplace Discrimination based on sex also protects gay and transgender people the vote was 6 to 3 with 2 of the courts conservative justices joining with the courts 4 liberal justices in that majority decision. And there have been reactions coming in on social media app
Restrictions still in place will enough tourists come to give the countrys economy a much needed boost. And as a reporter is 86. 00 and ive worked in so many countries around the world ive been shot at and threatened but never this kind of death by a 1000 parts of the philippine journalist Mario Breslau is convicted of cyber libel press freedom advocates say her case is meant to intimidate critics of president. Im going to have you with us the German Government plans to take a 23 percent stake in the private Biotech Company which is working on a 1000 vaccine that stake will cost 300000000 euros based in germany and is about to begin. Clinical trials for a Coronavirus Vaccine later this month heres a closer look at a company thats attracting both scientific and political interest. Q. Evacuees one of the big hopes when it comes to developing a vaccine against the coronavirus its method is particularly promising now the German Government has taken a 20 percent stake in the Company Giving
Emmy winning legal journalist former prosecutor and he joins us from atlanta thanks very much for being with us well good to see you all right Legal Protection for consumers a workers for example can a business terminate a worker when they reopen and they worker is fearful for his help and doesnt come into work. This is i mean we are opening up pandoras box of issues with all this larry this is going to be so difficult to ferret through because everyone is concerned about liability right and everyones concerned about rock and eye opening and if someones not coming in how do i get my business to run if employees more come in but the employees concerned about their own health i think are an unchartered waters here larry because Everything Else that is happening in your talk about government shutdowns emergency orders things are moving so quickly it always takes our legal system time to catch up and i dont think we know how its going to turn out i think women have these issues got to have
Shape out of disdain he comes to advocate and in the game equals betrayal. When so many find themselves worlds apart when shes to look for common ground. Greetings and sell you. When surveying the wide field of news these days one can stumble upon a 1000000 different plot lines whether its another bumbled u. S. Led tempt in venezuela this time using former u. S. Soldiers turned mercenaries to the very real surveillance state inspired fears that are gaining ground with each new revelation coming out of the u. S. Government and silicon valleys plans for potential Contact Tracy but its the plotline that is with unfolding in the african country of somalia since the birth of 2020 that we will focus on today in particular its the very under reported fact that since january 1st 2020 the United States government through the pentagons Africa Command has been conducting a brutal barrage of air strikes inside the battered nation just security dot com reports that in the 1st few months of 2020 the