Worlds attention will look at how Silicon Valley and the world of finance has really failed black people talk to the c. E. O. To fund black businesses. And state backed Cyber Attacks theyre nothing new but theyre also on the rise during the pandemic and the targets are the vaccine makers and the bar. These are i think we can all agree extraordinary times but zoom out and youll see the big picture is just as unpredictable were focusing on europe this week which is that a bit of a crossroads when you consider the pandemic as well as an expansive china and a retreating United States as we know President Trump has a habit of undermining his allies he surprised a lot of people by saying he plans to withdraw 9 and a half 1000 troops from germany and a decision to expand sanctions on a gas pipeline from russia to germany has been met with anger and belin. It is the rising threat from the east looming large not only chinas human rights record its aggression towards its neighbors but fears that
The start of trading this morning after long Holiday Weekend, Dow Jones Industrial average better 500 points and s p 500 is also higher by 56 and nasdaq up 174. This after the dow, nasdaq and the s p 500 closed tout week of gains of better than 3 on the week as you see across the board. Another milestone today, the floor of the New York Stock Exchange will reopen but not quite business as usual. A look at the new restrictions coming up this morning. And turning to the 2020 race, former Vice President joe biden looks to take on President Trump on the economy, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria the easing of lockdowns and optimism of Vaccine Developments leads to gain this morning. Ftse 100 up 87, cac quarante in paris is up 63 and dax index in germany higher by 79. Spain announcing it is opening to foreign visitor this is july and germany ready to lift travel restrictions for other European Countries. In ash asia overnight markets looked like this. Planning another round of st
Hong kong some of those people whove been detained as young as 14 years old many schoolchildren were participating in todays disturbances and of course they are jeopardizing University Prospects as well as Career Prospects now hong kongs government has warned that its prepared to continue cracking down hard if the protesters continue to defy warnings to stay off the streets because what was happening in the Central Business district on wednesday was of course and Illegal Assembly taiwans president has thrown her support behind the protesters in hong kong promising to provide humanitarian aid for prodemocracy activists saying when says the island which has its own struggles with chinese sovereignty well continue to back efforts towards democracy and freedom its the most concrete show of support by taiwan in recent months. The u. S. President says hes working on a strong response to chinas planned National Security law in hong kong is threats has prompted this reaction from the Chinese F
Its hard to tell what normal even means at this point how will the college 19 ordeal changed the way we run our politics economy and social relations well it just doesnt amount joined by William Robinson professor of sociology at the university of california at Santa Barbara professor romans and its good to talk to you thank you for your time thank you for having me on i can see that youre also connecting with us from your whole no no the only one you have in a whole order war almost a month. What its been like for you. Well were on yeah were on lockdown the University Closed over a month ago in the 1st week of march and we moved to Online Education i mean this is a completely different light we know wont last forever but i also think that were never going to go back to normalcy it will be by normalcy is great pandemic now youve been writing about the perils of capitalism globalization for many years and i think its fair to say that youve been pretty sure radical about it by the standa
Hard to tell what normal even means at this point how will the college 19 ordeal change the way we run our politics economy and social relations well it just doesnt amount joined by William Robinson professor of sociology at the university of california at Santa Barbara professor romans and its good to talk to you thank you for your time thank you for having me on i can see that youre also connecting with us you know a whole no no the only one you have in a whole order or almost a month. What its been like for you. Well were on yeah were on lockdown the University Closed over a month ago in the 1st week of march and we moved to Online Education i mean this is a completely different light we know wont last forever but i also think that were never going to go back to normalcy it will be by normalcy is great. And now youve been writing about the perils of capitalism globalization for many years and i think its fair to say that youve been traditionally radical about it by the standards of