Plus of chinas on manned spacecraft rockets to the moon and its mission to bring back lunar rocks. We asked an expert on space relations. What chinas ambitious launch means for the global space rightist. Im rebecca written. Welcome to the program. 3 weeks after the u. S. And lection president elect joe biden has finally been given the green light to start the transition process. President donald trump tweeted on tuesday that he was directing his administration to cooperate in the handover process. Is the closest hes come to conceding defeat. Meanwhile, biden has pushed ahead and began announcing nominations for his own administration. Looking for president ial president elect joe biden officially revealed his picks for the top positions of his cabinet, monday, signaling his readiness to take over the helm. Bidens Foreign Policy and National Security choices mark a clear shift away from trumps america 1st doctrine. Instead, a lot of familiar faces from the Obama Administration. So many
The global stage. And we just heard minister come qanbar also, you know, taking that line with a biden and his administration starting in january. What does that mean for the e. U. . I think the e. U. Sees that also as an opportunity because they have a huge agenda of things that have not worked with the trumpet ministration on trade on technology that are no open for agreement. Its clear that theyre 1st looking at the low hanging fruit areas in Technology Cooperation for instance, that might be easier to get. But also in trade, when the tariffs that were punitive against European Companies might simply be now abolished. And one could be green again on deeper cooperation and a joint under the joint approach. When it comes to meeting china rises specially in the area of technology. Theres so much the europeans and the americans are going to do together, and they need to better forwards for their concerts, where they can talk to each other, but also a willingness to cooperate and to an u
Evidence that congress pandemic spending is riddled with corruption. But critics trying to hold the powerful to account for fear they will soon be silenced. As welcome to the program. 3 weeks after the u. S. Election, the president elect joe biden has finally been given the green light to start the transition process. President donald trump tweeted on tuesday that he was directing his administration to cooperate in the handover process. Its the closest hes come to d. C. Conceding defeat. Meanwhile, biden has pushed ahead and begun announcing nominations for his own administration. President elect joe biden efficiently revealed his picks for the top positions of his cabinet, monday, signaling his readiness to take over the helm. Bidens Foreign Policy and National Security choices mark a clear shift away from trumps america 1st doctrine. Instead, a lot of familiar faces from the Obama Administration. So many that some are calling it the Obama Administration 2. 0. The choice is signaled b
Morticians. Welcome to do that. You could join us. China launched a rocket today to the moon seeking to bring samples of luna rocks and dust back to the john 5 name for the ancient chinese moon goddess. Took off successfully from china. Its the 1st mission in 4 decades. And if successful, it would make china only the 3rd country to bring back samples from the moon after the u. S. And the former soviet union. And for more on this launch, im joined by mark mccall cohen, Senior Advisor for science, an exploration of the European Space agency. Marc welcome and rocks have been brought back from the moon before. What is the scientific importance of this mission . Well, as you know, the Apollo Missions and also soviet Unmanned Missions brought back rocks in the sixtys and seventys. But where the Chinese Mission is going is actually interesting. Its a much younger region of the moon than the Previous Missions have been to the top of a volcano, a very smooth, flat volcano, not a spike, but its
European neighboring countries to germany but even so our peoples freedoms was still much more limited compared to what now and the last thing that merkel wants to do so what shes calling on people to do is use their common sense now and maybe dont go to that party that you were planning on going to or maybe cancel that Birthday Celebration you are planning for next week but do that of your on your own accord dont wait for that to be an actual new rule in place and what signs are there that the germans will actually heed this call well anecdotally speakon even just traveling around bowl in the last couple of days coming up on the underground even to work today its very clear that not everyone is following even the most basic of rules which have been in place now for months whether its Wearing Masks on public transport or in enclosure shops still a lot of people not wearing them properly are told it will not necessarily keep in the distance where they could as well and so thats even wit