Have want to heal with less time. Amy the u. S. Death toll from covid19 has topped 250,000 as the number of infections soar across the country. Nearly 2000 deaths in one day. But President Trump is all but missing in action. He has not attended a Coronavirus Task force meeting in five months. He continues to have no Public Meetings on his schedule. We will speak with the atlantics ed yong. Then to iran. As President Trump installs loyalists in a shakeup at the pentagon, is the president laying the groundwork to attack iran . Plus, we will look at why climate activists and progressive democrats are protesting president elect joe bidens decision to tap congressman Cedric Richmond to a Top White House post. He is the leading democrat recipient of fossil el money in congress. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The official u. S. Death toll from covid19 has passed a quarter of a Million People as the virus rages
Trumps presidency. The entire region undoubtedly will be following the biden team closely as it articulates its policy leading up to the inauguration in january. While there is a theory that the new administration focused on domestic problems needs to push back against major challenges from china will want to put the middle east on the back burner but it is not clear they can succeed. Major questions about the u. S. Approach to the ongoing in tensions in syria, with saudi arabia and turkey and what to do about israel and the palestinians will confront Vice President resident elected den whether or not he seeks biden whether or not he seeks them out. I am pleased to welcome the president of nei. , he hascademic work focused on political change and conflict as well as International Relations in the middle east region. Next i would like to welcome these senior fellow of the Turkey Program and senior fellow frontier europe initiative. I would like to welcome general hotel. He is a distingu
Chips. And, Microsoft Online Game Services hitby by an outage. Dropping amid a tuesday. N big tech the ecommerce giant amazon facing an antitrust complaint from the eu abigail, walk us through the factors dragging stocks down today. Abigail another mix today. Another down day for tech and the nasdaq 100 in particular having the worst two days and months. On the others, other sex is and indexes doing well such as the russell 2000 and other cyclically minded sectors. 4 . Worst slide, down about investors want out of this years stayathome trade. Investors charging forward into the reopening trade. Inout, inout. As for what was dragging on technology, you were talking about amazon. , in a, now down that youn, the eu talk were mentioning. This was the ultimate stayathome stock. If the economy is going to reopen, recover a little bit sooner than expected. Even as the virus numbers are worsening right now. Investors one out of amazon, one out of microsoft. Zoom, these stocks up so much on the
Have want to heal with less time. Amy the u. S. Death toll from covid19 has topped 250,000 as the number of infections soar across the country. Nearly 2000 deaths in one day. But President Trump is all but missing in action. He has not attended a Coronavirus Task force meeting in five months. He continues to have no Public Meetings on his schedule. We will speak with the atlantics ed yong. Then to iran. As President Trump installs loyalists in a shakeup at the pentagon, is the president laying the groundwork to attack iran . Plus, we will look at why climate activists and progressive democrats are protesting president elect joe bidens decision to tap congressman Cedric Richmond to a Top White House post. He is the leading democrat recipient of fossil el money in congress. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im amy goodman. The official u. S. Death toll from covid19 has passed a quarter of a Million People as the virus rages
A coronavirus. Vaccine is a final stretch, but will people in developing countries get a fair shot with your school . Lympics chief thomas buses, athletes at the tokyo games should get vaccinated against covert 19, but they wont be forced to welcome to the program, our top story, the u. S. President , donald trump, will reduce the number of u. S. Forces in afghanistan from 4 and a half 100228 half 1000 before he leaves office, but it wont be the complete withdrawal by christmas. He promised the announcement on tuesday was anticipated, and it was preceded by warnings from military officials. There any significant changes in those troop levels could potentially undermined security in afghanistan and threaten peace talks with the taliban. The number of troops in iraq will be cut by 500. The announcement was made by the acting defense secretary, christopher miller, who was installed in the post last week by january 15th, 2021, our forces, their size in afghanistan will be 2500 troops, or 4