Event today starting with the panel that you see before you which are going to focus on safeguarding Election Security to the integrity of the e Electoral Systems and process. We have a second panel that will begin at 3 15 on the problems of tackling disinformation, the implications for the Election Campaign that were in the midst of for the election in 2020. Werere delighted to be able to start off today with keynote remarks from someone whos on die front line of this, a great thlleague of mine, chris krebs, who is thee director for Cyber Security and infrastructure security of the department of ry Homeland Security. He has a whole agency he directs that is completely devoted to the subject of todays panel, and were really grateful as chris iss coming right from thei frontlines of dealing with these issues that hes got some time o to spend with us today. Chris is going to give us an overview of what the government is trying to do to tackle this issue head on. And then were going to go
Equipment. The polarized parliament in spain turns for a 4th extension to the lockdown are being challenged. Returning home thousands of Migrant Workers and india who lost their jobs just a lockdown take trains back to their villages. The u. S. Is taking another swipe at china has tensions escalate of the coronavirus pandemic in the past hour u. S. Secretary of state mark pompei are blamed china for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people around the world and he again accused beijing of covering up the outbreak of cars at 19 adding there was no true win win for the communist regime china saw then that it had an emerging Public Health crisis on its hands the new. China could have prevented the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide china could have spread the world descend into Global Economic malaise that choice but instead instead china covered up the outbreak in han its National Health commission ordered virus samples destroyed on january 3rd china disappeared brav
Protective equipment. Returning home thousands of microbrew because of india who lost their job student locked out take trains back to their villages. Israel announces a plan for thousands of illegal use settlement homes in the occupied west bank or a live update. But we begin with the growing tension between the u. S. And china over the corona Virus Outbreak beijing says the tariffs should not be used as a weapon after President Donald Trump threatened to impose the chinas also criticize the u. S. Secretary of state who said that the pathogen originated in a wool hand lab but in the city of who wants the epicenter of the outbreak more restrictions have been eased 58000 c. D. s students are going back to School Classes and smaller timings staggered and talking kept to a bit of a. In south korea children will have to wait until next week before they can go to class new inspections that have consistently declined more businesses are beginning to reopen lets start our coverage with aljaze
Opioid addiction the rich countries scooping up almost all the worlds supply of painkillers leaving africa struggling to get enough basic meds to treat patients. Alone this thursday the 26th of december on quantum radar t. G. V. Will welcome to the program u. S. Democratic president ial candidates a multibillion Michael Bloomberg admits that his campaign has used prison labor they were employed by a firm that run call centers from a private u. S. Prison for women to drum up support for his 2020 election run. We learned about this when the reporter called us but as soon as we discovered which friend a subcontractor had done this we immediately ended our relationship with the company and the people who hire them imagine being so rich you have people who have people who have prisoners to do stuff for you agence being so rich you dont even bother to check what you are spending millions of dollars on. Rita rating we sat in did when we learn a vendor of a vendor of a vendor use prison labor
Alltime high, President Trump signed an interim trade deal ahead of that the agreement averts new tariffs on chinese goods that were due to kick in this weekend. It is 4 00 a. M. In the u. K. I am Tracy Alloway in hong kong. You are watching the pound this morning. As soon as we got the exit poll, that was six hours ago, suggested we would see a big majority for Boris Johnson. Everything we have seen seems to confirm we all we will see a big majority for Boris Johnson. The pound goes higher, up by 2. 4 . The euro falls against the pound. We have not just been covering the brexit ramifications. There is also the trade narrative, progress between the u. S. And china. That is having an impact on agricultural products. There are two walls crumbling friday. One is the redwall and the other is the proverbial wall of worries for investors. Look at the price of soybean futures, those are surging off the back of speculation that lots of add products will be bought by ag products will be bought