Our correspondent is in the. Region. The wall street used to be bustling with. Visit each other. To the children. We hear from a series who are taking shelter in. Their shelling us now with. One week ago. And. It was impossible to take anything from the. From moscow to the world this is our Teacher National from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome to the program get to those headlines stories in just a moment but some news just in from france president mccrone has announced some drastic new measures to country a surge in coronavirus cases the details are starting from saturday night the paris region marsay to lose and several other cities will be placed under a nightly curfew from 9 pm to 6 am its believed that will run for at least 4 weeks and people will have to remain in their homes during those times those who break the curfew will be fined 135. 00 euro which goes up for repeat violations there are similar penalties for failing to wear a mask a state of emergency ha
Question is not just with business as usual its possible with any business with the European Union. Just a few moments into a brand new day income. Right here in moscow this thursday october the 15th welcome to r. T. International you know. We start in france where president. New rules to be applied to power us. Major cities in response to cope 19 a nighttime curfew will be enforced from this coming weekend for a minimum of 4 weeks. If. We have made a decision to impose a curfew it will be in force in the paris region and 8 other french cities well this all came of course as it was declared that france was moving into a new state of Health Emergency something that had subsided back in the summer when the numbers of cases had gone down but that is now back president marc on took to the stage to address the French Public on wednesday night to talk about the new stricter measures that would come into place he said he didnt want to infant allies people to treat people like children but he
Its at the 27,000 level, up from 18,000 in march. Check your 401 k and smile. Whats going on here . Well, first theres a lot of talk about congress adding to the president s virus aid. The democrats made a big mistake walking away from mr. Trump from any deal, allowing the president to jump right in. Wall street would love another trillion or two of stimulus. Here we go. Can you believe this. Putin says russia has a vaccine. They have not finished Clinical Trials but his daughter has taken it. Im a skeptic. When the news broke, it did lift stock prices. We will tell you all we know. I do know this. Tim cook is a billionaire. He owns a chunk of the most valuable company in the world. Bernie sanders might not approve but i think its good to see a brilliant executive join the billionaires club. He and apple are wildly successful. All right. Look whats coming up. Maybe joe bidens choice for Vice President , maybe today. Hes boxed himself into an identity politics corner. A prediction that
Good evening. Im andrew, the director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the bush school of government here e at texas a and m. University. I would like to welcome our special event this evening with kim ghattas who is going to speak of the recent book, black wave saudi arabia, iran and the fortyyear rivalry that unleashed collective memory in the middle east. I have to say i spent the weekend reading it. I didnt quite get through but i couldnt put it down it was so interesting. If you havent read it after this evening you can get the book if you havent already but i would urge you to read it to be at its fascinating and very wellwritten and very well researched. There was a narrative thats very troubling. I would like to announce that our event with ambassador dennis ross is another expert in the middle east is unable to come to college station. Hcollege station. He had a family emergency and so kim ghattas is an awardwinning journalist and writer covered the middl
Longtimlongtime no see. I am thrilled to be moderating just about the most distinguished panel anyone could assemble foreignpolicy to my extreme right, max boot, i should say he used to be to my extreme right. [laughter] only on this stage in my twoyear extreme right. Not so much anymore. He is known to all of you as a prolific writer of columns for the Washington Post in the commentator on cnn, distinguished author of biographies and books on the military, i have a personal note to add, max was my first of the wall street journal and he was the best boss i have ever had and who was a good model for me on a personal basis for that reason for many years. You will notice he will get all the easy questions today. [laughter] jim fallows, well known to all of you as a distinguished writer for the atlantic, previous incarnation he was president carters chief speechwriter for a couple of years before winning a National Book award for his book on national defense, his career has taken him all