Deeply divided splitting america politically economically and culturally this is a journey through this socalled land of opportunity. Writers filmmakers and talk refers capture of the current mood in the states. Our 1st stop is new york city. And. New york used to be the city that never sleeps that was before coastlines and the pandemic seems past its peak air but in the big apple is still far from being back to normal. On weekends when the weather is good people can at least gather and central part they were masks keeps a. Donald trump during his election. James even back then few well known artists and intellectuals supported him and this hasnt changed sense of the now for years nature when people know what to expect warnings about reelecting trump us president s have grown more urgent. And weve come to new york to meet 3 of the most renowned authors in the country to find out what they expect and lying about. Paul auster. The beginning of the. Democracy as we go into the city of hou
Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Caro Quintanilla with jon fortt. Deirdre is with us for the hour. Nasdaq is trying to come back after a couple of days of losses as we turn our attention once again to covid levels in the United States. Were going to start the hour, though, with alibaba, a big drop for the stock despite these new sales records on this singles day. Hi, eunice hey, carl live streamers in china are wrapping up whats been a very long day pitching to Chinese Consumers and it seems as though the efforts have paid off. For alibaba, the value of the orders that crossed the site have just come in at just shy of a 500 billion, about 75 billion u. S. Dollars these numbers cap an extended 11day campaign thats a little different this time around not the usual 24hour singles day shopping extravaganza. There were some interesting trends that we saw that were generally pandemic related, where consumers were looking to buy goods that they probably would be buying if th
A kind. Enough to get us and we need to show what young people are up to because they have less scope than previous generations they have less scope to show what theyre doing even though they currently writing cuban history. At the moment. To many outsiders have an eye has a ragged but romantic image a place of fading glory where time has stood still. But it also has pockets of progress where young cubans are striving into the future with confidence and a sense of purpose and they want the world to know cuba now has access to the internet and while that may be sluggish and expensive its having a huge impact. On us and we know whats happening in the world its torn down barriers created a bridge across the ocean that surrounds us theres an explosion of creativity its like a jolt of electricity. Yeah yeah get arrow has also been profiled in davos. Shes a surfer. Another male dominated domain here in cuba. But as you may have it at this you make amulets guys told me to surf somewhere else
Drop them in the chat room. Voting is on everyones mind at the moment in with the coronavirus especially more voters than ever are trying mailin ballots are voting early and as we are talking about our usual voting methods so many things have moved to on line and people are asking will voting become digital as well . I want to start the conversation by asking why would you even want to on line voting and i will say im coming from Seattle Washington where we have a robust mailin ballots system and its quite easy. I think the appeal is enormous. In theory its largely been attempted in this country for military servicemembers and it could be used for people with disabilities who f dont have a lot of access to the polls. I think if we somehow had a robust on line Voting System that would drastically increase participation and the bigger question than how we would get there. This country doesnt have great numbers of people who show up on election day and many people are so engaged. They are
Enough for winter. The red carpet will tell you how the largest Film Festival in asia is getting around the pandemic. To begin in nigeria where protesters against Police Brutality are defying a 24 hour curfew and a call for calm by president mohamed who bihari. On wednesday morning Security Forces in lagos opened fire after several demonstrators were reportedly shot dead on tuesday in another part of nigerias commercial capital a large fire burned at a bus station. The videos are emerging of men in uniform opening fire and killing people in lagos on tuesday but Security Forces deny any involved but lets go live now to the capital of to challenge a series of address but whats the latest youre hearing from labels. Well as a street still not safe for people but residents some residents are out on the streets they have been reported cases of looting in other parts of lagos apart from the violence weve seen the arson we saw on the bus station there were also reports of of course confront na