Moving more towards corporate interests or is it more in the idea of a traditional but just a very democracies are powerline with the people this case demonstrates that struggle in the very real ways a struggle on oxy. Max kaiser this is the kaiser report although i think this is our 3rd ministration weve been doing the show for going on 12 years anyway you know big thing in 20202016 was d. Dollars a dig lobel ization and now its all coming to a head stays right were going to talk about the dollar is ation it really started with when our guest jim rickards who you know has many books about currency wars and things like that and hes also an advisor to the cia on currency wars and obama under his administration i think it was in 2009 or 10 he weaponize the dollar openly and aggressively on the world stage which is swift he ran off in the swift system and at that time jim rickards had said to us well you know he agreed with it because he doesnt like iran and hes an iranian a hawk on iran
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia were glad you could join us talks are set to resume this week concerning the future of afghanistan with negotiators from the government and also the taliban among the different stakeholders they call it a peace deal but that hope seems less and less apt instead we have seen a string of targeted killings across afghanistan specifically of the educated elite the kind of people the country badly needs such as government workers and those in Civil Society these include judges doctors and journalists including television anchor malala my wand who was gunned down last month. Miller ghouls wife was murdered by the taliban years ago now their daughter has also been killed malala my wife and was one of the few female journalists in afghanistan until she was shot dead last month in cold blood. She was brutally murdered for no reason at all her only crime was that she spoke the truth and fought against injustice to give her life because she wanted to help othe
A lot worse than it is a lot worse than the 1st pandemic wave weve seen here in germany so far so there is a will to find a new baseline of whether that will mean a departure downwards from the target formula of 50 infections per 100000 habitants in the space of 7 days down to probably 25 or something i very much doubt but theres a willingness to act and i would expect us to see more tightening of measures on top of that extension that is already a given here. Function of death rates also alarmingly high here in germany where has the Government Strategy gone wrong. Well you say still but we actually saw more deaths in december pretty much the same number of deaths than weve seen in the entire pandemic period before that and that just highlights that germany simply wasnt braced for this that legally there were not tough enough measures in place in time to prevent this wave to flatten this 2nd which is a tsunami compared to the 1st one and here there are a lot of question marks at the mo
Slumming in new york. Our slowing in new york. Thea raises the heat on next u. S. Administration, blocking Mainland Companies from having to follow what it calls unjustified foreigns nest laws. Foreign business laws. Haidi new zealand on the back foot on reports of a data breach at the rbnz, but australia, looking at the start of trading in sydney. Aussie shares rising toward a 10 month high. Last week, closed with bank and held shares gaining, the best week since early november. We are seeing modest upside, less than 1 10 of 1 at the open. Had u. S. Stocks, including the s p 500, closing at franchise, and the nasdaq outperforming on hopes that more stimulus will come through with the democratic majority in the pretty poorite labor market numbers last week. Shery we are watching developments in the u. S. It is resident comes final we can the white house and sources say he is planning a defiant stand despite being blocked on social media, resignations by senior aides and mounting calls
Governors for the Federal Reserve system. Sherrod brown will then offer closing remarks. Before we dive in, a few words of introduction. Climate change is one of the Biggest Challenges we face in the coming years. Havoc andaked destroyed lives and livelihoods. It is already happening. Earlier this year, our west coast was on fire, almost 10 million acres went up in flames, over twice the amount in 2019. Firesf the top 20 largest in californias history happened this year. We have witnessed an increase in her connectivity in her connectivity. B hurricane activity. This damage, the economic damage is staggering. Between 1980 and 2019, there were roughly six natural disasters per year where damage because exceeded 1 billion. An overall annual Economic Loss on average of about 45 billion per year. In the last two years of that time, but between 17 and 2019, we averaged 15 natural disasters per year at an annual Economic Loss well over 150 billion. As the impact of Climate Change intensifies