Opposition activists. Amongst the younger generation. To all corners of the globe this is international i mean to me im taking you through the big stories of the day. First this hour tributes are pouring in for the legendary american t. V. Radio host laurie king who has died at the age of 87. Laurie was admitted to hospital earlier this month after testing positive for kobe had 19 in a career spelling more than 6 decades he interviewed many world changing figures including kings and queens president s and prime ministers movie stars sporting legends and every day people with extraordinary stories to tell the new york native became the muster interviewer for generations of journalists following in his fathers that Saskia Taylor looks back at his incredible career a voice on a name that that became an institution larry king was the indisputable master of the microphone and a case in point the when you find a job you enjoy doing that youll never have to walk a day in your life are going t
Because the s p 500 is down a little bit more than it had been , down poured 4 . Earlier it had been down. 1 . Perhaps a reason for caution overall to think maybe the difficulties around the nearterm may continue to move ahead. If we look at havens on the week, we have the yen climate against the dollar and bonds higher. Some reason for caution, but small moves. David one piece of news overnight. Late yesterday we heard Steven Mnuchin had sent a letter to his friend jay powell saying please give us back the money we gave you for the emergency Lending Programs. He probably did not like jay powell do not like that much. Did the markets like that . Abigail we have not seen much of reaction. Bonds are lower which means yields are higher. What is interesting is we do have a reaction for the financials. The financials typically would climb on yields going higher, but they are not. There i be uncertainty around this bat and what it means. The lifeblood of this rally coming out of the march lo
The committee will come to order. Thank you all for coming today, i dont think all of you for being here. It is our honor to have the deputy secretary of state here to testify on u. S. Policy regarding peoples republic of china. I originally defaulting back in march, however, our need to focus on the Community Protests from doing that. It is important this committee continue its work on its most committing Foreign Policy challenges, obviously china is one of those. As a complete mistrust correctly recognized, china is a strategic in global competitor of the United States. It would be the greatest Foreign Policy challenge the United States faces in decades to come. Policies of the Chinese Communist party undermine u. S. Interests and values, as we share with partners around the world. Covid19 has brought this challenge the fork front of american life. We now know just how much the Chinese Communist partys decisions and actions directly affect u. S. Citizens, our allies and partners in t
British welcome to the program and get america is set to address the German Parliament shortly as the country begins to slowly ease restrictions imposed due to the corner about us and were going to return the chancellor to begin his speech in parliament at the bundestag the parliament is chief political editor. But in a good morning what can we expect from am going to make that speech today. Well i would expect her to once again address m. P. s but also the public directly to take personal responsibility shes greatly concerned that the initial easing of restrictions here in germany which means that shops can really open up to a certain size and some pupils and students can actually take exams and return to school could lead to an easing of the feeling about what kind of threat they coronavirus is in germany she warns that this crisis isnt over and i would expect her to prepare the ground for a new normal that would see germany live with the virus rather than be able to beat it any time
Across talking of multipolar world im joined by my guest james detritus in washington hes a former u. S. Diplomat and former advisor to the u. S. Senate Republican Leadership also in washington brian becker he is director of the answer coalition as well as host of loud and clear daily new show on radio or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate james let me go to you 1st im the reason why i want to do this program at the end of the year is because we tend to look at events in a micro fashion you know whats going on in this country that country Trump Administration brags that you know which of course we do in the news media but i sometimes think that we love we missed the very big very big pictures of whats going on and the major changes that are happening around the globe and and the International System and this whole idea of multipolar world which is kind of foreboding to talk about in western media because by default