A highly volatile quantity of Ammonium Nitrate but inside 3 years in a warehouse of port officials warned of the dangers posed warnings that were systematically ignored but would anything change in the aftermath would anyone ever be held to account for and sympathy arrived in the shape of frances emmanuelle macro only he brought an uncompromising message theres no blank check he told people if your Political Class fails we wont come to lebanons aid and fail it did days later the government resigned not only did the politicians have no answers they had like so many before them simply given up who would now fill the vacuum. Hello and welcome to this special edition of conflict zone over the last 4 years weve interviewed several senior lebanese politicians about the inexorable breakdown of vera qana me and their state institutions what they told us provides an unusually clear insight into the reasons for lebanons intractable crisis we sort of answers to some key questions what has gone wr
Killings of other americans names are now known for theched come awfully i in which they died. Eric garner, Michael Brown so some others whose names we do not know, all part of a n system thas not refls not the high side use o in fac it reflects the darkness of our past our president reflects racism and equal justice under the law. We aret in American History that is theca crossroads,mericans all 50 states, are engaging in some types of action of protest whether its on social media platforms or in the middle of the pandemic out in the streets. And the choice we have right now before us as this face of americans of all lot of folks want to reduce the approaches that are coming a democratic approach. Ill tell you right now this is not a choice between one side of an aisle or another. It is a choice between meaningful reforms in this moment are making symbolic gestures that will do nothing to save peoples lives. Its a choice between actio are proposing is not new. These are reforms that h
Hong kong are extraordinary, and the Prime Minister says he will take many citizens into the united kingdom. Is that right . Than 3absolutely, more million potentially hong kong citizens are being allowed citizenship in the united kingdom. Extraordinary developments in hong kong. Not a lot of clarity and it is difficult to see where the risks actually lie. Whether it is easy to abuse or difficult to apply. Tom i agree with you, strongly. I think there has been an getting totion of their friday morning, of getting into the weekend and the experience of each and every day. Our team in hong kong is working on that. Working on that 24 7. Now with our continued reports, our first word news, in new york city, here is ritika gupta. Ritika for the first time, u. S. Daily coronavirus cases rose above 50,000. There were increases in big states including texas, florida and california. California halted more reopenings as did new york city. Becoming is increasingly a disease of the young. Todays m
Surge here. Well speak with the mayor in miami and about the spike with the virus. And an ammicable separation. Match group completing the spinoff. Parent company iac last week theyll discuss the strategy Going Forward and Online Dating during the pandemic. Lets focus on the big stories of bob pisani has the stories. Meg terrell has updates on the coronavirus and Brian Sullivan is covering Warren Buffetts new bet on the energy space. Bob, lets start with you and the markets. Yeah. The important thing about today is were up nicely but were up on lighter volume it is deteriorating a little bit from the earlier part of the day. Were once again falling back upon dependence on the mega cap tech names technology, computer services, Consumer Discretionary all of them tech oriented or continuing to lead the overall market Consumer Discretionary as i mentioned, banks still on the upside not as much as the overall Market Energy has fallen back that was an early leader i keep mentioning the mega
Or. Muslims around the world are urged to observe social distancing at the start of the holy month of ramadan. Welcome to the Program Leaders from around the world have announced that theyre teaming up to develop and deliver a Coronavirus Vaccine will be accessible to all the program its being called a landmark collaboration work will start with a global pledging effort next month aimed at raising 8000000000. 00 the un and politicians all stressed the need to make any vaccine widely available to everyone there was a notable absence of course from the meeting of the United States which says it has no official involvement the. Chief said its important that all tools used for fighting the virus are available to everyone. But experience has stored as that even when tools are available they had been not been equally available to all we cannot allow that to happen today doubly sure is proud to be uniting with many partners to launch the axis 19. 00 accelerator or the act accelerator this is