Spreading the next few months could be challenging. Approach with caution. Jay powell warning over economic challenges, despite the prospect of coronavirus vaccine. Treasury yields fall amid growing concerns around the pandemic. California joins texas reaching one million infections. U. S. Election Officials Say the vote was the most secure in u. S. History. Bandss President Trump investment in firms controlled by chinas military. What a week. Clarity in the u. S. Election. A hope old date on a vaccine. We are ending the week with a surge in covid cases. A push poll between the euphoria of a vaccine versus the pandemic. We wake up to french hospitalizations breaking a record. California joining texas surpassing one million infections. Chicago, the latest u. S. To issue a stayathome advisory. The mayor saying, this is literally a matter of life or death. Lets take a look at how this is playing out into markets. A stunning week. We have covid weighing on equities. Into session feeding fe
Casts. Next on American History tv Richard Belle talks about the declaration of independence. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this event. Dr. Bell presented many outstanding programs for us on topics relating to early American History and the American Revolutionary period in the course of the past several years. He got his degree from the university of cambridge. He is an associate professor of history in college park where he specializes in early American History. The American Society of 18th century studies be stowed thash course design award on the under graduate course. And his book, stolen, it is a true story about five boys kidnapped in the north and smuggled into slavery in the deep south and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice being published in october. So thank you again for joining us, and help many welcome dr. Rick bell. Thanks to heather and cspan for covering this. Many of you will not be surprised to hear my strange accent which is not a m
In english it sounds good, gender champions, this is an informal organization, an informal structure, it was born here in geneva, but now there are already divisions in new york, vienna, nairobi, paris, in my opinion, this is very useful, because if the head of an organization becomes this gender champion and says that yes, i want to ensure complete equality of men and women in my organization, this already helps change the situation in many organizations. And im always very pleased to hear when everyone says thats exactly ensuring this gender equality makes the decisionmaking process within the United Nations more effective, faster, sometimes more balanced, wiser, and so on. And today , together with you, i would like to remember the heroines of the formal power program, outstanding women who were born in the 20th century. The burden of becoming political leaders in their countries, heading a state, government, leading Large International organizations, many of them were the first wom
battlefront. but here is the u.s. senate, the vote last night reported by alexander bolton in the hell at the hill.com. the senate advances $40 million ukraine a package. the senate monday overwhelmingly advanced a $40 billion ukraine aid package that easily passed the house last week but stalled in the upper chamber because of an objection by senator rand paul kentucky. senators voted 81 to 11 to end debate on a motion to proceed to the legislation setting up a final bill final vote on the bill later in the week. it s an important test of republican support for continued u.s. humanitarian and military assistance for ukraine after several prominent republican voices including former president trump questioned the size of the $40 billion package. some republicans including the haggerty of tennessee announced before the vote they would not support it. i certainly do not have anything against ukrainians. one to see them when but pumping more aid into the country when we are n
Greece. They did not explicitly ask for it. That is a real change from before, but there is no movement from the imf, from jack lew, and from donald tusk at the eu at the commission asking for a change of actual right now. Tom we will have a special focus in the 7 00 hour with alan ruskin of Deutsche Bank. Lets get you to top headlines. He is unpracticed on this. And in greeley. Brendan it appears greece blinked. Alexis tsipras has proposed a bunch of spending cuts, tax hikes. In return he wants a 59 billion bailout, wants longterm debt to be made more manageable. Francois hollande calls the new plan credible and serious. That is the most important word there serious. Voters rejected a similar proposal in the referendum on sunday. A few hours from now, the Confederate Flag will no longer fly on the grounds of the state capital in South Carolina. The legislature voted to take it down in the wake of the murder of nine black Church Members in charleston. Nikki haley, the governor signed i