White house pressured the platform to Censor Americans and he says he regrets caving to those demands. Good morning im dana perino. Bill is off today. Good morning, bret. Good to see you. Bret im bret baier and this is americas newsroom. Zuckerberg making that admission in a letter to chairman jim jordan saying the white house pushed facebook to take down posts that included Covid Misinformation even ones defined as humor or satire. Dana when meta denied one of those requests the administration grew frustrated. Back in 2020 when jen psaki was the Press Secretary and said facebook needed to be stronger on policing content. Has facebook been as proactive as the white house would like in terms of its response . I think as i noted yesterday, phil, there is more there are more steps that everyone can take. Facebook responded yesterday after the Press Briefing saying that they removed 18 million pieces of Covid Misinformation. So does the white house find that sufficient . Clearly not becaus
Out on Donald Trumps presidency he sees order to reduce troop numbers here. And many are calling it a Seismic Shift for phil Warner Brothers is a Game Changing Distribution Plan for 2021 that has found its rejoicing and sit down in the dumps. Im from ghana welcome to the program and as well holes parliamentary elections on sunday but the opposition is boycotting it cold but boycotting the vote called by president doro Opposition Leader im head of the National Assembly line quite claims the polls have been rigged in the president s favor in order to strengthen maduna script on power and his followers years of turmoil that have seen venice when they become increasingly isolated and desperate. An epic predawn line for gasoline in venezuela shortages widespread hunger broken down institutions all made worse by International Sanctions yet despite it all president Nicolas Maduro has clung to power his nemesis speaker of the assembly and selfproclaimed president one guy you know now working f
A big difference and so there is still room for discussion but the hour long acrimonious debate that has been characteristic of these meetings one is trying to avoid today theres been a lot of consultation in the last few days and one is hoping that this paper that has been agreed on will be passed more or less without much resistance part of the discussions about a hard lock down and the impact it will have on business and we issue the meeting of nickel and they state leaders will also discuss compensation. Yes absolutely that will be one Central Point of discussion theres been an open letter today from some of the major retail chains in germany and theyre warning that if a locked on is taking effect immediately before the christmas before christmas that they are going to lose their christmas business that that business is going to be pushed into the internet and they say this could be the end of high street retailing as we know it so there is a lot of stake a lot at stake and a lot o
To german population and to those businesses and sectors of the economy that are going to be particularly hard but hardly affected by this exactly as you were saying there that therell be a Significant Impact on business and tell us about whether and what type of compensation theyll receive. Yes indeed the finance minister said that compensation is going to be paid its going to be somewhere around 11 or 12000000000. 00 euros every month if that month is a month of locked on thats huge amounts of money but at the same time we have to say this is a time that is critical for retailers especially because this is the most important time of year where they make a large and large part of their turnover the of their profit. What exactly the numbers are going to be what exactly the measures are going to be is not clear yet until now the subsidies have been based on turn over and its turned out that that has been sometimes too generous so theres going to be a new way of calculating the assistanc
After todays selfimposed deadline britain and the e. U. Need a trade deal to prevent chaos on the borders starting on january 1st. On pablo foley s welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel has set the table for a bleak Holiday Season a short time ago she announced a raft of tough measures saying they were necessary to bring down the spiraling numbers of new covert 19 cases. The measures that we put into place on the 2nd of november have not been sufficient. For a while we were able to stop the exponential growth and how to plateau movements but now were seeing a new rise in infections an exponential growth once again and what that means is that many people are dying you have been following the statistics im sure and we also know that we are close to exceeding the response capacity of our Public Health systems and aim was always to prevent this thing in the end this is why we must act and we must act fast and the results of the decisions that we made today. Well lets break