Welcome thanks for joining us here on r. T. And. First for you this hour lets get the latest global coronavirus numbers the total tally of infections that has now surpassed 4200000 294000 lives have been lost more than 1500000 people have recovered. Frances taking its 1st tentative steps back to normality today its 8 week lockdown is being eased back although some restrictions remain in place for instance masks a mandatory on public transport while some see the overall move as being positive for this fear that it could lead to a 2nd spike of infections so the dubin ski has more. From today thats monday many shops will be able to reopen schools will start to reopen public transport will be running more efficiently than it has over the last 8 weeks people hoping to get the taste of freedom for the last 8 weeks every time theyve left the house that had to happen a personal permission slip an act to say exactly why theyre leaving the house for a select narrow set of reasons that has now be
Good afternoon and welcome thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. Well start with an update on the latest global coronavirus figures the total number of infections that is now above 4200000 284000 lives have been lost more than 1500000 people have recovered. France is taking its 1st tentative steps back to normality today its a week lockdown these being eased back although some restrictions will remain in place for instance masks are mandatory on public transport while some see the overall move as being positive for this fear it could lead to a 2nd spike in infections or do risky has details. From today thats monday many shops will be able to reopen schools will start to reopen public transport will be running more efficiently than it has over the last 8 weeks people hoping to get the taste of freedom for the last 8 weeks every time theyve left the house of had to have a personal permission slip and act to say exactly why theyre leaving the house for a select narrow set of
U. S. House is debating articles of impeachment against donald trump prior to a landmark vote it spits it later today the president himself has accused the democratic leadership of pressuring Party Members to vote a certain way and they have been plenty of sound bites coming from the house floor already. This is a moment that youll read about in your history books he sought to elevate himself as a dictator a king but we are not him arent monarchy we are the United States of america i want my daughter to be able to tell her children grandma did the right thing because in america no one is above the law now one of the democrat witnesses not one was able to establish that the president committed bribery treason or high crimes and misdemeanors since taken Office Nearly 3 years ago President Trump has consistently and intentionally divided this country when the president withheld military aid to vulnerable new ukraine he sought to sabotage our elections after all the drama the majority is n
Theyve known it for months they also know the senate will acquit and there is virtually 0 chance that the president will be removed from office and so the markets again have not responded to the negative way they havent really responded at all look at that and while politicians might lie. Numbers do not exactly and this is exactly what happened last friday when the parallel trader on trade deal was announced everybody expected the market to react as he said like i love the word political theater because thats what exactly what it is just like before us trade theater thats right we know we know what the outcome is going to be today theres not going to be any surprise and we know what the outcome will be one of the ultimate moves of the senate so the markets as youve said have already priced all of this and have a not exactly so its i actually dont understand why we have so much coverage when really its going to be a moot point all of this is just going to be thrown out ultimately thats
Welcome or been watching the hawks. For joining us today is our to emerge of course part of Rachel Blevins whos been following this new battle between the pfizer courtly f. B. I. And youve discovered some very interesting wonderful things for us to talk about today and i want to ask you 1st the justice departments Inspector General testified testified before Congress Today for a 2nd time about the f. B. I. s wrongdoing in the investigation of Donald Trumps campaigns was operation her operation not her it came with. The Rolling Stone song what were his latest remarks what did the Inspector General say so Inspector General Michael Horowitz testified today he once again called out the f. B. I. And he called them out for using false information in order to go after carter page and he noted that there were 17 and accuracies or emissions that were involved in those surveillance requests based image of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and you raise the question of why if the f. B. I.