Also coming up Box Office Battle odeon zone enters urgent talks with water brothers over its decision to make all of its films available to stream instantly next year. And our welcome to the program saudi arabias foreign minister says he is hopeful a deal could soon be reached to end the bass a dispute with qatar its been 3 years since saudi arabia bahrain the u. A. E. And egypt imposed a land sea an Arab Blockade on cata for ministers of Catherine Quaid also say theres been progress towards resolving the crisis. Now reports. Crucial days ahead for gulf nations talks aimed at and in the 3 and a half year blockade of qatar seem to have achieved significant progress kuwaits foreign minister whose country has been be generally mediate again and to the crisis says hes confident. A constructive and fruitful talks have taken place recently where all the parties have stressed their desire to reach a final agreement and resolutions to preserve the region stability and harmony maintain the inte
Joining us cat zakrzewski the Washington Post john hendel of politico and ilhan omar of axios. Mr. Dalewood would start with you what you think is going to be one of the major issues that the incoming byte Administration May face . Guest one thing that the byte Administration Early on is going to have to figure out what to do is they are inheriting a google transit from the doj and there is speculation about how politically motivated it may have been but never asked about the text of this thing. Its fairly narrow in fairly focused on issues that democrats have raised as well about the market power of google so they have to decide okay almost certainly they will continue to litigate this but do we want to expand this, do we want to try and look at some as state attorneys general who are also investigating google. It has the support of a group of bayji is that there are republicans and democrats looking at the stuff to sell how expansive do we want to go on antitrust . Host do you think
Along the border with sudan is worsening, and u. S. President elect joe biden is set to announce his 1st cabinet appointments and tony blinken, a former Obama Administration official, is expected to be named secretary of state. An unschooled, the head of african football has been handed a 5 year ban a by the sports world governing body fifa. Ahmed ahmed was found guilty of financial misconduct following an investigation. Thank you very much for joining us. We begin this news hour with a promising breakthrough in the global race to find a vaccine for corona virus. Raising hopes of an end to the pandemic could be within reach the u. K. Pharmaceutical company, astra zeneca and the university of oxford have said they have caught a vaccine for the world. They say that on average have seen is 70 percent effective, but that may increase to 90 percent depending on the dosage at 2. 50 is the cheapest potential vaccine so far with no serious side effects. This is the 3rd Major Company to report
This is boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss im sorry montecito in washington coming up new unemployment claims in the United States dropped below 1000000 for the week as we look to find the bottom of the pandemic coverage and there are a lot of headlines about trade tension between the u. S. And china dont forget the u. S. And the European Union will they still have trade issues of their own have a lot to get to so lets get started. Its thursday which means u. S. Unemployment numbers were released weekly jobless claims fell to 963000 last week now this is the 1st time the numbers are below 1000000 since mid march that was when the coronavirus was declared a pandemic in late march. U. S. Filings hit nearly 6900000. 00 in a single week while the better than expected numbers come as President Donald Trump issued an executive order that provides an extra 400. 00 a week of unemployment thats down from the original 600. 00 of insurance but those benefits may not show up f
Could egypt and turkey go to war in libya egypts president threatens to send in the army turkish back troops make more gains how does that further complicate libyas civil war this isnt a story. Welcome to the program. The battle lines of libyas civil war are changing quickly a few weeks ago after us forces were on the outskirts of the capital tripoli they fought a 14 month battle to remove the u. N. Recognize government of National Accord well the jna but the warlords campaign failed and hes been in retreat sense jane i troops turn the tide over the past month reinforced by military support from turkey they pushed have to fight is out of tripoli suburbs and several coastal towns in western libya and now theyre heading towards have to his power base in the oil rich south and east the deny forces are closing in on the city of sirte and base both fields that have to shut down earlier this year cutting off billions of dollars of income after all foreign backers russia the United Arab Emira