Sharing intelligence and theyve all backed away you look at the u. K. It looked like they were going that way and now theyve Scotland Yard and there are a most well you know them to do were looking at other things. And this comes after the president signed an executive order on august 14th which requires tick tocks Parent Company bite dance to divest its interest in tick tocks u. S. Operations within 90 days now once again Chinese Foreign Ministry Officials say that this is just another example of how the u. S. Is violating its own free market principles. Because as a dummy so does he once again proves that the socalled freedom and security are nothing but an excuse for the digital gunboat diplomacy pursued by some us politicians. Do this type of bullying is a blatant denial of the market economy competition that the us has already has advocated. And joining us now to discuss is bus coast investigative journalist ben swan and Geoffrey Tucker editorial director with the American Institu
Why she says a woman will face more scrutiny just days before biden is set to announce his pick. Plus, high speed crash. The pileup during an International Bike race with sticker shock, whats behind the rising prices at the supermarket and how much more you can expect to pay. Mac and cheese for breakfast . How your childhood favorite is breaking into the most important meal of the day. Good thursday morning, everyone. We begin with the growing crisis along the southern border. Were going to show you how covid19 is taking a toll in texas, but first the national numbers. Were seeing more than 1,000 deaths per day, but the increase in deaths over the last week has slowed down to 3. 6 . Facebook has now removed President Trumps post from wednesday in which he claimed children are, quote, almost immune from the virus. Children are not immune and overnight we learned one county in south texas has reported the number of babies testing positive has nearly doubled in the last two weeks. Abcs an
Twitter shares soaring on a rumor the company is looking to build a Subscription Service a source close to the situation tells me that a Subscription Service is one of many Revenue Generating options that twitter is considering, but that no announcement in that area is imminent Ceo Jack Dorsey has said hes kicked around the idea of creating a subscription tier and twitter management has talked about building new revenue stream the focus on new ways twitter could make money as tiktok opens a new platform senator tom cotton warned americans against use ticktock. Secretary of state mike pompeo said late monday that the United States was looking at banning chinese social media apps including ticktock. Ticktock responded to pompeo by pointing to the companys new american ceo, former disney executive kevin mayer, saying we have never provided user data to the Chinese Government nor would we do so if asked. I want to go to dan nathan first. As i recall, dan, you had fast pitched twitter back
Take a look at this video because it reflects whats just been going on there in the past 048 hours 7 ships have suddenly caught fire in iran the new news agency there is describing it as a series of quote fires and explosions around the country some of which have hit sensitive areas there you can see firefighters you see the rescue officials there looking somewhat perplexed almost confused as they try and put out these blazes that they cant quite explain ok now i mentioned that theres a mystery here and that theres more to this story and well here it is if those fires and explosions were an isolated incident i would not be leading this newscast with this revelation but the fact of the matter is these are not isolated fires theyre not since late june there have been fires and explosions many. Unexplained around Iranian Military nuclear and Industrial Facilities in fact i want to take you through some of these incidents about 3 weeks ago june 26th an explosion occurred just east of tehra
Try and i has Just Announced sanctions against the United States which target some of beijings most vocal critics this comes one week after the u. S. Sanctions several chinese officials over reports that they are targeting some ethnic minorities arties racial blevins is joining us now to break down the latest developments here so rachel what explanation did beijing give for the sanctions well a spokesperson for Chinas Foreign Ministry spoke out and she said that these sanctions are specifically in retaliation of ascensions that were imposed by the u. S. Last week and which they accuse several chinese officials of human rights abuses against ethnic and religious minorities now china has denied these accusations repeatedly and it also accused the United States of trying to meddle in its internal affairs take a listen to vicious harassment. Terror threats by the United States seriously damaged the legitimate rights and interests of chinese citizens in the us and also interrupted and destr