The tech giants in the us are dominating the business agenda today. Jeff bezos is stepping down as amazons Chief Executive. The Online Retail giants founder will move to become the compa ny s executive chairman. He will be replaced as ceo by andy jassy, the current boss of amazons Cloud Computing business. And this comes as the firm reported 386 billion in sales in 2020, thats up 38 on the year before. Their profits almost doubled, rising to 21. 3 billion. So whats been the reaction to the news bezos is stepping to the side, and what do we know about the new boss . Duncan howe is e commerce strategist at cheil uk, which is a Digital Marketing and advertising agency. Duncan, welcome to the programme. Executive chair man still means he will have a lot of control and very much involved in and is on, but it is the day to day responsibility. What do you think about this move . I responsibility. What do you think about this move . I think it is a bit of think about this move . I think it is
but can you put on blinders with faster method to diagnose the regard to what other major illness. tesla shares are falling central banks around the world because the company announced a are doing? sound like something i would $2 billion offering of common stock. say? see, here s the problem. speaking of tesla, why one steve s right. legendary investor says he that maybe she morphed a little would, quote, never buy it and i bit. but she gave a reason why. would never sell it short. we ll begin with coronavirus okay and whether you agree or fears weighing on the global disagree with the reason, the markets. obviously this move is not just big elephant, the big the methodology change, jim, but hippopotamus, the big animal in the room is the fact that while firing some top officials. there s a couple stories on the rome is burning, our central wires comparing it to a board room reset. bank is fiddling with the same it does seem whatever decisions we ve made based on polici
has been in dispute by juan guaido who is been serving as the acting president of venezuela. welcome everybody. we are mindful this is an all-male panel and doing whatever we can to put women in our events. we like to focus on how these affect men and women differently. how important for others this can be beneficial to all of venezuela. we are discussing a timely topic. just for a quick background, the united states and western nations using the real treaty to facilitate response to the crisis in venezuela. 9/23/2019, 16 on out of the 19 member countries voted on agreeing to impose targeting sanctions on entities associated with the government of nicolas maduro. i also pledged to meet again within two months to discuss additional measures. they have potential implications for u.s. policy, it s why we are here to walk us through these and what the real treaty means and how these affect the crisis. this is not only a timely issue because juan guaido is meeting with world
Independents and others is 2027488002. We will look for your comments on social media. We will look for your comments on cspanwj or facebook. All over the Television News this morning and the internet, the New York Times website, here is a look at their lead story. Fidel castro, cuban revolutionaries who defied u. S. Dies at 90 in a right that if the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the cold war to 1959 andemisphere in then defied the United States for nearly half a century as leader, briefly pushing 2 the brick of nuclear war died on friday, he was 90 years old. It was announced by cuban state television. He had been in declining health for a number of years. Looking for your reaction this morning, your thoughts on the future of u. S. Cuba relations. With a change in our presidency with donald trump, no word or tweets from donald trump. The changes the Obama Administration had put into 2014, weginning in showed you decline raising in 2015 at additional policies announced by the
That was the peak of the Reparations Movement that was so fertile at the time. I used to joke until that movement, no one ever said the words reparation in america who was not wearing a dashiki. Anybody who was in every fashion. During the meeting, it was in the durban city hall, extraordinary memory of mine the black caucus was there, remarkable constellation of africanamerican leaders and others in the room to discuss the reparations topic. Ogletree was trying to win over more leaders and Jesse Jackson makes a surprise appearance and walks into the room. If you know his history, reverend jackson historically was opposed to reparations and viewed as a great distraction of the movement as did other civil rights leaders. He walked into the room, he took over the space completely. To the microphone and began talking. As he was speaking, he said all of you know, i have always opposed the movement of embracing reparations of but my views have changed. He said the request so fight must be a