Postpandemic academy dominated by americas big tech companies. This friday morning, stocks are going up somewhere, can you believe that, we dont know how were going to close the session but the opening bell the dow will be up another triple digit, over 100 points, s p coming up a series of records of another nine this morning and the nasdaq made 39 records and moving higher again as of right now. That is the market, that is financial history, cue the fireworks, spectacular way to close out the republican convention, they lit up the sky over the white house after President Trump accepted the nomination for second term. It was a long speech, 70 minutes, the president made his pitch, vote for me and ill keep the streets safe and restore prosperity. Joe biden would ruin the country. You will hear it all, and then there is this, senator rand paul and his wife leaving the white house after the speech into an angry mob of demonstrators. That was intimidation that bordered the very close to re
A quarter of the workforce not a lot of jobs in the u. S. Protests have rocked the u. S. City of minneapolis for the 2nd straight night after the death of a black man and Police Custody multiple fires have been reported in several businesses have been looted that have also been large crowds in the streets of los angeles demanding justice for george floyd Victoria Gate and he has the latest. Angle turn to violence in minneapolis on wednesday night what started out as a protest against the death of an unarmed black man in Police Custody culminated in firefighters battling to contain multiple blazes across the city shops were looted as thieves took advantage of the chaos. The violence and deliberate damage to property by some has to some extent shifted attention away from Peaceful Protesters demanding justice. Earlier they surrounded the Police Precinct where the poor offices involved in the case were based in some areas police marched on demonstrators firing rubber coated steel bullets a
Guest thank you, peter, for having me. I help on cyber issues in the deferment of justice. It hosts at host of issues from Election Security issues to supply chain issues to crypto currencies to encryption and access to data. Host and what exactly do you do . Do you bring cases against people who have violated law . Guest as you know, the garment of justice we are to enforce confederal, committal lot. An important part of what we do is bring terminal cases against individuals, organizations, foreign nation state actors who violate u. S. Federal law and there is a policy component to what i do which is to help the attorney general, Deputy Attorney general formulate policies working with the Congress Working with our interagency to advance rule of law. Is your position political or career . Guest i served in a political office. My role as a career, im a career employee. Its a little bit of both. Im a career person who serves in a political office. Host how long have you been at doj . Gue
On bbc news at 5pm. As Donald Trumps impeachment inquiry continues, the former Us Ambassador to ukraine says she was ousted from herjob after coming under attack from the president s personal lawyer. I do not understand mr giulianis motives for attacking me, nor can i offer an opinion on whether he believed the allegations he has read about me. Further heavy rains brings more misery to parts of the uk. The fire service says its rescued nearly a hundred people in the last 2a hours. The first non stop flight from london to sydney a journey so long, you get to see two sunrises. And adam driver is an fbi agent, in the report. Find out what mark kermode thinks of that and the rest of this weeks new releases in the film review. Good evening, welcome to the bbc news at 5, im jane hill. Our top story today is that labour has promised free full fibre broadband for every home and business in the uk within a decade, if it wins the election. Labour says it would nationalise parts of bt, and introd
And, what i plan to do today is have dr. Griffin give opening remarks about his priorities and things that may or may not have changed since the last time we spoke and had a conversation. He and i will engage in backandforth and talk about what he mentioned in his opening remarks, and it is my hope to allow time for questions. Without further ado, dr. Griffin. Dr. Griffin it is a pleasure to be here. The last time i was here was in april of 2018. After i was two months was confirmed as the undersecretary, and it was still three months before i was the head of an actual Legal Organization within the department of defense. We were still working on establishing a charter and all of the bureaucratic things one does to convert legislation into executive branch institutions. Months since i have been here, we have been busy. We have filled out the senior bank levels of our organ senior levels of our organization. Porter you know dr. Lisa as well as our directors for Defense Research and engin