Drug maker to report an efficacy rate above 90 percent for its covert 1000 vaccine. The promising results are lifting hopes as global cases exceed, 55000000 and deaths total. More than 1300000. 00. Several countries are imposing travel restrictions or simply limiting public gatherings. This comes one week after russias Health Ministry announced its sputnik 5 vaccine is also 90 percent or 92 percent effective on tuesday during the annual bric summit host, russian president Vladimir Putin said the Russian Direct Investment Fund has reached agreements with its brazilian and indian partners on conducting Clinical Trials of the sputnik by vaccine. It has also reached an agreement with pharmaceutical companies in china and india to launch production of the vaccine in these countries. Not just to cover their needs, but for 3rd countries as well. Putin also proposed creating a Vaccine Research center for brics countries, brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa. For more on this and the
And the troop levels could go back up again. Really depends upon commitments by the taliban and what have you and youve got to consider that a biden ministration given the blood in the service may be jumping on board. His Administration May pursue efforts to keep troops there, and even Establishment Republicans are calling for troops to remain in afghanistan, and probably even in iraq. Not that things are shaping up in our banks, which is not international this wednesday. Next stop, its been bust. Join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and ill be speaking to guest of the world, the politics sports business. Im show business. Ill see you then new gold rush is underway in ghana. Thousands of ill equipped workers are flocking to the gold fields, hoping to strike it rich. Heres a good way out of those they owe by those that work. Children are torn between gold. My family was very poor. I thought i was doing my best to get back to school, which side will have the strongest appeal w
Platforms have violated antitrust laws in recent years as theyve risen to dominate the internet now arties Rachel Blevins joins us with the latest rachel what have we heard so far was there as we saw c. E. O. s from the 4 Largest Tech Companies in the country testified before the house judiciary antitrust subcommittee as part of an investigation looking at whether they have achieved such a major monopoly that they are no legally stifling their much smaller competitors because of the crown of virus pandemic these testimonies are being carried out virtually and the wind up includes the c. E. O. s of alphabet and Google Facebook apple and amazon now each of these companies have been accused of manipulating their platforms and search results to promote their own products and interests google users know that any time they search for a product the 1st several results are typically advertisements but today the topic of conversation included how google has benefited from those results. What is
And iraq now committed to reduce the number of american troops in that country can we really expect that to happen though and if it does is it going to create a power vacuum in that region all right its time to move through news i. Q. Today marks the 21st consecutive day of nationwide protests following the death of george floyd over in minneapolis minnesota but now a Deadly Police shooting involving a black man in atlanta is triggering even more demonstrations all of this as new congressional legislation is being introduced to address Police Tactics across this country fronsac is outside of capitol hill with more on these developments there. Now and also in that building behind me Senate Republicans theyre getting ready to push out a package thats going to be all about policing. And what Police Officers can and cannot do now this is all coming forward from the only africanamerican republican in the Senate Senator tim scott of South Carolina which President Donald Trump has signaled hi
View i mean. Lane maxwell the woman accused of essentially running Jeffrey Epstein International Sex trafficking operation is finally now in federal custody the f. B. I. Arrested her this morning in New Hampshire with the latest developments in this case and the arrest and whats going to happen next lets go to our teens john heidi in miami john what do we know about maxwells arrest so far. Well f. B. I. Agents and n. Y. P. D. Detectives arrested maxwell had around 830. 00 this morning in bradford New Hampshire which if you look on a map but its about 25 miles west of concord about an hour and a half northwest of boston so its really an area if you want to be if you want to lay low and essentially hide this is a good place to do it now the 58 year old is she. Charge and i have actually a copy of the 18 page indictment but shes charged with conspiracy to entice minors to travel to engage in illegal sex acts and intent to transport minors to engage in criminal Sexual Activity so basically