Representatives about how to deal with either one and well show you how women in afghanistan are pushing ahead with their own business. Im chris welcome to the program the u. S. President himself is one of more than 7000000 americans to have contracted kovac 19 and amid continuing uncertainty over his own personal health but the prognosis for the u. S. Economy remains anything but clear a new survey from the National Association for business economics paints and indeed bleak picture more than half of the economists polled believe the biggest risk facing the u. S. Economy is the pandemic and the possibility of further lock downs and restrictions as cases continue to rise its not the only threat though one in 5 economists think the biggest problem is the failure of republicans and democrats to Work Together to agree aid packages for Unemployed People and stricken businesses the overall picture is that the u. S. Economy is expected to contract by 4. 3 percent this year with the majority o
A motorcade ride that many say breaks the code that 19 protocols and britain struggle to coltan influx of migrants crossing over from france is putting pressure on the government which promised to take back control of the borders after breakfast and. Im sara kelly welcome to the program the 2020 nobel prizes kicked off a short while ago with the naming of the winners in the fields of physiology or medicine this year it is a trio of. Harvey j. Alter Michael Hotel and charles am rice the panel at the institute in stockholm awarded them the prestigious prize for their discovery of the hepatitis c. Virus the medicine prize carries a tickler sick. If it can see this year with the corona virus pandemic highlighting the importance of medical research for societies and economies around the world and well have more on this in just a moment with our colleague Derek Williams from d. W. Science but 1st lets take a look at a situation in the United States there are mixed messages coming from washin
This is the w. Business im joined on in berlin thanks for joining us we start with the European Commission which has approved plans to set up a 500000000000 euro support fun for businesses affected by the Coronavirus Crisis the plan had been introduced by germany and is set to rescue the hardest hit economies in the block earlier this week that lowered its Economic Outlook and is now expecting a contraction of 8. 7 percent. Now speaking of the e. U. French train maker alice though is waiting for an e. U. Approval so that it can buy brigades rail union at state of course is the creation of a european champion to counter chinese dominance in the Railway Industry heres a look at the sectors key players. European Rolling Stock manufacturers face serious competition from china c. R. C. As the world leader with a turnover of over 20900000000 euro as the Chinese State owned john does business in more than 100 countries ill still was way behind in 2nd place number 3 is germany siemens the e. U
Twitter shut down 32,000 accounts tied to china, russia and turkey for manipulating the platform. This after joe biden called out facebook for failing to curb misinformation and not taking a stand on political speech, oed i many who watch the by many who watch the social network. The company spends a lot of time outlining Community Standards they are supposed to enforce against all users, and when one particular user comes along who happens to send his posts from 1600 pennsylvania avenue, theres a different standard. In a lot of ways, facebook is too big to fix right now. Facebook has 2. 5 billion users around the world constantly posting in more than 100 languages. That is a system too big to govern. You have one young white man who has one experience in this life who has the control of billions of people, what they see and view. It is wrong. I dont know if he is drunk with power or simply just in a bubble. Us is someone else who has an opinion, roger an author. Ive got to get your te
Your money yourks life, your future we begin with homes for sale as cooler weather approaches the Housing Market is heating up our diana olick finds thereare more openhouses to visit during the weekends, but it is a buyers or sellers market that is this weekends cover story. Reporter at a sunday openhouse in dallas, texas, there were plenty of potential buyers for this four bedroom tudor listed at nearly 1. 4 million. But not a whole lot of pressure. For a while it was just a very, very hot market and it was really a sellers market for a while. And i think it is settling reporter and that is why darrel and kerry smith are taking their time whether to buy a larger home or enlarge their current one. Th they worry more about the economy. Any type of recession could affect our incomes reporter the smiths are no alone in their concern eye are notticly investor concern is what is behind the drop in Mortgage Rates which are now a full percentage point lower than a year ago. That should help s