there there's ways to meet the standards set by the dominant castbecause the dominant cast is where the power resides . the dominant cast is wherethe resources reside . setting the terms of one's citizenship . so this is what was creating this latter of hierarchy withinthis country . the transatlantic slave trade in the colonization of the sub-saharan africa then set the terms of essentially subjugation of anyone from that part ofour planet . there you have this ranking that became global one might say on the basis of what one looked like and the closer was one was to the dominating people meeting the people of european descent. it's not the creation of anyone alive today but this is what we've inherited . just in a kind of cast within castes that became low global, not just in one country >> there is a symbolic universe of signifying that goes on that no matter where you are across theworld , the darker you are, the more hesitant the truth. the humanity of the people, you all workwith me, i'm just trying to preach out here, didn't get achance to preach today . the thing is , that you h

so there you have a ranking that became a global and the closer to the dominating people of european and dissent it is not the creation of anyone alive today and this is what we inherited, it is a cast within a cast becoming global. >> that's extremely important to talk about it is a symbolic universe to signify what goes on no matter where you are across the world the darker you are the more hesitant the truth the humanity of these people i'm just trying to get a chance to preach today. [laughter] so you have that hierarchy is not like you go to some places you say the darker people are on top in the later are at the bottom in so that exportation globally of darkness and stigmatization is connected with the brilliant argument the cast within the cast how many cast you have? henry d1? because it is the utilitarian ethic of a cast system resting upon the colonizers, the dominant figure as well as the subordination to coerce into a submissive position and within the cultures themselves we see the bullies over those who are beneath them so there is that force that you express in terms o

dominic: you mentioned gladys knight and the pips. think this looks like it is on the midnight train to zero rather than the midnight train to georgia. now is not the time to panic. when we look at it, we try to take a slightly medium-term view. we have been warning clients and people we speak to for some time that the rally that we have seen in sterling up to this point, or up to the last few days, was driven not by optimism around the u.k., but by global optimism. got is a potentially very weak ally. sterling has been completely dominated by external forces. you get a domestic story and that shows you how vulnerable sterling is. that is something we have been trying to warn people for quite some time. sterling has not been reflecting its own domestic vulnerabilities when you start to see these stories. it shows you that even in the medium-term, sterling is likely to underperform in those places. tom: in a time like this, you know this so well, there is a certain amount of media hysteria. when you sit down in front of the bloomberg t

television dominates the entertainment. i love lucy is a perfect example in the 19 fifties. the first show if you will like seinfeld is about nothing, really, we talk about power of television to create, and you touched on it they're talking about the way teenagers were portrayed. the power of television to create a vision of the america through entertainment that force fed us for so many years before we can menu pick what we want to watch. >> i think this is one of the things that is still fascinating about popular culture. in some ways, television is really a pinnacle of this. that is for something to be really popular, it has to please a lot of people. it has to have multiple possible meanings. it has to have a kind of ambiguity there, so that you might watch it. i might watch it. someone else in the audience might watch it. we all come away with different things. that has to be president for something to be a hit and a time period when there is so little supply, when these gatekeepers are really controlling what we get to see. there is only three television stations givi

facebook's growing dominant has long been a phone in the side of the u.s. government. now citing breaches of antitrust law washington wants the company to be forced to sell off instagram and whatsapp by using its vast troves of data and money facebook has squashed or hindered what the company perceived as potential threats every deuce choices for consumers they stifled innovation. they degraded privacy protections for millions of americans. facebook a quiet photo sharing platform instagram and 2012 messaging service whatsapp in 2014 but technically so closely linked to facebook divesting would pose some serious challenges for a very big story out of the u.s. there let's bring in our financial correspondent in frankfurt chelsea delaney josie good morning it's fair to say that facebook has faced plenty of regulatory scrutiny and legal actions before how does this compared to what's happened in the past this is a very serious move by the u.s. so as you said facebook has been under pressure for a lot for several years now its faced investigations particularly over its data

the other thing television could do is dominate the entertainment it fed americans. "i love louclucy" is a per fek exampxam -- perfect example from the '50s. can you talk about the power of television to create a vision of america through the entertainment that is sort of force fed us for so many years before we could menu pick what we wanted to watch? >> this is what is so fascinating about popular culture, and in some ways television is a pinnacle of this. for something to be really popular, it has to please a lot of people, and it has to have multiple possible meanings. it has to have a kind of ambiguity there, so that you might watch it, i might watch it, and we all come away with different things. and that has to be present for something to be a hit in a time period when there is so little supply, right? when these gate keepers are really controlling what we get to see. there's only three television stations giving us not just the news but any programming at all. so in some ways that is constricting and limiting. but it also provides this kind of way in which wi

oddity but it's going to be less dominant and less urgent which are at the same time 70 percent of our population is under the age of 30 and they need chops so you better diversify your economy just turns out it's hard you know i mean it has finally dan when i was reading your book i was asking myself what other kinds of major trends are happening in the world that could also develop their own maps and how would they over lie on the one that you described and i was thinking about really the rapid rise of populist nationalism looking at religion and proselytizing and the kind of the competition of religions globally as others have you thought it all about these other isms and how they either run into your view of the new map or are irrelevant i think that one i didn't dwell upon it. maybe maybe a couple of them one is the rise of the straw man who has a system that on paper is democratic but it's not democratic i think that's one feature the other goes back to a book i did called commanding heights which is. you know the embrace of an open global economy arc it's just. as a movement awa

it is a globally dominant company.unders, you now are not involved, but you sit back and you see that arm, this jewel in the crown of british tech, is currently being taken over. there's a lot of legal procedures to go through, but being taken over by one of the us‘s biggest chip makers invidia. do you think that that deal is in the interests of the united kingdom? no. i think it's a disaster for cambridge, the united kingdom, and europe. and the reasons are as follows — one, invidia, which is the company that is making a bid for arm is the world's most valuable of the chip companies, worth 500 billion now, and if they were allowed to take over arm, it would become yet another american monopoly that we are trying to get out from under. so, you know, we complain about google, "if only "we had a search engine." we have a perfectly good search engine with vista, it was a cambridge technology, which has never bothered to grow it up, or make it a european search engine so that we have an alternative to google, and now we ar

he'll join us from london but 1st let's start with dominic kane in berlin dominic no letup to the spike in corona cases right. no letup in the spike of corona cases no letup in the amount of deaths being announced the numbers coming through well they reflect the fact that many of those who would be reporting the numbers in their parts of germany well over the christmas holidays not all the figures are being tabulated the way that they would normally be being tabulated ziering normal weekdays when it wasn't a festive season holiday that sort of thing but it is it is consistent with the suggestion the clear suggestion that has emerged from the figures over the course of december that we are really in the teeth of this 2nd wave and that's why not just in germany but across the e.u. you see the politicians who are responsible for the decisions which allowed these consignments of the vaccine from pfizer the biotech pfizer vaccine being dispatched to e.u. countries today arriving today you see them who are basically saying that this is light at the end of the tunnel certainly when the preside

the us government wants to break up facebook over concerns it's abusing its dominance in social mediafederal and state regulators have sued the company, saying it's become a digital monopoly and should be ordered to sell off instagram and whastapp, which have billions of users. new york's attorney general, who is leading a coalition of 48 states suing facebook, explained why they decided to take action. for nearly a decade, facebook has used its dominance, and monopoly power to crush smaller rivals and snuff out competition, all at the expense of everyday users. by using its vast troves of data and money, facebook has squashed or hindered what the company perceived as potential threats. stifled innovation, and they degraded privacy protections for millions of americans. seth bloom is the former general counsel of the us. senate antitrust committee. i asked him if he thought this lawsuit would succeed. it's difficult, less than 50—50 chance of being successful. i think that the justice department brought a strong case against google but this is not as strong because we're dealing with

dominic. i think it responses. all right, thank you. dominic. ithink it goes responses.ic. i think it goes a long way to satisfy mine. i think as we are now at the point of having vaccines and we're talking about delivery, it's question of ethics in terms of, and maybe is a different group of people we need to engage and the decision around who gets vaccinated, but also responsibilities in the population, that we don't become apatheticjust population, that we don't become apathetic just because population, that we don't become apatheticjust because a vaccine is here. all right. let's go to my next question, which is from georgia chisnall. georgia. thank you. a lot of people are very unlikely or uncertain about getting the vaccine. in the uk, for example, it's about one third. why do you think, despite having months during exceeding development, that public concern remains widely unaddressed and what you think should be done now to reassure the public that the vaccine is, indeed, safe? in short, they go wrong and what can they do to fix it? let's go to you, suerie, the an

coming on line and yes tesla is going to be big but in global terms the quest for gas and oil will dominate the ambitions of the world's great powers my guest today is considered to be an unrivaled oracle on the pulse of energy around the world is got a lot to say on the tensions brewing between america and china and russia and the messy rivalries in the middle east daniel yergin is a pulitzer prize winning author who's been writing about the intersection of energy economics and history for decades he is the vice chairman of i.h.s. market and information company based in the u.k. and the usa he won the pulitzer prize for his groundbreaking work the prize the epic quest for oil money and power and his latest book is the new map energy climate and the clash of nations then you're in thanks for joining us today when you in your book get into this question of what is driving the ambitions of big powers you sort of tell the story be earning credible story teller until you know the story of big geopolitics through people but you focus on china you focus on russia in the united states and what i j

provide an answer to tech domination from the u.s. and china. how much data do you have in their cloud, with amazon or google, or microsoft, or one of the other tech giants in the sky? the cloud has become the high tech battleground of the internet age and is totally dominated by those big, mainly american players. but here in berlin angela merkel's government says, it doesn't have to be that way. it's time for something different. it's painting a vivid picture promos show us life i world with little specks of data cascading through cyberspace. kundra it up in the name of a mythical goddess of life itself. gaia it all looks great and dire. x. sounds like something from star trek. but what actually is it? for germany's economy minister, it's a totally new approach to cloud services. perhaps the most important good should spray shin of europe in a generation yours are participating in. it will be able to use any services from any provider in the system. that word ecosystem is key here, insists it's not trying to create a tech giant of its own. rat

space, they had asserted their dominance.y had come to basically be p the go-ace. their plan is we don't want to face competition, so we can either buy out the would-be rivals or wean undermine their able to compete, choking all of their air supply. so that was the campaign they had. two of the most notable threats they faced were instagram and whatsapp. they purchased those companies. and they engiaged in ths effort to cut off others so they couldn't be effectiveivals. >> woodruff: so they-- today, and i know you'reent familiar with it. they say this is all about punishing a successful business. they what ty did with instagram and whatsapp, that they becameopular products-- the popular products they are because facebook invested billions of dollars in them and years innovation and expertise to develop tem. that is at least the surface of their argument. >> we ha ave different explanation for what's going on here,s which both companies were on stellar trajectories, designed very fectively in a powerful niche where they could

but its dominance is the subject of major new anti-trust actions.air of lawsuits filed by the federal trade commission, and 46 states, along with the district of columbia and the territory of guam allege facebook used its power illegally to drive out competition and buy out rivals, specifically instagram and phil weiser is the attorney general of colorado.wa a democrat, whpart of this lawsuit. he joins us now. mr. attorney general, thank you so much for being here. begin, we want to note, for the record, that the khan zuckerberg initiave founded by facebook's mark zuckerberg and his wife are a newshour furpd, that organization. to you, mr. attorney general,t tell us wh is that you and the others who are part of this lawsuits by thea sttes allege that facebook has done illegally. >> judy, it's a pleasure to be iere. we're bringing s lawsuits because facebook embarked on a campaign. they were eith going to buy its most-challenging rivals or it was going to bury them. d that was a well-designed campaign. and what would happen is if you were a threateni

meanwhile on wednesday night leverkusen put on a dominant performance away at cologne winning 4 nil a free kick in the 8th minute got the party started with mitchell visor driving home a shot to open the scoring sebastian bar and i was headed clearance flew straight to the foot of visor and put leverkusen on talked to state. i did have your business with monica jones is up next it's a church. why did this person. there are. laws that can be done to. make up your mind. cyber attacks are on the rise the u.s. has issued an emergency warning after a string of hacking attacks on government agencies and multiple companies was discovered we talked to a cyber experts to find out more also coming up list the. hot seat of electric vehicles right now china. holds the biggest market share here but europe is determined to catch on. and argentina's economic ailments the list is long and the latest numbers die out we'll look into ways out of the price. come to someone who could jones and glenn good to have you with us the u.s. government acknowledged a major hacking campaign against multiple agencie

dominic kane their prey as a live update from berlin dominic thank you. the crucial test of democracy is underway in central african republic where focusing is taking place in presidential legislative elections the opposition wanted those elections to spodes rebels have united to reject the pool's they're accusing president 4 star shows to a data of rigging the vote fighters have attacked several times and rights groups fear a return to levels of violence last seen in 2013 and thousands of civilians were killed catherine so is monitoring the election forests from the capital she says a school in smoothly where she is reports have begun sir merger of incidents in more remote provinces. where we visited several polling stations in the city and this is the b.z.'s 2000 people here telling us that the only vote they come here and check their names against this name is to make sure that this is the polling station and then let's get in and see. if is where they register to vote and they get their ballot papers while they are electing a president and employees t

our health correspondent dominic hughes reports. working at basildon hospital more than five decades ago. now, vic and penny griffiths have returned to the place where they each served for a0 years, from where the covid vaccine offers some hope of better days ahead. our zest for life doesn't diminish when you get older, but the anxieties are there about catching something or doing something that may stop the span on life. as far as i'm concerned, both of us want to have it done and get on with life. sharp scratch now, angela. but, as vaccinations continue, a warning from the medicines regulator — two nhs staff, both with a history of serious allergic reactions, suffered side—effects after receiving the vaccine. we need to strengthen our advice now that we've had this experience in the vulnerable populations, the groups that have been selected as a priority — we get that advice to the field immediately. members are now well again, having received treatment, but those who experienced significant allergic reactions are being told to av

next, amol rajan takes a close look at 12 months dominated by covid—19, how it accelerated underlyingand created new ones in the media year. hello. what a year it's been. i hope you and your family are doing 0k. welcome to our look back at the media year in 2020. and if there's one word i don't think we've heard enough of this year, it's unprecedented. when it comes to the media, the pandemic has had a cataclysmic effect. local and national media, especially those funded by advertising, have had one long nightmare. newspapers have faced yet more misery and decline. publishing groups, broadcasters, and advertisers have made big cuts. yet demand for quality news and entertainment has soared. back in the spring, broadcasters in particularfaced a huge new set of challenges — how to deliver and produce news safely. britain's coronavirus crisis... coronavirus. .. in a crisis... coronavirus. .. it's horrible. the pandemic... especially one in the information age... hand sanitiser. .. trusted news becomes a precious commodity. social distancing. for which there is high demand. coronavirus. ..

dominic was surprised and grateful at how many people were willing to pitch in.the crowd funding the crowdfunding campaign was incredibly successful we received 33000 euros we had different donation levels the smallest was 5 euros the largest 5000 euros a lot of people donated more than 540 people said what a great idea i want to support this effort. then came the grand opening germany's 1st mental health café opened its doors. just like an ordinary coffee shop there's food and drink on the menu but here there's also a way to signal if you're up for a chat. or a red flag on your table means you want peace and quiet. the green flag means you're happy to talk to other guests. don't work left us left off it makes it easier whenever someone his about offline. they say oh i wish i had something like that. we all have those moments where we think the specialists who are willing to give a bit of guidance free of charge. can have studied medicine and spent a year and a half working in the field if someone would ask me how i'm doing or maybe don't talk to me i can't hope.

at the moment it is a very kind of male dominated industry and i'm very male dominated industry and i'mm very aware of that, even as a quy very aware of that, even as a guy myself, you know, i walk into a room where we are talking about virtual influences, and it is 90% guys. iam not influences, and it is 90% guys. i am not the only one who shows these concerns about male centric duty standards. when shudu was first created come received a lot of backlash for defining beauty on black women in on that image. he has no employed a number of black models, like misty bailey, who have become the inspiration for shudu's walk, style and posers. amabadu, a formerjournalist, is helping to create shudu's back story, reclaiming the narrative the black women. back story, reclaiming the narrative the black womenm is like magazines and public ‘s coming up and asking to interview shudu, and being a similar she doesn't actually have a voice, so i create advice, i create that personality in her own words, going forward we want to develop it further. a lot of black women were upset about the concept of sh

those things are all at stake if china dominates. maria: in fact, jimmy lai, a media tycoon, is sitting in jail because china took him in, detained him and now the word is, he's going to be there until his trial, april 2021. we had him on "mornings with maria" on fox business last week. it's a disgusting story, what's happening to jimmy lai. i want to get your take on joe biden name ago ca cabinet and expecting he's going to have a national security team and hear his obama era picks. i want to get your take on whether or not they agree with you and understand the threat. we've got jake sullivan for nsa, he sent classified e-mails the to hillary clinton's server. he hyped the russiagate coax, co-authored an essay, calling china an essential u.s. partner. anthony blanken, named in senator johnson's report was in contact with hunter biden and burisma holdings colleagues. alejandro mayorkas, found to have sold green cards to chinese nationals on behalf of democratic donors. and of course afte avril haynese former deputy of john brennan a

and he's totally dominated by those big, mainly american players. but here in berlin, government says it doesn't have to be that way. it's time for something different. it's painting a vivid picture. hi fi world with little specks of data cascading through cyberspace. conjured up in the name of a mythical goddess of life itself. diana. it all looks great and diane x. sounds like some thing from star trek, but what actually is it for germany's economy minister, it's a totally new approach to cloud services. perhaps the most important spray sion of europe in a generation yours are participating in ga. it's will be able to use any services from any provider in the system. that work ecosystem is key here. it's not trying to create a tech giant of its own. rather guy x. aims to be a set of standards. the new services can build on. and users can trust, they want to make sure that the space for competition is dynamic. and that the rules set are european. hundreds of companies are involved from all over the world, but french and german firms are in the lead

dominic hughes, bbc news.demic far from over — people across the world are wondering how they'll be able to celebrate. well, one possible solution is on show in brazil. tom brada reports. it's the question millions of people are asking. how can we celebrate christmas during the coronavirus pandemic? well, a woman in brazil has come up with a clever way to raise festive spirits while still keeping people safe. this is the team, every year she dresses up as mrs claus, hanging —— handing out gifts and hugs to children. this year she is giving up the tradition, but doing it all through a specially sanitised curtain. translation: i really liked her hug, it was warm and nice, i liked it a lot. brazil has been hit particularly hard by the virus stop there have been more than 6.5 million registered coronavirus cases and thousands of people have lost theirjobs, meaning fatima was my work is all the more welcome. translation: i hope that days will come in next year we can hug more, that we can feel that human warmth as

a guy who knows the east bay, dominic. >>> good morning. i'm dominic chu from cnbc headquarters.rsey right now but wall street is set to open flat to slightly higher this morning. stocks closing well off the lows of the session yesterday with the dow erasing a more than 400-point loss. investors weighing some concerns about a new coronavirus strain in the united kingdom against that big deal struck by congress this weekend on a massive $900 billion covid relief package. they were also keeping track of tesla's debut, speaking of the east bay, and the s&p 500. that stock, which was added to the index yesterday fell more than 6% from the record high that it hit back on friday. now in focus today we've got reports on home sales, also consumer confidence, and third quarter economic growth in gdp. >>> well, united airlines is preparing to recall thousands of furloughed employees as the industry will receive $15 billion in payroll support as part of that big new economic stimulus package, but there's a big caveat . in a memo they expect the recall to be temporary as travel remains low.

dominate demand came up with the idea for germany's 1st mental health café.a role model is the soup of hope project a cafe in chicago. dominic has dealt with the topic of mental health since 2015 as an author and a blogger she describes her own experiences. she was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder about 15 years ago. as a status as had just as she said i'm so much to admitting to yourself you need help is the hardest part i'm willing to get help for other things physical problems car problems learning to play an instrument we get help for all sorts of things except for what's going on inside our own heads that was a big step for me a turning point when things started to improve if i hadn't been willing to open up to get help none of this could have happened had as i was. within about a year of coming up with the idea dominic and her team found a good location. for friends all pitched in to help set up the space so the cafe could open its doors for how's it going to be just screwed the last bit together and now we can finally hang it from the cei

we've got five or six companies based in mostly america that dominate our life.t dominance? i think it's about balancing. at the moment, one of the reasons why and these channels are able to operate commercially as they do have a deal. they have a deal that puts him at the top of the list. you see them right at the front, so it's about extending that into the digital world onto smart tvs , into the digital world onto smart tvs, but it's also about thinking about the wider terms of trade. so, there are questions like who gets access to the data that the platforms have about who's viewing what? is that a tv producer himself? or is itjust the platforms? so, there are some really difficult va la nces there are some really difficult valances here, but we are saying is we need to investigate these things because otherwise, the terms of trade will move so far that it will become very difficult for any of the broadcasters to continue to put on that range of services which we will rely on and value. when it comes to online harms, i know it's a difficult subject, because y

restrictions have been reimposed across the continent this affects hundreds of millions of people dominic a reports now from berlin. christmas in rome during code where goodwill to others means socially distance events providing presence of a port and homeless as welcome as these gifts may seem what many people want this winter is the coded vaccine and now the 1st consignment of it have arrived in rome ready for distribution on sunday to people who the pope says should be 1st on the list. i pray for all those in charge of nations companies international organizations to promote cooperation and not competition and look for a solution for everybody vaccines for everybody especially for the most vulnerable and needy ones in every region of the planet as in many other e.u. countries the vaccine will also start being distributed in germany on sunday it's a development many hope will transform the situation. in the long. end of this tunnel we see the long awaited light at the end of the tunnel become brighter we will come closer to the exit from this crisis step by step how long the road will b

not going to let it dominate you. and all of that the level of patriarchal violence, granted sexual asult, all of these things non-men a facing at the hands of men, masculinity is deeply tied toomination, violence and coercion, cooperatn, vulnerability, in the midst of america as well, following the phrase from dell hook. the patriarchal capitalist nature and all tho things are tied to gather when you have weht men, specifically at the helm, informed by the desire to dominate on the basis of both of those identities and what i was saying in terms of reaching into our own communities, marginalized wil understanding, our liberation is an inscription of patriary within our communities like it is today, free ourselves from that for the sake of men who material beneficries suffer at the hands of it at the hands of these expectations that are slowly killing thi all of those ideas of gender and masculinity wrapped up in the midst of america and how we relate to one another and has to be undone. >> on that point. concerned ab

decide continues to dominate. -- this side continues to dominate. >> so much more to talk about withfghanistan but unfortunately we are out of time. thank you so much. thank you for watching. for further discussion, go to our facebook page. you can also join the conversation on twitter, we are at @ajinsidestory. bye for now. woman: in the 1960s and the 1970s, there was a loosely affiliated group of artists living in los angeles who grew up working through painting and influenced by abstract expressionism, but by the mid-sixties, they were looking for ever subtler kind of effects, and so you could almost say that light was their medium. man: rather than paint and canvas, you've got something that has 3 dimension and is full of ambiguity and full of mystery. different man: irwin and larry bell and helen pashgian, all of these artists, are at the top of their game now.

at the moment, it looks like the dominant air will be through wales, the midlands, towards east angliafor some significant, potentially disruptive snowfall. rain along the south coast, but that whole zone could be a bit further south and have more of an impact on southern areas. even if it doesn't during the day, as it clears through wednesday night into thursday, new year's eve, we will see some snow for a time. frost and ice again a feature to take us into new year's eve, and then flurry of showers pushing their way down the eastern half of the country. could give another covering of snow across parts of northern england, the midlands and towards east, temperatures staying below where they should be for the time of year. so, we'll be seeing out 2020 perhaps covered in white across parts of the midlands and eastern england with the snow around, all linked into the low pressure system, which still dominates to the east of us, keeping that northerly flow in place for new year's day. we will see this zone of rain, sleet and snow linger during the morning on new year's day, we think. it w

the foreign secretary, dominic raab, has sought to play down the impact of a potential no—deal brexitt acknowledged there will be bumps along the road. 0ur political correspondent jessica parker reports. they met, a quick photo, masks off, and on again. then down to business. three hours of talks over a three—course meal. but in the end, big gaps remained. there is still clearly some scope to keep talking, but there are significant points of difference that remain. so, i think the prime minister's view is we will leave no stone unturned. if there is a deal to be done, and we think there is, if the eu is pragmatic and respects the basic points of democratic principle, we won't be wanting for trying to find that way through. she described the conversation as lively, downing street as frank. but negotiations that had stalled are now back on. david frost for the uk and michel barnierfor the eu are getting around the table again in brussels. we must remember that a trade deal is for keeps, notjust for christmas, and i think the prime minister deserves praise for standing firm and not allow

the prime minister's most senior adviser, dominic cummings, dominic cummings, was out.d stick by his home secretary, priti patel, when she was found to have broken the ministerial code in a bullying inquiry. iam i am sorry if i have upsets people in any way whatsoever. that was com pletely in any way whatsoever. that was completely unintentional. the cost of coronavirus had been building up. our health emergency is not yet over, and our economic emergency has onlyjust begun. many key workers who willingly took on so much responsibility during this crisis are now being forest to tighten their belts. in contrast, there has beena their belts. in contrast, there has been a bonanza for those who have woi'i been a bonanza for those who have won contracts from this government. the chancellor would have to decide how to start paying for it all. we have all spent most of the year not being able to share meals with our loved ones, but over christmas, the four nations decided to relax restrictions for a few days to allow us restrictions for a few days to allow us to meet. it was m

it is believed the variant mutated in september, but it's much more recently that it's started to dominatee areas, particularly in parts of the south east of england. that in turn led the government to create a new stricter tier of regulations — tier 4 — and very similar to the lockdown in november. the difference being this was not national. instead over the weekend, millions of people in london and the south east were placed in tier 4. and the relaxation of the rules for christmas was scaled back completely in tier 4, and to a great degree and while all of this is happening in the uk — other countries are also looking to contain this new variant of covid—i9. it's already been identified in the netherlands, denmark and australia — but they want to avoid the rapidly escalating transmission the uk is seeing. boris johnson had this message to the uk's international partners. we understand your concerns and i hope everybody can see that as soon as we were briefed in uk government on the fast transmissibility of this new strain, at quarter past three on friday afternoon, we launched all necess

it is looking unsettled with low pressure dominating the scene.rds and eastwards. as we move through the afternoon, it looks like central, southern scotland and northern england could see the heaviest of the rain. winteriness over the higher ground. it will be a windy day with gusts in excess of 30 miles an hour in land, 40 or 50 on the southern coast. it will be my other england, wales and northern ireland. still chilly across scotland. on sunday night, it will stay mild and breezy with further showers but monday, low—pressure sticks close by, so another windy day the sunshine and showers. the most heaviest and frequent in southern areas. another mild day, including scott temperatures foremost in double figures. —— scotla nd foremost in double figures. —— scotland with temperatures for most. this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. brexit talks will now continue as both sides agree to carry on with negotations after being unable to come to an agreement on trade. eu chief ursula von der leyen said it w

there dominance made it most impossible for the small-cap stocks to outperform. at this point, given expectation for continued rotation into value, it should give a bit of a breather to small caps, and we also think this is where you need to be looking at stockpicking as opposed to index asset allocation because otherwise you are likely to be swamped in the future, again by the dominance of the big tex, and you could miss out on the potential that we think is still there in small caps. jonathan: do you want to be swamped by the dominance of big banks in europe if you buy the index? daniel: well, it is certainly what you have seen recently with an increased in interest rates. point had about 25 basis swing in 10 year treasury yields. you've had that much in the u.k. and other parts of europe, so certainly that has benefited the with thissector better-than-expected economic outlook. what ever estimates you had for nonperforming loans, those should come down. that is clearly beneficial for bank balance sheets. for now, the news is better. the market is focusing on t

country or see a political entity, what happened in hong kong, less and less interested in being dominatedyou see a china for whom taiwan is a renegade province and it is intent on reintegrating it. and this'll be a hugely difficult choice for the u.s. to try to maintain this ambiguity that we've had over this period. it's worked fine so far, but it's always at risk of becoming the match that creates the fire that creates a war. gerry: professor, fascinating insight. your book is fascinating and rightly celebrated. thank you very much, indeed, for joining us. >>> coming up, those crucial runoffs in georgia. can republicans hold on to the senate, or could joe biden's democrats make a clean sweep in washington? stay with us. ♪ ♪ t-mobile is upgrading its network at a record pace. we were the first to bring 5g nationwide. and now that sprint is a part of t-mobile we're turning up the speed. upgrading over a thousand towers a month with ultra capacity 5g. to bring speeds as fast as wifi to cities and towns across america. and we're adding more every week. coverage and speed. who says you can't