christian: simon? simon: thanks so much. with an eye on the clock, i'm going to not get as full an answer as i could to those excellent questions. let me make the following brief remarks. i too wish that there had been more on the allies in here and in order to scratch that itch, i'm writing an international history of the warsaw pact, but that will be a little bit of time coming, but i'm looking forward to using some of the material that was on the cutting room floor for this project to drive that project, or at least part of it. on the faction issue, this is such an important element, because not only at the time in a lot of government, except for those parts which were intensely focused on kremlinology, but also in the popular perceptions of the soviet union then and now, it is a monolith. even the phrase evil empire denotes there being an emperor who runs the show. what i found for this period and for so many other people who have done work on the soviet union before me and after me find that it is more complicated than

. ♪ ros isimon: thisbbc news with m, simon mccoy.eral hospitals in southeast england sayhey are under extreme pressure due to vid intensive care units reached capacity. >> people have to do their part to take the pressure off, but we are shattered. simon: the end of a nearly 50-year marriage, the eu leaves the trading block of the eu tonight. and good 2020, hello, 2021. this is the scene live in dubai is the city begins new year celebratns. " hand, china, the new year welcomed with a massive street party, packed scene where the covid pandemic again. find out how different countries are welcoming 20 -- wel ming llo and welcome if you are watching in the u.k., on pbs in the ndited states a around the world. stay with us for the latest analysis from here and across the globe. year, fireworks aaser shownew the world's tallest building near downtown dubai. 1371 kilograms of fireworks are what te using, i could tell you what the technicians had to f lunch, but we just want to watch. [fireworks exploding] ♪ [fireworks exploding] simon: thos

yousef: let's get you first word headlines with simone foxman. simone? simone: good morning.he u.s. is tightening entry restrictions to non-americans, extending curbs on people traveling from europe, u.k., brazil, and south africa. we're told the ban continues policies introduced by president trump. now is not the time to ease measures. the news comes as infections top 25 million, global cases is almost four times that number. hong kong has lifted lockdown restrictions on parts of calhoun while warning they will be repeated to tackle the virus if needed. the unprecedented restrictions affected about 10,000 people after more than 160 cases were reported in the first three weeks of the year. at least 700 people are currently in hospitals and hong kong, with 38 in critical condition. 168 have died. israel is banning all international flights as part of restrictions to limit the country's exposure to the coronavirus. an announcement from the prime minister's office says it will last through the end of the month, at least, although there are exceptions for cargo and emergency flig

simon, your take on monday morning. simon, your take on it? similar to an's.ew and amanda spielman saying we must keep this to a minimum, it will have major impact on our children's education, i was reading, you know, there is talk about a—levels or gcses in the summer, is that all going to be skewed because of this? but like and said, this is why the real convex issues. i was asking family and friends involved in education among the biggest push backs i am getting is not necessarily what is the right solution but having clarity over what we do. the chopping and changing makes it immensely difficult for people to plan, whether you are teaching children or whether you are teaching children or whether it is going to be more of an issue that parents have got to plan. and then you've got children with disabilities, disabilities is one of my big issues. it is very complex in terms of their support and getting the right way to educate them so i haven't got a straightforward answer on this one. i can see the health and safety risk but also i can see how important it

let's get you the first word headlines now with simone foxman in doha. simone: good morning. the world health organization is stepping up its attack on rich nations over covid vaccines, calling on governments to ensure poor countries also have access to shots. the renewed criticism comes as global virus infections top 100 million, with the u.k. becoming the first european country to report 100,000 deaths. the w.h.o. says wealthy governments must do more to help poorer nations. >> with every day that passes, the divide grows larger between the world's haves and have nots. in my opening remarks last monday, i said the world faced a catastrophic moral failure if it does not walk the talk on vaccine equity. simone: hsbc says it is committed to hong kong and denies it has become a tool of the authorities in china. the ceo was fielding questions from british mp's, telling them the bank had no options but to close the account of an exiled hong kong lawmaker under local laws. hsbc is trying to stay out of politics, while doing the right thing by its customers. >> if the question was,

well, simon, the big shock of this pandemic _ right?s pandemic is the way _ right? well, simon, the big shock of this pandemic is the way that - right? well, simon, the big shock of this pandemic is the way that deaths have been disproportionate in concentration amongst certain parts of the concert the mac population. —— population. people from minority ethnic backgrounds and people living in cramped accommodation and obese people. in this country we have a gap in life expectancy between the richest and poorest between ten and 12 years and if we are going to make sure those sections of society are more resilient in a future pandemic then i was basically asking so simon should we make sure the levelling up agenda which is typically about the north south divide is also about their health inequality divide and he was giving that strong support. thank you so much forjoining us this afternoon. the prime minister will be holding a press conference at five o'clock this afternoon and alongside him chris whitty and so simon stephens. covered on

simon: thank you and happy new year to you.osnian government has ordered authorities to open the migrant center which closed three months ago. hundreds of migrants haveuteen sleepingn the freezing cold since agency pulled out of another camp. authities have refused to connect water and electricity. >>hi tmight look like some kind of exodus, but in fact, these people have spent the past week getting nowhere fast and northwestern bosnia. now there headed back to where they staed. -- they are headed back to where they started. these buses were supposed to take them to a military barracks and the's outf t country that would've offered them some shelter on the harsh bosnian wint. local authorities refused to take them print 3 afthours of sitting on buses, they ended up back on foot and . >> since last night, we were in the buses. they are excusing desperate -- they are excusing us. happen.not know that this would something good would happen with you. unfortunately, they commanded that you had to be the buses and go back. corresponde

simon clarke is associate professor in cellular microbiology at the university of reading welcome to the program then let me start with you today i want to talk 1st about the tokyo olympics why is the prime minister in japan insisting that the olympics will go on what are the potential financial costs and the political costs at play if the olympics were to be canceled. well 1st of all thank you for having me the potential costs of not holding the olympics as schedule look the significant surge and which has spent billions new 'd infrastructure in terms of the news that he is preparing to receive tens of thousands of athletes coaches specials and of course fans this was supposed to be the centerpiece of what has been a massive effort over the last decade to really get the countries tours of infrastructure into gear to create these new sports facilities to modernize a lot of things so to not have the olympics happen it would be a significant blow to the economy and to the nation's morale gayle as a former olympian i want to ask you about the effect that this is having on the athletes h

crowther in london you commissioned this report simon it's not the 1st report of its kind that we've had in the past 1516 years or so do you get as a pushback anything more than just platitudes when politicians perhaps presidents or prime ministers in the countries where people have been taken to from guantanamo do you get anything more than platitudes from them we're recalling for the closure of guantanamo bay because it is such a significant and ongoing human rights violation. if those who are currently detained now can suggest a torture they've been subjected to enforce disappearance and none have been brought fadi to try it in terms of the reactions that we receive where. internationally is not involved in arranging for the transfers of detainees out of content and i but our understanding is that there are some states that are willing to take. the take there perhaps not all of them at the moment but we're optimistic as already said out of that hope today joe biden will be able to bring this issue forward and to arrange for the transfer of all of those within can tell you about ou

on larry king now mission impossible for a lot of stars simon pegg this one is not for us. there's an old that. is never gets older because each time we sort of ratchet it up a little bit so it never feels like we're repeating themselves time when we left tom and room for us in new zealand to. police got sequence rebecca ferguson and i would genuinely a little teary because it was like well say that you know you didn't know i met the new director at a strip clubs and the 1st female director post office on which it's on and she is just brimming with ideas and enthusiasm plus we have a lot of sherry was back in the days of his life and will had missed it and he powerbomb me wrestling on his bed and broke his thumb and it was an incredible. injury he's done kind of stripping down there but he's had so much every to know just of the it's all next on larry king. our special guest is mission impossible fallout stars simon pegg the fan favorite actor rose to prominence as the creator and star of the british sitcom spaced his son on the massive big screen success writing in starrin

simon: that is right.ll certainly determine the winative if the democrats those two seats in georgia and the vice president will have the casting vote in us what senate. s don't think -- i think it' important we don't see this as a threshold moment that will push a radical biden agenda. he still will have to take his party with him just to get through to that vote struck by the vp. anything towards the radical end of the spectrum will need more democrat support and is going to be a struggle regardless of the outcome. near-term, markets are looking on the dollar trade and shift towards emerging markets. the market moving short-term, but probably from an economic standpoint, nothing big across the headlines. francine: what are you expecting from a joe biden presidency? what kind of economy will we have an 12, 24 months? simon: ok, so, from a domestic standpoint in the united states, i think there will be more of a recovery of parts of the economy that have been neglected under successive democrat and republi

and to sir simon, would you like to see i sir simon, would you like to see them _ sir simon, would youone? thank you. the answer to your first question is, yes, of- to yourfirst question is, yes, of course, i have spoken to families of the bereaved, and will continue to do so. again, i extend and offer my condolences to everybody who has suffered loss of a loved one during this pandemic, and we do our absolute utmost to support our wonderful nhs staff and indeed had a three year pay package for nurses, and i think it was 12.8%, and we will continue to invest record sums in the nhs. i think the amount we invest in the nhs, even before the pandemic began, it was more than any time in modern memory. £34 million package of investment, that will continue under this government. i think what i would say, having spoken— think what i would say, having spoken to _ think what i would say, having spoken to many staff across the health _ spoken to many staff across the health service obviously day in, day out, actually what people probably want right now it's three things. first. _ want right now i

sir simon, do you have any estimated u pta ke simon, do you have any estimated uptake so farand simon vaccinated more than 13 million people? on the first point, obviously, vaccination is voluntary, so it wouldn‘t be right to require that all of those eligible in this first phase take up the offer. but i think the evidence from this year‘s flu vaccination programme is that u pta ke flu vaccination programme is that uptake is likely to be high. over 80% of people aged 65 and over have taken up the flu jab this year. that is up by ten percentage points on last year. and as i have discussed, having flu and covid at the same time significantly increases your risk of death. so people have heard that message and we are finding a good response when people are invited to come forward that they will do so. we are notjust going to let that find its own level, we are also going to make sure we are paying attention over the next four or five weeks to those groups who we definitely want to see come forward where there has been some targeted misinformation, including some of the minority ethnic com

i'm simone foxman. this is bloomberg. >> let's get back to our top story, the joe biden never has begun. -- era has begun, ushering in a unified congress. the new commander-in-chief began his term with an appeal for a reset to tackle the historic challenges facing the nation. >> this is america's day. this is democracies day. the will of the people has been heard, and the will of the people has been heated. -- has been heeded. we learned again that democracy is precious, democracy is fragile, and at this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed. >> he immediately began unwinding many of his predecessor's policies with a string of executive actions including reversing the u.s. withdrawal from the world health organization and the paris climate accord. let's get our senior editor. give us more context on the tone joe biden struck at his inauguration. >> it was a tone of seeking unity. there is a long list of policy goals but instead, he wanted to heal the divide. he came in as a unifier who is working to

. -- with simone. simone: coronavirus infections seem to be easing in the u.s. with andrew cuomo listing restrictions in most hotspots -- lifting restrictions in most hotspots. elsewhere, the european union is in dispute with astrazeneca over vaccine supplies, putting the drugmaker on collision course with brussels. france is delaying a decision on a third national lockdown as cases arise. the u.k. government is warning the national lockdown will continue for another six weeks. schools remaining shut and new border quarantine rules enforced. orest johnson says the measures are being reviewed but they won't be eased until march at the earliest. people arriving in the u.k. from virus hotspots are now subject to 10 day quarantine isolation. travel inside china is flowing -- slowing as people are urged to avoid journeys ahead of the lunar new year. rush-hour traffic, congestion in beijing and shanghai is below typical 2019 levels for a second week in nejra according to data. the cutback may affect china's oil demand. the international olympic committee is increasing

joining us to talk about the economy is gordhan assignment -- simon. i don't know whether we should start with china and the fact that we had some pretty good figures from china and whether that makes a difference to the rest of the world. >> it is one economy in the world that has grown in 2022 and we must not lose sight of that. i think also we must be cautious. this has been a demand from consumers world over from services which they have not been able to consume towards goods. china has been the big and a fishery -- big beneficiary. also the way that china has grown, it has reverted to the old drivers of growth rather than the areas it is trying to kior ties pre-pandemic, so some structural regression -- trying to -- managed to squeeze out growth in the last few months. francine: where do you see the biggest danger? is it too much inflation that maybe could pop up, or is it more of a double-dip recession road wide? simon: if we take the conversations i have had at times, inflation is where it starts and ends. i think i could be fairly confident tha

ceo simon segars. anything in particular that was announced in terms of new technologies that got you really excited? simon: what was really impressive about ces this year was how much innovation has been on display. when you think the whole industry has been working remotely for over 10 months now, it has been incredible just to see how many new products were announced, and the fruits of the labor of a lot of hard work that has gone on over that time period. and we have seen that in our business. we have seen a lot of design activity going on, high levels of activity from all different

with simon & schuster, making me uncomfortable watching what they did to you.unds did they cancel your book contract? >> well, they don't like the exercise of free speech, tucker at the end of the day and this is really about the first amendment and free speech and simon and schuster didn't like me doing what democrats did to congress in 2001-2005, 2017 when democratic members of congress objected during the process in order to have a debate about election integrity. that is the first amendment at work but simon & schuster unfortunately a lot of people on the left now decide of the first amendment is something that they no longer support. i will say this, tucker, by the time division, we have to rally around the things that unite us as americans. the first amendment of free speech has to be at the top of the list. >> tucker: so some creepy low iq politician says i want to shut down -- i get it but literally the guarding of the first amendment. you access because of the first amendment and your duty is to protect the first amendment. but the people at simon & sc

where does welcome live on to the program simon clark simon is an associate professor in cellular microbiology at the university of reading in the u.k. simon always good to see you can the london minister use the covert situation as i'd have control in london hospitals are running out of capacity how dangerous is the situation as you see it. will it if the hospitals do run out of capacity and it looks like change short order they're going to do that there won't be nasty to treat it will you have heart attacks strokes perhaps you know involved in a road traffic accident or have come through some misfortune in some other way never mind the routine replacements the replacements cancer treatments that you would normally expect so that's the real danger we've touched in this before but i think it's more pertinent than ever are you surprised to be seeing such a rapid surge in coba deaths in spite of ever tightening restrictions are they working in other words. oh well i think it's too early to. say that given the. new strain which is moving fast of the most if not all of us expected certainly faster

sorry simon we werejust no signs of slowing down.e might be the world‘s richest man but he is not the world‘s best dancer, i think it is fairto world‘s best dancer, i think it is fair to say. tesla producing just over half a million cars last year, that is just a fraction of what general motors are producing, should tesla really be valued at that many number of multiples greater than these other companies, do you think? so, there is an expectation that by the end of 2022, that half a million figure can double to 1 million, but even so, even on a growth profile that sees doubling, 1000 times earnings bears no relation to other technology companies around the world that have similar growth profile is. i think what is unique about tesla is, investors are looking at this as going, well, actually we are buying into the ability to cross sell into multiple different markets, so your car becomes the platform for a huge number of other technology options and that has the potential to turbocharge your growth as cars through to the electric veh

simone foxman, there, in doha.eturn to live pictures from washington dc from the senate floor, where there is an ongoing discussion around the deliberations overnight, and around the road ahead as well. the u.s. presidential certification resumed after a time of violence that we saw and witnessed. the pictures were nothing short of shocking, as protesters were able to breach into some of the key areas of capitol hill. in any case, senator elizabeth warren has been speaking. she says the senators voting to overturn the election results will be judged by history. she said she did not throw a temper tantrum or feed propaganda. three people have died of medical complications in these protests. markets have so far shrugged this off. there appears to be an oppression that this will not have lasting damage or disruption to u.s. economic potential. we will continue analysis shortly. this is bloomberg. ♪ is bloomberg. ♪ yousef: our top stories this morning, a dark day in d.c., both parties condemn violent protesters that st

biles >> simone!ghter. the deal would avoid a second trial after jurors could not reach a verdict the first time. the east bay times reports almena will receive a nine year sentence, not clear how much more time he will serve given his time already confined. >>> let's check in with kari and a rainy forecast. >> we'll see off and on showers today and temperatures much cooler, only reaching about 52 degrees for the inland valleys and the rain will start to taper off tonight. i'll have a chance of a few thunderstorms as well. but by tomorrow we'll see mostly sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-50s, and the new storm system coming in on sunday will bring in additional cold air, temperatures dipping to near freezing. if we do still have rain in the area we could see some snow capping our bay area hills and more rain in the forecast next week. scott? >> kari, thank you, we'll have another local news update for you coming up in a half an hour, we'll see you then. ♪♪ ♪ oh, this is how it starts ♪ ♪ ligigh

ceo simon segars. nvidia is trying to acquire for $4 billion.g in particular that was announced virtually in terms of new technologies that got you really excited? simon: what was really impressive about ces this year was how much innovation has been on display. when you think the whole industry has been working remotely for over 10 months now, it has been incredible just to see how many new products were announced, and the fruits of the labor of a lot of hard work that has gone on over that time period. and we have seen that in our business. we have seen a lot of design activity going on, high levels of activity from all different areas. we have seen that come through at ces. so it's been a demonstration of the perseverance of the technology industry. for me, it's been really impressive. emily: a.r.m. technology dominates in smartphones, less so in computers. now you have apple making their own chips for mac. does that mean the beginning of an avalanche? simon: there has been a lot of innovation in the laptop space. this can only be a good thin

if i may briefly add on to what simon said regarding the possibility of fair trials. i represent one of the defendants of the 9/11 case and i can tell you the government has admitted that their primary evidence in this case are statements made by these men in twemp after they were brought to depaun and we are in the middle suppression hearings and what we have so far that shows that that evidence is entirely torture. >> the people who criticized guantanamo bay, they say it is in effect a concentration camp. and application of legal and physical power applied to a place that has outgrown its orange purpose and it is highlighted ta we have these tribunals taking place in guantanamo guantanamo because if they took place someplace else they would have been to legally constituted in a different way. >> guantanamo was a problem sin the day it opened. its purpose was always contrary to united states military and international law. and originally, they said it was for military commissions, that hasn't happened in fair or productive way. since the very beginning, that is one t

let's get more from the dublin political correspondent simon you're welcome simon what else can you tell us about this reluctance amongst medical staff. well phil as you heard there the main reason that people give when they're asked why they might be nervous and cautious about new vaccines is that any potential side effects long term effects of these vaccines are not yet known everybody knows these substances have been developed and approved in record time and the new and more in a vaccines like the 2 substances that is so far been approved in the e.u. the bio on tech and we've done a vaccines they work in a slightly different way from commonly known vaccines so that might have put a few people off some people say they're worried about some effect on their genes even so i think people are looking at there's another point is that it's not yet been shown that taking these vaccines actually prevents trans mission of the of the coville virus and so the argument that you know medical workers should get vaccinated in order to protect patients that might not be as strong an argument as people

phil: let's get more from dw political correspondent simon young.as this order already on the cards, or has it been prompted by criticism? simon: i think negotiations have been ongoing, but, clearly, there is a real sense of urgency around the eu, around the world, i think, about the situation as far as vaccines. vaccines really are the answer to this pandemic as most people see it, so there's urgency. of course, there has also been criticism, as you mentioned, in germany of the rollout of the vaccines. particularly, the health minister has been under fire. a lot of states are unhappy at the speed of progress and the way the process has been handled, so there are difficulties, but i think, looking at the sort of real-world situation, experts worry we are about to see a big spike following the christmas and new year holiday period. the urgency to get hold of these vaccines is definitely at a maximum at the moment. that's why it is obviously great news that the eu has got 300 million more doses. they now say they have enough to vaccinate 80% of the eu

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he found a precious ally within the health ministry itself simon. researcher and nutrition you know gave their interest in pursuing this don't think it is the. economy who is going to win. it took 11 years of fierce struggle battling censors to reject a clip after clip before the researcher and the activist finally succeeded in taxing sodas and junk food in mexico. it was the 1st soda tax in north america. so they mustered out one medal and they. call. it a soul they said in the middle of the radicals and. encouraged by the success of the tax 20 associations joined the effort led by ken did you and back era they demanded a nutritional labeling system and they also hope to raise the tax from 10 to 20 percent. apparently these demands were unacceptable to mysterious nameless opponents. your disagreements argument therefore no one is. giving you. joy you said cleek in this how do you. see me i would feel. their love for idea they make equal. joy when i mean. cmon. nobody they me. and the woman. in a low speed dial. state that they don't think. simon yo

us simon what gave lash at the edge to win over his 2 opponents. well william in the end i think what really gave him the edge was he's proven electoral success he's a moderate he's a miracle loyalist but what he's also causing is an election when under his belt back in 2017 he led the c.d.u. to victory in north rhine-westphalia and people remember that they look so tame in this important election year there are 6. regional state elections and the big national election in september coming out conservatives are worried about how that's going to go forward they're doing well in the polls at the moment but things can always change i think reliability was the thing that last ran on and reliability seems to have been was won it for him particularly in the final runoff against the arch conservative friedrich merits some say he was a bit too much of a sort of a tough guy. is a team player and that was what people seem to like or see what people thought about him stay with us while we listen to a couple of thoughts of germans on the street even that's a fr

simon you fool while you're at work i sleep with your old lady here's the photo. just a little saying b i don't know you don't toss. out a kid i was his famous panache big ass was already in place. in the show what do you care when this was just a mess i don't. mean but i can buy peter dreaming or going to. see him bought a sister i will give you. can go in there and with that he say would i mean. to do. all. this to get a bill that doris. police are still trying to identify the suspect who sent these threatening text. it was the level of viciousness was way beyond what they've done before they have attacked us in the media they have attacked with 2 other scholars but they had never done something to threaten our children to threaten our families to do what they did in mexico that was a new level of attack. in the end the tax increase failed and the bottled mineral water veronica buys at the corner store costs more than a bottle of some guy was. killing . well over this. week he sold. a week. during. the revolution came from a country at america's southern tip chi

dr simon clarke microbiology professor at reading university and dr and on global health and bioethics researcher and former president of the international association of bioethics. almost half of school teachers in france are self centering on religious issues according to a new poll the holocaust and evolution are among the most contentious topics we spoke to a history teacher who says that simply doing his job has become a mine. also so we all must be affected by this problem because i personally teach in a department that's experiencing a serious increase in islam is an awful lot and where there is also a large muslim community for example when we talk about the events like the holocaust some students might say we're talking about the jews again what's going on it's always the same it's their power we never talk about muslims did this holocaust really happen when we go through the palestinian israeli conflict has extremely difficult for us to talk about specific facts because students of muslim origin of c. take a very pro palestinian and deeply anti is zionist position we consciou

yes, simon, pa rler speech, say others? free—speech platform but it has been a haven for those who are chopped off mainstream sites like facebook and twitter for crimes like race crimes, hate speech or inciting violence. first of all, google and apple removed it from their app stores saying they were unhappy with the level of moderation on the site, and then there was this much more serious action by amazon, which hosts the site, on its computers, amazon web services, and that effectively removed it altogether. what amazon said was that there was ample evidence of people actually using the site to threaten violence, possibly organised violence, and it is widely thought to have been used in the run—up to wednesday's riots at congress, to do that. it is going to be very difficult for it to get back online. the chief executive has warned its users thatjust about everybody who he works with, from the companies or lawyers, to the e—mail service, have ditched it. so it is probably the end for parler, certainly in the short term,

simon or me lad. reported to gabble who would in the dizzy and behold his brief was to get as close to cohan as possible. with me and you came my luck on our one. who i'm going to feed will for a salad lo look at what i did. kind of a look. in her memoirs cohen later roads i facilitated simon's meetings with israeli intelligence officers in more than one country the meetings were particularly held in rome. i accompanied him on a number of trips through turkey and i accompanied him on a chip to tel aviv to. on that day the cost of officer stamped my passport and my return to beirut was not possible without simon's intervention he contacted a friend of theirs issued a 2nd passport for me very quickly. after he was 10 years her junior but she left fell in love with her. once he'd won her heart he got to work on gaining her complete confidence as a baby for a bit of me says millie get the pull pull a leg bashful or while i left haiti to water. i thought. leak and. let me commend him already in being no he

and speaking of off to ms i'm there were tears in germany on monday out the news that simon rattle would step down as conductor of the london symphony orchestra and take up the baton in munich on the bavarian radio symphony orchestra there has been without a chief conductor since the death of modesty in 2019 answer simon will take over in 2023 with guest performances already planned for this spring. simon rockfall already has a close relationship with the bavarian radio symphony orchestra having worked with them on a number of occasions over the last 10 years he said he felt at home in the orchestra i would like now just. so all these extraordinary musicians who before. creating this is. such an artistic and mention shite. fractal 1st saw the orchestra 970 when they performed in his hometown of liverpool under the pattern of conductor. writer was 15 at the time and already dreaming of becoming a conductor. i saw for the 1st time what this total commitment between an orchestra and a conductor as one animal could be. 40 years later and 2010 he too would conduct the orchestra. it was clear

i'm joined now by political correspondent simon young who is at the german parliament so simon tell us a little bit more about this speech today because spawn as we mentioned as he mentioned efforts to develop a vaccine got applause but there's also been this criticism that the current vaccine rollout measures are not happening fast enough how did he defend himself. it was sara yes indeedy acknowledged criticisms but overall this was a pretty wide ranging defense of the government's corona policy in general and particularly addressing the question of vaccines the health minister said over 700000 germans have no received the bone take vaccine and he says that pace is going to step up in the coming weeks as the 2nd vaccine the medan. vaccine is rolled out and other vaccines come on stream he painted a pretty optimistic picture there but he did say that this is the most serious phase of the pandemic and in the coming weeks he expects people to face more restrictions as you've said it's very likely lockdowns and other restrictions will continue into february and beyond but as far as vaccin

simon wells.up, citigroup plans to cut bonuses to top executives after the bank was reprimanded by lawmakers. this is blueberry. -- bloomberg. ♪ ♪ matt: welcome back to "bloomberg markets: european open." we are just about 30 minutes away from the start of cash trading. we have green arrows after the gains we saw yesterday pulled some indexes to all new record highs. that is after the biggest wall street banks wrapped up their earnings. morgan stanley reporting yesterday wrapping up the big group. trading revenue propelled the bumper quarter, banking stocks have fallen since lenders began reporting. here with the key takeaways is dani burger. trading was amazing at all of the big guys. dani: yes, it was. i mean, look, they had an absolute bonanza of a quarter for trading. that is not a new story for 2020. trading has been extremely strong. that's what propelled banks like morgan stanley to a record quarter. what is new is a bit of caution, perhaps why the stocks did not perform as well as you woul

let's delve into this story now with simon clark simons a microbiologist from reading university good to have you on the program good evening can i just say maybe in the bigger picture here if this is the 3rd lockdowns i mean wouldn't science suggest they're not proving particularly effective well that's all dependent of course on what you want to do with them if you think the lockdowns are going to rid society of the virus no they won't do that all they will do is provide some breaks in the chains of transmission and reduce the number of number of people that are infected move them out of the virus circulating in any given society but they will not kill it off entirely that's just not what lockdowns you know much of the country was ready in a high state of restrictions i think it's right in saying yet infections were going up and people said that's not just because of winter or why do you think or will this work now. well it's been part due to winter it's part due to a new strain if the numbers of the infections aren't going up by definition restrictions on all working because at the

ceo simon segar we got a box on business, fox business alert. control debate, continuing at the hour at the capital. right now we are looking at a toggling between republicans and democrats we have jim jordan controlling the floor for the republicans, jerry nadler for the democrats and as we watch the house debate the impeachment of president trump we do expect the house will formally vote on impeachment sometime this afternoon, that is all we know the arguments for and against coming with fiery passion from both sides of the aisle, here is rhode island democrat david cicilline. >> hundreds of domestic terrorists did what donald trump wanted them to do, they seize the capital and tried to end our country's 234 year experiment in democracy. as the trump family white house aides watched gleefully on television. they searched the halls of the building for the vice president who they came to hang for treason, what are you going to tell your children and grandchildren when they asked what you did in this moment. did you stand for the republic before

simon rattle already has a close relationship with the bavarian radio symphony orchestra having worked with them on a number of occasions over the last 10 years he said he felt at home in the orchestra i would like now just trues so all these extraordinary musicians before i have created this is. such an artistic and mention shot. rattle 1st saw the orchestra 970 when they performed in his hometown of liverpool under the pattern of conductor. rocker was 15 at the time and already dreaming of becoming a conductor. i saw for the 1st time. what this total commitment between an orchestra and a conductor as one animal could be. 40 years later and 20 tan he too would conduct the orchestra. it was clear from the outset that there was a very deep musical relationship and a deep musical understanding between us. it's. matter was previously principal conductor at the berlin philharmonic he will step down from his current job as music director of the london symphony orchestra in 2023. italian period apollo was best known internationally as a film director but he was also a major talent as an acto