Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

Four CEOs of tech giants worth five trillion dollars face a reckoning via Zoom in Washington today.

I ask critics inside and outside the industry should Congress reign in their massive power.

Then, as the world reckons with the murder of George Floyd,

Netflix comedy star, Farri, confronts a self-proclaimed color-blind culture in France.

And later, it's conceivable, and I say conceivable, that AstraZeneca might be making emergency

authorized supplies of the vaccine in October.

Vaccine tracker Carl Zimmer updates us on the state of play in the unprecedented

global race for a coronavirus cure. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christina Manpoor working from home in London.

The explosive growth of the tech industry is a great American success story.

Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google create hundreds of thousands of jobs and

rake in trillions of dollars around the world.

But today, for the first time, Tech Titans are zooming together with Congress, which is asking,

is big tech just too big? David Sisllini, chair of the House Antitrust Subcommittee,

laid out his concerns about their overwhelming power.

Their ability to dictate terms, call the shots, upend entire sectors, and inspire fear represent

the powers of a private government.

Our founders would not bow before a king, nor should we bow before the emperors of the online economy.

For their part, the four CEOs Sunda Pishai of Google, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook argue their

platforms enhance competition, driving innovation while also helping small

businesses grow.

Still, there hasn't been an industry reckoning like this since big tobacco bosses were hauled on the carpet back in 1994,

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