Moment or someone will be caught offguard. There will be several rounds of questioning after the Opening Statements. We have seen the testimony of all four of the ceos. There is a similar theme. These ceos are emphasizing that they are facing competition all all on all fronts. Tech is the most Competitive Industry in the world. In every facet of every business they run, they talk about how they face competition. Mark zuckerberg focuses on china saying that if there is too much regulation, that will give Chinese Companies an advantage. The ceo of alphabet talking nott how google does necessitate competition. Tim cook talking about the app store, the opportunity that it has given companies around the world and the fact that the vast majority of apps in the app store are free. Jeff bezos his testimony is different. He talks about a personal story. How his parents invested in amazon in the day. A truerican has american story. This is a first time we will see him testify before congress. He
Not enough that long ago the difference. In washington across the United States and in cities around the world demonstrators denounce racism and Police Violence after the killing of george floyd. Thousands of israelis protest in tel aviv against the governments plan to annex parts of the occupied west bank. And sport in german footballs lineup and global stars had a message for the world. Players from across the league showing their solidarity with the black lives matter lived. For more than a year his forces have pushed west towards tripoli but now the tide is turning against the libyan warlord. The un recognized government that he is trying to topple is pressing on with an offensive to reclaim territory from hafta its forces entering his stronghold city of sirte and its also rejected a cease fire plan put forward by hafta and his egyptian allies we will have live updates from libya in a moment 1st this report from the wide in tripoli. Proposing a peace deal in cairo egypts president
Cases. I think you know other countries in nigeria for example within 48 hours of the 1st case nigeria had established 100 bed isolation units so. But i think the development of the clinical support and Isolation Services is on even. While it may be present at National Level one of the things we found during the a ball outbreak was reproducing preparedness at sub National Level at district level is is another challenge that we need to address so our work now is moving the preparedness activities from the National Level down to the district level in countries in africa but i think we are pleased with the developments so far we believe there may be an element of underdiagnosis is some countries. Were chasing that in trying to activate surveillance on the whole continent. Thank you. To our to the. Free countries in africa have been our focus. Were very much encouraged by the progress we have made through our Regional Office after all and also the africa c. D. C. As you know a major concer
Welcome to the 24th annual book festival and executive editor we are here today to talk to amaryllis fox for this is a wonderful book life undercover we encourage you to pick it up where she will be signing copies. So we have a quex introduction we will leave themem for audience questions please silence your cell phones even before she finished oxford before 9 11 before daniel pearl was captured and killed having taken and great risk out of burma when she was when youre out of high school she got a masters in terrorism at georgetown where she developed an algorithm that could predict terrorist attacks based on years of data per 21 she was recruited to the cia to analyze classified cables for government and then advanced operation training training to infiltrate terrorist Networks Working undercover as an art dealer specializing in indigenous art is not a huge surprise it is a novel coming to life she was under surveillance of the chinese and had they had to talk in code the housekeeper
Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the National League of cities. Im the ceo and executive have you in what we call cities in america. The National League of cities is an organization that represents the 19000 city, towns and villages in america. Today, we thank you for being here because we are releasing the 34th annual city fiscal conditions report. Each person in this room is here for a reason. If you are interested in what is happening in cities all over america, perhaps you enjoy digging into data and understanding the physical nature of the data on our community and you really want to hear about the pressure that city leaders face everyday and balancing their budgets, dealing with issues in the various policy issues and the federal impact on those issues or you just want to make sure you are in the right place at the right time dealing with and learning about what america will be dealing with as it relates to the fiscal impact of our economy. For all of these reasons at its cor