Protection product safety insurance and Data Security subcommittee will come to order. Were pleased to have our witnesses here on a topic that i think is of value and has some opportunity for us to make a difference. Whether its garth brooks concert at wichita, a ku basketball game in lawrence or the mosthyped and prestigious broadway show of all time hamilton, the digital age made acquiring tickets easier than ever, but an ageold issue of ticket scalping has been made more prevalent by advances in technology. When youre trying to pick up tickets for the next big event, youre no longer competing against other eager fans, youre now forced to compete against an army of sophisticated ticket bots that overwhelm the website with brute force, scoop up as many tickets as possible and resell them on a secondary market at a significant markup. So whats a ticket bot . Heres my quick example. Live performance is happening. Garth brooks concert in wichita. You know lots of people who want to be th
Youre not going to have people serving vat rans. Youve got a leadership crew not willing to make desuggestion and it contributes to whistleblower retaliation, people being dissatisfied with their jobs. Weve got to get the positions filled. I heard the secretary talk a little bit about reviewing the infrastructure to find out how many positions are needed. We cant make that decision. Pi thael ooh have to make the assessment. If the people filling those positions that have been pulled from other positions, those positions will go back. Its a ripple effect. We have, like i said, roughly 50 over the vha landscape of leadership that is either in a temporary position or vacant. If those individuals that are filling in those leadership positions are just plugging the gaps so that the operation can move forward, their positions are now vacant. Its a very difficult situation that needs to be fixed and it needs to be fixed immediately. Yes, sir. Thank you, senator. And if i could comment on the
Peninsula. Driver wins the australian grand prix and lorenzo walks from a crash in melbourne, ill have all the details in sport. Greece has begun the process to send refugees on the island of lesbos back to tshgky, a deal between the eu and turkey as it begins more refugees are arriving and zaina has this report from lesbos. Reporter this was supposed to have stopped but the boats keep coming in. Europes refugee crisis is far from over. The latest arrivals are refugees from syria and many from the war torn syria of aleppo and going across the aegean sea to reach the greek island and hoping a resent agreement with turkey would dischurj Asylum Seekers but people who manage to reach the shores are hopeful they want be turned back. Translator we are coming from a destroyed city and asking for asylum on human tarn grounds and not only the worn out situation but its bad for us. Reporter people want to make their way to mainland europe in search of a better life and be reunited with family me
Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. 15 years ago, a conference of the worlds nations agreed to the Millennium Development goals. The ambitious set of targets were meant to lift the worlds poore poorest eradicating poverty, and many more things. It was time limited and came to a close this year. The world did well. Around the world the way health and poverty are conventionally measured show improvement. Ambitious. Reporter back in 2000 the former u. N. Secretary general came up with the plan, the Millennium Development goals consisted of eight targets. The mdgs would run for 15 years. That time is now up. So was it a success . Well, its mixed. One target was to half the proportion of People Living on less than a dollar a day. That was met in 2010. The other goal, reduce the Maternal Mortality ratio, that number did not go down at all. Theres a whole new set of complex and Ambitious Goals called the sustainable Development Goals. Theyll be called the global goals. There are many pres
Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. 15 years ago, a conference of the worlds nations agreed to the Millennium Development goals. The ambitious set of targets were meant to lift the worlds poore poorest eradicating poverty, and many more things. It was time limited and came to a close this year. The world did well. Around the world the way health and poverty are conventionally measured show improvement. Now theres plans that are more ambitious. Reporter back in 2000 the former u. N. Secretary general came up with the plan, the Millennium Development goals consisted of eight targets. The mdgs would run for 15 years. That time is now up. So was it a success . Well, its mixed. One target was to half the proportion of People Living on less than a dollar a day. That was met in 2010. The other goal, reduce the Maternal Mortality ratio, that number did not go down at all. Theres a whole new set of complex and Ambitious Goals called the sustainable Development Goals. Theyll be called the gl