American. President elect joe biden unveils his new team and pledges to restore the United States position as a world leader. And the pandemic paying for londons famed black cabs. The crisis is driving one in 5 off the roads after nearly 3 weeks of fighting the deadline, imposed by the Ethiopian Government for to Ground Forces to surrender is set to expire. Late on wednesday, the federal army has encircled it to grow its capital mackellar, and is threatening the use of artillery on the city of 500000. People to ground leaders deny claims though, that they have actually begun surrendering well if you have his Prime Minister made is asking the International Community not to interfere in the conflict. He says, well, we appreciate and understand the interest of the International Community to assist the ongoing Law Enforcement operations as he calls them. We would also like to underscore that this must be done in accordance with international law. This 1st and foremost means the Internation
The u. N. His bio is Available Online so let me be very brief in introducing him. Mark has more than 30 years of experience in both humanitarian and development context. Most of it spent with the u. K. s department for international development, which he eventually led as permanent secretary. He had led their humanitarian responses to such context as iraq, syria, nepal, several cases in africa, and haiti. He was also their directorgeneral for policy and corporate performance and finance. An extraordinary wealth of experience both in the context working where operations occur and on the infrastructure that helps to manage them. So were delighted to have sir mark with us today. Mark, there are innumerable humanitarian crises under way right now and at large scale. I know you Just Launched the u. N. s consolidated humanitarian appeal for the funding to support that effort. But today we want to focus on covid. And what the pandemic has meant for the crises that you helped to manage and for
Plainfield, illinois. Towe take you live now california, where governor gavin newsom is updating the state on coronavirus. Governor newsom we are experiencing all across the united states. To put this in perspective, our ofen day average is north 14,000, 14,600 seven, to be precise. Day case number is roughly in line with that sevenday average, 14,034. To put that in perspective, when you look back at the peak we experienced at the beginning of this pandemic, the seven day previous week was to1, compared to the close 15,000 cases we are now experiencing over seven days. We anticipate, based on what occurred over the course of the last number of days, that within a number of weeks, onetwo weeks based on thanksgiving activity and all the efforts to educate people against activities and anherings, that we will see increase in cases. It is important to put in perspective california as a state visavis other states just for purposes of comparison. People have inquired and asked how we are do
Swing states of pennsylvania well last time donald trump brand he won the state by 44000 votes so every single vote matters the power to part of changes country is littered there your hands i dont care how hard dollar drop dries there is not that it is going to do to stop this nation from voting no matter what it drives. The biden herons plan would outlaw American Energy you would at least economic misery for iowa wisconsin pennsylvania michigan and every other state in america your energy costs would go up at a level that youve never seen he wants to raise your taxes at least 10 people have been killed in the philippines as typhoon barreled through the country and destroyed hundreds of homes and manilas at port about a 1000000 people evacuated from its projected path. More than 2 days after a powerful earthquake a 14 Year Old Girl has been found alive beneath the rubble in the turkish city of his mare crowds cheered as rescue workers moved into an ambulance crews also pulled a 70 year
Science literature but what im most interested in is, number one, how to help policymakers to make the decisions about Technology Policy and so that involves understanding the details of our Computer Systems and Network Systems work. And probably more importantly im really interested in how to give all our Computing Technology so that its more responsive to Public Policy needs. Ive been able to do that because ive worked with and continue to work with an Extraordinary Group of computer scientists and other researchers at mit and around the world. Host can you give one example of how you influenced policy . Guest the people are probably well aware as an example that theres a big debate about the use of Encryption Technology. We need encryption to protect our email exchanges, our financial transactions, political speech that goes on, we hope privately online when it needs to. Governments for decades have been concerned that the use of strong Encryption Technology would swarm the ability