Half. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. We are ready to get started. Is david ibsen, the executive director of the counter extremism project. It is my pleasure to welcome you here this afternoon for our discussion, rights and responsibilities of social media platforms in an age of global extremism. For those of you who may not be aware, however group, cep, is an Education Research working to combat extremism worldwide. In addition to researching extremist entities and their ideologies and formulating and developing and implementing counterradicalization programs in communities around the world, we also work to pressure expose with the hopes of degrading extremist financial and Communication Networks and online and Internet Networks in particular. And this part of our work in the online space has been of continuous importance to us as our organization has grown and the reason is that extremists continue to demonstrate their ability to successfully misuse and weaponize the internet t
Gentlemen, and were ready to get started. My name is david ibsen. Im the executive director of the counterterrorism project. And its my pleasure to welcome you here this afternoon for our discussion, rights and responsibilities of social media platforms in an age of global extremism. For those who may not be aware, our group is a research and Advocacy Organization working to combat extremism worldwide. In addition to researching extremist entities and formulating and implementing counter radicalization programs in communities around the world, cpp also works to pressure expose with the hopes of degrading extremist financial and Communication Networks and Online Internet networks in particular. And this part of our work in the online space has been of continuous importance to us as our organization has grown. As extremists demonstrate their ability to radicalize, recruit and inspire acts of terrorism with tragic results, and weve seen this very recently, unfortunately in the case of the
Weeks election to find out what locals here want from the politicians. In sport, two more years for Arsene Wenger. He will extend his 21 year spell as Arsenal Manager with an official announcement to be made today. As Ariana Grande announces she and some of the biggest names in pop will hold a Benefit Concert for the victims of the Manchester Bombing, well speak to the man who had to organise it all injust four days. And carol has the weather. Good morning. To date will be cloudy gcioss good morning. To date will be cloudy across the southern half of the uk, but equally, brightness, Polyanskiy Share across the north of the country with pleasant sunshine. More details in 15 minutes. Carol, thank you. First, our main story. Police say a dangerous prisoner believed to be armed with a razor blade is on the run after escaping from officers in wiltshire. The man had been taken to hospital with a head injury, before escaping from guards yesterday evening. Lets get more on this from our corres
Simple care at the va theyre doing this in lieu of formal press briefings. We wont have a Sean Spicer Press briefing today. The va secretary will out line what the plans are to make things right. A lot of critics are out there. Well hear from a former va whistleblower, ongoing whistleblower, who says that the agency is dragging its feet. Whether that guy is to blame is anyones guess. This is coming from dr. Shulkin, they are moving rapidly to address these problems. Take a look. Many of these challenges i will talk about today have been decades in building and they have spanned multiple administrations. And this is the time for us to really address these chronic problems that have affected veterans and in many ways harmed veterans and their families not dealing with issues so i will tackle issues head on. Neil sometimes to add insult to injury, reports of half a million applications for medical help were denied or simply thrown out because of mistakes on the application. This comes cou
Our road map begins with ge, immelt is set to retire this summer the tech stocks are on track to tumble apple under pressure missolo downgrades apple first up, jeff immelt is resigning as the Ceo John Flannery will take over we have talked about immelt and ges trouble just trying to keep pace with the dow. Really since his tenure began. Its the worst performer in the dow since he came in apple hes down 31 some people can always argue at that moment that he came in it was a high water mark. Others have said, listen, he did cut the dividend, but many who cut the dividend i think thats whats happened when you compare him to a honeywell, when you compare him to david cote, even to greg hayes at united technology, difficult to compare very difficult to compare. Meaning immelt does not meet their standard its empirical. Im not saying listen, i know the guys, i know them pretty well, and they were able to reshuffle the portfolios in ways that generated a much better return honeywell did a muc