What that could mean for National Security. But first, to our top story. Executive shakeup at lyft. Chief Operations Officer jon mcneill is leaving after joining last year from tesla. He served as president of global sales and service at tesla. The lyft founders say they wont hire a replacement. Why is he leaving . Mark that is a very good question that we dont quite have the answer to yet. It is an intriguing situation. He didnt even last two years. He was in one of the most highprofile positions at the company. This is also a situation where you are a very experienced executive coming in with a mandate to oversee operations but you also have two founders of the company and you have ideas of how the company should be operating. We note in the story that his predecessor and coo, came from amazon, didnt last three years. There are questions about whether they could sustain somebody in that role. It may be telling that they dont plan to hire another coo. Emily lyft shares are down. What
Word from the Nations Capital to whatever you are. It is the opinion that matters the most. This is what democracy looks like. Connect the commanders of u. S. Strategic command and Space Command testify about Nuclear Deterrence for the Armed Service committee and the need to modernize nuclear is based abilities russia, china and other nations close. This is just over two hours. Good morning. The committee receives testimono from anthony, commander of u. S. Teaching in general. Service to the nation and extend our thanks to the men and women who serve with you. As in the past we have asked the commanders the stratcomnd spacecom to testify together. Until 2019. Spacecom was a part of Strategic Command. Mr. Reed as continues as an independent command, its important to identify any gaps or seams that emerged during the transition. On the global stage, russi to b. Recent press reports state that russia is considering violating International Space treaties and endangering the global use of s
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The israeli army has said it has operational control of their rafah crossing here, this is a fellow because mortars were fired from this area killing four other soldiers. We have not verified this ourselves but we have verified several videos circulating on social media of israeli armoured vehicles including this one, which appeared online this morning. It shows a tank ramming into two palestinian flags at the crossing on the gaza side. There is a long shadow stretching on the ground from west to east suggesting it was early in the morning. We have located it to hear by looking at pictures of Satellite Images of the crossing. Overnight, there was continuous israeli bombardment on the border city. We verified this video which was sent to the bbc by someone in khan younis looking towards rafah. You can see some of the players in the sky. Israel claims 20 hamas fighters have been killed but there are also reports of civilian casualties. Israel says it has warned people of it strikes. One