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Conversation. I wanted to start with our former surgeon general. If you could just tell us from your perspective how you think we are doing here in the United States and what you think we should be doing differently. Thank you, chelsea. Its wonderful to be here with all of you. Reflect on what an extraordinary moment it has been. Is, most of us have never experienced anything like this in our lifetimes in the world has not seen this in perhaps a century or more. So it is something we will remember for the rest of our let me start with the good some of the measures we have been taken are actually starting to work. Were seeing a flattening of the curve and a reduction in new hardestd some of the hit areas of the country. We are also seeing interesting things happen in technology acceleration, for example in telehealth, which is being more rapidly adopted. There is the bad news as well. Unlike perhaps what we saw in china where there was closer to a single peak and then i drop going toUni
Has warned that home where they are in strong remains could lead to catastrophic conditions this weekend will go to see the need for the likes of just. Very welcome to the program we begin with fresh fears of another war in the middle east after a fresh u. S. Strike a targeted den iran backed militia north of baghdad it comes less than 24 hours after a drone strike killed a top iranian general a short while ago u. S. President donald trump defended the attack at Baghdad Airport that killed general. Name he was the head of irans elite could force and will seen as the architect of tehrans military operations in the middle east the strike also killed the hondas and Iraqi Paramilitary group leader with close ties to iran. Meanwhile he runs u. N. Ambassador has told broadcast to c. N. N. That the response for a military action is a military action the u. S. Says or does it ordered its citizens to leave iraq and is sending thousands of extra troops to the region. The iranians took to the str
Frances national shame. The chinesese state is locking upup ethnic minororitien secret in the hopes of rewiring thought and language they y bea. The language they speak. The prodemocracy campaign in hong kong won a resounding victory over the weekend. Carrie lam set her government would respect the result and listen to the people. Prodemocracy leaders have calledhe vote a democratic tsunami. Take a listen. Achievement in the District Council election. It is the effort of all on kongers thatl hong paid the price, sacrifice, or spend time in the protest movement. This s is not only a referendum, but it sends a strong signal to the government that they are not happy with how to deal with protesters so far. Between the last five months, Police Brutality is overthetop. The hong kong people should leverage on this result to ask for more democracy in the future. With more on the District Council results, here is oliver. Changed the landscape of the District Council. Today, in the hands ofof b
Threaten human rights by being based on surveillance and according to a new Amnesty International report the Group Alleges the tech giants violate privacy and freedom of expression. Of all reports on the scene for national released a report outlining how facebook and google of the use human rights and that its increasing dominance over the new Global Public square controlling the main channels the companys surveillance based Business Model forces people to make a fast whereby they are only able to enjoy their human rights online by submitting to a system predicated on human rights abuse their report accuses google and facebook of violating the right to privacy on an unprecedented scale as well as freedom of expression. Not only does it represent an intrusion into billions of peoples private lives that can never be necessary or proportionate but the companies have conditioned access to this services on consenting to processing and sharing of their personal data for marketing and adverti