Bill gates sr. And i know you and everyone at the foundation is feeling that loss. He was a tremendous man who i think many of us in philanthropy had a chance to get to know in various ways but not as much as you probably did. I think we feel his loss greatly. Let me just express that loss to you. Thank you so much. He was a remarkable human being and a remarkable humanitarian. Thank you. Indeed. So we are here at this unprecedented moment, and that word gets overused but it is kind hard to imagine that we could have as many crises facing us all now. We have got obviously the health crisis. Er with got the economic crisis. We are going through a reckoning on social justice. Many of us are experiencing the wildfires and other signs of Climate Change that are striking the country. And thats only the tip of the iceberg. Your foundations care about some of these issues and working deeply on them and of course education is why we are here and it is central to what you all do. How do you wei
The outgoing chairman, mike johnson from louisiana from indiana mike johnson from louisiana and jim thanks from indiana. Im going to do a quick interruption of them and then ask questions but we will take questions from the audience. If you would like to ask questions, please submit them to chris see hris. Gavin at a. Org. We will put them up. I have a bunch of my own questions as well so we will try to get to them as they come up. Representative jim thanks is chairman elect to the committee and representative thinks is inn his second term representative of the Third District covering the Northeast Corner of the date including four lane. Thanks service in the Armed Services committee on education and Labor Committee and Veterans Affairs committee. He is the father of Young Children so we always like to have, no about peoples families. Representative johnson is the outgoing chairman, the second term representing Fourth District of louisiana covering the northwest part of the state inclu
Sparked by a regulatory crackdown. Tencent earnings are out later today. Kongs of hong prodemocracy lawmakers resign as beijing tightens control. Carrie lam supports banning those not deemed sufficiently patriotic. Lets look at how things are shaping up when it comes to the start of the session. It continues to get some of that rebounding onring concerns might want to stick to. Rade could berecovery somewhat stop start. It did not move on rates and did at stimulus and effectively pushed back expectation for the timing of relative rates aired the kiwi market not pricing that in all of 2021. The nikkeis little bit negative but the top x are wiping out all of its losses for the ear and looking like that momentum could be sustained. Take a look at futures up about s p hittingsaw the the 10 week i. High. Prodemocracy lawmakers in hong kong are set to resign en masse after beijing passed a to ban politicians not sufficiently stock. I would not say that for members remaining in a Legislative
Step. Out. Through. The students or the. Training successful. Talking to me. Starts october 16th w. Self africans hit the streets theyre angry about jobs and corruption times are already tough before the pandemic now many say the situation is becoming unbearable. Also on the show the pandemic has been kind of the worlds billionaires who are growing in number and wealth. But it hasnt been affected women executives in germany a new study shows their numbers are sinking. Well welcome to the show im Stephen Beardsley in berlin its good to have you with us. We begin in south africa emerging economy that in recent years has emerged very far rising state debt slow growth and falling failing rather infrastructure have frustrated South Africans corruption too and that was before the pandemic now the pictures even bleaker and the mood among workers is sour face. This is how it looks like when south africas largest trade Union Federation organized this as a protest during the times of pandemic al
There are fears it could become a circus pretty event the whole that night. Hello im christine would its good to have your company it was one of the worst attacks by is anonymous militants ever seen in 10 year now of course in the ruby has found 2 out of 3 men guilty for their roles in the 2013 assault on the westgate Shopping Mall the judge found that the 2 defendants mohamed and Saddam Hussein will stuff a conspired with and assisted for gunman from the Somali Militant Group alshabaab to carry out the attack a 3rd defended was acquitted on all charges at least 67 people died when the attackers opened fire at shoppers and then engaged in a 4 day standoff with Kenyan Security forces the government in which the gunmen were also killed but critics say the main perpetrators were able to escape. And for more on this story i am joined by this a bit of journalist John Allen Amel whos been covering this particular story for the media is welcome to news africa jon and just tell us a little bit