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they see a 15 month prison term for contempt of court. he was given the sentence last week for failure to show up as a corruption inquiry, he denies. there was widespread corruption under his leadership. me doesn't have paid tribute to the victims of a building collapse near miami, florida. the visual took place off the authorities and the end of a search for survivors. so 454 bodies have been found and doesn't are still on accounted for. the 12 story building collapsed 2 weeks ago. this is d w. news from berlin. you can find the much warner website, d, w dot com. mm. oh, with last month you, as president biden met with russian president putin and delivered
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a clear message, stop the hacking attacks on us targets, or else wide and said the world would know in several months whether or not his words had made a difference at the kremlin well, since then, cyber attacks originating and russia have not stopped in just the last week, 2 major attacks, one of them disrupting businesses from san francisco to stockholm, the largest such attack ever. but so far, not large enough to make a difference at the white house. i'm bringing from berlin. this is the day the me the attack over the weekend underscore is the need for companies and government agencies as well. to focus on improving cyber security appears to have caused minimal damage to us businesses. but we're still gathering information if we want to keep the electricity running. if we want to keep, you know,
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people want to be able to use amazon, all that kind of stuff. this is, this is the new world. the majority of ransomware events you don't get disclosed, and that's part of what has allowed this robust network of criminal organizations. it broke the russian government cannot or will not take action against criminal actors residing in russia. we will take action ah, also coming up and you thought former us president donald trump, already had more than enough legal cases to deal with. today. trump said that he is suing facebook, twitter and google. they are alleged crime. they silence tim were demanding and do the shadow banning a stop to the silencing and a stop to the blacklisting, banishing and canceling that you know, so well as our viewers on p b. s in the united states into all of the around the world. welcome, we begin the day with the cyber attacks on the u. s. coming from russia. they are
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getting larger, impacting more businesses and more people, and they may be partly behind an expensive rethink at the pentagon. laid on tuesday, the u. s. military announce that it will terminate a $10000000000.00 cloud computing contract with microsoft siding, the shifting technological environment. what does that mean exactly? back in 2019, the pentagon awarded the lucrative contract to microsoft since then vulnerabilities and cloud computing they've been revealed in numerous hacking incidence. the pentagon did not mention this specifically, but it really didn't have to cyber attacks. some, including ransomware had become a matter of us national security. earlier this year, a cyber attack on a gas pipeline led to gasoline shortages across the country and panic, buying gas stations. now this latest ransomware attack targeted software made by cars see, and that's a u. s. firm with hundreds of clients around the world. today,
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the heads of homeland security, the state department and intelligence were at the white house to discuss the response with president by the russian government cannot or will not take action against criminal actors residing in russia. we will take action or reserve the right to take action on our own. now in this case, you know, there, the intelligence community has not yet attributed the attack. the cyber security community agrees that are evil operates out of russia, with affiliate around the world. so we will continue to allow that testament to continue, but in our conversations and we have been in touch directly, we are continuing to convey that message clearly. for more on this story tonight, i'm happy to welcome cybersecurity expert jason crabtree to the show. he is the founder of complex, which helps companies deal with data and risk analysis. he is also a special advisor to the senior leaders in the department of defense,
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cyber community drinks. it's good to have you on the program. i suppose you are the man to ask tonight, what are you hearing? are you convinced that this ransom where attack has a russian fingerprint? well, it's great to be here with you. i think the reality for us is that re, val, is a russian affiliated ransomware, gang that does operate a global affiliate network. and while being an affiliate is certainly a step short of active state sponsorship, it does turn out that there is certainly willful ignorance on behalf of the russian state and failing to look into or in fact, enforce international laws and expectations. and going after these criminal organizations will, i'm considering that what do you suppose was discussed today in the white house when the heads of homeland security, the state department, and the intelligence community met with the president. i mean, were they discussing a response to this?
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i think the reality here is that the by new ministration has to figure out how to do 2 things simultaneously. it has to help advance the interests of defenders to make ourselves more capable of defending against these kinds of cyber incidents. at the same time that it builds an international coalition and deals with building capabilities within the international law enforcement community to go after these transnational criminal organizations. that's tough but doable. but we've got to do both together. if we're going to be successful in putting the kinds of pressure on kootenai that is specific enough to, in fact, engender any sort of useful response. you're talking about maybe an interpol for cyber security, if you will, if you see anything like that being created. while i think you have seen lisa monica, department of justice and other senior leaders in department of justice director chris re actually do
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a lot to start developing more expertise with the department of justice and the federal investigative arm. but we've got to do more work to have the information available and to build the operational coalitions. notable, you saw the ukrainians actually take down a significant ransomware gang the same day of president biden, and president couldn't summit. so i do think you are seeing folks step in and say, here's what it looks like to be a good partner and fighting these criminal organizations. what do you make the reports that dutch authorities towed because a back in april that there was a cybersecurity floor in there software. and how should i say you have reacted then? i think for companies like cafe that have vulnerabilities in their products, the best thing they can do is make sure that they have a practiced and controlled way of rapidly informing clients and introducing patches . remember to say it wasn't the only company with a major vulnerability. this week, microsoft has
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a catastrophic vulnerability in its principal or services that are allowing its clients to be exploited around the world as well right now. but in terms of cafe as customers, part of why the can say a breach is so impactful, is that to say as vulnerability was actually exploited within man security companies that are effectively part of the out sourced departments for a lot of small companies and large companies like the swedish grocery chain co op, that was shut down as a result of the attack. and that's part of why regal, in this case, was able to compromise, actually a small number of customers at this point, believe to be in the fifty's less than 60, according to the but yet reach over a 1000 and customers. because to say as customers are part of the digital supply chain of companies like co op and the pharmacies and others that were impacted in this, that impact every day consumers. yeah, and i'm wondering if the policy makers and also if the public, if they realize here that we're looking at a perfect storm or we were talking about
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a mixture of ransom where and supply chain attacks coming together. that is about as bad as it could get right. i think the reality is criminal organizations want to get paid and they'd like to get paid as efficiently as possible. so if they can compromise, manage security providers, which are a part of the ultimately impacted ransomed organization supply chain, or if they can compromise, why we use pieces of software like to say, or like solar winds, especially software that's used to manage these networks. that's a tremendously efficient way for them to leverage their efforts to get access to more targets at lower cost. but it's not the only way in, and there are way too many companies that have very vulnerable security posture. and that's part of why you see these ransomware events continue to propagate, so substantial. yeah. and you know, we've been hearing that for years and, you know, i've asked many cybersecurity experts, what would you advise companies to do now? and it's always, you know, you've got to check your cybersecurity,
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your apparatus or software, but can a company ever get ahead of the criminal curve when it comes to cybersecurity? or many of the kinds of vulnerabilities that are exploited by lots of ransomware groups. remember, it's not just revolt. you have other folks fighting dark side that were a part of the u. s. colonial pipeline bridge. you have folks like county that were a part of the irish health care system and actually had been a part of numerous health care and other corporate ransom events. the united states . hundreds according to the f. b i. these organizations predominantly work by finding people who look like good targets. they scam me outside of these organizations and they look at companies that look like they might have the ability to pay and they look like they're going to use to get into. so the best thing you can do is make yourself not look like it's hard to make sure you're not reusing passwords. make sure that you're looking at your privileged accounts and internal networks. and you know, frankly, organizations have to stop just building higher walls,
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higher fences. they have to do more work to look at the inside of their business and monitor and hunt for these malicious actors once they're in their networks. so they make big events into small ones. let me just ask before we run out of time, if you were sitting with the us president tonight and advising him on what to do, he said at the summit with vladimir approach. and you know, we have to ensure that the kremlin doesn't see it to be and it's interest anymore for the cyber attacks to take place. what should the us do next to bring that message home to the kremlin, that it's not in your interest to do this anymore? i think we have to make sure because we live in a glass house and a lot of western society does. we've got to actually ensure that there's transparency about these ransomware events. many are not reported. we should make sure that that stops. we need to make sure we're defending better at home. we need to pursue law enforcement actions against these groups. and let's make sure that the affiliate networks and the members of regal and other groups are not able to
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travel outside of the contiguous region, ultimately controlled by vladimir putin. and then if we do all those things, we're going to be in a much better position to have a global scope and understanding of these problems and put more formal pressure and economic pressure back on the russian state to enforce these kinds of rules and standards at home. okay, jason graham, 3 founder of complex. jason, we appreciate your insights tonight. we will stay in touch with you. this story will have some very long legs. i think thank you. great to be here. if he says it will allow humanitarian aid flights to enter the northern te gray region, which is on the brink of famine. since november ethiopian soldiers alongside troops from neighboring eritrea have been fighting rebel forces known as the t great people's liberation for just last week. the rebels retook the regional capital. you see right there mckayla. they have now agreed to a conditional ceasefire,
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but 1st they want government troops to leave and they want an independent investigation into quote her rick more crimes. and wait a moment, i'll ask e c o p. as in vassar to germany, about those claims. but 1st, the human cost of 8 months of fighting thousands had been killed in air strikes, massacres and artillery fire. more than 60000 people in te grey had fled their homes to neighboring sudan, and the conflict has cut off food supplies. 400000 people are now living in famine . international pressure is increasing on e t o p as nobel peace prize winning prime minister. i'll be off mid to stop the fighting. the people of t grey have and continue to suffer tremendously. and the ability of this mandatory and assistance to enter the region unimpeded and unhindered is of paramount importance to us. we call on all armed actors to commit
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to an immediate indefinite negotiated fees. so that was a us state department spoke from speaking yesterday. will i'm joined now by really solomon the news that she is, if you will be as ambassador to germany, ambassador, it's good to have you on the program. i want to begin with a news that the government will allow aid flights into the t gray region. when will these flights begin? thank you for asking, but from the machine you put earlier since the 2018 it was t p live for the creating violence and getting violence and government or so how tried all the people try to bring peace, but they rejected the piece into the continue in violence and also they're the one who started talking the national source which lived in t p. integrate,
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so who destroyed or infrastructure or government has stretched all bases to reach the humanitarian and twitched by now 5200000 people is addressed by 33 phases and 70 percent to come by to government and also to percent by the international committee. and in new jersey and others, and that's why the government listed to guy for the piece reason the government says fire is deliberately toward today's is the thing that people have a commission. that reasons why the government left and just to help the humidity of access and reach with the humidity of the region. ambassador, if i could ask you, if i could just ask you 11, once i get the flights there to bring food in 8 to the people they are in the region. do you know when those flights will begin? yeah, but then this is immediate immediately that the government allowed up the flash can
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go in supply of food because the bridges dismantled by a t t. i live in building the bridges and the reality is after government is do all it's from the, from the beginning tuesday, when you get on it. and also after the international community for additional health that the need for the support and the government such as you use to start farming. with this see for reason why the government try to tool allow, she's fire is to help humanitarian 3 axis and reach those who are in need. in addition to that of the time of this reason, susan of farming, that the government is applying all of the cultural input so that the farmers can plant during the season of farming. and also to accelerate the return of international explain to people so that they can go to that region. the challenge
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is going to need to do is a locust and also impact of in 1900 fund donek investor. let me just ask you the in terms of food and the famine in the degree region, the united nations says that your government has been using food as a weapon of war and that the government has tried to starve the rebels into surrendering it is completely and 2 is forced to be called, the government was trying to supply that it was deep and therefore even ambushing the humanity around support even was trying to attack the columbia and others hiding in the, in the corners. and also by the time they leave when the operation was low for mental professionals, finalize the initial time. because the government safety room for some major to make to guy safe and also save the country. but since there at least 10000 prisoners and without a moment and also it loss while the carpet, we're staying in the corner and the one was looting the support and the ends up
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to give him to the navy that the government has been doing this. and this, what they say the government is using, this is to grab our people, our brothers and sisters. how did the government you can come to this is believable at all. well, will you then allow what the rebels are asking for in that is an independent investigation into what they say are possible wars or crimes against humanity? yeah. regarding human rights violence and the kinds about humanity. it is a joke and government by its own initiative, who requested the investigation of the independent international in local to get and so that's why the international, the united nation, human rights commission, the african union union, human rights and the people's rights commission and the ciocca human rights commission are investigating and the 2 shall prevail from government by its own
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initiative who gifted the investigation is carried on even the house right and bring it to the to the, to the just the investor. fortunately, we are out of time it and best and unfortunately we're out of time, but i appreciate you taking the time to talk with us tonight. thank you. thank you so much. the for the world has heard a lot less from donald trump since he left the white house earlier this year. social media giants, twitter, and facebook silence, the former president, following his incitement of the storming of the u. s. capital building on january 6 . trump was still president at the time when today trump announced t is filing a class action lawsuit against facebook, twitter, and google for denying a sitting president his platform of choice. the former president is seeking financial compensation today in conjunction with the america
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1st policy institute, i'm filing as the lead class representative, a major class action lawsuit against the big tech giants, including facebook, google, and twitter, as well as their ceo's mark zuckerberg, sunder book j, and jack dorsey 3, real nice. we're going to hold big tech very accountable. this is the 1st of numerous other lawsuits. i assume that would follow, but this is the lead and i think it's going to be a very, very important game changer for our country or communication. little experts have said today that the company did nothing illegal and they have called the trump lawsuit frivolous. let's go now to los angeles and bringing ethan barron. he is a us political commentator. he's a national indicated talk. radio hosts even. it's good to have you back on the show
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you were out there in california. that's the state where most social media giants call home. how is silicon valley explaining this lawsuit to itself was really simple, its fundraising mechanism, and in a desperate seeking of attention by the former president of the united states. it's not going to go very far in the courts unless this new supreme court is going to do something really surprising and want to take it up to strike down. section 230 title 47 of the u. s. code, which is the communications decency act that allows these providers to actually function if for whatever reason this lawsuit should actually go anywhere. and section 230 get struck down. google, facebook, twitter, any social media platform of any kind, any content publishing platform that operates in the united states would
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essentially see the function due to the lawsuits that would be filed against them. you said that the president is doing this to raise money. money for what to me, what do you think this is part of a bigger plan? yeah, so look, the, these lawsuits. some of them have turned into wonderful fundraising mechanisms. shortly after filing lawsuits in the southern district of florida day today in federal court, they sent out fundraiser emails and i need to find himself, he's in a lot of trouble. his organization is at least the trump organization is being criminally investigated in new york. and he needs to raise fund if he thinks he's going to run again in 2024. and we heard today from some analysts saying that the timing of this announcement today is important and they saw it as
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a way to distract from last week's announcement of charges of tech tax roll charges against the trump organization. do you agree? yeah, i think that's a big part of it. looked at the news hasn't been good for the trump organization for president trump himself. he has huge loans that are coming due according to reports that i've read. and if that's the case, he has a lot of different things that he's worried about. whether it's his organization, whether it's him personally, whether it's all these debts that are coming due and the fact that he's just not getting the attention. and there was even a, a poll on twitter i saw recently by a leading kind of right wing voice that showed that people don't necessarily want trump to win the primary in 2024. it would, do you see a big irony here? and donald trump was the president, the 1st president to really use social media, particularly twitter, to communicate with the public, enter, buying, pass traditional gatekeepers, such as you know,
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media and journalist and it worked for him. and now he's out of office and he's launching a legal attack against these companies. i wasn't supposed to go that way. was it 4 years ago? no, he also had total republican control for 2 years. so he wanted to change section $230.00 of the communications decency act. his party controlled the senate, his party control the house. he controlled the executive branch. he had 2 full years to modify that law. that's what he really wanted to do. furthermore, he's an absolute hypocrite because in his own lawsuit where he was a defendant for blocking users on twitter with whom he disagreed, his argument was, he had the right to block people because it's a private platform. that was his argument then. now his argument is the opposite. i find him to be inconsistent in almost everything that he has ever said, at least since he really entered the public sphere in the political realm and the
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wise documented by the washington post show that and this these lawsuit today show further hypocrisy on his part and briefly, why do you think he's going after the see of these companies? is it because they also have deep pockets? yeah, i mean it's, and it's as much essentially a fear tactic that's used to put them on notice. and it's to put pressure on them. it's political pressure, ease, ease using the legal system, and he's well known. i think he has filed several 1000 lawsuits over the last 40 plus years. and so he uses that pressure as leverage to get people to do what he wants, whether or not he's going to win the lawsuit. all right, it's very, and it's always isn't. it's good to get your insights, especially from the west coast of the united states. even thank thanks so much. the finally, tonight we go to the east coast of the united states. new york city has honored frontline health care providers and other essential workers for their heroism. in
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the cove in 1900 pandemic, ticker tape parade on broadway. they are a new tradition going back a 125 years. they've been reserved for returning war veterans, sports champions, and other heroes officials think workers these essential work for today are putting their lives at risk to help others when the city was experiencing one of the 1st major outbreaks of the vibes in recent weeks. most restrictions have been lifted in new york and parade for the true heroes. the day is almost done. the conversation continues online to find one twitter either at the w news you can call me at brent got tv and remember whatever happens between now and then tomorrow is another day. we'll see you then if the the news,
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think there was no tomorrow at some point, supplies were now grounded with the old we said resources now we all have no longer made injured 60 minutes on the w. o the we can carry climate change. i mean, felt wired for a station in the rain forest continued carbon dioxide emissions have risen again. young people all over the world are committed to climate protection.
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what impact will because change doesn't happen on the make up your room line. w need phone lines. the news. hello and welcome to focus on europe. i'm liable as nice to have you with us today . you may have heard of mythical underwater creatures like nessie and kracken. today we present a colossus that is little known, but absol, we real nice a task in the monster, a giant flying boat, a feat of soviet engineering in the 1960 s. it was abandoned after the collapse of
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the soviet union. the crown no plan as the vehicle is called was one of the largest and heaviest aircraft in the world. it was developed in secret during the cold war, but now it's being put on display for a new generation in southern russia, on the shores of the caspian sea. and once upon a time he was in the cockpit, retired engineer, alagood g, do galley me off. for him, the memories are bitter. sweet with the sea monster. now out of use, alagood g takes us on a trip back in time to its heyday. the colossal quick in dangerous this monstrous vehicle, part ship part airplane is on the beach by the caspian sea and the republic of douglas done the tunnel plan or screen later was designed for military use, presumably against the west. ah, like
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a g. 2 gleam off served as flight engineer on test flights for the wing ship or grown defense vehicle. is there generically known colloquially? this one is called the caspian sea monster. what do we get to do? i operated the propulsion units from here. great machine. just incredible. the stopper, the 1st wing ship was designed in the 1900 sixty's. it was meant to guard russia's coast lanes, in fact, enemy ships both being undetected by radar. thanks to lou flight. this uses the ground affect your dynamic interaction with the surface beneath the wings creek, just enough left to carry the 380 ton giant a few meters above the water but it never saw genuine service. 14 years after the caspian sea monsters launch, the soviet union collapsed. and pest lights were ended at the new
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period. good that hardly words. the throne of sto, ducky, we were so proud of our country at the time for developing such, let's call them products. unlike was any other country in the world handle new samuel lucky disease and at the news wrong, it wasn't a monster. those are the most of the decoy. even plans to use the credit plan to carry passengers because they didn't need long runways or airports policy or the app to gleam offs. devoted 14 years of his life to the colonel plan. he logged a bit more than 500 hours of flight time, which he says, there's not much for professional test pilot, but the flights or anything but easy, something always went wrong. the prototype, i'd only been built for test flights. me was nick, the various firefighting protocols and the event of an accident which isn't just
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want to be honest, we never want to use them. it's a nuclear jealous. de the caspian sea monster stands near bent a 2 hour drive from up to gleam of whom no retired flight engineer is proud. has been the only douglas on the team of soviet researchers. hardly any photos remain from his time with them. after all, it was a top secret soviet military project. he will usually go with the only non party member they took on, supposed to say would have gone to co workers for communists. but when the head of ar test pilots division found out about tactical, he was shocked on that. how could a non party member have become a crew member shock at nist per keenly po, we keep us today, party membership mean is nothing. the country alika g up took him off, was so proud of the stopping. the union is history and the colossal wing ship is
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destined to serve as an attraction in petri park, a to recite planned on the caspian sea coast. everything is ruined. no, yes. the work of so many designers and engineers possibly will. least it's still standing here. the most of the world's relative. but let me so all of that was talk about dismantling. it's for scrat news module by milt. i hope it'll help young people understand what fantastic technology we had and what a great country, what the la hotel were, you know, go. and i hope that will help him feel proud of this country. and if people not, don't us, don't go away. and sue the caspian sea monster. this is a very different mission entities, russia to bear witness to the one time power and greatness of the former soviet union. ah,
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the corona virus pandemic has changed the way many of us work. living rooms and kitchens have turned into offices as video calls replace board rooms. well for cio, varner had each. it's been a welcome change. she moved from the serbian capital belgrade to virginia, a village that was on the verge of dying out. now it's gotten a much needed boost as city and country folk join forces to bring the village back to life again. savannah hodge relishes these rush surroundings. there are stones throw from her new home in those lab reports of the 1st time i came to the room and saw these wonderful, clear that was when i was learning rock climbing. that's all i had a strong vision that this place to be transformed into an ideal place for climate. for most of the folks could basically dream has come train. that's
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a sunset for now, you see your volume used to work in human resources and the serbian capital belgrade. she would visit room just to go climbing and her spare time. but then the pandemic head and everything changed. working remotely, she decided to relocate to the countryside. but we didn't want to stay in the city because of the corona virus and the whole situation on life is totally changed. i think for the better grimley i'm using the boy. plenty of city dwellers have recently picked up sticks and moved to the village of room. jeff and sir b as for eith in search of a more pleasant living environment, remote working has given them the flexibility to do so. from jer has been trying to attract urbanites for years. me got more community, solid misses in 2006. when we set up the council, we done
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a study that found the village was about to die out of the way it was available. so we made a plan to install a new infrastructure and develop our natural potential potential victory also getting us more is 2 years later we had internet access, and then you rhodes asked me it's what i believe it was several dropped. and now tom mitch, pretty much masterminded villages rejuvenation, she's a top manager who relocated to from jay years ago in the she says having proper infrastructure in place is important for attracting new people. but so as the right mindset and the cord supplier, to the cock who has had a lasting impact show not only on from jeff. and i agree, i mean, i think the crisis has made a little over the world. think about what they really value in life retained to drug and idea was to combine tranquil village life with the opportunities afforded
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by modern technology. locals have benefited as well. for example, getting high speed internet access. that drug has coach a number of villagers already. so all the cameras, formerly the newcomers have helped him many ways, especially dragging to provide that she was the 1st to hold workshop is where the women altogether and learned various things. well, that helped us set on a medical model as a non good, awesome, great nation is one of the great success stories here in the village reached salah, the design of the pool. she and her family have benefited from this development towards more tourism and it's potential mississippi to be said emotional. she goes to facebook profile to rent out rooms for stitches mesh, they must all be under a small scale production like a sierra full value with the help of one training project to car, to yourself,
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measure know, and her husband used to barely scrape by what they earned from their little farm. now they rent the room as mostly to tourists who come to room jet for climbing tv. the internet is very important for me because people see page and what we offer . the premier uses a see if they can order actually mesh days or book a room over the name of the way it used to be without the internet. who would know we even exist and sort of stream your vonner has done her part for it as well. she is an avid climber and has put up several routes in the area and documented them see of on us efforts have already ensured that room just cliffs will be a prime destination for sport climbing and serbia isis them dos them. as i've climbed in many places around serbia, and so i spotted the potential here
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a nominal variety of routes in a small area. and then not constantly in the sun, but mostly in the shape. unless the creek, the camp and the infrastructure in the village to the high point so far was last year serbian championships, the hundreds of climbers are spreading the word about from jeff, internationally as well. and so for both the village and it's new residence, it's a win win situation. room jer has over 2000 years of history. and now in the pen demik, it has the future again to want to live like world t in a chateau. while in france, that dream could become a reality, as more and more historic buildings are being auctioned off. corona virus aid packages have lightened state coffers, and now the government is trying to investors to refill them. properties that are too costly to maintain are being sold to the highest bidder. but is this pudding,
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frances cultural heritage under threat? some are alarmed just how far the steam will go. even parts of the palace of our side have gone under the hammer. the famous palace per side is a glorious example of frances cultural heritage. built in the 17th century. it was the principal residence of holy the 14th, known as the sun king, located on a nearby street. this lesser known building served as the office of francis minister of culture. though as part of the 1st ty complex, the french status simply sold it off. they stuck a for sale, sign on it, and added a cell phone number. anybody can call i can you know what it says if they were making an ordinary sale on dig in the christmas, but they were selling off one of the king's public office building. johns on the
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bertram on your preservation. is julian because is outraged that france is cultural . heritage is being snapped up by investors doing louis the 14th day this building in verse. i even house the mona lisa. yet the new buyer turned is former picture gallery into doll apartments. this conversion, he says, has completely destroyed the bill and his character put in new floors and chopped the space up into separate room, admiring the overall impression was held up in our eyes. it's truly a scandal. and this new isolated case either across france, the state is engaging real estate agents to sell away its historical buildings as it lacks the funds to maintain itself. this former prefecture has changed hands as has this old hospital. such sales brought some 500000000 euros to the state coffers
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in 2019 regional and local governments are also disposing of their agriculture or in the form. a shout was due on the monastery belonged to the city of paris, which used it as a sanatorium. now what's being auctioned off for 3000000 euros to an investor from bordeaux? the man who broke the deal thinks to stay did the right thing, not only ha, money is tight, and loans are expensive. so you need to define should have to buildings aren't news and have no political significance. so it's easier to sell them off and he used to be preferred to facilitate sales. many public entities are putting old buildings up for auction on line doors, not enough just to place the highest bid. buyers must also declare what they intend to do with the buildings. if the corona pandemic emptied the public purse, business for auction houses like these has been to me when the doctor and more
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experiencing strong growth in expect to sell even more real estate in the coming months and more again, the julian le cause has no problem with the buildings that have no historical value being sold off, but he says the states shouldn't part with treasures like this honey lodge in the woods of a clue. but despite his warnings for his manager is now seeking a buyer. as the lodge is in desperate need of repair, but small food, they should hold onto the pavilion and make it accessible to the public. so it's a perfect destination for people taking logs and the for isn't, it's like on this possibly you could open up a restaurant here. i can do where she fell. i assume that she needed demo still some residents for aside don't see.
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