screen suddenly went black during geo news interview with the former president because cable t.v. operators disconnected transmission at the military high command perhaps that's according to reporters without borders voice of america has also reported periodic blackouts for example. we don't i don't think there's any black coat involved is not in bones on the. we have about 150 tenants the number of journalists as they can thousands so i don't see any incident you have been not been able to name one person who has actually been intimidated by the state agencies if there is a personal case of someone like concepts and then mr minister i would say. perhaps you will believe. a justice in the supreme court who recently said in a hearing that the media in the country is not free and of the country is being destroyed in a systemic manner perhaps you will believe that statement and perhaps you can also explain to me why your prime minister has separately cried foul and said that politicians are being targeted with libelous reporting do you expect people to believe that you are really the

screen suddenly went black during geo news interview with the former president because cable t.v. operators disconnected transmission at the military high command behest that's according to reporters without borders voice of america has also reported periodic blackouts for example. we don't i don't think there's any black oak involved is not in boats on the sea. we have about 150 times the number of journalists as they can thousands so i don't see any incident you have been not been able to name one person who has actually been intimidated by the state agencies if there is a personal case of someone like concepts and then mr minister i would say. perhaps you will believe. a justice in the supreme court who recently said in a hearing that the media in the country is not free and of the country is being destroyed in a systemic manner perhaps you will believe that statement and perhaps you can also explain to me why your prime minister has separately cried foul and said that politicians are being targeted with live this reporting do you expect people to believe that you are really th

screen suddenly went black during geo news interview with the former president because cable t.v. operators disconnected transmission at the military high command behest that's according to reporters without borders voice of america has also reported periodic blackouts for example. we don't i don't think there's any black oak involved is not invited on the. we have about 150 channels the number of journalists as they can thousands so i don't see any incident you have been more been able to name one person who has actually been intimidated by the state agencies if there is a personal case of someone like concepts and then mr minister i would say. perhaps you will believe. a justice of the supreme court who recently said in a hearing that the media in the country is not free and of the country is being destroyed in a systemic manner perhaps you will believe that statement and perhaps you can also explain to me why your prime minister has separately cried foul and said that politicians are being targeted with live this reporting do you expect people to believe that you are really the

screen suddenly went black during geo news interview with a former president because cable t.v. operators disconnected transmission at the military high command behest that's according to reporters without borders voice of america has also reported periodic blackouts for example. we don't i don't insure there's any blood go in bali is not in boats on the sea. we have about 150 times the number of journalists in thousands so i don't see any incident you have been more been able to name one person who has actually been intimidated by the syrians is if there is a personal case of someone like concepts and then mr minister i would say. perhaps you will believe. a justice in the supreme court who recently said in a hearing that the media in the country is not free and of the country is being destroyed in a systemic manner perhaps you will believe that statement and perhaps you can also explain to me why your prime minister has separately cried foul and said that politicians are being targeted with libelous reporting do you expect people to believe that you are really the victims here

screen suddenly went black during geo news interview with a former president because cable t.v. operators disconnected transmission at the military high command perhaps that's according to reporters without borders voice of america has also reported periodic blackouts for example. we don't i don't think there's any black coat involved is not in boats on the. we have about 150 channels the number of journalists in thousands so i don't see any incident you have been more been able to name one person who has actually been intimidated by the state agencies if there is a personal case of someone like concepts and then mr minister i would say. perhaps you will believe. a justice in the supreme court who recently said in a hearing that the media in the country is not free and of the country is being destroyed in a systemic manner perhaps you will believe that statement and perhaps you can also explain to me why your prime minister has separately cried foul and said that politicians are being targeted with libelous reporting do you expect people to believe that you are really the victim

screen suddenly went black during geo news interview with the former president because cable t.v. operators disconnected transmission at the military high command behest that's according to reporters without borders voice of america has also reported periodic blackouts for example. we don't i don't think there's any black coat involved is not invited on though i would say. we have about 150 channels the number of journalists is they can thousands so i don't see any incident you have been not been able to name one person who has actually been intimidated by the syrians if there is a personal case of someone like concepts and then mr minister i would say. perhaps you will believe. a justice in the supreme court who recently said in a hearing that the media in the country is not free and of the country is being destroyed in a systemic manner perhaps you will believe that statement and perhaps you can also explain to me why your prime minister has separately cried foul and said that politicians are being targeted with libelous reporting do you expect people to believe that you are rea

other scientists say the same thing they all gnawed sagely in agreement this is clearly good news as these geo formulation vaccine is comparatively easy to manufacture and to deploy i mean they anticipated global shortage of vaccines and logistical problems in vaccination rollout it's interesting timing too now that maternal vaccines are experiencing shortages and disruptions sputnik isn't so bad after all it never was but politics is politics and a vaccine isn't immune to political trash talk as sad as that is around 50 nations have already preordered sputnik jabs and europe hungry was the 1st european nation to greenlight it and now the czech republic is looking to follow and its footsteps i know that sputnik is already i suspect being used in hungary and i have no objection to this vaccine being used in our country if the experts so decide he's still better than people dying here just because of a lack of vaccines so after months of denial and derision the pundits too are coming around it was easy to mock russian scientists it's harder to mock international studies hard science and that was

lie of the people there and i think that you know it when we look at things from a geo political landscape in the new administration has brought in people who are supposed to kind of turn the tide from some of what we've seen in the past and i think it going to be interesting to see what we do in the air in the region now specifically looking at some of his newest appointments because they also kind of were involved before they definitely were what's interesting is that actually joe biden has filled a lot of cabinet positions actually with people who signed the letter back during the obama administration and to me blinken was one of them calling for the u.s. to withdraw any kind of involvement in helping saudi arabia in that kind of coalition in the in the war in yemen but you know that's going to be one of those things that you know what you say in a letter is different when you're suddenly in the driver's seat and you've got saudi arabia this huge u.s. ally in the region saying what do you mean you're going to walk away from us over here what do you mean you're not going to help it's terrorism you

the test is performed in what is called a new permanent nasal swab, which means it is less invasive than the long, geo swap that people may have seen on the news. after you take the swab, you put the sample into a digital analyzer, which will send a result to your smartphone in about 15 minutes. making easier-to-use tests available to every american is a high priority with obvious benefits. they have been wrapping up manufacturing and will shift -- ship 100,000 test kits per month from february through july, and that is good, but honestly not where we will need to be. so, and excited to announce the department of defense and hhs has awarded $230 million to scale the manufacturing base and capacity of this easy-to-use test. thanks to this contract, they will be able to scale the production and manufacture more than 19 million test kits per month by the end of this year -- 8.5 million of which are guaranteed to the u.s. government. the ability to quickly test, contact tracers, and quarantine is a linchpin of our national strategy and will be a vital part of containing the virus and stopping community sp

was out with numbers, too, and maybe we'll talk about that in a little bit in the meantime in geo political newsent biden and president president xi jinping spoke by phone last night. this was their first call since biden took office. in a statement, the white house said biden raised fundamental concerns about beijing's coercive and unfair economic practices, crack down in hong kong, human rights abuses and increasingly assertive actions in the rengion, including toward taiwan they talked about other issues including covid, and climate change it sounds like it got off to a little bit of a tough start bringing all of these issues up in that first phone call, there was some back and forth about cooperation, china pushback, and said that these were issues that were their own to deal with, and not things that the united states should be pushing into. >> i guess we'll talk about tiktok, sorkin you must be just have all kinds of thoughts about. so it's, i mean, it must be tough to be a foreign country when we change administrations over here, and things that are set in stone all of a sudden are comple

world news in its territory it's the latest example of how media networks are affected by geo political tensions formal for more on this i'm joined by they don't leave reporter joel delroy joel how do we get here well in the past 2 weeks at least 5 international news channels have been banned in different parts of the world let's start with c g t now the u.k. regulator off of it it found that the company listed as the owner or c g t it was not actually in direct control of its programming which is required under the u.k. law rather it's said that the chinese communist party was in charge of the station and it also investigated complaints about fairness and accuracy in some of c.t.'s reporting on the hong kong protests well china's media regulator retaliated by blocking the b.b.c. in its territory it said that the b.b.c. had infringed the principles of truthfulness and impartiality in journalism they were particularly angry about some of the b.b.c.'s coverage of persecution against the weak of minority which is something by the way the d.w. has also covered now the b.b.c. was already hea

when we come back, we will talk to the new head of the wto at a time when this position is maybe more important than ever. we talked to dr. ngai's yukon geo -- dr. ngozi. this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: i'm mark crumpton with bloomberg's first word news. two committee level confirmation votes on president biden's pick on budget director have been postponed. the votes set for today by the senate homeland security and governmental affairs and budget panels have been delayed. when a tells bloomberg that members need more time to consider the nomination. republicans and one democrat have said they will not support the nomination. the united states will buy for a seat at the u.n.' as right body to cement a return to the geneva-based panel that was shunned by the trump administration. secretary antony blinken says the u.s. needs to end what he calls the disproportionate focus on israel. in a video message, he raised concerns about countries, including myanmar, china and russia. the european union is catching up in securing vaccine supplies. the challenge now is getting shots into arms. they have shifted into higher gear to source covid-19 vaccines a

a different layering of new lock in relationships also in technology to basically create chokeholds and access and control issues that gives it a lot more political leverage geo politically but the truth is is that china is a very complex country with a massive history governed at multi lower layers there is a huge centralizing effort right now we see this in the crackdown for example on chinese big tech you know the cheating thing is really trying to consolidate power in the c.c.p. and behind him personally but it's complicated and that's why one of the reasons we need more china expertise in the west in like minded states because we need to know what the country is doing where the dynamics are going so we do. miscalculate and lead to some kind of instability or escalation that could occur from the american perspective do you think joe biden really begin to believe that he can win against china in the next 10 years that's what he set out as his goal effectively it's hard to define what we mean by winning i mean obviously the optimum scenario is that china new nests and the us both exist in a liberal international order that is rules based and frankly develop

secretary of state and new blinken has has come out saying the right things on these geo political flashpoints he has called out russian president vladimir putin has called for the release of political opposition leader alexei navalny and the release of those who were arrested in the widespread protests across russia and he's also called out the myanmar generals who have detained a democratically elected leader on sound suki so he's saying the right things he's garnering the right support at home and i think we're going to see a strong response from this administration on both of these challenges to democracy in russia and in the end we know the white house is reportedly considering sanctions against me and more do we know how effective sanctions would be against the military at this point it's a great question we haven't seen exactly the type of sanctions that this administration might put in place what we do know is that the u.s. government has a long track record of imposing sanctions on burma over the last decade of military rule leading up to the democratic elections in 2015 that were the

gas into the show now we have joining us from new delhi commodore they are retired navy officer and director of society for policy studies an independent geo political think tank in vancouver yes mean a la a rangar activist and advocate and in colombo sad how mad the south asia campaigner with a focus on bangladesh for amnesty international a warm welcome to you war if we could start with commodore today so since the indian coast guard found these refugees why was india so reluctant to take them in . india when it was informed about this particular india what did what was appropriate at the time which was to disparage the you know still readable asset that could provide water and food because it was understood that this war was drifting for a few days and that some people had even died on board having provided the water and the food and water were the accord those board was on its way as we understand from bangladesh to malaysia so what india did was to contact the bangladeshi government to see what best could be done under the circumstances so given the current situation as far as the rohingya. are confident i could jump in why i could co

a different layering of new lock in relationships also in technology to basically create chokeholds and access and control issues that gives it a lot more political leverage geo politically but the truth is is that china is a very complex country with a massive history governed at multi layers there is a huge centralizing effort right now we see this in the crackdown for example on chinese big tech you know the cheating thing is really trying to consolidate power in the c.c.p. and behind him personally but it's complicated and that's why one of the reasons we need more china expertise in the west in like minded states because we need to know what the country is doing where the dynamics are going so we don't miscalculate and lead to some kind of instability or escalation that could occur from the american perspective do you think joe biden really begin to believe that he can win against china in the next 10 years that's what he said his goal effectively it's hard to define what we mean by winning i mean obviously the optimum scenario is that china new nests the u.s. both exist in a liberal international order that is rules based and frankly develop classical b

a different layering of new lock in relationships also in technology to basically create chokeholds and access and control issues that gives it a lot more political leverage geo politically but the truth is is that china is a very complex country with a massive history governed at multi lower layers there is a huge centralizing effort right now we see this in the crackdown for example on chinese big tech you know xi jinping is really trying to consolidate power in the c.c.p. and behind him personally but it's complicated and that's why one of the reasons we need more china expertise in the west in like minded states because we need to know what the country is doing where the dynamics are going so we do. miscalculate and lead to some kind of instability or escalation that could occur and to from the american perspective do you think joe biden really begin to believe that he can win against china in the next 10 years if not that's what he sets out as his goal effectively it's hard to define what we mean by winning i mean obviously the optimum scenario is that china and the yunus and the us both exist in a liberal international order that is rules based and fran

a different layering of new lock in relationships also in technology to basically create chokeholds and access and control issues that gives it a lot more political leverage geo political meaning but the truth is that china is a very complex country with a massive history governed at multi lower layers there is a huge centralizing effort right now we see this in the crackdown for example on chinese big tech you know the cheating thing is really trying to consolidate power in the c.c.p. and behind him personally but it's complicated and that's why one of the reasons we need more china expertise in the west in like minded states because we need to know what the country is doing where the dynamics are going so we don't. miscalculate and lead to some kind of instability or escalation that could occur just from the american perspective do you think joe biden really begin to believe that he can win against china in the next 10 years because that's what he sets out as his goal effectively it's hard to define what we mean by winning i mean obviously the optimist scenario is that china and the unesco and the us both exist in a liberal international order that is rule

a different layering of new lock in relationships also in technology to basically create chokeholds and access and control issues that gives it a lot more political leverage geo political meaning but the truth is that china is a very complex country with a massive history governed at multi level layers there is a huge centralizing effort right now we see this in the crackdown for example on chinese big tech you know cheating thing is really trying to consolidate power in the c.c.p. and behind him personally but it's complicated and that's why one of the reasons we need more china expertise in the west in like minded states because we need to know what the country is doing where the dynamics are going so we do. miscalculate and lead to some kind of instability or escalation that could occur from the american perspective do you think that joe biden really begin to believe that he can win against china in the next 10 years that's what he set out as his goal effectively it's hard to define what we mean by winning i mean obviously the optimum scenario is that china and the unesco and the us both exist in a liberal international order that is rules based and frankl

there was a particular geo political event itself that has has led to this or if it's really a holding of relationships that we're seeing with china particularly as you are seeing a new new president in the united states and that's going to mean new ways of dealing with some of the powerhouses on the political stage but we also have to remind the u.k. that its own view you see is state run and tom jones and a lot of other scholars out there have been quite critical of the b.b.c.'s own. autonomy as it were from from the government and we should remember that p.b.s. and n.p.r. very popular public broadcasting stations in the united states are also owned by the government though in both of these cases they would say that there are there is autonomous oversight in the content that they produce ok important factors to consider what was c.t.'s reach in the here k. . well you know pretty frankly i haven't had the chance to to find that but but the reach whether it's great or small may not be as necessarily as important as the decision itself and what factors go into those decisions i mean any time a government says that another station or another broadcast should be suspect

geo just weeks after its transition granting her hybrid was given a license or take—off by the federal aviation authority —— terrafugia. microsoft updated its accessibility guidelines, launching a newpers of pc and xbox games to make gaming more accessible. and after a seven monthjourney, nasa's perseverance rover landed safely on mars. sending its first images back to earth. it will spend the next two years looking for past life on the planet. it was also the week that facebook banned the sharing of all news, local and international, in australia across its platform, rejecting a pay for news proposal. uses outside of australia are also unable to read or access any australian news publications on the platform. the proposed law, which passed through the country's parliament, would force companies like google and facebook to pay for news content. 300 human linejudges on 18 tennis courts could be replaced at this summer's wimbledon by the hawk—eye live system. the all england club is looking at the use of the technology to replace line judges at the australian open. the first time they've been replaced by this tech at a major tournament. and finally this week on al robot has announced

new secretary of state blinken. now now in place u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has has come out saying the right things on these geo political flashpoints he has carved out russian president vladimir putin has called for the release of political opposition leader alexei navalny and the release of those who were arrested in the widespread protests across russia and he's also called out that myanmar generals who have detained a democratically elected leader on sound suki so he's saying the right things he's garnering the right support at home and i think we're going to see a strong response from this administration on both of these challenges to democracy in russia and in the end we know the white house is reportedly considering sanctions against me and more do we know how effective sanctions would be against the military at this point it's a great question we haven't seen exactly the type of sanctions that this administration might put in place what we do know is that the u.s. government has a long track record of imposing sanctions on burma over the last decade of military rule leading up to the democratic elections in 2015 that were th

so-called ukraine geo political project that sits in fact it's all quite simple after the meeting larry putin also plans to see each of the parliamentary party leaders in person. in the us a newpoll shows that support for thought american political party has reached an all time high according to the study significantly more than half of americans now support the idea it is in fact the highest rate since the question. being awesome nationally by the gallup polling group that was 18 years ago now while 46 percent of democrats say a 3rd party is needed which by the way is down from 52 percent in september interestingly a raccoon tie of republicans favor of party but still trump supporters all willing to help him unite the ranks and i said mr president this mega movement needs to continue we need to unite the party trunk closes the way back in 2022 while we discuss the current state of u.s. politics with a panel of experts. i think that in the republican party you have 2 factions you have a conservative pro-life rump faction and then you have the establishment side yes doubtless from inside has really not been favorable to conservatives who see what's going on right now legislati

new secretary of state blinken. now that now in place u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has has come out saying the right things on these geo political flashpoints he has called out russian president vladimir putin has called for the release of political opposition leader alexei navalny and the release of those who were arrested in the widespread protests across russia and he's also called out that myanmar generals who have detained a democratically elected leader on sound suki so he's saying the right things he's garnering the right support at home and i think we're going to see a strong response from this administration on both of these challenges to democracy in russia and in the end we know that the white house is reportedly considering sanctions against me and more do we know how effective sanctions would be against the military at this point it's a great question we haven't seen exactly the type of sanctions that this administration might put in place well we do know is that the u.s. government has a long track record of imposing sanctions on burma over the last decade of military rule leading up to the democratic elections in 2015 that we

new secretary of state blinken. now that now in place u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken has has come out saying the right things on these geo political flashpoints he has carved out russian president vladimir putin has called for the release of political opposition leader lexan of money and the release of those who were arrested in the widespread protests across russia and he's also called out the me and maher generals who have detained a democratically elected leader on sound suki so he's saying the right things he's garnering the right simpler at home and i think we're going to see a strong response from this administration on both of these challenges to democracy in russia and in the end we know the white house is reportedly considering sanctions against me and more do we know how effective sanctions would be against the military at this point it's a great question we haven't seen exactly the type of sanctions that this administration might put in place what we do know is that the u.s. government has a long track record of imposing sanctions on burma over the last decade of military rule leading up to the democratic elections in 2015 that wer

geo-political test that we face. stephanie: burns also called for closing chinese-backed cultural centers, known as confucius institutes, at u.s. universies. he charged they are, essentially, propaganda tools. a former staffer for newgovernor andrew cuomo has escalated her accusation against him of sexual harassment. lindsey boylan posted online today that cuomo kissed her, repeatedly touched her, and once joked they should play strip poker. cuomo's office said the claims are, quote, "quite simply false." a federal grand jury in minneapolis will hear testimony in the death of george floyd, in a renewed civil rights investigation. "the new york times" and others report a main focus is derek chauvin, the white former police officer who held floyd down as he struggled to breathe. chauvin already faces state murder charges. more than 80,000 victims of california wildfires sued former managers of pacific gas and electric today for dereliction of duty. the utility's equipment ignited fires that killed more than 100 people and destroyed 25,000 homes in 2017 and 2018. the suit names nearly 2 dozen former executives and board members. and fanne foxe, the stripper at the center of one of washington's most infamous scandals,

refresh your memory, and since you have new members as well, my office, the controller's performance group, does a sort of wrap-up report on all of the programs, the geo bond programs, where we look at scope, schedule, and budget. we publish it at a high-level summary level, with a little bit of narrative on the status of each bond program, and common graphics to show their achievement and the schedule and budget. this is something that the controller values, and we've been doing it to support your report and generally for public transparency on the bonds. we were trying to do one fiscal year at a time, but that was blown off by the long development it took to get all of the capitol program information into the city's knew financial system, s.f. p., when it was built. we had one recorder that ran from january 2017 to june 2018, and then be caught up with a normal report for 2018/'19. that's what you heard presented on during your last meeting. typically you have written a summary report on your own activities. doing it on a fiscal year cadence seems to make sense. sort of the thought process here was that after the close of the fiscal year, you would