financial support has been provided by our lead sponsors, aarp of washington, the bill and melinda gates foundation, and the norcliffe foundation. to those who hold and seek our highest offices. financial support has been provided by our lead sponsors, aarp of washington, the bill and melinda gates foundation, and the norcliffe foundation. we also want to thank the community colleges of spokane for hosting this debate and partnership with gonzaga university, eastern washington university, the university of washington, washington state university spokane, and woodworth university. ms. guenther: this is a town hall style debate and the questions will come from the hundreds of people here at spokane community college. aside from asking questions, the audience has agreed to remain silent and hold applause until the end of the debate, except for now as we meet the candidates. democratic senator maria antwell. and republican susan hutchison. >> welcome to you both. as you watch this debate, we invite you to join the conversation on social media using #waelex. to the format of this debate. the questions w

this is an issue close to the heart of melinda gates, co—founder of the bill and melinda gates foundationtes told karishma vaswani that the answer is greater digital distribution. digital is upon us, so whether we like it or not, it's coming and it's already there. three quarters of the world's whole population use cellphones today, and what we're trying to say two countries is you need to make investments both in health and education for sure, you have to have a healthy population, and educated population, but you also have to make investments in digital and the right regulatory framework because you can take advantage of digital, and when young people, which 60% of the continent of africa is under 25, when they have access to capital and credit, they'll start to create new businesses and actually start to create jobs in your economy. there's a lwa ys create jobs in your economy. there's always this criticism of the innovative economy or the technology industry that it possibly leaves workers worse off than some of the most vulnerable may not have the right that they should have. how do

aid and development conferences among them the goal keeper event hosted by the bill and melinda gates foundation that tracks progress toward the un's sustainable development agenda. the good news is that worldwide extreme poverty defined as living on less than a dollar ninety a day has fallen drastically in the last three decades the bad news that extreme poverty is now concentrating in fast growing africa. by two thousand and fifty almost ninety percent of the world's extreme poor are expected to live in sub-saharan africa many of them in the democratic republic of congo and nigeria thus the call from gates for more aid more resources and more investment will the world's done a great job getting people out of extreme poverty but it's community huge challenge in africa with the population growth the disease burden there are so our innovation in new tools are a generosity we're going to have to do an even bet. our job in africa than we've ever done in the past sustainable practices across the west are also a focus because even in somalia i've personally seen in somalia and in the chad region how

exacerbating global inequalities, this is an issue close to the heart of melinda gates, co—founder of the bill and melinda gates foundationwer is not to stop digital investments, it is to redistribute them. digital is upon us, so whether we like it or not, it is coming and it is already there. three quarters of the world's population use cellphones today and what we are trying to say the countries is you need to make investments both in health, and education, for sure, you have to have a healthy, educated population, but you also have to make investments in digital in the right regulatory framework, because you could take advantage of digital and when young people, which 60% of the continent of africa is under the age of 25, and they have access to capital and credit, they will start to create new businesses and actually create jobs in your economy. there is always his criticism about the innovative economy or the technology industry, it actually possibly leaves workers at worse off and some of the most honourable may not have the right so they should have, so how do you address these sorts of issues? today, really only i

emily: bill and melinda gates foundation the io sue desmond-hellmann, thanks for joining us.next, jeff bezos linked. amazon raises the minimum wage for workers in the u.s. and the u.k. how will this impact the bottom line, and could we see other competitors take notice? this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg technology." is increasing the minimum wage for all employees in the u.s. and the u.k. from november 1, in the united states come the company will pay $15 an hour at minimum. the rest of the u.k. raised to nine pounds 50. amazon said it will apply to all including subsidiaries. the company senior vice president of operations explained the move to bloomberg markets earlier today. >> we've had a great year hiring and retention payment as we look wantrd, we said what do we to be as an employer and our focus of paid to be. we decided to go ahead and move now to the $15 an hour in the u.s. starting november 1. and the nine pound 50 across the u.k. and 10 pound 50 in london effective november 1 as well. just a note in the last couple of minutes, i want to os for doing t

we have some interesting comments from melinda gates, the co—founder of the bill and melinda gates foundatione impact of technology but how you provide equal access to technology. digital is upon us, access to technology. digital is upon us, so access to technology. digital is upon us, so whether we like it or not it is coming and it is already there. three quarters of the world population use cellphones today. what we are trying to say the countries is you need to make investments in health and education, you have to have a healthy population, and educated population but you also have to make investments in digital in the right regulatory framework because you can ta ke regulatory framework because you can take advantage of digital and when young people, which 50% of the continent of africa is under 25, when they have access to capital they will start to create new businesses and create jobs in your economy. there's always this criticism about the innovative economy and technology industries that leaves workers worse off and some of the most vulnerable may not have the rights that they shoul

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that is the warning of a recent report from by goalkeeper organization under the bill and melinda gates foundation that tracks progress towards the un sustainable development agenda gates himself was in berlin to spread the message and to call for action. the good news is that worldwide extreme poverty defined as living on less than a dollar ninety a day has fallen drastically in the last three decades the bad news that extreme poverty is now concentrating in fast growing africa. by two thousand and fifty almost ninety percent of the world's extreme poor are expected to live in sub-saharan africa many of them in the democratic republic of congo and i geria does the call from gates for more aid more resources and more investment while the world's done a great job getting people out of extreme poverty but it's going to be a huge challenge in africa with the population growth the disease burden there are so our innovation in new tools our aid generosity we're going to have to do an even better job in africa than we've ever done in the past sustainable practices across the west are also a focus is eve

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. >> lead sponsors, aarp of washington, the bill and melinda gates foundation and the northcliffe foundation. we want to thank central washington university for hosting and partnership with the chamber of commerce, is associated students of central washington university and the ellensburg daily record, along rosslyn andurg, easton school district. >> we invite you to join the conversation on social media by using #waelex. large audience has agreed to noten, no tears and no boos, cheers. they will hold their audience until the end of the debate, except for now. >> the format for tonight's debate is simple. each candidate will have 90 seconds for opening statement, questions will then be asked of both candidates and they will have one minute for initial response. ross and i will lead a follow-up discussion on the topic before moving on to the next question. we flipped a coin. the doctor will have the opening statement. you have a minute and a half. >> good evening. i am a pediatrician, wife and mom. i spent the past 17 years taking care of children and families. the policies of this administra

continent according to a recent report from goalkeepers an organization under the bill and melinda gates foundation that keeps track of and for progress towards the un sustainable development agenda it says that by twenty fifty almost ninety percent of the world's population is going to live in this area and subsaharan africa many of them are going to be in the democratic republic of congo and in nigeria violence political instability and discrimination against women prevent the region from achieving sustainability but the study also has some good news it claims that over one billion worldwide have been able to escape poverty over the last eighteen years and classifies anyone earning less than one dollar and ninety cents per day a suffering from extreme property. agriculture in the digital age these days technology enables some farmers to improve their yields and increase profits but many people in the industry are being left behind small farmers in particular continue to struggle a study by the world food program suggests that digitalization is even serving to widen the gap between poor farmers an

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the rwandan health ministry and the bill and melinda gates foundation are supporting me out but it'snot supposed to replace actual doctors so we still need to talk to us but fish didn't for admission to just the way we see it it's just a tool that we're putting in the handle does to empower them if basic medical care using ai is successful in rwanda the baba out could be used worldwide. shift says to get well soon or with artificial intelligence. and as always we leave through the exit out internet find at the beach today it's a trip throughout history. chinese filmmaker as our show has many painting and drawing skills has what's around the style of different areas an art history and he's put them all together in a stop motion film that's already had three hundred thousand viewers on the nia. as a smoker pass on a cigarette case amos lee glide through various artistic styles an heiress. whether it's european impressionism off canvas and japanese painting or chinese entering. in just one minute show tours the well the hot. and next week the craze for any sporting events is booming aro

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melinda gates wants big tech companies to help more of the world's poor. the cochair of the bill and melinda gets foundationlicymakers should incentivize philanthropy for tech firms. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: it switched parties in each of the last four elections. new hampshire's first congressional district now has an open seat. eddie edwards joins us from manchester, hampshire. good to have you with us. >> great to be here, thank you>> . nature of the the constituents you are appealing to. consistent with the folks in our district is that these are american patriots. these are americans who want their country brought together. they want a representative who will be able to work to bring our country back together. that is what they have been asking for. that is what they have been pushing for. that is why i am happy to be the republican nominee. david: how does that play at a practice, especially on the subject of trade? how important is that to you? yo