the purpose of public r&d are many. one is to provide the basic foundation of research for new knowledge. sometimes knowledge that will have very practical applications that will turn into new industries and products. sometimes it's about discovering if there was life on mars for million years ago because of the knowledge it gives about the universe and ourselves. that's a foundation of research. there's also critical r&d for public missions, the mission of national security which we own. also missions like health and energy and space, which the government has a key role to play in, shared with the private sector in a very different way. recognizing there are multiple roles, and you look at it in aggregate i think one is powerful is the combination of public investments that lay a foundation, go after public missions, but then really provide the seedbed for what the private sector does. as recently as when i was a young kid, which is not recent anymore, but i have to go back and look, i want to say 40 or 50 years ago, p

they're magnificent companies, mike, because on average they are spending 15% of their revenues on r&d, think of that as future optionality on creating the next amazing thing, and while they are doing that they're spending 10% of their revenues on capital. they're building these generally incredible motes, future return opportunity, the -- does the investment in r&d or capital produce anything and doing that without taking on any financial leverage. when i started 25 years ago, someone said go model that without financial leverage. if that was the test i would have failed. so there's reasons why they are so strong, but i think at the end of the day, we are quite hopeful that the micro will matter even if it's the micro within a google or an amazon or a microsoft. >> sure. >> or nvidia for that matter. >> yeah. i mean they're putting hundreds of billions of dollars in motion out of basically their cash and cash flow and it's going to other companies and, obviously, it's probably not all misspent. >> it's been spent, remember, the 15% on r&d has been spent in the earnings statement. >> t

the you has struggled to invest in r&d compared to china, russia and even the united states. that has been identified in some reports from the last six months. that the european commission hopes to the address. >> you mentioned priorities to buy more european thinking about that how would these efforts affect trans-atlantic relations especially u.s. calls to investment in its own defense but on the other hand europe at the moment buying a lot from european defense companies and but additionally what implications would a more military capable europe have for the united states. >> that's a good question. on the one hand europe needs defense industry. it's buying so much from the united states, estimated 100 euro loss in inefficiency because of the external dependency. in the short run, in the short-term europe will be lying less from the united states. european initiatives, defense industry, i do worry that in the long run this might create some kind of risk in the trans-atlantic space in part because of european economies kind of pulling away from the united states and the def

a tougher time recovering their investment, which leads to abandoning innovative ideas or reducing r&dnvestment in the kind of ideas that can propel our economy. it's for these reasons i introduced the restore patent rights act, and as i've said before in a single sentence, this would restore the rebuttable presumption and undo the harmful effects of ebay. in all four of our previous hearings, examining specific bipartisan bills, we have witnesses who both support and oppose the legislation. we try to hear all sides on this hearing, it is no different with senator tillis's cooperation. we have a panel with diverse views and perspectives both on the challenge and the operational impact of ebay, and this bill and its potential consequence. we want to hear from you about whether you think this bill is needed, whether it's crafted the right way, although at one sentence, there's not a lot of details to work through, and tell us what you like and what you don't and how to make it better. before i introduce the panel of witnesses, i'd like to turn it to my friend and colleague senator tillis

well, today we're taking you to gun the end, the d r. c. 2 of africa's major mining hubs for gold, copper, and cobalt. and while the dream of striking goals may not be as glory as, as it sounds, it can create jobs and economic growth. so why they've gotten this youth protesting against it, and how is it affecting the land and communities here on the 77 percent were looking at just that. i'm your host. ok to english and that the coming up on the show. and of course, i know we look at the impacts, illegal mining is having on the environment an economy model. lydia tongue go highlights issues related to mining in the democratic republic of congo. and we explore the senegalese city of song we facilities as hold next springs follow his thoughts. we kick off today show from the gun up, which is africa's needing producer of gold. unfortunately, the rise in illegal mining practices, the sole coal gallons here has also led to arise in pollution and for lack of better opportunities gone. those views are at the center of it all, to my colleague and

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both mines in the d. r. c. that the case was rejected. are you hopeful that your case will be more successful as well? i'm completely convinced after what we've been doing with all the teams here, legal team in belgium, but also a legal team in the u. k. in the us and the companies team in the french team, the legal teams that we have enough evidence to show that brought me the rules that were gathered on some mines where there are some international crimes committed step. those brought me the rules were actual sold to fund raise the afterwards gave what were put in the supply chain of apple and apple knows that. and if you want to, can mention the facts that we mentioned, the complaints, but we have pretty, pretty sure that we have all the evidence. we need to bring apple to a criminal trial and built to tell us more though about the end goal here. so what exactly do you want to achieve from ad from this case? would you like to see an end to these products being used at not just in, at the or say, but in other countries on, for these all

i'm talking about r&d architecture so we move the pace of technological innovation. the third -- and i will stop there -- is we need to bring people with us. that means training people for this kind of energy transition we are envisioning. in canada part of the big problem that policymakers face is coming, they have not considered the workforce aspect and additional strategy that everybody's trying to engineer going forward. and so, the jobs of more technologists, the jobs of camino, being more efficient in energy production, distribution, including mostly in oil and gas, needs to continue. people need to be trained for this and this is where universities play a big role, but where public policy has to be more intentional in training these people. i will stop there. >> i will pick it up from there. thank you very much for this opportunity. i am representing the canadian nuclear association and our industry, which is very much science-based and innovation-based, has had a long history in our country around the tradition of can-do technologies. based on that and some v

now the r d f or the is really military here has not commented on it. that's not unusual. they often in the past did not comment on this strikes a in syria. no. according to those sources, there were several strikes over the course of the day. some of where we quoted near military bases and others in damascus, the permanently targeted weapon, storage facilities and research centers. and i think what's being discussed here is really media is that there is of course, a lot of concern uh by that it's really military and they also have such a day of tracking weapons. they've done this in the past. i've always targeted, you know, a weapon transfers to husband or what they call described as yvonne in entrenchment in a serious. so they've done this in the past, but now there will be charging this so they're not reaching his block or other whole started groups. because a lot of concern that this uh, these weapons could fall in this situation right now into the wrong hands. now right, and we just heard prime minister netanyahu was saying is really sending the hand of piece to syria

another song big one more day and it's not just in the d r. c. nigeria has huge mineral deposits of key elements like 10. but it also faces the challenge of the unregulated extraction of minerals. the sector is also widely known to employ children who often work in hazardous conditions. the www studio legal scott exclusive are access to autism. all mining operations in jobs in northern nigeria, corresponded okay. oh mary, i filed this report number that you'd be this used to be from. but no, it looks like it. most of the workers tear up the soil and looking for it. it's just beneath the surface at this phone regularly ted much. we're here with the permission of the site. allows us to film in this direction, but not what's behind us. what we can show you is a stream polluted by mining waste. the minus dig with shovels and the bad hands risk and cuts and falls. many of the children spend hours on the hot summer. some tell us that the take drugs to get through to the bus keeps a close. i asked to come in our rooms to we're here to get in and we t

that was a r d correspondence, but he has a bunch of thank you very much for your analysis. and today's events also mark a historic day for syrians living abroad, many of whom have been of express caution or cautious optimism, rather than the end of the assad families. more than 50 year rule will make waiting for a better chapter for syria. what type of listen to some of the reactions from lebanon, which is home to a large number of syrian refugees, as i do that. so i'm, i'm, of course, it's much better not much better. for example, i have to do military service, but not that's and nothing holding me by this means i can go to syria. we used to live in fear, but now i can go wherever i want, as well as we don't know how this new situation that unfolds or what can do with the insurance to pay before the situation was bad. but now it's betsy, god's willing, but not sure yet if it will get much better or just send it to let's say thanks. we'll get that to god willing. hopefully, syria will return to how it used to be an even better thing savvy to any, to norma. and now we can al

from the d, r. c. and rwanda. competition for minerals is one of the main drivers of conflict in the d r. c. since the 19 ninety's, the mining court last and the east happened, devastated by fighting between arm groups some allegedly that by neighboring rolanda and the congolese military rights group say some are to sit on mines, are run by arms groups involved and massacres of civilians rapes loading and other crimes. thousands of civilians happen forced from their homes. armed groups have long been its use of fighting for control of mines and using prophets to finance their operations. in analysts say fighting is likely to continue as long as there is demand. capielo pistol again, also 0 for insight story. well, let's discuss this further and bring, you know, i guess today in london we have robot, amsterdam and international lawyer who's representing the democratic republic of come go in this case and go to an eastern d. c. i land connie is a journalist who's covered the conflict for more than 15 year

and so i've got to be the of the music to my ears all the way from the d. r. c. from classical music to another class, the wind was the good part is making history as the 1st black o 9 for wind farming friendship, paving the way for change in south africa is wine industry. enjoy every vinyati tells the story. how did the son of a former wind farm labor eventually become the 1st black south africans to own a wind farm? uh, was the based on a problem file for me about 17 kilometers. and um, at the time, ah, the narrative of funds workers, childrens being, the next generation of farm workers was really much prevalent. and for a very long time, i wanted to get is far away from the phone until i did a holiday spent in the cellar. and later on in the tasting room, my perspective with wind changed. and at that moment i wanted to become part of the wine industry this beautiful wind farm and frontier cape town didn't always look like this. when porpoise bought it, it was badly dilapidated. but after saving for 15 years, it was all it could afford meets pulse the quote, th

it says mission to to an ordinary d r. c. such as is into classical musical start. so let's meet the may through the pilots to high fly in classical music. these communities is a true pioneer. let's find out what makes our monday agenda the african beetle that is player ation came from my father one day at palladium of these, the 300 recorded. one of the she told me, listen, my son that i would like you to welcome people from other class or musical groups and the judge and allowed him to join you all to please there's all the think he is later. his orchestra seems when he can, but guess is still the only one in the democratic republic of congo. what is it really like to learn and play classical music here in games? just the as many people in den, just as fees? heidi cannot make times, including members of other mines, orchestra, being part of the orchestra has hardly saved them from economic difficulties. on the contrary, being a musician in the d. r. c presents very special challenges. when we get the place on why are we on funding? the money is not meant to talk a

so we give them an r&d tax credit that we had to write eligibility requirements for things of that nature will have accelerated depreciation on equipment and what have you. it is easier said than done. my feeling is we are in a very good spot when it comes to corporate taxes right now. we have increase the level of investment thanks to the corporate tax cuts we got into thousand 16. those are permanence. we are very competitive now, vis-À-vis other industrialized countries like japan, germany, and so forth. we are very favorable rates. my feeling is the corporate code is pretty good where it is. there could be something to correct would pretty good the primary focus should be on making personal income taxes as harassment can be. while still recognizing the financial requirements of the nation. the best way to do that is to finally go after the 60% of the federal budget that's entitlements swallowed out of control. to start to go after what has become pretty well graphed. and that is we let universities charge whatever they want. students borrow whatever they need. then we get a democratic

we've been in a heavy r&d phase for years. within -- we've been working on our quantum computers for 15 years, only recently did we have something that could actually support commercial applications. and we are now seeing them move into production. you talked, for example, about cell tower. charles: right. >> we had nttdokomo that is moving applications in production to optimize cell tower, so it's happening right now, today. we're just at the beginning of this explosion. charles: i know ceos don't like to talk about their stocks, but your stock has been on fire. and i just read today blackrock has almost 7 million shares. so it's not just retail investors who are speculating on this thing. you've attracted some of the biggest names on wall street. where do you feel -- i mean, are you comfortable talking about the size of this industry, your place in this industry and what it might mean for the stock at some point? >> so i'm perfectly happy to talk about the industry -- [laughter] charles: can you tell me it's going to $10? [la

the d r and d on this vaccine is done. we're now waiting for the start of the new year because the ministry of health care as a government body operates on the basis of the calendar, not the vaccination schedule. so we're hoping to get new financing after january 1st. even though it would be helpful to have emergency funds that could be made available sooner when we're talking about the threat of new dangerous pathogens, it would be great to have more flexible mechanisms to support the research that can protect the population against emergency infections. to give you a more general answer, while it would be great to have something like this on the international scale, the situation is such that at least on the country level, we need a system that would allow the creation of vaccine prototypes against pathogens with academic potential something we called can't vaccines. the world health organization published a list of 30 such pathogens, given our country's geography and climate, the list could be shorted to a dozen of such

it is true it comes from europe, but the packing, the manufacturing, the r&d can be done in the u.s..have a manufacturing land. we just finished expansion two weeks ago, and we are planning to expand into the u.s. scarlet: how are you thinking about tariffs? there are still going to be things you are importing from outside the united states. how far ahead of it can you get right now? federico: absolutely, you are right. on the truffle itself, we are used to, because from 2000 to 2007, there was a high tariff from europe on truffles that came into the u.s. obviously, since 2007, our logistics are much more competitive. we would like to keep tariffs zero like now. but we are trying to buy the most we can here in the united states. our manufacturing plants come all the ingredients we need that we can buy in the country, we do try to buy in the country. when we do not have a choice, we go overseas and have transportation costs and tariffs . scarlet: what does that mean for trying to make truffles available to a wider base of consumers as opposed to a fine dining delicacy? are market chang

we are in the unique situation that most of the products we have came from our in-house r&d efforts,hich is a bit unusual compared to some of our peers. we expect to carry on with that, but we can also see that we can complement that via some acquisitions. so, typically, it would be early-stage biotech, where they have great science. we have disease understanding, we have the infrastructure, so we can express that science in a better way than they can do on their own. so, merging makes a perfect marriage, and the sum of the parts is bigger than what each can do on their own. francine: but are pharma companies having a harder time after covid? there seems to have been an explosion of not trusting pharmaceutical companies. even, you know, vaccines being questioned. have you felt any backlash? lars: yes, and to me, that's a really, really sad situation to be in, because, had it not been for some of the very innovative small biotechs who came up with vaccines and then teaming up with some of the largest forces of our industry to, in record time, get approval and scaling manufacturing, i

one area that's interesting to look back on in the r&d plan if emphasis on public-private partnerships. well that's a noble goal the events of the last couple of years have shown us the speed with which the commercial growth is working is hard for the federal government and the public sector to infuse that or see ourselves as working with a lot of emerging technology companies and being a bridge between the federal government's ability to develop technology versus the commercial world that moves frankly at light speed and it's a challenge for all of us to keep up with especially given a talked about the challenges, the federal workforce is not have in many cases the skills necessary to even lever to latest emerging technology coming up in generative ai. that's a handful of companies in the world can even build that parameter model right now so it's an abiding challenge. >> lisa when we think about public private partnerships we think of sesta --. >> so i'm going to toss that ball to you. what are your thoughts as far as the plan itself and how it's embracing that but also promoting it

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so here's a look at the latest i from a r d in for a test. now the opposition, conservative cd you see su, block is on 32 percent fall rides at a f. d, a would likely achieve 18 percent all the way down in the chancellor shelter says social democrats at the moment that only when a 16 percent of the vote on present shopping is called this in part of the greens are on the 14 a new party, the b, s w would make it into parliament. it's pulling other on 5 percent with the blend of left leading economic policies, consecutive migration, and russia friendly, foreign policy initiatives. the business from the liberal f t. p form, members of the gym and government wouldn't get enough votes to be represented in the bonus tag. and the left policy would fail to reach the 5 percent heads of the score to place in parliament, but could still be represented by 3 directly elected candidates. this remains unclear on a political correspondence. simon junk has been analyzing the thing as i asked him whether or not charles was already lost. phil, uh, you know, this,

the d. r. c's rich and minerals like 1010 to them, and dunston that are often extracted an unofficial minds drawn by all the groups. you an expert since human rights activists say both malicious are responsible for mass because of civilians. mass rates and looting. appleton ivy allegation some said it had to supply us with the camels use these materials and production kristof marshall i as the lawyer representing the democratic republic of congo in bedroom. he outlined what the complaint is about. so i'm presenting the states of google, so the goal of the republic is to show to the consumers. that's the don't do the project they're having to has is contaminated by international crimes. and to show the world of the international community, which doesn't really care what was happening, keith was seen such yes, was 1000000 of the that the situation has to come to an end. and that this conflict is mainly driven by this industry of those minerals. and that's what the viewers she wants to show to th

the eastern d r. c is rich and minerals like 10 town to them and tungsten. these minerals are often extracted in unofficial mines run by armed groups, un experts and human rights activists say those militias are responsible for massacres of civilians, mass rapes, and losing apples, denies the allegations and says it does not directly source its primary minerals. well, christoph marshall is a lawyer representing the democratic republic of congo in belgium. he tells me more about what the little assumed hopes to achieve. i'm presenting the states of google . so the goal of the republic is to show to the consumers. that's the don't do the project they're having to has is contaminated by international crimes and to show the world of the international community, which doesn't really care what's, what's happening keywords inserts, yes. was 1000000 of the, the, the situation has to come to an end. and that this conflict is mainly driven by this industry of minerals, and that's what the view is she wants to show it to the world just and of course, trying to put an e

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c. official who has been killed in this new crisis during the funeral into one senior i r d. c. once force came out there said that it's here was clear policy to quote, courageously maintained support for syria and the access of resistance. today it's a honda, my tech theory groups abuse the ceasefire with the support of the us and the zion is regina and began their attacks in a level and in syria. surely the fight is of the resistance and the syrian government with the support from the islamic republic. oh, and will, will lead to other losses in their history. meanwhile, speaker, it was parliament's mom above everybody, both advised regional countries to stay out of the trouble and not take any side of this as there are also some conflicting interests in syria by different regional states. we know of saudi arabia has some conflicting interests compared to iran, their guitar, turkey, all those countries have their own interests and threats in syria. so the general sentiment to anyone is that the game is not over. and that the same way as iran, dismantled isis in syria years ago.

i don't know if senator todd young is here but he was a huge leader in the r&d piece of the chips bill. by the end of the year we will have obligated about $35 billion. in two 26 companies. and almost all of the $11 billion for research and development. we are getting the job done. most excitingly for me -- when i started this, people said you will never get to expand in america. as all of you probably know this, this is a taiwanese company that currently makes 100% of the world's most sophisticated chips. people would say to me, you will never get tsmc to expand in the u.s. wrong. they are doing it. tsmc, under the leadership of this president and the commerce department is building out three new huge facilities in arizona to produce world's most sophisticated semiconductor chips in america with american workers. it is an incredible thing and you are safer because of it. we have invested with macron, global foundries, texas instruments, samsung, all of the leading companies. as you said, silicon valley is down the road because we invented the chip. we have taken our eye off the ball.

the country and from german radio and t v a r d a just one question about the pro says starting, know the political progress. you say it has to be inclusive. how far do you think members of the old regime should be integrated in this process? of thank you very much, a lot, all cetera is news agency on line. yeah, thank you for the briefing. um you mentioned these rails since your state delton go on sunday. have you oven? have you had any engagement with the ease? read the authorities on the field that you were mentioning to sees the bomb beings and with any serial the syrian i'm group of you have any direct engagement. thank you to thank you very much. well, how much of one another one. see thank you so much. that sounds good. so thank you for you. um, i have a question for you today about this. why it also is right. it has invaded the buffer zone in the gold on the heights that it or pipe of to the collapse of a subdivision the in syria. and there are also reports that says, the smoke alarm it has crossed this zone and the entered the studio and $2.00 to $3.00. and my question is, i

oh, we're always, you know, working on in r&d on new cheeses to satisfy our customers.can't rest on our laurels. we've got to we've got to keep, you know, keep up with the times and the trends. and we have two new cheeses this year and next year, hopefully two more. okay, i got some sampling to do. jill giacomini, thanks for your time. happy holidays to you. thanks. let's move on. now, here's something else worth celebrating. the san francisco state volleyball team is in the nation's heartland tonight, in search of its first ever national title. this year, the gators set the school record for single season wins. they just won their first ncaa tournament match and are now headed to their division two ncaa championships for the first time in program history. i'm most proud of the growth that this program has had since all of us seniors have been here. we've given our blood, sweat and tears to this program. we love being gators, and i'm just so proud of how far this has come. all right, izzy, we are rooting for you guys. as san francisco state has never won a national titl

the d. r. c is rich and men roost like 10 ton to them. and dunston that are often extracted in unofficial minds run by armed groups. un experts and human rights activists say those militias, i responsible for massacres of civilians, mass rapes, and looting. after denies the allegations and said it has to supply us, it cannot you seize much use in production, kristof marshall as the lawyer representing the democratic republic of congo in belgium. he outlined what the complaint is about. i'm representing the state of google. so the goal of the republic is to show to the consumers, that's the don't do the project they're having to has is contaminated by international crimes and to show the world of the international community, which doesn't really care what was happening. keith was inserts, yes. was 1000000 of the, the, the situation has to come to an end, and that this conflict is mainly driven by this industry of the minerals and that's what of us she wants to show it to the world just. and of course, trying to put an end to the situation