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. -- from ghana to rwanda.s change the way it is responding globally with the massive need to distribute vaccines across the world as traditional supply chains broke down. joining us now, zipline ceo keller rinaudo. great to have you with us, and you are joining us from a production facility in san francisco where there are drones and planes behind you. what are we seeing there? keller: yeah, i'm standing in is it like's manufacturing -- i'm standing in zipline's manufacturing facility in south san francisco. it is getting ready to head of two places as diverse as rwanda, nigeria, north carolina, or arkansas. as you mentioned, we have seen the pandemic create a totally new kind of demand for logistic services, and we are trying to keep up with that demand. emily: give us the 30,000-foot view. how many drones is zipline flying now? where are they flying and what are they delivering? keller: when we started in 2016, partnering with the government of rwanda, our initial service contract was to deliver a wide varie

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of carrying out the killing, which has won the caribbean republic further into political turmoil. rwanda has deployed a 1000 soldiers to mozambique to help combat and why mac state linked insurgency in the north of the country. the rwandan troops will fight alongside mozambique forces and troops from the southern african development community. since october 2017 thousands of civilians and soldiers have been killed by islamist and surgeon in mozambique. at least 5 people are dead after an earthquake hit the central asian country of 10. 10 officials say the magnitude $5.00 quake destroyed nearly 20 homes and left several villages without power. fast moving brush fires have swept through forests and dozens of villages in eastern russia. hundreds of people have lost their homes. forest fires and russia become more severe in recent years because of heat waves and long dry period. to the united states were last month was the hottest june on record, and it's not looking like july will give americans a chance to cool down the u. s. west is sweltering under. he gets another heat wave in northern

province of wines do not tell where he has started a 15 month in jail sentence, for contempt of court. rwanda has sent 1000 soldiers to battle and is what most insurgents, the in mozambique. they will fight alongside national horses and troops from a southern african alliance. islamists have killed thousands of civilians in mozambique in the last 4 years. israel supreme court has ruled that same sex couples should be allowed to have children with the help of surrogates mothers, l g, b, t, q activists, have campaigns for the rule change. for years. the court says restrictions barring gay couples from sir, i guess he must be lifted within 6 and pulls of clothes in bulgaria, a 2nd to general election in 3 months. now the vote was called after the center right party, a former prime minister waco border solve, failed to form a coalition last time around. and worse off is facing a stiff competition from a new populous party. public anger over corruption has dominated the campaign in the use. of course, the country i left cross over to it dw, corresponded to barbara basal who was covering the electi

some difficulty. rwanda has started deploying a 1000 soldiers to know some big help combat violence in the gas rates of northern cob delgado province. they'll be joined by forces from the 16 nation southern african developing community in tackling a full year old conflict. around 3000 people have been killed at least 800000. others displaced half of them children. there are continued questions about who's going to lead haiti after the assassination of president giovanni mores. his widow, his accused political enemies of organizing his killing to stop democratic change all the while. political instability is intensifying as patty cocaine reports from washington. d. c. a sign of how scared people in haiti are a false rumors, spread on social media that the u. s. were giving out the says, a massive crowd showed up at the embassy only to be disappointed that it faced with this reality, the haitian people are left to themselves. they cannot go out. they want to go to safe places. when people heard the rumors saying that the u. s. embassy is giving exile to the people they came, the patient

and we now see that the european union is backing plans to produce covid vaccines in rwanda, south africathat is the right approach, that you get this know—how transfer from the rich world to africa? it has to be a combination of both. yeah, while we want to accept a know—how transfer from the rich countries to africa, africa has to rely on home—grown solutions. i would not agree 100% of the proposals sani ibrahim will say that, you know, we don't have the know—how — we do. i can tell you, i mean, confidently, that within my centre and my collaboration with university of cambridge, we did develop a vaccine that is at a preclinical stage. now, this is know—how from africa. and then we just developed that vaccine based on a prior vaccine that we were working on before. and this vaccine was built in nigeria with my collaborator in cambridge, which means that we do have the resources, the human resources necessary, both within africa and in the diaspora, which means that africa can — if given the resources, obviously. so you're saying that, basically overnight, africa could produce the vaccin

it's been sold to at least 11 countries, including bahrain hungry, india, mexico, rwanda, saudi arabia, and the u. a. 14 heads of states including sitting presidents, current prime ministers and even a king were potential targets. but they weren't the only ones. 50000 phone numbers were leeks, including those of a 180 journalists, and 20 countries activists. political opponents and even lawyers. and so claims that surveillance tools are sold to carefully vetted government clients and that it does not access to data about his customers' targets. let's talk now to laurel re shot. he's the executive director and found of forbidden stories. he joins us on skype from paris. laurel mr. monsieur macro wants to go further with this. will he get the answers that he wants to hear? here's what we, what we know that we the phone number for the french bread and so on. members of the go the front door. and that doesn't mean that the front of the record was that just mean that actually had a meeting and the mark american didn't soon. it's where entering the phone number in my call center is used to t

also, voting does not take place at all in dozens of constituencies because of security problems. rwanda has started deploying a 1000 soldiers to mozambique to help combat the violence and the gas rich northern cab delgado province. they'll be joined by forces from the 16 nation at southern african developing community in tackling a nearly 4 year old conflict. around 3000 people have been killed and at least 800000 others displace half of them children. though they don't haiti's assassinated president as accuse political enemies of organizing his killing to stop democratic change. martine moses, where he was injured in the attack, was speaking for the 1st time. his husband was shot dead at his home on wednesday. a start to us confederate general robert e. lee has been removed from the city of charlottesville, virginia, many black lives matter. suppose has gathered to witness the removal of the monument. it was at the center of a violent white supremacist raleigh, 4 years ago. and controversial remarks by donald trump. argentina have won the 1st major football trophies in 1793. they have

detention center does come up and there isn't, i mean the, the danish memorandum understanding with rwanda from the london government's point of view, there is no agreement with mark about this processing. so the question remains, even if these off show centers are set up under which legislation will these claims beheld so who into the service of denmark and their, which all with these processes be conducted. and i tend to be answered well, when you're in denmark, does this, does this system work in denmark and can you see it working for the u. k? it is, it is not a system that is working in denmark. it is still just a member of understanding and as i said, there is no such agreement between denmark and one day, yet just simply a miranda of understanding and one's in foreign policy just issued a statement a few days ago to stipulate that there's no such agreements with denmark, to actually set up an auction and the one that took to process these, assign them applications. so i think from a legal point of view, these are very questionable, proposes and statements that are being made. not ju

clustered in 10 countries, including as or by shan, bahrain hungry india, conflicts don, mexico, morocco, rwanda, saudi arabia and the united arab emirates, amnesty international and forbidden stories of paris based media nonprofit organization, initially had access to the information which they shared with media organizations around the world. and so which in the past has promised to police abuses of a software has firmly denied any wrong doing. calling the latest accusations false claims for r t and alex mileage. the pope has issued an order which restricts much of the most sacred traditions and a catholic church ceremony. we will explain it justification after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy frontier and let it be an arms race is often very dramatic. development only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, a very critical time. time to sit down and talk. oh right now there are 2000000000 people who are overweight or obese. is profitable to sell food. that is trinity and sugary and healthy and addict

it's been sold to at least 11 countries, including bahrain hungry, india, mexico, rwanda, saudi arabia, and the u. a 14 heads of state including sitting presidents, current prime ministers, and even a king were potential targets. but they weren't the only ones with 50000 phone numbers linked. the data also includes $180.00 journalist and 20 countries activists, political opponents and lawyers. and if so, claims surveillance tools are sold to carefully vetted government clients and that it does not have access to data of its customers. targets. laurel rashad is the executive director and founder of forbidden stories of paris based media nonprofit, which coordinate to the international investigative journalism project. he told us earlier what they found out about the potential access to manual macros, telephone, what we know that we see the phone numbers for the french president. and so all the members of the go the for the gordon. think that that doesn't mean that the front of the president was that just mean that actually at the meeting and the mark moral current unit were entering the

also, voting does not take place at all in dozens of constituencies because of security problems. rwanda has started deploying a 1000, so just in those, i'm big to help combat violence. and the gas rich cub delgado province that we joined by forces from the 16 nation southern african developing community in tackling a nearly 4 year old conflict. around 3000 people have been killed at least 800000 others displaced off of them. children would have hated assassinated, president of accused political enemies of organizing his killing to stop the democratic change. martina louise, who was injured in the attack, were speaking for the 1st time since her husband was shot dead at his home on wednesday. but his security forces have been deployed at 10 days of violence between gangs and police and the capital crackers. almost a 1000 armed officers entered for poor neighborhoods on saturday. at least 12 people have been killed during fighting over the past 2 days. as actually years confederate general robert e lee has been removed from the city of charlottesville, virginia, many black lives matter su

some of the others that have been alleged to be doing the same things are india, morocco, mexico, rwandae a list, isn't it? we shouldn't be too surprised, though, should we? i mean, this is frankly what many governments will do. well, i think there's two main takeaways from this report here. the first one is, you know, i think people are quite surprised by the scale of this. some of the leaked data has around 50,000 phone numbers on there which may have been selected for targeting. so that level of scale is really, i think, beyond what many people think and envision. you know, nso group says from time to time — oh, a very small number of targets. this is for the osama bin ladens of the world. so i think the scale is really shocking, and just the number of countries in which this is being abused. for example, india represents itself as a democracy. yet we see cases where politicians, judges, journalists and others are being spied on by the government. what, ifanything, can be done about this? i suppose highlighting it is the most powerful weapon that human rights activists and the like wo

be processed on the ascension island, on disused oil platforms and, most recently, to be sent to rwandase to be floated and to not deny them. and the debate on that bill continues on tuesday. now, since the pandemic, more and more of us are paying for things with cards or smartphones — but peers have demanded that the government does more to make sure everyone has access to cash. ministers have launched a consultation on the issue, and they say they'll bring in laws to make sure people only have to travel a reasonable distance to take out or pay in cash. several peers emphasised how important cash was. and if the future of financial services is digital, that future must be inclusive, accessible and empowering and at least until that future, cash still matters, and it matters materially to millions. i would absolutely agree with my noble friend. in fact, cash remains the second most used payment form in this country and that's exactly why we've made this commitment to legislate and launch the consultation on our specific proposals. what the data tells us is that| cash usage is higher amo

some of the others that have been alleged to be doing the same things are india, morocco, mexico, rwandaisn't it? we shouldn't be too surprised, though, should we? i mean, this is frankly what many governments will do. well, i think there _ governments will do. well, i think there are _ governments will do. well, i think there are two - governments will do. well, i think there are two main - think there are two main takeaways from this report here. the first one is, you know, i think people are quite surprised by the scale of this. some of the leaked data has around 50,000 phone numbers on there, which may have been selected for targeting. so that level of scale is really, i think, beyond what many people think, beyond what many people think and envision. nso group says from time to time, oh, a very small number of targets, this is for the osama bin ladens of the world. so i think this sheer scale and just the number of countries in which this is being abused, for example india represent itself as a democracy. yet we see cases where politicians, judges, journalists and others are being s

take a look at this from mexico to rwanda, to india.was produced by the nonprofit forbidden stories. they are the ones who spearheaded this. the technical capacity was provided by amnesty international. >> that technology is a weapon, and what the investigation is showing is that the spyware is misused to such an extent we have a weapon that could blow u at any moment. it is undermining democracy. it is undermining human rights. it could be a threat to peace and security. it must be regulated. nick: in a statement, the nso group called "the washington post" story "flimsy." nso group is on a lifesaving mission, and the company will faithfully execute this mission undeterred despite continued attempt to discredit it on false grounds. judy: interesting. we know most of those targeted are in mexico? nick: this was interesting. up to 15,000 phones in mexico were targeted by a mexican client who employed pegasus to target as many as 15,000 phones. one belonged to a journalist cecilio berto.he was investigating local police colluding with a dr

at one point, rapper jay cole joined the basketball africa league briefly to play in rwanda for the rwandahink there is great just because you look -- i think this is great just because you look at the athletes that have come out of africa directly or indirectly, and being able to share the sport and, you know, potentially bring more funding and money to the cockpntinent. >> a good partnership. >> great partnership. >> we know how much the former president likes basketball. used to play, i'm told, at the white house. >>> turning back to the olympics where team usa is off to a very strong start in the pool. usa swimming has one of its youngest losters in decades. 11 of the swimmers came to the games while they were still teenagers. jamie yuccas joins us from tokyo with how the teams' youth could help their chances at winning the gold. jamie, we like the young peoples. good morning to you again. >> reporter: yes, we do. 35 of the 53-member usa swim team with olympic first timers. think about that. but they're certainly not swimming like it. one of the most decorated olympians in american his

turkey, rwanda, egypt. so far not having killed someone in the united states but actively trying to intimidate egyptian americans who are critical of the sesi government. i've believed that we need to treat those cases separately from our human rights concern and to establish a zero tolerance policy and by zero tolerance, i mean that literally. we don't have a zero tolerance policy toward human rights abuses in saudi arabia. but to murder a "washington post" journalist, like that has to be the sort of thing where an american president says, you cannot ever do that or else the consequences will be catastrophic. and when -- when the biden administration announced its -- when they released that report that honestly and appropriately, assigned responsibility to the crown prince, they also made a statement about indeed establishing a zero tolerance policy. and they applied the khashoggi ban, the visa ban. i'm a little concerned that there hasn't been much follow-up on that. not enough to send a signal to the sau

i covered the genocide in rwanda and south africa and i learned that everyone needs to be part of these conversations of looking at the past and talking about the myths, the lies, the disinformation, propaganda whatever word you want to use. we've all got to participate in this reckoning together. my ancestors go back in texas to slave days my first book was about my family's slaveholding history. and i just think as an anglo i am as responsible and compelled to investigate these stories as a journalist and as an investigative journalist. and as a beneficiary of the white supremacy of the past. as brian said we strive very hard and very deeply too make sure we gave voice to those who are not like us. >> the one thing i would like to add to that it should not be up to, it never is up to communities of color to convince white people that racism exists. it ultimately is something they need to hear from white people. we cannot put it on communities of color to spread the stories. they have been spreading these stories for a long time, for generations. anglo texas has filtered it out. >> has

meghan traveled to rwanda, in 2016, as an ambassador for the nonprofit, world vision, to highlight the clean-drinking water. >> these girls are able to stay in school because they weren't walking hours a day to go and get water and this clean water source has changed the entire community. >> this is not a celebrity, who floats in who needs a platform issue to associate with their, quote/unquote, brand. this is a woman, who's had a desire to help, in some way, for a very long time. promote the faces and stories of women, and to begin to elevate them. >> coming up. >> he was very angry. >> harry struggles with his royal role. >> he started drinking very heavily. he was fed up with who he was. nicorette knows, quitting smoking is freaking hard. you get advice like: try hypnosis... or... quit cold turkey. kidding me?! instead, start small. with nicorette. which can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette need long-lasting freshness? try new febreze unstopables touch fabric spray. it doesn't just eliminate odors... simply shake and spray to unlock the breakthrough power of touc

the san jose planning commission president rwanda survived a bout of covid. he's now calling on people in the east san jose area to get their shots. >> please do not what your life in jeopardy. numbers are starting to creep up again. things feel like they're under control. but slowly these hospitalization rates are continuing to go up throughout the country and definitely throughout the state real challenge now is to get to the population who's unwilling or. >> interested are a little hesitant. and having mass vaccination sites really doesn't do that. you have to reach into the community with people on the ground actually going door to door and encouraging. vaccinations. >> turnout does remain low. it smaller clinics with just 20, maybe 30 people a day at gardeners clinic on virginia street. more than 4.40%, of all new infections and santa clara county. meantime, have been identified as the delta variant us stocks falling today amid growing fears of the rapidly spreading delta variant. >> along with a new wave of lockdown restrictions. the dow jones plunging

i covered the genocide in rwanda and the reconstruction effort there, the truth and reconciliation commission in south africa and i learned that everyone needs to be part of these conversations of looking at the past and talking about the myths or the lives or the disinformation or the propaganda, whatever word you want to use. we've all got to participate in this reckoning together. and my ancestors go back in texas to slave days. my first book was about my families slaveholding history . i think as an anglo i am as responsible and as compelled to investigate these stories as a journalist and as an invested journalist and as a beneficiary of the white supremacist racism ofthe past . and as fran said we strove very hard and very deeply to make sure that we give voice to those who are not like us. >> the one thing i'd like to add is it shouldn't be up to and never is up to communities of color to convince white people that racism exists. it's something they need to hear from white people, we cannot put it on communities of color because they've been spreading these stories for a long time. ang

rapp prosecuted war crimes in rwanda and sierra leone and served as u.s.for six years, until 2015. will there be justice for what's happened in syria? >> rapp: i'm an optimistic american. i've seen other situations that we thought were pretty hopeless, where nobody thought there'd ever be justice, where we succeeded. the possibilities are there. and one of the ways that we build toward that is, get the solid evidence now. >> pelley: much of what he calls solid evidence was abandoned in the war zone. more than 900,000 government documents have been smuggled out and archived by the independent commission for international justice and accountability. the commission is funded, in part, by the u.s. and european union. stephen rapp is the commission's chair. do the documents that have been collected so far lead all the way to president assad? >> rapp: there's no question they lead all the way to president assad. i mean, this is a top down, organized effort. there are documents with his name on it. clearly, he organizes this strategy. then we see orders down thro

take a look at this map from mexico to morocco, to rwanda to the uae, to india. this map was produced by the nonprofit forbidden stories. they are the ones who speer headed this alongside 17 media organizations. the technical capacity was provided by amnesty international whose secretary general spoke to me earlier today. >> that technology is a weapon. and we, what the investigation is showing is that the spyware is used to such an extent that we see a weapon that could blow up at any moment. it is undermini democracy. it is undermining human rights. it is undermine judicial system. it is undermining fact finding, it could be a threat to peace and security it must be regulated, a complete moratorium. >> in a statement a group called "the washington post" version of this story flimsy and said quote nso group technologies have helped prevent terrorist ak task, gun violence, car explosions and suicide bombings. nso group ask on a lifesaving mission and thcompany will faithfully execute this mission unde terred despite any and all continued attempts to discredit it

rwanda bernie is a san jose planning commissioner and did covid survivor. covid was the worst experience of my life, and now he's afraid that covid cases are on the rise and that his community in east san jose is vulnerable. so he held a news conference to call for action. we can't say we care about vaccination and yet closed the largest vaccination site in east san jose. that is completely a mixed message. the mexican heritage plaza. it was the mass vaccination sites serving need san jose, and it closed when demand dwindled, as did many other large sites in santa clara county. in the beginning, we were vaccinating almost 600 people a day and towards the end we were fortunate if we could vaccinated in 50 a day, and so gardner health, which ran the site for the county, pivoted. clinics are just down the street so through emails and signed ege, they began directing the community there, the main thing is messaging, constant messaging, county officials agree that reaching the primarily latin x community here is imperative. their vaccination rate is about 61.9%

rwanda, that was when -- oh, the next picture.his has the president of rwanda and his wife jeanette. here is jeanette down here with his wife. it was somebody that we all loved. in fact, we had the wives there, four members of the senate who were with us at that time. this is one that -- more of the things that we just did together. kenya, a very similar thing happened. oh, this is another thing that's taking place today. in kenya, we went to the national prayer breakfast. that was six or seven years ago. we were there. we played a part in that national prayer breakfast, but at the time, there had been a guy named kenyata who was president of kenya and odenga. odenga and kenyata were bitter enemies. they talked about killing each other. they actually tried several times. mike made a statement there with 4,000 witnesses in kenya and told the story about -- about love and how these people had loved these two members when they were in parliament together many years ago, that they loved each other, and invited them to come up and to e

levels, saying san francisco should redeem itself, and san francisco has a city has been compared to rwanda, a third world nation. thank you very much. >> thank you very much, mr. dacosta. are there any further callers in the queue? >> clerk: please stand by. madam chair, there are no more callers in the queue. >> all right. public comment, then, on agenda item 13 is closed. and before i move for adjournment, i just wanted to say, commissioner bush, the further comment you had on the executive director report, if you want to bring that to my attention and director pelham, i'll follow up with you on that. i don't want to, i mean, go back and reopen that agenda item and public comment on that matter again. >> thank you. >> and i don't know about you, but i'm hungry, so i'm going to adjourn the meeting, and i think, you know, i think it was deputy attorney shen that was asking do we need to vote on adjournment? who would not vote on adjournment? >> clerk: yeah, you don't have to vote on that. >> okay. thank you very much. everyone have a wonderful weekend, and the meeting is adjourned at 2:00