and also in cape town, to marie fi, a professor of african studies at the university of free state and head of program at the institute for justice and reconciliation. gentlemen, welcome to you all. thank you for being with us on inside story floyd. if i can start with you in johannesburg, what is the cause of the unrest in south africa today and who is responsible for it? look just to give you some background 1st want to say good things to us and the background is that day for the longest time we have had in the governance, his name demand for the past 2427 years, which has been a saving over a government, which has been kept going to the economy capacity. so you know, the party ended shalean for monday, monday night before, but he couldn't make it really t. yeah. the for that is why our south s d were funded until the 15 as an organization which was fighting now for economic emancipation. and we're always holding the sitting in government accountable, which has been to zoom accountable and we pushed in foot against corruption and wrong view. it was government and they literally wasn'

speakers, academics or students could seek compensation if they suffer loss from a breach of a university's freeews of others. fear of censure, i'm afraid, is deeply saddening and has a chilling effect and spread upon campuses. but his labour counterpart thought the bill opened up some dangerous paths. what about those seeking to spread conspiracy theories? or sow division in our communities? does he really believe that this kind of harmful hateful, divisive speech should notjust be legally protected on campus, but those who seek to pedal it can take a university to court? the house of lords has a new member after the by election that never was. when one of the 92 hereditary peers dies, those left in their party group choose a successor. but the death of labour's lord rea left only three hereditary peers in the electorate to choose his replacement. the clerk of the parliaments updated the house of lords what happened next. only one candidate submitted a candidacy form. there was therefore no requirement for a ballot to take place, and accordingly, i have certified that viscount stansgate was the

of lords! mps have given their initial approval to a proposed new law that will mean universities in england could face fines if they fail to protect freeg speakers, academics, or students could seek compensation if they suffer loss from a breach of a university's free—speech obligations. critics fear it will open up campuses to hate speech, as well as leaving universities at risk of vexatious court cases. but the education secretary said there had been too many incidents where staff and students had been silenced or sanctioned for their views. freedom of speech is a fundamental right in any civilised country, but especially for students and faculty in higher education, which has always been a crucible for new ideas and ways of looking at the world. staff and students should be free to discuss, debate, and debunk views of others. fear of censure, i'm afraid, is deeply saddening and has a chilling effect and spread upon campuses. he also gave an example of what could be lost without protections. wouldn't it be a tragedy if darwin had not felt he had the freedom to be able to have the ability to challenge the established thinking? we have

should've been on the supreme court in large part for not joe biden, but he instituted the university of chicago freesiness and big business is always bad but should rest on consumer welfare, who are you hurting bigness is not necessarily badness and biden wants to overturn the long accepted doctrine and then he wants to make false charges about monopolies andri price gouging and the lack of competition but this is basically left wing philosophy that essentially argues free enterprise private sector is always wrong in government is always right, government knows best. by the way factually when you go industry by industry there is no major spiking of concentration, i don't know what industry mr. biden is looking out he singled out pharmaceutical, the pharma industry which includes a biotech industry has brutal competition and enormous volume of players, by the way that's not forget operation warp speed, it's become an incredible lower margin industry it takes a long time to develop a successful drug or cure the tech industry is massively competitive, so is the new telecom industry these are very crowd

now, many of us -- our constituents remain committed to protect the fundamental rights of universal health care free at the point of delivery. with but this government remains a constant threat to our public health service. 25% cut in the number of mental health beds and the widespread selloff of -- [inaudible] my constituent city to private insurance giants. and also just to mention the health and care bill opens the door to privatization wider. why does the prime minister -- [inaudible] why won't he listen to the thousands of workers who demonstrated on saturday to end nhs -- [inaudible] and keep the nhs public? >> mr. speaker, with great respect to the lady, member opposite, i don't think i've ever hard a question that was more inversely related to reality. this is a government, this is a government that from the very beginning invested the biggest amount in nhs for a generation. then in the last we're we put another 93 billion pounds, mr. speaker, into front-line care, we've increased nurses' pay by 12.8% over the last three years, and above all, mr. speaker, we're building 48 more hospitals. th

of america, the best educated in the world. while insisting we have universal prekindergarten, two years of free community college. the studies show no matter what background whether they are a single mom or single dad when you reach or you come from a middle-class household, a kid that comes from a background that is deprived and by the time they get to first grade there will be a million fewer words spoken, a million fewer spoken. what that means is they are behind from the start. you put kids in [inaudible] but in schools at age three, four and five it increases by 58% the chance no matter what their background they will make it through high school and qualify to go on to community college. folks, we need more affordable childcare. there are a lot of women not working today because they can't go back to their jobs because they have no one to take care of their children. they can't afford it. i was a single dad for five years when my wife and daughter were killed in an automobile accident. my little boys were badly banged up. i commuted back and forth because i couldn't bear to leave and move to washington becau

of our dear countrymen. let's say from ali fatalities shop now, an affiliated scholar with the free university of berlin and the author of the iran, 1400 brief weekly newsletter. he told us this unrest is actually part of a wider crisis in iraq. it's also not only water, it's an ecological crisis that is existing in iran for a few years now. and i've been trying to conceptualize the key challenges of the song republic as a triple crisis, one of them being illogical and the other to be so sick and all back and political . and indeed, we cannot separate the crisis from the socio economic or political vices and some problem where i happen to grow up as a little kid is a perfect example, because you will see the combination of all those prices are there that are actually political protests. those challenges, fundamentals for iraq, regardless if he hasn't face and we've seen the same spots and with this done also being besides the process again or the regime or the last few years during the day process in december 2017 and january 2018. but also more recently and november 2019 and the states response is one of b

there are also investments in education including two years of free community college and two years of free universal pre-k. the president is also pushing to make the tax credits permanent and expanded home care for older and disabled americans. >>> obstructed, ribs nse and repeat. chip roy giving a strategy to block the biden legislative agenda at every turn so that the gop can win the 2022 midterm elections. roy not shying away from his comments explaining the state of play on capitol hill. >> honestly right now for the next 18 months, our job is to do everything we can to get to the summer of 2022. i actually say thank you lord 18 more months of confusion and their inability to get stuff d done, that's what we want. >> and the infrastructure deal president biden is pitching is facing an uphill battle in congress. pete buttigieg says it is not just good policy, but good politics even if republicans don't see it that way. >> we know we got do more and if we have to do that part without republican votes, so be it. i haven't given up on the idea though that at least some senate republicans might decid

evident with the feasible for student positive across 26 institutions of higher learning, which saw university students demanding for free colonized high education. but of course, you know, the success of moments such as feasible for a large, the attributed to digital and online activism. and how that has also helped us in terms of shaping our own narrative, syria, you know, something about that. but what would you like to add? yeah, kinsey, we grew up in the age of technology, the world of social media. and that came with a lot of benefits in terms of with mobilizing people internationally. and especially now during a pandemic. what social media is also brought is lots of inclusivity because you moving away from just that mainstream media narrative and embracing a diverse range of narratives and you getting to include so much more within your activism. so i think the inclusivity that social media has brought has been a key and defining factor with gmc rapid, as most recent use led to mass movement towards fees must fall. which, as you mentioned earlier, was the fight to you know, gain wide access for free, and d, coloni

university of moscow. they're tuition was free, their transportation was paid. hem were from small towns and villages in the respective countries. when i finish their studies in this place, they intended to head back to those towns and villages. how did they feel about this opportunity? very grateful, they told me. what kind of program was it that put them in that university in the soviet capital? it was a special program that began two years ago in communist china and last year in the ussr to educate and train young ecuadorian,'s bolivian, paragons, provisions in the rest and the ideas in the ways marxism and communism and also a variety of specialists subjects. those young people trained here sent back to the villages and towns, will wait for the day to do the things that have to be done to stabilize any revolution. if and as castro's revolution goes well, and with communist help, the next 19 chapters of the battle of america are written, the students trained their will have their chance to step into power in their countries and there isn't much doubt about thi

of america? you'd be the most educatedt nation in the world. so i'm insisting that we have universal pre-kindergarten, two years of free community college [applausethe studies show: no matter what background a kid comes from, whether they're a single mom, a single dad who is on what we used to call welfare, are in trouble, or come from a middle-class household, the kid who comes from the background that's deprived is going to hear, by the time they get to first grade, a million fewer words spoken. a million fewer spoken. what that means is they're behind the eight ball from the start. and a lot more.at but we found out if you put kids in not daycare but in school at age three, four, and five, it increases by 58 percent the chance, no matter what their background, they'll make it through high school and qualify to go on to community college. folks, we need more affordable childcare. there are a lot of women not working today because they can't go back to their jobs because they have no one to take care of their children.ec they can't afford it. i was a single dad for five o years when my wife and daughter were killed in an automobile accident, my

free speech. how would you characterize this debate and and help us understand how in this case? it's france that seems to be on the side of universalism. yeah, look, i don't think it's that simple. i think there is a kind of intimate interplay between our free speech precepts. yeah the desire to give greater recognition to other identities and experiences, you know, the emphasis that's being placed on critical race theory. the backlash against it, you know my a lot of my work and my book is about how we can reconcile the imperative of driving toward forward toward and more equal inclusive society with robust protections for free speech and academic freedom. and you know, i i think a lot of that best really, you know going back to something i said in the beginning it's it's not ultimately i don't think gonna be resolved by law. i think it's gonna be resolved by social norms and taboos and how we figure out how to live together in these diverse societies and where we need to exercise voluntary restraint and how we can communicate to people about the imperative of that and the benefits of that and how that can actually be a safeguard its

who lived in parts of south america when the soviet union as students here at the university of moscow. or tuition was freeansportation was paid all of them were from small towns and villages in their respective countries. when they finish their studies in this place, they intended to head back to those towns and villages. how do they feel about this opportunity? very grateful, they told me. what kind of program was it that put them in that university, in the soviet capital? it was a special program that began two years ago in communist china, and last year in the ussr. to educate and train young ecuadorian's, bolivian's, paraguay ends, peruvian's, and the rest in the ideas and ways of marxist communism and a variety of specially selected subjects. those young people trained here, sent back to their villages to wait for the day to do the things that have to be done, to stabilize any revolution. if and as castro's revolution goes well, and with communist help -- help, the next 19 chapters of the battle of america are written and the students train there, and will have their chance to step into power in thei

the program is being praised as a pioneering way to reduce the stigma of receiving free meals at school, the universityannounced today. record breaking admission offers to a new class of undergraduates, the nine campus system received more than 203,000 freshman applications this year. the record number comes after s a t and a c t test scores were no longer considered in admission decisions this year, you see, admitted more than 132,000 freshman applicants in nearly 31,000 transfer applicants, both all time record highs. the number of admitted freshman from california also reached an all time high, coming up a massive opioid settlement. how much money the nation's largest drug companies are expected. to pay for their roles in. the opioid epidemic. we are tracking the temperatures over the next couple of days. the five day forecast is next, but up first, an apology from the chief of the los angeles police department. the mistake, he says his bomb squad made before says his bomb squad made before that subway has so much new, i couldn't fit it all in the last ad... refresh yep, so let me finish this. there

it is a central part chancellor of our origin story that johns hopkins university took its inspiration from the german university model. born of a shared commitment to free inquiry open debate, and the pursuit of truth through rigorous research and adopted it to american soil . while we are proud to call ourselves america's 1st research university, we have not forgotten that our nickname used to be coaching in baltimore. so madam chancellor, we hope you will see your new association with johns hopkins as a homecoming of sorts and know that we recognize you for having so fully embodied. often under the most strenuous, the most challenging of conditions, the highest ideals of our university and the open democratic society. it has so long to serve. on behalf then of the entire university, i want to welcome you officially tour academic community. and of course, i am thrilled that you have embrace that membership wholeheartedly offering to speak today to our students who are the future leaders and guardians, the world you have done so much and in such a remarkable way to shape. now for the degree presentation, i'll turn things over to our interim dean of the

those religious racial tolerance and free masonry with a doctorate of universal brotherhood.we also believe in a formal equality in whatever background they can. yet if you like aspiration to universes, one of the things that attract me too freemasonry, in this devotion to rational fraternal it's based on a string rituals. it's based also on exclusiveness. on a firm boundary between inside and outside it. the universal values expounded for most of its history by a brotherhood that is excluded women and in various times struggles over religion, race and social values rather than the antidote to those tensions and struggles. so what fascinates me is the interaction in this world of free masons and the forces that have shaped world history over the last three centuries. so what my book does is zoom in, into various times and places eat chapter erie's name of the city for example. i roamed the world in pursuit to bring into focus with real people or involving stories where freemasonry had an influence on history and history has influenced free masonry. the book begins by recounti

university of california berkeley campus in the fall of 1964, really just weeks after the gulf of tonkin resolution is passed. and on the campus at the university of california remember you had the free speech movement erupting, mario savio getting on top of the police car, telling the students of the university of california, you have a right to political practice on campus. you have a right to speak out freely on campus about the political causes of the day. now, he was talking about civil rights issues, about racial justice issues. he was not talking about vietnam, but he was offering again a kind of interesting locus, a place from which you might launch some kind of political protest, and here it's more pertinent for the white majority. here is a white radical activist on a university campus of suitable age saying we can use this place. we should be allowed to use this place, the university campus, as a place to mobilize, organize and perhaps launch protests against a policy we don't think is right. so right, there's this, there's already this sort of available language and this available set of understandings and practices out there, as these nascent anti-war activists are tryin

president's priorities in areas of child care, elder care, education including two years of community college for free, and universal pre-k, not to mention an extensions of the hugely anti-poverty child care credit. these senior what progressives have worked on, and they're seeing it come to fruition through the actions of the president. >> one or two more times, and we're going to go down the rabbit hole. >> your viewers thank you for that. >> so do my bosses. more broadly, you're on the council of economic advisers, you are an economist. when you're looking right now, we have spend the last week, all of us, looking at the new delta data, obvious live there's surges throughout the country, primarily driven by the unvaccinated. from an economic perspective, how does the administration look at it, and how does this affect downstream economically? >> well, you happened to ask me that question on a good day. even though it's saturday, i've spent the whole day poring over data on exactly that question. if you look at what we call high-frequency data, people passing through tsa, people going to restaurants, google tracki

two billion go to local governments in the form of grants, thanks to an unexpected budget surplus, california's launching the largest statewide universal free lunch program in the country, the initiative will allow every student in the state's public schools to have the option of receiving free meals at schools. regardless of their family's income. it goes into effect for the upcoming fall term. the program is being praised as a pioneering way to reduce the stigma of receiving free meals at school. conservative talk show host larry elder says he might sue to get his name on the ballot for the california gubernatorial recall election. over the weekend, the state released a list of 41 candidates who have qualified to run but republican larry elder, who just announced his candidacy last week, was left off the list, state officials say elder failed to submit his tax returns. elder is disputing that claim and posted on twitter that if the decision is not reversed, he will take the state to court. three homes were damaged in some people were displaced in an early morning fire in west oakland. this all started in a home on ninth in peralta and qui

referred to as items that would address child care and elder care and climate change, universal pre-k, two years of free community college as well here. fundamentally the challenge for the president here is in order to pass this $3.5 trillion effort he'll need to keep all 50 democrats onboard to make it a democratic do it alone package, as it were. already on that issue, there are some challenges from progressives. is it enough money? bernie sanders, the progressive from vermont, and his initial reaction to this figure has been a positive one for the white house describing this as a pivotal moment. beyond that, there's the challenge of moderates. do moderates think this is too much money and do republicans stay onboard with that initial infrastructure bill, as well. so this is a tightrope that the white house, andrea, will be over the next several weeks and this is real progress as the president prepares to meet with mayors and governors on this topic today. the white house touting that roughly 269 bipartisan mayors and the national governor's association are behind that initial infrastructure plan in n

of inconveniencing everybody else. but demonstrations do lead to inconvenience. incongruent between a government that says it wants to defend free speech in the universities, but isexpression on our streets by criminalising activities that will cause serious unease. the risk is that it serves only to pit the police against the protesters because it won't be the home secretary who makes the decision about what is noisy and causes serious annoyance, it will be police officers and very often police officers actually on the ground at any given moment in time and that again risks undermining the very fundamental principle of policing by consent. we can be under no illusion that this is another authoritarian clampdown on our civil liberties, the right to peaceful assembly and protest are fundamental principles of any democracy and the rich tradition of dissent in this country shows us that they can literally change the course of history. they are the reasons why someone of my race, and of my class and of my gender has the rights that i do and why i can even stand here as a member of this house. we cannot forget the struggles and protests being demonised by this bill to

finland has free college, but they also reject about 70% of applicants at public universities. free college in the united states, if we had higher rejection rates, i think people would probably rather go back to a system of differentiated student aid where we charge higher income families more. there are more opportunities. there is more access for college under those systems. a lot of countries have moved away from free college to a model more like ours. this has been the case in australia. now they have tuition and student loans. england used to have free college. now they have tuition and student loans. that again -- they found they can provide more access and more seats and more opportunities if they do with that way than if it was free. host: linda calling from georgia. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i had several questions and comments. the first one is talking about for-profit colleges. lately the u.s. government has nullified some student loans because of unscrupulous dealings with four private colleges -- for-profit colleges. i was won

one of the highlights is free universal transitional kindergarten for all 4-year- olds. >> mark my wordsis unlike anything we have ever done in this state. so many things we promoted. so many things we dreamed of, we are delivering. >> also included in the bill is money to help students who fell behind during the switch to remote learning during the pandemic. >>> in san francisco, police and politicians met with the chinatown chamber of commerce to help jumpstart what has recently been a faltering tourist economy. as wayne freedman explains, a special banquet played a key role. >> reporter: it is the international attraction in the midst of an already international city. stand on the corner and grant avenue in chinatown and the world will eventually pass by. where are you from? >> boston. >> south georgia. >> mexico. >> reporter: in the far east cafe, they came from the san francisco mayor's office. >> can everyone please raise your right hand. >> reporter: that is london breed swearing in a post covid new board of directors for the chinatown chamber of commerce. there is a theme here. >

dramatically expand medicare and family service programs for child care, elder care, universal pre-k, and two years of free community college. >> we are going to get this done. >> we are getting this done. >> but getting all 50 senate democrats and independents from bernie sanders to joe manchin agreeing of what to agree on what needs to be included and the maneuver to bypass the republicans, there is no room for error and not a single defection of the dems and can they keep the house progressives on board, and at the same time, the president is trying to keep the ten senate republicans on board with the separate bipartisan hard infrastructure plan for roads, highways and bridges and major works project, and so now you can see where the balancing act is coming into play. they have to keep all of the democrats on board, can't alienate the republicans they need and want to pass the two-track plan with a total of more than $4 trillion cash infusion that historians say is on par with lbj's great society and fdr's new deal. senator schumer who is not known for being understated say that we know that we have a l

of grants. california is launching the largest statewide universal free lunch program in the country, thanks to ected budget surplus. the initiative will allow every student in the state's public schools to have the option of receiving free meals at school, regardless of their family's income. it goes into effect for the upcoming fall term. the program is being praised as a pioneering way to reduce the stigma of receiving free meals at school. the chancellor of the california community college system is headed to capitol hill chancellor alloy ortiz. oakley will be joining the biden administration as a temporary special advisor in education. oakley also serves as a university of california region. he will be a special adviser to education secretary miguel cardona and provide advice. on higher education policy. he begins the job on july 26th deputy chancellor daisy gonzalez will serve as acting chancellor until oakley returns in the fall, the university of california announced today. record breaking admission offers to a new class of undergraduates, the nine campus public university system receive

of the college or university to people under the age of 18 who get vaccinated. we also offered lottery scratch off tickets with a grand prize of 5 million to those 18 and older, and free baseball tickets among other incentives. dr. milkman, what strategies should we be using to increase vaccination rates among younger americans? and anyone else. dr. milkman. >> thank you for the question, congresswoman. i think it's wonderful what new york is doing. it's great to see these kinds of incentives in particular appeal to young people. i think in addition to call scholarships we could think about are there ways that we can particularly target young people and congressman walters earlier mentioned celebrities. there are lots of things that we can offer in the lotteries besides to scholarships that might be even more exciting to young americans. and i think there's an opportunity to try to get artists engage, you know, free concert tickets are an opportunity meet your favorite musician for lunch. those of the kinds of things we could consider also putting on offer in lotteries that might particularly appeal to young people and having the kinds of events mentioned in seattle w

universal free lunch program classrooms in california reopen this fall. all 6.2 million public school students. well, the option to eat school meals for free regardless of their family's income under federal rules a family of 4 must make less than $34,000 a year to qualify for free meals and less than 48,000 a year to qualify for reduced price meals. the caps shift annually but are based on federal poverty measures that do not take into account the high cost of living and taxes here california. kron four's always tracking local stories for you. here's a look at what's going on around the bay area. >> in the east bay. 3 homes or significantly damaged in oakland after a huge fire broke out early this morning about 50 firefighters responded to put out the flames. officials say it started about 5.30 this morning and it burned for more than 3 hours. fire. investigators do not know the exact cause of the fire yet, but neighbors tell kron 4 it had previously reported a squatter in the house where that fire started the oakland fire department says there are no injuries to report. but at least 7 people are displaced in alameda. police are asking for your help, t

proposal, we are bringing forth no family in america would pay more than 7% of their income to childcare, universal pre-k, freeges, and universities. this legislation and the international disgrace, chris. where the only country on earth that doesn't provide paid family medical leave. we're going to end that. we are going to deal in the most aggressive way imaginable with the housing crisis. we are -- on housing. we are dealing with the physical infrastructure. and of course, we are making the largest investment in this country's history in transforming our energy system away from fossil fuel to combat the existential threat of climate change. among many other provisions. in other words, what the president has done and what we have done is said, you know what, let's look at the crises facing working families and the planet, less address those crises. >> there is one specific part of the climate legislation that i've been very focused on which is the clean energy standard. it's really important. many states have this. it requires states to have a car target for how much electricity is produced by non carbon sou