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ESPN FC
"karim" Discussed on ESPN FC
"I'm just going to tell you, you're going to start talking about, well, he didn't shove him that hard. Is that your argument? I think it is. I think it definitely I'll tell you from a footballer's point of view. You know, from whenever you start playing football, particularly professionally, but we all know there's only one thing that you can not do and it's just a complete and utter normal and that's touched the referee. And any we saw a fashion. And if you want to start an argument about how hard it was, that's not a bad argument. So if you agree. You know you're being stupid. No, I don't think I am. I'm not being stripped of the referee. But in very different manners, did the show that they shoved the referee to you? Was it a different manner? Bruno's out the way, but that's just lost it. Listen, he's got redness. Don't be talking to me about well, he shoved them harder than he did. Unless he actually points him. Don't talk to me about he shoved my initial question, give me a number. Well, I don't know because they're going to have a problem because if they say in the talking about making an example, but it's a bit late. If you make an example of him, everybody's going to say, well, hold on a second, how can you make an example I am? When you let the other guy away for something pretty similar. Exactly. Yeah. It should be 6. Right. Okay. It should be 6. Four, ten. You can not give them ten after what you let Bruno Fernández away with. Absolutely not. To your point, Stevie, I think it's actually because Bruno Fernández got away with it that they're going to be harder on metroid because there was criticism and there was pushback on that. There was a reaction following that by Bruno Fernandes, and people were critical of the non band that they're going to make an example of mithraic. It's actually because of that that they're going to be even heavier on metroids. I think, and by the way, whatever reasoning you got to that number, I agree with your number. We may be coming at it from different directions, but I think it'd be twice the band usually three. You go with 6. I'm guessing you don't like 6. No, I don't like change because I'm with TV. If you get zero to Fernández, you give zero to mitrovic, because it doesn't change. I mean, it's not that you can't be smart. What about Frank? This is about two separate incidents. One in which is interpreted one way, one the other, and you can't let people off for doing what mitrovic did to the referee because you made a mistake in not punishing Bruno Fernandes. Frank just said this. Well, you have to be fair. There is one in the comment section. Yes, but they decided they made a mistake when they should have punished Bruno. They didn't. Or anybody ever again for not pushing a referee going back to Bruno Fernandes. It can't work like that. So, okay, okay, so you give two because you apologize not for not punishing tenants, but that's it. You can not give ten because you're going to be stupid. You're going to be you're going to do 5 reason. I mean, that's a McKinney sense. They were wrong in the first place. They have to be fair in a second in the second place. That's it. The problem is rich as well as international week, there's nothing else to talk about. Just to remind and then Fulham out of the FA Cup. Manchester
AP News Radio
At Fisk University, gymnastics makes a giant leap for HBCUs
"Known for a history that includes civil rights activism and music, Nashville's fisk universities made a giant leap for historically black college and university, women's gymnastics, I Norman hall. This university a private school with 1000 students is the first historically black school to take part in an NCAA women gymnastics meet. Coach Karim tarver admits she knew it would be tough to recruit from the ground up. I didn't know how, I mean, I kind of just like, there's no way I'm going to get 15 girls. I knew I could get athletes. I just didn't think I was going to be able to get this many. The squad currently trained in an off campus gym, coach tarves says she hopes fans and the athletes don't expect to knock off power houses competing this week in Las Vegas. I Norman hall
AP News Radio
Evidence of Russian crimes mounts as war in Ukraine drags on
"Ten months into the war and there is overwhelming evidence to show that Russia has disregarded international laws on the treatments of civilians and conduct on the battlefield. Ukraine is investigating over 58,000 potential Russian war crimes, ranging from killings to sexual assaults, Karim Khan, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, told the AP that Ukraine is a crime scene while there is a staggering amount of evidence most of those responsible are unlikely to be arrested any time soon. Ukrainian authorities face serious challenges in gathering airtight evidence in a war zone and the vast majority of alleged war criminals have evaded capture and are safely behind Russian lines.
AP News Radio
UN rights body deplores Iran crackdown, establishes probe
"The UN Human Rights Council has voted to condemn the bloody crackdown on protests in Iran and to set up an investigation into the alleged abuses. The resolution put forward by both Germany and Iceland was backed by 25 nations, Germany's foreign minister and Elena said regime that uses this power to violate the rights of its own people is violating the values of our United Nations. The protests were triggered by the death more than two months ago of 22 year old Mars amini, while in the custody of the morality police for violating a strictly enforced Islamic dress code, Iran's representative at the meeting, Karim, said her death was being investigated by Iranian authorities before the west started to meddle into Iran's internal affairs. Before the formal announcement of the probe analysis, the biased and hasty reaction are the number of western authorities and their interventions in internal affairs of Iran turned the peaceful assemblies into riots and violence. I'm Karen Chammas
The Dan Bongino Show
Amber Athey: People Like Liz Cheney Are Disposable
"Is there really a lane I mean amber this has been tried right The John Kasich model and others think that nobody cares that you're done with your usefulness for Democrats right You were only useful because you won on the January 6th committee in prime time and yelled and screamed at Donald Trump That's over now You're going to be out of Congress sir So the Democrats don't like you and Republicans outside unlike the Lenin project the fake Republicans over there with The Lincoln Project the pitot protectors over there They're nobody likes you on the Republican side either So seriously is there a lane for her and what could she possibly do besides be a grifter No these people are completely disposable and the cable news cycle and the pundits who work within it are incredibly short right This is a short term thing As soon as the politics moves beyond you you will be pushed off of the network You'll get one appearance here and there I mean they did this to the reporters by the way who were really aggressive against Trump in the briefing room And they all got book deals and they all got CNN contributor ships Like Brian Karim April Ryan Jim Acosta And what happened to all of them as soon as Trump was out of office April Ryan switched to a new outlet that nobody's ever heard of It hasn't been on CNN in like 6 months Brian Karam his entire magazine he worked for Playboy went underwater He's no longer on CNN Nobody in the briefer likes him Jim Acosta has a fledgling CNN show that nobody watches and is apparently going to be punished under the new ownership of CNN So it's just like these people You know they think that they're going to be famous because they completely sell their souls to try to win the approval of the left But the left is very fickle and these people will outlive their useless I think the same is true for Liz Cheney Alyssa Farah who's at the view now all of these people will have a creation date just around the corner
AP News Radio
EU ministers assessing bloc's response to war
"European European European European Union Union Union Union foreign foreign foreign foreign ministers ministers ministers ministers a a a a weighing weighing weighing weighing up up up up of of of of the the the the effectiveness effectiveness effectiveness effectiveness of of of of the the the the bloc's bloc's bloc's bloc's response response response response to to to to the the the the Russian Russian Russian Russian invasion invasion invasion invasion of of of of Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine amid amid amid amid concerns concerns concerns concerns about about about about Moscow's Moscow's Moscow's Moscow's preparations preparations preparations preparations for for for for a a a a major major major major attack attack attack attack in in in in the the the the east east east east foreign foreign foreign foreign policy policy policy policy chief chief chief chief Joseph Joseph Joseph Joseph Burrell Burrell Burrell Burrell who's who's who's who's chairing chairing chairing chairing the the the the meeting meeting meeting meeting in in in in Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg Luxembourg deplores deplores deplores deplores what what what what he he he he calls calls calls calls the the the the brutal brutal brutal brutal brutal brutal brutal brutal aggression aggression aggression aggression of of of of Russian Russian Russian Russian troops troops troops troops following following following following a a a a visit visit visit visit to to to to Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine over over over over the the the the weekend weekend weekend weekend Brill Brill Brill Brill says says says says the the the the next next next next phase phase phase phase of of of of the the the the war war war war has has has has begun begun begun begun I I I I am am am am afraid afraid afraid afraid of of of of Russian Russian Russian Russian troops troops troops troops are are are are massing massing massing massing on on on on the the the the east east east east the the the launcher launcher launcher that that that that that that interest interest interest overseas overseas overseas trainings trainings trainings are are are very very very much much much aware aware aware of of of that that that show show show in in in my my my faith faith faith in in in the the the next next next day day day this this this war war war will will will increase increase increase on on on the the the drums drums drums the the the ministers ministers ministers will will will hold hold hold talks talks talks with with with the the the international international international criminal criminal criminal court court court prosecutor prosecutor prosecutor general general general Karim Karim Karim Khan Khan Khan as as as western western western pressure pressure pressure mounts mounts mounts to to to hold hold hold to to to account account account those those those responsible responsible responsible for for for any any any war war war crimes crimes crimes in in in Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine grill grill grill says says says sanctions sanctions sanctions are are are always always always on on on the the the table table table I'm I'm I'm Charles Charles Charles the the the last last last month month month
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
How Iran Uses Hezbollah to Conduct International Operations
"I'm continuing my discussion of Iran and its operations in other countries in the Middle East and even in North Africa. The article I'm discussing is written by Karim sajar poor in foreign affairs magazine and such a port makes the point that Iran uses its surrogate, which is Hezbollah, to conduct operations in a number of other countries, but particularly in Lebanon. Now Hezbollah is by far the most powerful force in Lebanon today. They just go about doing whatever they want. I mean, they want to assassinate a political opponent. That's it for him. They have they run their own underground economy. They've implanted thousands of rockets in Lebanon that have the capacity of striking Israel. And then one time Hezbollah claimed to be sort of its own organization. It was not part of Iran. But of late, they've become very explicit about their the fact that Hezbollah essentially is Iran. Here is Sheik and Ezra. This is by the way the founder and leader of Hezbollah. And he goes, as long as Iran has money, we have money. Just as we receive the rockets, we use to threaten Israel, we're receiving our money. So this is an azra la basically saying, hey, listen, I'm Iran's man outside of Iran. I do Iran's bidding and the Iranians are perfectly happy to fund me. Let's remember that Iran also uses Shia radicals and local groups in Iraq and they used it while America was in Iraq to sort of destabilize the Iraqi regime, which they were very successful in
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Press Sec. Ignores Questions About President Biden's Health
"Last night, Brett received a couple of questions about the president's health, which of course he did not respond to because it would be speculative, but he did point to an exchange between Jen Psaki and Brian Karim from Friday, which I want to play for you. Perhaps you were there. Cut number 16. He will. You don't have an update for you, but will soon. I promise he's Kelly asked about this all the time. So she throws Kelly O'Donnell under the bus for asking about the president's health daily and Bryan gets, don't worry, we'll get back to you. What do you know about this? I actually wasn't even aware that the president hadn't done the annual health release thing. Yeah. I mean, what I know about it is just what I've experienced in the briefing room for the past being there on and off to the past 7 or 8 months, which is that we in the press corps have continued to ask when is it going to happen and sake has continued to say repeatedly, it will happen. He is going to have the sort of regular presidential checkup that all presidents have. And it hasn't happened yet. And what to sort of make of it is sort of unclear. I mean, I think one of the things that I believe is a reporter and as a reporter who's covered The White House for almost 11 plus years is that I think it's important for presidents all presidents to be transparent about their health about what is going right and wrong with their health because frankly, they're the ultimate servant to the American people. And the American people deserve to know if there are issues. What those issues are and what the president is doing to take care of them. And so as a reporter, I think Kelly O'Donnell is doing exactly what she should be doing, which is to regularly ask. Others of us have done the same. And I think we'll keep doing
Mark Levin
Karim Sadjadpour Echoes Women's Rights Are Gone Under the Taliban
"There's a gentleman by the name of Karim Sadjadpour, senior fellow Carnegie, a Carnegie endowment. Adjunct professor Georgetown. I know nothing about the man. First question from Taliban to Al Jazeera female reporter asking about women's rights. Tabbouleh mujaheed spokes. Spokes barbarian. For the Taliban says women have rights as long as they follow Sharia law will be free speech. He says. This is exactly how the Ayatollah Khamenei answered questions when he first came to power quote. Quote. Freedom of speech. Human rights. And women's rights will all be protected in accordance with Islamic law. What That means with these barbarian throwbacks. Is, none of these rights will be protected. They learned From the Islam, a Nazi regime in Tehran. And now we have an Islamo Nazi regime in Kabul. And you know why I use that phrase Islamo Nazi regime to distinguish it from Reformed Islam, the type that Zewdie Jasur talks to us about and so many Muslims do practice. This is 7th 8th 9th century. Barbarism.
AP News Radio
Study: Vaccinated People Can Carry as Much Virus as Others
"Scientists who study the big cove in nineteen outbreak in Massachusetts have uncovered a dispiriting setback in the nation's fight against the virus about three quarters of the more than nine hundred cases on Cape Cod rate fully vaccinated people and they carried about the same amount of virus as the unvaccinated that could upend to thinking about how the virus spreads since vaccinated people who previously got infected were thought to have low levels of virus which they were unlikely to pass on the research was key in the CDC recommending vaccinated Americans resume wearing masks indoors in places where the delta variants fueling surges the authors say that should be expanded to the entire country at the White House spokesman Karim John Pierre says that'll be up to the CDC and the take away for now we need more people to get vaccinated that's the
Welcome with Karim Kanji
"karim" Discussed on Welcome with Karim Kanji
"Take leaflet echo more calm your boom you show your heart and great we thank you thank you so i have a last question i usually like to ask but the first thing i do want to ask is i remember being at the tooth show few years back and to was you know. Not busting on karl. Rv about being from toronto. But you know really. I'm sure that it was well known. What was it like to work with carl. I got as as a fan boy. Geeking out with goosebumps here. What was i grew up with them. So i grew up with the harveys. So i'll give you the carl's the oldest. And toots in the maytals. But not just toots and maytals. He's done a whole bunch of different things an og. Rupert oh gee gee was front man to messenger is the front man to mention messenger to this day and their youngest brother was my best friend who unfortunately passed away when we were teenagers from two year. Bout with cancer. Richard and Richard and i started our our first ban or my first band. At least when i was twelve. And then as you. I think you alluded to earlier greg. I played my first nightclub with messenger. When i was fourteen cafe on the park on. Eglington they the cra-. Yeah so what was like in on the park not in on the part of the hotel cafe on the park. It was like adding i want to say. It was like avenue road and eglington area. I'm sorry no it's okay. Yeah and it was a message attributed so the usual basis was going to sing all the of bob marley songs which meant saying the base or the keyboard player was going to play bass which meant there was no keyboard player so you can imagine fourteen year old jay in junior high school getting a phone call from agha saying they called me casper casper com player from tonight. And i'm like yeah. Let me ask my mom i guess. And the the coolest thing was. There's some crazy arcade law that allowed me to perform was able to perform. I couldn't be in the club though. Figure that one out. So i could be on stage but the second i finished on stage i had to go sit up in a storage room upstairs outside. I couldn't be in the bar. But legally i could be on stage so yeah. It was a bizarre bizarre incredible. You know you can imagine my monday morning with my friends back at eliah junior high school. You know how was your weekend. Yeah so that was kinda go anyway. Long story short carlton in my life for for for many years he yeah he's incredibly he's just got great years he's got a great in tone and we've we've wanted to work more together but with him being on the road with tooth so much. It was so hard but now we obviously with kobe but also with losing. There's there's more opportunities to do that. And i'm taking them on to some of these place. Burma he's going to bermuda. And i think he's going to do the the second. Uk tour with us. It's nice to be working with him regularly. Very nice very nice so one of the questions that we'd like to ask as we wrap it up is what is in your ear buds lately. What are you listening to that. Other people should be checking. Wow i wish i could say there's some twenty-first-century things i'm listening to. There's a cool album. That just came out recently. Polonius monk live show at a school in california that was recorded by the janitor. And it's it's really cool story. Check it out then. The name is a paolo something. Sorry i'm blanking listened to like yesterday. is it wrong. I don't know if it's wrong to say but landed delray. I like i'm totally right all i. I literally got into her like last month. So her new album. I saw that new video chem trails over the country club. Or whatever. And i was like what is that. I know the name i've never saw i. I bought that album. I love it. But but my life my twenty-first-century jams are joanna newsom. Who is a indie harpist like harpist. Who's married to andy sandberg. Who's on brooklyn nine nine. And she's she's crazy. She's kind of like. I love kate bush. So she's got a kind of a kate bush five but same thing much a very much. A storyteller probably takes months to write her tunes as well. They'll into the history of you know takes and in fact she she. She doesn't tell her fans she kind of. Wait for the blogs to come out to see fans have gotten the actual thing right. So i i did. I like i like artists that make you work a little bit so And then i've been listening to tons of balk lately. So where's the reggae in recent history. It's there it's always there. It just hasn't been on the turntable for for a week. It's great thing is awesome. Jason thank you so much or suspending this evening with us. Really appreciate it thank you. It was a pleasure let you go. Where can people go to check music. Well i'm all over the all the usual places like spotify and apple itunes and band camp. And it's jason wilson. Music is generally the best way. Our jason jason wilson music dot com is our website. So you can check us out there as well awesome. It's been a pleasure. Jason thank you again thank you..
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"We need by doing by taking these steps. You're removing the radicals. Hamas has no say anything if the palestinian people how they need come has has controlling us power because they give back to the palestinian people. It's a lot like in the old areas of new york where the mob took over. If you wanted anything you had to go to the mob because no one else would help you. Yes the same. It's the same exact thing it's it's it's because they're without. They found somebody who has some some way to give them something more than the radical this the radical israelis. They won't have say they're pushed to the side too it they're going to be the violent Press there's no there's no there's no defending your land when no one's nose trying to take it away from it completely It takes away all of their power. And i am not again. I making it sound extremely easy much. I'd be glib about this. I'm just saying that's the process. That that that same thing happened in in south africa the the warlords in the in the in the townships and the the incredibly racist government mon. You take those away. What are they fighting for. And i'm not saying that that's completely clean and that was perfect or anything. I'm just saying you take away that power from the radical groups in the head and the people begin to be able to can begin to heal. We can hope i mean. That's that's the most dangerous thing is that hope continues to erode ever new settlement that gets built with every little Rocket gets thrown from moss with when every child gets buried in the rubble in gaza when every rockets thrown at a settler. Every settler shoots about indian. Where every single thing need just. It's such a fragile fragile thing as we saw right i mean land was taken away. Alston's rose up and protested.
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"Painful history that they've had to endure that it almost anything war but is almost like we've been stepped on and had other people put their boots in our knack for so long. Were just we just fighting back. Were defending ourselves. Yeah yeah for sure for sure. That's not i. I don't i don't believe in the justification but like you said you don't make a right just as i would not believe that seem justification when hamas says it hezbollah says it. Iran says it anybody. That's complete an utter nonsense and garbage reconciliation and an equality and justice is the only way forward. It's it's so much more difficult if it's over because you're because you already illustrated why israel will never go for a one state solution in terms of lake. It already is technically one state. But in terms of a proper everyone is equal one state solution. Two state solution. You're saying now there's no nowhere to go right. There's there is no no more homes for pa unless all of these jewish families and neighborhoods that are now in the west bank and leave the settlements. Yeah but they're being. The new ones are being built all the time i mean they're or they're or they're just straight up taking the land away. Didn't use roussel chaser. That's exactly what this was all about. And even the night of the ceasefire. One of the holiest during ramadan. The last days of ramadan. How singing celebrating the ceasefire. The al aqsa mosque. The holiest one of the holiest places in in islam. Israel stopped the celebration. Police force storm the oxygen mask. Teargassed skunk watered pepper spray. Rubber bullets. why there's no violence against them. there's no there's no violence just that you can't have that type of stuff. This is generational now and so those kids that are seen that the grew up with nothing. But that.
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"All that pressure needs to go somewhere. And so if you release then oppression. That pressured then comes up. You know there's a. I'm guessing that's sort of. He thought it's like a catch twenty two. That's right it's it's terrified and there can't be a single state because israel one exists because there's more palestinians than there are in the israelis and that's why that's why i did not know that. Okay that's why. Israel israel welcomes anyone of jewish heritage be israeli. Everybody can come back. They have the right of return for themselves. They have led there whether or not. You're from there right. You can go there and be a citizen. Yeah but but if if they said if they said right now okay you know what we're done with occupation everybody in palestine. Come on we're gonna let you be israeli. Yeah if you want you can vote. You can do everything the first vote. They'll lose it won't have their prime minister won't be israel won't be jewish is the numbers. Yes they can't do it. They have to oppress to keep the status quo. Yeah and the candidate. There's no such thing as a two state solution because the land doesn't allow it anymore. It's been broken up so much. There's no connection between gaza and the west bank literally. Weird like how did that. How can you explain to me how that happens. It's almost like the only thing i can think of is pakistan in bangladesh right on different sides of india. Yup very similar right is like i now. I don't profess to know the history of india pakistan relations But you know my understanding. Is that india predominantly hindu predominantly muslim. Is that he said lake just sort of pushed him. Aside goes back to the the original wars when egypt occupied that area and jordan over the west bank goes back to that. Okay Gaza in gaza city. In like you know. There's it's a incredibly densely populated area and is it so i've only. I've only been there once to gaza. Gaza took his four hours to get in the before they let us in and we went into meet some To meet the palestinian authority..
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"Know what's my religion okay. I'm i'm christian. Okay well tell me about the saints. No i'm not that kind of christian mccaffrey protestant. Oh what's that mean. Okay what is your wife. She's a nurse. Oh dishing of science science degree will affect you. Say she was a nurse. She did both like you know what i mean like. Yeah this type thing and you know it's it's meant to question for their their security is what they're looking for they do but they do it in a way that's demeaning and and i i was never in danger i was never scared. I have an american passport. I the canadian passport not worried about this. And you see the families go through who are trying to you know. See there go home or go see loved ones or whatever if if you didn't get the chance to leave town disappear terror in their eyes so this is this is. This is the international process this into israel with the border but the border wall which they've created is like a prison you walk through and there's there's tiny tiny pathways all with fence around them and there's huge guard towers with machine guns and with armored soldiers all around and you walk through this like you're in jail and they say next you go up the yellow in hebrew. You don't speak hebrew. they they say hey. I speak english start in english. Just constant constant threat of harassment. In once you're through that's going from jerusalem to bethlehem owns your through into bethlehem and you don't look at the wall you see bethlehem. That's where i feel. I feel comfortable. I'm okay because there's no. There's no military presence. I don't see the military see guns. I don't see violence. I don't see the wall so so that occupation as as an oppressive force is real is really like we don't we don't we. Don't hear about that here. Everything that goes in or out of the west bank. This isn't in gaza. Gaza is a whole different story. He's disaster.
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"Wantto so that kinda shit yet so so so and then that that breeds distrust and then. That's exactly what's happening now is just it's been. It's been happening this way for decades. Why so why is there a vested interest. It seems not just america but it seems that the western world has a vested interest in specifically the state of israel A few things It's it's it's strategically important to have a foothold in the middle east for the western for like the united states and for britain From a military meal militaristically especially in the seventies in the seventies. It was a really big deal when The different the different countries were becoming More powerful because of the oil. they're becoming more religious The democracies they were becoming quite like iran and iraq were very progressive countries for a long time until they weren't and that's all that's a whole different story with the the meddling of the other countries said arabia was always kind of you know A kingdom started getting really wealthy. Kuwait's are getting wealthy the emirates and so they wanted a stronghold in and they didn't trust anybody else and basically because the cold war policies align themselves with russia which is another was wish which was another split because the us align themselves with israel and the palestine and the arabs align themselves with russia which you lend yourself with losers get considered a loser right. Yes that mentality israel and the other thing is. There's a very vocal The palestinian community wasn't always rallied as a group the way that the jewish diaspora has been around the world so the amount of the larger population In in north america was was more politically active. More was more powerful and spoke up for the rights in the the strength of israel. And i mean. Unfortunately i think there's a lot of guilt involved too because of the atrocities but.
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"That would work in israel or in the west bank. Can they were just not work. They refuse to pay their taxes or one of the most beautiful things as they would plant olive trees in the in the in there in the farms and the fields where israeli settlements were starting to be built or where israel wanted to take over because at the time there was a big the religious connotations of olive tree. Was that you up. Route a fruit bearing tree. Okay so they would. They would plant trees so the this land could be taken over. There were protests boycotts. And he was in the center of all of it. Wow and then in one thousand nine hundred. He was arrested and held in solitary confinement. Whoa by by israeli police How you at this time I was ten just not quite ten when he was arrested. Okay actually ranier my birthday when he was when he was arrest. Okay here home in ohio. Your dad's in ohio israel gets arrested. Yeah and so he wasn't. He wasn't tortured and wasn't hurt. Because the first george bush president bush and james baker. The secretary of state intervened to protect because he was american citizens. Okay this this is a big. This is a big deal. I fi- i found out about it. I got a call from my relatives. And then i saw it on the news that night. Big deal and so when whenever anybody says that that the palestinians have never wanted peace or that they rejected not they always want violence The terrorists site. I say no. I have a direct link to to to someone who has done his entire life to fight for peace in the middle east. And there's he's not the only one but israel was dangerous us dangerous to the state of israel. He's considered a threat to the state of israel and so they held him in solitary confinement in his case went to the supreme court and they deported him on immigration charges so they said because he was an american citizen he. He outstayed outlasted his tourist visa.
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"Thanks so much for for doing this. It's taken over two hundred episodes more than that to get you back on Thank you for number one And thank you for for for this one Not not just for coming on but but because of what we hopefully we'll be able to talk about today of one of the things that a really enjoyed a personally is is learning throughout past five six years talking with different people like different things Most of the time of talking about you know. I'm talking to people about themselves. Very a few and far between but some of my favorite conversations are when i talk to people about bigger themes bigger things going on in the world. And that's why you and i Are chiding today And hopefully we'll will have an opportunity to learn more about what's happening. What has happened in what we're hoping to have happen. in israel palestine Gaza west bank jerusalem so again. Thanks so much for For joining me today. Yeah thanks for having me proud to be number one. And i'm proud to be whatever two hundred and whatever so it's a big deal. Yeah thanks man. Yeah yeah so your family. And i i knew your i think. I knew that your dad was from there. But i did not know you still have family. Living in in parts of israel look where exactly is. Your is your father from an in. Where do you still have family members. Yes my father was born in jerusalem palestine and when he was born it was palestine and i still have relatives in jerusalem and then in bethlehem as well and the surrounding areas there Yeah i've been. I've been able to have visited them and spend you know. I've never lived in palestine israel. But i've spent quite a bit of time there. I've i've been been back for trips and with my family and On my own. And i've brought my wife there and i brought friends there and so yeah. It's a place that i've spent some time in without ever living there but spent quite a bit of time there and have a lot of Lot of connections and roots that area. Yeah your dad was born in jerusalem palestine before before was israel. yeah tell me. I don't know i'm sure he's told you. Stories told you some family history wondering if he can sort of As far as your as you can. Rick recollect a bit about Your your dad's family. Yeah yeah my family on that side is extremely close than the stories. Were shared all the time. We're you know when when when when you're palestinian you've been kind of spread out throughout the world. You're very proud of that. And you you find a a lot of a lot of a lot of It's very special to be still connected to that area for sure. So my family My dad's family was alluding. Just outside of the old city of jerusalem right outside of damascus gate which is One of the most famous gates of the old city they cities surrounded by walls and My grandma or might might data. And and my cd..
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Courts Must Now Try ISIL Crimes: Karim Khan
"Outgoing head of the u. n. team investigating crimes committed by the aycell. Tara network in iraq was in new york this week to give his final report to the security council where he delivered clear. Evidence of genocide kareem khan special adviser and head of unit sat down with un news to take stock of the work. His team has done and he said there was some way to go before. Justices done on behalf of the victims of crimes such as the cd's that rip out the soul of humanity. Not wells began by asking him to summarize. The report's findings were two findings in fact two main findings the first in relation to the mostly shia an armed cadets from spyker to crete academy that there was no convincing evidence that there are individual members of iso that are responsible for direct and public incitement to commit genocide as well as care evidence of war crimes and then in relation to the ez is we made announced a finding that compelling evidence that genocide was committed by isotope particularly named individuals named targets that we have for investigation and to put them before courts for genocide against the community and in every way evidence by executions policy by the practice of slavery sexual slavery by the practice of deliberately raping wyoming so that they would produce children knowing that they would no longer be part of the biological group of the community so these are important moments and we reiterated to the council that it was imperative to ensure not only the evidence has been collected and legal findings based upon criminal. Standard investigations are announced. Findings are announced but also that survivors victims and humanity at large. Have the next piece which is putting this evidence before colts
ESPN FC
Karim Benzema Earns Real Madrid Draw Against Chelsea
"The back of the english newspapers dominated by chelsea's one one draw against rambler. We can pull this off a young a lot on the back. Page and stop in spain. Marker going with a draw to keep dreaming meanwhile benz emma is. It was an interesting game wasn't in the spanish capital dominated once again from a strike as perspective about team verners. Miss chances yagan thomas to coming out afterwards and saying you know this. Is this kind of life. This is what's happening with him at the moment. How much trust have you within him again. That he can find the back of the net once again. Maybe soon i've total trust in him because he knows where to be in the right time and right now maybe there. He misses one and that specific moment. So so that's something to deal with for strike. Oh and you have to kind of just think about the next opportunity comes along like you know michael jordan said so he missed more shots than east called and t-mobil no. It's just like you know if you fail moments it makes you only stronger and the kit is good. The kid has a tremendous amount of drive and talent and he knows where the ball will fall in the box and he can also know makes things happen himself of his speed and going at people. So i'm i totally have trust. And t mobile. He will go through that stage and who knows. Maybe he's causing the next game in the second leg or he's goals in the final of the champions league you know. He was very young when he was twenty. One being meaning the golden boot at the confederations cup in russia in two thousand seventeen and he scored one hundred goals in the gym bundestag already. And he's only twenty five to kit is good and a kid will prove it but obviously it has to deal with the criticism when you miss a big chance. That's normal night. Goalkeepers do as well when they make a mistake. You know the the all over them but I hope that he gets plenty of opportunities going forward.
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"A little bit not much but you know what. I think we'll stay hold. That forty is a badge of honor but forty seems loaded in the best ways though. Because i have i have a clear about who i am as a woman. There's certain stuff. I don't take their request and i'm like not my problem so i think that i'm proud because i would offer myself or stand in truth forty and i like that. You say that there's still so much life to live which is good to know special about seeing. I'm forty them grown at thirty little girl. You can't at twenty little woman you just tell us a little bit about the denise house. Yeah so the. Denise house is in a woman's emergency shelter crates shelter for women and children in oshawa ontario where me and my mother and my sister sled in november of nineteen eighty-seven after an encounter with my dad. Fight with my dad. My mom was pregnant at the time. And the denise house really changed the trajectory of my life so i ended a bit about the abusive relationship. My mother was in with my dad. And my mom had no idea that place that existed but we should up there because things are always save with my dad right if he's in a good mood good if he's not. He's pissed off about mom. Not washing the dishes is not a good night so we showed up there in one thousand nine hundred seven and that really is weird. Trajectory of my mother's life change because they offered her a home in pickering ontario which is a few towns east or west rather and we moved into this house with a few garbage bag of things. Maybe a broom not tons of stuff. But that's really where my mother got traction because she now had her own roof she now for the first time in canada after almost a decade had attorney and she could he wasn't oppressed under my dad's thumbs. She called the shots. And here's what's really gives me goosebumps even telling the story now. So we were there in nineteen eighty seven by nineteen eighty-eight. They got us a home and we flourished in that we had our struggles but we flourish. We found our way. We found a way then in two thousand fourteen fast forward more than thirty years later. I am reading my book twenty fourteen. I'm reading my book. And i'm doing research right. I'm researching and i've talked to dozens of people who knew us. So one of the obvious places to start the denise house so look number on the internet and i find the name of the executive director sandra mccormick i call her. She answered the phone in. Explain who i am. What i'm doing. So sandra mccormick on the other end of the floor of the phone as i'm researching from book twenty sesame prado. I know who you are. And i've been following your career for years. In fact i am. The woman in nineteen eighty-seven is now twenty fourteen. Who opened the door in a welcomed. You your sister and your pregnant mother on the cold. Winter's night wow could you. That woman is still at the door to add. the phone. new members knows our story so this day that boggles my mind that she's still there. One shooter dedication testament to women and children but to every single portion portion of every single book. That i sell. I'm donating to the denise house that is without question that is without reservation. There's no doubt in my mind that it has to go there..
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"So you know thanking her blood and so i'd love to be part of that coverage at this just been announced and there's so much that's going on behind the scenes but I'm definitely hoping to get a call in figure it out there but it's still pretty early but i definitely wanna yet definitely want to be part of the coverage in part of that and help grow the game here in country nice. I know you're still young are still many years had free you but do you look at someone like dan shawmut who cut his teeth in toronto. Both radio and tv and then probably was one of the best voices in baseball Major league baseball and then recently comes back comes back home Do you sort of see eventually a path that brings you back. Would you like to come back. Nari down no not now move. You're not first of all if never be followed. Dan's footsteps out the amazing. Daniel is a uber talented. He's just so well respected and he's just so good at what he does and you know when you are all those things you kind of determine where he will go and where you live and so forth and he is again just a phenomenal broadcaster. On lucky enough to work with a few times nights Yeah just just phenomenal broadcaster. Great person As far as me. I you know i moved down here Definitely wanna stay down here. in really You know got my teeth industry here and it takes time because you remember like Even though i worked for ten years in the industry in canada was at tsn. And i've done all these big done a lot of mental. You look at my. I do look at my resume. Not look non-state. Up too often. But i had the quite a bit that is resonate at stage because nobody you are and they never seen him and so Rookie here In a sense..
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"And because you know asher you feel that reward related to this time It's kinda stale right and then you kind of know you're not moving up or you might be here for a while and i would have been happy there. It just turned you. I can do more. And i've always been like that way for forbid they're kinda comfortable get you wanna be comfortable being uncomfortable. And that's kinda where that all started to go in my mindset. Talked to my wife about it. Would you be okay with this In said if the opportunities right than nice so tell me about what you're doing at espn currently so an anchoring sportscenter here So i do again is kind of very similar to what happened at tsn rent. When is they threw me on all sorts of different shows to kinda see what i could do it and i still get to do all sorts of different shows which is great. I really believe showing your versatile Is really important in the industry right and makes you and so but right now mostly ado night. Shows takers The night shows which i love doing. Slot highlights kinda similar. To what i was doing over there. i do. I host a show Couple times we call in decrease which is our hockey show It's a nightly hockey show. We do on. Espn plus and then. I also agree recently hosting stop to said it's involved basketball cultural college hockey coming up this week. So and that's what. I really loved. The i love hosting lover with analysts in in a new kind of kind can building that chemistry for me i was most last updated at. Tsn marksman was great Jack armstrong around. We had fun together. You know it has worked with people and you spend a lot of time with them. You build that chemistry and so got to cut us off a love and it has been two years so getting all. These opportunities is great. I mean that's just been I didn't know what to expect. When i got here because i thought hey i'm a pass like a probation or something right Who knows right. You don't really know it's a different world different beasts here. i mean we got not anymore but before one for scotland four thousand employees in brazil. You know they they call it campus because it was like seventeen eighteen buildings on site and so the very different world. it's a it's a huge entities. You know in acid brandon zakheim around the world. Not just one country and so. It's a little intimidating. That's this was the first time in my career that i was ready for it. I was really ready for. It has really excited and confident that come and dwell on it so far. The people around me here just amazing. I've been so lucky to get some support. And so that's that's a big part of it too. Right is having people around you help you. Who can direct you in a certain way. Yeah just just been very lucky work with the best. The vessel nice tumor thanks novel for two more. Yeah so if you may know that recently there there's espn nhl. They a long term contract. You must totally stoked about that. What are you hoping to to. Do you already got the hockey magazine. Show what are you hoping to do as a result of that deal. What would you like to. Yeah it's exciting. It's really exciting. Of magnitude of the details is just so big right like we are seven years. Coming up Four stanley cups was going to be on. Abc shows a ton of is on it and a ton of content for espn plus..
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"Okay and we cross prior to cbc and just reached out in just sent him my demo. Just ask for some advice He kept in touch with me then. Finally when i was able to get to that point where i was applying for. Cvc love you know. He gave me some advice on on. Should do to get to the interview of which is huge right. Like to have that insight. Then i got to work with him a few times. A one Game at that time approximate the game and we have kept in touch ever since and he's a great great person Who gets back on I think a lot of don't know who he is because he's not But he's definitely pioneered in. I read up on his story. I think he started at. Cbc the tapes department and rose all the way up to one of the most powerful positions in in like sports broadcasting in this country so or in keep forgetting the united states now a an amazing individual amazing amazing person that is true. How many years were you at at. Tsn for tsn was like eight eight and a half years that the acid yeah it was it was your highlight. What was your biggest. Tsn highlight you know. It was interesting When i first got there I was one of the first sportscenter people that was hired in a long time because it had their standard crew people of mfn I got hired which was kind of cool to one of the new people but also just to be able to kind of be spread across different shows of in also travel travel ton before i had kids And was done. Russia brazil Sweden a bunch of times. I've traveled to be able to travel the world. Essentially through tsn covered. The olympics covered the world cup the european championships. So that was kinda cool at bank of the world. Junior tournament was big in. Obviously and then you just. I love basketball basketball my favorites And so being able t- par raptors coverage. All those years with really special to me is grown up the basketball Just to be part of being.
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"And i'm gonna try to make myself detroit laser salt i got it really was just was not that many people i could talk to in our community which we rely on so much so amazing right And so you reject certain people certain people were great reset like i said prominent people in industry summer terrible right and i remember that. And that's when people reject me. I always try to be as good as i canceled. Because i know what it feels like where you don't get the responses but Yeah it was. It was one of those things where maybe trying to convince myself. And i wanted again to be realistic. So that input myself in a terrible position. Because i knew has already taken a massive brisk as law school and probably would have been half ass. Lord i don't think i had it right Passionate halford this. Because i know how hard i worked when i got to broadcast school. I know how hard i worked my first couple jobs where you know. You're not making much money. They're working like a dog. And you're making mistakes you know so it's kind of it's pushable. Their too right like So it was just one of those. I again just to kind of a convince myself be convinced my parents and see kind of lay something out but but actually having that vision. I don't know but it's something. I tell people all the time i wrote it down actually wrote down my five year plan and a wish i kept thinking might have in vancouver so somewhere in my in my parents place but i used to get this sounds so cheesy corny but i put it in my wallet. Izzo added this piece of paper with a five year. Plan was in my wallet at a hat up until i moved to toronto so i went from prince georgia first job. Winnipeg was my second job and got a big break in toronto and that was that was the plan right to get to a big market. But yeah i used to look at that thing once in a while because there were times in my first couple jobs were i mean it was. It was tough in Feel good about myself and I questioned by decision making..
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"And that's kinda wanna presented it to like. My parents was li- k. This is actually where i want to do. Which kind of blindsided them. Because they thought you know that was going into criminology. Now yeah yeah exactly. Yeah there something double that what was it. A pusher ap- roll. Was something pushing you away from criminology. Or was there just a or is there a pull from broadcasting. It was applauded broadcasting. Right wasn't yeah either going up or having a major passion for the added Thing is too risky industry to go into wanting just to be in sports right because you look at your traditional things change a lot but like your traditional broadcasting regarding up even on a local newscasts yell at two or three sportscasters right here like june the week. Maybe like a couple of the weekend or something like that. Like three jobs jobs Whereas if you were a news a lot more jobs in the opportunity rights So just picking on sports specifically was already kinda difficult But at the same time it was just one of those things. I am not going to be this athlete and it just a traditional. You know the whole cliche of you're not not that you want to try to be close again. Sports and that kind of what it was in and then i actually did a sports broadcasting course whilst criminology Parents about what went to dc. It did this on the side and it was in the evenings at the downtown campus. Listen let me at least try one pours. If who knows. I might not even like just so uncomfortable is not for me and i did it in the two instructors were to really prominent broadcasters in dc at that time and they were instructors. Ed really well. They weren't really well on a cot that bug in on my god. This is what i wanna do I mean i probably sucked but the thing is that that time i felt good about myself and but but but there was a difference right like that was different. Like okay abs. Doing this course on the side going way out of my way of doing all this extra work research. This ad talk to people and still be my regular school. That gotta do awesome in. It was all the broadcasting's up all the stuff that it was getting nothing out of really besides information That was motivating on. That didn't feel like work to me. And so that's where it kind of clicked from you. Maybe a religious thing really interested in. That's a double down on a five year plan. Mind and talk to my parents about it came to a decision of what are we doing. And i and i wanted to finish university because i know how risky this industry can be so finished university in have that degree in as we know. Education is very important. So i was just gonna lead to finish my degree. I just switched my major and minor but I wanted to have a backup plan. It end if i was a successful five years in the whatever you might read was i was going to go back in plash law school what. I'm curious if i don't know how would we eighteen. Nineteen years old when you sort of had this conversation with your parents. Maybe a little bit older. Probably i'll probably nineteen. Where did you get the idea to write a five year. I don't know what how was thinking those years old five year plan. Where did you learn that from. Of course it never been asked that before. I don't know. I think i was just against so motivate. I was almost trying to convince myself. You know that that this was the right thing to do because again it was such like unchartered territory at the time..
America First with Sebastian Gorka
US journalist held in Syria released by al-Qaeda
"Sara LD reports that Bilal Abdul Karim, US reporter held by an Al Qaeda linked group in Syria, has now been released by the schools in August last summer after he reported on a case of torture in one of the invention facilities that this group runs and apparently they were very upset by his reporting and the fact that he made allegations about torture. Against the British citizen in those attention facilities and he was arrested. Karim, a native of Mount Vernon, New York, has been living in the rebel held Syrian Northwest since 2012 Reporting on the Syrian government military campaigns against the rebels. There have been repeated reports of torture in the prisons of high out career al Sham, the Al Qaeda linked group that dominates the area. Local prominent figures had appealed to the militants to release him. News and
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South Africa suspends use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine after it fails to clearly stop virus variant
"South Africa announced it was suspending its rollout of the AstraZeneca Corona virus vaccine. A small clinical trial revealed the shot provided on Lee minimal protection from the virus variant that's widely circulating in the country. Professor Salim Abdul Karim, co chair South Africa's Ministerial Advisory Committee on covert 19. We don't want to end up with a situation where we vaccinated Million people are too many people with a vaccine that may not be effective in preventing hospitalization and severe disease.
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South Africa halts AstraZeneca vaccine rollout
"South africa has halted its rollout of the oxford astrazeneca vaccine just a week after the country received. Its first million doses. It seems the vaccine offers limited protection against a new variant of the corona virus. That's now dominant in the country. Salim abdul karim co-chair of south africa's ministerial advisory committee on covid nineteen spoke to a world health organization briefing yesterday. We don't want to end up with a situation where we vaccinated million people too. Many people would have vaccine that may not be effective in preventing hospitalization and severe disease in total more than one point. Two billion corona virus doses have been allocated for the continent. But it's not clear when all those jobs will arrive. The longer any region remains unvaccinated. The greater the chance that more variants arise vaccines though can be tweaked in a formulation of the oxford vaccine targeted at the south african variant could be going into arms by autumn. What scientists cannot address is the long run damage to africa both in human and economic terms so far continent to have been spared from the worst case scenarios predicted early on in the pandemic but the longer term picture remains bleak many ways the impact of the pandemic and africa is worse than it appears on the surface around the official numbers. Kenley salmon is one of our africa correspondent based in dakar. It is the case that having a young population has to some extent protected the continent from the virus africans and died from it that americans europeans but the true scott of infection. Death is really hard to gauge. Studying sudan recently showed the perhaps only two percent of all the covid desk for a quoted in the official tally and the economic impact is worse than it looks last year. The region's economy shrank for the first time. In twenty five years tourism has been badly hit as have commodity exporters things like oil in nigeria and taken together. Gdp per capita fell below twenty ten levels last year so things are perhaps not quite as bad as some other parts the world but certainly still very tough and things may get tougher house. What are the particular challenges to africa. Africa faces quite a number of challenges in the next few years as it tries to recover from the pandemic but the biggest i of the really is vaccines. Some african governments have perhaps failed to grasp the urgency of the situation in tanzania for example the populace president john food even casually cast out with a vaccine work but i do forgive aside claiming the postman precautions such as steaming nation were better than vaccines and even added that if the white man was able to come up with next nations then. Vaccinations for aids. Malaria and cancer would have already been found. So it's not so much a question than of supply. I mean given that quite a few vaccines have been essentially booked at the stage. A number of vaccines have been booked but the big question is when will they arrive because right now there aren't anywhere near the number of axes required forever on in the world and rich countries are of course the front of the queue for those vaccines have been produced africa's going to need perhaps two point six billion doses to vaccinate everyone and those are not being made locally so they have to rely on supplies elsewhere for the moment so that means joining the queue. All this means that whereas rich countries aim to vaccinate most of their people by the middle of this year the african. cdc a public health. Bali in africa's aiming for sixty percent of africans to vaccinated by the end of next year. But even that may be too optimistic. For the poorest countries. The economist intelligence unit sister organization estimates that in most african countries most people will not be inoculated until mid twenty twenty three or even early twenty twenty four and there must be serious consequences of it being that long until the continent is on average vaccinated. Africa is likely. It doesn't get those vaccinations into suffer. Further waves of the infection while after the disease may have amped in the rich world. And that of course will cause more death and more suffering. Doesn't risk that. Having the virus transmitting between people frequently africa could allow new variance to evolve. We've already got the south. African variant and these new variants could endanger people even in rich countries if they prove to be resistant to vaccines and then finally of course not having vaccines could force. African policymakers to continue with these very difficult economic lockdowns curfews even after many other countries around the world set free of those kinds of restrictions and if the public health concern lasts that long then surely the economic concerns will last at least that long. That's right in many african countries facing pretty severe crises at the moment just getting finance to pay their bills. Africa has very limited fiscal space on average countries in sub saharan africa. Spending more than thirty cents on every dollar. They raise and text revenue paying their debts. And that's up from twenty cents on the dollar before the pandemic on the debt side to over half of low income sub saharan african countries are now classed as in distress or at high risk of distress. According to the imf and what about countries with bigger economies the two biggest economies in africa nigeria and south ever both in pretty deep trouble nigeria for example was described by the world. Bank is being an unprecedented crisis. Recently the bank is not normally quite so blunt in nigeria. There has been a legacy of management for a number of years and pandemics really accessible that quite badly. Now focused suggested by twenty twenty three. Gdp per capita may go back as low as it was in one thousand nine hundred eighty time when the oil price was some high on so africa too is in trouble that have been in recession twice in the last three years before the pandemic hit of course now is dribbling itself with a particularly heavy toll from the pandemic so both countries in fact are facing a difficult road out of the crisis. And what about outside help in terms of financing has been quite a bit of outside help although the crisis of course is very big but in twenty twenty the imf for example provided sixteen billion dollars in loans most of that came with relatively few strings attached and this help frigging countries to respond to the pandemic to avoid some of the liquidity crises that were looming the world bank also dispersed another ten billion but many countries got that funding to if the imf under emergency allocations that came quickly and relatively easily and those allocations for many countries will soon be exhausted. The rich world has been trying to help when it comes to debt. They've provided liquidity to countries through some bits of suspension initiative that basically allows poor countries to put off debt repayments until july. Twenty twenty one. This is of course helpful but the trouble is that those payments just suspended and they have to be paid back with interest in about five years time so as the chief economist for africa the world bank put it to us. It may just be kicking the can down the road to. How do you see this playing out. Then how high could the human cost of all this be while the stakes are pretty high. The pandemic has already done lower damage to people's health and africa. it's hitting their economic prospects and they wealth and it's also affecting education of course. Hundreds of millions of students in africa have been affected by school closures. This increases the risk of dropouts and reduces the prospects for africa's largest every generation so overall the costs here really quite significant. There are some reasons for optimism. We may see vaccine rollouts accelerate. There's also hopes that commodity price rises could give africa real boost as the global economy recovers been on balance. The evidence probably points to at pretty difficult road ahead with several more waves of the virus hitting already struggling health systems and perhaps a form of economic long covert in africa. So you know africans have come through this showing remarkable resilience but it may be toughest years are still to come in. Thank you very much for joining us. thank you
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"Welcome welcome. Welcome thank you for joining us. Really appreciate the time. Yeah thanks for having me. it's Nice to talk to people who don't live in my own house. You have a lot of people there that live in your house that you're sick and tired not a lot. i mean. I'm not sick and tired of any of them and my best friend and that's cool but it's also just. They're still the same people they were a year ago. And i'm all out of variety can't believe as soon as you said that it has been almost a year up on our one it is. It is nuts. So let me ask you this right off the bat. Then how how have you been keeping. This becomes a surprise to literally anybody. But i'm good. I'm good. I'm built for this life And all it took a global pandemic to allow me the luxury to live with it. Yeah i mean this even before this. My my whole ethos has gradually become one of our really. Wanna leave the house. Unless i'm going out to get paid or going out to get my friends paid You know. I'm just trying to have a good time and then come home and just make stuff that i like and yeah now i have every excuse in the world to do that and i get to look sponsoring kind and caring human being doing so did you. Did you have your your like. Did you have your whole setup in studio in the house before we went. Got into all this. Yeah not on the level. It is now because as you face it is beautiful and glowing sony a seven three camera acting as a way overpowered cam and if the gopro behind was back i could hit a switch. And then you'd see that. Yeah it so everything was in the house and i finally just had an excuse to spend the last little bit of money just kind of pulling it all together so that i never have to leave ever again once one incredibly antisocial i realize but this i don't like a lot of stuff i just really liked the things that i like and now i just had to find that enthusiasm for things that i like inside my own house. That's what i'm doing now. Fair enough fair enough are you also. You've sort of spruce. Stop in spiced up your setup there. Are you also one of those people. That's looking for a bigger places. Well i mean who can afford to look for any other place than the ones they're the pandemic was going to finally lace of justice to the real estate market in toronto. And no it only exacerbated thing. So i don't know i mean in general i'm not i hope i never have to move at the place i've been at was like two thousand and twelve and we're very happy here. You know. my wife also works from home a lot of the time as well. We have the space in the freedom and the flexibility to do that..
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Automating Electronic Circuit Design with Deep RL w/ Karim Beguir
"Kareem is CO founder and CEO at Institute Kareem. Welcome back to the Tacoma area. Podcast pleasure to speak again. Absolutely so if Kareem's name sounds familiar. That's because we spoke We're trying to figure this out. It was between a year and a half a year ago The show actually was published in September. Was Number three hundred two and you should definitely check it out for Kareem's full background But croom wanted to give us a brief overview of what you're up to as well as an update from when we last spoke absolutely so I it's a pleasure to be back in. Continue our conversation on aside. He's been pretty invent follow. The Lot has happened as you know instead. Deep is a decision making a startup. So we focus on Problems related to making complex decisions We also do our own innovation and the tried to be helpful to the community and we've made progress basically on this three areas. We've been able to release innovative products. In decision making we've also been able to publish innovate in research Publishing original you know like pieces. That were actually. What come that nervous where we got the spotlight presentation for example with Google declined? And we've also been very active on the community side organizing major events in Africa and basically lots of young talents. Find say super -tunities in there and the we most recently saw one another at Nuremberg and had a chance to catch up briefly at the black dinner where you really piqued my interest around one of the company's new initiatives or products which is called DP. Cb tell us about what is absolutely so this'll be actually started with with conversation Two years ago I I had a dinner with a good friend of mine. Who is actually an expert in hardware design worked on like no chips for a well known phones etc and we were speaking about like. What is he doing this particular sector? And he was like not that much like particular like busy stunt for printed circuit boards so basically those ships that you will find with all sorts of Consumer Electronics Products Iphones Speakers Bluetooth etc and You know the situation in that market was that auto routers basically automated systems to connect the different components like built. Basically the electrical secretary have been going on for many years but they were not that make and we were like. Hey that sounds like an interesting problem to to look at. We started looking into it eventually. This good front now. Be True was now meeting or hardware team joint steady and we've worked very hard on this project and we're very proud to have been able to achieve goals and in November last year we've released it in. Beta form and it is a world first for the first time we have a system that is end to end fully deployable and scalable on the cloud capable of understanding how to route chips essential and now last time we spoke we. Our conversation was focused on the work. Your company was doing applying reinforcement learning to logistics is deep be also based on reinforcement learning absolutely and this is a very strong commonality and like design philosophy between or or products. So in a sense. Let me give you an example. We've we've continued to do great work in logistics and the recently last September. We've won a major contract for example with that. Chaban the German railway company and to give idea this is about routing trains on a large scale talking about ten thousand trains a day and some think on some thirty three thousand kilometers of railway but downs out their communities between routing trains and routing chips on a board and so we realized that the projects and the type of research that study is doing is actually applicable to multiple fields. And when it comes to imbed Ziegler printed circuit boards. They're putting compelling so. We went full speed ahead and this turned out to be office product. Alrighty so when you initially met with your friend your mention that they're you know while this these auto routers have been in place or have been in use for many years. They were not without their challenges and problems. What were some of those challenges and problems? And what was the opportunity to introduce? A I think Reuters have been the they've been. There's been a lot of great work. Donald Reuters but in terms of like design philosophy. The design philosophy is all about essentially using ristic's to solve problems and we spoke a little bit about this in Bester conversation so it's very similar to let's say what was the status of software for chess before out. Fazio came out the systems which were very well actually but still are built on your way. Sticks fought for the hardest problems. Ristic's have limits and a system that can essentially mobilize learning can. Learning get scale can get better results when it comes in particular for in the status of printed circuit. Boards it is actually incredible and we are in twenty twenty that actually complex sucrets still designed manually and the reason why people design those Mandy is because auto routers essentially a failed to deliver the goods to the degree of quality which is expected by high quality customers so we see a really compelling opportunity with modern built on the latest innovation. Some of it actually developed in house we actually have patents on the work done for the. There is an opportunity to accelerate the design cycle of products. Because it's not just about quality you mean. Engineers do absolutely amazing work and have amazing intuition. It's about the speed. Human engineer could take in certain cases multiple weeks if not months to completely root complex with more than we do believe instead that this timing can be proud to twenty four hours this if done at scale it would be tremendous for the industry and it would accelerate the product cycle. We are using consumer electronics to have a cycle every six months of the year. There's a new version coming. We believe that any I could actually accelerate A. That's that's a that psycho and as a consequence also make it easier to design new products and experiment and ultimately unleash more human creativity and mobilizing gay. You mentioned complexity of the boards as being one of the challenges. What are we talking about when we talk about complexity? We I'm assuming we're measuring that in for example number of components but having worked with circuit boards before there are also issues like the number of layers and things like that when you talk about a complex board. What exactly are you talking about? So about really consists in basically an. Kyi's that we need to connect and as a consequence like those guys they can be what needs to be connected so you have fairs of components essential get need to be connected and they could be thousands of those and as you mentioned rightly there could be multiple layers simple designs start with two or four layers that you could have a lot more and the more you have layers the more components you have to connect the heart of the problem. It is an empty heart problem and so this is where I can help. But you can you when you're looking at the most difficult designs that we take human engineers significant amount of time to solve
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Deep Reinforcement Learning for Logistics at Instadeep with Karim Beguir
"Mark welcome to the A. I. Podcast. Thanks them. It's great to be here. Also let's get started by talking a little bit about your background and in particular deep learning with structure data that is a topic that you know folks just starting to talk about and in fact via the meet up group in association with The podcast we have affirmative a fair amount of experience exploring this through the fast. Ai Steady groups that we do that's a big part of one of the lessons in in that course but I'd love to get a sense for you know how you came to be interested in this particular topic enough to write a book about it sure sure Sam so my my Akademik background is from artificial intelligence a couple of winters ago so I studied studied at ut with Graham Hurst back in the late eighties and it was all symbolic back then and there were some interesting use cases but you know it to alert extended to it didn't work work and I went to work for IBM had a had a great career there learned a great deal spend a lot of time in DB two relational database product from IBM and about two thousand sixteen became evident to me that Arthur's intelligence was starting to work there were things that were actually working became general general knowledge and dot re ignited the spark in me so I did Andrew intro course and the fast. Ai Course so we'd had Adam introduction to deep learning and I was very interested in deep learning and the promise of that and one of the things I found a little bit frustrating as a lot of the cases particularly outside of the context of the fest fast fast. Ai Course were to do with images or or audio they weren't structured data and what I was looking for is. Can I find a way to use this in my Mike day-to-day work because this was it'll be very useful and I wanted to learn more about it and the best way to learn about it is to use data sets that you're familiar with so when I did the the fast day I carson this would have been version. One of the core so has been through a couple of duration since then and there's the section on doing deep learning with with structured data and that really really sparked my curiosity. I thought wow this is this is really cool so they'd look around for some code to have a starter kit to get to get going and it wasn't wasn't easy to find but there was some cagle competitions people who've been working on structured data sets and applying it to deep learning some very elegant. Little Zainal's that Rothman stores resin and the like exactly exactly and I was really impressed by some of the work that I saw there is very elegant very very straightforward and good for me at the stage was at the end to get started to start doing some coding and at the time I was responsible for the Support Organization for Gabby too so there were there's tons of data there hundreds of tickets coming in every day lots and lots of data and I thought it'd be good if we could apply deep learning to to sort of see we can do some predictions that are useful so I built up a prototype model to predict how long a ticket take to get closed and that's you know seemed it worked reasonably well and then did another projects taking what I've learned to predict duty manager calls so those are cases is where a client beaches appointed frustration says I'm done. I'M GONNA pick pick up the phone and get something happening with this particular problem so applying what I've seen from some of the colonel's in Cagle and using the data that was available credit these prototypes and I've learned a lot doing that and they were I think they turned out fairly well but one of the problems with with those prototypes was that the data was obviously proprietary couldn't share that in there's a very strong ethic. Is You know in machine learning data science to share results so I started to look for a more general data set that I could use to apply deep learning to structure data and wrote. I've written a few blog posts on medium about my experience with the the predicting time to resolution and predicting duty manager calls and Manning got in touch with me and said. Would you like to write a book kind of pull this together and that's dot. That sounds interesting sure it's it has been a lot of work. It's and I've certainly I've certainly learned a lot in the course of doing that and one one of the things I've done is create a sort of a full end to end example using an open data set which is to do with the streetcars in Toronto Tron US my my hometown now and it has a very extensive Streetcar Network. Are Light Rail system that runs on regular roads and yeah. They're great. They're efficient. They're relatively cheap to run their cheap to create much cheaper than subways. The problem is because they share the roads with irregular traffic. If they break down there's a delay it really exacerbates gridlock so the city of Toronto publishes a data set that describes all of the delays that have happened for the for the last five years and I thought well I'm going to brought my sleeves and try to create a simple learning model to analyze this data and see even come come up with predictions to predict where they're going to be strict guard delays and hopefully be able to prevent them so that was kind of the the the path I took and that's how how that was the genesis for the book and so should I assume that that that worked that you were able to come up with a model that predicted did the Streetcar Delays or Predict Streetcar Delays with that data yeah. It does a decent job. It's not a huge data set their boat ninety thousand records Kurds right now okay so you know there's some some limitations but certainly for the purposes of of helping somebody who's going to be taking a trip. It's you know the the accuracy is is is good enough to be to be useful but more importantly for the in terms of learning exercise. I think it's it's it's useful useful because it's an open data set. It's big but not so big. You have to deal with the problems of of big data it. It's very messy so there's a lot of work to be onto prepare. The data which I think is a is a good learning experience and it has various different kinds of text data. There's categorical data. There's some continuous this data so it has a lot of it's it's big enough to be interesting but not so bigger overwhelming and I think it's you know it kind of makes a decent end to end example to to go through the go through the topic awesome awesome jumping back to the couple of projects that you worked on when you're at IBM in particular this looking at how long it took to close tickets when I think of a trouble ticket use case and when I think of that trouble ticket use case I think of you know not just structure data is being useful but also the content of the ticket itself so textual all data more like the application of NLP Did you use only meditate about the tickets to predict the close time or did you also use. Is that content. That's a great question so I did use the content. There's all the tickets had a description description could sometimes be two lines like you suck talk a little bit more elaborate than that sometimes it would be a paragraph of of lots of detail but that description was really essential because that's kind of the initial customers sense of it's now what what they found and that was a simple the model included a simple recurrent neural network to to deal with that data so it's the the the text field token is used in beddings and then there was a layer are a layer that was applied in the overall model to take that that text into account and it was interesting the the difference they did some experiments including. I'm not as a feature and then excluding it because it was it was fairly expensive. It added some some links to the time it took to train the model and it made a reasonable difference like it was between three and four percent the accuracy if this if this field is included and that really exciting that's really something and the other thing is that these parents all said that particular field is the description field so all of the text of the ticket it no. It's just the description. The text of the ticket was wasn't available to me at that time so it wasn't oh sometimes that there there could be the equivalent of a one hundred pages of text so all always dealing with textwise was. Vp was the description so it could be up to five hundred five hundred six hundred characters altogether got so that's typically the the textual show description of the issue either has provided by the initial customer. Who's WHO's admitting the ticket or whoever the a support rep is that is taking their call you would always be the customer and that was okay who is intentional to say that was part of the whole idea of the model was to only take data that was available when a ticket. I hit our system. Okay so description would be there. There are other things obviously like whether the ticket had change in severity. They wouldn't be available when the ticket was first opened. Because that's you know it's kind of a data leakage problem you start to take over and say oh that looks use use data that you don't actually have available to you when you're making the prediction but the textual description of the problem coming from the client was always there in the ticket was open and that was the that was one of the features that was fed into the model okay and so you said that the importance of this feature is this features presence gave you an additional three percents increase in accuracy that is relative to what without it how how much of an impact did it have so that was the indy in terms terms of the absolute accuracy so I think at that time it was probably going from seventy three to seventy six percent accuracy leaving taking that economic field out or leaving it in
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Trump warns China not to wait for 2020 election to make trade deal
"And Chinese negotiators head to Shanghai trying to end the year long escalating trade war. That's biting at both their economies president trump began the standoff last last year slapping tariffs on some Chinese imports in an attempt to force Beijing to end what they call unfair trade practices but few expected to end anytime soon and the doubter in chief is the president himself now. I think that China will probably say let's wait. It's fourteen fifteen months of the election. Let's see if one of these people that give the United States away. Let's see one of them could possibly get elected and I'll tell you what when I win like almost immediately. They're all going to sign deals that they're going to be phenomenal deals for the country but <HES> so. I don't know that they have I don't. I don't know if they're gonNA make etc.. Maybe they will. Maybe they want. I don't care because we're taking in tens of billions of dollars. Worth of tariffs and the farmers are happy because I gave them sixteen billion dollars out of the tariffs. He's referring to a sixteen ecksteen billion dollar federal aid package which was announced on Thursday intended to help those farmers who produce things like soybeans and pork and who are hurt by China's retaliatory tariffs the farmer's though not all happy the president of the American Farm Bureau Federation said last week the quote America's farmers ultimately want trade more than a
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SNOOP DOGG: How far will Lebron and the Lakers go this season
"A name for us up to say that we are back to being official basketball in the first round playoff game. I think we went till series. No way to know series. Win win win win the first round. Could you win gonna win too? I think we can. Get to the finals. Now knows new beleaguer diehard Kareem Abdul Jabbar showed up for me. So that let you entrenched. I am Jeannie bus was there, by the way, and he did say Karim right as knowing I'm not sure our friend. Magic Johnson will love to hear that magic. When magic first game. Asking we jumped on he jumped on Corinne. Did he jumped on? Hello, blew his mind. I'm assuming that you think that the finals opponent would be the Golden State Warriors, correct? Hopefully, they keep that dysfunctional. That is correct love and hip hop going. They all my friends in real life. But I'm a Laker fan. So I like the mess going over. And I'm here to start some o- during my hero Cam saying then Kevin her during says. No think about what Draymond said to Kevin in the heat of the battle, you know, emotional and at the same time. That's that's scenario. That's their locker room. I played sports. And it was a certain line that we would cross that we wouldn't crawl you know, and this new era. We come from a different. This is a new era. Put it to you like if okay, you got a friend y'all wanna rap album, y'all collab- all of a sudden you he get mad at you. He called you that we got issues what we're talking about the b word.