Okay, very good morning. It is Friday the 10th of July. We've had the Chinese state authorities come out looking to cool the Phenomenal rally we've seen in Chinese equities this week where their local market has added nearly one trillion dollars to its value So that's dampened a little bit of the sentiment from overnight And we're shifting back towards a bit of an emphasis onto the coronavirus situation with record deaths tallyed in both, Florida and California yesterday. So I'm Anthony Chung. 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There's some information that will be sent to you But if you enroll you essentially get access to three Sessions from the head of trading peers myself and William DeLucey are managing director who specializes in trading psychology So really great way to get a good hour and a half's worth of free content That's what you're after but ultimately it will give you a good insight into the type of Education that we deliver to help develop our traders internally on this platform If you like it you basically go through and you pay for an upgrade and you get access then to a full suite of videos I think there's about 80 videos in total There's also Assessments because you get professional qualification. There's also an app that ties this together as well where you can retrade Historical market events. There's also private weekly webinars that happen And for us being a macro firm it covers everything from economics to individual asset classes All the way through to technical analysis, of course, but trading the news. So what I specialize in Training strategies risk management psychology and everything that you would need to to really get a firm foundation To all of the key concepts that are involved in trading. So I'll leave that to you to check out Again just pop on the website I'll put a link in the video description on YouTube and you can check it out this weekend if you get time But otherwise, let's have a look at the charts for this morning. What exactly is going on as I said Sentiment a little bit dampened from the overnight Asia Pacific session where Chinese shares were down about 1% I'll talk about the story in a moment in a bit more detail But that's led to some general selling in the XE index futures here Let me just turn my zoom chat channel off. Otherwise, we'll be hearing some buzzing sounds But here you can see What was so interesting yesterday? We had quite an aggressive sell-off shortly after the open on Wall Street, but What's quite clearly evident here looking at the NASDAQ in the center chart for one is just the Power of the recovery when it came back and actually, you know It would have been a far cry to say to someone when we were selling off breaking through What what was largely a technical led move rather than anything new and fundamentals when we broke through those previous High and lows that we had from midweek. We just saw some Continuation it kind of exacerbated the downside pressure and at that point You would have been a hard call to say that yeah, we're gonna finish at all-time highs again in the NASDAQ Which is what we did But overnight Asia it did pop up at the beginning of the session But as some of that Chinese decided to come out the market started to just fade ever so slightly So we're almost back to again that same area of interest that was defining some of yesterday's Significant price action so worth keeping an eye on there So the S&P is kind of following suit again the downside area to keep it close on a little bit different to the setup in the NASDAQ Just given the general tech outperformance. We've been seeing and there's a there's a strong area of support Around the S1 today, which is around the 3107 and 05 and a quarter being the low point Of that initial selling that we saw in the open on Wall Street Otherwise then elsewhere the 10 years up a touch about one and a half ticks just some near-term resistance And it's our one goal really not playing ball with the general equity weakness or dollar strength Which would be more reflective of some moderate risk off at the open And a Dixie is up about two tenths of 1% so perhaps that in itself just imparting a bit of downside weight on gold To counteract then any notion of it holding its typical flight to quality status Gold then back to 1800 essentially having got all the way up this week to 1830 it's kind of back down to where we were worth keeping an eye on again when that equity move was moving lower yesterday We're got close proximity to that pretty much the $1,800 handle is is a key level for today to watch for sure With the dollar strength both major currency pairs a little lover Just wanted to quickly have a look at the euro currency because on a weekly it's just so interesting as we continue to respect You know literally week after week That key upside level in the euro just can't get through it at the moment But I guess if anything the pullbacks are getting a little bit more shallow here as we've seen over the course of the last month or so So that longer-term trend line from middle of 2018 that was respected in the beginning of the year before the pandemic really kicked in and Was tested on the initial period of the beginning of June continues to remain in play with the respective kind of horizontal resistance there So yeah still remains a key level for this week Oh and weeks going forward. I should say the other one to have a quick look at was oil Be an interesting week for oil quite a significant breakdown in prices yesterday And if you look at the longer-term chart here, I'm looking on a daily continuation You can see that there was a very significant upside level here that has been containing the price and as we've gone through the last several weeks Price activity really has been getting squeezed centered in around that gap down that we had at the beginning of March of this year And interestingly we are just trading through that trend line now this morning So something to keep an eye on and if as what seemingly appears to be the case There's a little bit of the optimism That we've seen generally dominate market sentiment this week is starting to fade a little bit as we Potentially see some de-risking going into the weekend It's been more I'd say normal behavior this would look the weekend just gone was quite unusual because the overnight activity was fairly benign and there wasn't really much Rather than just a flat open but previous weekends to that. We've nearly always seen a relative Gap down in US equities With a tune of around point six to point eight percent and again this idea of de-risking people are still a little bit Covid-sensitive I would say and definitely developments in America would say that we're still far beyond The worst case at the moment and so yeah if that continues and that really starts to get into the mindset short-term Then certainly that will have implications for for oil in the near-term price movement and with oil We're just looking at some of that near-term price activity I mean we've got go back to late June when we were trading around 3750 So it's still about a dollar and a half to go until we got to that point So yeah, be interested to see how oil performs as we go through this session Particularly if equities start to flag and people do de-risk you might well see oil following suit and just training lower throughout the rest of the day Okay, quick look at some of the headlines then China state funds start selling in a warning sign for stock rally. So Chinese shares were down Around a percent overnight as two state-backed funds that they planted trim holdings and a sign basically that the government Forsees this this phenomenal rally We've had this week as a slightly overdone and would be something that I'd want to just harness and control to a certain degree Because obviously they don't want it to be too inflated because then the inevitable might happen and it pops And you see quite a violent breakdown in price. So what's happened overnight? There were basically two state-backed funds once called the People's Insurance Company of China The PICC the other one is China's National Council for Social Security Fund Which is basically country's national pension fund and the PICC second largest shareholder They said of course that the the kind of sale was part of their regular Divesting activities, but of course, we know that's not really the case and it comes after the Chinese stock market has added around $1 trillion of value this week So, yeah, this is it's quite common You know, this is where China does differ although it's pursuit to become this global trading partner and To kind of liberalize its practices and to want to encourage foreign investment And you know, we know what their long-term objectives are they still are very much Involved let's say when it comes to the free forces that move markets in a developed market world sense Doesn't quite exist to the same degree in China similarly when the markets were breaking down in 2015 over fears of a hard Chinese landing when GDP was Dramatically decreasing it's almost the reverse the state-backed funds come in and prop up the market and now we're getting the almost a reversal So again, it's kind of that state intervention to try and control this Other than that though, I mean I wouldn't look at this as I guess a main Factor that's going to really dictate things, but it might just be The kind of one catalyst that just takes that that positivity that generally markets have had for most of the week Out of the picture because if you think about what's been happening is every day particularly mid-week when China and when the first news came out about the Chinese media looking to just kind of Call to arms for the retail traders to prop the market up European markets and the US markets followed in kind as we kind of went through that 24 48 hour period But now that's come to an end. Obviously it just removes one of those factors And as I said going to the weekend, it wouldn't be unusual to see perhaps some ships taken off the table Elsewhere then the coronavirus situation is still to be to be monitored Obviously the country that's that's seen quite a rapid increase of late has been further developments in Australia overnight This time in the state of Victoria. So they continue to try to tackle this latest outbreak so they Kind of lying if you like of new confirmed cases of COVID-19 has shot up quite dramatically UK and Europe still relatively Flat the US continues to climb at a slow but progressive rate On that point then cases in the US now in excess of three million of course and looking on a state level Florida, Texas, California those three kind of most in focused areas. So to here to add a bit of context still Increasing The death toll is what's captured a few headlines in the overnight Session record deaths in Florida and California Texas governor Abbott predicts that next week will actually be the worst regarding the coronavirus situation and pleaded that wearing masks Is the only strategy? Remaining in order to avoid another shutdown of their local economy Elsewhere New York the mayor has cancelled all public events and One interesting thing then I was looking at was this which was a graphic looking at The state of the localized economies and whether or not they are reopened Reopening paused or reversing and obviously it's the Sun Belt which has drawn the most focused of late in the recent week or two But interestingly although this map Would suggest then that the reopening process is only being reversed in a handful of the US States one of the things to be aware of here and I was reading some analysis from Goldman Sachs this morning and they said that 40% of US population Lives in states where reopening has been rolled back or delayed Now obviously here when you look at this you can see the big three of course, California, Texas, Florida My understanding percentage wise just thinking of the figures is that they equate to around 28 to 30% I guess the 10% top-up comes out of these areas like Arizona, Colorado, Michigan And so yeah, I mean this this is significant from a case of you know Economic data had been wildly outperforming to the upside particularly in these soft sentiment based forward-looking measures But will that the actual definitive economic picture keep pace with that and that's why I've always kind of been a little bit Of the view that that's probably unlikely to be the case And at some point then that optimism over that recovery picture is going to slowly dissipate and underline That is the practicality of when we looked at those Google mobility movement scores Yes, to a certain degree behavioral changes might what happen for Both consumers in terms of their purchasing behavior and also employees from a company working from home behavior But I don't think that's going to be rapid enough To offset the idea then that the economy at the moment in the places that matter Still is not anywhere near back to a degree of normality when it comes to these areas like Texas like Florida like California I mean you've only got to look at these trajectories there. They're not even plateauing at this point So that would suggest then that there's still a lot more pain to come On this front both from a health point of view in those areas and from an economic point of view So it's going to be interesting over the coming weeks to see how that plays out The other thing I wanted to mention was about the EU again I don't really see this as a definitive force to base any sterling position on I would say you're probably better off looking at The dollar in general using that as a guide and barometer of sentiment to trade the pound The pound naturally is fading. I think a lot of the the midweek pump was due to the Expectation and and then the delivery that was almost a by-the-roomer cell the fact with Rishi Sunak and his kind of summer stimulus So the EU basically back to Brexit have said that their stance Although the UK's Brexit stance will add to various damage for firms So what they're saying here is quote inevitable disruptions are going to occur on the 1st of January 2021 So when the transition periods and that risks compounding the pressure the businesses are already under due to the COVID-19 outbreak She'll Barney a using Twitter this week's discussions confirmed that significant divergencies remain between the EU and Britain and As I've said at the beginning of the week Now that we know that these kind of relative timelines for Brexit some of these key meetings Eurozone summits to kind of anticipation and around the importance around the autumn This is exactly where I thought that we would be so that's why I think markets are fairly comfortable with this kind of Idea that basically they're still significant divergences. There still is hard to make any Movement forward on a collective basis yet I see that as completely as expected because there is a lack of pressure We're too far away from these these deadlines yet But I decide to really buckle too much and make these significant concessions to get a deal over the line That point I think still will come in time. We're just not there yet And for the moment, I think focus remains elsewhere in the short term for the broader global market Okay, calendar wise then very very quiet as per the week So I'll do my best to issue the macro menu this weekend and hopefully next week will hold a little bit more action for us But for the morning talking of the here and now the only thing of semi-interest is the IEA monthly oil market report That'll be at 9 a.m. London time And then we've got the US PPI data yet Canadian jobs data unemployment rate employment change I got the Baker Hughes recount as well for any US traders and that's pretty much it so with that being said then could well be that focus tends to lie more toward perhaps COVID updates those regular updates that we see The initial idea and I think does have potential for some legs Just given the fact that the NASDAQ has been up at record highs, you know, we've seen quite an interesting technical break here in oil inequities I'll keep an eye on that S&P around that three 3,100 level which was close proximity to around yesterday's low For any further de-risking going into the weekend And if that does happen then again it's not so much of a news catalyst but a sentiment play and just picking your spots from a technical perspective to execute around those Trades and manage your risk will be the the appropriate course of action I would say all right that is it So remember to subscribe to the channel more videos of course coming from my my colleagues this weekend I wish you a fantastic weekend ahead and I will see you next week. Thanks very much guys


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Goedendag, vrouw en vrouw, en welkom op het puur van het portalswebinar van het property. Mijn naam is Yvonne Rauwk, ik ben een serieel entrepeneer, investeer, speaker en business strategist en ik ben so exited over het vandaag en over dit webinar. As een business strategist, ek weet dat er iets called leverage is. Nu, voordat we opgaan, wil ek zeggen, dank u te private property, om me te doen, het een deel van vandaag en ik ben so exited. De reden van dit is, want dit webinar is brouw te jou by private property en wat ik heb gezien met online platformen en online portals, speciaal in het property industry, as een investeer, hoe deze dingen me assisten om te doen, waar we kan vergaan en use iets called leverage. Nu, we gaan dat kort opgaan. Probleem, u is een reale estate agent, luister van vandaag, of maybe u is just een investeer, u is een investeer. Maar kom in het seks, wat luisteren u van, wat luisteren u van?   So, ik wil zeggen, welkom, ik geloof dat iedereen al in en online gesluid is en ik begin met de vormaliteen, want ik wil niet u te missen iets, dus wil ik make sure dat u er zoveel waarschijnlijk waarschijnlijk mogelijk is. Ik weet dat veel reale estate agents bakken of luisteren en participatie vandaag en ik weet, u is wondering, hoe kan u jouw salen increase, right? Jouw monthly salen, jouw aannual salen, we weten in salen maanden in, u normaal hiero tot zero, dat is de industrie van salen, maar er zijn veel dingen die u kan doen om jouw salen te increase, right? En ook jouw brand, wat kan u doen om echt te stabilise en bouw die brand van jouw salen, of jouw aannual salen of jouw aannual salen, want u heb een persoonlijke brand ook, right? Jouw wil make sure dat u weet hoe dat brand te bouw. En dan, alvast, hoe kan u vir en zet u uit als een expert in jouw industrie of in jouw gebouw of in jouw gebouw? Eén van de portals die we vandaag aanzien, wil daar zo'n indipse seksie, wat is called gebouw? Als u in een specifiek gebouw is, als u diep diep in jouw gebouw en weet, wat is het dat jouw gebouw salen maand, right? Jouw hoorde dat correcte, wat is het dat jouw gebouw salen maand, waarom doen mensen in jouw gebouw salen? Jouw wil make sure to know wat exact dat is, zodat u kan salen dat naar de volgende persoon die maand in jouw gebouw salen maand. En dan, alvast, hoe kan u jouw salen maand als een verhaalse agent? Wat doe ik met dat?  En waarom is dat, omdat ze een specifiek naam voor themselves?  Ik weet, als ik die specifiek persoon maand, ik ga een aardig niveau van resultaar of aardig niveau van salen maand, right?    Dus, vandaag, we spieken over online portals, specifiek voor landen, right?  Nu, wat is het het eerst dat jou wil doen, wanneer je iets nieu oefent? Jou wil de juiste informatie doen, right? Dus, je moet een aardig naam verstaan, als je echt wil goede iets doen. Nu, het eerst is, doe je eerst het product dat je salen is, right?  En ook dan wat markt dat ik salen wil. Dus, in dit geval, die naam, wat naam, wat naam is het in? Is het specifiek naam dat ik salen wil, als het specifiek naam is, right? En in die industrie, wat weet ik nou op de industrie van de landenportfolio? Wat weet ik nou echt op de industrie van de landenportfolio? Doe ik eer die informatie op de industrie van de landenportfolio van Uncle Friky at de Bry, right?  About ruckbee politiek en industrie van de landenportfolio, right? Is dat goed? En we basen ons decisie op dat. Dus, hoe doen we ons informatie te vinden over de industrie en dan eerst jouw klant of jouw customer of jouw perspectief klant?  Doe je wat het te doen? Doe je hoe ze basen hun decisie wanneer ze buyen of wanneer ze want te rent? Dat is een heel belangrijk ding. Dus, we eerst willen meer informatie doen. Dus, let's use een ekstel, het eerst wat ik aangevond, het product. Wat is het product dat ik salen of salen en waar kan ik meer informatie te vinden? En wat ik lief om het volgende, wat gaan we over, wat is ons eerst online portal, wat gaan we discussie doen? En je zal zien, ik heb m'n PC, ja, dus het online en ik ben op het website juist nu en je kan juist op het website juist nu, of je hebt jouw PC naast jou en het eerst is TPN credit periode, right? Meestal van jou heb je waarschijnlijk heet van TPN. Als je niet op het website geluid, dan heb ik een look en zie wat ze doen. So, TPN is een online portal die uiteindelijk in het te vinden betere informatie. Right, waar dat is op tenenis, waar dat is op salen, waar dat is op een unit, misschien een property unit of je moet informatie over het gebouw. Dus, als je op het website gaan, dan zie je dit is een seksion waar ze jou een breakdown of wat ze doen. Ik ga het eerst aangeven, het eerst is credit checks, right?  Dus wat is leuk om dit te doen is, u kan natuurlijk dan betere informatie doen om te zien hoe goed of hoe bad de credit score is.  U wil make sure on that. So credit checks, qualifications checks, payment profile, rental reports, ID verification, criminal checks, heel belangrijk, speciallie speciallie speciallie areas, misschien, right? En dan training en support, deeds checks, account verification, online invoices en online adverts. Dus, ik ga terug op het woord dat ik called leverage.  U wil make sure to use leverage en de man die we use leverage is by using things that gives us more effectiveness with less effort, right? Dus online platform like this, hoe would u do a criminal check 20-years-ago of 30-years-ago, right? There's probably a big process that you have to go through. Now you can go on to a website, type in an applicant's details and see are they a good payer. How did they do at the previous place where they rented, right?  Dus, dat's some of the stuff that TPN does. Oh, ek sê ek sê some of the stuff, it's really comprehensive. But what makes this powerful is now you have the right information to go and vet someone. You have the right information to make sure that the person that you put into your next place that you rent out, it's going to decrease your occupancy rate or your vacancy rate, right? Sorry, it's going to increase your occupancy rate. You want to make sure that you get your places booked as full as possible and this helps with that, making sure that you're vetting in the right places. What I love about TPN and we use the information in our property seminars as well is their reports. So they have lease agreements that you can download as well, HR documents, investor reports, which is really important. If you are serious about investing in property, you want to make sure that you have the right information, that you apply it in the correct manner and then actually apply it. That's going to help you to grow and then they have property reports. Now, what's important for me about this is we spoke about industry and market earlier. If you want to make sure that you buy in the right place and get the right tenants in as well, you want to make sure that you pull their reports and see what kind of tenants in what income bracket or what tenant, what rental bracket are the best payers. They have those reports. They help us a lot and I presume and I know that they're going to help you a lot as well. The second one we're going to go into is wind deed. All right, so it's Lexus wind deed but you can just type in wind deed.co.z That's their website. What I love about wind deed is they really specialize in a property report, so a specific property. So let's say you're looking at a property in 17 George Liber Street, Hamilton, right? The reason why I know the address, it's the address we have. Let's say you type in that address and you can go and specifically select a property or an af or a plot or a unit that you actually want to buy and you can go and draw all their deeds information. You download the report from their website and you only also pay for what you download, which I love. So you go specifically to a specific property and you download that report and that report will show you what their property sold for the previous times, who the previous property owner was, maybe it was owned in an entity, maybe it was a individual person, it will show you the current owner as well and it will show you obviously the previous history. So now you can go and have a look and see this property is now in the market for 1.6 million rand. It was sold the previous time for let's say 600,000. The reason why I'm saying that is that property maybe has been in the previous owner's position for the last 18 or 25 years en they have no idea how much that property is actually worth now. So it's yes, there's a property valuation based on it and it's now in the market for 1.6 but the property owner selling the property does maybe not know if someone offers me 1.4, I can still accept it, right, because I technically made 800,000 rand. So for them it's a benefit. They may be a motivated seller, something we speak about a lot. If you really want to understand motivated sellers, join one of the events we'll be discussing soon, but once you have this information you can sell your products better, you can market them better and you can also list them better, which is really important because all of you know based on the market circumstances, based on industry, there is a leeway on how people view a specific property and the value of that property based on the listing price. So you also want to make sure that there is that obviously that little bit of a buffer when you want to negotiate, right? But most of you already know this, but this is the place to go to draw the deeds, to draw that information and that property report to make sure that you have better information to list better, to sell better and to negotiate better, right? It's really important. Then I just quickly want to share with you one last thing when it comes to wind deed, is once you've downloaded this report obviously it is in your position. So what you now can do is, if you are strategic about it, you can use this report to sit down with your potential seller when you do the listing. To explain to them, if you understand the industry and you understand the market, you coach your client or your prospective client that this is why we want to go with this valuation on this listing. But once you have this report, it's a professional report that comes from their offices.  And your prospective client or client also sees that. So it's really puts you on a different level when it comes to professionalism, right? I hope that makes sense. It ties into your status as well.  It's not you telling them sir or ma'am, your property is maybe only this worth right now. It's not that you don't want to value it higher because we all know sellers always want to value their property as high as possible. But when you have this, it's a great baseline to work from and to have a sit down and discuss that with them.  Then our third and final online portal we are going to discuss and this is the one I absolutely love the most. It's the one from Private Property. So you go on to privateproperty.co.z website and there's also an app. Now before we get to the online platform I quickly want to discuss the app. The first time I downloaded the app it blew me away. The reason for that is I love scrolling through properties, right? So the same with social media if you are a serious property investor or maybe a real estate agent instead of spending the time on social media. Yes, there is time for that. But scroll through properties to make sure that you understand not just on your market but you reiterate information in different areas. So let's say you're looking at a specific neighborhood, right? You want to make sure that you know what is the average prices in that neighborhood, what's the average rental because when someone phones your prospective client phones you of when you do a listing you already know a two bedroom one bathroom place in this area will rent for this amount or it will sell for this amount and the levies are roughly this normally in this area. You can do a proper calculation to explain to a prospective client that maybe wants to buy for investment. You want to make sure that you know what rental yield is and ROI is and IRR is if you don't know these things I will discuss later with you where you can learn these things but once you know these things it's so much better. It's put you in a section or in an area where you can sell so much better because your prospective client is going to know that on safe hands because you really know what you're talking about. Now private properties app gives you the opportunity as an investor or someone wants wants to buy right if you are invested in night listening. You select your filters in advance. What do I mean with that?  I'm using Bloem as an example and it will automatically filter your search feed for you for that specific statue filled in right and then when a new one is listed it automatically pops up as a notification. So if you are a serious investor get the app ASAP and make sure to put in your filters so that you are daily flushed or when those listings comes in they automatically pop up at your notifications. You as an agent that's a powerful tool to use right. If you are the agent and you are selling the two bedroom one bathroom place in Langenavent Park in Bloemfondain you want to make sure that you fish in the pond where the fish is what you want to fish right. So if you want to sell a two bedroom one bathroom place in Langenavent Park Bloemfondain you want to make sure that your listing is on that app. Because it now qualifies and narrows your qualified leads for you just at a click of a few buttons which is absolutely amazing I love it. Now the online portal that you're on the website is an example you'll see the first thing you'll see is the property investment seminar which we'll discuss at the end of this webinar but as you scroll down there's a ocean of information. Why is this important? Now the first thing is private property is the biggest online portal for property in Africa. Now if I want to sell more products right in one of my other businesses I want to make sure that I go where my market is. Now you as a real estate agent this is where your market is this is where they live. Private property has more than 50 million views on their website which is absolutely staggering. The reason why I'm sharing that is if I have to sell a house or I have to rent something out this is well advertised the reason for that is is not only this is where your market is but the amount of information that they have on their portal for you to grow as a real estate agent. So I mentioned the neighborhoods earlier right so they've got a specific section where you can go and learn more about neighborhoods and also get great information on your neighborhood and maybe there's a neighborhood now that you're going to list that you really don't know anything about great place to learn about it because it's also where your prospective buyers is going to click to understand but better about the neighborhood that they want to start buying in property advice. There's so many things on you ever bond calculator now what I love about this is if I have to sell a unit right and I'm standing in in this beautiful place we're standing in the kitchen and the prospective buyer already decided emotionally and maybe rationally that this is the place they want to buy but they are not sure how they're going to afford this place or can they afford the place. So you may be going to hear things like or we'll go to our bank and we'll find out and see if this will fit our budget right a lot of real estate agents will say with all their respect yes ma'am thank you ma'am or thank you sir you can go and do that and come back to me don't do that if you have this let's say your laptop or tablet open with you you put it on the kitchen table and you select bond calculator on private properties website and as you select bond calculator within a few clicks you can literally put in all the information and you can do it in advance right before you do the showing you put in all the information in the bond calculator and you press calculate right there on the kitchen table and you will automatically show them ma'am so if the sister amount we're looking at and the sister income that you have because there's also an affordability calculator you can right then right then snuff out the objection of we'll go and find that out you can already find that out alive while you're doing the showing to help them make a better decision great so lovely tool that you can use you can also obviously find attorneys convincing attorneys and find agents now if you are a real estate agent listening today this is the button you want your prospective customers to click on right find an agent so you want to make sure that you are listed right here you as an agency you as a private agent you want to make sure so if you select there you'll see there's all the provinces on the how do your customers or prospective clients come to you and this is a great channel for you to do that that's one of the things that i love about this portal so if i know there are so many people going through your new monthly basis this is where i want to be and then obviously the latest news if you really want to become an expert in your industry and expert in your market and an expert in your neighborhood you want to make sure that you are up to date with the latest news there is obviously unfortunate news as we speak in cousin at all with the floods and really our condolences to the family members of people may be lost loved ones and also obviously the businesses that got damaged during this during this floods and we really trust and believe that you will be on your feet again as quick as possible so i just wanted to mention that because that is one of the news sections on you at the moment which is relevant because obviously you as a real estate agent needs to understand it needs to know these things so the more you are in tune with the latest news we know the better you can sell so these are really great tools that you want to use and then there's something else that private property has which is called sales floods now sales floods is a section in their online portal where you can then obviously market on their social media platforms to make sure that your referrals flooding your leads flooding and that you can sell a lot more by getting the right market getting the right leads to you en making sure that you sell so much more so how does the sales process work is you have a lead someone that maybe doesn't know about you yet but you get it from someone else you still need to get the hold of them them right and then you want to turn them into a new opportunity you're probably going to do a show else or showing or whether it's a virtual tour you can also do that and then obviously going to go through the rest of your process but that first section that getting a lead whether they called a cold lead or not right getting that lead into your sales funnel into your sales pipeline great place to do that is with these online platforms such as private property because you can find them here and it's a great place where you can market your services so I spoke about three important online portals right the first one tpm and then windied and private property you want to make sure that you use these kind of portals to really up your game these portals will assist you in selling more by promoting your listings on their platforms by getting the right information from tpm it will put you into a position of an expert because you can now freely speak about what is the real vacancy rate in a specific area in a specific city in a specific rental bracket right so if you have someone buying a place that will rent out normally for eight and a half thousand rand you can specify to them listen yes the statistics from tpm sorry for that from tpm that will show you this is the vacancy rate so your risk for buying an investment property here and renting it out isn't that high even just after covid right so this is information that's really important that will set you apart as an expert it will also build your brand if you advertise on these platforms like private property because it will set you apart from the thousands of thousands of agents that are out there but you want to make sure that you put your listings towards the top right and then obviously you want to make sure that your status is lifted by really producing good results towards your prospect of buyers you I presume you have clients that are really happy get get these guys to share these testimonials with you that you can put on social media platforms that you can incorporate into your marketing message when you invest in platforms like these to do your marketing for you right I mean these sales flights is a great way to push your brand to push your name onto these platforms where your market is to make sure that you do your things correctly and then obviously with winded you get more experienced expert advice expert knowledge that you can then use to sell better so it's going to help you understand your market your industry a lot better I did mention another thing that you can do if you really want to grow as a real estate agent or maybe as an investor now we have in the month of may we have an exciting event in Cape Town that I want to share with you because yes we use these online platforms to leverage our businesses we use it to leverage our structure but we want to make sure that we combine all of these things so that we can become better right if you really want to establish yourself as an expert in your industry in your market in your neighborhood you want to use the right tools but also use the right knowledge so maybe you feel you don't really have all the knowledge that you can have right because we are all students we cannot stop learning we also always have to be learning now there's a great event happening in Cape Town at the Radisson Blue Hotel at the waterfront the 7th of May 2022 which is an amount of week and a half's time right the Saturday it's a full day event it's from eight o'clock to morning till five o'clock to afternoon and you don't want to miss out on this event now this event is brought to you by private property and prosperity enterprises where Jaco Groblad en I are the speakers right where we share with you so many things about property the way real successful wealthy ultra wealthy investors structure their property portfolios right these specific structures that you can work with or that you should work with to make sure that you not only build and scale your property portfolio but that you protect it as well for generations to come and then we also teach you how to leverage the structure to make sure that you can scale your property portfolio unlimitedly right and it's companies such as private property that really has your back they want you to succeed that's why they built this online platform to make sure that you as an investor and you as an agent meet each other on this platform or at events like our seminar that you can join hands en build a better south afrika if you are a real estate agent or you are invested tonight i really want to encourage you so that we can see you at the property investment seminar the seventh of may at the radison blue hotel there will be links below for everything that i spoke about tonight so tpn's link will be at the bottom when the link will be at the bottom and then private properties link will be at the bottom as well i presume the app link will be on there as well or you just go on to play store or maybe your apple app store and download that app as well but also follow the link at the bottom for the property investment seminar that will be in Cape Town now in may and we would love to see you there and you will learn everything about property that you need to know because there are more than one way to make money then i just want to conclude this webinar by saying thank you so much for joining us tonight and we really know that your best days are ahead of you and as you apply yourself we know that you will build a brilliant business thank you very much


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You're twice as sure with two great names Frigidaire and General Motors Frigidaire presents Herbert Marshall as the man called X Wherever there is mystery intrigue romance and all the strange and dangerous places of the world There you will find the man called X Now Frigidaire presents Herbert Marshall as Ken Thurston the man called X I keep you waiting. Mr. Thurston. Would you care to give me your order now? Oh later right now. You can bring me a dry martini with an onion. Very good. Mr. Thurston. I should be right. Oh, I beg your pardon. Sing nothing of it my good woman. Pagon. No Oh, hello, Mr. Thurston. I I thought you were in South Africa. I was I just got back Well, you must have dug up a new tailor the suit. Oh, well, it's really feel the material How to do it bank robbery mr. X. I'm going to become a millionaire Congratulations. How very simple roulette. Huh? Sure a friend of mine from Europe. He says that all you have to do is to Mr. X that man coming over here What about him? He's after me. Didn't you pay for the suit? But this is no time for jokes. You got to do something. He looks pretty mad Oh, I pig on grab yourself a taxi out there. I'll slow him down. Mr. Thurston. I from get out of this I swear by the father of my father Just a minute there. Pardon me, please. I'm in a hurry. Evidently Since you didn't take the time to pay your check, I intend to pay it when I come back now if you don't mind Maybe we'd better call the manager. I think you'll be interested in your intent. I do not wish to Ah, too late. He's driving away. Hmm. You trying to catch somebody and questionably your interference was intentional I saw zelschmidt talking with you a moment ago. So fortunately, I think I know where he can be found Good, but you must hear you may discover that you have made a very bad enemy Very bad indeed. Good day When he showed up in washington, I don't know whether you remember him or not ken Dr I don't know sure chief the friend scientist. That's right Specialist in nuclear physics. He'd got out of france. Just one jump ahead of the nazis Claimed he'd solve the nuclear reaction of hydrogen and helium unlimited power without the need for uranium. Yeah, I remember him That was early in 41 when jordan public thought nuclear energy was scientific What happened to him? Why he died ken? Oh, yeah, two weeks ago in french guiana newspaper clipping came in yesterday What about his process? He leave any papers or notes? According to this item, they were holding the stuff pending a claim by next of kin That's a pretty important secret to be kicking around for just anybody to get hold of that's how it looked to me ken So I cable the authorities in french guiana yesterday Got an answer this morning said dr. Wagner's papers had already been picked up and by an operator from this bureau What? Here's kin and hang on to your hat According to the cablegram The name of the operator was zeal schmidt Pager good lord. Yes, he's in plenty deep this time. All right chief. I'm on my way I'll be in touch with you. I better call me as soon as you get to french guiana french guiana chief I'm going to Monte Carlo. Ken, what in sam hill are you talking about so long chief? Oh Sorry missy no more bets perhaps the next time and the winning number is 23 red and dark unfortunately not the cover So that was you madame. I miss you. You don't seem to be interested in roulette this year Oh, I'm just to keep it some of myself I probably shouldn't start a conversation with a complete stranger, but Well here in Monte Carlo. We tend to become very informal a good system. I like it You don't live here. Oh, no not here down the coast of me My name is jenette qualey, miss you. My name is ken first and how are you miss quill? Pleasure bet ladies and gentlemen quickie. Please bet for you. I uh, I've noticed you watching the little man with the beard at the next table Oh See a friend of yours by any chance. No Strange-looking fellow You don't happen to know him. No, miss you first. Oh, pardon me, mom On number 13 crookie. We met with it Your lucky number miss qualey. Why not? What might be unlucky for one could easily be very fortunate for another just a hunch The betting is closed no more bet me Yeah, I had a I had a hunch myself a little while ago. Oh, did you play? Oh, no, no, not that kind I had a hunch you were going to speak to me But why?  Oh, well, you can't win all the time You're uh, a very observant man, miss you first Perhaps we should have a long talk sometime Of wire Of wire janet How's as good a time as any for showdown? I beg your pardon. Huh? I don't know you miss you It's that beard of yours. I've been wanting to pull on it for the last 20 minutes I don't I don't understand miss you you crooked double crossing little rat. Huh? All right, pig. I'll come on out of that brush Listen, mr. Thurston, you gotta save save you. I'm gonna make sure you get 90 years What did you do with those papers you stole? I'm very glad you asked that mr. X I I think risking the peace of the whole world impersonating a bureau operator But who else would I know how to talk to they gone you pulled some shady deals But this is the worst one yet now you're in trouble But it was only a bit sure this baron ruten bet me $5,000. I couldn't fool those people in french guiana What sucker it was a cinch. Yeah, it'll be a cinch for the state's attorney The jury won't be out five minutes If you don't help me, I won't even live so long. They're gonna bump me off good Maybe even better yet. Mr. X. How can you pay gong? Where are those papers of dr. Wagner's? That's the whole trouble. I haven't got them. What I held them out on baron ruten Just trying to make an honest dollar you understand honest dollar. Is there any other car? Never mind that Where are they now? I air mail them to myself here in care of general delivery They should come in in the morning well For once that simple bird brain of yours made some accidental sense. Thank you, mr.  First um, I have a message for you Yeah, you're invited to join the countess coran at a table across on the mezzanine Oh, who's the countess coran, sir? Everyone knows the countess That's all right. I'll tell the countess. I'll be over in a few minutes.  Well, yes, but I don't you go to your hotel room and wait for me And if you step outside once I'll show you at least five tricks that are a whole lot worse than boiling in oil One moment, sir Your name is thurston. That's right Inspector mom keist monaco department of police I'd like to see your identification, please. What for the customers boys took care of all that as a matter of routine Yes, this is special. There has been a complaint. Oh by whom the complaint was made by me, mr. Thurston. Oh, yeah I take it you're the baron rutan. That is correct any man who can be a very bad enemy. Yeah, you told me that in new york Well, what's the complaint inspector your passport first, please Thank you Baron rutan believes you to be a jewel thief who was wanted by the pal's police a few years ago Well, ordinarily, I'd be willing to accept the baron as an underworld authority, but uh Right now I've got a date upstairs with the countess corrin Countess corrin You are a friend of hers. I'm joining her of her invitation These people seem to be quite in order. I'm afraid you made a mistake baron rutan. Well, I I did not realize My apologies mr. Thurston if my department can be of service at any time You have only to call on me. Thanks inspector. I remember that I may want to make a complaint myself sometime Never know Really no mystery at all. Mr. Thurston.  Well, I've Have been here a little soon if I hadn't been stopped at the bottom of the stairs by a gentleman named Mamquist Mamquist. Oh, yes, the police inspector. Something is wrong. Oh, no, no, just a case of mistaken identity The countess Do you happen to know baron rutan rutan? No, I've never heard of him I was told you knew everybody in Monte Carlo. Oh hardly mr. Thurston People come and go in monaco. They make a fortune or lose one and either way you never see them again Well, the world is pretty much the same way On a bigger scale. I suppose so When you think about it life itself is a kind of tremendous roulette wheel People bouncing around the rim and not having a great deal to say about the matter That's quite an idea And it doesn't offer much incentive for living We're not everyone has the same chance. Maybe except once in a while Somebody discovers a new way to fix the wheel so Nobody has a chance fix the wheel count this current one sure method to make zero come up on the next spin Would be a new kind of nuclear weapon Pagon open up won't you come in mr. Thurston? Thanks, shenna Of course, I could have the wrong room. You don't look much like pagon zealschmidt. I hope not Then you did know that it was a man with a beard bound to be busted Oh Looks like you've been pretty busy bad guessing the room was torn up this way when I got here. Oh Well, uh Where's pagon under the bed? No, I already looked He seems to have stepped out ken I uh, I suppose you're here after the same thing. I am It's a little hard to say well What are you after? Oh, all right be difficult Anyway, someone's already beaten us to it could be least pagon didn't walk out of here by choice. So Where do we go from here? Oh Maybe a lot of places I knew you better But I don't yet so not leaving already. I thought I might You wouldn't detain a lady ken. Oh, it depends I'd detain anybody to stop the wagon of formula from being turned loose on the world I think you would Well, I don't have it you can take my word for that unless of course you'd care to search me No, you're really quite trusting Very likely we'll see each other again So I hope you won't mind if I say good night now Mr. X Now to continue with frigid airs man called X starring Herbert Marshall Still regard this is highly irregular. Mr. Thurston, even though the postmaster did authorize Relax, there's nothing to worry about here. Hand me that, uh, John of paste I must say that in 20 years service with this post office I have never done anything so unorthodox before and it's about time you want to get out of your rut once in a while now we'll, um Seat it up again. So And it looks as good as it ever did Hey, uh, tampering with the monaco male a very serious thing very serious. Wait a minute here. He comes now I'll stand here with the door out of sight. You're on your own Oh Good good morning. You you don't have to have some mail for mr. Pagan's zelschmidt. Do you That's me. You understand. Well, of course, we don't ordinarily open for another five minutes yet, but Oh, yes, uh, here's the letter z Zelschmidt it's airmail from new york That's it. I mean that that's me. You you you couldn't just keep it a couple of days. Could you oh good heavens? No, be very irregular Here you are Do you think maybe there is a policeman around here somewhere? Oh, I know. I haven't seen a genre more morning. Oh Well, goodbye Old friend. Goodbye mr. Zelschmidt Old friend Hello Pagan mr. Thurston. Wait, look out John Pagan It's baron rooten. He's the one who brought me here. Yes Yes, it was ballon rooten Mr. Thurston, I swear by the father of my father. So help me Pagan if you don't tell the truth all of it I'll mop up this hotel room with you even after I saved your life. You've saved nothing I knew you'd never walk into that post office alone Where were you all night anywhere lying unconscious some filthy dungeon where that baron rooten put me after he dragged me out of this hotel See anybody besides rooten only some rats they chewed on my beard Pagan how's the Jeanette figure in this? I don't know. I met her on a plane from new york. Uh, she was so charming and you were so talkative So that's how she found out about me. Mr. X. I swear it all right Pagan. Let's get this straight Rooted looked you up in new york and made you a five thousand dollar bet You went to french qiana picked up gardener's papers Came back to new york and gave them to rooten But you held out one envelope math secret I only wanted to do my duty, mr. Yeah, you only wanted to soak him for more money later. Okay So rooten found out what you've done and turned on the heat You mailed the envelope here to monaco and grabbed a plane over How did rooten know you'd come here? I guess because he was the one who told me about the roulette system What was this system anyway? Oh, it's very simple mr. Thurston You go to table number seven in the casino and wait until 23 comes up on the wheel Then you play 13 three times And zero once Hello, oh sure barone rooten said I could make a million maybe maybe two million Why don't we go down and try it mr. X? That's exactly what i'm going to do good. I'll get my coat. What for? You're not going anywhere, but but but Don't leave the room Pagan See you later Better for you 100 francs on number 13 again. Thank you Monsieur has a fondness for number 13. Well, call it a hunt.  Oh, well, that's the way with hunches Uh, perhaps you miss you would like to try number 13 again No, no this time. I think I'll play um I'll play a zero Monsieur intends to play zero. That's right But monsieur no one wins on zero. I Very well, monsieur Ladies and gentlemen, this wheel is temporarily closed Your bets will be taken by any of the other tables And now monsieur you will come with me, please. Why not? This is one hunch that looks as though it may have a payoff Here I was sitting completely rejected all alone in this dirty little hotel room And then you come in Ah Jeanette, please mr. Zelschmidt. Why don't you call me pagan or better yet ducky Ducky. Well, why not? There's nobody here, but just us baby You're so right ducky Why don't we sit over here? Well, if you want to only wait till I get my purse purse What for I want to show you something in it Oh What's here on the dresser? Huh? Oh, it's nothing just a letter. I got at the post office this morning What are you gonna show me? I'm afraid you'll laugh at me. It's so silly See a billet ball But what's it for? Well, you see it's rather heavy So it sags in the bottom of the purse Then when I take hold of the top like this And swing it You see how simple it is Thanks a lot for the letter ducky About time they've been walking through half the town Uh one moment, please Oh, hello Pierre Mr. Thurston Inspector Mamquist Miss you played the correct list of numbers Correctly I don't know what you're talking about. I think I do That'll be all Pierre. Good night. Hey, but miss you I Huh Why don't we sit down inspector? There's uh Evidently some mistake here. I don't think so. It's an old trick among espionage agents Getting in touch with one another by applying a certain sequence of numbers at some designated roulette wheel. Now look here This one happened to be rigged up for Pagon Zelschmidt The idea had been to eliminate him after he'd done that job in french guiana And you'd forgotten to let Pierre know the deal was off. Are you implying that the men in my position Just what is the opposition inspector? I check with the Monaco police today. They've never heard of you You You have dr. Weverless papers. That's right All I need now is the brain behind this thing Somehow, I don't think that you are That unrooted fits the bill Well Any answer there Drive so fast Such a rough road. I don't see why you can't drive slow mr. Thurston Pagon, we may be too late now Nobody's going to steal that villa down in Nice and besides every time we hit a bump my stomach flies up and bruises my brain May knock some sense into it Unkindness I never get any sympathy. You don't have any coming after what you pulled off But mr. X. I didn't give her the letter. She took it away from me with brute force and a billet ball I'm talking about you stealing Wagon's papers. I didn't know what I was doing I was strictly non-composable. Tell the judge that And besides I thought it was only a bet. I didn't know what it was all about No, I don't think you did And that's the only thing that may save you. I knew you would fix it. Won't you mr. Thurston my very dear friend I don't know Pagon. That depends on the way things turn out When we get to Nice Can this car go any faster? You like some more coffee mr. Thurston another sandwich perhaps. No, thanks counter. Mr. Zershmit. I Don't mind if I do. They're very small Thank you This visit is really a most unexpected pleasure, mr. Thurston But I feel somehow that you have something to discuss which you have not mentioned As a matter of fact, I have counters Karen. I thought we might talk about the Wagon of formula for nuclear reaction Or haven't you had time to open the letter yet? What letter do you mean the one you took away from Jeanette when she came back here about an hour ago? You are very clever, monsieur How did you find out about me?  He would not dare talk. No, he didn't But when I mentioned his name to you in the casino last night, you verified that phony title of inspector Remember I hope you have made the mistake of killing Jeanette I had not yet decided what to do with her. She's locked in the third room down the hall Go get her Pagon whatever you say mr.   That was my mistake We could do much better Ken. Oh sure. Yes, we make a great team You don't seem to understand The person who controls the Wagon of formula controls the world Don't you realize what that means? I realize exactly what it means So I'm here I see Well, I suppose I may as well accept the fact that you won't change your mind And of course you're planning to break through that door From where you are sitting you can't stop me without shooting And I don't think you with mr. X.  She's got the formula you're both wrong, but she keeps a plane out there. She knows how to fly it She'll need to know more than that with a half dozen men of the French purity sitting out there waiting for her But and as for the papers one man's already died for I have them here You took them away from her. Pagon, I took them away from you. Huh? I've had that sealed envelope since this morning in the post office There was nothing in the letter you picked up but a folded newspaper Well, it was a very dirty trick to let me get wait a minute. Jeanette. She's another one. Mr. X grab her Nice idea. Pagon only is pretty rough treating for the daughter of a prominent French scientist You Dr. Wagoner How did you find out ken? I didn't I was guessing But there's a strong family resemblance and I couldn't see how you figured it in the other way Well, I've been a guest at the counters for several months That's how she found out about my father's formula Jeanette You knew who I was Why'd you keep on fighting me? You had a legal claim to the papers. Yes, but I didn't know whether you'd want to do the same thing with him that I do Oh, what's that destroy them. I know how my father felt during the last months of his life I had letters from him can't burn that envelope. Please don't even open it I'm afraid that's impossible. Jeanette I've already opened it. Oh, no, mr. Thurston. That was dishonest. Pagon. Don't tempt me Too late Oh, it's horrible. That depends Inside of this envelope is something that's already caused the death of one man And I've probably sent two others to prison I'd like to have a look at it here Mr. X There's nothing but ashes. That's right I think dr. Wagner knew we'd understand what he was doing Then He destroyed it himself You were plenty of reason to be proud of your father Jeanette He was a great man With death staring him in the face He deliberately wiped his name off the list of the world's immortals Because he felt it was best for his fellow human beings No small man could do that The secret will be found again someday by somebody else But before that happens, oh, if only we'll have the sense to grow up Stop gambling the future of the whole human race on the wheel Where every number is zero Virginia star Herbert Marshall Thanks for being with her Next week our story is called all the flippers And I think you'll enjoy it because it's packed full of excitement and mystery As usual, Leon Velasco will be along as Pagans Elschman. So join us. Won't you? When next I return as the man called X. Good night And called X is directed by Jack Johnstone the music composed and conducted by Johnny Green Tonight's story was written by Les Crutchfield And so until next week same time same station. This is Wendell Niles speaking for Frigidaire made only by general motors All characters and incidents used are fictitious Any resemblance to actual persons or incidents is purely coincidental Remember every thursday For the best in entertainment tune in and stay tuned in to cbs the biggest show in town This is cbs the Columbia broadcast


Tensions have spiked in West Asia after the US and UK launched strikes against Yemen. This is in response to drone attacks by Ansar Allah known as the Houthis on ships. The Houthis have been warning for a while that ships bound to and from Israel would be targeted as part of operations against the genocidal war against Palestinians. Now the question is what will be the impact of these strikes by the US and UK the first since 2016. We go to Abdul for details. Abdul, thank you so much for joining us. A dramatic escalation in West Asia and the Red Sea region, so could you maybe first take us through what the latest reports say, what exactly has happened? Well as per the statement issued by the American Central Command on their Twitter page, around 2.30 in the morning on 12th of January both US and UK forces carried out different kinds of strikes inside various locations in Yemen including capital Sanaa and Houthida port. As per the reports which is coming from the Houthis sources, there were airstrikes, there were missiles, then there were other means through which they were attacked and according to the Central Command statement, these attacks were coordinated with several other countries including Bahrain in the region where the Sankom headquarters are. So of course this attack though there is no report as yet about if there are any casualties or there are any military targets which were attacked apart from the fact that there are reports coming that there have been attacked carried out. There are reports coming that Joe Biden has basically confirmed that these attacks were carried out under his instructions and there are also reports coming that a large number of US congressmen have basically objected to these attacks pointing the fact that these were carried out without the approval from the congress which is as per the US law which is required. Nevertheless these attacks as per the Sankom statement these attacks were carried out in retaliation to the Houthis carrying out attacks in the Red Sea since October 17. Strangely they have claimed that these attacks are not linked to operation Prosperity Garchan which is basically a maritime alliance particularly made to counter the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea but that is a strange statement which basically said that there is no link. This should also be seen in the context of the on Wednesday there was a resolution passed by the United Nations Security Council without the consent of two permanent members which is Russia and China who had objected the drafting of the resolution which basically demanded the Houthis to seize their attacks in Red Sea and return one of the ships which they had captured earlier in I think in November. So in that context these attacks have been carried out. Abdul what does the situation look like for Yemen because we know that there has been some kind of a peace process after many many years of very brutal warfare. It was not a full-fledged peace of course or an agreement had not been signed but it's not wrong to say that maybe there was a bit of stability coming in and also allowing the possibility of aid to come in as well and now again the whole situation seems to be at risk. Exactly if you see the statement issued by Saudi Arabia which is considered to be a close military ally of the United States it has said that of course it supports the freedom of navigation but it does not support the attacks which were carried out in Yemen. This should be seen in the context as you rightly pointed out that after more than eight years of war in Yemen led by Saudi coalition there was some kind of stability and peace returning since last year when there was some kind of understanding of kind of undeclared ceasefire and peace negotiations between the Houthis and Saudi backed forces in Yemen also with the Saudis directly. So this of course has kind of which basically gave hope that Yemen which was destroyed due to the war which became as per the UN world's biggest humanitarian crisis in the last century this basically gave hope that there will be some kind of revival some kind of reconstruction some kind of restoration of peace and order in that country. But of course Houthis were also looking forward to it but due to the war in Gaza and due to the commitments which Houthis have claimed to the Palestinian issue of course they had to due to their ideological commitments due to their historical links and other factors of course they were basically in support of Palestinians in what is happening to the Palestinians in Gaza by the Israelis with the US support and that basically has been made an excuse by the US and UK to basically relaunch and strike and this will of course if this continues because Houthis have claimed that they will retaliate to this attack if this basically continues the way it is continuing the provocations caused by US it may lead to emergence of war there reemergence of war and destruction in Yemen and this will have a regional repercussion already because one should remember that what US did basically is basically violating its own statements which it was making since the beginning of war in Gaza that the war should not escalate it should not have regional angle and so on and so forth but this is the attack carried out on Friday basically is the most serious violation of the US dictates US own commitments of not letting the war spread out to the region and this will have of course very bad impact on the people in Yemen but the fact is that Yemenis are also not willing to back down at this moment given their commitments to the Palestinian cause. Thank you so much Abdel for that update. A survey by the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies has thrown up some interesting results the survey conducted in 16 countries with over 8000 respondents reveals widespread support for Palestinian resistance and severe unhappiness with the actions of the US and other western powers. The results are also a challenge to the governments of these countries which are sought to strike a balance between the sentiments of their people and the instructions and interests of the US. We go back to Abdel for more. Abdel welcome back interesting results from the survey and that were a time when the hearings are taking place against Israel in the International Court of Justice give us an outline of what are some of the major conclusions. Well some of them some of the conclusions are really interesting of course some of them some of those things we already can assume that most of the Arabs basically support the Palestinian cause in fact the service is around 90% of the respondents 92% of the respondents claim that the Palestinian cause is an Arab cause not only a cause basically of Palestinians this basically also it basically reverses the narration which was created in the last few years that the most of the Arab people moved away from Palestinian issue and they have much become much more centered to the local issues or the issues which related to their own states or the nations and that is one basic finding it says that also it says that more than 90% of the people believe or almost 90% of Arab people across the 16 Arab countries where this survey was conducted except for Syria and UAE two major countries apart from and Bahrain of course rest of the Arab countries most of the Arab countries were part of this survey it shows that around 90% of the population believes that what happened on October 7 Hamas and Arab Palestinian other Palestinian resistance groups carrying out attack inside Israel what they call Operation Al-Aqsa flood was a legitimate response a legitimate act against the decades of occupation Israeli occupation their criminal seas of Gaza and the day to day kind of attempts to humiliate Palestinians not only by attacking Al-Aqsa but also attacking their homes and their other fields and so on and so forth so that basically again busts myth that the most of the Arab world has basically bought the narrative that what Palestinians are doing is an act of terrorism so this also creates a kind of settles that particular debate into some extent one major finding of course is related to how most of the Arab people oppose to any kind of recognition of Israel and they're opposed to vehemently opposed to the normalization and particularly with Israel particularly this number of people opposed to normalization has increased many fold since the war in Gaza began because the Arab centers does an annual survey from 2011 onwards and it claims that this is the highest percentage of people saying that they are opposed to normalization with Israel than any year before for example in 2022 just to quote one example around 67% of the sorry 38% of the Saudis were opposed to any kind of normalization with Israel but in this latest survey around 68% people say that they are completely opposed to any kind of normalization overall figures have reached around 94% in some of the countries particularly Morocco and Egypt where there was kind of earlier there was a declining percent as a people opposed to normalization now there was a sudden jump and more than 94% 93% people in different countries have basically opposed any kind of normalization with Israel so these are some of the findings of course there are other interesting findings related to how most of the people in the Arab world see that basically that the Israeli attempts to kind of portray Palestinians as terrorists or US media in particular portraying them as terrorists as false narrative as biased narrative and does not buy to the bombardment of information which comes with their ideological agenda also quick question in terms of how do you think the governments in this region have been sort of responding to not only what is happening internally within their societies but also to the developments have they sort of you know managed to sort of address these concerns these very legitimate concerns are they still playing a kind of game in between where they are also adapting to what Israel and the US want it depends how we see it if we see the responses of Arab countries in isolation of course we will see that the amount of popular mobilization in the streets and the kind of sentiment which the surveys indicate shows that of course most of the governments have not responded to these concerns raised by the people but if we see it in the larger context we will see their behavior compare their behavior with what happened in the past few decades when most of these Arab countries have completely abandoned all Palestinian most of the Palestinian issues and they hardly responded to the repeated offensive Israeli offensive inside Gaza every year almost every year since 2005 they hardly responded by Israel on Gaza which led to massive deterioration of the living conditions for most of the 2 million Gazans more than 2 million Gazans their response of course has much but has been much more much more you can say positive in that sense if you see most of them have kind of completely rejected all claims Israeli right to self-defense made by US despite the pressures put by US Blinken has visited the region 4 times since October 7th they have basically supported all the calls for kind of genocide investigation for example Arab League has basically came out in support of the South Africa's case in the ICJ which is ongoing as we are speaking which given the fact that a large number of Arab countries are very close to US and still they are doing all these things we should see it in that context that because of the and this is this one needs to highlight because of the changing geopolitical scenario in the reason and the global politics because of the changing you can say move towards multilateralism the Arab countries have got some kind of space where they can now assert their independent foreign policy and that is the only thing which matters because there is a growing trend that most of the Arab countries are now seeing a space to kind of respond to their popular demands vis-a-vis Palestinians more positively Abdul thank you so much for that analysis that's all we have in today's episode we will be back with a fresh episode tomorrow in the meanwhile do visit our website peoplesdispatch.org and follow us on all the social media platforms


You could have a Pharrell size hat atop of these. Hello, welcome back to the Happy Hearts. I'm Neil and I'm sorry for the background noise right now. We're in a really heavy thunderstorm here over the Happy Hearts. We're so glad to come in from outside. I was going to do this in the garden, but today I am unboxing this. It's an unboxing and first impressions review of the Audio Technica ATH-M40X professional monitor headphones. Let me show you the other side of the box while I tell you why I'm unboxing this. My work has issued these to me, which is great because I do a lot of audio work at work, but usually I use these, my Urbaniz Platin2 gorgeous headphones. I love the base response on these and they are so comfortable. And I've got all my Urbaniz Platin2 videos in the description, but this is quite a big upgrade. And I got giddy with excitement. And when I got this in my hands, the first thing I wanted to do was to make an unboxing and first impressions video for you. But the second reason is that Phineas Eilish, Billy Eilish's producer brother, he made a video for GQ on the 10 things he can't live without. And I think it was around number five were these amazing headphones that he really raved about. Turns out those headphones are the Audio Technica ATH-M40X. I've got a camera up above. Hello, this is just gonna be a really quick video just to show you what you get in the box. I've wanted to open these for about three days. Oh, nice. And then in this triangular box, there's some leads and things. You get a really nice pouch case with Audio Technica embossed on it. And it's like a drawstring pouch, but we'll come to all of this in a moment because you want to see these. Oh, look at that. Oh, there's more stuff under there. Oh, there's a bag for each ear cup. Now, what I'm concerned about most is the weight and how these will feel when they are wearing it because these feel like nothing, but obviously I don't think these will have the audio quality of these. Let me show you the cups and the stitching. That's all nice, isn't it? And then as you can already see, the cups are completely flexible. You can turn them inside out, swivel them up down. The clicks, you can hear the clicks as they click into place or gone too far around. I've broken them. I've broken them already. Phineas, I've broken your headphones. Oh, right, so basically they flip this way and that's why I can't turn them around. It's like I'm using headphones for the first time, isn't it? So there's a huge Audio Technica logo. The Phineas, as I'm sure you've seen on other reviews, the materials are plastic, it's plastic-y. The advantage of that is they are lighter than they would be with other materials to put them on. Wow, and I can't hear anything in the room right now. I can't hear the rain that's hammering down on the roof. You can see it has ATH-M40X embossed on the side, but these extend. Let me pull them out the full way for you. Wow, that's huge. So you could probably get that on a very big bubble hat if you are DJing, playing some form of guitar. Obviously, they've got the Mickey Mouse kind of size there. You could have a Pharrell size hat atop of these. So I'll push them back in because my head is big, but not quite that big. And it very firmly, I think you can only wear them one way round. So this is the right and this is the left. Like that, if I wear them the other way round, I could do all the time with my open ears. It's the wrong way round, as you can see. So let's see what else is in the box because obviously they're not cordless. So back in the box, underneath this cup here, are lots and lots of leads. Right, this looks like the 3.5 millimeter jack, obviously, but if I hold it up to the camera, where you can probably see that underneath the jack there, it's like a locking mechanism set into the plug there. And there's a normal 3.5 millimeter jack with a thread there for an adapter. Let's check out the other leads. And this is the same kind of deal so that you have a 3.5 millimeter jack to connect to the headphones with that locking mechanism on the jack plug there. And then on the other side, we have the quarter inch jack width. It looks gold-plated adapter, so it goes to 3.5 mil. But the difference, as you can see, you don't need me to say this out loud. But I will anyway. It's a curly cord that expands. So I think I'll probably be using these because I'm always walking off and damaging equipment by not taking the headphones off. So that'll be really useful for when I go wandering. So excited about this. On the left-hand cup under here, hold it up. That is the port for this 3.5 mil jack. And I've got to put it in. And I've got to find the locking mechanism and then I can turn it and it clicks. So I've turned it clockwise. It clicks into place and that's now fixed. Let me read out the packaging while I show you the headphones from every angle possible. 40 millimeter drivers with rare earth magnets and copper-clad aluminum wire voice coils. 90 degrees swiveling air cups for easy one-ear monitoring. That's what the swiveling is for. Professional grade ear pad and headband material delivers more durability and comfort for professional studio tracking and mixing as well as DJ monitoring. And what I love about these already, I can see, you can wipe the headband clean, which I can't do with my other headphones. It's not an unpleasant, it's leather-like, but it's not pleather. It doesn't feel too plasticky. It does have a nice feel and there is a slight cushion underneath the headband there. So there is some comfort padding under there somehow. Let me put them on. I can't hear you. I can't hear anything. I mean, look, how do you review headphones on YouTube? This is just first impressions, but I'm going to listen to the music that I listen to all the time, which is the grandstand theme, 56-minute loop. I can't play too much of this music because I will get my coffee charite strike. So the first thing I can say is that they are incredibly comfortable. The ATH-M40X, they feel pretty good. On first impressions, the bass response is phenomenal. I can really hear the bass and the timpani of the grandstand theme. Yeah, I mean, obviously these are keepers. I'm not sure what else I can tell you. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments. So the first thing I can say is that the ATH-M40X are incredibly comfortable. The padding is just right. My ears are completely enclosed and the sound. I don't know how to describe this to you, but to me, the bass response is phenomenal. I can really hear the low notes of the grandstand theme there. I better not play too much of it because I don't want to get a copyright strike. It sounds really rich for obviously something you would expect of headphones of this price range. By the way, you can buy the Audio Technica ATH-M40X using the links in the description below. If you do that, you help me out. So thank you. And right here are some other things that I've been doing on YouTube. Thanks for coming in. I hope this helps. Can you please help my daddy get 10,000 subscribers? Just click in his face. Thanks, bye. All right, this is gonna be the proper one, right?


With clear skies and time to make up Marco Martin has been this morning's hard charger Bringing back a large overnight deficit to be within seven seconds of the leader Regan Ross who gave him a little bit of help Yeah, he had a spin and lost a bit of time So which was kind of good to see because we lost a bit of time yesterday with different Issues so now we got a little bit closer again. So let's see now two long stays to go it will be quite tough Whilst losing time on special stage eight with the spin issue Ross was also back on the spanners to help his crew with some repairs during service Just a little bit of a gearbox change in the minimal amount of time, but yeah, just lost fourth gear in the Waipori stage So we're just a bit of panic stations I quite a good gearbox to change but you need a few people to help yesterday thing But yeah, we'll seem to be all over it now Derek Aisin lost his podium position after he clipped a corner and broke a ball joint He will however remain in the rally. That's it. We're out. Why this first stage We're having a bit of a push and just clipped the inside of a corner It hadn't even noted it as stonk cut, but it was just a clayy bank Just grabbed the wheel and sort of tore it around so broke a bottom steering arm and So that now moves the chasing RX-7s of Marcus van Klink and John Silcock into third and fourth Respectively yet for van Klink It was nearly all over but a hastily replaced clutch cylinder has seen him stay on track for a podium finish We're there if they drop off the road basically, but they've got a few issues with this clutch So we'll push it out of control now and hopefully get you on time You know that the classic is big when veteran driver Shane Merlund has a number nine on the door Rather than a lower number he might normally expect Yeah, I'm getting older too, so they're taking a bit of pity on me now I mean last time we were here we had to be right up and completely destroyed the car and that was our first time on notes so So you can imagine this time round I'm a little bit dubious on what I'm hearing and and my my career hasn't been on All unfamiliar Special stage 11 is the longest of the rally and it was here that Ross surrendered his lead to Martin after more mechanical woes This time it was a clutch master cylinder This stage was also the undoing of Marcus van Klink He went off the road after the first 600 meters gifting third place to John Silcock Now there are only three stages remaining for the event 53 kilometers of gravel to see if Regan Ross can somehow claw his way back or if Marco Martin can make it two in a row