Welcome anyone who's watching to the first interview that I've done for the FEMS conference. And I think it's indeed the first interview of the whole conference. I'm joined by Professor Eliora Ron, who is a professor at Tel Aviv University in Israel, also president of the IUMS and secretary general of the European Academy of Microbiology. Thanks for joining us for a nice interview. So yeah, my first question to you is a question I've asked many scientists, because I think it gets a nice bit of background about their love of microbes. So what is your favorite microbe and why? Well, that's very easy. My favorite microbes are pathogenic strains of E. coli. You know, E. coli is a very common bug. It's usually in our intestine. It's a nice friendly bug. But some strains of this family can cause infections and they cause infections out of the intestinal tract, like urinary tract infections. And I'm very interested in them because they are now an important clinical problem. They are in the hospitals and they cause hospitals and institutions associated infections. And they are antibiotic resistant. So they are a real clinical problem and very interesting. Now I'm a geneticist, so these bugs are very good to do genetics with. So I can work on interesting bugs that I can do genetics on. And that's wonderful. And so with the sort of antibiotic resistant E. coli, what's the mechanism it has being antibiotic resistant? So I know there are many different kinds of resistant mechanisms. But what's the particular one this one uses to... Well, you know, this family is E. coli. They're also called X-bex, which is extra intestinal pathogenic E. coli. They have a real, very broad repertoire of resistance mechanisms. Some of them are the worst because they have enzymes which degrade the antibiotics. And that means that not only they can survive, but everybody else in this whole site can survive. And they just destroy the antibiotics. Okay, so you know, that mechanism means that the resistance will actually be a factor that, yeah. The whole community of microbes can make use of. So even if they're not that vicious, but they're in the intestine or in the UTI or you're going to attract or anywhere there is another bug. Which is much more virulent. This other bug will also survive because the E. coli will degrade the antibiotics for it. So it's a very interesting mechanism. Also the genes that code for these enzymes are on plasmids and on plasmids that can go from one bug to another by conjugation. So in a few hours, you have a whole community of bacteria, which are now antibiotic resistance. So this horizontal gene transfer can spread amongst the whole community. And is the enzyme a beta-lactamase or do they have several different enzymes? They have several beta-lactamases. Actually, they have all the kinds of beta-lactamases are present in strains of E. coli. They're also resistant to fluoroquinolones, since some of them are resistant to everything. Okay, so I guess, you know, with this conference is hopefully a huge range of scientists, but there's going to be hopefully many young scientists. I guess it might be their first conference. And I wanted to ask, you know, what advice would you have as someone who's at the more senior end of their career for people just starting out in science, who perhaps are at their first conference with their first poster? What is the best piece of advice you could give them looking back on your career? Well, I think that the best advice is to listen carefully, whatever you can, even if it's not in your very direct field of interest, and don't be shy. Just if you have a question, just ask it. Young scientists are often very shy. They think, okay, if I don't understand it, then maybe it's my problem. But the truth is that if you have a question, then something is not clear, and it's probably not clear to everyone, not only to you. And just ask the question and try to get an answer. And as scientists, I think that the most important thing you can do is try to think differently. Try to think out of the box, not the way everybody else thinks, because this way you can really achieve no discoveries and important information. So I guess have confidence in the fact that there's a question that you have, and ask it is the kind of thing. For me, this is also certainly my first online conference. Is this your first online conference? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, so I mean, we're just beginning to see how this is going to work. But do you have any feel at the moment for what could be the pros and the cons of this format? Well, I see many comments. It's quite artificial to speak through the video, through the camera. You don't see the person. When you give a talk, you don't see the face. And it's very important to see the face of the people who are listening, because then you can understand if they follow, if they don't follow. What's clear? What's not clear? What's interesting? What's boring? You'll see them sleeping in the back. Okay. I have to do something about it. You can raise your voice and maybe move your arm a bit. Wake them up, tell a joke. This way, it's very sort of artificial in a way. And very remote. The only pro that I can see is that this is the only solution that we can have any contact with each other. Although we can't do real networking, real good discussions, but at least we can hear about other people's experiments. We couldn't do it otherwise. And I guess the thing is that with all of this, it's the bit rate of data that we're able to transfer to each other is just a lot smaller in these situations. There's a smaller piece of the world that we're looking at that we can actually exchange information through. But I guess one of the pros just to hopefully put a silver lining is that maybe more people will be able to access a conference like this online. People who can't afford to travel, can't afford to stay in a different country for several days. So we maybe will be able to bring perhaps more researchers into a conference. But in that case, I think there can be a solution in which you have a real conference and an online recording or whatever so that people can listen. And I would even say that for the people who would see it in the video, it maybe should be very cheap or even free. So to treat everyone, you know, a student, a student that has very little resources and is sitting, I don't know where in the world should be able to listen to it without paying. So hopefully this year we can get really good online conferences and then when we go back to real life conferences we can maybe push the two formats together and then get the best of both. Well, I mean, at the moment we're stuck with this format. So let's take a trip into memory lane and imagine a time before there was COVID-19. What got you excited by microbiology as a child? So you spent your whole career as a microbiologist. Are there any key moments when you were young that really excited your interest? Well, not at all. I did not intend to be a microbiologist at all. I was really interested in genetics. I love genetics. I love to understand genes. And at some point when I was starting, I realized that the way that I can really understand genes is by using bacteria because it's impossible to do experiments on humans. I don't like to work with animals. So bacteria, I can really do things. And because, I mean, they're huge populations and you can really work with them. You can get the DNA. You can get the RNA. You can get the genes. You can transfer the genes from one bacterium to another without having to have a health and care profile. We can do all those things freely and really understand what's happening at the genetic molecular level. I mean, they are fascinating in terms of organisms to use in a lab. And like you say, you don't have to talk to mice. You can just use billions of cells and many, many generations. So for genetics, I'm sure it's super useful. Have you strayed outside of bacteria to other microbes, perhaps used any yeast or even protests for genetical work? Have you stayed with bacteria? Well, I prefer bacteria. I mean, yeast is okay. It's a possibility for me, of course. But bacteria are simpler because they are haploids. So you don't have dominant recessive. They're easier. They're easier to work with. Yeast for me is fine. You know, I'm working on bacteria because I found bacteria which are very interesting. But yeast would be okay. If I... I mean, the eukaryotes, the easiest eukaryotes to work with, I think, and they're just fine. I could do that easily. Are you still researching, by the way, actively? Oh, yes, I am. Do you still have access to your labs? Yeah. I am very much so. I am. And do you plan to do so without retiring ever? I mean, I know so many scientists just, they never want to stop. Are you one of these? I certainly don't want to stop. Excellent. I would go on as long as university lets me. And my university so far, they were very good at body. I think that as long as I can, I would like to continue. But I guess that one day I will have to stop for one reason or another. But anyway, yes, now I'm still doing research. And I love to teach young people when there's a big gap that the young people can't feel by themselves between what was known before and what is known now. And the young people really like to learn. At least for me, I can say that I have many young people who are just eager to know things that they can't get in the textbook. And we sit for hours and they just like to hear the stories behind the papers and everything. Yeah, I guess the textbook will have the information, the knowledge, but it won't tell you how the knowledge was produced always. You won't see that tale of humans or different disagreements between scientists. And that's so important to see how it works, I guess. Okay, so I'm bringing us back to the present moment. We're all hunkered down in our working from home environments to cope with the ongoing pandemic. And I wanted to ask, how are you coping firstly and what's the most important impact or changes had on your life over the past few months? Well, my life has completely changed. I mean, I don't meet people, I meet very few people. I don't go to Congresses. My personal life has changed completely. I don't go to concerts, I don't go to theater. No culture at all. I don't go to museums, no culture. I spend much more time just thinking and working by myself, which is good, it has advantages. But still, I think it's very, it's fertiliser to talk to other people. And just discuss things with other people. It's very important.  I do that, but not as much as, you know, sitting with a group of people for coffee every day. It's not the same. And I find that I can maintain my relationships with people over Zoom, but it's really difficult to make new connections. You know, because that chance meeting and an elevate, all this kind of stuff is what you need to make new friends and new contacts. And that's so hard to replace. So I can, you know, arrange good Zoom meetings with people I already know, but yeah, it's the new contacts which I think are hard to replace. And the meetings are also formal. When you arrange it, you arrange it with someone and you say what you're going to talk about.  Now it's all very focused. I want to talk to you about this and this and this. Let us have a Zoom meeting. Yeah, okay. It's definitely a different way of doing things. This is the beginning of at least an international conference of scientists where hopefully some information exchange can happen.  How important is the international nature of science, do you think, to its effectiveness and its success? Oh, I think it's very important. I really think it's very important because you can get so much more out of what you know when you discuss it with other people and especially with people who come from different backgrounds and different places, different mentalities even. So I find international connections extremely important in science. I like with the European, with the funding, the European Community Funding. When you have a consortium of people, it's fantastic. It's just fantastic. You get so much more out of it than working by yourself or with a colleague who's sitting next door. So I really think that this is a very important part of science. You know, obviously the last few months have been very difficult for the scientific community. How have you felt people have responded to this ongoing pandemic and what can we do better? What do we have to start doing better the longer the situation goes on? Well, I think the main problem is that this whole thing, pandemic is dealt with by politicians and they don't really listen enough I think to scientists. Maybe they consult medical doctors probably not enough and I think the scientists are almost out of it at least in my country. The scientists are out of it. Medical doctors are consulted but the politicians make the decisions according to parameters which are different from what we would use for handling the situation. I'm not sure it's possible to change this because the people who make the decisions they have a different agenda. So I think there's not very much we can do to have a better impact. I'm quite pessimistic on that. You think that we could maybe present evidence in a way that would be easier for politicians to understand or for them to use? I don't know because everything has economic fallout. So I think that we can do very little here. Maybe we'll have to catch up in six months and see if your pessimism is correct. I hope so. This is obviously been the year of COVID-19 but ticking away in the background is obviously antimicrobial resistance as a problem. This could be an even bigger problem in the long term. Are we doing enough to prevent it and what does the scientific community need to do to convince policy makers to do? It is a difficult problem. The most difficult part is that today one can say, OK, develop no antibiotics. That's a good possibility. But our companies are not interested in that. If you can see how you antimicrobial new drugs were put in the market, it's amazing. It's very clear why they are not interested because if they have a very good anti-bacterial medicine, the person takes it for three days, four days, and finished. So they put billions to register the drugs and the anti-bionics or whatever it is. And a few days and it's finished. If they develop for the same sum of money something against high blood pressure or cholesterol or Alzheimer or whatever, people will take it for years and years and years and years every day. So they make much more money on those drugs than they do on antimicrobials. And there's very little research on antimicrobials because of that. The companies are not willing to invest in that. I think that that has to be taken up by governments because governments have the resources to do these sort of things. So I think that an obvious thing to do is to develop no antibiotics. For that you also need a lot of basic research to understand the pathogens because the pathogens are like the ones who are working with other pathogens that cause the problems in hospitals. There's very many of them. Many kinds of them. So you can't make a vaccine. It's not like tetanus. You make a vaccine covers everything. No. Or COVID. You will have a vaccine, you will cover everything. It's not the same with bacteria. The vaccines are much more complicated and you have to understand the pathogenesis in order to come up with something that will be effective against a variety of bacteria. We need more money for research here. We need more basic research. Absolutely. The government to step in where the marketplace has failed because we can't expect private companies to make money off it in a way that will convince them to do it. And one thing which is very important I think that I would really like to note. We need a lot of research for rapid diagnosis because what happens today is that somebody goes into the hospital with a bacterial infection, a severe bacterial infection and it takes two days usually to understand which bug is causing the infection and what it is resistant to. And in these two days, often got the wrong medicine. Often, not always, but often got the wrong medicine. So it was ineffective and many times by the time the person gets there or they know what to give the person, the person has already gone to the better world or has infected a lot of people in the hospital. There should be more stress on rapid diagnosis. The person should come in with an infection, a bacterial infection, like a urinary tract infection. The person should be able to get the result within three or four hours before they start the treatment. Better diagnostics, public sector development of antimicrobials and more basic research. I would also say rapid diagnosis in the community before the person gets to the hospital because for some of those diseases, the urinary tract infection can develop into sepsis, a septicemia and the person really passes away in less than a day. So it should be also in the clinic some ways to examine and to know which bacteria they are or at least what they are resistant to. Okay, just as we're approaching the end of the interview, I've got one more question for you to kind of end things on a bit more of a collaborative note. So I just wanted to note that this year, PHEMS and the European Academy of Cropology, of which I think you're the general secretary, have joined forces to launch a new open access journal, MicroLife. What's your message to any potential authors and what would you like to say about the journal? Well, I think that this is a very important development, a very positive development. As of now, we don't have a good high impact factor microbiology journal in Europe. And I think we should have. I think that our scientists should be able to publish in a European journal. I mean, we can publish anywhere, of course, but that would be very important to have a good, very good high impact factor microbiology journal in Europe. And I think that will benefit microbiology in Europe, of course, but also worldwide, because it's really a necessity today. So I am very optimistic about the impact that this journal will have. And I hope that the microbiological community in Europe will contribute their best papers to this journal because this is important. If we can make it, that's the way. Our best journals, our best papers to this journal. And I just want to add, as a society journal, obviously any proceeds from the journal we will put back into the community with events and grants and sponsorship and so on. So I think it's a great journal for authors to get behind. And also, maybe if it's a very good European journal, maybe even newspapers, the media, policymakers will get to see some of the information from this paper. It can go through the FEMS website or other ways. So I think it may even be a way to spread our messages to the whole community. And then this can be papers on any aspect of microbiology. It's a fully broad journal with regards to topic and content. All aspects, yes. Which is important. Wonderful. Well, we're just coming up to the end of the hour. And we've got through all of my questions. So well done for giving precise and brief answers. I want to thank you for joining us at the first session, first interview of the conference. We've obviously got four more days to go. I hope it's great fun and I hope everyone enjoys it. I look forward to your sessions later. Yes, thank you. You too. Good luck with the sessions. It's wonderful that we at least have this one even by Zoom. But it's good. Absolutely. No worries. Thank you very much. Bye-bye.


وَمُصَنَّيْنَا عَسِيْرَمْ حَدَيْمُ عَلَىٰا أَلِيْهُ يُصْحَمُ يُصْحِيْرِ الْحَدَةِ رَّبِيَ الْعَنِينِ وَصَلَاتُ وَسِّسْلَامُ عَلَىٰا أِزْيْرِنَا وْمُولَانًا مُحمدِ يُمْ عَلِىٰا أَلِيْهِ وَصُحْبِ وتَسْنَمْ الله أمنون علينا بصفاء المعرفة وهبذنا تزحيح المعاملて فيما بيننا وبينك على الكتاب وسنة وَلَزُقْنَا سِدْكَ تُوَكُلِ عَلَيْكُ وَحَسْنَا ضَمِّبِكُ وَمْنُنَا عَلَيْنَا بِكُدِي مَا يُقَبْرِبُنَا إِلَيْكُ مَا كُلُونَا بِعَوَافِ الدَّارَينِيَا أَرْحَمُ الْرَاحْمِيمِ أُبرَيز is due to Allah who has revealed Himself to mankind in a plethora of exquisite names despite the unicity of His pristine essence in everything He has assigned that indicates that He is the One. سرين blessings of peace and security upon our beloved Muhammad the best and most beloved to Allah of His creation and Allah knows best where to place His message. He is Allah's gift of mercy to the world and the stellar example of humanity. بارلي in the messenger of Allah you have a good example for those who hope in Allah Our Allah bestow upon us the purity of knowing and give us the rectification of the business between us and you in accordance with the book and the sunnah sustain us with honesty in our reliance upon you and with good opinion in your regard bestow upon us everything that will draw us nearer to yourself joined with good health in the two houses of this life and the next so we're still in the chapter of mujahada spiritual struggle spiritual effort أضع في العمل to get closer to Allah سبحانه وتعالى they say that a person doesn't complete the path until they have experienced being drawn to Allah magnetically like being pulled in the direction of Allah سبحانه وتعالى I mean it comes easy for you wake up in pleasure with Allah right you feel like you want to pray to feel like you want to fast all day okay this is perhaps a certain phase of a person's life but there will also have to be a phase if a person is going to be complete in their understanding of the way to Allah سبحانه وتعالى there has to be a time when it doesn't come that easy right when the nefs is heavy when the nefs is slow when you have to actually drag yourself push yourself convince yourself maybe outsmart your own ego right in order to do things that will bring health to your heart and here's the mujahada mujahada is the work disciplining the soul disciplining the ego holding oneself to those things that are not necessary pleasant doing what needs to be done struggling to get to Allah سبحانه وتعالى some of the أحديث that إمام النوة we will bring in this chapter الله يرحمه are about what mujahada is and some of them are encouraging you to or us to put in some mujahada put in some work in getting to Allah سبحانه وتعالى so again we'll do the senate again this week so so we're narrating the رياضة صادحين first from Dr. نور دين عيتف حفظة الله who narrates from the محدث عبد الله سراج الدين و also narrate it from الشيخ الدكتور محمد مطيع الحافظ حفظة الله who narrates from محمد أب الخير المداني عن عبد الله السكري عن عبد الرحمن الكزببي the grand son الحفيد عن مصدفة الرحمة عن الشيخ الشيخ الفقين عبد الظني النابوس عن النجم محمد الغزي عن والبه البدر الغزي عن شيخ الإسلام زكريا الانصاري رحمة الله عليه و رضي الله و عنه عن الحافظ الشيخ أحمد ابني حجق عن أبي إسحاق ابني إبراهيم التنوخي عن على الدين علي ابن العطا عن الإمام المحدث الفقين يحيا ابن شرف النووي who narrates with his chain are you you the Sahabi عبد الله ابني مسعود in the ninth hadith of the chapter and the 103rd hadith that we've read so far and we have a Salah so the Legislative so it وعد ميداً حول عشان الله وانه도 صدقاً. وقاءام السياسة جداً. حتى أمّاً عمليًا قد أمر. حتى أخذت المفيد أكثر بها بال Hannibal. فهي يُواجبه! ووالكامل يُواجبه أيضًا. أو يخبرون فيداً أيضًا نفس الختوج قلت ماذا ستفعل؟ قلت ماذا ستفعل؟ قلت ماذا ستفعل؟ لأنه يستمر لن يستطيع أن أحاوله سبحان الله حتى عبد الله إبن المسعود يجب أن يفعل مجاهده مع رسول الله سبحان الله وعليه وسلم ويضعه في العمل ويضعه في الوقت يجب أن يساعدك في المصطفة يجب أن يساعدك في العمل ويضعه في الوقت هذا سيساعدك قليلا سبحان الله ويجب أن يجب أن نرى سيد محمد العالم سبحان الله ويجب أن نرى all your worries go away ونرزقنا في المتن حديث عن رسول الله وعليه وسلم عن رسول الله وعليه وسلم who said يتبع المئة ثلاثة ثلاثة سيتبع المئة الثلاثة هذا يتبعه إلى رسول الله أهله وماله وعمل أو إلى الثلاثة أيضا يارجيره إثناني ويبقى واحد لذا ثلاثة سيتبعه his family his wealth and his works and two will go back and one is going to stay behind يارجيره أهله وماله ويبقى عمله his family and everything he had is going to go back where it came from after they dropped him off right at the bus stop to the akhirة and one thing is going to stay behind and that's his works so this is an encouragement for us to get busy and try to get some good works in try to do some good things just for Allah سبحانه وتعالى it's an investment in your retirement fund right someone wants to have like a cushy retirement well here it is because the works that you do sincerity for Allah سبحانه وتعالى and not for anyone else or anything else but because it's the right thing to do because it's a good thing to do and not ruining those actions by bringing wrong intentions in or doing it in a way that's not going to be accepted by Allah سبحانه وتعالى or doing it in a way that's going to bring harm to other people because we can ruin our good efforts we go to all this effort we do all of these things too bring something good to the community bring something good to the world or the neighborhood or people in our lives and then we ruin it by either not understanding how to do it right or hurting someone's feelings in the process making someone feel small in the process having intentions to show off or for recognition that's not going to be there for you when you get into the grave and that's one place we're going to get into and it can be you can have some good square footage in there or it could be tight so if you didn't like the place that you lived in in the dunya you could have like a bigger spot in the بارزخ if you like and it could be comfortable because when we do these good actions that are wholesome and good in and of themselves they are a comfort they're more anus for us in the grave you know and this is just smart this is why the believer is كيسون فتن intelligent and perspicacious and not a bag of كوتن and God inspire us and give us some sada some right and correct in the things that we choose to do the 11th حديث also from عبد الله إبني مسعود he said that the prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام said الجنة أقرب إذا أحبكم من شراك نعليه I'll know this one paradise is closer to one of you than the strap of his own shoe or a shoelace right which is pretty close جنة is that close it's that close because life is short or it's that close because you don't know when you're going to die حالا we make it home safely tonight and we live to make some وجهده for another day make an effort for another day it's that close but then it goes on to say before we get too excited وَنَا رُمِفْ بَدَادِكَ and the fire is just like that between the two and that's where your life is ultimately in the greater scheme of life you're between those two things so don't lose sight of that on the Thursday night class last week we brought a narration from إبني حجر الأسفلاني in which جريرو says to the prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام يا محمد live right as much as you want as long as you want but you're going to die right and know that you're going to die and be friend whoever you want but know that you're going to leave them you know so that's also what we're being told here you're between these two so make sure that you keep that ultimate end in mind the Muslim may do a good job of enjoying life right the Muslim may have a great time and do all types of interesting and exciting things masha'Allah but the believer knows that there's an ultimate there are ultimate ends that have to be accounted for it doesn't lose sight of them it doesn't throw themselves into the life of the dunya to the extent where they become and forgetful of what forgetful of Allah forgetful of the ultimate scheme of the universe but more importantly forgetful of themselves because if you forget yourself all of those other things are not going to come to pass because who are you harming at the end of the day at the end of the day you harm yourself and at the end of the day it's you standing and you can't get rid of yourself there's no way in the ultimate scheme of the universe and not in beyond the universe right because our reality goes beyond the known universe curve space and all of these different types of new ideas about quantum physics and so on look curve space actually only supports the muslim perception of reality right because what they're trying to say is that the universe is finite and that's a problem for believers maybe believers of western religions right because we all assume that the universe is finite it's not a problem for us if the universe is not infinite we never thought it was right so that doesn't ruin our sort of world view of faith the ultimate scheme of the universe you can't get rid of yourself you could disappear yourself vis a vis other people around you the community around you your family the people who know you but in the ultimate scheme of things you're right i might say that even if a person had themselves chopped up into little pieces and thrown into the four corners huh are the four wins as it were Allah will still put them all back together and stand them straight up on the day of judgment we return to Allah and we stand there so we don't lose sight of that that's what it means to be smart and that's what it means to be intelligent any other type of intelligence is less than that it's not at that level that is ultimate intelligence so you return back to yourself you return back to yourself and you have to get that straight what do they say in western medicine or classical medieval medicine or ancient medicine physician heal that self it's not a lot we can do for others right if we can't first get ourselves straight for all helpers all that hope is to get ourselves straight the twelfth حديث from was a servant of رسول الله عليه وسلم and among the people of the صفة أبو فيروس so he lived he had no home he was right one of the homeless of Medina and they camped out in a special spot in the masjid and ربيع used to spend his time serving رسول الله عليه وسلم he said كنت أبيت مع رسول الله عليه وسلم and another a narration from ربيع he said I would sleep on his doorstep and I could hear him in the middle of the night saying سبحان ربي العادة right and so on I'm reciting so one night so what do what's the difference so you will do and what do anybody know we know what we'll do is it's how to make the ritual ablution but what do with the فتحة on the wow is the water that will be used in the ablution so I would bring him the water for his ablution or any other needs that he had and he said to me right one night 70 ask me ربيع knew exactly what was going on here imagine if رسول الله عليه وسلم was in the interns to him says all right ask me anything you want so what's on your mind ربيع so I said أسألك مرافقة فتحة قاعدت في الجنة I ask you for your companionship in the jannah سبحانه وتعالى he said أول غير ردارك nothing else right not a tesla right not a summer home huh in the hamptons right he said just that huh he said who it back right that's all ربيع understands homeless understands the ultimate scheme in the universe Steve and hockey doesn't even understand this homeless and he understands where the priorities are you can't judge a person by their current situation because you don't know يعني أشقكت عن قلبه زي اول رسول الله لأخر صحاب he said oh رسول الله huh he just said أشعر والله إله إلا الله واشعر والله محمد رسول الله because he was afraid of the edge of my sword he said did you break open his heart and look inside ذا والله you don't know what's in a person's heart and you don't know who a person is only Allah knows who a person is and how many amazing incredible people that history would come to know and what period of life did they go through where they were مظمورين they were hidden to the people around them but Allah and who they were and Allah and who they would become no one knows right that's not something for us to worry about though because all we need to do is to be معروفين and to Allah we need to be known to Allah that's all we need but when it comes to judging others we have to be very very careful there was a man I believe that he was in Thales but he was originally from سقلية where's سقلية anybody Sicily he was someone who was very poor uninteresting to anyone went about his business no one knew anything bad about him and no one knew anything good about him and he died at the end of his life that's usually when you die right he died and they buried him and did all of this and they recovered what was left in his apartments right and they found these treatises that he'd been writing he was an Adam from the ألماء and he wrote some of the most insightful poems didactic poems in the knowledge of Islam and it was only after he was gone that they discovered who he was مباحة الأصلية is originally written by إبنو البن أسقلية and how many great scholars have written commentaries on the مباحة الأصلية who are them that's what I want and so the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم says to ربيعه فأعيني على نفسك بكثرة it's sujood okay but just help me with yourself by making a lot of sujood here's what you want and I'm gonna do my best to make it happen but just help me out and be a person who makes a lot of sujood for ربيعه it was sujood and this advice will come in the next حديث from ثوبان also رضي الله وعينه sujood is one way of serving الله سبحانه وتعالى in a very important way and that's probably the target that you want to hit but have some secret between you and Allah have some private goodness good deed or عبادة that you do that nobody knows about but Allah سبحانه وتعالى knows about to make it special for Allah سبحانه وتعالى right if you want to get pulled along the path right that's a really good one who knows what that is you know one person gave water to a thirsty dog once and popped right into jannah for that so you don't know what's big and what's small in the eyes of Allah سبحانه وتعالى because we're not the judge and jury on the day of judgment maybe your maybe your maybe your your small small secret between you and Allah is that you'll never drop anything or leave any debris or anything like that in the masjid or that if you see some debris in the masjid you'll pick it up and that's the way you are for your entire life or that you'll never throw any trash on Allah's earth عباد الرحمن الذين يمشون على الأرض هنا who knows what it is or maybe it's that you have a secret تهجول or you have some type of many of the scholars you'll hear about them in the history of Islam that they would sneak out of their house in the middle of the night so that no one in the house would know what they do and they would go to a place like maybe I've read in some places a broken down building right that's just full of dirt and sand and debris and say this is where my soul actually belongs and pray ركعات there to Allah سبحانه وتعالى you know or some spot where you make كثرة to sujud in the earth where no one's made sujud before سبحان الله but have some type of secret between you and Allah سبحانه وتعالى then be part of the umma of Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم because he said he's going to look out for his people right so be one of his people by being like him not dressing like him not gesturing like him not talking a great deal but the most important شميلة or شمائيل of the prophet عليه السلام or the شمائيل of his heart how he was internally that's what counts that's what's important don't get caught up with the دوار here because Allah سبحانه وتعالى says he's not concerned with the دوار here with the alpha and at the end of the day it's Allah's judgment that is important to us and that is the greatest king of the universe سبحانه وتعالى that's some serious like quantum physics going on here too oh no I shouldn't get a job at MIT شمائيل in the 13th حديث from Thawban also servants of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم سمعت رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم يقول عليك بكثرة السجود فإنك ذاً تسجل لله سجدة إلا رثاك الله وبها الدرجة you're advised to make much prostration meaning many ركعات or if you have a chance to make سجدة of تلاوة while reciting the Qur'an or سجدة to شكر right there are the reasons to make سجود and كثرة to سجود though right is many ركعات فإنك ذاً تسجل you do not prostrate to Allah سبحانه وتعالى that in a prostration except that He raises you in a station وحط عنك بها خطيئة and drops from you a fault or a misdeq or a mistake or a sin and so on and I know I could use that سبحانه وتعالى number 14 from أبي صفوان عبد الله هبني بسرين الأسلامي رضي الله عنه that رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم سيد خير الناس من طالع عمره وحسنا عمله the best of people so who's the best of people who's the best one well رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم is going to tell us who the best of people is right the best of people are the ones who have a long life a long life and good actions that's the best of people so long as the good actions are going on if they're going to stop at any point it's probably better for life to stop at that point too right so so long as you've got good actions going on in your life however long it's going to be right to the end of the week in شاء الله شاء الله we make it to the end of the week and have some good actions there that's the best of people خير الناس and that's the معيار the criterion of رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم for business 730 we start did it at 7 okay so we'll continue on with حديث number 50 إن شاء الله عن أناسين رضي الله عنه قاد غادة عمي أناس سبنه ماذر رضي الله عنه عن قتالي بجرن فقال يا رسول الله رضي الله عنه أول قتالي قاد تلت المشركين so أناس says that his uncle also named أناس إبني أناس was not present at the battle of better he was absent at the battle of better and he said to the messenger عليه الصلاة والسلام I was absent in the first time you ever fought the idolaters and if الله gave me to the ability to be there for another fight against the idolaters idolaters I would show Allah exactly what I would do so now أناس إبني ماذر is ready to show improve as it were and when the day of أهد came the battle of أهد the muslims in كشفة what does that mean the battle lines of the muslims was became vulnerable okay either there was a gap where the enemy could come through maybe come straight to the heart of the muslim command صلى الله عليه وسلم سيد محمد which is actually what happened أدوحة is famous for that in كشاف السفوف right maybe it weakens or something like this the lines of battle but here they left themselves open at a particular moment فقالة and he said الله so the point is is that maybe some of the muslims soldiers were not where they needed to be at the battle of أهد so أناس إبني نظر he says Oh Allah I ask you to forgive me for what those people have done وَأَبْرَ أُولَيْكَ مِنْ مَا صَنَعَ هَا أُولَى and I am innocent from what they've what they have done meaning the idolaters and then he went forward clearly all by himself and he was stopped by and he said سعد he was confronted by the head of the answer and he said الجنة ورب الكعبتي من دوني أهد so he's coming and the leader of the answer is right there and he's going to go forward and he's going to fill he's going to fill this gap and confront the enemy as he's going through the head of the answer is right there the leader and he says I smell the fragrance of جنة from the direction of أهد and said فما استطعت يا رسول الله ما صنع I was not able to do what Anas did فقار أنس أنسون so and then we found him with more than 80 رونس from swords or places of being stabbed with a spear or hit with an arrow فوجدنا هو قد قتلة ومثل فيه المشريكون and we found him he had been killed and also mutilated by the idolaters and no one could identify his body except his sister who knew his fingertips سبحان الله that's some serious effort some serious مجاهده يا ربي الله أنسون and thereafter we thought that this verse was revealed for the sake of أنس في نظر من المؤمنين رجالون صدقوا معاهد الله علي from among the believers are men who were honest about what they promised to Allah سبحانه وتعالى he said if Allah lets me join in the fight against the idolaters I will show him what I've got and he was صادق and he did exactly what he said he was going to do and he followed through in a way in which there is no doubt the idolaters represented what torturing innocent people preventing people from having a spiritual relationship with their creator taking usury from people doing evil in society and what is this evil torturing people taking usury from people beating slaves and doing all of these types of things right their program was in a system that would eventually get rid of slavery all of these awful things is what they represented and that was the نظام or the system that they were trying to bring to there and where loss of life is occurring and you have a political authority sufficient force should be used to justify the use of sufficient force because there's no you can't justify the use of sufficient force without a proper political authority in place unless you're defending your own home I'll tell you then using sufficient force to put a stop to this is important and necessary where it is not something that entails the loss of life but it's still wrong in others standing up against that is incredibly important right and every situation has its dictates according to the criteria of Islamic law if we know and understand Islamic law properly we can see clearly what is needed or called for if the conditions are met and what is needed and called for if the conditions are not met to deal with different cases okay but if we don't understand this well then people make foolish and knuckleheaded decisions or courses of action but here from the believers are those who were honest were truthful about what they promised to Allah سبحانه وتعالى and of course right they say that it is about the showhead that of our head right they followed through but at every level there are people who are true there are people who are honest اللهم جعلنا منهم people who are true and honest about following up on what they say that they're going to do following up on their promise to Allah سبحانه وتعالى standing true by the principles of the Deen of Allah سبحانه وتعالى in the 16th حديث أبو مصرود رب تبني عمرنا انصاري رضي الله عنه هوسات لما نزلت آية السدقة كنا نحامل على لهورنا فجاء الرجل فتصدق بشيء كثير فقال مراعين وجاء الرجل آخر فتصدق بصاع فقال إن الله لغالي عن صاع هذا when the verse of giving in charity right that is a good Deed was revealed we would go out and carry things for others for pay and then give in charity we would go out and earn money just to go so we'd have something to give in charity one man would show up and he would give a whole lot of صدقة and people say would say by that one he's just showing off he just wants everybody to see how much he's giving سبحانه وتعالى and then another one would come up and he'd only give you know about so much okay and we would say that الله's got no need of that little amount that that person gave and the verse was revealed right and those who look critically at the ones who of the believers who give willingly of their charity and those who are only able to go out and maybe give as much as they are able to huh الله سبحانه وتعالى right has a special reward for them the verse of صدقة خد من أموارهم صدقة تطاهرهم take from their wealth or their assets a charity that will purify them then الله سبحانه وتعالى brings a recognition that adding on to that previous verse so for your science of the أسباب النزول the reasons for revelation this other verse comes and says that right to calibrate our understanding of the previous one is revealed by الله سبحانه وتعالى saying that no amount of صدقة is insignificant right this group shouldn't be criticized for what they're doing because we don't know their intention right and here the Sahaba are learning a lesson it's okay to be wrong the Sahabi is telling you about his own misstep his own mistake his own huh false right we learned and الله سبحانه وتعالى taught us and we were receptive to that learning and that understanding سبحان الله and that these are included no matter what it is they're able to do don't think it insignificant and don't think your own effort is insignificant in the 17th حديث from رضي الله وعنه عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم فيما يروي عن الله تبارك وتعالى so we have a حديث قدسي huh قال الله سبحانه وتعالى says يا عبادي oh my slaves إني حرمت الظلم على نفسي I have made oppression and the wronging and abuse of others forbidden for my own self الله says meaning that any circumstance that Allah سبحانه وتعالى allows you to be in or puts you in even if it is the abuse and the oppression of others الله is not abusing you الله is not abusing you for two reasons first it's impossible for Allah to abuse you it's a lot of it's impossible for Allah to wrong you Allah never did bad by you why because the owner the sovereign does what he wants with his belongings and the universe the heavens and the earth and everything in between it belongs to Allah سبحانه وتعالى so whatever he does he said well I don't like this religion I'm gonna go find another religion okay right go find another religion can you go find another religion that's not even possible is not even possible to go find another religion إِنْ لَمْ تَبْضَى بِقَضَائِي فَخْرُجْ مِنْ تَقْتَسَمَائِي وَبْحَثَاً رَبْ بِنْ سَتْسِيْوَائَةَ if you don't like my decree then get out from under my sky and find a god other than me or a lord other than me it can't be done but second الله سبحانه وتعالى is just in what he does and he has rahma in everything that he does and he has a design and a wisdom in everything that he does and because we rely on him and we know what he is and we know who he is we know that the circumstances that he's put us in or that he's brought us through there is a design that is behind it and if we love Allah سبحانه وتعالى الله loves us and if we believe that Allah سبحانه وتعالى ultimately is doing right by us then Allah سبحانه وتعالى is ultimately doing right by us and gold doesn't shine unless it's touched by fire the diamonds is not going to glitter and glimmer or be expensive ghali and priceless unless it's crushed and then it becomes what it is and never ever think that you're the only one who ever suffered and you don't know what Allah has in store for you for you you can ask Allah why and you may or may not tell you you may or may not tell you but if you have يقين and you have strength in your faith if you have trust in Allah سبحانه وتعالى you already know the answer because he wants well for you you just have to get through it and you have to find the wherewithal to bring the patience to bear to use the brain that God gave you to figure out ways out and you will become more nimble and you will become more strong and you will become all the better and you know from your يقين and from your confidence and your literacy of islamic teachings that ها الله سبحانه وتعالى is taking you somewhere and you know that he's not going to give you a burden that you can't bear even though today it seems like you can't carry it that you might do what عبد الله يبني مسعود said وَهَمِمْتُوا بِسُوْئِنَ I almost did something really bad what was these what was really bad in the eyes of عبد الله يبني مسعود I almost sat down put down the burden وَأَدَعَهُ and left but Allah gave it to you you can bear it and don't step out because you can do it so sometimes we forget that's what ذكر is for to remind was ذكر remember remind a reminder because we forget these are the things that we forget these are the things that we forget and if you have الله on your tongue in the forefront of your مخ then you might remember when you need to remember most and it might carry you through but if we don't do our ذكر if we don't do our الكالر if we don't do our remembering or if we go to مجالس of remembrance and we forget why we're there then we're going to suffer later مجالد you have a program that Allah سبحانه وتعالى has you on this is a good حديث let's try to finish it before we get to the end of the lesson I like this one الله سبحانه وتعالى said I've made ذلم حرام for me and the slave that loves الله سبحانه وتعالى will follow that and try to be a refraction and to be a mirror of the سفات of الله سبحانه وتعالى in the way that's right for the created to mirror the goodness that can only come from one source which is الله سبحانه وتعالى and say that I've too made ذلم حرام for me just as Allah made it حرام for me and made it حرام for himself I will also make sure that I don't harm another person if I really want to be الله سبحانه وتعالى وجعلته بينكم حرامة and I've made it حرام between you in the ultimate ultimate scheme of the universe it's impossible for Allah سبحانه وتعالى to give them that's the metaphysical perspective on ذلم but what's the difference between an eternal infinite Creator and the finite creation we can حرام حرام one another and I've made it illegal forbidden from you من ناحية الشرع وجعلته بينكم حرامة فلا تغالمه if you call yourselves Muslims don't press other people don't wrong other people don't mess with other people don't take from the risk of other people don't curtail the well-being of other people if you call yourselves believers because everyone knows this حديث my slaves all of you are lost all of you can't find your way in the dark even in the middle of the broad sunlight of the midday afternoon all of you are lost unless I guide you فاستهدوني so ask me to guide you ask me how to it but you gotta ask you gotta know who to ask and you gotta know what you're doing when you're asking it can't be just through the فاتحة through the دعاء right it has to be I need this ya Allah I need this now and I know where to ask I'm asking you and Allah will take care of of you but on his time on his schedule because he's the one that runs the show and it's his show all of you are hungry all of you go hungry all of you are going to go hungry except the one that I feed if you get fed today Allah fed you and we forget eaten the power bar on the way to work masha Allah you know or you get that pain of hungry hunger and you stop and you grab something and now you're not hungry anymore good masha Allah you stay away from the ice cream right after a certain age after 30 don't eat ice cream right but uh huh but don't forget where it came from don't forget where it came from and then also remember that from huh the literacy of Islam that you can't appreciate Allah سبحانه وتعالى unless you appreciate the people that put the food on your table so it all goes together it all works as a whole فستتعيموني أدعيمكم ask me to feed you I feed you يا عبالي كلكم عارن إلا من كسوتو my slaves all of you are naked except for the one that I clothe there's a lot of different types of nakedness there's that nakedness where the person wants to go for a job interview and does not have anything appropriate to wear for that job interview and there's the nakedness of not having any of your life be my stool right or or not having privacy right that's also nakedness there's different types of nakedness سبحانه وتعالى all of you are naked except for the ones that I have clothe فستتكسوني أكسكم so ask for me to cover you right يا ستار right الله سبحانه وتعالى is the one who veils the faults of his slaves one sheikh used to say الحمد لله الذي ما جعله للذنوب رائحا كريها our praise is due to Allah who has not made for sins a foul odor because then we'd all be in trouble you have said time يا عباتي إنكم تخطيون بالليل والنهار وانا أغفر الظنوب جميعا my slaves يجب أن تخطيون المساعدة والساعدة كل night and all day وإذا أعتقدت أنك لا أخذت ذلك الثلاث night لا لا لا هذا هو أكثر ساعدة أعتقدت أنك أخذتها right أنك ساعدة سبحانه وتعالى لا يجب أن يعتقد وفي بعض الوقت نفعل أو بعضنا يفعل أعتقد أني أفعل جيد لذلك now I've got nothing left to do with my finger at other people and you know what they say in our country if you point a finger at somebody there's four more pointed back at you right yeah but this is where we have to be you're making mistakes you're making sins all night and all day and Allah says and I forgive all sins that's where we need to be is what I need from Allah and let my brother or my sister be where they need to be this is islamic theology to be wrapped up in what I need Allah to do for me and my mistakes that Allah سبحانه وتعالى knows to be wrapped up in one's own mistakes and not busy with someone else's mistakes that's christianity okay and now when y'all hear me saying that modern muslims are trying to make إسلام into Protestantism watch and now you know right it's not about islamic theology is not about being busy with other people's mistakes what did رسول الله وعليه وسلم جولل ومعز came and said يا رسول الله I mean I committed zinah right and the prophet turns away right and he says no no he tries to get in front of him I committed zinah right he said and maybe you kissed her he said no no no I committed zinah and he's trying to turn away he said well maybe maybe you maybe you just rubbed up against her he said no no no I committed zinah right and رسول الله is trying to turn away from me doesn't want my eyes to come and say this and then he says to my eyes أبيكة جنون are you crazy because if you're crazy رفيا تلاقى وامجد right you're not responsible to the point where some of our scholars said that it is the responsibility of a muslim judge to say to the person who's brought before him in a case of adultery or fornication huh maybe you kissed and that's all meaning just say you kissed her go right maybe this maybe you know less than that and then the judge is supposed to say أبيكة جنون are you crazy have you lost your mind so that the person can say you know what I think I lost my mind right why because the what's private is not our business the privacy of others we have privacy for any of you all who are with us on the group if you remember the piece that I sent out of the poetry of Imam Shafiq he says oh my eye speaking to his own eye know that other people have eyes huh preoccupy yourself with your business not other people's business that is islamic theology we would like to have a public space that's PG rated right that's our business we don't want a bunch of stuff in front of our kids let them be raised up with a little bit of innocence and purity if that's possible but we don't live in a world that is innocent or pure we don't tell me where is innocent and pure tell me one place don't say maca don't say madina tell me one place that is innocent and pure because if it's innocent and pure to your eyes there's someone else who's suffering from a lot of evil and a lot of hurt even maca and madina and I'll tell you stories so we don't live in a place that's innocent and pure but if anything our responsibilities do what we can to allow children to have a life and come up uh-huh safely knowing full well that there's many who won't and we're not going to be able to stop that but that's our responsibility right let us not fall short in that responsibility like so many others do but after that we're not people who make ourselves feel better by finding someone that we can look down on oh good someone just came in who's got darker skin than me now I'm the the light skin one yeah that's the light skin people you know we gotta watch out for these other people subhanallah it's uh what do you call it it's a spectrum if you can't see there are people who are dead to beauty there are people who whose hearts are dead their minds are dead they've got no eye of aesthetic and they it's so much beauty around them and they don't see it they don't understand it and that's why they're not art critics or maybe those are the people who go and become our critics right but the point is is that people have got no taste and they you know talk trash about food that healthy people know is like a really wonderful dish those people should not cook for me right or us you know so some people are dead and they shouldn't be fooled into thinking somehow they're superior that's a nox in the person if they're looking down on someone else and what we need to stop right look none of the massage in north america you know are really interested in working with me right so that's good so you all put yourself in a bad situation then I'll just speak my mind and if you don't like it don't invite me right but you gotta stop looking at the cars that people drive in the parking lot stop stop talking about cars that people drive stop judging other believers at your message at your islamic school there are people at the islamic schools in north america and I'm new here I'm just noticing what goes on who sit out and they're not making sure the kids get to their ride okay they're taking notes who drives up in this and who drives up in that and I think a lot of people here probably know exactly what I'm talking about and then they judge people and treat people according to what type of car they drive what type of car they were so they're not so they're not so they're not so they're not so they're not while they ever said them usually drive he usually drove a bugger a mule and now we are one of us wants to be caught dead riding on a mule okay that is not classy but it was good enough for us so they're not so the while they were said them قسوال was for special occasions right قسوال was for special occasions سبحان الله but he usually rode on بذر called that's not that's not sexy either right but سبحان الله later on despite the fact the the scholars of حديث would say that one of the reasons for not taking حديث from a person is if they gallop on a donkey right or a mule because did you ever see someone galloping on a donkey right or a mule they did this this it's not a good look right سبحان الله you know but if I had the صلاح and the تقوى and the righteousness of one of those students of knowledge from way back in خيرu كرون they galloped on a donkey I would be very happy right سبحان الله and that was my only problem I had to worry about but we need to stop judging people by the clothes that they wear if we're not smart enough to hear what someone is saying to hear who someone is then we're not smart enough to judge someone either سبحان الله people have a lot of people are very needy you know and maybe we need to address what we think it is we need to put ourselves up by putting other people down so let's finish this out and maybe we can pick up next time we come because we have to wind it down now الله يكفيكم He says الله سبحانه وتعالى so ask forgiveness from me and I'll forgive you سبحان الله يرع إبادي إنكم I would like to have a Mawla like this I would love to have a God like this I would love to worship someone like this this would inspire me to make a little bit of مجاهدة if the one that I was worshipping said this to me and it came in a chain of narration that I could be confident in it just so happens that that is the case الحمد لله you know what we should stop because I don't want to just go over this quickly you can't hurt Allah you'll never reach the point where you can hurt me الله says so that there's a lot to unpack there's a lot to think about الله يكفيكم أحسانا يليكو الله أحسان in your homes الله أحسان in your cars الله أحسان in your tank right الله gets you the extra distance and carry you all the way to where you need to get to with his pleasure and his contentment and a little bit of peace of heart and mind in your hearts and minds and the hearts and minds of your families الله give us enlightenment الله help us grow from these from these sessions that we have so that we go out stronger believers than when we came in more beloved to Allah سبحانه وتعالى because we have strong hearts and stronger minds right which is more important than many many other types of strengths الله bless us and bless you all and bless your your massage and this message and the people here يليكو الله وصب الله وعاله سيد محمد وعاله وصحبه وسبنه


Operatives of the tactical team of the Airborne Police Command have raided three comms of the outlawed I-POP, ESN operators, and arrested two suspected gang members. The command spokesperson Chris Anyao disclosed that the comms were located in a thick forest close to the Oqpeke River in Omega Village, Agua Community, in Ishelu Local Council area of Airborne State. Anyao said the team also recovered assorted arms and ammunition, military uniforms and other incriminating exhibits. They are headed by the tactical team of the Airborne Police Command, assisted by the military and the DSS in the States. And what actually prompted this was the quantum pieces of reliable evidence professionally elicited from two suspects who were arrested. One of them during interrogation gave us very vital pieces of evidence that necessitated this oppression. And he's not a person than one Namdi Nguta or Baji, aka State Commander number three. He's the number three hierarchy of these hoodlums in airborne states. And there's another operative, Feliz Ogudu, who was a poly-arrested earlier with the number three commander. While assessing and codoning the camps identified, the combined teams were ambushed by the criminal elements with trains of sporadic shooting in their direction. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


Ladies and gentlemen, colleagues and friends, the World Food Day found its origin in the best day of FAO UN on 16 October 1945. This year is a very special one for FAO and for the global fight against hunger and malnutrition. 75 years ago today, out of the depths of the World War II, millions lost their lives in the conflict. Millions more died of starvation. Farming was devastated. The world needed to rebuild a culture and to meet the most basic of the human needs. Nations come together. FAO UN was established first. And we delivered it. FAO harnessed everything at our disposal there. Expectee, research, statistics, diplomacy to help the world produce more to feed more. In the first 25 years of FAO's existence, farmer output increased by 70%. But feeding the world was not just about more hectares and more tractors. In the second quarter century of FAO's existence, we worked to make the green revolutionary greener. And in the blue year too, we became joined the world attention to safeguarding the oceans and the seas. We promoted the aquaculture and we target and defeated and tragic animal disease. The third quarter century saw a great push for sustainability. We worked to empower small-holder farmers. We promoted a package of solutions for the global food security. We underscored that there was no such sense as an end to hunger without application of innovation, responsible investment, accessible trade of commodities, and empowering women and youth. Of the 75 years that FAO has been in existence, we have grown, nourished, and sustained. The gift of our soil, the livelihoods of our people, the legacy of our planet. Today begins the next quarter century of FAO's story. A time to look back at our successes. But also a measure of the distance left to travel. And more importantly, to look forward to the new era. Clearly, our work is not done yet. After the diminishing steadily and the nourishment is increasing again, too many children are still wasted or stranded. Billions of people cannot afford a health debt as civilization moves on. Crucially, the next phase in our history starts amid the wreckage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It has led by the fragility of our agricultural systems. The precociousness of the agricultural labor force, the thin line that separates many families from destitution. Dear colleagues and friends, now it's time to show our self-worth of the FAO's funders who lost to the equation 75 years ago. We have made a good start with our comprehensive COVID-19 response and the recovery program. It focuses on data collection, party reduction programs, trade and food safety standards, and protein denies against the next nautical pandemics. But in the longer term, nothing less than a radical transformation of agricultural systems will be needed to bring us closer to the hunger-free world. This, for FAO, presupposes the flat, argyal and modular structure, a relentlessly pushed for the digitalization, joining the hands across the government, academia, civil society and the private sector, and a constant pursuit of innovation and scientific excellence. The world is looking to us to put our actions when our words are to be think tanker and ex-tanker, rod in do one. Alongside our partners, we must be knowledge generators and facilitators all at once, together in the quest for the ultimate public good, a world free of poverty, hunger and malnutrition. Tomorrow begins today. So on this World Food Day, allow me to thank and congratulate you, my colleagues and friends. Allow me also to spur you on to the even greater efforts until World Food Day comes when we can look back and say, Mish accomplished. Thank you.


Russians can't deliver ammunition to front line and south, flee from positions. The Russians are experiencing a significant ammunition shortage in the south of Ukraine. During the last week, the enemy attacked Kursan region with 70, 90, and 100 strikes per day. Over the past day, 64 strikes were launched and up to 300 shells were used. That is, they have a significant decline in ammunition. And this ammunition shortage is felt. Natalya Hemenyuk, head of the Joint Coordination Press Center of the Defense Forces of South of Ukraine, said. According to her, the Russians cannot deliver ammunition directly to the front line, making it difficult for them to stay there. Because of this, they very often flee from the positions from which we knock them out, not only at the moment when the attack takes place, but also simply during some kind of pause, Hemenyuk informed. When asked about the situation with the Russian ammo depots in the southern direction, the head of the Joint Coordination Press Center of the Defense Forces of South noted that even Russian units and military personnel were complaining very seriously about the fact that logistics had not been established. Despite the encouraging reports in the Russian Federation that the bridges have been repaired, that they are succeeding in everything, but it works only on paper and is not reflected in reality, she said. Hemenyuk praised the effective counter-battery fight of the Ukrainian military in the south.


the inside now and twice, we've raised that!  He can't believe it because he was looking really strong in the first corner away from the inside. Dudek went one side of him, and Lindgren up the inside, and Antonio Limpak also got in the mix as well, so disappointed. Team worked well there, because they must have tweaked the equipment, goes from the outside, Doyle initially here, hits the front, but he's in no man's land there, Lindgren back up the inside of him, then Freddy, and of course that terrific move, early move, Patrick Dudek, it's a fine balance here, it's very easy to have too much will spin on this track, really competitive stuff, and you've got to find that right balance between power and grip, and quite easily, they didn't have to set up right the first race, but for Dudek now, that bike is beginning to accelerate, and find grip, and powers him to the front, and slips around the outside of the opposition, Lindback can't stop him, Doyle gets beaten up and can't believe he's gone from first to last.


Hello people of the internet, my name is Johnny and welcome back to another video. This time we are back talking about upcoming merchandise. For some reason we've just been getting a lot of news about merch.  I didn't miss my daily upload streak because technically I streamed late that night so we're still, we still got that streak going boys. Yeah so, this information came out yesterday, also something that came out yesterday was the food theory video on Chuck E. Cheese Pizza. I'm gonna be doing a reaction to that most likely tomorrow so stay tuned. Anyways, in today's video we're gonna be going over some leaked information by Funko as well as a sneak preview of their new plushie for Mr. Frostburn himself. I'm wearing my blue, just like him cause he's blue. And even though we're not looking at the plushie right now, we'll get to it later. Let me just say the colors for the plushie are beautiful. But again, before we get to the plushie, I wanna talk about a listing for new merchandise from Funko. Funko legit just tweeted out a preview for their new board game so I guess this is a new Funko products video instead of just the plushies and the listings. So we'll take a look at the board game later. Yeah so going back to the listing, as you can see we have Funko plushies and action figures on the list. We have FNAF Spring Colorway Cupcake, FNAF Spring Colorway Foxy, Spring Colorway Freddy, and Spring Colorway Foxy. And after Foxy and Freddy, you can see that there are some letters in parentheses. And these mean green, blue, pink, and purple. Which if my memory is correct, we have had plushies that are these exact same things. You know, it's a pink, um, Freddy, it's a purple, Foxy. So we've had these before, so I'm guessing they're most likely just re-releasing these. And I'm guessing since it's called the FNAF Spring Colorway Collection, um, that these will be released sometime in the spring or I should say re-released. After that though, we have some action figures for Chocolate Bonnie, Chocolate Chica, and Chocolate Bonnie. Now Chocolate Bonnie is the only character out of those three that we know exist right now. Chocolate Bonnie of course being the Bonnie skin in FNAF Special Delivery, but Chocolate Chica and Chocolate Freddy are completely new additions. Oddly enough, there was no Chocolate Foxy at least on this listing, which is strange because usually Funko likes to do Foxy because he is a fan favorite. What's interesting is that these are all action figures. They're not plushies, unlike the Frostbear plushie, which we will get to shortly, they're action figures of Chocolate Bonnie, Chocolate Chica, and Chocolate Freddy. I'm very interested to see how these turn out. Um, again, since they're action figures, I wasn't expecting these to be action figures, I'll be honest. I was expecting plushies, maybe even just some mystery minis. The pops was also another idea in my head, but action figures that completely caught me off guard. Yeah, so I guess we're just gonna have to wait and see what these new Chocolate action figures are going to be about. And that is the listing. So now I want to move on and talk about the new Frostbear plushie. So yesterday, a huge channel by the name of Puppet Steve, he's an unboxing channel, he does a lot of reviews on toys. He put out a video called FNAF Frostbear Official Funko Security Breach Exclusive 2020 Plush in-hand review. And in the video, he does exactly that. He does a in-hand review of the brand new FNAF Funko Frostbear plushie. I'll be showing clips of the video right now, but I highly recommend you go watch the full video using the link in the description. It's only eight minutes, it's not that long. It gives a full in-depth analysis of what the plush is like in hand. But yeah, as you can see, it has the same base as the first wave of plushies, but the eyes are sewn in. So that's interesting. It's kind of like a mix between the new plushies and the old plushies. Honestly, I really like it. Again, I love the colors. I think it's very detailed and very accurate to Frostbear. I'm definitely going to try my hardest to get my hands on it when it releases. As of right now, it is not out. I'm not sure when this plushie releases. Apparently it's in line with the Security Breach plushies. I'm guessing it's probably part of that set because a lot of people are confused. Well, normally they do exclusive plushies where the exclusive. So I'm guessing this Frostbear plushie is part of the Security Breach collection. So this plushie, again, it has no release date. I don't even know when the normal Security Breach plushies are releasing at this point because they were available, but then most orders got canceled, but then some didn't. So I don't know. If I had to take a guess, I'm guessing this probably isn't the only exclusive plushie. At least I hope it's not because honestly, I'm still waiting for a Security Girl plushie as well as a Glitchtrap plushie. Basically just any merchandise for those two I'm waiting for. So that is the Frostbear plushie, and now we're going to move on to the news that literally was revealed like five minutes ago as of recording this. So Funko just tweeted out, Good luck surviving the night. Announcing five nights at Freddy's survive till 6am game. Available for pre-order at Walmart now. So it seems like they're doing a lot of Walmart products right now. I don't know if that is on purpose, or if it's just they're announcing the Walmart exclusives at this moment, and then they'll release like GameStop and Target ones later. I don't know. And then it has a picture of the four characters, Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy in front of balloons and confetti and all that stuff. And it says FNAF survived till 6am game. It's a one to two player game for ages 13 and up. Looking at the official pictures, which I have not had to look at just yet, this looks like an interesting game. So you can pre-order it right now and based off of the website, it says that it will arrive sometime around early October. So on the back of the box it has a description, which I'm going to read right now. Can you survive the night shift at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza? As a newly hired security guard, it's your duty to keep an eye on the security cameras and make sure nothing goes wrong. Keep alert to movements in the dark, but be wary of using your limited power for the lights and doors. Can you keep the animatronics out of your office, or will you be their next victim? It's high tension, jump-scale fun in this spooky strategy game. To get through the night, be sure to, 1. Check the security cameras, 2. Conserve your power, and 3. Avoid Freddy and his friends. And then they have a picture of the actual board, and it looks interesting. This is an original game, so I'm not sure what to expect from it. It's an entirely new layout, though. For the camera system, it's entirely new. It uses images from FNAF 1 and 2, it looks like, but the whole map is completely new. You have cards for Freddy, Foxy, and Chica. As well as up top, I can see Toy Chica, Toy Bonnie, and Balloon Boy, and Toy Freddy. There's a card that says Camera Monitor, as well as another card that says Camera Monitor. They're in orange and blue for Player 1 and Player 2. At the bottom, you can see two dice. It only appears that they have 5 and 10 on there. There's also a place to mark how much power you have left. It seems like there was a start card, and then there's just a map. There's different cameras. Cam 4, 3, 2, 1, Office. Up top, it also looks like there was an Office, as well as Cam 1 through 4. So I'm guessing one player is on one side, and the other player is on another side, and they have to try and get there, and we're trying to the other player's Office as fast as possible. And if their character gets caught at the other person's Office, the other person can block the door, or if they don't react in time, they get killed. I don't know. Again, this is brand new information. Up until this point, we only knew the game's name. And at that point, it was still called The Survivor of the Night game, so that's all we knew. So this is new information. It's a whole new game. It's original. I don't know what to expect. However, I am very interested to see what this is all about. There's a few more things about the game I'll go over quickly before we end the video. There's another description this time on the website. It says, You are the night shift security guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. And it is your duty to check the security cameras and keep the equipment in good walking order, and beware the end metronics that activate on their own at night. Each turn, you'll check the cameras and react to movements in the dark. Choose to turn on the lights or close the doors to protect yourself, but watch out. Each reaction depletes your limited power. Keep Freddy and his friends out of your Office until you can clock off at 6am. Game contents, you got a game board, 96 camera cards, two reference cards, 13 clock cards, two power dials, and two power dice as well as instructions. Apparently, it has a game length of 20 minutes for players 1 and 2, and again, it's just 13 and up. So that is the board game FNAF survived till 6am. Again, you can order it right now for pre-order, and it will arrive sometime around early October. So that's all the new information we have right now. I was actually very surprised that we got a reveal for the new game at the exact time I was recording this video. That's actually kind of nice. So it kind of fits into one nice video talking about the new Funko product. So, there's that. Probably should have said this at the start, but I'm saying it right now. Funko still has their FNAF license. They have not lost it. It's got to not fire Funko. They still have their license. They're still making products as you can see. And honestly, the majority of them, I'm pretty hyped for. So that's it for this video. Thanks for watching, and I'll see you all on the flip side. Goodbye.


It's basically if you think of it like having a fire extinguisher in your house You hope you don't need it when the vent that you do you want to make sure that it works The mayor is the major accident response to exercise It's something that we do annually by AFI The each wing has to do and is to practice if there was an aircraft mishap How are we going to respond who's gonna be talking to who practice check this procedures and things like that We're gonna have to be adaptable in anything that we do because it could be have an at moody It could be a 10 it could be C 130 it could be anything so they kind of have to be ready for anything But we just kind of at least plan a scenario that they can practice to and we try to do it in a Risk-based sampling strategy to kind of figure out what is the most likely thing to happen so they can kind of practice to that So who's going to respond would typically be command post is probably gonna get a phone call from somebody and Then obviously your first responders so our medics our fire department and things like that We're gonna have to have security forces go out there and you know do site security make sure no one's coming in Taking pieces off or looking around and then obviously public affairs has a piece of it to to get the right message out And then following that would be obviously the safety officer will go out and do that kind of thing these exercises are really important because Luckily, we don't really have that many major accidents, which obviously is a good thing But when they do happen from time to time we want to make sure that we are prepared for them So this is a way to work out some interagency communications and make sure that everything is kind of on the up and up So like I said if something does happen, we are ready for it I'd say the biggest thing for exposure to these scenarios It's gonna save lives on that initial response because it is not easy especially with the terrain around Georgia There's a lot of forested areas a lot of really unpopulated Regions around the the Air Force Base and so, you know for example if an 810 pilot ejects in the middle of middle of Nowhere, then it's gonna take a while for to find that person and to treat their injuries And so the reason this saves lives is it allows that communication flow and the Cooperation between the base agencies and the off-base agencies to work seamlessly together So that they can respond to the incident in an appropriate manner and in a timely manner


June 20 is World Refugee Day. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees released a global trends report on June 18 detailing the crisis. According to the report, the number of displaced people rose by 9 million in 2019. By the end of 2019, the total number stood at 79.5 million. Of these, around 26 million are refugees or people forced out of their countries. This is an increase of around 600,000 over 2018. 5.6 million are Palestinian refugees displaced from the 1948 Nakwa and subsequent Israeli occupations. 40% of the total displaced persons are children below the age of 18. Apart from refugees, there are around 3.9 million stateless people who are denied citizenship rights by their countries. Imperialist wars and aggression are one of the biggest reasons for the global refugee crisis. The largest population of refugees hails from Syria, a victim of nearly a decade of imperialist assault. 7 million Syrians are refugees, at least 4 million of whom are in Turkey alone. The second highest number of refugees is from Venezuela, which has been the target of paralyzing unilateral sanctions imposed by the US. The other worst affected countries include Afghanistan, South Sudan and Myanmar. Refugees continue to face grave threats in escaping many of these wars. The thousands trying to enter Europe and the Rohingya refugees trying to flee Myanmar risks their lives throughout the journey. Many die in the process. Another key issue is the diminishing prospect of returning home. Over the past decade, the number of refugees able to return home has fallen to around 385,000 a year as opposed to 1.5 million in the 90s. 80% of the world's refugees live in poorer third world countries. Host countries often are not signatories to refugee conventions. They are also constrained by a lack of economic resources and restrictions imposed by neoliberal policies. Most of the refugees live in camps operated by the UNHCR with the help of local NGOs or the state governments. The physical infrastructure is poor and the camps are overcrowded with inadequate water and sanitary facilities, open space, schools and health facilities. The over 40,000 refugees from Arab countries in Africa and Greece, the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and the Syrian refugees in Lebanon are among those who struggle due to such issues. Refugees also face harassment and discrimination in many countries such as Turkey and Germany. Right-wing groups are in the forefront of such attacks. In many countries, refugees are targeted by governments which want to conceal their own economic failure. The theme of this year's World Refugee Day is every action counts. However, without an end to imperialist wars, there is no sustainable solution to the problems faced by refugees.