Hi, I'm Charlie King. I'm from Essex and one thing you might not know about me is I actually love to dance. Fans might recognise me from the annual A's Essex, showbiz reported from all over the place. The three best things about me is that I'm motivational, hardworking and understanding. The three worst things about me is that I'm quite a hard taskmaster. I'm quite impatient and I'm always running out of time. So when I was younger I didn't do much exercise. I own my own restaurant so therefore I was always eating fry-ups, pasta, all the bad stuff, but that's all changed now. What made me get into fitness was the fact that I was on the only way as Essex and everyone likes to look good and so therefore I wanted to get myself ripped. That started my fitness journey. Nothing tastes as good as healthy feels in my eyes and the feeling that I have being fit and healthy is like no other feeling that I get. My biggest fitness achievement today is running the London 10K in under 40 minutes. I never thought that would be possible. My favourite thing to do at the gym is run on the treadmill and also do lots of squats. My must listen to song in the gym is Jennifer Lopez Get Right. The celebrity that gives me body goals has to be Zac Efron in Baywatch, impressive. I've trained the odd celebrity client and there's one in particular girl that I would say is pretty fierce.  The motivational line I use is pretty simple and pretty effective. It's be the best you. My favourite food has to be a deep pan pizza with pineapple on it. In my fridge you'll always find almond milk, cut fresh prepared fruit and lots of vegetables. Pretty gym I always go for sliced apple with a couple of teaspoons of peanut butter and in post-workout I always go for just a protein shake. I don't like the term cheat day but I definitely have a day where I totally indulge the pizza or a burger and of course fries, milkshake and cake.


Okay, we're glad to know that you're still there. It's the breakfast on Plus TV Africa, and we're going to talk energy now, especially power. Nigeria generates only just a little over 4,000 megawatts of electricity. Some people even debate that it is not up to that. It's about 3,000 megawatts for a country of over 200 million people, and that is grossly inadequate. And so stakeholders have been asked to invest more or drive more investment into this energy sector so that we can have at least 200,000 megawatts of electricity in Nigeria. And so how can that come to be? And why is that really, really necessary? We're going to be talking with the CEO, CapTree Chairman Hydrogen and New Energy's Group of Nigerian Gas Association in the person of Mr. Olabo Desho Wumi. Good morning and welcome to the program, Mr. Sho Wumi. Good morning, it's a pleasure to meet you at the station. Yeah. Thanks a lot. Okay, so as we all know, the energy supply, the power we have in Nigeria is grossly inadequate. 200 million people, and we are having 4,000, or even if it's 5,000, it's kind of ridiculous. But when we think about this thing, the first thing that crosses our mind is why is it so hard to generate electricity in a country with abundance of water, abundance of sunlight, abundance of wind, and everything else that can be used to generate this electricity? Why is it that difficult? Okay, so the problem is really not generation because, yes, we have within the system about 4,000 megawatts, but there is an installed capacity that is significantly more than that. So what that means in simple terms is that if you were to generate, assuming today for two times of that, we are not able to transmit it because our transmission network is limited and the limitations is what stops a transmission, what stops what is being generated from being transmitted. Of course, the other part of it is the distribution network. In simple terms, the network, I mean, the value chain is running at a loss. So if you were to produce power at, say, 100 naira, the cost of selling it as of today is less than that 100 naira. So there is an issue of the supply chain issue. So as a result, you'll find out that some of those within the distribution system, that's the discourse, they choose, they pick and choose where they actually want to sell their power. So there's a new world of issues, which are peculiar to Nigeria. There are no technical issues. So it's not about competence and all those kinds of things, but there are supply chain issues that are limiting the availability of power to the average Nigeria. Of course, another factor, which is ingredient, is the culture and attitude of the Nigerian environment.  I mean, what that means, what they seem to forget is that that money goes into a system. And as a result, I mean, as a result, somebody has to pay for it. So they're not really smart, they're just cheating the system. And the more people cheat the system, the more likely the system is going to collapse. So our own thinking as a people as well is also a hindrance to the proper functioning of the industry as a whole. Yeah, well, we'll still, sorry, Maureen. We'll still talk about all this, but you're talking about cheating the system. And the system also seems to be cheating the people and making the people even smarter. Who has learned to shoot without missing, others have learned to fly without pitching and so on.  And sometimes there is no power at all for a long time and you're still paying the bills that are really, really crazy and made the people to become so smart. But it still boils to the why. Why is it that a system cannot be checked in such a way that we will have what we need to have at what time that we need to have? Because we've seen other times where we have been able to conquer, for instance, payment of salary. It used to be paid by hand. And because of that, there were a lot of things that were happening. There was a lot of corruption in the payment and all that. Now they pay through the banks and these things have been reduced. So why is it still a problem that will fester in our economy that we cannot check these things that happen that are not good enough? Okay, so these are about systems thinking. So it's just a basically understanding systems function. Yes, you are right. There are sharp practices within the discourse, which I think to some extent, even the regulators are aware of that. But there's a system in place in which you should check that. The solution to it is not for the customer to also cheat the system. So if we are to use the common patterns, it's two wrongs, don't make it right. Now, the point I'm trying to make in all of this is not to apportionably. The question you asked me is that why don't we have power? And I liked the factors that are hindering power. And whether it is the discourse that is cheating the system or it is the people that are cheating the system, it is the system that is suffering. So what we are looking at in a situation is that in a bit for one party to get wiser, the system suffers. But at the end of the day, it's still the system. And what that means is that you don't have a system that is functional. And what that means is that you don't have people who have power. So my job is not to apportionably. That's for people within law enforcement and people within the mind is to give a technical analysis and to identify what are the causative factors on the issues. And that's what I've done. So probably at the end of the day, like I said, if we are to look at solutions, there has to be a reorientation, a cultural reorientation. So Peter Drucker has said that culture defeats strategy. In other words, no matter the strategy or the ideas that are going to be brought to solve the problem in the power sector, as long as the culture of the people is antagonistic to those new ideas, those ideas will not function. So there is a reorientation in terms of the average, the thinking of the average Nigerian, which is important for the power sector to actually function. All right. Over the years, we've heard these problems of transmission, distribution, which you've highlighted. And then you've also said it's a peculiar thing to us. You know, we have a peculiar challenge as a people, which is a major reason why we're not having light. And so I'm wondering why government after government have not been able to identify and deal with these peculiar challenges that are peculiar to us as a people. And another thing is, as long as the people continue to feel cheated, as Niamgol has said, and as long as the people continue to feel like, what am I gaining from being a Nigerian anyway? If I can tap energy and steal it somehow, somehow, maybe that's the only thing. Because you're talking about the mindset, you're talking about the culture. So it's a whole bouquet of problems. Talk to us on how this present administration, should be tackling these peculiar challenges that Nigeria has beyond talk. Because Nigerians have had all these talks over time and over time. And experts like yourself have also talked repeatedly. But Nigerians want to see action. I mean, can we not do this? Is it something that we as a people should just give up? Look, this is your destiny as a people to remain in darkness. Is that the answer? Is that the final discussion? Or should we be having over this matter? Or is there a way out? OK, first of all, in order to solve a problem, you need to analyze it. So my mind, I think that was a scientist. He had a PhD in chemistry. And growing up as a child, I used to see him working in the lab. And one of the things he would see is that you need to separate the facts so that you can actually identify what is the causative factors. You have made a number of things up in the question. So there are some types of it that is political. I mean, a politician. That's for politicians to look. There are some a bit of it that are social. So those issues of whether people feel that they're in ignorance or not, those ones have nothing to do with the power sector. Those are social issues in the industry. But things with the power sector, it doesn't matter whether people have identified it and mentioned it one million years. As long as they do not correct it, those things will be there. So for example, if a student feels yake, as long as the person has not been taking yake, he remains failed. So for the student to pass yake, he has to study again, take the exam, ask, there is issue with transmission. Unless those issues with transmission are solved, nothing will happen. So if it is not solved next year, it will still remain that those are the factors that needs to be done. Now as to the issues of whether government should just do it. The power sector is privatized. So there are aspects of it that are privatized. So there are aspects of it that are not in the hands of government. And that is important to note. So if they are not in the hands of government, what are the things that people can do to answer people to correct those things? So those are the kind of questions we should be looking at. How can the private sector be more effective in their work to ensure that they produce for the nation in terms of what we should do? I think those are the questions that are to be asked. And then people need to be knowledgeable. Nobody ever achieved anything with ignorance. We're not all angry and forceful there. So in other words, people need to understand the fundamentals of how this power sector works. And based on that understanding, put pressure on the government in the right areas. Why are you asking the abrigment on the street? Are you telling them that? Okay, so these are the issues. These are the issues. What do you have with this? They say, no, I don't care. I don't want to know. All I want is power. But that's not how life works. I mean, during the global crisis, there was a time I was in Australia and the nation, they did a proper of the issues to the extent that even the plumber, the bricklayer and all that, they understood what the forest was saying, what the issues are. So when people contributed, they contributed based on knowledge. Here, people don't contribute based on knowledge. They contribute based on emotion. They contribute based on feeling. They contribute based on a lot of other services. Not because, Mr, show me, because of time. We understand that the states can now, the federal government has given them the grid light to generate and transmit. So we've discussed this before. We're wondering why are we still where we are? And so there is a level of discussion. There's a level you get to in telling the people, you know, discussing and telling people, giving them terms and explaining to them. And then they get to a point where there's, okay, we've heard. Can we now begin to see actions? Okay. First of all, the federal government did not give them access. The constitution was amended to the extent that they are now able to generate power. And it's not only the states that can generate power. Even the local government can generate power. In simple terms, you can get your local government, which has its own allocation, to make a plan for a few streets or a few areas to also generate power. So the options are large. And those things are important to note because the demand requirement for the average household is very small. If you put a one megawatt plant, it's going to cover more than 10 kilometer area of houses anyway, even in the city, in Lagos, which is supposed to be one of the areas that demands greater power per household. So there is a lot of options for everyone. It is also a private sector apart to it. So when people say, just like you are saying, where are we going to see things happen? It's not everything that is government. So there is sheer responsibility. And the aspect, the thinking, the essence that makes people believe that all solutions must be from the central government is part of the problem. But that is not my own point to identify. Mine is to just talk about the issues within the industry. So these are the issues within the industry. Power sector generation requires social amount of money. When we generate it, the options are should you go to the national grid or should you have a mini grid? Those are the things that are available. And until those things are pursued individually, there will not be power. So there is no margin to it. The idea is the idea of the thinking that we should just give up as a people is lazy thinking. You cannot see a problem and rather than understanding the problem, analyzing the problem and making our solutions, you just don't think that and give up. No, it doesn't work like that. Let me understand what you mean until these things are carried out individually. Let me understand that. Yes. You mean the problems individually or carried out by individuals. You know, people should take it up. What do you mean by? Look at the industry. So the industry, when you talk about the industry or any industry, even if you take your example, your media industry, say for example, somebody wants to start a TV station. He needs to get a license. He needs to get his engineering in place, procure equipment. He needs to broadcast, he needs to do certain things. So if for any reason, a TV station is not getting the signals out, you need to look within that supply chain to find out what is the issue and solve it. Now in the power sector, it's a little, it's a lot like that supply chain. Now, some parts of that supply chain is not one. A number of parts of that supply chain are not working. So what I'm saying is that until you address each aspect of that supply chain, until you address each aspect of that supply chain, the aspects of the supply chain that needs to be addressed, can you hear me? Hello, can you hear me? Yes, wrap it up. Just your final statement, please. So basically the aspects of the supply chain, the individual aspects of the supply chain is what I'm referring to as the individual until those things are addressed individually. You can't result. By who? By who? The government or the private sector? By the people who are responsible. Because it's not everything that is going to one person. Some things are private sector, some things are government and some things are the people. Okay. It's everybody that has a responsibility. Yeah. Well, like scripture says, all I've seen them fall into the glory of God. So all of us have to contribute in one way or the other to make sure that we have power the way we should have it and when we should have it in this country. So let's lend our voices to that. We would like to thank you, Mr. Omi for coming on the program and lending your voice. Thank you. You're welcome. Okay. We've been talking with Mr. Ola Boudis Omi, the CEO, Cap Tree and also chairman, Hydrogen and New Energies Group of Nigerian Gas Association. He was talking to us on the need for stakeholders to drive more investment to bridge energy deficits and things that need to be done for this to come about and he highlighted some of the problems that we have in the energy sector and all of us are culpable. So we have to sit up, say something when we see something and do something when we need to do something. I'm proud that you didn't get so emotional. I am more in my long ways. We're very thankful for being a part of the show today. My name is Nyam Gul Agadji. Let's do the gate tomorrow. Bye for now.


I'm Rob Perks, curator of oral history at the British Library. I also look after national life stories, which is the main fieldwork activity for oral history within the British Library. So I'm looking out at spoken word recordings dating back to the end of the 19th century and also collecting actively interviews with older people and a whole range of different activities around the UK with a big team of interviewers. So we're collecting material with scientists, life stories of scientists, artists within the creative industries generally, but also looking after deposited collections from researchers and PhD students up and down the UK and making those available at the British Library. We've got two very large collections, which I think will be of particular interest to social scientists, one of which is underway at the moment with the BBC called The Listening Project, which is gathering impromptu recordings between family members reflecting on subjects of interest to them. And looking back 10 years, we've got the Millennium Memory Bank collection, which is five and a half thousand interviews recorded by BBC Local Radio at the time of the millennium. On 16 themes, a credibly rich collection of material to a whole range of different researchers about every aspect of life looking back over the 20th century. The oral history collection fits into the sound archive collections at the library more generally and there's lots of other material elsewhere that other curators in the library look after, ethnographic music material, pop music collections, wildlife collections, drama and literature collections and lots of interview material in and amongst this which relates in some ways to people's life stories and certainly the way in which people live their lives in the UK. Plus of course lots of historic recordings going back to the 19th century and it's a large collection of three and a half million items and lots of different formats and very actively being added to all the time. And partly it's being added to by researchers and academics conducting their own interviews and one of the things that we are able to offer which I think is unusual in the library is a series of training sessions with people wanting to use the interview methodology. So in conjunction with the oral history society the British Library runs a whole rolling programme of introductory training and more advanced training say to people who want to use video in their research as well as oral history. And this has been a great way in which we've partnered with community projects and HE projects to grow the collections of the British Library above and beyond the rich collections that we already have.


Hey there Chad Bonds, you're here for High University Libraries. I've got tons of students who are currently researching the amusement park and theme park industry and they are looking for demographics of people who visit a particular theme park. One of the best places to find that information is Simmons and this video I'm going to show you how to create a demographic profile for people who visit certain theme parks in the industry. It's a great database to use for people who look for or buy particular products or who engage in particular activities or who have certain behaviors so this is going to give you a basic understanding of how to create a basic demographic profile for your consumer so let's get started. When you first log into Simmons you're going to come to a page that looks just like this. This is actually one of the more advanced screens in Simmons so we're going to start by going up under the essentials tab at the top of the page and then clicking on quick reports. From here the demographic profile is automatically selected so what we're going to do you can search for your topic right here in the middle. I actually prefer to go through and click on all here at the top and then click on the dictionary tab to browse all the different kind of categories of the variables for which Simmons measures and for this particular example for looking at theme parks and amusement parks that kind of falls underneath the entertainment and leisure categories so we'll click on the arrow here to find entertainment and leisure and if we scroll down we're going to scroll by all these different kind of entertainment and leisure categories that you can look at but here at the very bottom we have theme parks so I'll select theme parks here and you get different variables here this is just a question the top one is just have you been to a theme park in the last 12 months yes or no you can look at that this is the theme parks you visited the most in the last 12 months that's the last 12 months MO there this is the theme parks you also visited in the last 12 months this is the frequency in which you visited a certain theme park in the last 12 months so for example one to two times you know three to five times etc so from my example here I'm just going to say which one I'm going to get demographics people who've been to a certain theme park the most in the last 12 months so I'll click on this and so now it gives us the options of all of the theme parks that they ask questions about in the survey so for my example I will choose cedar point Ohio and I see that we we it selects the variable here now what I'm going to do is over here on the right hand side I'm going to click on target and that will move this variable down here to the bottom okay if you don't do that it's otherwise empty okay so we'll click it it's going to click on target it moves it down here and once we click on target we now have an arrow that lights up and is available for us to click on run the analysis so we'll click run the analysis and this gives us the demographic profile of people who said they in the survey have visited in the 12 last 12 months cedar cedar point the most okay so we get you know general statistics including household income education race etc okay now notice for this particular example here it's throwing some asterisk here if we scroll down to the bottom we see that this indicates that a cell count is from 31 to 60 projections may be unstable and that's basically because if we scroll up the overall sample size of the whole survey now the whole simon survey is almost 25 000 people but of that survey only 224 people said they have visited cedar point the most okay just because the you know the survey size is overall kind of limited you can still use this but if it's throwing double asterisk for you you wouldn't want to use that data but this is this is probably okay to use you know for to get a general idea of your your demographic profile for that consumer so hopefully this helped you understand how to use this you can do this for all the different kinds of other other areas so let's let's clear this out let's start over let's try to do another one let's do demographic profile and let's go down and look at our entertainment leisure here i went too far there we go entertainment leisure and then go back down and look at theme parks and then let's look at the most again and you know cedar points in Ohio it's probably not as well known as say for example disney world magic kingdom so let's click on that one there and you can see now our sample size is 775 versus 226 you know because you know magic that kingdom has a bit more national reach we'll click on the target you'll notice the target down here is blank right so we'll click on the target and that's going to pull that variable down here and then once again we can go run our analysis and get some data there so as we see here as opposed to the other example i showed you with cedar point we see that we're only seeing one variable down here with double asterisks and that is because the sample size there is just 27 so basically of the whole survey of 24804 people only 27 people said yes i go to disney magic kingdom the most and i have less than a high school diploma so this is a variable we probably would not use because it has double asteris and the sample size falls below the count of 31 so i wouldn't use that variable but everything else on here looks pretty good we're we're looking at some income levels that you might be questionable but this is a good good way to kind of give you an overall view of the demographics of a consumer of a particular theme park so hopefully that helps you better understand how to use Simmons and it's a great tool to better understand the consumers of a particular product or people who engage in a particular activity hope this video helped you understand how to use Simmons to find demographic profiles for a particular consumer if you need more help check out my business guides take care


Last week on the program, we talked about a Texas woman who is now considering leaving the state of Texas due to their draconian anti-abortion laws. Now, she was forced to carry her dead fetus inside of her for two weeks after having a miscarriage because doctors in Texas were too terrified to perform a DNC on her because they didn't want to be accused of doing an abortion on a live fetus. Now, what they put her through was they made her get ultrasound after ultrasound and finally after the third ultrasound, once they had enough evidence to shield themselves from legal culpability, they performed the DNC on her that was required when women have miscarriages. Now, it's not that the doctors would be safe if they were sued in that event. They'd protect themselves from going to jail. Yes. But still, if the attorney general of Texas, Ken Paxton, decided to sue that doctor and claim that they committed an abortion on a live fetus, well, they would have to spend thousands and thousands of dollars to defend themselves. So even if that evidence with the ultrasounds, multiple ultrasounds was enough, still, you know, if you're sued with these lawsuits in that state that's going after doctors who do abortions, you still could be destroyed just out of legal fees alone. So the situation is really bad. Now, there's another woman in Texas who had a similar experience where she wanted to have a baby. She had a miscarriage, but she couldn't get the necessary procedure because the doctors were afraid that they would be accused of doing an abortion on her. So as a result, she had to wait until she got incredibly sick to the point where she was sufficiently sick enough to where the doctors would have plausible deniability. In the event they were charged with doing an abortion. So NPR has the story. It was May 10 of 2022. Elizabeth was 18 weeks pregnant. She ate a healthy breakfast, went for a walk outside and came back home. Elizabeth stood up to get some lunch. That's when she felt something shift in her uterus down low. And then this burst of water just falls out of my body. And I screamed because that's when I knew something wrong was happening. Her water had broken, launching her into what she calls a dystopian nightmare of physical, emotional and mental anguish. James rushed home from work. That's her husband and drove Elizabeth to nearby Woodlands Hospital, part of the Houston Methodist Hospital system. An ultrasound confirmed that she had suffered premature rupture of membranes, which affects about 3% of pregnancies. The facts were grim. At 18 weeks, the watery protective cushion of amniotic fluid was gone. There was still a fetal heartbeat, but it could stop at any moment. Among other risks, both the fetus and Elizabeth were now highly vulnerable to a uterine infection called choreoamnionitis. The OBGYN, who said she could not speak to the media, laid out two options according to Elizabeth. One option was to end the pregnancy. That's called a termination for medical reasons. The other option is called expectant management, in which Elizabeth would stay in the hospital and try to stay pregnant until 24 weeks, which is considered the beginning of viability outside the womb. Outcomes from expectant management vary greatly depending on when the waters break. Later in pregnancy, doctors can try to delay delivery to give the fetus more time to develop, while also warding off infection or other maternal complications such as hemorrhage. But when membranes rupture earlier in pregnancy, particularly before 24 weeks, the chance of a fetus surviving plummets. One reason is that amniotic fluid plays a key role in fetal lung development. For a fetus at 18 weeks, the chance of survival in that state is almost non-existent according to Peaceman. This is a doctor. This is probably about as close to zero as you'll ever get in medicine. Now, at that point, Herner has been had a conversation about what to do, and they really didn't have an option, right? It's the illusion of choice. You can either try to continue with this pregnancy when that poses a threat to your own life, and the chances of the fetus surviving are slim to none. And even if the fetus survives, its quality of life, if it's one day born, is going to be really horrible. So ending the pregnancy was the merciful decision in their eyes. The problem is that there was still fetal cardiac activity, and Texas has a heartbeat ban in place. But there is an exception for medical emergencies. The problem is that the medical emergency exception within Texas's law is ill defined. So is this sufficiently medical emergency? Because the doctors did present her with an option.  So what do you do? And literally, their only option was for her to just wait to get more sick, wait for the infection to grow, and then she can terminate the pregnancy. That's the only thing that she was able to do. More on this. To Elizabeth, it seemed obvious that things were deteriorating. She had cramps and was passing clots of blood. Her discharge was yellow and smelled weird. But the hospital staff told her that those weren't the right symptoms yet of a growing infection in her uterus. They told her the signs of a more severe infection would include a fever of 100.4 degrees and chills.  To Dr. Peaceman at Northwestern, it sounded like the hospital's clinicians were using the most common clinical signs of Coriamnionitis as a guideline. If Elizabeth exhibited enough of them, then it would be possible to document the encroaching infection and therefore terminate the pregnancy under the Laws Medical Emergency Clause, he said. Elizabeth found this maddening, quote, at first I was really enraged at the hospital and administration, she says. To them, my life was not in danger enough. Their conundrum became painfully distressingly clear, wait to get sicker or wait until the fetal heartbeat ceased. Either way, she saw nothing ahead but fear and grief prolonged, delayed and amplified. Now as time went on, her pain and discomfort got worse. The couple grew increasingly desperate. There was one moment where she was very sick and they did an ultrasound and there was still fetal cardiac activity so they couldn't end the pregnancy there. So they began to contemplate just leaving the state because it was so bad that they were worried that it was only going to get worse and further threaten her life until she felt a huge gush of fluid from her body. And the odor was horrible as doctors had described, which would sufficiently, you know, indicate that it was an infection. And that's when finally they were able to induce her. And then when she was induced, she just sat there and she bawled her eyes out because she wanted to have a baby. So even if she went through all of this pain, there was still that grief there. But that grief, that pain was prolonged because of Texas's draconian law. Now I could say a lot about why this law is terrible, but I think that her words are more important. Here's what she says about it. She places the blame for the ensuing medical trauma on the Republican legislatures who passed the state's anti-abortion law on Texas Governor Greg Abbott who signed it and on the inflamed political rhetoric which Elizabeth says only sees abortion as one thing, a black and white issue, when abortion has all these gray areas. When Roe v. Wade fell in June, Elizabeth's pain and anger surged up again. Quote, you know, they paint this woman into being this individual that doesn't care about her life, doesn't care about the life of the children she creates or whatever, and she just recklessly and negligently goes out and gets abortions all willy nilly left and right, she says.  It honestly, it shouldn't even get to the point where you're having to save a woman's life. But that's where we're at in some states. Women like Elizabeth are forced to literally roll the dice with their life in order to qualify legally for an abortion. And even if they qualify, a doctor might not necessarily feel comfortable administering that procedure. So they force that woman to get ultrasound after ultrasound as we learned about another woman with her experience. It's just, it's so barbaric. It's, it's morally reprehensible. And personally, Elizabeth wouldn't get an abortion. She's pro-choice. She thinks that women should have the ability to control their own reproductive rights. But before this, she said she would never get an abortion. But I mean, in these instances, where the life of the mother is in danger, of course, that should be necessary. So she, in principle, agrees with the pro-lifers, right? The people who don't think you should get abortions as a form of contraception. But yet, because of this draconian anti-abortion law, it's hurting people who even want to have pregnancies, who want to have babies who end up having miscarriages, unfortunately. And now, because of this experience, they've been traumatized. And even if they one day want to try again to have a child, now they're not going to do it in the near future. They're waiting. So we have this situation where women who want to have babies are getting miscarriages and then they're experiencing a terrible situation in the state of Texas where they can't get access to the procedure needed because doctors are afraid that they'll be charged with doing an abortion. And so these women now decide to just not have babies. This is what the pro-life movement is doing. This is what the forced-brother movement is doing.  People like Greg Abbott are ignorant to the facts of pregnancies. They don't know the first thing about what it means to be pregnant, what a miscarriage entails, and what removing the fetus after a woman miscarries entails. They're so ignorant. We have men dictating health decisions of women when they are completely out of their league. They have no idea, but they just superimpose their own values on everyone and force them to live based on their deluded evangelical fundamentalist beliefs. It's infuriating, but I think that these stories are really important and I feel inclined as an ally to share them because this isn't going to be the last story. It's not the first story. These stories will continue to happen. It's not just women who want to get abortions who are affected by this. Women who have miscarriages where doctors are afraid to do a DNC and remove the dead fetus because they don't want to be charged are also part of this story as well. It's a really broad picture. It's not just black and white as Elizabeth eloquently stated. So these stories are important and I will continue to share them.


Welcome to NewsClick. Today we have with us Mr. Shashikant Senthil, former IIS officer and now who has been working as an activist in the anti-CANRC movement, especially in Karnataka. Today we are going to talk to him about a wide range of issues. So, welcome to NewsClick, Mr. Senthil. The first question I would like to ask you about is about your resignation, ahead of which you had said that it's unethical to continue as a servant right now. So, I would like to ask you why did you say that and what were the immediate triggers back then and why did you come to this decision? Yeah, it was not a very immediate trigger. I had been watching the way Senthil government has been conducting itself from 2014 onwards. So, I had been the district collector of three districts in that in those period and a close scrutiny of what has been happening in the country from 2014 for me was very clear that we were in a very, very specific framework, a fastest framework has was being deployed on the country. This was not from one issue, but the series of issues and the focus areas of Senthil government. So, I thought we were in the country was heading in the wrong direction, specifically with respect to the constitutional principles. So, 2019 when the vote share increased of the same forces, I found I think it's time that we need to do something about it and my decision to resign was because that if I need to do something, I have to come out. I cannot be a civil servant and do it. It will be not ethical on that aspects. So, I was very clear in my letter also the foundation of our democracy is being sort of compromised. So, that is why I thought I should resign and come out and do something about it. So, but as a bureaucrat, how is this government's functioning working, interfering with your working? Can you give us some examples? No, it was not interfering in a day-to-day activity type of thing because in Karnataka also we had seen three governments in that phase, but the general direction in which we were going and the indicators which I could see was very clear that we were heading in a wrong direction. Anybody who had heard the political theory would know that the this sort of a framework with a patriarch taking control of the country and then a mythical past and sort of glorification in the past and sort of constant indication of the outgroup. These are all classic framework of fascism and when they started attacking universities which is again a classic indicator because of the anti-intellectual thought process of the framework, I was very clear that this is happening and history has many indications for us how this will move forward and when they abrogated 370 and converted the whole state into a prison, I was very clear now this is going in a very very wrong direction and I see the CA, NRC is also a part of the framework of pointing at an outgroup and sort of thriving on the hate and fear of the majority. So that is the issue. It was not in a day-to-day interference into this thing. Okay and after your resignation you were targeted as usual like BJP leaders saying that you go to Pakistan and Kumar Hegde said that about you. So there's this mentality that you are either with us or is go to Pakistan. So how do you counter that or how do you stop them from painting you in a picture? You would seem like an anti-national. How do you deal with it? It's a very interesting question and we have to watch it very closely. The entire framework works on the concept of a hyper-nationalistic call. So all hidden agendas will be only taken in the name of nation. That's how fascism moves forward. So that is why when you find somebody dissenting or somebody raising a question, the first response and the only response will be anti-national. When I resigned, I was until then I was one of the best officers in the state. The people like me, the politicians like me, everybody were in favor of me. The moment I resigned and said why I am resigning, the first response was you are an anti-national. Now the response could have been something else also that you are anti-Hindu or you are an urban next line, whatever. But the response will always be anti-national and this is one thing that we have to watch and it clearly tells us where we are heading. So any dissent will be sort of counter-funded with this argument and if it gets a little boring, they will say go to Pakistan. So it's a very expected response. Okay. Now coming to the anti-CA and NRC NPR movement, can you tell us why exactly do we need to take a stand against CA, especially NRC and NPR? Yeah. Now CA and NRC, these two things are different. You know, CA is an amendment to the Citizenship Act. Now the current amendment which has happened, you know, looking at from any angle, you know, doesn't give any logic. It is absolutely discriminatory and it is also arbitrary. And why discrimination? I can understand because pointing at an out-group is what is constantly being happening in this country. You know, from 2013-14, you take all the issues which have been risen in this country, which will be all emotional and also so value-oriented issues like, you know, Garwabsi, beef-eating, you know, and also sort of Lao Jihad. In everything, the ultimate intention is to show this out-group. And also when 370 was abrogated, I think there also the out-group was, the Muslims were pointed out, you know, as if they were anti-nationalism, things like that. So now CA, when they did CA, the only logic I see is like, you know, again, they wanted to point out an out-group. Because if we see who is getting benefited out of it, you know, after all the RTIs and everything, we were not able to get any numbers except the last joint parliamentary committee's report saying that there are around 30,000 people from these three countries who have living in India for a long, with a long visa. So apart from that, it doesn't benefit anybody. So this whole argument of giving citizenship and all is just, in my opinion, doesn't serve any purpose. But clearly, the Muslims are pointed out as people who are not seen at par. I think that is what they have achieved. So I think it is a responsibility of every Indian to object to this because it is an unconstitutional amendment. And I think never in the history we have done such an amendment by leaving this bigger sort of separating religion out. So since it is unconstitutional, I think all Indians have this responsibility of fighting against it. So today, it could be the Muslims. Tomorrow, it could be Adivasis within the Hindus. Tomorrow, day after tomorrow, it can be schedule cast. So what will prevent the governments from setting these presidences? So I think every community has a responsibility of objecting to such discriminatory laws. That is the part about CAO. And NRC, I think it's completely evil. And also, I would say it's completely anti-poor because this sort of exercise, I would also say, is utterly foolish to do in India. And to take up an issue like citizenship and to question it within our country. And that too, how do you question it? You question it by presenting documents. How do you verify citizenship? You just do it by documents. We are a country where we have not even given documents to people. 50% and above, they don't live with any documents. We have not even ensured institutional deliveries. In that case, when you bring in an exercise like this, your intention is again to show the outgroup. But my point is, in this exercise, everybody is vulnerable, including me, including all the armed forces and all the police, their families are vulnerable because they will not have documents for their fathers and mothers and grandfathers to prove that they have, for citizenship, you have to prove you are born in this country. And the date in which you are born is both are important. There is no such documents which records both together. So taking the example from Assam, we have seen that even after having all other cards, water IDs, citizenship doesn't get proved by that. So I think it's an absolutely foolish exercise to do. And every one of us, especially the underprivileged is in a big mess as far as this NRC is concerned. Okay, but this is this perception that if you're a Hindu, then you do not need to be afraid of NRC and NPR because CAF will ultimately save you. So what answer will you give?  CA only protects those people who have from the six sort of religions who have come from three countries, you know, and they should have entered this country before 31st of December 2014. Now, let us take an average Hindu here, who is a resident of Delhi, let us say, and he is not able to present his documents. Now, can he get relief through CA? No. The CA is only for people who are from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. So this guy who is a Delhiite who's lived all his generation in Delhi, will he be ready to say that he is from Pakistan? Will he be ready to prove that he is from Bangladesh? For that, what he has to do? Does he have to go to Pakistan and get a birth certificate for him?  This will not save any Hindu or any underprivileged from this matter. Everybody will be in a soup. Very clearly in Assam, it has happened out of the 19 lakh people, the reports say 12 lakh are Hindus. You know, so that sort of a thing is completely false. And CA will not absolve any Hindu from India who was not ready to present any documents. Okay, so if you look at the larger picture of this exercise, it will not come as a surprise because people have known that this government is anti Muslim. There's no doubt about that. So, but you still see that even though we can say that BJP is losing in some states and you know, maybe it's there down for some assume, but their vote share and number of seeds has been ultimately increasing. So how do you see the future of this political party and this future of hated of politics? Where will it take us? Will we be able to counter it? Yeah, I think, you know, a very positive thing is that now people have started involving themselves in these questions. You know, until the 370 was abrogated, I think the complete silence from the population as such. But now people have started questioning, started understanding these things. Again, I would insist their mantra is nationalism. You know, Hindutva and all those related agendas will be pushed as nationalism. Unless people see this in the name of nationalism, what is being pushed? It's very difficult to extract yourself from out of this. That is why I think we are in a very, very tough situation because a common man, when he is asked to do a national duty, he will be ready to do it. When they brought in demonetization, the argument was we have to take out black money. And everybody would accept that for the nation. But then what happened? They did this not bandi and who got affected? Everybody knows similarly when 370 also, they said, let's let's this is a national call and everybody accepted it.  So unless you extract yourself out of this nationalistic, you know, sort of face which they put, it's very difficult. So it's very important that people involved in politicize themselves to understand this particular thing. And I think what is right now happening is a very, very great movement because people themselves are getting involved. Secondly, another thing, a generally a fascist government will do is it will completely destroy the independent institutions. And now people on the roads who have come to the roads, they have come there because a lot of independent institutions have have lost their value in the eyes of the people. It includes media, other institutions, judiciary, whatever. So that is the reason why people have come. They have started asking the questions. I think from here we'll only move forward. Losses in state elections, you know, will not does not indicate much about the how the central elections will move forward. But I think this people's movement where people have started questioning and engaging in a debate, I think that will extract our country out of this mess and we'll be back to track. I have a complete faith on this entire movement and the way it has happened is very, very inspiring. Thank you for being with us. Thank you. Please keep watching NewsClick.


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Hello, thank you for joining me. I've just parked my larder up here at Crockham Woods in County Durham I've been up here with the IFA club with our trip around the North East. This is the final video I'm going to make in this area before driving home. This is welcome to Crockham Wood. Down here is the River Weir and on the other side of the River Weir is Finkle Priory So we're going to go and explore the ruins of Finkle Priory So once I've been up here with the IFA club we had a great road run around Northumberland We've been to Tanfield Railway, we've been to Beamish, we've been to Rail Museum at Darlington and obviously various other places Now it's time for the long drive home But I just had to stop here because it wasn't too far and it was just just made a perfect stop really So let's go down these steps and explore the ruins of Finkle Priory I'm making my way down these steps through the woods. Steps at this point take on a bit of a zigzag Going down Down there, we'll eventually end up down there. I can start to see glimpses of the ruins of Finkle Priory in the distance. It's spelt finch ale, but it's pronounced Finkle So it's Finkle Priory. It is also known as Finkle Abbey It's the daughter house of Durham Priory, which is also known as Durham Cathedral So as we take another head in bend I can, this was winter, we'll probably get a good view of it now But the leaves are blocking that view, but we should see it very soon coming down towards the River Weir Interestingly the sea is that way. The River Weir is flowing that way So it's taking a very windy course out towards the sea And come down this path here that we're joining appears to run along the River Weir And there on the other side of the river are the ruins of Finkle Priory So what we're going to do now is we're going to go across the River Weir and explore the ruins I've never been to this this priory before, been to quite a few. The most recent priory I visited was Hexham, which of course very different. It's now a parish church So that was very interesting. If you want to see that video have a look at the link on screen now There's a link to a video at Hexham Where I explored the whole town of Hexham So here we are, the River Weir And there's the priory in front of us So as I say I always enjoy Visiting any form of abbey or priory or castle. I just enjoy visiting historic sites really This is really nice though. It reminds me a bit of my visit last year to Bolton Abbey So it's a hot day. There's people swimming in the river. Last year I visited Bolton Abbey. That was another good day out So as we approach here there's a tea room here Toilet, so I parked up there. There is a bigger carpark and campsite down here So you could park there, but I thought it would be a nice walk down from the trees up there So that's why we came the way we did. So here we are Finch ale bar. It's English heritage. It is free to visit and that's where you can get tea etc ice-creams So let's go and have a look around the ruins. So there's the church up there behind us So it's a perfect setting. You get quite a lot of abbeys mentioned Bolton Abbey. It reminds me a bit of Tinton Abbey. Not as much the building itself, but the setting So I believe this dates back to 1537 they started building it. Sorry not 1537, 1536 when it was dissolved. 1237 they started building The current ruins, the current building you see. That's the church. Just there we're going and have a look and it was finished in 1239. It was dissolved in 1536. I believe it was dedicated to a saint Name slipped my mind that's coming on screen now. I don't believe he ever came here It was when he died they set up this this priory in his honor But the original priory was about a mile along the river and it was just a little wooden hut that eventually became just a chapel and then The current church was built. So it stands to fairly, I wouldn't say quite to full height, but You know the ruins are quite substantial What's interesting here is quite a lot of the ruins do survive at least all the foundations survive So on the whole we can see pretty much everything get a fairly good idea So that would have been the chancell of the church So I said looking east towards the sea although River Weir has actually flown that way North transit Is here so from the North transit you can see out out through to The Weir That's the building where I said you can buy teas and coffees There's a self-transcepts full of there would have been in this column here There was a spiral staircase Doesn't go very far and I'm just let you see that There's a locked door So this is the self-transcepts And then this is the main names of the church So if you imagine big vaulted ceiling above us In the road ahead of us, that's where if you come by car I said that is another route in and if you were to camp in the car park it's part there So let's have a look at the side of the church Again building where you can get cup of tea. It's also the booking office for the campsite Here's the front of the church So that's like the grand doors into the church Imagine pilgrims arriving here and they would have been Imagine the huge facade which would have greeted them Here we go. So as there is Fenced in What I'm going to do I'm gonna walk one hour and we'll find a way into there because that looks interesting So again the front of the church Let's go through this little door here One thing I find quite fascinating is the way the stone has weathered and you get all these interesting shapes So this room we're in here You can see the vaulted ceiling would have been another arch to there and to that far corner So you can imagine it have completely been vaulted now. We come back out here This is the cloisters of the Abbey That's the Abbey church. So they all survive higher on that side than they do on this side So I'm just walking around the edge of the cloister So where does this door ever since I was a child I've always enjoyed every little door Oh, that's where we were a moment ago. The room would have altered ceiling. Let's go back through here Get another view across the cloisters That's the chapter house there So we're gonna have a look at that When we get round there. So we're going up some steps now. What do we for? It's interesting rather large room This is probably the refectory I'm guessing this is the refectory What's through here? I'll come through to here. Yeah, there's that vaulted ceiling building again Let's go back And there's also So There's like a path down there. I wonder if we can There's like a pretty kangaroo down there. So we're going to have a look You can see from here though. See how there's a fireplace. So where I'm standing Whether this isn't you I thought this is the original height because I think I know what's beneath here But so much been quiet my head must have been about where the ceiling is But you can clearly see a fireplace just there now if we go through to here This is the refectory So this is where the monks were probably sat in too long tables and eating their meals I did actually visit a functioning monastery in France a few years ago, and it was Wasn't quite as big as this. It was an old farm that been converted to a monastery and I stayed in the guest house But I went into the room and I did see two tables and the monks were all dressed Very similar to how they would have been. This was a benedicting monastery I can't remember what the order was of that one But they would have probably sat in two rows and they would have eaten their meals Usually they ate their meals in silence So pretty why I didn't join them because I probably would have just chatted to them. So you can see some steps there Remains of some steps To a room, but I believe this would have been a much taller room. There probably was a floor above it going by the windows But I think what we should do now is have a look at what's below So back to the boys, you can see some steps going down there So this looks rather interesting What we've got is going here Descending, oh, and it's nice and cool in here. It's rather hot days Here we are. So we're now beneath the refectory So as I said about vaulted seating area, here we have a perfect surviving example of a vaulted seating That's a bit cold and it's a bit damp down here But as I said, it's a hot day, so I'm going to come down here for a couple of minutes We'll go out that door there and see what that takes us And then we'll continue to explore the rest of the monastery Once I've explored the monastery, I have got a long long drive south in my larder Going back to Buckinghamshire tonight. So this is my final video from my little trip to the northeast. I've gone completely whiter Yeah, there we go Right, so the foisters is there. Let's just go around here So this is what, yeah, we could see from, we were just up there That's the refectory and a moment ago the room of the ceiling is in these windows here So, right, let's, yes, we could That will take us back to the weir. So let's go down this way I'm trying to make sure I show you at least all of the important buildings. I don't want to miss anything out This is what I wanted to see. This would have been the chapter house here So the chapter house, for those of you who don't know, was basically a room not where they had anything religious But where they would have had meetings, discussed finances of the monastery, etc Quite often chapter houses are square in shape where the door was two windows each side Sometimes they can be octagonal Quite often, if you go to most cathedrals these days, you will be able to have a look at the chapter house If there's not a function being held in. So there's various rooms here Let's go, oh, this is, yeah, I'm just so careful to hear this Again, talking of two floors, you can see a clear line So there'd have been another floor above me and it would have been the dormitory because His sign here says so, so the dormitory would have been above him quite shortly have been down here So the monks probably would have made their way from the rectory after dinner up to the dormitory Up to bed, they probably went to bed very early because I remember when I did stay at that monastery In France, some of the monks, they would be up at four o'clock and they would go to bed You know, at about, they'd probably have dinner at about six o'clock, maybe go to bed at seven o'clock And when I was at that monastery, I then went to Lourdes and had a look around there Not so much that I'm religious, I just found it something I wanted to do and explore And when I got to Lourdes, I was then more interested in a funicular railway And so, but that's all, that was a few years ago I did that trip I'll have to, one day I'll find the videos of all that, I made them all and upload them Anyway, so we can't go into that room down there So we're in the kitchen now So you can imagine, people kitchen probably fish from the river, chickens maybe And they would have taken them over there to the dormitory for the monks to eat So we're coming to, so there's more buildings that way, we will go and explore all of them as well And the river we're just down there, you get some this angle there, you get a nice view of The monastery, the cloisters, the quite substantial remains of the church And what I wanted to show you is this room, go to here and obviously we can't go any further Because you can see the floor's gone But what we were in over there, beneath the refractory, would have been like this So this is where the vaulted ceiling had survived You can see, the section over there has survived So we'll go and have a look at that, let's make our way down into there So I think, because that would be quite interesting to see it from the lower levels So we'll go, let's go down these steps, a bit of modern steps here Just to get us in and out So again, chapter house, that would be the self-transcept There's no real windows on the self-transcept, because there were buildings up against them I think, I'll be wrong here, I think this corridor here is what's called a slight It's like a corridor, I'm saying that because when I went to Croxton Abbey A couple of years ago, if you want to see that video Do have a look at Lincoln Street now The slight was in about the same position Between the chapter house and the various other monastic buildings Okay, so we are coming along here We were there a moment ago on that side of the wall So this is that same, I said I was going to take you down into it What I've actually done We were literally there, we've come to there But we've got to find a way down to there There's a door just there, I think Oh yes, if we go out this door Let's just find it so exciting exploring monasteries You should never know what's going to take you Where, so yes, the church So that would have been the chancellel Self-transcept for down here And that's where we were, we've just been to those two doors And you can see the remains of the vaulted ceiling So I'm now in this room here Which I'm not entirely sure what it was There are so many different rooms here in monasteries But as I've said, I'm really happy to find a monastery Where a lot of it survives Because so many monasteries you go to You might get just one part that survives to high walls And those other parts don't have more steps to So we've now been to both those windows Or doors rather And we have been down there Now we're up here So let's just almost finish looking around Yeah, that room there that we couldn't get into It looks like you're waiting We'll be down through that grid And there's an arch under there I'm not going to obviously do that And along into that doorway there Because that looks quite exciting So we did a moment ago Come up out of those steps Gives you an idea actually Looking at these You can see the construction of the stone windows So I'll try and picture Whenever I come to this place I do try and picture what they would have looked like So this would have looked not so much Probably would have looked more like Just like maybe a farmhouse as such The walls weren't, the windows weren't so gothic as such So probably more squared off Etc It's above here Within the prize chapel So yeah as I was saying that That was various other buildings The church was over there So as far as the prior Perhaps these were Effectively his quarter The prize chapel Chapel would have been above Oh look at that That's cool Remains of a spiral staircase See up there So the prior probably And then he could have gone up further So yeah prize chapel would have been above You can see the window from there So the chance of the prize chapel Would have been up there Now let's go back out here We have various other little walls of ruins Oh now that's interesting This is probably my guess But if you look at See down there That line of I reckon that's covering a drain So the lavatories were probably Possibly even here Probably went out to the river with If we can find a Easy way down Let's go down To um Let's see if we can work that one out So there you get a bit more Of the spiral staircase Where the town was effectively fallen And exposed it I reckon yeah I can see it now That I'm pretty sure that's a drain Because just above it I can see And like an arch They've gone down here I think I've answered my own question There's like a hole here When I was little I used to go The drains at Tinton Abbey You could actually Were quite big I used to get in it I was quite small at the time And I've crawled through And come out in another one Whether I'd still be able to do that I don't know I've not been to Tinton Abbey Since I was a child But um Really would love to go there again We will do it one day There's a lot of miniature railways Near Tinton Abbey So um Yeah it's a holiday in the making for me And a whole series of Videos in the making Tinton Abbey I think That would have been the front of the church again Let's just go into this building here That's the one part of the abbey um Or priory rather Even though it's known as an abbey That we haven't yet explored So we'll go in there Find our way up to it So again there's other ruins That's the bridge we came in And I've got to walk up there To find my car Ready for the long long drive so Okay so We come One thing I'm not sure about If anyone watching Would like to comment and tell me Is Got the church over there I wonder what would have been in this area here Whether it had just been An outdoor sort of grassy area Um Okay so we're going Well this looks exciting Ah so the prior studies I said this would have been the prior's quarters This would have been like a little barrel voltage room Not so much the fancy voltage ceiling we saw But this prior study would have been above here So if you imagine the prior sitting up there Probably with um you know Dipping his fiver into ink and writing books Um that's how it had been in those days Yeah so there's another room With a barrel sort of vault That um remains of a spoil staircase I can see that was out there So it's a shame we can't go up there But it'd probably be a bit dangerous So above here it actually all survives See if we can just have a look at that We come through into here We've been around yeah we've been around here haven't we We've come back to yeah So the prior's chapel's above there So we're basically below the prior's quarters This one isn't going I'm trying to get back Let's go the way we came up Or no that's uh window I'm trying to get back out to Where the church was Back to the prior's study Says the church in all its glory Off we go These steps here Up here Not these steps And now we're back into the Prize quarter You get perfect view over the church So um the prized chapel Would have been through here This part of the prize quarter The prized study Would have been Ground at the level I'm at here That's looking out to the river where There's been a spiral staircase down there So I think really that concludes My visit to this beautiful ruin Priory in county Durham On the banks of the river where I hope you enjoyed this video Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like subscribe And comment if you're up this way You know do come and visit It is free to visit You can get a cup of tea There are toilets So it's a good place to break a journey Just like I'm doing So I hope you enjoyed my whole Visit to the northeast of county Durham My trips around with the IFA club And the other little visits like this I managed to engineer in Thank you very much for watching Please do feel free to like subscribe And comment and from Think or priory 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Hey, welcome back everybody. Do you all remember way way back way way way back last year when the media circled their wagons around Andrew Cuomo? I mean even as those nursing home scandals were breaking if nothing else the media is great at picking losers even as those initial sexual Harassment cases began getting some attention the media still treated Cuomo like he was above scrutiny Which we all know is the default when we're dealing with Democrats in the media He even had an open propagandist over at CNN who admitted that he was acting as PR for his brother and how that didn't violate any Journalistic ethics because remember they don't actually have any journalistic ethics or standards at all as it turns out Chris Cuomo was actually part of the governor's team of advisors and he actually had Ongoing in regular discussions about how to respond to the allegations publicly. He even participated in strategy calls Now finally the media will be forced to cover him critically Maybe let's take a trip back in time and look at their previous drooling lapdog coverage of this overstuffed bratwurst David we're sitting by for governor Cuomo's press conference is daily briefing How would you contrast Cuomo and President Trump's handling of the crisis? Truth versus mendacity governor Cuomo Out there day after day after day everything Trump isn't honest direct brave Real leadership of the kind the president of the United States should have provided governor Cuomo He's clearly living in a totally different reality The actual one then the president of the United States governor Cuomo has become a national leader for a lot of people Angel Cuomo has become the leader of the Democratic Party. He is conveying incredible strength You spoke to National Guard troops today in a stirring speech that if I wasn't listening carefully I thought you would sending soldiers off to war. This has been a remarkable show of leadership by governor Cuomo in recent days He's providing hope but not false hope governor Cuomo I think this is is one of the heroes on the front lines with all of this Agulation that you're getting for doing your job. Are you thinking about running for president Andrew Cuomo? Who has a daily television show now and has become in some ways the shadow? President maybe Trump is just a little bit mad that governor Cuomo has become a kind of acting president dealing with Hardship actually makes you stronger. That's what governor Cuomo said earlier today That's what I'm gonna go teach my kids right now at home in scale This was the actual swab that was being used to fit up that double barrel shotgun That you have mounted on the front of your pretty face Thanks for watching if you're interested in daily news clips check out my other channel Drone Tech Media You can find that link in the description and pin comment and while you're at it Check out my discord server where you can discuss topics meet new people and take part in live events


My name is Caff and I'm an ambassador for National Lottery Good Causes. I'm here today at Project MCR's Pump Caged Skatepark in Manchester. The skatepark has been open since 2004. Project MCR's received so much national lottery funding in the past. It has contributed to the building of this concrete skatepark that you see behind me. In the upcoming years we're going to have another transformation where we're going to knock right through the road into the wooden side and it's just going to be concrete throughout which allows us to do a lot more coaching for young people and just put a lot more coaching sessions on for everyone. I've got this for Christmas after Kelly I got it and then I went to the skatepark that day and then I started skating on it. So we get a range of people at the park all the way from toddlers up to 50 plus people of all genders as well. Girls Night is a good example for that because we get young kids coming, four, five, six who have never skated before. We also get 40 plus women coming that I've never skated before. Quite often we get young children that come and then we get the mums involved and then they end up coming back week after week for Girls Night. I love that nothing else matters when you're skateboarding. Everything that you worry about in life just doesn't matter and everything that you can't fix in your own life just melts away. Girls Night means the world to me. It's somewhere where I've made friends, it's somewhere where I've built confidence, it's taught me to keep trying, it's taught me determination and skateboarding just gives me a sense of freedom and I can just come here and play basically and nothing matters other than it's just me, my skateboard and whatever challenge I've set myself. It's been an amazing night here at Project MCR Skatepark for the Girls Night.  And without the lottery funding that wouldn't be possible so thank you.


I mean, I think I've had some conversations along the way with cash and certainly at the end of the year, you know, we spoke a little bit and he's he, you know, definitely voiced his support and desire to have me back and made me feel like that was the case. I had a good conversation with with how beginning of last week just about stuff and and certainly from my end was was satisfied and heard what I felt like I wanted to hear and certainly understand the the challenges and the tasks moving forward. But yeah, I think conversations with them put me in a space that if everything lined up, you know, otherwise I felt like this is where I wanted to be.


Hello my sweet pie. Hello.  And yeah, and there's some very exciting news. What is it? They've invited, you know, they want us to do the the promo for the video for the release. They've invited us to LA and they're going to fly us out there.    But, um, all we have to do is pay for your ticket and then you can come as well.   That's pretty sick. I'll stay here. Dude, this is New Zealand times 10. During the video last week when you were like, um, when you were like, this is New Zealand. I said, you're sending me to LA.  You predicted it. Can't. This is a prank call, isn't it? Yeah, it is.  We're not going to LA, man. We're staying in Brizzy. We're staying in Brizzy and we're going to Wet and Wild. It just all clicked in my head at once. You fucking...  He wasn't even that overly excited.  I didn't want to stand excited like I was like, oh yeah, cool.  Like, I was just trying to act real cool. I was like, we're backflipping.  Finally, we get to do something cool other than buy a van. Oh, yeah, dude.  That's your best one. Yeah, this has hurt me a lot. I was like, fuck, that's good.  You were so happy for me and I was like, why? And then I just clicked. I was like, they're doing the broadcast.  We're like, yeah, anyway, good news, man. Yeah, and then just hung up and then just let you...  I wish, man.  Dude, honestly, that's the best prank call we've done in AEG just for that. That was the best.  Anyway, dude, we'll see you tomorrow morning at our regular work, at our regular normal day. No LA for you. Live, baby.   Oh, I thought he fucking... I was like, I thought he was a guy. He knows. But then you can tell from his reaction that he was... He's fucking... He glued on.  But it is because I thought I'd get away with it because it's so late. It's late, yeah. Oh, surely they'd be done by now.  We're done. It's the end of it now.


For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. The sociopolitical crisis in Haiti has been further deepened with the assassination of its president. In the early hours of July 7th, unidentified armed men attacked the house of Haiti's de facto president Jovenel Mois and shot him dead. Haiti's interim prime minister and now acting president Claude Joseph confirmed the news in the early morning and declared a 15-day state of siege. On the evening of July 7th, the Secretary of State Communication, Franz Exantus, reported that the two suspects in the president's assassination had been arrested by the National Police in Pelerin. Hours later in a press conference, the director of the Haitian National Police, PNH, Leon Charles, confirmed that the police captured two of the presumed assassins and killed four others. Claude Joseph also reported that he held a meeting with the core group, composed of the ambassadors of Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Spain, the European Union, the United States of America, as well as representatives from the United Nations and the Organization of American States. He also informed that he spoke with the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the assassination and the political crisis. Haitian civil society organizations and other progressive sectors have expressed concern about these meetings. They warned that Moise's assassination could be used as a pretext to increase foreign interference and will far from alleviate the sociopolitical crisis in the country. They apprised that the core group has its own economic and geo-strategic interests in the country. They also recalled that the core group supported Moise's illegitimate government, whose presidential term constitutionally ended on February 7th, 2021. The group also supported his unconstitutional plans to hold legislative and presidential elections in a constitutional referendum on September 26th, 2021, despite the widespread popular rejection. Julio Sur, America's a network of social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, condemned Moise's assassination and pointed out that there are factors which indicate about the complicity or participation of the security forces in the assassination. Social movements of Alba also stressed that Moise's murder must not be the excuse for new intervention in Haiti.


Hello, hi everyone, welcome to the presentation about Keycloak and financial grade API, so called FAPI in shortcut. So about me I am working as software engineer in Red Hat since 2009 and I am working on Keycloak project since 2013 and I am a graduate of FIMUNI so I still remember this building few years ago just out of curiosity. So Keycloak, is it someone here who has some experience with Keycloak? Ok, thank you, so some people have experience and I will just shortly introduce Keycloak and then I will talk mostly about Keycloak and FAPI. So Keycloak is like authentication, it's web application and it provides authentication for web applications mostly and it provides SSO which means that when you integrate Keycloak with your applications then you can login just once and your users can automatically login to all your applications because of the SSO like single sign on. There is also single sign out so when user log in, log out from his browser session then he is automatically logged out from all the clients. And communication between client applications and Keycloak server is based on protocols like OpenID Connect and O2 and Summall. So there is also identity management so Keycloak has stores all the data about users and roles and other metadata in relational database so that when you use Keycloak you don't need to care about persistence of your users and their credentials in the database because Keycloak takes care for all of this for you. So there is also obstruction for clients and each client represents one application so that just trusted applications can be permitted to use Keycloak for login their users, which is also important from the perspective of the FAPI. Keycloak has also UI like admin console for administrators, account management for the users where users can manage their accounts, their profile, their credentials and other things. There are login forms and registration forms, which are displayed to users during login so you don't need to provide any UI because Keycloak does this for you. But there are also teams, which means that you can customize the UI if you want. And there are other cool features like social brokering, which allows delegate Keycloak login to social providers like Facebook or Google or Twitter or others. Or other OpenID Connect provider. There is possibility to provision your users from LDAP, for example, or from other third party user storages. And there are various two-factor authentication mechanisms supported like TOTP or WebAuto. There is support for Kerberos, for example, and various other things. And regarding your applications, on your application side you may need to have OpenID Connect adapter, which implements client side of the OpenID Connect protocol or SAML protocol. But with the context of FAPI, the OpenID Connect is more important because FAPI integration uses the OpenID Connect only. And you can either use third party adapters based on OpenID Connect or the Keycloak. Keycloak also has some adapters for some platforms mostly based on Java. So the typical login flow works in a way that user opens the application and clicks some kind of login button. And application redirects uses browser to Keycloak login page. And user authenticates, and then application sends the authorization response to the browser. And this authorization response is processed by the application, which passes some data from it, like authorization code, mostly. And application then needs to send so-called token request to exchange the code for the tokens, which can be used by applications to tokens have data about users and can be used to send requests to other services. And the token request is sent directly from the application to Keycloak server, so this communication happens outside of browser, usually. And when the client application has the tokens, it can use it to invoke some other services, and the services can verify if the token really comes from Keycloak by verifying the signature or by sending the request to Keycloak to check if this is really trusted token. So that's about Keycloak in general, and now about FAPI and what is the FAPI. So financial grade API or FAPI is set of rules to be used in the financial and banking applications. And it's mostly focused on these applications, but it can be used in other kind of applications as well. And it's like those applications used standard OpenID Connect and Oout protocol, like OpenID Connect is the extension of Oout. And FAPI has set of additional security requirements for the Keycloak and for client application and for the service, which has some additional security restrictions, which those parties need to implement. So it's like more secure OpenID Connect in shortcut. And FAPI, current main version of the FAPI, is FAPI 1, which has like two main specifications, like called baseline and advanced. And FAPI baseline is less strict and it's targeted for the clients, which needs to protect APIs with moderate inherent risk. And it has some requirements for key sizes and algorithms, which needs to be like more secure than what the OpenID Connect allows by default. For example, it requires that consent screen is always shown to the user during authentication. It requires PICC, which is like some kind of the extension of OpenID Connect, targeted mostly for the public clients, which increases security in a way that just the trusted client can exchange the code for the token. And for confidential clients, which are client applications, which needs to authenticate to Keycloak during the login, the client authentication mechanism needs to be secured based on JWT or MTLS. Like if you are familiar with the OpenID Connect, you may know that the most widely used client authentication mechanism is based on client secret. So in the token request, the client usually sends just a secret and it's just plain text string, which Keycloak can verify. So this is easy, but it's not so secure, so FAPI tries to mitigate this. And FAPI Advanced is targeted for even more secure for the client applications with high requirements of security. And it has even more strict requirements, like it requires that authorization request needs to be signed, and authorization response needs to be also protected and against tampering. Also, it requires sender constate access tokens, which means that client applications, when communicate with Keycloak, it uses Mutual TLS, and the tokens sent to the user has some kind of hash, which is based on the certificate sent by the client. So there are also some regional variants of FAPI, and various regions have their own flavors of the FAPI specification. Like, for example, Open Banking Brazil is used by Brazil financial institutions, and Australia CDR is used in Australia, Open Banking UK. It's based in the UK, and so on. And Keycloak is, among other things, is used by, provides also Open Banking Brazil and Australia CDR. And it has certifications with these platforms.  And, like, if Keycloak, like, there is some, like, shared test through it, which the implementations can, like, use. And if they pass the certifications, they can, they are mentioned in the certification page as officially certified implementations. And Keycloak is certified with OpenID Connect, and also with FAPI Generic and FAPI Siba, which is, like, extension of Siba targeted for client applications without browser access. So, now client policies, client policies is Keycloak feature, which is used for easily set up Keycloak to use, or to conform with the profiles like FAPI. And it enforce client behavior for various, in various events, like during the OpenID Connect requests. And this feature of Keycloak makes it easier to make sure that your client supports FAPI baseline or FAPI advanced according to your requirements. Here are the building blocks of Keycloak, of client policies, but I will probably skip directly to the demo, and I will try to show that in practice. So, is it visible, or is it, 10 minutes, okay. Thank you. Yeah, so I have some simple demo application, which is just used to show some, like, workflows of OpenID Connect. And, like, first, I can start with sending requests to OpenID Connect well-known endpoint, like Keycloak, and each OpenID Connect implementations has so-called well-known endpoint, which client application can use to retrieve some metadata about available algorithms and endpoints, where the browser can initiate login, or where token request can be sent, and so on. And in next step, I can register client application, because OpenID Connect also provides a way to register clients. So, for this, I need some kind of the initial access token. So, I can log in to the Keycloak admin console, and here in client registration, I can create initial access token, which can be used to register 10 clients, and it expires in one day. And it's this kind of string, which can be copy-pasted in the application, like this way. And now, I can register client. Our client registration request looks like this. It has some methods, and now I want to register, like, public client, which does not require client authentication. And at this moment, I don't have FAPI enabled, so I have just plain OpenID Connect. So, when I have client registered, I can see how the login URL looks like. This URL is used by the browser, and it contains, like, various parameters directly in the QD string, like client ID is the references to client application. The directory is where I will be directed after the keycloak, where I direct user after successful login, and so on. And now, when I click to this link, it directly relates me to the keycloak login page. And in FAPI, it's common practice to, like, enable multi-factor authentication. So, for this user, I have enabled, like, web out in security key, which I can log in. It's, like, security key on, which I have connected on my laptop, and which was previously registered to the user account. And now, like, authorization response was, after successful authentication of the user, the authorization response was sent to the, like, to this URL. And, like, client application then used token request to send, to use the code from the URL. The code is here, and some other parameters, and it sends to the keycloak, to the token request, to the keycloak token endpoint, and the keycloak returns, like, set of the tokens. And these tokens contains, like, signed JSON strings with some data about the user and some, like, various metadata. And, like, now, when I want that my, I want now to be my client applications to be more secure and support FAPI, so I will, like, each, like, in-tap client policies in the keycloak admin console, I can see that there are profiles, which are already defined in keycloak by default, and there are profiles called FAPI baseline and FAPI advanced, and FAPI baseline is the profile which enforces the rules for FAPI baseline specification. So, like, yeah, so clients, clients who, like, if client needs to support FAPI baseline, if, for example, needs to use PICC and secure URLs based on HTTPS and constant required and so on. And it's not used by default because there is no policy, so I will need to create policy, which is, like, linking between the profile and the condition, which I can specify. So, for simple use case, I want all clients in my realm, like, all my clients to be FAPI baseline compliance, so I will create condition any client, which applies to all the clients, and I will link this policy with the FAPI baseline profile. And now, now when I save this policy, all clients must support FAPI, or must use FAPI baseline, so now when I register client, another client, and create login URL, it's this kind of same URL as before, and when I click login, keycloak returns me some error that there is missing parameter code challenge method, and this parameter is exactly enforced by the FAPI, and it's used by PICC, so I will mark here that I will use PICC, and here my create, now create login URL needs to contain, like, additional parameters, like code challenge, and code challenge is the hash of some random string, which was generated by the client, and client will later send it in the token request, and keycloak will then verify the hash, which is sent in the authorization request, is same as the verifier, which is sent, like, in the token request. So, yeah, those are maybe a little bit complicated concepts at the first look, but, like, when you are used to OpenID Connect protocol, it may not be that hard, and now when I click login, I have another restriction, because there is also missing parameter nonz, which is, like, random parameter, which needs to be also generated in the login URL, and it will be then presented in the token, and client can verify after the authentication, if nonz, which it generated before authentication matches with nonz from the token. And so now when I login, I am finally able to be redirected to keycloak and login user, and because user is already authenticated, he doesn't need to provide the credentials again, but he needs to, like, approve that he wants to, like, share his profile data and email address with the client application, which is showing this screen is exactly also requirement of the FAPI. And, yeah, so now user is authenticated, and there are, like, tokens, and, like, for example, ID token now contains this nonz claim, which client needs to verify if it matches with the nonz, which was used before. And in similar manner, there is, it's possible also to, like, integrate with FAPI advanced, and now the requirements are even more strict, but we have, like, we have, like, quite a short amount of time, so are there any questions so far? Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, so if I understand correctly, you mean that, like, yeah, so your application is, like, integrated with keycloak, and keycloak, yeah, so keycloak can, on the login screen, keycloak is able to delegate authentication to social providers like Google so that, like, in the login screen, like, like this, there will be button, like, signing with Google. Maybe I can quickly show some kind of demo. Like, in keycloak, you can create so-called identity providers, and if I create some, like, I need to fill properly some metadata from Google, but when I do this and now, yeah, so, when I log out the user and login again, okay, so I think that, yeah, yeah, so, yeah, so now the login screen would contain some button and it can delegate authentication to Google, or other social provider, or other OpenID connect provider. Are there any more questions? Mm-hmm. For example, let's say we hear the company, we use keycloak, but we want to provide, we want to show that we are security compliant with something like ISO or SOC security specifications. Does the keycloak has something to help with that? Maybe the keycloak is compliant or has their own certifications? Yeah, so that's a good point. Keycloak is certified with, like, the certifications like FAPI, which is exactly used by this. So, for example, OpenID foundation has certified, list of certified providers here, and, like, keycloak is, like, one of them, and it's also certified with OpenID connect providers. The certifications, which you mentioned, I'm not sure what they are exactly, so I don't know if keycloak is compliant or if keycloak clients are compliant with them, but, yeah, like, we can, you can try to ask on the community mailing list in keycloak, and maybe you will receive some responses, maybe from other people from community.