Hi everybody, how are you doing? Welcome to the latest episode of From the Rock to the Cloud. We are well into season two and as always we're going to talk about everything from the rock to the cloud and everything in between. Yeah, it's in the name. So we're lucky enough, as always, to not be stuck just with me talking a lot of cods while up, but we've actually also managed to rope in an expert or two and this time we've got somebody who, well, what time is it where, or where you are, what time is it? Because you're on the other side of the planet, aren't you? You're in Australia. Yeah, it's quarter to evening. Oh, wow. So not only are we lucky enough to have an expert and I'm going to let him introduce himself in a second, but this is an expert who's staying up late for you guys so that he can tell you all about technology, which is, I mean, to be honest, he doesn't have to do this. I should have got up earlier, but no, he stayed up late for us anyway. So, Oren, not only are you an aficiado, well, pretty much anything techy, you're also an aficiado of pretty much anything geeky and we had a pre-chat and this pre-chat, by the way, has gone on like, must be nearly an hour before the call, which leaves crazy. We've got a lot of things that we enjoy, Warhammer, Star Trek, Star Wars, like you name it, but you've got it all as well. So I'm totally in awe of your collection. I mean, look at that Star Destroyer behind you. Amazing. But anyway, we're not here to talk about our geeky fetishes. We are here to talk about Windows Server. So, Oren, just for those people that don't know you, if you could just do a quick intro and tell people why we've got the privilege of talking to you today. Why?  But that's the question. The question is sort of more who I am and what are my qualifications? Yeah, but not like you're resonant kind of way. So, what I'm probably mostly known for is writing an obscene number of books. I'm somewhere on my 43rd at this point. So I've passed the Douglas Adams number of 42, mostly around Microsoft IT operations space. I'm also a cloud advocate at Microsoft. And what that means is that I have now shifted inside Microsoft and still writing books as part of the side geek. But we're responsible for advocating to and advocating on behalf of an audience. And what that actually means is that we reflect the audience into Microsoft and we also reflect Microsoft out to the audience. And the difference might be from the old technical evangelists is that we create a lot of our own content to fill gaps that exists within Microsoft's documentation ecosystem or presentation ecosystem that actually meets the needs of who we see as our audience. And obviously, as someone has written for the IT Pro audience for sort of 20 years or so, I have a very definite audience as a cloud advocate of people that are very engaged often with Windows Server and security to a certain extent. And so I try and create content that really scratches the itches that they need scratched rather than necessarily just presenting. There's other aspects of Microsoft that are very good at talking about what's new, what the features are, what products do in that way. And then there's the rest of us who sort of or this is small group of this is cloud advocates who really because we're embedded with the audience we're sitting there going well these are the itches these are the real world problems that the audience has that they don't know how to solve with a Microsoft technology. So what we're going to do is we're going to talk to them about how they do solve that and actually meet them where we are rather than sort of preach to them about where we want them to be. And that is that's a great introduction, but also I love the approach of that which is not to preach. And that's kind of like the whole premise of this. I don't even know what it is. I keep calling a podcast but it's not because it's on video so it's a vlog. But this is scratching an itch. That's what this is. This is just literally, you know, let's talk about things that actually are interesting and hopefully other people find interesting. So today we're going to talk about and this is your terminology and obviously you're the expert and you know you've got like four three books so who am I to question it server hardening and securing data. Now I get conceptually what that means but Windows server is it secured by default like I mean you know let's let's let's talk about that like let's talk about why why are we talking about this today. Okay so one of the things to really understand just given the breadth of the number of customers that use Windows server is that when you're going to shift an operating system like this you've got to make a lot of decisions. So you go and put a lot of security controls into the operating system and you put those security controls in but you've got to decide which ones to turn on and which ones not to turn on and when you are dealing with a lot of very rarely are you deploying into a greenfields environment. Quite often you're deploying into an environment you might be deploying into an active directory environment that's been there since Windows 2000. You might have servers that are running a variety of operating systems so each one of these security controls that you might or you might not enable is a choice. So by default Windows server is as secure as it can be made to maintain what is a reasonable level of compatibility with what our customers expect and sometimes we'll sit there and announce hey it won't work with BLAR because we've disabled this by default like SMB1 is disabled by default in Windows server 2022 but it was not disabled by default say in Windows server 2012. So by saying it's secure is that there's a lot more that you can do to secure Windows server than the just the default installation but what we've put you in a position of doing is that you have to make those decisions and you have to turn on those controls or enable those controls based on the realities of your environment because if we turned on everything it probably wouldn't work in your environment. Yeah, it's true. I was just going to say ultimately what you're saying is actually there is an owners of responsibility around security on the company individual or person setting up using the environment and the services that they want to use but what we're now doing is giving you the choice of what we have and giving you our best kind of shot of what it is off the bat and then you can kind of then configure it and make it personal. Well it's a matter of understanding the each security control that you enable as you know it's going to stone into a pond there's ripples that go everywhere and it may be that you turn the control on and everything continues to work or it may be that suddenly a critical workload that you weren't aware of or that you were only marginally aware of had a particular dependency actually ceases to function so security hardening is very much the process of you know turning one dial at a time rather than turning all of the knobs to 11 and hoping that the thing still works. Okay and you know what is the easiest way to be I suppose as secure as possible given kind of what we've just discussed was the easiest way to be secure as possible with Windows Server today. So in short run the latest version of the operating system and have your latest security updates installed so that's obviously just a motherhood statement right it's so obvious but what's very interesting is if you go out and look at environments there's environments like and the first thing you should always upgrade in any environment is your domain controllers right because your domain controllers are what any attacker wants to get dominance over because if an attacker owns your domain controllers they can do anything on your network because they control authentication and authorization so it's very interesting that a lot of organizations are still sitting there on domain controllers that are running in some cases unsupported versions of Windows Server whereas what should happen is when a new version of Windows Server comes out that should be the first thing that you deploy you should go through and deploy new versions of your domain controllers because nothing else should be running on a domain controller other than Active Directory domain services than maybe of the DNS server that goes in with it you certainly shouldn't be running an application where you're worried about application compatibility on your domain controller so that's the simplest way make sure you've got the most secure the most recent version of the operating system that's a good start and Windows Server 2022 launched and we made some big announcements around secure core would you say that it's always good to have that you know if you can use that configuration should you always use that and deploy that configuration so there's a couple of things there's secure core and there's server core so the first one is to understand with server core that's the version of Windows Server that doesn't ship with the desktop environment so it's all of that desktop environment stuff taken off and it's been around probably since 2008 but a lot of people don't deploy Windows Server in the server core configuration in fact when you deploy Windows Server the default option is to deploy the standard version of Windows Server in server core and everybody goes and goes standard with a GUI or data center with a GUI depending on what license they've got so the first thing is make sure that you're using if you can server core now you talk about something you talk about something that's slightly new which is secure core now secure core is where you've got hardware attestation and then you can go and build basically policies on top of that that allow you to use that hardware attestation to authorize which software runs on the operating system and there's been various iterations of this technology over the years if you go back you had things called software restriction policies and you had app locker policies and then you had node integrity policies and they've all been sort of sitting there basically coming up with a way to make sure that that application or that code that's running right now is authorized to run on this and it's identified in a cryptographically appropriate way that makes sure that you know there's not a false positive there that just because you name something you know app.exe it is actually the app that you want to allow to run rather than a bit of malware that someone's dropped on your system is trying to get to execute so with server core again one of the things to understand about server core is that it's a remote first administration paradigm the idea is that most administrators should not be IDPing into a server firing up a management console on the server and doing whatever they need to do what they should be doing is they should be making some form of remote connection to that server and administering the server in that way because we all know that there's been many cases where servers are compromised simply because someone has remoteed into a domain controller for example they've got bored they've opened up a web browser they're suddenly browsing a third party website on the domain controller some malware dropped on the domain controller Oran how would you how would you protect those domain controllers then So with domain controllers the first thing is to make sure it's the most recent version of Windows Server make sure that your domain controllers are running server core make sure that you've enabled secure core if it's appropriate for that if you've got the appropriate hardware but then turn on device guard or windows defender application control or code integrity policies it's fairly straightforward to go and say I only want to allow signed binaries from Microsoft and authorize scripts to run on this domain controller what you want to do is you want to block anybody basically putting together their own script and then running their own script so you want to have signed scripts and only allow sound scripts to run on that dp the other thing that you should do is you should block the cc from being able to directly communicate with any host on the internet so that the dc should never be able to connect directly to the internet yet that you've got firewall rules sitting at your perimeter that block that dc from making that connection when you're doing software updates on that dc they're coming from a w sus server that's sitting somewhere else on the network and that you're really restricting which host that dc can reach out to you should make sure that admin sessions to the dc are only allowed from known privileged access workstations or jump servers so you shouldn't allow anybody to rdp across to the dc from any workstation there should be a specific workstation or a specific jump server used to do that simply because again what you want to avoid if you want to avoid you know bob or sally the sysadmin sitting there using their own personal laptop that they take home that they do whatever they want on because they've got local admin privileges and then rdp into a secure server using that they're they almost should and it's obviously much more expensive and hardware be going across to a separate computer that is locked as locked down because you don't want someone to be hopping from that privileged workstation onto the thing that they're connecting to and there's been many attacks where the way that the attack has occurred is that they've attacked the administrator's computer and then use that access to then get into the secure thing that they really wanted to attack but that makes sense so it's about sort of creating those it's like an onion isn't it like putting the the layers to protect to protect that yeah and with security with security there is no one thing that you can do that will absolutely protect your network for your your your host what you're doing is you're sitting there you're you're as you said you're adding layers of security to make it much more difficult it's sort of like Maxwell smart where Maxwell smart went through all of those doors and each one of those was a security barrier they didn't all open at once so what you're trying to do is you're trying to make it much more difficult for your attacker to attack it's again like a safe a safe doesn't stop someone from stealing what's inside the safe but most safe separated based on how long it would it take a competent lock picker or safe cracker to actually get into the safe yeah and even before you get to the safe you've got to get past the security guard you got to get like you got to get to the safe right and I think that's kind of what we're talking about so if we if we think about I suppose there's admin accounts and hardening the authentication what would you suggest people go do from a steps perspective to make sure that authentication process is as bulletproof as possible so there's a couple things that you can do with Windows Server eventually you should get to the point and this is one of those ships by default so Windows Server ships by default with ntlm enabled now ntlm unless you've got and there's a lot of organizations that do that do rely on ntlm for authentication to older systems but really you should be using Kerberos so what you can do is you can go and order ntlm usage work out what applications what users what processes are still using ntlm and you can remediate those and then eventually you get to the stage where you're removing that less secure protocol and relying on Kerberos there's other things called authentication silos which is a bit more challenging where you're only allowing certain objects to authenticate to other ones and then there's protected users where you can enable it and then when you put a user account into that particular container or into that particular group what it does is it disables things like credential caching so what you don't want to do is you don't want to have for example in an administrative user's credentials to be cached because some of the older tech such as mimicats and things like that would go and look through cached credentials and extract those and use the tickets and then go off and let to move around the network so there's things that you can do to just again harden these accounts that are not there by default there's credential guard which is basically on specially configured servers it basically stores credentials in a virtualized container so that again it's it's getting away from that sort of mimicats type attack so it's worth understanding there's a good site called adsecurity.org where the author of that site goes through all of the attacks against ad and the steps that you can take to mitigate those attacks what was that website called again just in case anybody missed it real quick adsecurity.org i believe uh isn't it okay well i might pick that video after the major i've got the url because we'll make sure that we can share that with people because that's like useful uh thing for people to get um well to find out about um so if we think about role-based conditional access um in terms of or or rback now i always try this is just my my other half doesn't work in microsoft and sometimes when i go home and i start talking she goes i hate you stop using that so i try to um always try and say what the thing actually is um but when we think of rback um for administrative tasks on like sensitive hosts what's a good way of implementing that like what what what would what would be oran's recommendation so it's again a lot of these are sounds good in theory but they're actually complicated to implement that any insecurity is right but there's a technology called just enough administration and the way that just enough administration works is that rather than you connecting let's say let's say that you wanted to um do some mucking around with the dns zones in your environment now all of your dns zones are hosted on your domain controllers now what you don't want to do is that you don't want the person who's actually accessing the dns service to have any privileges with an active directory so you kind of don't want them logging on to active directory and you probably don't want to figure out exactly what groups and things they want to be a member of so what cheer allows you to do is you're that actually allows you to set it up so that you create an endpoint on the server a power shell endpoint that a an unprivileged user that is just a member of a bog standard security group that's got no privileges you let's you say you create a new group called uh tasmania dns operators and you give them the permissions to connect to this endpoint and you can configure the endpoint so that an account only needs to be a member of that they don't need any local admin privileges but what you can do in configuring that endpoint is you can say here's all of the power shell commands all of the command line utilities all the power shell functions all of the parameters all the values that you can use when you're connected to this endpoint and then what we'll do is when you're connected to this endpoint rather than use your own credentials what we'll do is we'll spin up a temporary virtual account that has local admin permissions but it only has local admin permissions to use this specific set of commands, parameters and so on so that you're extremely limited so for example you could have the restart service commandlet that the only service name that you can restart is the dns server service that you have to create um dns zone commandlet but you can only use it on this specific dns zone so the idea of just enough administration is that you can create these endpoints that you can actually provide people with a particular account and say go and do dns operations and that dns operation well it won't work on any other endpoint except for the dns endpoint and when they're connected to the dns endpoint they've only got permissions there so they can't use that to escalate their privileges and so where you're going further than that is that you you avoid a swiss army knife account and the swiss army knife account is one that you'll be very familiar with where you have one admin account and it's got permissions to everything it can basically manage the sequel servers exchange servers active directory the firewall the whole thing because rather than log in people people out there i'm telling you don't create those admin accounts like that is number one advice right don't like if you're at the admin make sure you protect yourself i'm sorry that is you know wear wear wear some protection so if you uh if you want to amuse yourself before i became an fte i recorded a session at ignite australia called 30 terrible habits of server administrators and that's got a list of all the worst things that people do such as oh look we've got service accounts how can we make us what we're going to do with our service accounts i know we'll put them in the domain admins group because and the way that the sessions run and you can hear it because there's a bit of audience participation it's like who knows a consultant that's done the following because it's never you that's always some other block right and the whole idea of this session is we know that these are bad practices yet we also know that there's a lot of people that do them it's sort of like the old joke about how do you figure out who's got privileged accounts in an environment and you just do a search of that give directory users and computers for anybody whose account is set to never expire because of course they make everybody else's password expire except those are the privileged accounts because they got sick of changing their passwords well i think you know i was going to talk to you about how you protect um you know accounts and things but i think let's talk about um how we protect i suppose the internal infrastructure of servers that you know what steps can we do for that and then i think maybe we'll talk about some you know maybe what we do with vms afterwards um i think that that's i've joined two questions together there but they might think how do we do that i do do the real environment how do you do the virtual environment so well and a lot of your infrastructure servers of course are going to be running as vms anyway so it is sort of like part one and part two of that question but one thing to consider where appropriate is domain isolation policies so they're not enabled by default and all the domain isolation policy does is it says that every server or every host that connects to me must authenticate so rather than letting anything that's basically got an IP address or from the DHCP server or if someone's you know hard coded an IP address go and communicate with everything you actually require every host on the network to authenticate in some way it might be certificate based authentication it might be something simple as password it's passphrase but it's basically employing the equivalent of ipsic policies but it's i mean you can and you can turn on ipsic or you can just say allow the connection don't encrypt it but make sure every connection is authenticated so we're appropriate for file servers for and if you use certificate based authentication you can set it up so that they can't communicate with a dc unless you know you've installed a certificate on that host so the advantage is if a host is compromised you just go to your ca and then you just rebote a certificate and then suddenly that host can't go and authenticate so domain isolation policies using server core where appropriate again your dns and your dhcp servers and your file servers don't need to be sitting there with that full stack GUI on them for the most part they can get away with running server core and then you're remotely administering them using windows admin center or you're using the appropriate microsoft management console or the appropriate power shell tools or as your arc if you're using that methodology to go and manage them but you again you want to restrict the you make sure that there are no services running you make sure that there are no roles installed on that server that don't need to be there and we've got so much resources in terms of ram and disk space and the vast majority of windows infrastructure servers at the moment don't require you to be sitting I mean obviously if you're running sql or something like that as an application server that's a different kettle of fish but if you're thinking about a bog standard file server does your bog standard file server need 64 giga ram probably not so you can sit there and put these servers into your virtualization fabric and you can actually really restrict the size of it and server core obviously reduces the footprint as well um then you again with infrastructure servers you do with what you did with domain controllers you restrict the hosts that are actually allowed to perform administrative connections to them you say right i'm not going to accept any power shell connections from any host other than the ones that are on this particular subnet or these particular IP addresses that I know are the admin workstation IP addresses so you make sure that you do that as well because what you again don't want to do is when attackers get into your network what they're trying to do is they're trying to get persistence they're trying to find a nice perch to sit on while they recon your network and understand how it works and what you don't want to do is once they're on that perch that they can get everywhere in the network from that perch and a lot of attacks where the attack has been very successful is that the the modality that people are thinking on is that they're thinking like everybody bad is out there everybody is in here so we're going to everybody in here but what should be doing is you should actually say well we don't know that we could trust everybody in here so what we're going to do is we're going to have a minimal way of determining that they actually are who they should be or that if a particular host is compromised we're going to minimize the chance so that if they do get control over a file server they can't rdp from the file server to the domain controller because the only thing that can rdp to the domain controller the only thing that can make a windows admin server connection to the domain controller is specific admin workstations so yeah i mean i've got some my summary i think you just helped me with my summary there so that's perfect or and that was the perfect explanation i think people need to be aware of all the options and and not be not take responsibility and authenticate but that's that's the that's that's kind of what my layman's ears is hearing is actually you know don't make assumptions that it's you know just because you've kind of put your firewall up happy days um you know people are gonna people are gonna be sneaky and you've got to make sure that you've got enough doors between all the rooms in the house to make sure you're protected um so um yeah like that's what would you say i think it's a matter of finding a balance because you can go down a rabbit hole with the security where you're doing all of this insane stuff but you don't do that if you're looking after the local primary school service because the security requirements to the local primary school are a bit different to the local bank um there's places that you can go such as uh the NIST website um or if you go and look for the security technical implementation guys where you can get good military level third party assistance on every security option that you can turn on and what their recommendation is about those options and then you figure out where do you fit on that particular scale yeah and i suppose it's exactly that it's it's just the right amount for you and you kind of need to go and figure that out and you need to spend some time investing in understanding what that is before you go start turning things on and off but make sure if you're gonna turn things on and off that you actually are working at the right level for your business or company or school or you know hospital or whatever and you have that conversation with your management chain in the you say well look if we get compromised these are the steps that we talk and these you know we got compromised it's again when we had some of the um the the worms that came through um there's a great book um i can't remember but the author but it's called Sandworm and it's all about the and he actually goes through in quite good detail about what happened to MERSC's active directory environment but there was also you know when we had some of those attacks that have that have impacted hospitals all over the world where older systems were sitting there but you also had the quite rational response of hospital administrators saying look do we go and spend half a million dollars or half a million pounds on securing the hospital's network or do we go and buy a new CT scanner because one of these helps our patients and the other well you know we just turn off did not mean like yeah and you're right you know at the end of the day like people especially when you think about someone like healthcare where there's a finite level of investment then then those decisions have to be made um what would you say I'm sorry this is my last question any other good admin habits just you know um that you that you would tell anybody um down the pub um obviously if we're down the pub we won't be talking about this let's be honest we'd be talking about much more exciting things like we'll have um but if we were in the pub and we weren't over in security um you know what good admin habits would would you would you be telling me uh over over a cold brew um I would be absolutely making sure that I had a separate computer for performing my admin tasks the that's one of those things that you've got to have an argument with whoever's in charge of your system and it might be that you've got a jump server and it might be that you've got a jump server that's sitting somewhere that gets nuked every couple of days and then gets rebuilt from a script because that way you know it's safe and then you limit who can go and connect make sure that you have separate daily driver and admin accounts um when I got um when I moved out of working as a sysadmin at a university I went and worked at a private enterprise and I had a bloke come to me and I was in my first week and he said um can you reset the password on my uh my account because I've forgotten it and I was on a call with a vendor at the time and I said yeah yeah I'll get to it in half an hour and he comes back after half an hour I said don't worry about it and I said what do you mean don't worry about it and he said oh I've got a backup account and I just logged in with that and reset it using that and I said how many backup accounts are sitting in this system and he said oh well we might need them so that's not a good security practice at all so make sure that you actually know what accounts are there and then yeah really pare down accounts so that instead of having swiss army knife accounts that yeah okay if you need to go and open the draw and pick up the account used to manage dns you go and pick up that account and you use that and then you go and put that back in the drawer shut the drawer you open the drawing then you go and pick up the file server account and yes it's more cumbersome and figure out what the balance is in your environment maybe if you're a one person shop that makes a little less sense but what you're trying to do is you're trying to figure out how do I limit the damage an account can do if it's compromised how do I limit the damage that can occur if this host is compromised fair and you know what that pine was great as well so although you have those little small beers in australia though you don't have like full pines over there do you I don't know when you see them on like on the tv they're always drinking those little beers over in australia so in each state there's a different name for what's a pot what's a schooner what's a midi what's a yard glass of course we used to have the prime minister of australia who was in the Guinness book of records when he was ox at oxford for the fastest drinker of a yard glass in history and he actually held that for several decades so that was a guy named Bob Bork so but again it's much more the the beer cup the beer here is obviously much more influenced by the UK than it is America although if I remember correctly you guys don't have cold beers because of course you don't have warm weather so you know again there needs to be balances and adjustments mate that's okay I will have to sort you out with some ale then that's what that's what I have to say anyway so move swiftly on we always have a little bit of fun in the show because you know too too much tech for anybody is is just too much so we have a little bit of fun which is we do a meme review now you've already warned me that our memes are very dad's joke and I'll be honest I'm I'm not called bloke I know I'm not called bloke right like I'm you know I'm like I freely admit it and yeah I've got you know dad dancing skills and dad meme jokes right but let's see the first meme I mean it's hide the pain Harold so again yeah with systems administration memes there's some pretty dark stuff because system administrators are tend to have very dark humor and I remember the first place I worked they had the um the train spotting sys admin meme which obviously you can't repeat on a podcast because it's basically a beg-be-speech from train spotting where uh or Ewan McGregor's speech from train spotting except it's translated into systems administrators but it's very much 90 systems administrators where everybody got around looking like that they were a reject from a sort of a goth concert or something like that so um I had that post from my when I was a kid but this one it fixed one minor bug the entire server crashes and they were also just they're taking the producers are taking because that is definitely a dad as well he like they are obviously who does this stuff they've done it on purpose haven't they no I mean yeah look I mean if you you don't you only have to look around the internet just find some really um my favorite one is obviously I haven't seen it there is you know the the um the ancient aliens guys and he's like they say it wasn't DNS but of course it was DNS right yeah very good okay well let's um I didn't really warn you about this one so the reaction we were just talking about other stuff but um let's get the second one let's get your your reaction to the second one oh that lady now I when I was working at Killy University in the 1990s I was working in a well I can actually it was a working in an apartment of philosophy anthropology and history of science and we had an admin assistant and this is so this is the early 90s we're talking about 93 94 and the admin assistant was elderly and their response their general responsibility was typing and that only been shifted off a typewriter recently onto a word processor and every night the person diligently covered their PC in a dust cover and everything last this and I I asked why are you doing that and the person honestly responded and I don't want the computer to get a virus and there was a professor of anthropology standing behind me and we watched this person leave and he went no this is not stupidity it's just a case of metaphors not being understood and that this admin person has understood viruses is something that can be transmitted so has naturally thought that a human could transmit a virus to a computer maybe one day you know we've got the matrix behind you so maybe we're all just living in the matrix so it could be true well that's what Neil said a long time to think is that we're all living in a matrioshka reality so why not right yeah yeah I mean well whatever gives you the justification to do whatever you want to do in life do you know what I mean or it's been amazing talking to you today um thank you so much um as ever with the audience if you want to ask a question if you want us to go find uh or and I think we're definitely going to have you on again because I'm talking to you has been absolutely fascinating um but um yeah like if you want us to talk about particular thing or you like the meme or whatever drop a comment let us know we will try to do what we can do and get you your your questions to an expert now I'm just going to summarize really quick um which um you know I think the reality is there's no such thing as as greenfield sites anymore it's you know there's there's all that existing technology and what's happening in the cloud and people have got to find the right levels of um appropriate uh security and they've got to have just enough for their needs and they've got to do their research before they go and turn things on and off but they've got to take that responsibility themselves and the main thing that I put on here my big note is authenticate where appropriate um and I think that is is the I suppose the key thing that I've taken away for hardening um hardening your servers cool yeah cool so I did so I did listen and I did learn something so it was definitely worth that's one person converted or and so that's you've done you've done your your job for today um thank you um well um as always um massive thank you for watching um and if you like I said if you want to know more do let me know this has been Tom and this has been oran oran yeah and and we've we've thoroughly enjoyed our time together and we will see you soon on another episode from the rock to the cloud thanks a lot cheers everybody bye


Welcome back to the breakfast on PLOS TV Africa. It's now time to take a look at the stories making headlines across Nigeria on off the press and let's begin with the daily trust newspaper. It says federal government loses billions in port revenue over stalled boat service contracts. NPA fails to engage new firms after Intel's role. Authority has no capacity to provide service. The matter is in court, says MPA, and findings show that at least 58 billion naira was lost in 12 months. State assemblies will block FIRS move to amend that law, accurated vows. Gone men kill three policemen in Onitsha. Said police van on fire. Buhari directs incorporation of NNPs is limited. Constitutes board. 2023. North wouldn't play second fiddle. That's according to the NEF. Students shot dead. Travellers abducted in Imo. Bandits kill 11 in Sokotokebi. What's town planners should do to stop flooding in cities and towns? Right now to the punch newspapers. Valiad attacks by states. A joke comment. Masari on the fire. Akiri Dulu says FIRS planned amendment dead on arrival. It says VAT collection battle test for Nigeria's democracy. Legos tells Katsina governor. And also free money has made states lazy. Pandef replies Masari on his comments.  Akiri Dulu also is speaking. Also on the punch. Continuation of strike by doctors contemptuous says Ngigei. Nigerian politicians in one party says Oni as it begins seven day seclusion. NDLE arrests pregnant women and fake soldier. Stop Canada Australia bound drugs. Mirubot forum carpets at Buja hospitals over Milafia's death. And also federal government may bow on vaccinated Nigerians from government facilities. Assembly speaker fumes as government storm Kogi church service. Kill guard, kidnap ex provost pastor and worshipper. And a few others customers scam banks with fake visas and tickets for Forex. North has the votes won't accept second position in 2023 says any F. And Nigeria's monthly trade in Bitcoin rises to $44 million. I think that's how we'll stop on the punch. On the Guardian newspaper manufacturers demand for Forex. Nears $2 billion amid scarcity and weak Naira. Middle class Nigerian shop for stable dollar as FX crisis continues. Naira in moment of decision trades at $570 Naira to a dollar. 11 bandits killed three victims rescued in Kogi state. Resident doctors continue strike appeal against court ruling. Don't rubbish yourself in 2023 PGF DG advices Jonathan. 2023 to know what is our southern capone in APC says Akiri Dulu. And lastly on the Guardian gone men on the rampage in southeast. Kill three policemen, touch INEC office, disperse pelik political meeting. Okay, Sims there are more updates on that story regarding the death of three policemen and the touching of an INEC office. And the writers say police intensify efforts to arrest suspected killers of policemen in Nonichah. Cots shuts down as email shuts down email as lawyers protest killing of spokesman. 26 security officials, 11 others killed by non state actors in two weeks. Right now moving to the daily independent. Manufacturers grown shut down production lines. And that's with regards a forex scarcity. Worried dollar makes change for 700 by December. Say forex situation has become a major driver of inflation. May cause job losses, higher poverty and increased insecurity. Diplomats assault in Nigeria shies away from joining issues with Indonesia. And also telcos may taper off 3G 4G deployment as 5G race begins. Also on the daily independent. Gunmen attack political meeting threatened to stop 2023 poll in Inugu. Wari directs incorporation of NNPC limited appoints a rarrometh board chairman. Midwbelg forum alleges foul play in May Laffia's death. And also southern governor's position may after PDP, I'm not sure what this is, it doesn't make, well, okay may alter, beg your pardon. The governor's position may alter PDP's zoning arrangement. We've moved out election materials before Inugu office fires as INEC. That's all we will take on the daily independent. Good morning Mr Kola Wali, thanks for joining us once again. Good morning my brother. Good morning. Thanks for having me. All right. We'll probably should start with the death of Obadiah May Laffia from our deputy governor of the CDN. Honest has become when I heard about his death. It was a shocking experience for me. I felt highly rattled and worried. I was also confused. Here is a man of the best of us. PhD I think from this. Work for Cambridge and being a deputy governor of the CDN at work in African Development Bank. That is a man who will be very useful to us as a nation in finding solutions to the economic crisis that we have in our hands. For him to die is kind of a chip deck. He believes in all of us as a people. And then when you marry a death, with the death of the encounter machine, with the death of Dr Genoedd Muhammad, and some of these other very critical criticism of government, you begin to wonder what is happening. Will this be some of the worst circumstances that has led to their death?  Sometimes pressures are measured on you. The security agencies will arrest you. They will block your sources of income. They will restrict your movement.  Often now too, nobody has given us any development with regard to the killing of Genoedd's brother. My fear is that, and I pray, that what we have in our hands with regards to the death of some of these government critics is not a safe terrorism that is at play. But let's keep our fingers crossed. Let's see what the outside report will reveal, and let's see these opportunities to share our condolence to the families of Dr Melafia. The people of Saddam Khadunah are not a progressive element in this country with whom we have come to it to give us a better Nigeria. OK, Mr Kola Walee. One of the stories that have made the rounds across the paper is a security situation in the southeast. This one says, government attack political meeting threatened to stop 2023 polling in Eunguil. We saw that story on the daily independence. And also, when we look at the punch list paper, the story is also there as well. But we played a video earlier on the breakfast this morning showing that disruption of a political meeting. The news is saying that these people are probably members of the IPOB, but we don't have that in good authority. But what really is your commentary regarding what's happening in southeastern Nigeria at the moment, regarding how far iPops seem to be going and the violence in that region? Well, it will be presumptuous to say that it is an iPop. There are also some non-state actors in the country today who are feeling the impact of the injustice that the APC, the PDP, and the entire ruling class have inflicted on all of us. To the rest of my knowledge, iPop has never owned up to any of the killings that are taking place in the southeast. We have only been making guesses, assumptions, and they're presuming that these things are coming from iPops. And even if it is coming from iPops, the violence be guessed as violence. Nobody has monopoly on violence. When you vow that you are going to deal with them in the language that they understand, when you say they are a mere dust in the circle, when you say, look, deal with them ruthlessly, and that's coming from very high quarters of knowledge. You should respect the reaction from the people that are dealing with in a very ruthless manner. I have said this time without number that security people have no solution to what is happening in the southeast, or if it is even the iPop that is behind it. They have no solution to that compared. Military solution, security solution, killings and many of innocent people in the southeast will not be a solution. We have tried that in the past. You remember when there was a crisis in the Niger Delta? All the astronauts of the Nigerian military were deployed to the Niger Delta. Were they able to subdue the ractag army that was assembled by Tampolo, that was assembled by Sari Tokubo? The answer is no. Simply because one war is won in the heart of man. It is not a weapon that you carry that determines whether you win a war or struggle.  Look at what has happened in Afghanistan. Americans who are there, the Europeans who are there, the Russians who are there, and the ractag Taliban army defeated the American army and sent them packing in body bags and all that. It is for this issue that they look, let's find a solution, a political solution to what is happening in the southeast. Let's know what the grievances of the Igbo's are, the iPops are and all the others in the southeast. Let's bring them to the land table and we will be more or better if we organize a referendum in the southeast and find all the world of Nigeria to determine what direction home and people want to be associated with. Other than destroy them, I mean describing them as a dust in the circle. Application of sledgehammer to what is happening in the southeast will not be a solution. And they send it out with our numbers. I've also already seen in the newspaper that look, the people in the house ask their new grievances that we should address and that we should not use a sledgehammer to kill a mosquito. I've also said this that the security people are clear not to be giving the executive arm of government the right advice. Why do I say this? When crisis or when special degenerate to the level which is degenerating like it is in the southeast today, the security men are only the first casualities. When the crisis begins to arrive and disintegrate, this is the army, this is the police, this is the project that will force this into grace and they will be the one person that will be here. And that is the reason why you see now that the police men are being killed and what have you. They don't have the courage to advise the executive arm of government on the need to apply on the need to use the human means to solve the problem in the southeast. All right, Mr Akola Wale, let's move away from the southeast and then talk a little on the value-added tax controversy which has continued. Cassina State Governor has come on the criticism from Roti Merkeridolulu and a few others, including the Lagos State Governor concerning his views on value-added tax. Where do you see this going? Does the FIRS also seek help from the National Assembly? How do you see this playing out? Yes. The FIRS move is surprising to me simply because you don't change the rules in the middle of the game. Now that the court has made the ruling and the ruling is not in your favour, you are now rushing to the National Assembly to take care for the FIRS, the Soul Collector of VAT. That won't work. Nobody is going to and VAT has taken place because you are simply changing the rules in the middle of the game.  The court has ruled in the table. They will not slide on the federal government on the FIRS to pay the rulings of the court and allow the state to collect VAT and then they pay a percentage so the federal government also the federal and the revenue. Look at what is happening in a place like Lagos for example or the facilities in Lagos virtually all the tribes in Nigeria are here.  The federal government is just giving a special contract like a book there and figure out how to handle the influence of people into some of these places. How do they do it? When VAT comes in you take all of the VAT and then you put it in an inequitable manner and then leave this people this country and this state to be deteriorated. It will do and when people like Masari begin to touch the way they are talking and Nena Zababa a Merch begin to touch the way they are talking it means that they know that they are perpetrating injustice and they want to order to the unmerited advantage that they have over the rest of the country and when they also speak the way a mannau the speech they are believing that they have the monopoly of a violence that they can only drive a rough shot over the rest of us as a nation. That is not going to hold it is not population it is like I also said earlier it is not the weapon that you carry that will make you subdu the other sides of Nigeria if the other sides of Nigeria say look, we are not going to take any of this there is nothing you can do what is the population of this when you compare with the Arab the Arab people who surround them as they are having their millions being able to subdu the 8 million is the least that they have been fighting over the ages they know that they are not and people like Mas Ali and Baba Mershu stop provoking and stalking the fire of war and abusing the drama of war that they are abusing with regards to all the unmerited advantage that the section of the country has been getting over the years look at the petroleum industry 30% of what you earn is going to be used to start projecting for oil in another region that is not even 90 to be able to produce oil because we have not been able to find anyone in commercial quantities and we are making more than 30% so we are projecting for oil you didn't think we are making 30% to clean up Ogonilan to clean up all the places where oil has polluted and all that I am convinced that the south the state governor and then the southern states will win this war with regards to vast if you say you don't want alcohol sold in your area then don't take the money the fact that comes from alcohol the headline on the daily independence is about forex scarcity and it's talking about how this is affecting manufacturers and some of them are shutting down their production line and that people are worried that by December Naira to the dollar will be about 700 Naira to 1000 Naira to the dollar I want us to analyse this vis-a-vis what the CBN governor has said about Abochee FX and platforms that he says are trading in illegal FX where do you think the problem might be coming from is it from these people who are publishing rates that are seen on the black market or do you think the federal government and the CBN should have had a tighter group of the situation before it deteriorates this way Eunice Lewis speaking is very very shocking to me the people who are doing this Abochee FX and Naira what do they do they merely publish the rates at the CBN self funding thing and what is available in the open or the so-called popular black market what is wrong with that the CBN has in the past been making money correctly available to some of these DGCs to sign in the open market we have not been able to control that either in fact it can be described as a legalised as a normal business for anybody to do in this context so what are you to use and cry part of the challenges that we have with funding exchange in this country is coming directly from the CBN the list that they have the insiders in there the directors we have located to their friends to their companies and all that who will take it to the black market and sell it and make money at exorbitant rates without doing anything to the member for my name of Kano Sanufi has raised this issue before so people don't do anything all that they do is to apply to the CBN for forex and the forex is made available to them and then after some time when the price have gone up they take it to the black market and sell and become millennia overnight that is the area that the CBN should be looking at and not evoking effort furthermore here is a country that is not producing MSM all the industries are shut down oil is no longer selling in the international market if you know what to produce and you sell internationally that will bring you funding exchange what is Nigeria selling internationally now? nothing we are virtually importing everything to be included to speak and we expect the Naira to be strong more importantly it would have cared to me that it is producing itself when present moment was the military head of state between 1963 and 1985 and all that this was how the Naira collapsed because it doesn't have cared to me that he understands how to manage my economy my father was a casualty of what happened at that period in time he was doing very good business with Italians, Germans and all that in the area of textile and building materials the funding was destroyed and Naira collapsed at that period at that time and all that because the funding partner that my father used to deal with he refused to deal with him anymore because it was difficult to transfer money to those funding partners because the funding machine was not available in the country and there are all sorts of restrictions in that area I think we will have to wrap up here thank you very much for your analysis as always on Mondays and we wish you a very interesting week ahead thank you thanks for having me we are in serious trouble go and write it down and Naira will feel like the Zimbabwe dollar it will feel like the former Ghana city in which you need millions of Naira to buy organic tomatoes alright that's what we will be wrapping up we will take a short break and when we come back we will be telling you things that happened on this day in history many years ago going back to the year 2003 in the Maldives and I am going back to the year 2007 in the US where there was a massive protest against racial injustice stay with us


Welcome to NTN Nightly, an optional novel. This edition stops stories. Members of the Royals in Lucia Police Force receive a training in the detection of firearms trafficking. A major initiative is underway to prevent and reduce tobacco use since in Lucia and PAHO calls on countries to protect children as they too are vulnerable to COVID-19 at the same time. A training course on the detection of firearms trafficking opened earlier today at the Police Training Academy at La Talk. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and Caricam Impacts is facilitating the training, which will focus on detection of firearms trafficking through postal and fast parcels, and at land and maritime borders targets incompetent law enforcement, customs, defence and security forces responsible for border controls. Caricam Impacts Regional Crime and Security Strategy Coordinator Callister Joseph explained that representatives of St Lucia and Caricam Impacts recently met with representatives of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ATF to create a structured framework to assist the Royals in Lucia Police Force to enhance its tracing capabilities. Getting illegal firearms off our streets and out of the hands of criminals means less violence and that means safer communities, you'd have a safer viewport, you'd have a safer castries, a safer ancillary and a safer St Lucia. Caricam Impacts through our collective actions with national authorities in Caricam, international authorities, civil society organizations, research institutions and other partners will work with the government of St Lucia to prevent the trafficking of illicit firearms and ensure illicit guns do not end up on the streets. The training came into being after Caricam Impacts and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC participated in a needs assessment and consultations with the government of St Lucia which included key entities. A number of issues were brought to the fore which required immediate assistance. These included the strengthening of the country's firearms tracing mechanism to assist criminal investigators to track the origin and purchase of crime gangs to support criminal prosecutors and capacity building training on the detection of firearms trafficking. Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Department of Home Affairs Ricky Quinlan highlighting the challenges faced by St Lucia in detecting firearms trafficking welcomed the training. The Caribbean with St Lucia being no exception has been grappling with the entry of illicit firearms and the misuse of these firearms primarily by criminal elements to terrorize, steal, pillage and take lives. The crime landscape has changed completely as guns have become the preferred weapons for settling scores no matter how trivial resulting in oftentimes in homicides. That is why the government continues to subscribe to the Caribbean firearms roadmap. It is very well articulated that the UNODC Global Firearms Project supports regional efforts to counter the illicit circulation of firearms and to curtail the linkages to other serious crimes. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Caricam Impacts will facilitate the training which will take place from September 21 to 24, 2021 at the Police Training Academy at La Tocque. Following this training St Lucia will be equipped with additional capabilities to help law enforcement officials identify gang traffickers, potential suspects and patterns of violent gang crime to help solve criminal cases. From the Government Information Service, I am Genelle Norville. In other law enforcement news and inmates at the Baudelaire Correctional Facility is being questioned by police investigators in relation to the death of another inmate, Noah Peter. The Baudelaire Correctional Facility, BCF located in Denver, has been in the spotlight since the occurrence of separate stabbing incidents which resulted in the death of two male inmates within the same week. The Correctional Facility was made aware of the death of 21-year-old Noah Peter on Saturday, September 18, 2021. Peter, who was born on March 11, 2000, hailed from the community of Mondidong and had been on remand for the offence of stealing. Due to the seriousness of his injuries, Noah Peter had been listed as critical and had been admitted in ICU at the St. Jude Hospital, View Fort. On Thursday, September 16, 45-year-old inmate Kelvin Wilson was found aligning and responsible in a pool of blood in his cell. Kelvin Wilson, also known as Carlos or Goats, was later pronounced dead by a medical doctor. It was determined that he had been stabbed multiple times. The death is being investigated by police. Wilson was admitted at the facility on April 15, 2003 in relation to murder. The Bodilay Correctional Facility extends condolences to both families. St. Lucia receives support from regional organizations to provide interventions to help individuals prevent and reduce tobacco use. More in this report from Funnel Neptune. The Substance Abuse Advisory Council Secretariat in the Ministry of Health has been undertaking a series of workshops aimed at equipping individuals in the health and social care sectors with the necessary guidelines to assist tobacco users to quit. Deputy Coordinator of the Substance Abuse Advisory Council Secretariat Joanna Joseph Henry spoke on the need to ensure tobacco control and tobacco dependency treatment as St. Lucia implements smoke-free spaces. We are implementing smoke-free spaces but at the same time we are offering help to individuals who need help to quit. We know it's not easy but we encourage anybody who is smoking or anybody who knows somebody who is smoking to encourage that person to get help. If you're not sure where to go you can check with your wellness center as we implement the wellness centers we'll all be able to offer eventually but you can also call our office at the Substance Abuse Secretariat so that we can put you in touch with one of our service providers. The Deputy Coordinator highlighted the involvement of various agencies to work towards delivering tobacco interventions. We have over 30 agencies who are participating in this training so the wellness centers from the Ministry of Health, the pharmacists, some of them, the doctors, nurses, social workers, as well as community officers in the other ministries, the Boystring Center, the Border Lake Correctional Facility, all of those types of agencies are going to be able to offer this service. So the way it's going to run is that this will be integrated into the normal routine of these individuals and it's very easy to deliver a set it's an algorithm or a structured set of interventions that is based on very sound clinical medical and psychological theories and approaches. The tobacco cessation training workshop was made possible through the technical and financial assistance of the Pan-American Health Organization PAHO and the World Health Organization WHO. Reporting from the Communications Unit of the Ministry of Health, Wellness, and Elderly Affairs, I am Phenoneptune. As more adults receive their COVID-19 vaccines, children who are not yet eligible for vaccination in most countries are representing a larger percentage of COVID hospitalizations and even deaths. That's according to the Director of the Pan-American Health Organization, Dr. Carissa Etienne. She says children and young people also face significant social impacts as a result of COVID-19. More from Hermadi Mark. Director of the Pan-American Health Organization, Dr. Carissa Etienne is appealing to the region to recognize the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the health and well-being of children and adolescents. The PAHO Director highlights that more than 1.5 million COVID-19 cases in children were reported in 2020. In 2021, that number has surpassed the 1.9 million. As more adults receive their COVID-19 vaccines, children who are not yet eligible for vaccinations in most countries are representing a larger percentage of COVID hospitalizations and even deaths. So let's be clear, children and young people also face a significant risk of disease from COVID-19. The pandemic is also affecting children's health in other ways. Kids across our region are missing out on annual checkups and routine vaccinations because of the widespread disruptions to health services. Half of young people have experienced increased stress or anxiety during the pandemic, yet mental health services and support remain out of the reach for many. Dr. Etienne says the region is also recording alarming rates of teenage pregnancy due to disruptions in sexual and reproductive health services. Beyond the direct impact on their health, the virus indirectly has consequences and are hindering their growth and their development and jeopardizing their chances at a bright future. Lockdowns and economic disruptions have increased the risk of domestic violence and for many kids homes may not be a safe place. Our kids have missed more school days than children in any other region and despite efforts to leverage virtual classrooms, these can never substitute in-person schooling because schools are not only places where children get an education, they are also places where children socialize and can receive mental health support or a nutritious meal. In addition to following the established protocols to keep children safe, Dr. Carissa Etienne is encouraging countries in the region to work assiduously towards the reopening of schools. There is no zero risk scenario. So national and local authorities should decide when it's time to open or close schools depending on the local epidemiological situation and the capacity to respond. PAHO has developed detailed guidelines on the measures that are needed for school reopening such as proper ventilation and sanitary conditions and has published recommended measures to protect young people from COVID-19 infection. As vaccines become available, teachers and school staff should be prioritized for vaccines because adults are more likely to bring the virus into the classrooms. Dr. Etienne is calling on ministries of health, education and social protection to collaborate and design integrated policies that will prioritize children and families from the government information service. The MediMark reporting. This is Indian Nightly. Primus Hutchingson is up next. Stay with us. This is a message from the minister of health and wellness supported by PAHO on this station. Welcome back. We join Primus Hutchingson for the NTN Nouvelle, Au Cuellon. Caposito Nouvelle, Au Cuellon, Vesito Primus Hutchingson. Yo goh spectaculturel setlesi, et pi et setlesi et pi Taiwan, pli moneh masala, se yon kika placipi ya ada yo position putuk la teah sa weh de gwe kalitit ta la ki setlesi ni. Si go teah palema, minister desa fe touristik on ewa gibyan fujinan di kidi sa diwa yo goh spectaculturel sa la, kite pwe ku, Pigeon Island kote yo robot te fei posib puli pep de peis la sa weh divers performance kulturel ekosi divers valet touristik ki shak se peis sa la nipu o fei.  La nip devesse pei ki nia, unshainete weh asa fei setlesi e pi, usse busan o niturizum e pi ombarai ko sa meh kwe kai bon pa pwe Taiwan, selmo meh puno sa servit technology ya, puno sa fei lot plas weh ki sa setlesi kapodui ki sa setlesi ni, e pi pwe mone lot, lot pei, ame wik englite la shine be lot kote sa vini visite plas no. Meme weh mis, weh mesi e ambassad Taiwan e pi govedmo setlesi, govedmo Taiwan pojei sa la meh kwe sa se yo boba gai, e pi meh kai kwe ki no kai kontini re colabowe, po fei sa kontini primae. Minister desa te setlesi, te registre disnef ka di maladi corona lindi li ve amad septembe dimil vete, se ka nef sa la, so ti adatess ki te feit dimansh li disnef amad septembe, dimil vete, am labo 3 Ezra Long, adan total de 68. Se limo ka positive sa la, placé a deguei 24.4% an tutess ki minister te conduit po dat sa la. Se ka nef sa la, po te limo maladi corona pei ya po 10.624. Minister ho si weh si weh koflemation de yon 112 edividi ki ja fei bie, apoi yo te tuve a fei epi corona, sa po te limo ka ki actif po 2.144. Troi ansi ka sa la, tui a kritik, po eset ma, ek 12 a yo maladi, maladi se weh ma lupital victoria. Po li po esa, an total di 26.671 edividi, ja weh si weh premier dose la vaccine AstraZeneca, ek 29,000, ek 18, ja weh si weh 10. An total di 7,860, this edividi, ja weh si weh premier dose la, sa si la vaccine Pfizer, pada 128 edividi, ja weh si weh 10.  Militia de Saté ka i koto nei pui pui tui effomation tole jo, pui publikla kon effomation sa la kathre, ek pui pui effomation, yon sa fei kontake bie, bio chef, officier medical, ek osi epidemiology unit a limo 468-5309 ebe 468-537. Am pala de sa, militia de Saté, ja tuvei adayon situasio, pui aduesi maladi corona a deguei kathiem pes maladi sala, ki komasei liven sec Juliet, demil vetei lei grek a ministeria ka koto nei, pui apoi ek delieuei se service laki meriti, pes maladi a ja plasei April 1st associe officier, ek toavaya ki ota limitei deja, apadi sa, lani toavaya kina quarantine, pui ezo sala, iterevini nesisei, wu ministeria fei mei deo toa welder center, wu do toa jo. Si welder center lage, babono, chiro shi kastri, delse, shuwazei so fuei, ek fosei ja ka so fuei. Pui munkitei ka service i welder center sala, yo kama deo, tapi suplei, pui visitei lot welder center ki pli pui yo, me padasei welder center sala ka westi fei mei, si health is laki koto nei delieuei service pui se komina, apadi sa, ministeria ja we do associe service, asseitei welder center, pui fei posei officier, wu mei service, babaxin, mei diwanta sala, service sautei, pui munkitei ka so fei, pui sa do ek pressure, ek service sautei pui madam ki asseitei mei, pui tizafan, kini tizafan, ek sateo, takai koto nei. Klinik pusei welder center sala, komasei, epi kanawi, si madi ek megwidi, vana se ledi ek madi, lesetang se madi ek megwidi, saltibis se madi, aguas vifo se megwidi, ek tiroshii miku se ledi ek jidi, monguj, choisei se madi ek megwidi, to klinik doktor ka westi a mem faason ki iti jae, se chanjwa sala, kaidi wei pui dei semen, komasei ledi le VSEPTAM, demil vetei, ek afinissema dei semena, yung aksessema ka ifet, pui gadei si kai neisei, pui koto nei, si service sautei a faason sala, minister dei sautei ka fei pibu klasaf ki yukako pun, ki se chanjwa sala kai afei, temun, mei neisei pui adwesei service sautei, kosanei situasio mala di corona, asseitei. Eksikosat nuatua bute novella, m'akafi messio uta, pui kagadei, m'akafi evitasi on, pui jenei pii m'ako sidyei, kosavei la vii, kotei m'akafi pui se toa lotu novella, a kuiyaa a pui saa, m'akafi pui se toa chanel. Messia pill primers, we now take a look at the weather. Forecast for St. Tusha valid for the next 34 hours, sunrise once day, 5.53am, winds will be blowing from between the east southeast and east near 15mph or 24kmh, becoming lighter at times. Weather fair to partly cloudy skies with few scattered showers. Seas slide with waves 2 to 4 feet or 0.61.2 meters. Tides for the castries harbor were high at 4.01pm and low at 9.55pm. Tides for the bay were high at 5.08pm and low at 11.22pm. A strong tropical wave located over the eastern tropical Atlantic is moving westward near 17mph or 28kmh. The system has a high chance of tropical cyclone formation during the next 5 days. That brings us to the end of NTN Nightly. Join us next time at 7pm before repeat at 7am. You can also catch up with us anytime on the St. Tusha Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I am General Novel.


Welcome to the HHC 12th Combat Aviation Brigade Change of Command Ceremony. Today, we are honoring Captain C. Yee, who took command March of 2023, and First Lieutenant Schlegel, who will assume command today. Let us pray. Precious God, we gather once again for our time-honored tradition of transition. Her relationship with the company, thanking her for her enduring support of Captain Yee, HHC, and the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, is also presenting a model of the AH-64 Apache to Mr. Bay, Captain Yee's father-in-law. The roses symbolize the beginning of her new relationship as the SFRG advisor with the soldiers and families of the warriors, and for her support to HHC in the challenges ahead, soldiers as they move forward into battle. The colors have traditionally been at the side of the commander, and were carried forward even if the commander fell in combat. First Sergeant Fofana passes the guide-on to the outgoing commander, Captain Yee, signifying the unit's appreciation for his leadership and guidance. Captain Yee then passes the company guide-on to the brigade commander, Colonel Kendall, signifying the relinquishing of his command and gratitude for the opportunity to lead the company. Colonel Kendall then passes the guide-on to the incoming commander, First Lieutenant Schlegel, entrusting him with the responsibility and care of the unit. First Lieutenant Schlegel passes the guide-on back to First Sergeant Fofana, signifying his trust and confidence in his first sergeant, the leaders and soldiers of the organization. By authority of AR 600-20, paragraph 2-5, the undersigned assumes command of HHC, company of the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, effective 21 March 2024, signed Sean R. Schlegel, First Lieutenant Aviation Commanding. Thank you again to everybody in attendance. I'm very proud to be part of this company. I do consider myself a warrior. Lead the fight, wings of victory, rise to excellence. Warriors, lead the fight, wings of victory, rise to excellence, warrior 6 signing out. Having spent almost nine years here in Germany, I truly feel that this is a perfect place for me to take command, and I cannot wait to get to work. Lead the fight, rise to excellence, warrior 6 signing on.


بس بلاه الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين نحمده ونستعين به ونتوكل عليه والصلاة والسلام على خير خلقه أجمعين حبيب إله العالمين نبينا محمد المصطفى صلى الله عليه وعلى أهل بيتها الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين المطهرين المكرمين قال الله العظيم في كتابه الكريب بس بلاه الرحمن الرحيم اللطيف بعباده يرزق من يشاء وهو القوية العزيز أمنا بالله صدق الله العلي العظيم رحمن الرحمن الرحمن الرحمن رحمة الله تعالى وبركاته one of the things that we continuously seek in our lives and we wish to attain and we look for as human beings from the beginning of time until the end of time people are eager to acquire and to attain his sustenance what is known in Islamic teachings as رزق it's an important area and it's one that has been mentioned in approximately 123 آيات of the Holy Qur'an and perhaps tens or hundreds of narrations of the glorious معصومين the أهل البيت عليهم السلام this emphasis on it highlights its importance no doubt and how you and I must understand it wholeheartedly and at the same time holistically rather than maybe appreciating some aspects of it only which may be limited the first thing to mention when the word رزق is uttered we often hear or come to our minds the idea of wealth sustenance how much I have attained how much I have received but on closer examination the Qur'an reveals that anything we obtain from the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى in reality is actually رزق sustenance is whatever Allah تعالى bestows upon us is considered to be رزق this includes things like children علم well health security strength many many things anything that we find is a blessing the body that we have yes the ability to see the ability to hear the ability to speak the ability to smell these are all forms of رزق from the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى الله تعالى has guaranteed this رزق upon all of His creation بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم in Surah Al-Hud verse number 6 الله تعالى says there is nothing on this earth that except that the Almighty guarantees it's a risk of course he is the creator he knows what his creation needs to survive and therefore he provides the causes for things to happen he is of course مسبب الأسباب therefore with no exception every single particle of his creation is included in his Masih إمام عليه السلام in a beautiful narration as we are here discussing how the أهل البيت عليهم السلام themselves with a beacon of light in terms of the أخلاق and mannerism and the etiquettes of many aspects of our lives when we discuss the subject of رزق in a beautiful narration أميرا مؤمنين peace and blessings be upon him said that those who give up seeking رزق should remember the three stages that Allah سبحانه وتعالى did not abandon them in their lives you know sometimes some people say but he is not looking after me now you know they use this as an excuse that look where is God why is he not providing why is he not sustaining me now إمام عليه السلام says remember the womb of when you went the womb of the mother الله تعالى did not forget you then remember that after your birth when the mother is providing you with the milk the milk is from the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى he did not forget you then and remember the time of childhood you had parents who gave you everything you need so the one who has provided you all this time will also provide you at other times during your life too but it's evident upon us that despite the fact that the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى is guaranteeing this upon us there is a need for us to strive to to attain it and to attain more so the idea of طلب الحلال according to the narration of the أهل البيت طلب الحلال فريضة على كل مسلم ومسلمة seeking حلال seeking that رزق is something which is obligatory upon every Muslim and male and female العبادة سبحانه وتعالى جزءا طلب الحلال that worship is 70 parts the greatest part of it is seeking حلال رزق a seeking sustenance which is permissible because of course sometimes people seek to fulfill their needs illegitimately through means which are not acceptable in شريع الله and this which den fats which denote rather transgression and something which is forbidden within the teachings of their religion of Islam it is about putting the effort to seek the riskona pr stopped him so motor the prophet is an insu you know انتقل ونقل هذه . فقد فعلهم they got two dirhams the prophet said use one to buy food and another to buy an axe so he went he bought the axe and he bought some food in order to feed himself and with the axe he went and he sought work after 15 days his situation got much much better so rasool الله صلى الله عليه و عليه وسلم we're trying to tell him look be positive لديك جيد منظمة ونساعدك على رزقك الله تعالى تبارك وتعالى سوف تبارك وتعالى هذه الأفكار من تبارك ونساعدك أو لا تساعدك على رزقك وننتظر على تأتي هي أفكار الأمر أمام صادق عليه السلام والسيد من شخص ومن ساعدك على رزقك وننتظر على رزقك والله سوف تبارك وننتظر على رزقك ونقوم بكثيرا لا أقعدنا أو هذا المنظمة ساعدت إمام صادق لا أقعدنا في بيتي ولا أصومنا ولا أصلينا ولا أعبودنا ربي فأما رزقي فسيأتيني فأنا سوف تبارك سوف أقوم بكثيرا سوف أقوم بكثيرا سوف أحاولك وانتظر على رزقك أمام صادق عليه السلام يقول لهم هذا أحد الثلاثة الذي لا يستجاب لهم هذا هو أحد الثلاثة التي لا تكون ساعدت لا تكون ساعدت بجانب المساعدة لا تكون ساعدت لذلك فأما ساعدت لا ساعدت ولكن كيف نفهم هذا أميرا مؤمنين عليه السلام يتحدث عن رزق الرزق ورزقان رزق تطلبه ورزق يطلبك يوجد مقاومة ومقاومة يوجد رزق ورزق أن ترى كت لذا إذا when people are complaining that they are not getting enough رزق and the situation is not improving is الله سبحانه وتعالى has a measure for each and every individual sometimes we are told to seek it as long as we seek it we gain and we obtain that which the Almighty wants for us if we want more we should seek it but sometimes we don't get it why because Allah knows what is good for us when people when they have too much they unfortunately become too lazy and then they start getting away from faith and religion they start to become too arrogant sometimes for example and Allah doesn't want that to happen and therefore doesn't give for some people and likewise for others He might give because He knows if they are too poor they might lose away from or they go away from faith so the idea is to experience and go through contentment it is of the utmost importance that this is observed what we are told is that we need to have trust in God we need to observe that He will only give what is good for me and as long as we know that He will provide for me there isn't anything to worry about that's why in the دعاء of the أهل البيت the دعاء of Imam صاحب العصر والزمان اتجر الله تعالى فرجو الشريف دعاء الافتتاح ورسيت ولعل الذي أبطع عني هو خير لي لألمك باقبة الأمور the one who is holding back from me the knowledge of what is best for me what is the best outcome now when it comes to رزق how do we increase the chances of us attaining more or getting more this is an important area how do we somehow do certain deeds which potentiate and increase the رزق that we attain from Allah سبحانه وتعالى we are told that a prerequisite that will help is تقوى being God conscious بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم anybody who observes God consciousness the more they observe الله تعالى تعالى will provide a way out for them and grant them risk from that which they did not necessarily anticipate sometimes some people I never expected this to happen or an opportunity came up or a magnificent door of God's mercy opened up often that is associated with تقوى الله تعالى تعالى says this synonymous من يتق الله يجعل له مخرج there is an element of sabr in it not only do we have patience but also we have God consciousness and the avenues open up therefore this تقوى if it is observed it helps at the same time what unfortunately impacts this whole process negatively a sense and we find in the dua from Imam says الله forgive me the sins that stop the risk from coming and the Quran tells us that Prophet نوح would say to his community this is a beautiful demonstration of how the Quran is full of wonderful prescriptions to increase one's wealth and sustenance and so on and not only wealth and sustenance any form of risk people want children they are not getting children people want success in their businesses and so on and so forth استخفار is of the utmost importance seeking forgiveness from Allah somebody came to Imam الحسن المجتبة and said to him I want to increase of my risk Imam says استغفر الله seek forgiveness from Allah somebody came to him and said I want to be blessed with children Imam says استغفر الله and so on but you keep telling them استغفر الله this is in the Quran يا قوم استغفرو ربكم إنه كان غفار غفار is an excessive description of somebody who is oft forgiving if you and I realize that the sins are impediments we practice استغفار الله says يورسل السماء عليكم مدرارة the heavens will open up for you ويمددكم بأموالهم وبنين He will grant you wealth and he will grant you children that is the promise of the Almighty ولو أن أحلى القرى آمن والتقول فتحنا عليهم بركات من السماء والأرض where to believe and to practice God consciousness we will open up for them the blessings of the heavens and the earth that's very very important and Imam عليه السلام says increase in استغفار will bring about the risk that's number one number two in joining good relationships with kin's folk those who are considered to be the family no doubt will increase will open up many avenues and opportunities this involves helping them asking about them avoiding conflict avoiding breaking relations with the kin's folk doing whatever we can to assist them to help them trying to bring people together as well especially amongst the family members sadly sometimes problems occur between family members and this potentiates further escalation further problems that may happen and if we work hard to restore relations between family members that will help immensely and insha'Allah the benefit of it another area is what is known as salatul layl this is the prayers of the night the Prophet Muhammad and peace be upon him and peace be upon him and peace be upon him emphasizing the importance of salatul layl not because of course it is a message to Imam عليه السلام but rather it is a message to you and I about the benefits of this great أن الله سبحانه وتعالى has given us as a gift really. The Almighty is so merciful, so kind that these opportunities are given to us and sadly sometimes we don't utilize them. إمام الصادق صلوات الله وسلامه عليه says ليس مننا من لام يصلي صلاة الله. The one who does not perform Salat al-Layh is not one of us. And we are told of the great benefits such as for example it illuminates the grave. إن عالم البرزخ. It increases the visitation of the Malaika. It illuminates the house in which Salat al-Layh is performed for the people of the heavens. Numerous benefits in this world and of course in Akhirah. إمام عليه صلاة الله عليه وسلم one of the imma was asked by an individual once for some food. إمام told him do you pray Salat al-Layh? The individual said yes.  سبحان الله. سبحان الله. Can you imagine? Think about it. إمام عليه سلام would say that if you perform Salat al-Layh it brings the risk. You can't claim to be performing Salat al-Layh and complaining of poverty because Allah will give and grant and such is the power of this magnificent act of worship. Another way in which it is obtained and the wealth is increased is marriage. Because it's a blessed union. It's a relationship which Allah himself has praised. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم. وأنكح الأيام منكم والصالحين من إمائكم إن يكونوا فقراء يغنيهم الله من فضله. Now we are told that إن يكونوا فقراء الله سبحانه وتعالى will alleviate the poverty of the marriage. يغنيهم الله من فضله. The sustenances will be from the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى. They will be from His eternal bliss and from His generosity and magnanimity. Giving Sadaqa and charitable donations is also a means by which your isq is intensified. استنزل الرسق بالصدقة. Make sure that you obtain more rizq through Sadaqa. That which purifies us. Somebody narrates that Imam Sadaqa once said to his son or actually his son Muhammad. He had a son by the name of Muhammad. He said to him have you got any money for Sadaqa? And his son said yes. He said how much money? He said 40 dinars. He said give it. After 10 days narration says this person attained 400 or 4000 rather dinars. And Allah سبحانه وتعالى retended to him. So much many many many folds. At least 100 times more he obtained. Other means we are told that we will have the Sadaqa. The Rizq increased is by listening to the Adhan. A cleanliness, trustworthiness, saying the truth, sincerity, being thankful. Are all listed as important qualities from the narrations of the Ahl al Bayt. Peace be upon them. That truly help with the attaining of the Sadaqa of the Rizq. And what we must do is try to avoid certain things which minimize the Rizqa. Or limit it or reduce it. As we said sins is one. Another more specifically is what is known as أقوق الوالدين. To be disobedient to one's parents. We are told this is problematic. الله تبارك وتعالى says إنه لقرآن. وقضى ربك أن لا تعبدوا إلا إياه. و بالوالدين إحسانا. الله تبارك وتعالى commands the believers, the people, not to worship anyone other than him. And to be kind and respectful to one's parents. سعيداً في العالم الوالدين نرى this day and age that there is a tendency to disrespect one's parents. To belittle their status. When they get older and when the individual themselves gets into adulthood. To neglect their parents. To mistreat them. سعيداً this is often seen. Which is very much denounced in Islamic teachings. Because Islamic law emphasizes highly the role of the parents A. The importance that the parents play in the education. And the correct upbringing B. But C. How they should be honored and respected. Even by the way, if they're non-Muslim. Even by the way, if they do things with Chaharam. We are told that we are not allowed to mistreat them. Yes, we can disobey them. It is something which is against Allah سبحانه وتعالى's teachings. But there should be continuous effort to respectfully treat them.  Or disrespect their parents. Then it could be a reason why there is is limited. And therefore, taking all this into consideration. We find that the subject is of great importance. And Allah سبحانه وتعالى through the teachings of the Quran. And the wonderful examples of the أهل البيت عليهم السلام. Have presented us with ways in which we can look at this particular subject. As comprehensively as possible. But of course, there are other ways. Other means to examine the subject as well. And we pray to Allah سبحانه وتعالى. To bestow the light of the أهل البيت into our hearts. The love of the أهل البيت into our hearts. And for us to put into practice their teachings. And their recommendations. And if it is good for us to increase our risk. And for us to obtain قناع and contentment. Whatever Allah gives us, we are happy with. And we work in accordance with submission. Towards his teachings. And his instructions. أخير دعوانا. أنا الحمد لله رب العالمين. وصل اللهم وسلم وبارك على نبينا محمد. وعلى أهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين.


Good morning from a place called Terolinga. I've been calling it Terolinga since yesterday. Basically this is a ghost town, but people live here, so it's not too ghosty if people still live here, and we're just walking in the old cemetery here, and this is a real... This whole area, by the way, used to be a mining village, mining town.  Those are just some old stone houses from way back in the day. And I do believe that these are all real graves here. And as you guys know, I don't really go inside cemeteries, but this is kind of a special place here. Nick is pointing out something. Nick's name is Boo. Boo. This is where Boo is. I don't know if that's like a ghost reference, but these ones over here are very, very old. This mining town was abandoned, and then a bunch of artists kind of re-colonized it or moved back here, I believe in the 60s, and here we go. If this is a real grave here, died 1933. Some of these are very, very old, and they just have some very old original wood. Actually, I would say most of them have a bunch of old original wood. And I don't know much about graves, but I think these points do west. If anybody knows, feel free to comment. I haven't looked that up yet, and I think they do go east-west. Probably don't even need to say this, but when you do come in here, obviously be respectful of the things and don't take into the old artifacts here. It's just disrespectful, and also this is a real cemetery here. And you're not supposed to walk on top of a grave. So if you see something like this, you just kind of walk around it. There's a bit more information. Cemetery dates to the early 1900s. I think we saw it in 1902. There was a lot of mercury mining in town. Dangerous working conditions. Gunfights influenced the epidemic in 1918. And some more information here on this side as well as the other side. So if you do come, feel free to check the information out, read about the old mines and stuff, and check out some ruins in a town, which we're going to do. About a hundred yards up the road, we have these nice historical ruins as the locals call them. And these are the existing buildings out here from the old mining days. And they are very, very interesting to see. I poked my head in yesterday, and this is all original stuff. So it hasn't been looted too much, I don't think, because there's a lot of the existing structures still here. There's some of the wood with the pipes and everything. And some of the, I'm guessing, tin roof right here. Here's the original entryway. And you can totally tell this is original, very old nail. Newer than Dan the Adventure Bus would, because they have round nails. And you can see some of the old fixtures here. The old hinges. This was the window, I'm guessing. So let's see if this still opens. Wow, it still does. Whoops. Maybe you shouldn't play with that too much. Don't want to break it. Here's a very simple original wall. This stuff looks like it could fall down on me any second. Although this steel pipe looks pretty sturdy. I don't think I'd want to be in here when it's pretty windy. It could be pretty hazardous. This looks like, I forget the name of it, but there's a name for mixing the clay with hay. A pretty traditional structure type of building. And look at how thick these walls are. So even if it was really hot in the summer, or really cold in the winter, a two-foot wall probably would keep it insulated fairly well, given the time period that this thing was built. Over here we have another room. This one has a skylight, as you can see. And a bunch of original doors still left on there. That was probably part of the roof. I mean, who really knows? I'm just speculating at this point. An old can of some sort. You can see broken glass, more metal. This looks like some kind of fender right here. Really interesting stuff. But if you come, obviously, respect it, and don't damage it intentionally. Although the more foot traffic, the more the stuff can potentially be damaged. So yeah, let's go have a peek. Looks like I see an outhouse over there. You can't get over there? Why not? Oh. There's a mine there. It goes back a little bit further, and then there's a mine, and you have to go down and then go back up to get over there. Interesting. Here's another little spot. This one, a little bit worse condition. You can see the original wood here. That's a pretty new nail. And all the leftover roof part of the walls. And stuff is pretty fragile. Very, very interesting to walk amongst original buildings from the old mining days. It just makes me wonder who lived here, what they did, what the story was, where they came from, and what life was like out here. Here's a little ravine area. Another little structure right here. And across over there, some more ruins. This one is very interesting. You can see the different types of materials used. I don't know if all the rocks fell off of this part, and that was made out of stone. It looks like it's two different materials. This has a little... I guess I'm going to open the door and enter. This looks like it has two different types of building here. The bottom being the stone, the top being this mud part with the original wood doorway.  But yeah, very, very interesting. So we parked our adventure vehicles down here in the parking lot. There's a nice restroom right there. Really old car you can take a picture with right there. Coffee shop and an art gallery on that side. I highly recommend walking inside this place here, the Starlight Theater, and getting yourself a little knick-knack in the trading company over here. We are in the heart of the town, and it looks like there's an old mineshaft right over here. Yep, getting the thumbs up from Nick. Making friends? Yeah! Who's this? Um... Hi!  Hey Poncho! Hi! Oh, he's got a little thing on his head there. Hey buddy. A nice little friendly dog. Yeah. Looks like we have an original wagon from Who Knows When, 18, 1900s. And right over here is one of the mineshafts that you can look into. So... Look at that. And this thing... Is this the one that goes down 800 feet? Yeah, this one's only like 80. 80? Okay. I dropped it, no. Oh, you dropped something down there? Yeah, you want to rock? Yeah! Alright, so... I forget the calculation Claire might know, but if you... For every second of freefall is a certain amount of distance here. Time it? Yep. We're going to get the timer out. Yeah, you don't want to drop your phone down there. No, that would be bad. Okay. I don't know if I heard... I don't know, it heard like two little things. I think it might go further down, but maybe it hits like the wall or something. Because I really didn't hear like a... Pshh, kind of... That's a little rock. True. That's a long ways down. That's true. Can you feel the heat coming up from it? Actually, yeah. It's like hot air. Yeah, yeah, if you stand... Oh, it's weird. If you stand like right on it, you put your hand like this, you can feel the heat. So it looks like this is the original mine cart, I guess you would call it. It's got an attachment on top for the cables. But this is how it looks like four people or two people and some equipment would get down to the bottom here. Pretty interesting. Oh, by the way, there is some kind of like a walking tour thing and there's like, I don't know, 70 different things. We're not going to hit all 70 because that could take all day. But it is a really cool spot if you see a couple things you want to take a peek at which peak your interest. Maybe like a mine shaft and you can find them on the map and do a little exploring out here. So I was talking with these fine gentlemen just a moment ago. Would you tell me your names? Jeff Hayslip. And Neil Trammell. And you guys are local residents? Neighbors. Neighbors, there you go. You guys play over at the places in town, things like that? Yeah, all right. Very cool. And you have a local album for sale down at the High Sierra? Well, the High Sierra, the gas station has it. I think it's here in the general store. I hadn't checked lately. I don't know if they're out of stock or if they even remember who I am. Lajitas. And west and a little bit north along the Rio Grande. And you know what's on the other side of the Rio Grande? Mexico. We are a stone's throw away from Mexico. Actually, let's get the baseball chick to throw a stone to Mexico. Just to show everybody it really is a stone's throw. What? Do you want to get down? Well, dropping her apple. That's across the border. High five for that one. Here, let me give it a good toss here. If I hit anybody over there. So, baseball is something that people are talking about these days. Like the river. And I'm not saying I'm for or against it, but this is just a question. How would you do that? That looks difficult. The steepest inclines I've ever taken to dandy adventure bus, especially on a highway. Might be kind of hard to tell, but point it sideways and make it level. That's about level. So we decided to stop at El Cosmico here in Marfa where you can rent interesting little things like this and then some teepees and then the main attraction are these vintage campers on the property as well. And apparently you can do some tent camping here too. Today is two days before Christmas. So the town was a little on the quiet side. It's also a Saturday. It's also a little bit on the kind of touristy side for people coming in. And the cops were at full force pulling everybody over. Just definitely not in the Christmas spirit, but this is the Marfa Lights viewing place. We will take a look at that once the sun goes down. But I think this is going to be tonight's home. There are a couple, you know, there's us over there and then a little RV kind of set up, but it looks like overnight parking is A-OK here. Trashkins right there. Also trashkins on the highway. Also the fact that we're in the middle of nowhere makes me believe that, yeah, it should be all right. If not, we're going to knock on the door from another friendly sheriff or border patrol agent. So here is the Marfa Lights viewing building. They have complimentary complimentary, never seen that before binoculars. And the lights happen out here. I will let you guys wait to see them first while I try and capture them before I tell you exactly where they come from. Yeah, but a pretty nice spot and I think tonight's going to be a pretty epic sunset. So pretty excited about that. Box. She looks lonely.