Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
President Ramaphosa’ remarks during the closed session of the 16th BRICS Summit
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President Ramaphosa on a bilateral meeting with President Putin of Russia
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President Ramaphosa arrives in Russia for the 16th BRICS Summit
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President Putin welcomes President Ramaphosa at Kazan Kremlin
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Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
Presidential Spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya briefs the media on the President’s upcoming programme
Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (video statements)
In December 2021, UKG Kronos was hit with a ransomware attack that impacted thousands of business customers.
On this episode of Ahead of the Threat, co-hosts Bryan Vorndran, assistant director of the FBI’s Cyber Division, and Jamil Farshchi, a strategic engagement advisor for the FBI, speak to Aaron Ain, former CEO and current Executive Chair at UKG, who gives a firsthand account of what it’s like to lead a multinational technology company during major cyber incident. Learn how Aaron handled the extreme pressure of the situation, prioritized transparency to rebuild customer trust, and made enduring structural reforms to supply-chain security and cybersecurity at the board level.
At the start of the episode, Bryan and Jamil discuss trending topics like Iran’s brazen effort to interfere in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, the Salt Typhoon hack of U.S. telecoms, and recent supply chain compromises.
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Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
Unsafe, costly transit contributes to everything from wealth and equity gaps to pollution. But as cities grapple with growing populations, shifting needs, technological advancement and the energy transition, we’re approaching a moment of reinvention that could lead to positive change if planned correctly. Benjamin de la Peña, the CEO of the Shared-Use Mobility Center breaks down the incentives and strategies that could drive more climate-ready, equitable, safe and affordable transportation. He also discusses the importance of systems thinking and planning that factors in the generations to come — thinking that can help any leader make big change happen.
Source: United States of America – Department of State (video statements)
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a joint press availability with Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Doha, Qatar, on October 24, 2024.
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Source: World Economic Forum (video statements)
What are ‘elastocalorics’ or ‘reconfigurable intelligent surfaces’? In a few years’ time these emerging technologies may have transformed the way we heat and cool our homes, and how we transmit ever greater amounts of data.
They are among the technological innovations identified in the World Economic Forum’s annual Top 10 Emerging Technologies report, which picks the tech that could transform the world in the coming years.
In this video-podcast, the two lead authors of the report take us through each of the 10 on this year’s list.
The report is produced in collaboration with Frontiers.
Guests:
Mariette DiChristina, Dean and Professor of the Practice in Journalism, Boston University College of Communication
Bernie Meyerson, Chief Innovation Officer Emeritus, IBM
Links:
Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2024: https://www.weforum.org/publications/top-10-emerging-technologies-2024/
Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution: https://centres.weforum.org/centre-for-the-fourth-industrial-revolution/
Previous editions of the Top 10 Tech report: 2023
Beyond AI: the top-10 tech of 2023 set to change our lives (https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-10-emerging-technologies-2023/)
2021
Top-10 Emerging Technologies 2021 (https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/top-10-emerging-technologies-2021/)
2020
The Top 10 Tech of 2020 – our podcast with Scientific American (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/12/top-10-tech-2020-podcast-scientific-american/)
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2023 was the year we all got to know AI – so where will it take us in 2024? (https://www.weforum.org/podcasts/radio-davos/episodes/artificial-intelligence-ai-aiga/)
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Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest, chair of Team Domenica, a charity supporting disabled people into work, will put forward the debate.
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Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
President Ramaphosa delivers the Country’s statement during the 24th BRICS summit open session in Kazan in the Russian Federation.
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Press conference with HE Hristijan Mickoski, Prime Minister of the Republic of North Macedonia
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Source: United Kingdom UK House of Lords (video statements)
Members quizzed the government on it’s early prison release scheme in this highlight from the chamber. Watch for more.
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Source: US Army (video statements)
: Video by 1st Lt. Timothy Yao, Office of the Chief, U.S. Army Reserve
Army Reserve Sgt. Halona Wilcox-Molina from the 411th Engineer Battalion, is a Technical Engineer working with the Mongolian Army to survey the land in order to plan a future road construction project.
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Source: United States of America – Department of State (video statements)
Secretary Blinken in remarks to the press during travel to the Middle East from October 21 – 25, 2024:
Since October 7th, Israel has achieved important strategic objectives to ensure that October 7th can never happen again. Israel has dismantled Hamas’ military capacity, destroyed much of its arsenal, and eliminated its senior leadership. Now is the time to turn those strategic anchievement into an enduring strategic success.
During my meetings with officials in Israel, we spoke about how there are two main things left to do: get the hostages home and bring the war to an end with an understanding of what will follow. As I continue my travel in the region and Europe, I am focused on working with our partners to achieve these objectives and identify a common vision for a path forward.
As discussions continue, it’s also essential that humanitarian assistance reaches the people who need it in Gaza. While Israel has made progress in recent weeks in improving access to humanitarian assistance, much more is immediately needed. The United States will continue to ensure that Israel sustains these humanitarian commitments.
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Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
President Ramaphosa’s opening remarks during the 16th BRICS Summit Plenary in Kazan, Russia
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Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
President Ramaphosa delivers the Country’s statement during the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan in the Russian Federation.
Source: United States of America – Department of State (video statements)
Deputy Secretary of State Kurt M. Campbell remarks at the Secretary of State’s Award for Corporate Excellence ceremony at the Department of State, on October 22, 2024.
Transcript: https://www.state.gov/deputy-secretary-kurt-m-campbell-at-the-secretary-of-states-award-for-corporate-excellence-ceremony/
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Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (video statements)
Special Agent Hailey Evans describes her 30-day deployment to New Mexico in support of Operation Not Forgotten, a four-month surge of FBI resources to Indian country to help investigate crimes against Tribal women and children.
Learn more at: www.fbi.gov/news/stories/operation-not-forgotten-shines-new-light-on-indian-country-cases
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Special Agent Amanda Risner describes her 30-day deployment to North Dakota in support of Operation Not Forgotten, a four-month surge of FBI resources to Indian country to help investigate crimes against Tribal women and children.
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Sam Davenport, a special agent in the Pinetop-Lakeside office of the FBI’s Phoenix Division, describes how important it is for the Bureau to have support on American Indian reservations from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and tribal police departments.
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Source: United Nations (Video News)
Acclaimed actor, filmmaker and three-time Academy Award nominee Edward Norton has long been raising his voice on behalf of the planet and its most vulnerable communities. As a UN Goodwill Ambassador for Biodiversity, he is championing the protection of biodiversity for the well-being of all.
“It’s quite heartbreaking. I started diving, when I was 14, in the Caribbean. The change to the reef environments in the Caribbean in my adult lifetime is staggering and really upsetting. Reefs are in just terrible shape, terrible shape. Bleached, covered with algae, fish a fraction of what they were. What was vibrant and colorful and rich is just sort of denuded. It looks like a burnt forest or something. It’s just not, it’s not as alive.”
Working closely with communities in East Africa and around the world, Edward Norton is pushing for conservation that also tackles poverty by providing sustainable sources of income for local communities.
In this special episode, the Hollywood star reflects on his activist upbringing, his hopes for his children, and on balancing a successful acting career with a rich, varied and meaningful life.
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About Awake at Night:
Hosted by Melissa Fleming, Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, the podcast ‘Awake at Night’ is an in-depth interview series focusing on remarkable United Nations staff members who dedicate their career to helping people in parts of the world where they have the hardest lives – from war zones and displacement camps, to areas hit by disasters and the devastation of climate change.
For more information on Awake at Night, visit Awake at Night: https://www.un.org/en/awake-at-night
Source: United Nations (Video News)
Noon briefing by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Highlights:
-Türkiye
-Occupied Palestinian territory
-Lebanon/Israel
-Lebanon/humanitarian
-Yemen
-Brics
-Deputy Secretary-General/Travel
-Central African Republic
-Security Council/Syria
-Women, Peace and Security
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In a statement issued today, the Secretary-General strongly condemned the terrorist attack on Turkish Aerospace Industries’ facilities in Ankara. He expressed his deepest condolences to the victims and their families and wished a speedy and full recovery to those injured.
The United Nations stands in solidarity with the people and Government of the Republic of Türkiye.
OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORY
The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warns that Palestinians in North Gaza Governorate are experiencing extreme suffering as the Israeli siege there continues. OCHA says there are harrowing levels of death, injury and destruction in the north.
Civilians are trapped under rubble. The sick and wounded are going without life-saving health care. Families lack food. Their homes have been destroyed. They have no shelter. And nowhere is safe.
International humanitarian law demands that civilians have the essentials they need to survive – that’s food, shelter, medical care, and other critical assistance. OCHA appeals once again for rapid, unimpeded humanitarian relief – which must reach civilians in need.
Our partners on the ground report that two water stations in North Gaza have stopped operating due to the lack of fuel. The suspension of service is affecting large areas, including the neighbourhoods of Al-Daraj, Al-Tuffah, Al-Zarga and Sheikh Radwan. A request earlier this week to deliver 23,000 litres of fuel to North Gaza Governorate was denied by Israeli authorities.
From 6 October through yesterday, several attempts to get fuel to Gaza Governorate were also denied. Another mission was impeded and therefore unable to be accomplished.
The UN and our partners have also been compelled to postpone the polio vaccination campaign in northern Gaza due to the escalating violence, intense bombardment, mass displacement orders, and the lack of assured humanitarian pauses across most of the north.
This final phase of the vaccination effort was supposed to begin today, with the aim of reaching more than 119,000 children across northern Gaza.
The current conditions – including ongoing attacks on civilian infrastructure – continue to jeopardize people’s safety and movement in northern Gaza, making it impossible for families to safely bring their children for vaccination, and for health workers to operate.
It is imperative to stop the polio outbreak in Gaza, before more children are paralyzed and the virus spreads. To interrupt transmission, at least 90 per cent of all children in every community and neighbourhood must be vaccinated. The vaccination campaign must be facilitated in the north through the implementation of humanitarian pauses.
UN humanitarian partners say that all logistics, supplies and trained personnel were prepared to vaccinate children across the north with their second dose of the polio vaccine. However, given that the area currently approved for temporary humanitarian pauses was substantially reduced in geographic size from the previous round of the vaccination campaign – and is now limited only to Gaza City – many children in northern Gaza would have missed out on a second dose.
The UN and its humanitarian partners continue their efforts to get assistance to people in northern Gaza. On 15 October, the World Food Programme (WFP) was able to deliver one convoy into Gaza City. However, the Israeli siege on North Gaza Governorate has prevented the agency from reaching people there for the past three weeks.
WFP warns that September and October saw some of the lowest levels of humanitarian aid entering Gaza since late 2023, alongside a drastic reduction in commercial cargo.
In October, to date, only 20 per cent of the agency’s operational food needs have entered Gaza. A drastic shortage of supplies across Gaza has almost halted general food distribution.
WFP says very limited aid supplies have entered the south due to insecurity at the Kerem Shalom crossing point. There is a critical need for a safe and enabling environment for humanitarian operations and convoy movements into and within Gaza.
Full Highlight: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/noon-briefing-highlight?date%5Bvalue%5D%5Bdate%5D=23%20October%202024
Source: United Nations (Video News)
Human rights defenders are central to realizing the Sustainable Development Goals, a United Nations independent expert says. UN Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor speaks alongside two defenders who champion rights at great cost. Wellington Gabriel de Jesus dos Santos, from the Pitanga dos Palmares Quilombola community in Brazil, lost his father, who was shot dead outside in 2017, and his grandmother, who in 2023 was also brutally killed in response to her human rights work. Emily Donovan, a co-founder of Clean Cape Fear, a grassroots community action group in North Carolina, works to restore and protect air, soil, water and food supply from contamination from PFAS substances known as forever chemicals. Both took their causes to the United Nations, where the Special Rapporteur urged protections for human rights defenders around the world.
Source: United Nations (Video News)
Joint press conference by António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission.
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Secretary-General António Guterres today (21 Oct) in Addis Ababa said, “there is now a consensus from Member States that the Security Council must be reformed, and there is a consensus of all Member States that the key aspect of that reform is to have two African members as permanent members of the Security Council.”
Guterres, who took part in the 8th African Union–United Nations annual conference said, “Africa faces enormous obstacles to its development” which are “deeply rooted in the colonial legacy.”
Speaking at a joint press conference after meeting with the African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat, he said, “African countries gained independence with their economies and to a certain extent, their societies distorted by the interests of the colonial powers that organized their economies to the benefits of the colonists.”
The Secretary-General announced that, “we just decided to create the common working group with the Economic Commission for Africa and the African Union Commission to do serious research, to allow to contribute to the creation of an African strategy to bridge the digital divide and the Artificial Intelligence divide, and to overcome all the enormous structural difficulties and impediments that exist today, and to be able to claim the resources that will be necessary for it to be possible.”
The AU – UN high-level discussions, co-chaired by Faki and the Secretary-General, focused on progress in the implementation of cooperation frameworks between the two organizations, as well as the operationalization of Security Council resolution 2719, which establishes the framework for financing of African Union-led peace support operations through UN assessed contributions.
Participants also discussed joint action, as well as challenges linked to peace, security, development, human rights and the impact of climate change on the African continent. Discussions also included the implementation of the Pact for the Future.
The Secretary-General also participated in a ceremony for the inauguration of a renovated Africa Hall. This hall was built for the Organization of African Unity, now the African Union.
Source: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) (Video Release)
#UKRAINE: Imprisonment, forced confessions, slavery…What happened to the 4 journalists who disappeared after a Russian roundup in Melitopol? We investigated and managed to find them
20 August 2023 marked a turning point in the occupation of Melitopol. At the crack of dawn, at least four journalists and news content creators were escorted away by men in military uniform, as documented by RSF. Then, for weeks, silence…
In October 2023, their arrest was confirmed by Russian propaganda videos in which the journalists were forced to make false confessions – yet no information on their fate or whereabouts has been released since. Russia is holding these media workers illegally, moving them from prison to prison in conditions that are much closer to enforced disappearance than legitimate detention.
In this video, discover the way RSF retraced the paths of their imprisonment.
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Source: United States of America – Federal Government Departments (video statements)
Watch Crew-8 return to Earth, concluding their mission to the International Space Station. Their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled for splashdown off the coast of Florida on Friday, Oct. 25 at approximately 3:29 a.m. EDT (0729 UTC).
NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, Matthew Dominick, and Jeanette Epps and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin are coming home after seven months aboard the orbiting lab, conducting scientific experiments and technology demonstrations.
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who launched to the station aboard NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test (CFT) this summer, will return to Earth with the two members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-9 mission in the spring of 2025. Learn more about CFT: https://nasa.gov/starliner-faq
Crew-8’s science highlights: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/crew-8-concludes-space-station-scientific-mission/
Credit: NASA
Source: United States of America – Federal Government Departments (video statements)
As a Border Patrol Agent, you will attend training at the U.S. Border Patrol Academy in Artesia, New Mexico. As a part of your training, you will be required to speak and understand Spanish. This video provides an overview of the Spanish requirement, the approach to learning at the U.S. Border Patrol Academy, and helpful resources to kickstart your journey.
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In this Bite-Size Learning session, “Reducing Plastic Pollution and Improving Human Health”, Erin Simon, Vice President of Plastic Waste and Business at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), discusses the harmful impacts of plastic on human health and the environment and steps that WWF and its partners are taking to address it, including through WWF’s Resource: Plastic initiative.
The session also covers actions being taken by the Administration, including recently announced White House commitments to reducing plastic pollution within the federal government and the global plastics treaty process. The session provides an understanding about what federal agencies, businesses, and individuals alike can do to act on the plastics crisis.
Be Part of the Solution
The Go Green Get Healthy HHS program is challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) workforce to focus on small changes each of us can make to reduce plastic waste now and all year!
Besides creating an environmental nightmare, plastic pollution has a health impact. Plastic does not biodegrade, it just gets smaller and smaller, forming nano- and microplastics. Plastic is made from a derivative of crude oil and often contains toxic chemicals. As plastic breaks down, toxic chemicals are released into the ground, water, and air which affects the food we eat, water we drink, and air we breathe. To learn more about the effect of microplastics on your health, watch Earth Day 2024 presentations on this Go Green Get Healthy HHS playlist on the HHS YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrl7E8KABz1Ht0EWIT9IcaKpXKy8ViQ3m. Plus, you can view the FY 2023 HHS Green Champion Awards ceremony in the playlist.
Join the millions of people worldwide reducing plastic waste by choosing to refuse single-use plastic. BE part of the solution! As Confucius says, “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
Greater change occurs when a larger group makes smaller changes versus a smaller group that makes large changes. For example, if all HHS employees reduced plastic use by 90%, they would save nearly 11,000 tons of plastic waste annually! And, if the entire federal government staff reduced plastic use by just 10%, 45,000 tons of plastic waste would be reduced each year.
Use the Home Plastic Checklist https://www.plasticfreeseas.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Plastic-free-living-checklist.jpg to get started.
So come on, step up and lead the way!
There were 665 attendees who benefitted from this session! The event was hosted by the Go Green Get Healthy HHS sustainability team on August 27, 2024. Gain knowledge and power by attending our Bite-Size Learning sessions! If you have any questions, please email GoGreen@hhs.gov.
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