Like in other countries, the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is plunging many people in Spain into poverty. In this report narrated by Jonathan Spier, Alfonso Beato in Barcelona says migrants – whose numbers are growing in the midst of the health crisis – are among the most vulnerable.PRODUCER: Jon Spier
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Month: August 2020
Cameroon Rights Groups, Embassies Condemn Barbaric Acts Against Civilians
In Cameroon, there has been widespread condemnation of recent barbaric violence against civilians in the country’s troubled western regions. In the past week, suspected separatists killed 13 civilians, including aid workers, with videos of beheaded women shared on social media. In video circulated on social media in Cameroon, several men dressed in black order a young woman to lie down and then appear to behead her with a machete. The killers describe the woman as a traitor, an indication that they are Anglophone separatists. Cameroon authorities confirmed that a woman was beheaded on Tuesday in the southwestern town of Muyuka. It was the thirteenth such slaying in the last week in Cameroon’s restive English-speaking regions. Last Friday, another woman was beheaded on video in the northwestern town of Bamenda. Her killers, seen in the video on social media, claim she was seen with a Cameroon military officer sent to fight the rebels. Christopher Bela, of the Bamenda-based Cameroon Rights Group, says such barbaric killings are becoming more common in the separatist conflict. “The people of the Northwest and Southwest have been hoping that someone will come in and solve the Anglophone problem [separatist crisis]. They are tired and they would like to have peace. Everyone wants peace. We are hoping that these killings left and right come to an end so that Cameroonians have peace,” he said.In Bamenda this week two teachers were also killed — one was shot and the other stabbed to death. The rebels, who want independence from Cameroon’s French-speaking majority, see teachers as targets for pushing Francophone dominance on the English-speaking regions. Cameroon authorities say the rebels are also targeting aid workers and have killed three in the past week. On August 7, Tanjoh Christopher, a pastor and aid worker with Community Initiative for Sustainable Development, was killed in the northwestern town of Batibo. Country director for the foreign aid group Plan International Cameroon, Miriam Castaneda, condemned the attacks. “We ascribe to the humanitarian principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence. So, it is sad and painful that these things happen, however, we need to continue to promote the humanitarian principles,” she said. “The only thing that we can do is to continue to be optimistic that the situation will improve and continue to work with the people that need us so much.” FILE – Governor Deben Tchoffo visited the Presbyterian school where 80 students and their principal were kidnapped in Bafut, near Bamenda, Cameroon, Nov. 5, 2018.Governor of the English-speaking Northwest region Deben Tchoffo says the rebels are attacking soft targets because they are getting weaker. “Those who are trying to disrupt public order in the Northwest Region are going to face the might of our security forces [military],” said Tchoffo. Separatists’ spokesperson Capo Daniel admits that some fighters have attacked civilians. But he claims most of the attacks are by government-created armed groups to give the rebels a bad image. “In Bambili [town] where a human rights worker was arrested [abducted], we actually dismissed the soldier [fighter] and we made it public. But the population has to also understand that there are traitors who have received money from the Cameroon military to carry out atrocities,” said Daniel, speaking in a message shared on social media. Cameroon’s military has strongly denied any involvement in targeting civilians and aid workers. FILE – Members of the Cameroonian Rapid Intervention Force patrol, March 21, 2019, on the outskirt of Mosogo in the far north region of the country where Boko Haram jihadist have been active since 2013.The United States Embassy in Yaounde on Tuesday condemned the killing of aid workers and called for investigations to find and punish the guilty. The United Nations says Cameroon’s four-year separatist conflict has left over 3,000 people dead and half a million displaced.
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Italians Enjoy Their Summer While Minding the Virus
Just a few months ago, Italy was seen as an example of how NOT to handle the coronavirus. Now Italians are enjoying their summer and learning to live with the virus even though a few hundred new cases are still being reported every day and more young people are being infected. The country’s recovery is underway even though the virus remains a threat.Italians would like to forget March 29 of this year, when the country recorded its highest number of deaths from coronavirus in a single day: 969. That is no easy matter as people recall how Italy’s authorities had to deploy the army to help remove dead bodies.No one in this country believes the virus has been defeated. In fact, most people are only too aware of just how present it continues to be. The daily bulletin of new infections, a few hundred, is a reminder that Covid-19 is still circulating on Italian territory. Gianni Rezza, Director General of Prevention at Italy’s Ministry of Health, says the number of cases in Italy is on the rise, with more young people being infected.Various clusters are present on Italian territory, he said, and many of them are caused by imported cases. Even though the Italian situation is better than that of other European countries, Rezza added, Italy’s epidemiological situation merits careful attention. He warned that Italians must continue to be cautious in their behavior adding that efforts to contain the virus must focus on quickly identifying new outbreaks.Young Italians are the ones finding it most difficult not to return to their previous lives of gathering with their many friends and going to summer parties and discos.Italy was the first European country to be hit hard by coronavirus and the harsh lockdown experience has led to an understanding now that the only way forward is to live together with the virus until a vaccine is available for the whole population. Since the country gradually re-opened, Italians have been doing their best to limit the spread of the virus with the only known defenses: social distancing, wearing protective masks and avoiding large gatherings.At the height of the Italian summer, people are now enjoying themselves at the beach. Bars and restaurants have managed to re-open and are making money again. Italy’s economy is slowly picking up after having been severely affected by a two-month lockdown.
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Kamala Harris’ Family in India Rejoices Over VP Pick
Waking up at 5 a.m. to see a message of “congratulations” flash on his phone and then reading the news that his niece, Kamala Harris, had been picked by presumptive U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden as his running mate was a moment of pride and elation for Gopalan Balachandran. The 79-year-old academician, who lives in New Delhi, believes that Harris’s Indian heritage and family culture has played a key role in shaping the Asian American politician. Harris’s choice comes with many firsts: She is the first Black woman and the first Asian American woman to join a major party ticket for a presidential election in the U.S. Gopalan Balachandran, maternal uncle of U.S. Senator Kamala Harris’ (D-CA) talks to media outside his house in New Delhi, India, Aug. 12, 2020.“I knew she was quite ambitious in the sense that she always wanted to run for public office and achieve something, and that spirit she took from her mother. So this was inevitable,” Balachandran, the younger brother of Harris’s mother, Shyamala Gopalan, told VOA. “The women in our family are extremely strong, the men not so much,” he laughs. “She can handle the campaign.” He recalls his family’s values of openmindedness way back in the 1940s and 1950s when India was still a deeply traditional society — that progressive culture allowed Harris’s mother to move to the United States when she was 19 years old to do doctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley. “At that time the number of unmarried women who went from India to the U.S. was miniscule. But our family always said do what you want, study and then carve out your own path.” It is a message, Balachandran says, Harris absorbed deeply while being raised by her mother, who separated from her Jamaican-born father when she was five. Since her childhood, Harris regularly used to visit her maternal grandparents in the southern city of Chennai and her uncle and aunt in India. In interviews, she has spoken of the influence her grandfather, a civil servant, had on her. FILE – U.S. Senator Kamala Harris’s maternal grandparents’ former apartment is pictured where she visited occasionally, in Chennai, India, Aug. 12, 2020.“Kamala has also picked up human values from the family. She used to always tell me — I just do what any normal human being should do,” says Balachandran, who visited her when she ran for senator from California.He recalls how the four brothers and sisters, including Harris’s mother, pursued their own paths — he married a Mexican, his younger sister did not marry, while another sister who lives in Canada married but had no children. Harris’s first name also connects her to her Indian heritage. Kamala means lotus flower, whose symbolic significance in Indian culture point to its deep roots — the flower and its roots grow underwater while its petals rise above the surface. Balachandran’s hopes from his niece: if she becomes vice president, she will help raise “global positive awareness” of the United States at a time when China is also vying for global leadership. For countless Indians, who have watched with pride the successful journey of the Indian-American community in the United States, the selection of Harris marked yet another milestone in the journey of people with Indian heritage. FILE – A group of attendees gesture in front of a poster of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi before a community reception at SAP Center in San Jose, California, Sept. 27, 2015.“It shows the diversity of the U.S., that anybody can rise to the top, whether it is in politics or other spheres,” says Varun Mehta, a retired professional, whose two daughters live in New York and Los Angeles. While Indians have made their mark in the technology sphere, heading companies such as Google and Microsoft, politics is a new arena to conquer. “It’s a good moment for Indians.” FILE – Ram Madhav, a senior leader in India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), poses after his interview with Reuters in New Delhi, India, July 10, 2019.Expressions of pride also came in on social media. A prominent leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Ram Madhav, gave a thumbs up sign on Twitter after noting that Harris could be the first woman of Indian descent to be nominated as an official vice-presidential candidate.First Indian and Asian woman to get the nomination as official VP candidate. 👍 https://t.co/zrGa612Rio
— Ram Madhav (@rammadhavbjp) August 12, 2020But at a time when there are fears of a rise in Hindu nationalism in India, some drew attention to the broader significance of the choice of Kamala Harris as a vice presidential running mate. “We should recognize that Kamala Harris isn’t just of Indian descent. She epitomizes what the world should be — borderless and interracial,” prominent businessman Anand Mahindra wrote on Twitter.
But in her family in India, it was simply a day to rejoice. Balachandran exchanged a happy early morning phone call with his sister, Sarala Gopalan, both hoping they would see their niece sworn in as vice president. Postal box with the name Sarala Gopalan, aunt of Kamala Harris, is seen outside Harris’ maternal grandparents’ former apartment which she visited occasionally, in Chennai.“If I send her a message right now saying Kamala I need you, the next day she will be there,” Sarala Gopalan told an Indian television news channel, describing her as kind and affectionate.
And after the flurry of calls Balachandran received on the selection, he jokingly says he plans to print visiting cards saying “G. Balachandran, the favorite uncle of Kamala Harris.”
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Kamala Harris’ Selection As VP Resonates With Black Women
China Cochran met Kamala Harris at a campaign event in Detroit last year and was swept away by her ambition, charisma and leadership. She hoped the California senator would advance in politics.
So when Joe Biden named Harris on Tuesday as his running mate — making her the first Black woman on a major party’s presidential ticket — Cochran wasn’t just struck by the history. It represented a full-circle moment for Black women, who for generations have fought for their voices to be heard and political aspirations recognized.
“It tells Black girls that they can be president,” said Cochran, who recently ran for state representative in Michigan. “If you look back at Shirley Chisholm, she ran so that Kamala could lead at this moment. I think it’s important for us to look at that and see other young women of color realize that they can go after their dreams and really make change in our world.”
Harris’ selection is historic in many senses. It also marks the first time an Asian American would be on the presidential ticket. Born to a Jamaican father and Indian mother, she often speaks of her deep bond with her late mother, whom she has called her single biggest influence.
Harris’ boundary-breaking potential serves as an affirmation of the growing power of voters of color, according to nearly a dozen interviews with political strategists, potential voters and activists.
“Joe Biden understood this historic moment required a tough, smart and respected public servant,” said Donna Brazile, who managed Al Gore’s campaign in 2000 and served as Democratic National Committee chair in 2016.
Black women in particular helped rescue Biden’s campaign earlier this year by delivering a resounding victory in the South Carolina primary, powering him to the Democratic nomination. As he prepares for the general election, Biden is trying to recreate the multi-racial and cross-generational coalition that twice sent Barack Obama to the White House.
That will hinge on Black voters in battleground states like Michigan to turn out in force in November.
“We’ve seen from an electoral process what happens if we don’t vote, that can mean the difference between winning and losing a state,” said Karen Finney, a senior Democratic strategist and spokesperson for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. “We’re in this moral inflection point of this country and Vice President Biden is someone who’s talked about healing the soul of our country and certainly one of the ways to do that is to uplift the voices of Black women.”
Strategists said that Harris will help that effort.
“It sends a strong signal about not only the current state of our party but what the future of our party looks like,” said Antjuan Seawright, a veteran political strategist in South Carolina. “And what better way to reward a group of people who have been the political glue in this party than to put an African American woman on the ticket.”
Ravi Perry, Howard University’s political science chair, said Harris’ elevation also represents the first time that a graduate of a historically Black college or university will be represented on the ticket. Harris graduated from the Washington-based university and is a member of the storied Black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha.
While Harris’ selection has largely been applauded among the Democratic Party and voters, some have raised concerns. She joins the ticket at a time of immense racial tensions and crises in the nation. The coronavirus pandemic has disproportionately impacted Black Americans and other people of color. Protests against systemic racism and brutality are also at the top of mind for potential voters.
And Harris’s record as California attorney general and district attorney in San Francisco could make it difficult for Biden to galvanize support among younger Black and Latino voters.
Lindsey Roland, a 31-year-old Black woman and Michigan realtor, said that background gave her pause.
“While I fully appreciate her scope of responsibilities while she was in that role, I still think she was empowered to stand up more for minorities and I think it was just a really missed opportunity,” she said. “But I absolutely will be voting. We have far too much at stake. And for me, as a mother, I’m frightened and I just feel like another four years with this administration will be catastrophic.”
Some of the nation’s leading activists who have long fought for criminal justice reform see Harris as a potential ally in their push for change. Color of Change President Rashad Robinson said Harris has evolved over time and declared herself a “progressive prosecutor” who backs reform.
“What I appreciate about her is that she’s been willing to listen and willing to evolve, and she’s been willing to put legislation behind that evolution and policy platforms behind that evolution,” Robinson said. “Yes, I think there will be very real things that people will raise, but I think that she has been listening and working to address those things.”
Alicia Garza, the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, said the nation is in a moment where “deep and profound change is needed.”
“For some activists, it is important that a Black woman is represented on this ticket and for other activists, substance is going to be much more important than symbolism,” Garza said. “The trick of getting people out to vote will be a successful combination of the two. This is an incredible moment of opportunity, it’s a moment that is rife with possibility and I’m still hopeful that this newly announced ticket will rise to meet the moment.”
It’s also not lost on many that the selection comes nearly 100 years after the 19th Amendment was ratified, giving women the right to vote.
But for Black women, the freedom to vote didn’t come until much later, part of a historical pattern of being denied justice offered to others.
And for Nse Ufot, CEO of the New Georgia Project, that’s a call for action and a reminder how much more work needs to be done. Ahead of the election, her organization is working to register more than 1 million Black, Latino and Asian American voters. So, far they’ve registered 425,000 in the state.
“It took an additional 45 years of organizing to secure the rights to vote for Black women and other women of color,” Ufot said. “And so, you know, there is a long history of, sort of, uncredited work. I think the Biden-Harris ticket is going to make it easier for us to have conversations, particularly in places like Georgia’s rural Black belt about why they need to vote.”
Melanie Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, was overcome with emotion after the announcement.
She wished her late mother could have lived to see the historic moment. She also wished that Black women who came before Harris — civil rights activists Fannie Lou Hamer, Dorothy Height, Ella Baker and many others — could know how their legacy and hard work culminated into this powerful moment.
“I thought about my mother, my grandmother, I thought about my sisters. I thought about in this moment that as a Black woman, we are seen,” Campbell said. “This moment is more than about the VP slot. It affirms Black women and all we did for this country. I’m glad I lived to see it.”
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New Zealand Back Into Lockdown As New COVID-19 Cases Detected
New Zealand is again under lockdown restrictions Wednesday after four COVID-19 infections were detected in Auckland, the South Pacific’s country’s biggest city. They are the first confirmed cases of community transmission of coronavirus in more than 100 days. In June, New Zealand declared a victory in its fight against COVID-19. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said the country had “united in unprecedented ways to crush the virus.” Restrictions were lifted, and life began to return to what it was before the pandemic, although New Zealand’s international borders stayed closed. But the coronavirus had not gone away. After more than three months without a local infection, four cases have been found among a family in Auckland. None had recently traveled overseas and the source of the disease is being urgently investigated. Auckland, a city of 1.6 million people, is now subject to stage three restrictions. Bars and restaurants have closed, along with schools. Workers have been told to stay at home, although staff in essential services are exempt. The lockdown will last for at least three days. Less stringent measures, including limits on gatherings and social distancing protocols, apply to the rest of New Zealand. The health minister Chris Hipkins told New Zealand radio that the government wanted to avoid a surge in cases seen overseas, including in the Australian city of Melbourne. “We are taking a very, very precautionary approach here. One of the reasons that we are moving very swiftly and that we are moving to level three (restrictions) for Auckland very quickly is we want to do everything we can to avoid (a) situation like Melbourne. You know, one of the lessons from overseas is you cannot be too hard, too soon. The faster you move the better your chances,” Hipkins said.Ahead of Wednesday’s lockdown, large crowds of shoppers were seen queuing at supermarkets despite officials insisting that panic-buying was not necessary. The World Health Organization had highlighted New Zealand as an example to other nations for having “successfully eliminated community transmission.” The re-emergence of the virus shows how difficult it is to stamp it out. Australia, too, has seen a resurgence of COVID-19 in some states, including New South Wales and Victoria, where a strict lockdown has been imposed.
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Kamala Harris, Once a Presidential Candidate, Returns to Race
U.S. Senator Kamala Harris is trying to become the first woman elected as the country’s vice president after presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden selected her as his running mate. The child of a father from Jamaica and a mother from India, both of whom immigrated to the United States, Harris is already the first Black woman and first South Asian American to be part of a U.S. presidential ticket. The 55-year-old’s resume includes being the first Black attorney general of the state of California as well as the first woman to hold the job. Her 2016 election to a U.S. Senate seat representing California made her the first woman of South Asian heritage to do so. Harris herself wanted to be in Biden’s position as the Democrat seeking to deny President Donald Trump another term and put the White House back in Democratic hands. Her campaign had a strong start, with 20,000 people attending her kickoff rally in her hometown of Oakland, California. In early July 2019, she trailed only Biden in public opinion polls after drawing praise for her performance in one of the early debates against the then-large field of Democratic candidates.FILE – Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks about his plans to combat racial inequality at a campaign event in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., July 28, 2020.But in the months that followed, her poll numbers steadily declined and in early December she announced she was dropping out of the race, citing difficulties in raising money for her campaign. In March, just after Biden pulled ahead of Senator Bernie Sanders with a number of state primary wins, Harris gave Biden her endorsement in the race to be the Democratic presidential nominee, saying, “I believe in Joe.” “One of the things that we need right now is we need a leader who really does care about the people and who can therefore unify the people,” Harris said. “And I believe Joe can do that.” Biden, in announcing Harris as his choice to join him on the November ballot, described her Tuesday as “a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants.” Harris earned an undergraduate degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C., a historically Black college where she joined the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. She went on to earn a law degree from the University of California, Hastings, before going to work in the Alameda County district attorney’s office.Harris served two terms as district attorney of San Francisco before being elected California’s attorney general. Her record in those California jobs has been a target of scrutiny, with critics faulting her for not enacting criminal justice reforms and not doing enough to investigate police shootings. With those issues prominent in the United States with protesters carrying out months of demonstrations against police violence and inequality, Harris has been among lawmakers pushing legislation to enact police reforms on a national level.
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Islamic State Holding on in Philippines, Despite Millions in US Spending
Hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars and hundreds of hours spent working with and training Philippine government forces appear to be doing little to dislodge Islamic State fighters entrenched in the country’s south.The assessment, part of a just-released Pentagon report, warns that at best, U.S.-supported efforts in the Philippines have fought IS and other terror groups to a stalemate, with Philippine forces unable to gain the upper hand.“In general, efforts to reduce extremism in the Philippines do not appear to have made a substantial difference,” U.S. Defense Department Acting Inspector General Sean O’Donnell wrote in the In this photo taken on March 28, 2018 shows an aerial shot of bombed-out houses in Marawi City, after five months of house-to-house fighting between troops and jihadists loyal to the Islamic State.But aside from some initial progress, when U.S. special forces aided Philippine efforts to recapture the city of Marawi, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, in 2017, efforts to eradicate IS have not met with sustained success.Despite seeing 1,000 of its fighters killed or captured in the five-month-long battle for Marawi, and the death of its leader, Isnilon Hapilon, a month later, IS has persisted. U.S. counterterrorism and military officials say IS has managed to keep its numbers in the low to mid hundreds.The latest estimates, from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency indicate IS has anywhere from 300 to 500 fighters, divided into numerous factions, including the Abu Sayyaf Group, the Maute Group, Ansar Khalifa and others.There are also indications that the terror group is spreading beyond its historical strongholds in the southern Philippines.This past June, Philippine security forces said four IS fighters, part of a sleeper cell, were killed in a raid in the capital of Manila. And U.S. officials caution that IS continues to gain supporters across the country, even in areas where it is not currently fighting.IS and COVID-19There are also concerns that IS fighters are taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic. ”COVID-19 restrictions, coupled with force rotations, negatively impacted the amount of U.S. intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) support,” the Pentagon inspector general report said.And there are concerns IS groups could also get a boost from former members or sympathizers who may have been among the 10,000 prisoners released by the government in response to the spread of the coronavirus through the country’s prison system. Officials also worry about the failure of U.S. efforts to help change “the economic, social, and political conditions” which may be fueling the popularity of groups like Islamic State.”We have seen little progress in improving the economic, social, & political conditions” in southern #Philippines “where separatist groups and extremist groups have existed for decades” per new @DoD_IG report
— Jeff Seldin (@jseldin) August 11, 2020“We pay lip service to this idea of countering the narrative, but we don’t really have a great sense of what that entails,” said Colin Clarke, a senior fellow at the Soufan Center, a global security research group.“We’ve pretty much kind of rolled out the whole kitchen sink in an attempt to make progress,” he said. “Through every step forward, there’s been two steps back because we haven’t had the ability to conduct the kind of sustained nationwide CVE [countering violent extremism] program. It’s been more kind of, you know, drips and drab.”
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Democrats Want Obama to Take on Trump
Even though former President Barack Obama has taken a more active role recently to support presumptive Democratic Party nominee Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, the ex-president has, for the most part, refrained from publicly criticizing his successor, President Donald Trump. But as VOA’s Brian Padden reports, many Democrats are urging Obama to become high profile surrogate for Biden by directly confronting Trump’s attacks and generating enthusiasm among Democratic voters.
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Тепер деталі. У місці на стелі, де він виявив підозрілий отвір, розташоване горище. На підлозі горища, заваленій уламками старого шиферу та сміттям – ми звернули увагу на пляму з білого матеріалу, який візуально відрізняється від іншого покриття і видається свіжішим. Вона була саме в тому місці – де дірка у стелі.
Цю єдину групу, яка приїжджала – довелось буквально вмовляти подивитися, що під цим шаром – це ускладнювалось тим, що вони були технічно не підготовленими.
Добре, що була хоч викрутка – і вона таки стала в нагоді. Нею слідчий «розколупав» цей білий матеріал, і побачив там отвір. Діаметр десь сантиметр в ширину, з чіткими межами. З нього слідчий дістав шматок вати. Туди слідчий і опускав то гілочку, то підручний дріт.
На цьому огляд оголосили завершеним – і адвокату довелось наполягати зняти весь шар підозрілого покриття на цьому місці. Виявилось, що там такий отвір не один, а три. Всі однакового діаметру, у кожному – шматок вати. У всі три отвори дріт опустився доволі глибоко – але не «показувався» у стелі кухні, а схоже «загинався» у порожнині між перекриттям. У отвори на горищі один за одним почали лити воду – і вона почала протікати з отвору в стелі Михайла.
Все. Це короткий опис усіх дій, які були вчинені для пошуку «прослушки» чи спроб її встановити вдома у журналіста-розслідувача.
Слідча група поїхала ще вчора о шостій вечора, і відтоді приміщення (квартиру та горище) так і не перевірили спеціальною технікою на предмет прослуховуючого обладання, відтоді приміщення ніхто не контролює.
Чи це справді всі дії, які за цей час могла вчинити Національна поліція, аби продемонструвати усю спроможність правоохоронної системи реагувати на виклики, пов’язані із свободою слова та безпекою журналістів?
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With New COVID-19 Battle, Vietnam’s Middle-Class Dreams are Deferred
Before July, Vietnam’s entrepreneurs thought that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic was behind them and that the economy was well on its way to a recovery. With a fresh wave of virus cases, however, many businesses find themselves on the back foot again, putting the fast-growing nation’s dreams of achieving middle-income status at risk. Businesses are closing down at the highest volume in years, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Planning and Investment. The number of businesses that suspended operations skyrocketed 42% from January to July, year on year, while the number of new businesses registered in that period dropped for the first time since 2015, by 5%. Data on new businesses is a vital indicator for Vietnam, a communist nation that encourages citizens to create small and medium-size businesses as one stepping stone toward its goal of graduating out of lower-middle-income status. The Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank (OCB) is among those lending to firms to stay afloat. Economic ‘backbone’ “At this period of time, OCB aims to support small and medium enterprises because they are the backbone of Vietnam’s economy,” Nguyen Dinh Tung, the chief executive officer of the bank, said. Bars, nightclubs and event spaces are among those hanging the “temporarily closed” signs back on their doors this month after Vietnam reported its first ever coronavirus death in late July. This time the lockdown is more limited than in April, when a wave of virus cases forced a national shutdown. After that three-week shutdown, businesses were allowed to reopen and spring brought signs of life back to the cities. As no tourists were allowed to go into or out of Vietnam, citizens flocked to local beaches and resorts, and the tropical nation actually headed into July with more domestic flights planned than in July 2019. While others were still battling COVID-19 abroad, Vietnam was an oasis of optimism that restaurants, hotels, trade, and other sectors battered by the pandemic could bounce back. Like New Zealand, South Korea However, in a sign of the pandemic times, the holiday was short lived. Vietnam closed its economy, reopened, and then partially closed again in the face of an unpredictable disease. It is like nations from New Zealand to South Korea that seemed to stamp out COVID-19 early on but still had to contend with smaller outbreaks later. Amid the economic downturn, national carrier Vietnam Airlines is now planning to cut wages in half, while seven other state owned enterprises, based in Ho Chi Minh City, this month reported losses in their financial statements for the first half of the year. Women-led business Small businesses in particular, though, have the least funds to get through the emergency. The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation is lending $40 million to OCB to get loans to these small enterprises, in addition to $100 million to the Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank. About one-fifth of that $100 million is earmarked for businesses owned by women, through a partnership with the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women program. Charlotte Keenan, the global head of the program, said it “is committed to building the capacity of local banks to mitigate against the disproportionately adverse impact of COVID-19 on women-led businesses.”
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Belarusian Opposition Leader Flees to Lithuania
Protests erupted Tuesday for a third straight night in Belarus after the top opposition candidate in Sunday’s presidential election fled the country for her children’s safety.Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya sent a video message to her supporters asking them to forgive her going to Lithuania at this time.“It was a very hard decision to make. I know that many of you will understand me, many others will condemn me, and some will even hate me. But God forbid you ever face the choice that I faced. Children are the main thing in life,” she said.Her supporters say they believe she was forced to read from a prepared text when she told protesters not to confront police and show “respect for the law.”People, some of them ethnic Belarusians, hold a poster reading “Elections without Lukashenka! Freedom for political prisoners” and shout anti-Lukashenko slogans, Aug. 11, 2020.Tsikhanouskaya was the only serious challenger to longtime authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, who the election commission says won a sixth term with 80% of the vote to her 10%. She says she will not recognize the results.U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Belarus’s election was “not free and fair” and condemned “ongoing violence against protesters and the detention of opposition supporters.”EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell also alleges election fraud.Tsikhanouskaya jumped into the race late after her husband, Syarhei, an anti-government blogger and potential opposition candidate, was jailed in May.Belarusian police used rubber bullets and stun grenades against anti-government demonstrators who turned out for the third consecutive night Tuesday.Witnesses report police beating protesters before arresting them and smashing car windows before pulling people out of the vehicles.Earlier Tuesday, people left flowers at a place in Minsk where a demonstrator was killed Monday.Belarusian officials say more than 2,000 people have been arrested since Sunday.The European Union is accusing the Lukashenko’s government of “disproportionate and unacceptable violence” and said it was reviewing its relations with Belarus.Lukashenko has called the protesters criminals and dangerous revolutionaries.Lukashenko has ruled Belarus since it declared independence from Russia in 1991. He has been accused of suppressing free speech, ignoring human rights and showing little tolerance for dissent.
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7 Quick Facts on Kamala Harris, Biden’s VP Candidate
Kamala Harris, a U.S. senator from California and former presidential candidate, is Joe Biden’s vice presidential running mate, the Biden campaign announced Tuesday, via a tweet to supporters. Biden’s one-time opponent has made headlines for her sharp criticism of him on the campaign trail, alongside controversy over her time as a prosecutor in California. “@JoeBiden can unify the American people because he’s spent his life fighting for us. And as president, he’ll build an America that lives up to our ideals,” wrote Harris on Twitter. “I’m honored to join him as our party’s nominee for Vice President and do what it takes to make him our Commander-in-Chief..@JoeBiden can unify the American people because he’s spent his life fighting for us. And as president, he’ll build an America that lives up to our ideals.I’m honored to join him as our party’s nominee for Vice President, and do what it takes to make him our Commander-in-Chief.— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 11, 2020 Within minutes of the Biden campaign’s announcement, President Donald Trump tweeted a video lambasting Harris as “rushing to the radical left,” citing her support for tax hikes and Medicare for All.pic.twitter.com/jXoffXyZed— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 11, 2020Harris is the first Black woman and first candidate of Indian descent to be named on a major U.S. party’s ticket Harris, 55, is the daughter of immigrants. Her mother was an India-born breast cancer researcher, who did her last decade of research at Berkeley Lab, which conducts research for the Department of Energy. Harris’ father is a Stanford University emeritus economics professor who was born in Jamaica. “Hopefully it signifies a tremendous shift in the Democratic Party by finally recognizing how important Black people, and most specifically Black women, are to the base,” Angela Rye, a Democratic political strategist and former Congressional Black Caucus executive director, told the Los Angeles Times. Despite her humble upbringing, Harris was well-known in San Francisco social circles Harris’ parents divorced when she was 7 years old, and Harris was raised largely by her mother. “We moved a lot,” she told The New Yorker last summer.But in San Francisco, Democratic stronghold and home to Californian political families, such as the Feinsteins and Pelosis, she familiarized herself with the social scene.
“In San Francisco — this was especially true 25 years ago — there’s a group of people who socialize with each other, and are very supportive of the opera, the ballet, the arts,” Sharon Owsley, a longtime Harris friend and former employee, told The New Yorker. “Entry into the group depends on your attributes — not if you have money, but if you are smart. That was the appeal of Kamala. She can turn a room into a group of bystanders.” She didn’t like the Obama comparisons early in her career Headlines labeling Harris “the female Obama” have followed her for years, from her time as a district attorney to the end of her bid for the presidency. “One thing that above all else drives her crazy is getting reduced to a demographic stereotype,” Sean Clegg, a longtime adviser, told The New Yorker in 2019. “She was a prosecutor. They didn’t have the same life experience. She told us, ‘Don’t define me based on something a man did.’”Still, Obama applauded the Biden campaign’s announcement, tweeting Tuesday, “She [Harris] is more than prepared for the job. He added, “This is a good day for our country.”I’ve known Senator @KamalaHarris for a long time. She is more than prepared for the job. She’s spent her career defending our Constitution and fighting for folks who need a fair shake. This is a good day for our country. Now let’s go win this thing. pic.twitter.com/duJhFhWp6g— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 11, 2020Her past as a prosecutor has been both a boon and a drawback Criminal justice reform was a centerpiece of Harris’ presidential bid, highlighting the 13 years she spent as a prosecutor in Alameda County and across the bay in San Francisco. She bills herself as a “progressive prosecutor” and says she worked to reform the criminal justice system, often pointing at an initiative she launched in 2005 to help first-time drug offenders reintegrate into society.But critics have denounced some of her tough-on-crime policies, including an anti-truancy program that threatened jail time for parents whose children skipped school, and her handling of wrongful convictions. One of the most controversial cases during Harris’ stint as a district attorney was that of Jamal Trulove, who served more than six years in prison on a murder charge from a 2007 shooting. He was acquitted in a retrial in 2015, and in 2018, was awarded $13.1 million dollars after a jury found police officers fabricated evidence against him and withheld evidence that would have helped his case. In the wake of this summer’s protests against racism and police brutality, Harris’ background could be a turnoff for voters, especially younger and more liberal people of color. Harris has held elected office since 2003 — and hasn’t looked back That year, she won election for San Francisco district attorney and won reelection in 2007. Three years later, in 2010, she narrowly beat Republican Steve Cooley to become California attorney general. She was reelected in 2014 over Republican attorney Ronald Gold. Harris took her political career a step further in 2016, when she defeated former Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez for election as U.S. senator from California. Harris kicked off her presidential campaign just halfway through her first term as senator
She announced her candidacy on “Good Morning America” on Jan. 21, 2019, which coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Her slogan, “Kamala Harris For The People” referenced her past as a prosecutor. Despite her sharp criticism of Biden, Harris endorsed him for president in March Three months after dropping out of the presidential race, Harris posted a video on Twitter in which she told supporters, “I believe in Joe.” “I will do everything in my power to help elect him the next President of the United States,” she wrote in the accompanying tweet..@JoeBiden has served our country with dignity and we need him now more than ever. I will do everything in my power to help elect him the next President of the United States. pic.twitter.com/DbB2fGWpaa— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) March 8, 2020The endorsement was a far cry from the campaign trail. In a viral moment during her first presidential debate in June 2019, she called out Biden for speaking warmly of his working relationships with segregationist lawmakers at a campaign event that month. She attacked his opposition to school busing in the 1970s to integrate schools. “There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day,” Harris said. “And that little girl was me.” But within a day of her dropping out, Biden told reporters he would “of course” consider her as vice presidential running mate. “Senator Harris has the capacity to be anything she wants to be. I mean it sincerely,” Biden said in December 2019.”She is solid. She can be president someday herself. She can be the vice president. She can go on to be a Supreme Court justice. She can be an attorney general. I mean, she has enormous capability.”
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How Kamala Harris Found the Political Identity That Had Eluded Her
Months after her presidential campaign collapsed amid questions over her political identity, Kamala Harris suddenly and forcefully found her voice – and at a fortuitous time. Harris, a 55-year-old U.S. senator from California, was chosen by Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as his running mate on Tuesday, making history as the first Black woman and Asian-American on a major presidential ticket. Her selection came as little surprise. With the United States in the midst of a reckoning over its history of racial injustice, Biden had increasingly been pressed to select a woman of color. Harris, who became the Senate’s second Black woman in its history when she was elected in 2016, was always at the top of the list. But Harris did anything but keep a low profile while Biden was making up his mind. Instead, she emerged as a fierce advocate for police reform and social justice – in the Senate, in the streets, and on the airwaves, sparring with Republicans on the Senate floor and offering fiery critiques of Republican President Donald Trump. “She has been very resolute,” said Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, the longstanding civil rights and social justice advocacy group, which has worked with Harris on reform issues. “She has the ability to go toe-to-toe with anybody.” For Harris, the barrier-breaking former prosecutor and California state attorney general, the moment provided a clarity of purpose that was often absent from her failed presidential bid. After a strong start, Harris’ campaign quickly foundered amid strategic somersaults. First positioning herself as a progressive in the mold of reformers such as Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, Harris then tried to tack toward the center. Her position on healthcare, for example, became a mishmash. She dropped out in December, before a single vote was cast in the Democratic nominating contests.Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., listens during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to examine Department of Homeland Security personnel deployments to recent protests on Aug. 6, 2020, in Washington.“She was trying to play the middle a little bit and trying to be all things to all people,” said Joel Payne, a Democratic strategist who worked for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Now, Payne said, “There is a little more of a defined voice. There’s more clarity to her public persona.” Winning over Floyd lawyer, past doubtersHer background in law enforcement had been seen as a vulnerability early in the race for the party’s nomination. But her work of late has impressed some past doubters who say she did not do enough to investigate police shootings and too often sided with prosecutors in wrongful conviction cases in the past. In the days after George Floyd died at the hands of police in Minneapolis in May, sparking a national conversation on race, Harris joined protesters in the streets of Washington. On Capitol Hill, she, along with Senator Cory Booker, an African American who made his own bid for the presidency, became the drivers of the Democratic effort to battle police abuses and led the pushback against an alternative Republican police reform measure, which she blasted as “lip service.” Her efforts received important recognition in early August when Ben Crump, the attorney for Floyd’s family, published an opinion article supporting her candidacy. “The case for me is simple: She’s been a change agent at every level of government – local, state, and federal – for 30 years,” Crump wrote as the search for Biden’s running mate entered a final stage. Lara Bazelon, a professor at the University of San Francisco School of Law who last year assailed Harris’ record as a prosecutor and attorney general, said Harris has made an “important shift” on criminal justice. She now hopes Harris will become a leading adviser to Biden on the issue. “She got a good, hard shove to the left. I really hope she seizes that moment and resists the urge to drift toward safety and the center,” Bazelon said. Shoring upWhile advocating for social justice publicly, Harris was also working to shore up her relationship with Biden. The two had long been friendly because of Harris’ friendship with Biden’s late son, Beau Biden, who served as Delaware’s attorney general and worked with Harris when she held the same position for her state. “Back when Kamala was Attorney General, she worked closely with Beau. I watched as they took on the big banks, lifted up working people, and protected women and kids from abuse,” the elder Biden wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. “I was proud then, and I’m proud now to have her as my partner in this campaign.” But Harris’ relationship with Joe Biden was sorely tested last year when in a Democratic debate she battered Biden over his long-ago stance on mandatory busing for public school students. Biden’s wife, Jill, later said she viewed the attack as a “punch in the gut,” while some Biden aides saw it as opportunistic. Since she endorsed him in March, Harris has become a fierce advocate of his candidacy and an effective fundraiser on his behalf. Biden told reporters in August he had put the debate fracas behind him. “I don’t hold grudges,” he said. Even so, Harris had to survive a last-minute lobbying campaign against her selection, one that included close Biden allies, over concerns she was too politically ambitious and would not put Biden’s interests ahead of hers. That push, in turn, sparked a backlash among Harris’ supporters who called the arguments sexist. Harris has used the time since her campaign exit well, Payne said. “She realized that one of her vulnerabilities was her background as a prosecutor,” he said. “She did some repair work. She did some fence-mending to get ready for the moment.”
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Taiwan Plans to Shift Medical Supply Chain Away from China
The United States and Taiwan are making a public show of strengthening ties this week, signing a memorandum of understanding to improve cooperation in public health as part of a high-level U.S. visit to the island.In the absence of formal diplomatic ties, the MOU was signed on Monday by W. Brent Christensen, director the American Institute in Taiwan, and Yang Jen-ni, chairwoman of the Taiwan Council for U.S. Affairs on behalf of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States.Visiting U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Taiwanese Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung witnessed the signing ceremony at the Central Epidemic Command Center in Taipei.Three Taiwanese industry experts who spoke to VOA say the memorandum will bring business opportunities to Taiwan, especially if the U.S. provides technology transfers in advanced medical material to support Taiwan’s public health industry. That will enable Taiwan to begin shifting its medical supply lines away from China and towards the United States.U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, left, and Taiwanese Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung pose during a signing of a memorandum of understanding at the Central Epidemic Command Center in Taipei, Aug. 10, 2020.Shifting away from ChinaDarson Chiu, a research fellow at the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, told VOA that the coronavirus pandemic has prompted Taiwan’s policy makers to reassess Taiwan’s reliance on raw materials from China.“The Trump administration wants to reduce its reliance on China from its medical supply chain, and the trend is the same in Taiwan,” he said. “The past model is Taiwan will use China as a supplier for materials before sending goods to the U.S. In the future, we are moving to get rid of this ‘middleman’.”He said, as an example, that China has used masks made in Taiwan since the COVID-19 pandemic that were produced without elements produced in China. Previously, Taiwanese companies either imported raw materials from China for low-cost products, or sent high value semi-finished medical equipment or other public health products to China for assembly, before exporting these goods to other markets.He added that if there’s strong demand from the U.S. for these public health products, some Taiwanese companies might consider shifting part of their supply chains to Mexico, “where they can enjoy low labor costs, zero tariff from USMCA [the United States, Mexico and Canada trade agreement], and lower transportation costs.”Aaron Chen, the chief operating officer of TCI, said collaboration with Taiwan is consistent with America’s public health policy needs. TCI is a leading contract research manufacturing organization based in Taiwan.“President (Donald) Trump wants to move the medical supply chain back to the U.S., but he has to consider costs,” said Chen. “For things like masks, which have low profit margins, it’s hard to shift the supply chain back to the U.S. For high value-added products, it also depends on if the U.S. government can roll out supporting policies for companies to shift their supply chain across the Pacific.”He said an option is for the U.S. to shift part of this supply chain to Taiwan.“Let’s do a simple comparison of production costs. Generally speaking, if the manufacturing cost to produce in China is 1, then in Taiwan it’s around 1.25. If made in Japan, it will be 1.75; and in the U.S., the cost will double,” Chen said. “So made in Taiwan products have cost advantage, they can also enjoy tariff preference.”A pool of talentsChan Chang-chuan, former dean of National Taiwan University College of Public Health, told VOA that there’s another important playing card in Taiwan’s public health industry.“Taiwan has great biotech R&D talents, and more than 70% of them are trained in the United States.,” said Chan.He hopes the new memorandum of understanding will facilitate collaboration and investment in biotech firms between the U.S. and the island.Taiwan Minister of Health and Welfare Chen Shih-chung called this week’s signing of the MOU a “historic moment,” adding that it marked a breakthrough in health and medical cooperation between Taiwan and the U.S.Azar, the U.S. health chief, described the MOU as a “landmark achievement,” as it formalized more than 20 years of collaboration between his department and Taiwan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare on a wide range of issues.Azar also praised Taiwan for its response to COVID-19, saying it has been “among the most successful in the world.”
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