Bart italy records another day with fewer deaths. The pandemic is accelerating. Towards the pandemic is getting worse but says theres still hope that it spread can become it. And in other news the United States slashes aid to afghanistan after rival afghan leaders failed to agree on a new government. There the u. K. Has become the latest country to restrict Peoples Movement in the bit to slow the spread of the coronavirus people have been ordered to stay home for 3 weeks with exceptions for going to work to exercise and for feed shopping all nonessential business is. Well these tighten measures come as the heroes as the pandemic spread is actually speeding up the chief doctor tedder of said it took 67 days to reach the 1st 100000 confirmed cases the next 100000 infections took 11 days and theres a virus spread to almost every country in the world but then mit dr ted rall said it took just 4 days for the number of known cases to reach 300000. Well begins our coverage from london it was
Who is with us today, mayor . [applause] thank you, maryland drew, president landrieu. For the opportunity to lead our new Automation Task force and for your leadership of the conference. We had a great meeting with the task force on automation, talking about different ways that automation will change our work as employers and enterprises, as pollymaking bodies, as economies and as communities. Were looking forward to convening again as a task force this spring and would welcome any mayors or partners who would like to be part of that conversation but before we do that we have an opportunity right here to talk about one of the most interesting and important questions, not unrelated to automation, that affects our work as mayors Going Forward and that is the future of work. Were starting this conversation at a time that we are rethinking how and where people work, and how entrepeneurs can collaborate in their work spaces. This is something that our Title Sponsor knows an awful lot about
Thank you so much for joining us today. As mayors, we often say that our number one issue is jobs. Jobs, jobs, and jobs. Creating jobs. Supporting entrepreneurship and making sure the Jobs Available line up with the skills of our work force. So the entirety of this morning is going to be about what we as mayors can do and can be doing to support job creation and entrepreneurship in our communities, and for this session, we are going to begin with a conversation about the future of work and the dramatic changes in the ways that our residents relate to their jobs and to their physical work spaces, so here to introduce this conversation is chair of the Automation Task force mayor who is with us today. Mayor . [ applause ] thank you, mayor, for the opportunity to lead our new Automation Task force and freedom leadership of the conference. We had a great meeting this morning for the task force automation talking about different ways that automation will change our work as employers and ente
If you think the election is rigged will you accept the results on november 8 . Supporters, 202 7488001. Hillary clinton supporters, 202 7488000. Supporters, 202 7488002. If you are undecided, 202 7488003. A very good wednesday morning to you on the day of the final president ial debate. We are talking about your confidence in the integrity of the u. S. Elections this morning on the washington journal. Some of the comments donald trump has made in recent days. Here is a tweet. The election is absolutely being rigged by dishonest and distorted media pushing crooked hillary but also at many polling places. Said of course there is largescale voter fraud happening on and before election day. Colorado. He was in heres a bit of what he had to say. They even want to try and rig the election at the polling booth where so many cities are correct. And voter fraud is all too common. They criticize us for saying that. And we have even republicans, that is such a terrible thing to say. Take a look
Theres an army of women ready to support the, and theyre all over the world. That kind of confidence comes from knowing that they exist. But what we found when we did a study in 2013 is that women are sadly left behind in terms of internet access. In our report women in the web which we did with your assist and you with women in polls, we identified how large this gap is. Unfortunately, in Subsaharan Africa is the largest gap that we identified. These women and girls are being left behind for a variety of reasons that been mentioned today. We found that when they have access to the internet have access to education, the information that can help them with health care, job creation, Society Development and disempowerment that comes to meeting others that are like you. And so we know that by closing that gap we can make a tremendous impact. We have been committed to a goal of reducing the gap in Subsaharan Africa by 50 in the next five years, and we have numerous, tremendous partners tha