that was overseen by blevins. blevins to the complex negotiations related to apple sourcing 5g qualcomm mode latest iphone unit. he did deals with entail. -- intel. any big supplier you have heard of, it was his responsibility to get those components ahead of the competition and at better prices than the competition, leading to strong margins. some people in the company say he is irreplaceable, given how important he was to the bottom line. ed: what we know about how people -- how apple felt about this internally and what has the response been to our reporting? >> the video was published on to talk on september 5. after the video became public, which by the way it has well over one million views, i would quantify it as viral. people within the apple operations and organizations reported the video to human resources which enacted an investigation. we are told this month that jeff williams, apple's chief operating officer, made the decision that blevins would be leaving the company. blevins issued a statement, which

the highest ranking biden administration. officials and social media companies are correspond. rachel blevins joins us in the studio now with more on this. hi there, rachel. pretty extraordinary developments there by the attorneys general the, the, to, than the issue has long been discussed happening. but now it finally seems to be proven . and that's right there, referencing what they say are a series of documents. and now they're saying that these documents show conversations between top social media platforms and around 45 federal officials. specifically when it comes to content, longer ration, and those good old words of misinformation and disinformation that we have heard so much about lately. now, specifically, when it comes to facebook, that's a big one that's mentioned here. and in one of the conversations, a facebook official actually talks about meetings directly with the white house. take a listen. i know our teams met today to better understand the scope of what the white house expects from facebook on misinformation going forward. in our previous conversations, i've appreciated t

blevins was a 22 year veteran of apple and yesterday we got a report that the company was abandoned its plan to boost production of the new iphone 14. today in a very rare move, bank of america slapped apple with a downgrade taking it down from a buy to a neutral and cutting apple's price target to $160. it's $141.29 right now. driver number two, classic case of good news versus bad news. good news is bad news on wall street. a surprise drop, this is good news in weekly jobless claims to their lowest level since april has investors fretting with such a strong labor market and fewer workers applying for unemployment benefits the federal reserve will continue on aggressive rate hike path. so cue the hangover. with 32 minutes left to trade, it's the nasdaq where the retreat is really looking at as the leader here and led by tech. if you drill down deeper into what is right now a 377 point loss, which of course blanks out yesterday's 222 point gain, the top 20 nasdaq laggards are peppered with semiconductor stocks and advanced micro-devices and nvidia is down and that is down and amd down 7

david blevins, sky news, in belfast. >> along with the coming prince of wales, they will also take on the kings scottish titles. which he said has meant so much to me. it has been said that the queen was at her happiest there, at balmoral castle where she spent her summers. and where she spent her final days. skies britt miller has been speaking to people there. >> in the village where they called the queen the neighbor, there was a quiet ceremony to their all, a, a ride for those taking flowers to balmoral, the small meticulous details, the transition they knew would come. but dread all the same. >> in the shop last night, we just broke down completely, both my wife and i. >> they saw different queen here, and remain grateful that she called this place home. >> it's the loss of a friend and a neighbor that we feel, as well as a monarch. we hear a lot of a lot of people talking about the end of an era. but we have a new king already and i think it's the start of a new era. >> across the road, the butcher who made sausages for the family barbecues, jon sinclair saw the queen only weeks

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when you, when you have to report the truth, but you have to and you guys and so nobody understands blevins. it's kind of what that, this is a very bad art. you're, you're very scathing about the foreign minister said a lover off, did you expect better from him? you say he sent to mind the degradation of the system? well, well he came in and done a lot of illusions where we have down to what we see now another symbol of this system which is now denying the reality. so i don't expect anything from team anything from the galler. i'm here to present us. and i think that. ready will. ready see, the collapse of this is really collapse. yeah. but i base based on what all the lives that they've told they suddenly realize, but nothing is true that everything's going wrong. and it's too late to do anything about it. is that, is that the scenario that you foresee? i believe that it is all but it depends on the war and, but i don't see russia it can be used on an even worse than congress star, sublime, and you bring it all the way around this depletion. well, so just be the. ready way, in all other sc

i'm rachel blevins and here are the top stories of this hour. we begin with the latest from the don bass, where according to the local authorities, ukrainian shelling has left 2 people dead and one wounded in this city of lucy shots, a word of caution. the following images may be disturbing. here are some of the images showing the aftermath of the attack. officials say the shell link came during a humanitarian, a delivery to locals, and that the attack use the u. s. supplied hi mars rocket systems. meanwhile, authorities of russia, bel garad region, se ukrainian shells have once again hit russian territory where 2 people have been wounded in a village. this comes a day after one ukrainian refugee was killed and 4 were wounded. and a similar attack on a civilian areas. this comes as hundreds of ukrainians have fled to russia following the recommendation by the head of the har, called region in ukraine. this influx of refugees was triggered recently when the military forces took control of a number of towns, their fears of ukrainian reprisals, and

i'm rachel blevins, and here are the top stories this hour. we begin with the latest from the conflict in ukraine where kiev has once again showed the city of her song, which is in the south of the country. here's the latest footage from there. as you can see, a local fire station has been heavily damaged. emergency services have reported that some people were injured report states that a barge used by local civilians to cross or river was also hit earlier local journalists side russian missile defense systems intercepted a rocket attack on the city. this comes as a region prepares for a referendum on becoming a part of the russian federation. meanwhile, the ukrainian army is trying to conduct a major offensive for the push into her song. however, as the russian defense ministry has been reporting for several weeks now, the efforts have been unsuccessful, and kiev is losing thousands of soldiers. there are cheese. moran garcia brings us this report. a mast ukrainian military formation, almost 300 troops, backed by dozens of tanks and armored v

i'm rachel blevins and here are the top stories at 7 am. we begin with the latest in ukraine. we're reports a wide spread. blackouts have been confirmed across vast areas of the country. 3 regions have had power restored, but in har caught a city with a population of over 1000000 residents. they are still without electricity. flame so lit up the night sky as a power station was reportedly hit in a strike late sunday. he yet has blamed russia for the attack. but moscow has yet to comment on the incident. let's cross a live over to our correspondent ro mom, closer up who's in done? yes. city rome on what is the latest on the blackouts? well, like you said, there was a complete set of blackouts in the very large city of far higher called bands. we've seen videos from our social media that showed that the cities on the ground had their stopped functioning as well. and the passengers of the metro system had to use the tunnels in order to come back to the ground. also a partial blackouts in the city or far poll tavar had caused by public transportation, electrical transportation to

i'm rachel blevins and here are the top stories this hour. we begin this hour with our special coverage of the referendum in the dawn bass republics, and to break away ukrainian regions as the voting has finished. and the ballots are now being counted to determine whether they will join russia. ah. as the polling stations have now closed after several days of accepting ballads, let's take a look at the numbers we have there ever. and notice final results have come in for ukraine's break away region, zapper roshi and her son with respectively 93.11 percent and 96.75 percent reporting in favor of joining russia. preliminary tallies. and then don, ask republic show 98.63 percent in favor. and in lugens republic, 98.53 percent the head of google's republic says the results testify to the unity of the people there. oh, the most important thing is that the referendum took place and we cast our boats as in the distance 2014 were united and showed our unity to the whole world. despite the fact that the ukranian nationalists did everything to prevent

will ortiz, major blevins has more on the crisis that you're facing? winter is fast approaching and as energy prices continue to increase across europe . so do the protest from the czech republic were tens of thousands took to the streets, calling for an end to nato membership to germany, where activists tried to block the entrance of a weapons plant and protested their government lethal support for ukraine. the latest demonstrations are fueling predictions, the soaring civil unrest will become the new normal as inflation and energy costs continue to run rampant. ah, the estimated 70000 protesters and proc took it a step further calling for their government to put the check for public 1st and to stop blindly pledging their membership to the un nato. when they argue it's not in the best interest of the people in their country. in the past, the czech republic has relied on russia for nearly all of its natural gas supplies . but now that it's falling in the footsteps of its neighbors by turning its back on moscow's resources, energy prices have sort and i

i'm rachel blevins, and here are the top stories of this hour. we begin with the latest in ukraine were reports of widespread blackouts have been confirmed across 5 regions in the country bordering the front line. 3 regents had power restored, but in har cough a city with a population of over 1000000 residents are still without electricity. flames. a lit up the night sky as a power station was reportedly hit in a strike late sunday. kiev has blamed to russia for the attacks, but moscow has yet to comment on the incident. ortiz, mariah garcia, has the latest ukraine's president zelinski has confirmed blackouts that have affected much of the east of ukraine, which includes blackouts in to me. region. yep. it to throw off screeching of region as well as the bus that he had screeching, which is still controlled by you quit. and this is off to russian cruise missiles struck several, a critical infrastructure sites which include at least 2 cruise missiles, striking a power generation station in connecticut region, as well as sub stations all over the c

i'm rachel blevins and here are the top stories this hour. we begin with russian foreign minister survey lab. rob's address to the un security council. he said the collective west has escalated the conflict in ukraine, adding that its ultimate goal is to weaken russia. that's on fornia. so the solution that was in the position of those states that pump military equipment into ukraine is cynical. and it doesn't hide the fact they want to plate and weaken russia by prolonging the conflict. the collective west. kendall's, the fire, and it is with impunity. you won't really punish yourself, will you? this is not latent racism against russia, but outright racism. all eyes were on the security council chamber when we heard from the russian foreign minister, sir gay lab rav now he choked to the floor of the 15 member body that leads the united nations. and he gave remarks exposing all of these facts that are widely ignored and international, and us aligned media. when he spoke, he pointed out that while the united states seems to continue to maintai

i'm rachel blevins. and here are the top stories this hour. we begin with the latest from the don bass were 13 people have been killed and at least 8 others wounded in a ukrainian artillery attack on the city of don. net. that's according to a statement by the mayor. now a warning you may find some of these images disturbing. the shelling, targeted crowded areas in this city center. this footage shows the aftermath of the hit on a busy central square where civilians including 2 children were killed while they were stepping out of shops and waiting for a bus. now we blurred out these images of the human cost of this latest attack by cubes. forces. the attack came in 3 waves. you fast shall landed behind that building of a where the bank is. we do not know where the 2nd one ended. you said one fell right here. there's a bus stop here, a cafe, a market. this is the center of our neighborhood. no one uses cars here. it's a pedestrian area from if i'm looking in the go away. but only the shell flew right over my head. right here, so the only thing

i'm rachel blevins, and here are the top stories this hour. we begin with the latest from the front lines and the don bass and ukraine. russian troops continue to hold the eastern part of cooper beyond despite regular shelling of this city by cabs forces. while heavy fighting is ongoing in the cities of young pole and craus neatly, mon, that remain under the control of the russian lead forces. and sole adar, ongoing clashes are reported there as well. and to john, yes, city were 13 people, including 2 children have been killed and at least 8 others wounded and a ukrainian artillery attack on a crowded public area. on monday. a warning you may find the following. images disturbing. oh, yeah, with just this comes as the civil chambers of both lugens and dynastic people's republics have called for an immediate vote on whether the republic should become a part of russia. our cheese moran gods. diaz has more details. this is 8 years after both regions voted hosted referendums on independence on leaving ukraine. what followed was 8 years of civil wa

i'm rachel blevins. and here are the top stories this hour. we begin with the latest from the conflict in ukraine. russian authorities from the ball garad region have asked residents of to border villages to evacuate. the homes in the area are situated very close to ukraine and attack on monday spurred b urgent warning. this comes after one person was killed and 4 others wounded after ukraine showed a check point in a russian village, ordering the harcourt region and ukraine. here are some images of the aftermath of the attack. the victim was an elderly woman and ukrainian refugee. 3 of those wounded were also ukrainian citizens who have recently fled to russia. hundreds of ukrainian refugees are now coming to russia after ukrainian forces have taken over a number of towns in the har called region. local authorities say they are provided with all the necessary care and will be given temporary housing. that is, the ukrainian government is persecuting local features in the hard core region. here the deputy prime minister said ukrainian teachers

i'm rachel blevins and here are the top stories of this week. and today, we begin with the latest developments from the conflict in ukraine this weekend, as he have said, it has advanced in the northern part of the front line in the heart called very again, while russia announced it has been withdrawing its troops and equipment from there to we re group and don bass over the last 3 days. though this is in your not it is, she's the state of girls of the special military operation to liberate don bass. a decision was made to regroup. the russian troops stationed in the ball a clear and zoom regions to support the operations, enforcing the dulness carrier to this. and over the last 3 days in operation was carried out to transfer the groups to the territory of the donors republic. this map shows the most recent changes on the battlefield. 3 days ago, russian military forces were redeployed away from the area that you see now, which saw intense battles with ukrainian troops engage in the counter offensive. and as the defense ministry just said, these

i'm mary jo blevins and here are the top stories at 7 am. we begin with reports of 2 people killed and wounded and recent shelling of done yet city among the places that have been hit was a hospital near the city central embankment, according to local authorities. a fire broke out on the roof of the medical center firefighters arrived at the scene to put off the blaze of public square in the city center was also struck by the shelley, wounding several people. emergency services arrived to the scene to bring those injured to the hospital. they attack shattered windows in nearby stores and residential buildings. meanwhile, at the northern part of the front line, the russian army has air lifted military hardware and personnel to the heart of the region where intense battles are going on with ukrainian troops who claim to have launched a counter offensive. however, the local authorities say he forces have suffered heavy losses trying to break brushes, defenses, taking a closer look at the situation in the heart call region fighting is escalating

facebook and twitter already saying that they plan to act against when they see as misinformation racial blevins talking me through that now the author of google archipelago, the digital gulag, in the simulation of freedom, dr. michael rectinwald's believes the wife has uses big tech to its own advantage. the government itself, using these big tech monopolies to infringe upon political and other speech and basically shut down all opposition. now we're talking about direct assaults on the 1st amendment of the united states. that is the freedom of speech. we're always told, you know, these are private companies, they can do whatever they want. they can censor, you know, you don't have to allow somebody in your house to speak things you don't want to hear. but they've proven over and over again that they're actually appendages of the state that they are state apparatuses that are doing the bidding of the state. in particular, the unit party controlled state, the democratic party controlled state that they work for. so they are not private enterprises, strictly speaking, they're actually part of the

i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of the week. and today, we begin with the latest developments in the conflict in ukraine this weekend, as kiev says, it has advanced in the northern part of the front line and the har called region. russia announced that for 3 days, it's been repositioning troops and equipment away from there to regroup and the don bass. now, this is in israel in order to achieve the stated goals of the special military operation to liberate don bass. a decision was made to regroup the russian troops station in the baltic, lie and is young regions to support the operations efforts in the dynette scarier to this end over the last 3 days in operation was carried out to transfer these young black lie, a group of troops to the territory of the denounced people's republic. this map shows the most recent changes on the battlefield. 3 days ago, russian military forces were redeployed away from the area you see now, which saw intense battles with ukrainian troops engage in a counter offensive. and as it events ministry ju

i'm rachel blevins. and here are the top stories at this hour. but 1st, this just in officials and these oper, oci region have confirmed, a blast has hit the center of this city of mila toll no casualties have been reported yet. now data as the region holds a referendum on whether to join russia to day, we start our special coverage of the referendums and the non nascar new gods, people's republic, as well as in a row sheet and her san regions of ukraine on whether to join russia the voting has begun with the voting and these 4 regions come as ukrainian troops continued a shell residential areas killing and wounding civilians. rushing back to local authorities, say key ab wants to terrorize residents ahead of the referenda. meanwhile, moscow says it will support the decision of the people and also increase it's defense of the regions. the 5 days of voting will continue until tuesday. we ask people in the dawn bass and the hearse on region, how they feel about the referendum, here's what they had to say. almost at the nick at the cross thing of th

i'm rachel blevins and here are the top stories. this our both the dawn ask in college republics as well as to regions and ukraine have announced they will be holding referendums on whether to become part of russia voting. and the dawn ask republics and ukraine's her san and zap hiroshi regions will be held on september 23rd to the 27th. we spoke to locals and that our nest and the guns republics. and as to what they think about the upcoming vote. michigan, the ballistic lou, i'll vote in favor of it. i have an extremely positive view of this is exactly what we've been waiting for since 2014. our people have suffered a lot for the idea of joining russia. all these events have shown that we have one path. it should be done as soon as possible. we hope that no one will attack russian territory. still, i will walk in favor because it's time to become part of russia who have been wait impatiently for e t is. we're tired of the whole situation with this region must return to its home . the time has come, so the decision must be made. i w

this is our to international, i'm rachel blevins and here are the top stories at ada. again, we begin with the latest in ukraine where reports of widespread blackouts have been confirmed across a vast areas of the country. 3 regions have had power restored, but in har caught a city with a population of over 1000000. residents are still without electricity. flames a lit up the night sky at a power station that was reportedly hit late sunday, yet has blamed russia for the attacks. but moscow has yet to comment on the incident are to use rome on closer up has more on the story. the news regarding the blackouts began circulating in the early hours of sunday evening as their social media showed that article on the ground had stopped functioning as passengers. i had to walk through the tunnels in order to get out of the metro system and onto the ground. so elsewhere in the city of far pulse of our public transportation, like god surely buses that use a streets of power lines have been caught on fired as the result of the power outage. also due to the alleged the air strike.

i'm rachel blevins and here are the top stories this hour. we begin with the latest from the front lines and the don bass and ukraine. russian troops have been holding control over the eastern part of cooper, despite regular shelling of the city by key ebs forces. while heavy fighting is ongoing in the cities of young poll and crosby, lea mon, that remain under the control of the russian lead forces. and so the dar ongoing clashes are reported as well. and to the darnedest city were 13 people, including 2 children have been killed and at least 8 others wounded and a ukrainian artillery attack on a crowded public area. on monday. a warning you may find the following images disturbing a ah, just this comes as the civil chambers of both lugens and on nets. people's republics have called for an immediate vote on whether the republic should become a part of russia. archie corresponded murat garcia, joins us live now from the hearse on reagan. now murat, what more do we know about this latest initiative? and has there been any comment from moscow s

i'm rachel blevins. and here are the top stories this hour. we begin with the latest as vladimir putin says, the west has violated security agreements by fabricating hypocritical anti democratic rules that russia will not follow. the president made the comments during his speech at a ceremony to start the accession of 4 new territories into the russian federation . best is to legitimate smokers in strategic security agreements. fly into the trash shall we hear is the west defends in order based on rules. where did these rules come from? who's ever seen these rules? solid deception, double already triple standards? it's easy to count on fools. russia is a 1000 year old civilization and it will not live by such false rules. the west uses suppression, exploitation, and enslavement instead of democracy. the unipolar world, it is built is anti democratic, deceitful and hypocritical, through and through by the other customer when they are g, as maria finance takes, as through the key points of the russian president, speech. julie, he story day earli

i'm rachel blevins and here are the top stories at 6 am. we begin with the latest in ukraine. we're reports of widespread blackouts have been confirmed across vast areas of the country. 3 region have had power restored, but in har cop a city with a population of over 1000000 residents are still without electricity. flames lit up the night sky as a power station was reportedly hit in a strike late sunday. yeah, has blamed to russia for the attacks, but moscow has yet to comment on the incident. our keys morale gods diaz has the latest you claims. president zelinski has confirmed blackouts that have affected much of the of ukraine, which includes blackouts, in sumi region. yep. it, it petrov screeching, headache of region, as well as the dumbass, the nearest region, which is still controlled by ukraine. this is after russian cruise missiles struck several critical infrastructure sites, which include at least 2 cruise missiles, striking a power generation station in the head of region. as well as sub stations all over the country. we have seen images of metro trains stopped, stop

i'm rachel blevins here with the top stories of the week. and today, we begin with the latest developments from the conflict in new frame this weekend as key ab says it has advanced in the northern part of the front line and the hard copy region. while russia announced its regrouping its troops and equipment from there to dawn bath over the last 3 days, this map shows the most recent changes on the battlefield. russian military forces were redeployed away from the area you see now, which saw intense battles with ukrainian troops engaged in a counter offensive. russian defense ministry says that these troops have been moved to the south to reinforce the operation in the don ask region. are teak where is one at roman coast her up was there and sent us this report. well, after a relative, a silence over the last 3 days, both of from the ukrainian and the russian defense ministry we are are finally hearing of from the latter. so in his statement said that during this operation i was carried out of the last 3 days and number of distraction and de

i'm rachel blevins and here are the top stories this hour. we begin with the latest from the don bass were, according to the local authorities. ukrainian shelling killed 4 civilians and a village north of love and they did not republic. this comes after local officials in the neighboring. we've gone for public said at least 2 people died tuesday in a ukrainian strike, a word of caution. the following images may be disturbing. now we're seeing the aftermath of this attack which hit the city of we say shop. officials say the shelling came during a humanitarian aid delivery to locals, and it was us acquired high mars rockets that had the area. meanwhile, authorities of russia's belgrade region, the crania and shells have once again hit russian territory where 2 people have been wounded in a border village. this comes a day after one ukrainian refugee was killed and 4 wounded, and a similar attack on civilian areas. this comes as hundreds of ukrainians have fled to russia following the recommendation by the head of the hardcore region and ukraine

i'm rachel blevins in here are the top stories at 6 am. we begin with the latest from the conflict and ukraine were russian authorities of the ball garad region have asked residents of to border villages to evacuate the homes, and these area are situated very close to the border with ukraine. this comes after one person has been killed and for others dead. after you crane shell, the checkpoint in a rush and village bordering the har called region in ukraine. here some images of the aftermath of the attack. the victim was an old woman and ukrainian refugee, 3 of those wounded were also ukrainian citizens who have recently fled to russia. that's as hundreds of ukrainian refugees are now coming to russia. ukrainian forces have taken over a number of talents, harcourt region. local authorities say they are provided with all the necessary care and will be given temporary housing. this comes after russia withdrew its troops from the northern contact lines in the hard core region of ukraine, and has been relocating themselves to the nest republic

i'm rachel blevins and here are the top stories this our both the john eskimo gone. republics as well as 2 regions and ukraine have announced they will be holding referendums on whether to become part of russia voting and the to don bass republics and ukraine's . her son ends up or she regions will be held on september 23rd to the 27th. we spoke to locals in all of those regions. many say this could help achieve peace. seasonable as economically i'll vote in favor of it. i have an extremely positive view of this is exactly what we'd been waiting for his call since 2014 u. m. in our people have suffered a lot for the idea of joining russia. that was all these events have shown that we have one path. it should be done as soon as possible, so we hope that no one will attack russian territory. it but i will war which in favor, because it's time to become part of russia who have been wait impatiently for e. t is what we're tired of. the whole situation with this region must return to its home. the time has come. so the decision must be made. i will vote yes so that there will be no more sh