those are then used by the public accounts committee, which is a cross—party accounts committee, whichch is a cross—party committee of mps in the house of commons and that committee uses our report to hold to account for the senior civil servants who are responsible for the areas we are reviewing. in this case, the public accounts committee will be holding a hearing in december, where they seek evidence from the civil servants who oversaw these processes. that is a chance for a public accountability process that everybody can tune in to and understand the answers given. i think there is a crucial part of the way in which government is held to account by parliament for its spending. i mean, the chair of the public accounts committee has said this could be the tip of the iceberg. how damaging could these findings be for the government? the important thing is to act on the findings. so already some of the processes government is findings. so already some of the processes government is following, it is out of the initial incredibly pressured phase of the pandemic but we are still dealing w

the officials were appearing before the public accounts committee, which has been looking at how prepared 12 reports as a committee. the national audit office has called over this. so why are we still facing some of the same issues and asking the same questions about preparedness this late on? in march, the watchdog the national audit office said eight of the nine major government programmes were "high—risk" or red. that score today stands at one of those nine programmes that is still red, which is trade readiness. so we think that's a measure of the degree of progress that we have made in relation to the systems, and infrastructure, customs intermediaries, and data sharing all these other important necessary aspects of being ready for the border at the end of the year. we are five weeks away from the end of the year. so what are your biggest worries? i think first of all i would pick out, as the nao did, just the sheer scale of the operation means that there are literally many moving parts. so many things have to change at one time that inevitably there is going to be some difficulties f

raised notjust on these benches, but by the national audit office in the cross party public accounts committee making this issue political of reminders and the benches of us that we are not the only ones who have questions this process. the reason why it's pretty political is because the government made it so in the first place by gerrymandering this fund. to follow the advice rest of it severance, are excellent civil service in the department, it's a pity they tried to cast aspersions over them. follow their advice by slashing the 40 most highly ranked towns and smaller cities that their methodology grew up. it's a surprise to me he is such great enthusiasm for algorithm —based policymaking, i think we learned of the last year a degree of judgement and qualitative analysis is useful. is that in addition to those 40 places we must also use ourjudgement to select other places to be included. why did the secretary of state of his own constituents i helped to secure a £25 million town steel which will make the town centre more attractive pace to spend time in despite claiming not to have been inv

looking into the matter, the commons spending watchdog, the public accounts committee, found that thetransparency, the report said, could fuel accusations of political bias — accusations made forcefully by labour's shadow communities secretary. there is growing public concern that the secretary of state may have misused taxpayers' money from the 5.6 billion towns fund to boost the conservative party's general election campaign. but he can easily clear the matter up. will he publish in full the accounting officer's advice and the full criteria that he and the former minister of state used when they blocked funding for towns ranked amongst the 100 most deprived, and instead funnelled millions of pounds to each other‘s constituencies ahead of the general election? well, mr speaker, the department has already made clear that a robust process was established — in fact, established before i became secretary of state. it was followed to the letter, and we will not apologise — we will not apologise for investing in communities that have been under—invested in and undervalued by the party oppo

well, i, if, when i was on the public accounts committee of public spending watchdog here in parliament, i looked at certain events detail and, you know, have a look at exactly how they do things. and of course, sometimes they've made mistakes. you make the point around minister of justice, but of course it is right and completely proper. they have a contract, but company who is trying to deliver what it's been asked to do. and nobody is saying that reason why the testing traces them. it's not is because of circuit it is because of the huge complex you're doing or trying what this country's trying to do and in the what lots of other countries are also struggling with doing it is wrong to suggest somehow there's something in a judgement about using an affective efficient private company to try and help deliver public goods. because if you don't believe that any private company should be involved with anything, then you should say, well, also i'm certain interesting is you've set an interesting precedent here. a record of gross misconduct is no bar to getting contracts from this governmen

well, i, if, when i was on the public accounts committee of public spending watchdog here in parliament, i looked at certain events detail and, you know, have a look at exactly how they do things. and of course, sometimes they've made mistakes. you make the point around minister of justice, but of course it is right and completely proper. they have a contract, but company who is trying to deliver what it's been asked to do. and nobody is saying that the reason why the testing traces them is not. is because of circuit it is because of the huge complex you're doing, trying, but what this country is trying to do any deep what lots of other countries are also struggling with doing it is wrong to suggest that somehow there's something in a judgment about using an offensive efficient private company to try and help deliver public goods. because if you don't believe any private company should be involved with any, then you should say, well, why such an interesting is you've set an interesting precedent here. a record of gross misconduct is no bar to getting contracts from this government. i'm

well, i, if, when i was on the public accounts committee of public spending watchdog here in parliament, i looked at certain events details. and, you know, have a look at exact how they do things. and of course, sometimes they've made mistakes. you make the point around minister of justice, but of course it is right and completely proper. they have a contract, but company who is trying to deliver what it's been asked to do. and nobody is saying the reason why the testing traces them not is because of circuit it is because of the huge complex you're doing or trying what this country's trying to do and in the what lots of other countries are also struggling with doing it is wrong to suggest that somehow there's something in a judgement about using an offensive, efficient private company to try and help deliver public goods. because if you don't believe any private company should be involved with any, then you should say, well, why such an interesting is you've set an interesting precedent here. a record of gross misconduct is no bar to getting contracts from this government. i'm puzzled t

well, i, if, when i was on the public accounts committee of public spending watchdog here in parliament, i looked at certain events details and, you know, have a look at exactly how they do things. and of course, sometimes they've made mistakes. you make the point around minister of justice, but of course it is right and completely proper. they have a contract, but company who is trying to deliver what it's been asked to do. and nobody is saying that reason why the testing traces them not is because of circuit it is because of the huge complex you're doing or trying what this country's trying to do . i mean, the lots of other countries are also struggling with doing it is wrong to suggest that somehow there's something in a judgement about using an offensive efficient private company to try and help deliver public goods. because if you don't believe that any private company should be involved with anything, then you should say, well, why such an interesting is you've set an interesting precedent here. a record of gross misconduct is no bar to getting contracts from this government. i'm

and he went after the chairman of what was then called the accounts committee in the house, lindsey warren of north carolina who had dictated that the restaurant needed to be segregated. and he comes on to the house floor and the press pays a lot of attention to this. and his line, essentially, is if we cannot have farrar freedom, if we can't have a quality under the dome of the capital, then wherein god's name are we going to get it? and the house creates a special committee to investigate segregation in the restaurant, but the issue dies in that committee and the restaurant remains segregated well into the 20th century. >> that's interesting because it kind of brings up for me, thinking about not just the experience of african american members in the 19th century and early 20th century, but what's the experience of african american staff there. the restaurant is a good example, because in the 19th century, the privilege and responsibility and job of running the house restaurant was given as a concession, was a franchise of running that. and in the 18 sixties, after the civil war is over,

well i, if, when i was on the public accounts committee of public spending watched or here in parliament, i looked at certain events detail. and, you know, have a look at exact how they do things. and of course, sometimes they've made mistakes. you make the point around minister of justice, but of course it is right and completely proper to give a contract, but company who is trying to deliver what it's been asked to do. and nobody is saying the reason why the testing traces them. it's not, it's been cause a circle, it is because of the huge complex you're doing, we're trying, but what this country is trying to do, and indeed what lots of other countries are also struggling with doing it is wrong to suggest that somehow there's something in a judgement about using an offensive, efficient private company to try and help deliver public goods. because if you don't believe any private company should be involved with any, then you should say, well, why such an interesting is you've set an interesting precedent here. a record of gross misconduct is no bar to getting contracts from this governm

well i, if, when i was on the public accounts committee, public spending watchdog here in parliament, i looked at certain events detail and, you know, have a look at exactly how they do things. and of course, sometimes they've made mistakes. you make the point around minister of justice, but of course it is right and completely proper gave a contract, but company who is trying to deliver what it's been asked to do. and nobody is saying the reason why the testing traces them to not is because of circuit it is because of the huge complex you're doing or trying what this country's trying to do . i mean, the, what lots of other countries are also struggling with doing it is wrong to suggest that somehow there's something in a judgment about using an offensive efficient private company to try and help deliver public goods. because if you don't believe any private company should be involved with anything, then you should say, well, why such an interesting is you've set an interesting precedent here. a record of gross misconduct is no bar to getting contracts from this government. i'm puzzle

there's been very critical reports from people like the national audit office and the public accounts committeento the frame now and take responsibility. yes, of course local councils have their own responsibilities, but ultimately, if thatis responsibilities, but ultimately, if that is not happening, the government needs to step up and make sure that they know how many places are needed, that there is a plan in place and importantly, funding is there to back the creation of the places. anne longfield, thank you very much. the high court is due to start considering whether an american woman implicated in the death of a british teenager had diplomatic immunity. harry dunn, who was 19, died after his motorbike collided with a car being driven on the wrong side of the road in northamptonshire. anne sacoolas was driving. she's the wife of a us intelligence officer and she returned to the us after the crash last year. mr dunn's parents are disputing the foreign office's insistence that she was entitled to claim immunity. the treasury is being challenged to help thousands of home owners trapped on le

those sort of thing, if you take those more holistic details into account, the committee of climate changeal for our economy. good to talk to michael, thank you. covid has pushed movies to go online but did you know one of the oldest forms of live entertainment — the circus — too has had to go digital to survive the pandemic? nikhil inamdar reports from mumbai. bit by bit, malls, cinemas and other entertainment venues have begun opening up. and for the circus to grab new eyes and compete with these entertainment options, it will have to modernise, says experts. the show must go on. we have already talked about airlines in this program. norwegian airfaces a battle for survival after the norwegian government said on monday it would not provide further backing for the airline. the carrier furloughed an additional 1,600 employees following the government‘s decision. it‘s meant to be releasing its third quarter earnings this morning, and they‘re likely to make grim reading. let‘s talk this through with john grant — director of oag. good morning, good to see you again. it is the writing on the w

there have been very critical reports from people like the national audit office and the public accounts committeemately, if that is not happening, government needs to step up and they need to make sure they know how many places are needed, that there is a plan in place and importantly, funding there. the north of england has been hit harder by coronavirus than the rest of the country, according to a new study. the research, led by the universities of newcastle, manchester, york and liverpool found that pre—existing inequalities were made worse by the pandemic. the report also found more people in northern england died of the virus between march and july than elsewhere in the country. dying of all causes and also specifically of covid—19. we'll be speaking to the author of that report later this hour. conservative backbenchers have formed a group to oppose any extension to the lockdown in england. the covid recovery group, made up of 50 mp5, says shutdowns are destroying the economy and leading to "untold" health problems. the group also wants more scrutiny of the government's scientific advisers.

well, i think the government is being held to account by my select committee, but by people like katelear that there were lots of things done in other countries that we should have done here and we didn't. for example, in germany, care homes weren't allowed to receive patients from hospitals unless they could quarantine them for two weeks or, indeed, unless they were tested. in hong kong, they sealed off care homes and that meant that they didn't have a single coronavirus death in any care home in hong kong. so there are clearly lots of things that we didn't do the first time round. ithink... which cost thousands of lives. and ijust wonder, if you were health secretary and you've served in that position, you know the weight of responsibility. if you had overseen this disaster, "catastrophe", as amnesty international call it, would you have stayed in post or would you have resigned? well, ithink, you know, when you're looking at the incredibly challenging job of being health secretary, i think you have to make these judgments in the round. and one thing i would say about matt hancock i

committee. aft that if someone donates thousands of dollars more, that money goes to the trump recount account. s important the political action committee faces restrictions on how money is spent. unlike candidate campaign accounts, the money raised can be spent on personal expenses. 40% goes to the republican national committee. this money can go to benefit potentially other republican candidates. critics say this is a slush fund that can go to funding president trump's lavish lifestyle. the margins are on president trump's side. allies of the president told me that today. we want to look at the popular vote margins in the state contested by the trump administration and the trump campaign. in michigan in 2016 president trump won by 10,000 votes, joe biden is leading by more than 146,000. in pennsylvania he won by 44,000. in 2016, 50,000 is what biden is leading by. in wisconsin 22,000 is what trump won by. he's leading, president-elect joe biden, by 20,000. those tell stories and older establishment republicans tell me the numbers are not going to work out for the president while younger republ

internet already and also some of the very useful function like if you made a facebook account to get on a school committeemeeting or your things related to your church. what and that all be better in a decentralized space the moderator in the community morates that? think about the community paper papers. think of theay the cmunity newspaper and your representatives and people from your town now people are looking more global. now they are embroiled in conspiracies and other scandals that could happen but it wld be the same way as facilitated by facebook like the neighborhood paper so what you actually get? and we needed? i don't think we do. >> a which will question you are asking isn't it better was on the community organizations webpage? at some point that the time the facebook was working very hard to on board wit those sic programs and then it offered a brief service with these countrieand they can keep in touch with their family. with the 21st centu. and the problems are many but another reason is maybe we needed that scrutiny and maybe we have to go back into senile so clearly the cost of stated be

when you say it's maybe just a small slice of gop voters, look at the republican national committee's twitter accountt night tweeting out that president trump won in a landslide, repeating a false claim made by one of president trump's legal advisers. that's what the face of the republican party, the message of the republican party. something that's entirely false. it's a lie. he did not win in a landslide. it's president-elect biden. but this is what the party is saying, not just some rump group. >> or maybe the party is turning into some rump group. robert, this isn't political. that's just disgraceful. great to see you. i know what i'll be doing tonight at 8:00 p.m. i'll be watching you, my friend. >>> coming up next, speaker pelosi and chuck schumer of heading to delaware today to meet with president-elect biden on the way forward for the much-needed relief package. as they do that, the trump administration, listen to this, is actually pulling back relief funds. not just working on new funds. they're taking away funds. you need to stay here for that. we're cheersin' the merry-makers, the givers a

also everything it offers is a useful function, say you need a facebook account to get updates on the school committeemeeting or things related to your church. wouldn't at all be better than a decentralized space, and all of the community newspapers. the community newspaper might have had a lot about your representative, now that facebook has taken over, looking more global and embroiled in things like scandals and conspiracies. i don't think you have? anon-in a community newspaper 10 years ago. it could have happened. people think about what you actually get as you need it. >> a rhetorical question in your comments isn't it better on the community organization, the degree of free will, a lot of organizations chose not to represent themselves on facebook with decentralized means, ultimately those were the wrong choices. >> that would have been at the time when facebook was working hard to on board facebook basics where a lot of people have conflated facebook and the internet because it offered a free service and in these countries they can't keep in touch with their family. it has gotten so enshrined

>>kathy littered is on the steering committee for the coalition for police accountability, the policeeform advocacy group that wrote the initial draft the measure as one which amends the city charter creating the police commission's own office of the inspector general they need a civilian inspector general who report directly to the police commission and not to the police chief which is critical in order for them to effectively the police department. >>measure has wanted will also in the police commission's relationship as a client of the oakland city attorney's office and give them the ability to hire their own legal counsel they needed their own counsel in order to get unbiased legal advice. passage of measure s one now means police body camera videos will be turned over to the commission with investigating police misconduct cases so that's releasing the camera body footage so by getting direct access to these files to all the investigative files. the police commission can immediately start their investigation when some allegation of misconduct occurred in an unexpected twist even t

>>kathy littered is on the steering committee for the coalition for police accountability, the police reform advocacy group that wrote the initial draft of measure s one which amends the city charter creating the police commission's own office of the inspector general they need a civilian inspector general who report directly to the police commission and not to the police chief which is critical in order for them to effectively monitor. >>the police department. >>measure has wanted will also in the police commission's relationship as a client of the oakland city attorney's office and give them the ability to hire their own legal counsel they needed their own counsel in order to get unbiased legal advice. passage of measure s one now means police body camera videos will be turned over to the commission with investigating police misconduct cases so that's been a problem with not releasing a camera body footage so by getting direct access to these files to all the investigative files. the police commission can immediately start their investigation when some allegation of misconduct occur

rather actually room for the international committee to act, to really hold china accountable. what's actually left for the pro-democracy movement on the ground. symbolic protest, lack of cooperation, civil disobedience. what form is the protest going to take? now that china has narrowed your scope for movement. social movement is enough of a pendulum or we have our highest point last year where going rather to a low point. now i think for us, for hong kong, people will definitely have to defend our professional values in the satyrs like education university or in a legal status that we have to defend our. 'd own grounds that actually a lot of invisible battles ongoing. and the purpose of that is to preserve our freedom values. what we have had you fled to london. now you here in exile effectively. do you still fear china's reach? are you afraid being here in london? we have a lot of attacks to excel at 1st from authoritarian countries like russia, china. they're not to say that i'm completely safe, even though i'm in london. but it doesn't stop me to voice up for complete will

rather there's actually room for the international committee to act, to really hot china accountable. what's actually left for the pro-democracy movement on the ground, symbolic protests, lack of cooperation, civil disobedience. what form is the protest going to take? now now that china has narrowed your scope for movement. social movement is in the form of a pendulum, or we have our highest point last year, where going rather to a low point. now, i think for us, for hong kong, people would definitely have to defend our professional values in the satyrs like education university or in a legal status that we have to defend our own grounds. there are actually a lot of invisible battles ongoing. and the purpose of that is to preserve our freedom values. what we have had you had to learn now you here in exile effectively. do you still fear china's reach? are you afraid being here in london? we have heard a lot of attacks to exile activist from authoritarian countries like russia like china. i dare not to say that i'm completely safe, even though i'm in london. but it doesn't stop me to vo

think that is a room for negotiation rather actually room for the international committee to act, to really hold china accountable. what's actually left for the pro-democracy movement on the ground, symbolic protest, lack of cooperation, civil disobedience. what form is the protest going to take? now that china has narrowed your scope for movement. social movement is enough of a pendulum or we have our highest point last year, where going rather to a low point. now i think for us, for hong kong, people would definitely have to defend our professional values in the satellite education university or in a legal status that we have to defend our own grounds. that actually a lot of invisible battles ongoing. and the purpose of that is to preserve our freedom values. what we have had you fled to london. now you here in exile effectively. do you still fear china's reach? are you afraid being here in london? we have a lot of attacks to excel at 1st from authoritarian countries like russia, like china. i dare not to say that i'm completely safe, even though i'm in london. but it doesn't stop me to voice up for complete wi

everything it offers, some of its very useful functions say you need a facebook account to t updates on your school committeeng or your church, things related to your church. wouldn't that all be better and decentralized space clear you are the moderator where the community is managing it to mackey isn't all of this water? i think about the commity newspapers thawere maybe they weren't riving 10 years ago. when you think about the way that a commity newspaper might have had lot of alerts about yourchool, about your representatives, people from your tow now that facebook has taken over, you've got people lookingmorelobal when they look glal they get embroiled in things like conspiracies. i don't think you would have q1 unnecessarily in a committee newspaper 10 years ago. i'm sure it could've happened but it would have been been e same way facebk has facilitated. i wanted to wrap itp, i just wanteople to think about what do you actually get fm this and do we need it? don't think we do. >> so the rhetorical question you are asking in your comments isn't it better on the community on a communities webpage or som

sure what choice he makes will be among the consideration on the joint committee on vaccination and immunization taking into account in the course to roll out the vaccine. you make an important point. >> i want to put a big thank you on record for the broadcasting team for making tay happened. i want to think what is approv s participating in this business and those participating in spending in for three minutes, order. >> c-span washington journal every day we are taking your calls live on the air on the news of the day and we discussed policy iues that impact you in coming up thursday morning the latest on the 2020 presidential election results in the januar january 21 senate runoff election in georgia with georgia republican cgressman buddy carter and georgia docratic men hank johnson also wall street journal talks about his recent piece examining the efficacy of federal stimulus aid to help u.s. businesses ami the covid-19 pandemic, watch c-span washington journal live at seven eastern thursday morning, be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, textbook messages and tweets. >> her

going to a new trump leadership pac called save america. 60% and the republican national committee campaign account 40%. this looks like a good old fashioned bait and switch. stuart stevens, i would also say that this looks like the grift that keeps on giving. how often earth -- i'm sorry, i'm exasperated how the people, the 70 something plus million people who support the president to whom these emails are going to are actually giving this guy money still. >> yeah, look, the trump campaign from the very beginning has been a large criminal enterprise, more people have gone to jail associated with this campaign than any campaign since watergate and more are going to go to jail. what you are going to see in the days ahead is an attempt by the trump campaign to control the rnc. that's really not about political power as much as it's about trying to cover up financial misdoings. that's what they're going to try to use the rnc for, just a large slush fund. it's, again, up to republicans to take their party and say, no, donald trump, it's not your piggy bank. you see absolutely no inclination and it's, i

>>kathy littered is on the steering committee for the coalition for police accountability, the police reform advocacy group that wrote the initial draft of measure s one which amends the city charter creating the police commission's own office of the inspector general they need a civilian inspector general who report directly to the police commission and not to the police chief which is critical in order for them to effectively monitor. >>the police department. >>measure has wanted will also in the police commission's relationship as a client of the oakland city attorney's office and give them the ability to hire their own legal counsel they needed their own counsel in order to get unbiased legal advice. passage of measure s one now means police body camera videos will be turned over to the commission with investigating police misconduct cases so that's been a problem with not releasing the camera body footage so by getting direct access to these files to all the investigative files. the police commission can immediately start their investigation when some allegation of misconduct occ

think that is a room for negotiation rather actually room for the international committee to act, to really hold china accountable. what's actually left for the pro-democracy movement on the ground, symbolic protest, lack of cooperation, civil disobedience. what form is the protest going to take? now now that china has narrowed your scope for movement, social movement is enough of a pendulum or we have our highest point. last year, where going rather to a low point now, i think for us, for hong kong, people would definitely have to defend our professional values in the satyrs like education university. we're in a legal status that we have to defend our own grounds. that actually a lot of invisible battles ongoing. and the purpose of that is to preserve our freedom values. what we have had you had to london and now you here in exile effectively. do you still fear china's reach? are you afraid being here in london? we have a lot of attacks to excel at fist from authoritarian countries like russia, like china. i dare not say that i'm completely safe even though i'm in london. but it doesn't stop me to voice out for

>>kathy littered is on the steering committee for the coalition for police accountability, the police reform advocacy group that wrote the initial draft the measure as one which amends the city charter creating the police commission's own office of the inspector general they need a civilian inspector general who report directly to the police commission and not to the police chief which is critical in order for them to effectively the police department. >>measure has wanted will also in the police commission's relationship as a client of the oakland city attorney's office and give them the ability to hire their own legal counsel they needed their own counsel in order to get unbiased legal advice in an unexpected twist even the oakland police officers association often at odds with the police commission supported the passage of measure s one opioide president barry donna lynne sent kron 4 statement reading quote we hope it holds the bickering gives the police commission the power they desire and then we can actually address rampant crime unquote haaziq madyun kron 4 news. >>next at 3.30

step by step forward but that's not enough but there needs to be accountability there needs to be some changes and the punk i'm a committee has the courage to do so and so far we haven't seen him with any courage he the current pope is paid prezzies say you not see him have the courage to say anything else has he been a game changer in the way that the church if we can say in any shape will full has changed has admitted the problems that it faces and the problems the underlying issues that it's been trying to hide for many as has it has he been a game changer in any shape all full. not a game changer he's made some very very minor reforms but again his major reform and i can't pronounce of vo. i'm sorry. his his program about the metropolitan is the church reports to the church in other words that people within the will. he can make a dramatic step right this minute and command every bishop and as a power to do so he can command every bishop to report all sexual abuse to civil society he has not done that here in the united states that is close to be the rule not always follow get that is the rule but it should be worldwi

the advisory committee also said it will take into account fair and equitable access to everyone, especiallyroups that are disproportionately affected by the pandemic. so let's bring in luco neil, an immunologist at trinity college in dublin. good to have you with us. >> hi, rosemary, good to be here. >> so once these vaccines are approved, how do you distribute them, and make sure that's done equitably so the most vulnerable get access, and particularly lower income nations? >> it's really important. these countries are the worst affected by this pandemic, first of all. if we don't vaccinate those countries, they might come back in the future from those countries. astrazeneca is the cheapest vaccine, about $4 a shot, pfizer and moderna is a bit more expensive. astrazeneca is committing to a billion doses for these countries already. there's a tremendous effort going on. and covax and gabi. >> you mentioned astrazeneca. it does seem to make sense for that to be the vaccine distributed to some of these lower income nations and across the globe because it doesn't need to be in these very very

accountable. a couple of those reforms are included in the rules. and i number of those reforms included in the committee rules. as you know, we've restricted to governmental or nonprofit recipients and required every request to be published online for the american people to see and judge. one of those rules is in the rules of the house. we made the system work and kept it honest. unfortunately, however, when our republican colleagues took control of the house in 2011, they used congressionally directed spending as a partisan talking point, unfortunately. and eliminated this valuable tool for congress and surrendered part of our power to the executive branch. tom cole just said, and i agree i with him very much, that the powers and prerogatives of the institution need to be protected. i'll speak just a minute about that. restoring this power in congress, i believe, is essential to restoring the balance of our constitutional systems of checks and balance. a major moakfocus, mr. chairman, and ranking member, if i am fortunate enough to be the majority leader in the next congress will be finding ways to res

[inaudible] >> -- or accountability without any concession does not facilitate any community trust. this committee. we've heard about some acts today, and they are not the exception, they are the rule, and they go as far as targeting dozens of black and brown individuals. thousands of san franciscans, and our population has made it clear. we know who keeps us safe. our police are well overpaid, and the median income of an sfpd cop is 60% higher than our nurses. i demand that you reject this contract, that you hold the public hearing, that you be transparent, that you be brave, that you standup to the police for the people you represent, the true labor unions, and the san franciscans whose lives are at stake. i yield my comments. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next caller, please. >> my name is kurt [inaudible] and i am the chairman of the people's congress in district 6. i'm asking you to reject the contract today. do not pass it out of committee. it's time to take a stand. i know that people are probably threatening you and calling for the rejection of the p.o.a. we will stand behind the

accountable for our work. the stunning headlines that we continue to see and that the committee has been discussing already this morning, ring only underscoring that it's all of our duties to make sure that san franciscans know that they can count on us to do the work that we're here to do and do it well and do it effectively, do it with integrity, with utmost skill and utmost effectiveness. and i have often said to staff, both here and when i was working with the city of los angeles ethics commission, that audits are our friends. and i think this is an example of that. i would thank the b.l.a. for its work during a particularly stressing time i think for everybody. they started this work in february. and then as you know in mid-march, we all moved and pivoted very quickly to a shelter-in-place shutdown. both of our offices continued to work during that period. and as i said in the response to the audit in my letter with the audit being issued, we really appreciated their professionalism and their objectivity in being able to hang on this really important work during a really difficult time. i just wanted to ac

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order in which people are freed the vaccination, taking into account recommendations from a group of scientific experts, thejoint committeetors including the different characteristics of different characteristics of different types of vaccines to work out the most effective way to protect as many people as possible and save as many lives as we can. we will set out more detail about that in due course but, and you know i am going to say this, i must stress that these are very, very early days and we have talked for a long time, ori and we have talked for a long time, or i have, about the distant bugle of the scientific cavalry coming over the brow of the hill and i can tell you that tonight that toot of that bugle is louder but still some way off. we absolutely cannot rely on this news as a solution and the biggest mistake we can make now would be to slacken our resolve at a critical moment. because on friday, sage reported that the r is above one in england, although that does not take account of the current national restrictions. alas, the death figures are rising, running at an average of 300 per day, sadly double where

government has frozen bank accounts linked to teach race leadership, chief executives of facebook and torsella right now appearing before members of the senate judiciary committee, also questions about social media. the presidential elections? it is their 2nd hearing in 2 months. oxfam says g 20 member countries have sold $17000000000.00 worth of arms to saudi arabia, since it intervened in yemen's war in 2015. charity says that is 3 times. what is going to get it in aid? at least 80 refugees have been killed and dozens injured when a, when the engine of a boat exploded in the north atlantic. see, it happened near cape verde, off the western coast of africa. around 150, people were thought to be on the boat, maybe from senegal, a gambia. it was said to be making its way from cape to spain. it was hard as following the story from dakar in senegal. nicholas just bring us up to speed. what's the latest? well, the senegalese minister who takes care of senegalese living abroad has confirmed accidents just moments ago. there's been lots of public anger about the fact that so many people leaving senegal have died in these rickety boats headed towards the european unio

accountability now. we need the advisory committee, yes. but, also, we need to address the issues of black san franciscans and how we are treated all across the board, from education, health, mass incarcerations, economic in justices, etc. i'm urging everyone on the board to address the issues of black san franciscans now. thank you very much. >> chairman: thank you. can we have the next caller, please. >> caller: hello. i name is keith. i'm the founder of "welcome back." and i'm glad this advisory committee is being formed. i'm interested in occupying the seat to help brothers re-entering the community. thank you. and i'm yielding my time. >> thank you. >>.mr. core, are there any additional callers? >> caller: yes, my name is reverend james, and i'm the secretary of the san francisco branch of the naacp. i would first like to thank mayor breed, supervisor walton, and director davis for your work. in the words of the poet, the african-american poet nicky giovanni, and she said, i really don't think life is about the i could have been; life

the china-backed deal accounts for nearly 28% of global trade and excludes the united states. >>> well, international olympic committeeas bach is in tokyo, his first visit since the pandemic. that visit comes as japan tries to show him and the rest of the world that it's capable of safely hosting the olympics during the covid-19 crisis. cnn's selena wang joins us now from tokyo. selena, how does japan propose to do this, to prove it can hold these games safely? >> well, rosemary, thomas bach earlier spoke with yoshihide suga and said he's becoming very confident there will be spectators at the olympics next year. ocording to organizers they're going to make a decision on the upper limit of spectators by next spring depending on the covid situation in skpout of japan. here in japan the country is dealing with a third wave of covid cases with infections surpassing 1,000 cases for more than -- for seven consecutive days. now, despite that, the country is moving ahead with preparations. in fact, earlier this month, japan held an international gymnastics event, which is a very critical test for just how ready the country i