cattle last week to discuss peace initiatives in afghanistan the official described the meeting with alice wells america's top diplomat for surf asia as useful u.s. officials have neither confirmed nor denied a meeting did take place however the u.s. state department has said that wells was in cattle last week to meet government officials and talk about an afghan peace process. human rights groups in nicaragua say almost four hundred fifty people have been killed since the start of protests against president daniel ortega government demonstrators accuse pro-government paramilitary groups of kidnapping and murdering people to incite fear let's talk live in america at its embassy in yemen who joins us from the capital managua to see what if anything is the government saying about these accusations. hello peter well president daniel ortega is finally speaking up please have as you would have probably expected he is denying charges of widespread human rights abuses by his government and by paramilitary groups in fact after having said that only or less than fifty people have been killed in the last

alice wells, for south asia, reportedly headed up the u.s. delegation. the trump administration gave diplomats the green light. a reversal of u.s. policpolicy. >>> a polar bear was shot and killed after it attacked the cruise ship docked at the island in norway. the guard and three colleagues had not spotted the bear before the attack. in the statement, the company said guards acted in self defense and it is sorry the incident happened. it is not enough for social media. outrage is spreading. rick ricky gervais calling them mo morons. >>> how much longer does 85-year-old justice ruth bader ginsburg plan to serve on the u.s. supreme court? her answer just ahead. adua ow aognitive pence? as you'd probably guess, a lot. that's why a new brain health supplement called forebrain from the harvard-educated experts at force factor is flying off the shelves at gnc. forebrain's key ingredients have been clinically shown to help enhance sharpness and clarity, improve memory, and promote learning ability. and now every man and woman in america can claim a compliment

alice wells, a top enjoy for asia headed up the u.s. delegation.imes reports that the trump administration gave the green light to seek direct talks with the taliban. a reversal of longstanding u.s. policy. >>> two americans killed by a hit-and-run driver in tajikistan. the interior ministry of tajikista next relea tajikistan released a statement. saying one suspect has been arrested and two others eliminated. >>> a polar bear shot and killed over the weekend after it attacked the cruise ship guard. it all happened on land while the german ship docked on the island in norway. the company says the guard and three other colleagues had not spotted the bear before the attack. the guard is said to be in stable condition and is being treated for non-life threatening injuries. in a statement, the company says guards acted in self defense and it is sorry this incident happened. >>> justice ruth bader ginsburg hopes to serve five more years on the u.s. supreme court. rbg said she would like to follow in the footsteps of john paul stevens. he stepped down at

alice wells. reaction tor, your what you heard in that exchange? true the situation is not exactly the same today as it was 17 years ago. the united states has poured a lot of money into afghanistan, as have other countries around the world, and there have been results produced as the consequent of that. there's been a significant increase in development in afghanistan in health care, education. there is a fairly robust afghan security force that has been of u.s.as a result money and u.s. training. there has been progress along a number of these indicators. .ut there are fundamentals congress pointed to one of them, the dynamic between afghanistan and pakistan. the tension and the relationship there. that has not really changed. it is also a case that the afghan forces are in the lead. they are not capable of withoutng the fight u.s. military support, particularly in the form of air power, which they only have two a minimal degree on the rhÔne. but especially u.s. financial support. the afghan government only pays about 10% of its security costs. 9

according to a senior taliban official, the group met alice wells, america's top diplomat for south asian end to the 17—year conflict. militants have attacked a government—run training centre for midwives in eastern afghanistan. a suicide bomber targeted the compounds entrance in the city ofjalalabad, close to the border with pakistan. gunmen are then said to have stormed the building. officials say three civilians have been killed and eight others injured. local authorities in japan have issued evacuation orders, as a powerful typhoon is due to make landfall. they issued a warning of heavy rain, landslides and strong winds. the storm is expected to hit the western region, where flooding killed more than two—hundred people earlier this month. more than 100 flights have also been cancelled. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come — the fugitive catalan separatist leader, carlos puigdemont, says he will continue to campaign for a sovereign republic from his self—imposed ? exile. mr puidgemont has returned to belgium after spain dropped a european—wide warrant for his arrest. the us s

according to a senior taliban official, the group met alice wells, america's top diplomat for south asiad to the 17—year conflict. it comes as militants attacked a government—run training centre for midwives in eastern afghanistan. a suicide bomber targeted the compounds entrance in the city of jalala bad, close to the border with pakistan. gunmen are then said to have stormed the building. 0fficial say three civilians have been killed and eight others injured. local authorities in japan local authorities injapan have issued evacuation orders, as a powerful type and is due to make landfall. they have issued a warning of heavy rain, landslides and strong winds. the storm is expected to hit the same western region were flooding killed more than 200 people earlier this month. more than 100 flights have also been cancelled. to sweden, where attitudes have hardened towards except the asylum seekers as public opinion shifts on immigration. but not all swedes welcome the crackdown — some are even hiding asylum seekers in their homes. ayman 0ghanna reports. the best thing to do, to hide him. he

century and then will turn a red brown color as it rises with a total eclipse lasting for nearly two alice. well just a quick reminder of the top stories now a group of opposition political parties in pakistan of rejected the results of wednesday's election and they have promised to protest on the streets until there is a new vote they allege of vote rigging and interference from the military a party of former cricketer imran khan has gained the most seats in the result so far two palestinians including fourteen year old boy have been killed in the late as friday protests at the gaza israel border both were shot in the head by israeli soldiers gaza health ministry officials say at least another two hundred forty five people were injured child strafford is at a border i'll just get out of the way now so you can film some of this tear gas being fired as i say from the drones. will understand these two guys is exceptionally strong as well and a number of those injured today have been treated for two guys inhalation the situation as you can see is desperate for these palestinians they have said that

cattle last week to discuss peace initiatives in afghanistan the official described the meeting with alice wells america's top diplomat for south asia as useful u.s. officials have neither confirmed nor denied that a meeting took place the number of people who lost their lives in last week's wildfires in greece has now risen to ninety two hundreds of people attended a candlelit vigil for the victims of the parliament in athens. those are your top stories up next it's inside story i'll see you soon bye bye. in the ends no more four million people have been left off a list of citizens in the northern state of a son or in promoting government argues they could not produce valid documents so have they become stateless and will this create further division this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. four million people in northern india have effectively lost their citizenship after their names were left out of a national database of registered citizens the list now includes only those who were able to prove they were in a state before nine hundred seventy one for the people who've been le

cattle last week to discuss peace initiatives in afghanistan the official described the meeting with alice wells the us as top diplomat for south asia as useful u.s. officials have neither confirmed or denied a meeting took place but the u.s. state department has said that wells wasn't cattle last week to meet government officials and talk about an afghan peace process. the u.n. is warning of strikes by the saudi a morality coalition in yemen are putting civilians at extreme risk the conflict is not only causing the world's worst humanitarian crisis it's also hitting international trade just last week saudi arabia temporarily suspending oil shipments through the strait which connects the gulf of aden to the red seem a touch of the name as more efforts now budget booty to protect the western portion of the waterway. this is the battlement deb straight between yemen and djibouti it's a crucial waterway leading to the red sea fears that the war in yemen is expanding to the strait have prompted you to take action to really begin to intensify or supernatural as per the instructions of our president o

statement, ambassador wells, after your opening statement, so this morning i'm pleased to welcome alice wells, principal deputy assistant secretary of state for south and central asian affairs. ambassador wells has been serving as the principal deputy assistant secretary of state for south and central asian affairs since june, 2017. she is a career foreign service officer and she has previously served as the usa master to the kingdom of jordan. she has held numerous positions within the department of state and has extensive experience in south and central asia. we very much appreciate her being with us today. without objection, the witness paul prepared statement will be made part of the record. members will have five calendar days to submit any statements or questions or extraneous material for the record. and i will ask ambassador wells if she would summarize her remarks and afterwards we will go to questions. thank you. >> chairman, thank you for inviting me to appear today to discuss the administration's strategy in afghanistan. this is a timely hearing. just last week a cease-fire, the f

council last week to discuss peace initiatives in afghanistan the official described the meeting with alice wells america's top diplomat for south asia as a useful u.s. officials have made the confirm nor deny the meeting did take place but the u.s. state department said wells was in qatar last week to meet government officials and talk about an afghan peace process. the u.n. is warning airstrikes by the coalition in yemen putting civilians at extreme risk the conflict is not only causing the world's worst humanitarian crisis it's also hitting international trade last week saudi arabia temporarily suspended oil shipments through the strait that connects the gulf of aden to the red sea a touch of good name has more on efforts by djibouti to protect the western portion of the waterway. this is the battlement depth straight between yemen and djibouti it's a crucial waterway leading to the red sea fears that the war in yemen is expanding to the strait have prompted you to take action really began to intensify or sea patrol as per the instructions of our president ordered to protect the maritime borde

cattle last week to discuss peace initiatives in afghanistan the official described the meeting with alice wells the u.s. top diplomat for her as a useful american officials have neither confirmed nor denied a meeting took place but the u.s. state department has said that wells was in cattle last week to meet quote government officials and talk about an afghan peace process well this isn't the first time u.s. officials have sat down with the taliban face to face in twenty thirteen direct talks in doha failed when the then afghan president hamid karzai denounced the taliban flying their flag outside their cattery office the taliban have long demanded more direct talks with washington saying any effort at peace would not have recognition so long as the us refused to accept them as a legitimate party recently in what they said was a push for peace the taliban declared a three day cease fire during the easter holiday last month direct talks without afghan officials present marks a turnaround in washington's policy as it seeks to end a seventeen year old conflict has become america's longest war the

allegations he had tortured and abused a rival eisel has claimed responsibility for the attack shelob alice as well. as scores of vice president abdul rashid dostum supporters gathered to welcome him back at kabul's international airport a suicide bomber detonated his vest at the main entrance among the casualties with security forces and civilians. dostum escaped his convoy had passed minutes earlier the second most powerful man in afghanistan had been living in exile in turkey for the last fourteen months his supporters protested demanding his return but there are many who don't want him back. general dostum lift off to ahmed ishi in northern accused him and his guards of kidnapping and rape. the book dostum ordered his commander to rape me nine other bodyguards he told them to rape me until the ground is covered with blood and take a photograph but dostum refused to come in for questioning president ashraf ghani then persuaded turkey's president reject typo to want to take him in it's not the first time dostum spain exiled in turkey it's a repeat of ten years ago when he assaulted a political ri

ok alice room well welcome to sophie and co-ops to the shevardnadze and today we're got lots to talk about in our program and our guest is. good luck little. i think more doogan is an outstanding person because he took on the most powerful agency in this county or you need to state if you look at some of the before now and. mark was the day that when he was five and. going to spin the sheriff's most contentious critics say he is the first time i noticed something wasn't right in fleece work pretty much money first started the corruption in palm beach county is not something that you can smell it seems like it's a nod and a wink it wasn't what i wanted to do. we've had more shootings in this county then some states have had collectively children went to his website began featuring comments about god just family the sheriff's wife sonya squash you like a book you know we should stop then you should say and i'm left with stuff i believe what i'm doing oh so it's ok you know it's your funeral boating. p.b.s. and critic dude in the house. i snuck out of the united states. into russia poli

ok alice room well welcome to sophie and joe i'm so the shevardnadze and today we're got lots to talk about in our program and our guest is. little rock little. i mean. really i look so good it's a movie can you see as nothingness by the fact. that you're in the form of the media. almost you must name the baby was in the north and the moment it was up in the film i will be most i will start to feel. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten thousand dollars fine stamping each day. eighty five percent of the global wealth you longed to be rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and it going rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial form but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need remember in one one so you can afford to miss the one and only boom bust. seventy four does not support. seven thousand islands. to the judges. eight hundred sixty nonsto

iain, in alice in wonderland, the red queen likes to believe six impossible things before breakfast, what do you think our blue queen believes at the moment? wellin wonderland is a really good comparison. she has survived, though. it is extraordinary. i am not a fan of theresa may, or her approach to brexit, but she certainly has resilience. somehow, she has managed to survive all of these votes. calamitous by most political standards, ten or 12 days, involving the departure of key members of her cabinet, the chequers plan, the great compromise plan, which was supposed to be the unifying force in the conservative party, has ended up annoying just about everyone. brexiteers don't like it because it is too much of a compromise, and they think it is the beginning of a sell—out. remainers don't like it for all sorts of other reasons. so no one is happy. but still, somehow, just because of the logic of the fact that there isn't a clear alternative available to theresa may for now, she clings on. and yet, meanwhile, polly toynbee, her party appears to be tearing itself apart over this very issue, the one she has tried to establish some compromise on.

iain, in alice in wonderland, the red queen likes to believe six impossible things before breakfast, what do you think our blue queen believes at the moment? well her approach to brexit, but she certainly has resilience. somehow, she has managed to survive all of these votes. calamitous by most political standards, ten or 12 days, involving the departure of key

when they were leaving the room they seemed to be even more frustrated then before the leaders met well alice where of course looking for any telltale signs from the leaders behavior during their meeting in finland and something their hunch exposed volumes we asked body language expert howard feldman what could be read into. trump is coming from a very very highly critical domestic america so he's he's he's very aware that his whole country is looking at him and trying to interpret what is really going on between these two leaders and this with that that he enters the room and he faces he faces what seems to be an opponent so you start off and he's very he's almost strutting both of them off they sit down they very very uncomfortable they look like a divorce and couple and then they reach out for their attention now what do you see about that handshake is it is a distant handshake it is not one with the whole bodies are involved in it it's not one hand on top of the other trump is very very visual with the war with the pacing of his hand and he goes in very very evenly and that's how the hand

brazil is a good team one of the scientists we were going to have are funny thank you so much well to alice again joy on the day. they came. here over here and for afternoon ladies and gentleman that i might and over the baseball languages boy you got the only one the two english one should be pretty easy but that was a great day today i tell you the day with the mexicans you know what i offer that maybe they want to win even the brazil i've achieved that. i'm delighted to be joined. by the science i was made for i would have been watching in nineteen ninety four as this man plays like reading which isn't quite incredible things for the colombian national team that back of course the faithful woke up in russia cause valderrama thank you very much for joining us after a difficult first game you must be very happy with the last performance today of preserving the so michael ten to. one movie angles of oh yeah it will but do a physical double better only people will talk about them and truly have a role but they will be total metal some content of voters will probably call a form of a wall and

alice wells. reaction tor, your what you heard in that exchange?e the situation is not exactly the same today as it was 17 years ago. the united states has poured a lot of money into afghanistan, as have other countries around the world, and there have been results produced as the consequent of that. there's been a significant increase in development in afghanistan in health care, education. there is a fairly robust afghan security force that has been of u.s.as a result money and u.s. training. there has been progress along a number of these indicators. .ut there are fundamentals congress pointed to one of them, the dynamic between afghanistan and pakistan. the tension and the relationship there. that has not really changed. it is also a case that the afghan forces are in the lead. they are not capable of withoutng the fight u.s. military support, particularly in the form of air power, which they only have two a minimal degree on the rhÔne. but especially u.s. financial support. the afghan government only pays about 10% of its security costs. 90% a

well he. told me alice room welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze and today we're got lots to talk about in our program and our guest is. good luck little. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trades per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one in one business show you can't afford to miss the one and only. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the wall the politics small business i'm show business i'll see that. four men are sitting in a car when the fifth gets shot in the head. all four different versions of what happened one of them is on the death row there's no way he could have done it

that he met with alice wells, the top u.s. diplomat for u.s. asia.ank you, pete. now to a fox news alert. 55 cases containing what are believed to be the remains of u.s. servicemen killed during the korean war returning home after 65 years. griff: president trump thanked kim jong un for the return. that i catake a listen. >> i want to thank chairman kim for keeping his word. we have many others coming, aboubut i want to thank chairman kim in front of the media for fulfilling a promise he made to me. i'm sure he will continue to fulfill that promise as they search and search and search. pete: well, about 5300 american soldiers' remains are believed to be still in north korea. joining us is joey jones bomb technician and purple heart recipient for losing his legs in a bomb blast in afghanistan. explain why service member, let alone the korean war, the forgotten borrow is so important. >> good morning, guys. you know, here in america, we experience the sacrifice of past generations passively. we don't really see it firsthand. each my wars in iraq and af

well panjang xing stays out with the neighbor alice returns home. she'll have to be online that evening. alice needs to build a new life for herself while she does pancho and she's apartment has become her retreat. was to not have them after always told out i had another fight with my mother two days ago and she blames me for never coming home but i don't want to live there anymore i don't want to work in an ordinary job and my parents don't like me playing video games. call out how it was when i was competing in the team they tolerated it and that's to say that you know it isn't as they found out the team had broken up they just started pressuring me again to get a normal job here what. two weeks ago she received a fixed term contract against distributor pays her to play online and live stream the games by good evening everyone. now. she has to stream online at least four hours a day while she plays and talks to the viewers. did show she's paid a modest amount. of land you have sound can you hear me angela the line isn't about winning games but the

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well he. told me alice room welcome to sophie until i'm so busy shevardnadze said today we're got lots to talk about in our program and our guest is. little rock little. welcome back to cross like where all things are considered to remind you we're talking about the latest victim of russia kate. let's go back to alexander in london you know alex i watched peter struck testimony and i'm reminded by what we've just heard from ray. ok i'll give you my opinion i think an informed opinion because i've had to deal with this ridiculous story for two years like the public here he was clearly lying and is very very deceptive ok now it's an ex-girlfriend it looks like she's thrown him under the bus couldn't happen to a nicer guy you know but it's really about the culture of law enforcement at the highest levels in the united states now i don't know enough a lot about this girl i learned a lot about her in the last few days here but she's certainly not a big fish if i can use that term and it like i said i really worry you know once you pressure someone like that you may tend to sing and then they'll the

>> well, first of all, alice walker's book amazing. opportunity tohe be able to play such amazing character that was made famous by danny glover is beyond comprehensi comprehension how happy i am to be able to bring that to life on >> it's an interesting character because he was a villain in the story. he was a villain in the movie. you're bringing a little more complexity to him on the stage. >> in the book mist ser is a complex man. he's not the villain. his father was a slave on the land that he ended up buying. he was passing that wealth down to his son. he did not teach him how to love. he didn't teach him about trying to deal with relationships and things of that nature. to be able to show that and show those sides of him come out and show his redemption is great. >> that's the difference between what we saw danny glover do on the screen and what you'll do in the musical. how else would you compareo two story, the two versions? >> it's definitely similar. everything is based off of alice walker's book. at the same time it's like

well. thanks lauren, alice and david. >>> just in, a senior administration official is telling cnn the president asked about the possibility -- wait for this -- of invadesing venezuela during a meeting about sanctions against that country. we'll have details on that story next. >>> plus, a bipartisan group of senate investigators backing the intelligence community that russia attacked the u.s. and wanted the president to win. so will president trump finally acknowledge that assessment? my day starts well before i'm even in the kitchen. i need my blood sugar to stay in control. so i asked about tresiba®. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® is a once-daily, long-acting insulin that lasts even longer than 24 hours. i need to shave my a1c. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ tresiba® works like my body's insulin. releases slow and steady. providing powerful a1c reduction. my week? hectic. my weekends? my time. ♪ tresiba® ready ♪ i can take tresiba® any time of day. so if i sleep in, and delay my dose, i take it as soon as i can, as long as there's at least eight hours between doses. (renee) once in use, it lasts eight weeks

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well. acknowledge the elected officials, alice randolph from art city officials board, carmen two, our assessor recorder, the woman of the hour, for sure. [cheers and applause] clair farley from our office of transgender services. [applause] london breed, our president of the board of supervisors. our treasured tax collector and our share of. [applause] so today, in san francisco, and throughout the month, we honour both individuals that have made a significant difference in the past that are doing it now in the present and will in the future, for our lgbtq community. we also acknowledge all the organizations that work with our community of san francisco on lgbtq issues that make san francisco who we are as a city. you know, as civil rights are under attack throughout our country, it is so important that san francisco stands tall above every other place in america. that we, as a city, recommit ourselves to reject the ideologies of bigotry and hatred that come out of the trump administration and others throughout our country, throughout the world, at times. san francisco needs to remain a beacon

ok alice room well welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze and today i woke up lots to talk about in our program and our guest is. good luck little. elite. the you believe the. the the. welcome back welcome back if you didn't think it was possible for wal-mart to sink any lower with its use of overseas slave labor and abysmal treatment of their in-store labor then break out the shovels all right say they recently won a patent for an audio surveillance system that will spy on their employees conversations with customers i guess they figured while they're all the back prices they might as well roll back privacy rights to you know got the roll back machine out for more on this we go to our senior walmart bathroom user now imagine. they. only this is this is horrible we have recording workers is printing standard i mean how you never heard the phrase this call may be monitored or recorded for quality assurance because as someone who was threatened physical violence against comcast customer service i've heard that phrase a lot. though not as much as the phrase you're not allowed

ok alice room well welcome to sophie and co i'm so sweet shevardnadze said today we're got lots to talk about in our program and our guest is. good luck little. time after time say we're going underground on the south bank of london's river thames here an exhibition to mock today's one hundredth birthday of nelson mandela with his friend former tony blair cabinet minister lord hain will investigate just seventy two hours after donald trump's meeting with vladimir putin the significance of moscow washington dettol and in the struggle against u.k. backed apartheid but first we're going into the studio to ask after monday's health inky talks for world peace whether everyone has forgotten about the potentially multi-trillion dollar worldwide trade war our relationship has never been worse. than it is now however that changed as of about four hours ago the nato world has been rocked by the trump visit even as here in westminster the minority government of tereza may goes from one bricks at crisis to another near the world cheerleaders arguably under the guise of journalism a bit terrified of

that went well. alice hack — which involved personal information including, names, addresses and email addresses — since it was discovered injune. we will come duejust we will come due just a moment. just bringing some breaking news. we are just hearing general webster has been jailed just hearing general webster has beenjailed for 17 just hearing general webster has been jailed for 17 years at court, the ukip us first case of acid killing. he was in court —— xeneral webster. the court have heard, the a7—year—old nurse and mother of three was hit with the high—strength sulphuric acid, on june three was hit with the high—strength sulphuric acid, onjune the 3rd last year, as she sat on a bench in frogmore, high wycombe. the court heard she screamed in pain, ran to a nearby branch of kfc to splash water over nearby branch of kfc to splash water over herself. she was treated and briefly released from hospital after suffering up to 5% burns on her body, but she died 11 days later from multiple organ failure. af

transition will last for nearly two alice at least part of the spectacle will be visible from europe the middle east australia asia south america and in africa. well a blood moon a cuz jaring a total lunar eclipse that's when the comes directly between the sun and the moon it turns red because the light from the sun has to pass through the atmosphere on the way to the moon a sunset glows red for a similar reason years ago many people believe the blood moon was a bad omen fortunately there's no proof of that at this lunar eclipse will last an hour and forty two minutes the next one of a similar length will be in twenty one twenty three so make sure you don't miss it so this is the moon as it looks right now this spectacle also coincides with another important event mas' is on its closest approach to us in fifteen years and is clearly visible in the night sky. well we have. a. children's. show. business updates. going places together. business updates. going places together. harken back and one of mexico's most famous archaeological discoveries has gone on display in the capital a red queen was found twenty four years ago in a secret mayan chain but

well rich allen's al-jazeera moscow. let's bring in our guests now and joining us from moscow maria let min an independent russian alice from london bill nor founder of gulf masses and contempt at the middle east and also joining us from moscow via skype raul paris a global football right at the associated press news agency a very warm welcome to all of you rob let me start with you because you've been there in russia covering the world cup you are now at the airport coming to us via skype as are just about to leave was it the best world cup ever. well certainly on the pitch if you do some really thrilling performances shock some great games that made it open field and indeed helps the television ratings and helps to sort of live out revenue fifty fun overseas stadiums as well they've already owned all i mean the russian state was able to mobilize all its resources to ensure that the right to remit is replacing the white infrastructures that are around them so in terms of back it's going to be hard to judge that whether it's the best ever if you have to take the long view of that of safety the legacy was the investment wort

housing where it talks about 32% -- well, of the 10,500 housing units, how many of them will be just renovating the existing versus how many will be brand-new. >> so the alice griffith, that is the housing component, i believe there's 256 units that would be 1:1 replacement and affordable housing units. so it will be demolition of the existing bodies and new construction. >> supervisor yee: and then of those 2 -- of the 256, does that come as part of the 32%? >> it does, which results in 3,345 affordable housing homes. >> supervisor yee: okay. and then -- and currently the ones that you would be tearing down are not occupied? >> so the way the alice griffith public housing project is staged, we were able to start new construction and have built the first three phases, generating over 300 units, and so there is no demolition. so that's allowed folks in the old units to move into the new side. at some point, the developer will come back and demolish those sites. >> supervisor yee: okay. thank you. >> supervisor safai: colleagues, any other additional questions right now? seeing none, we'll go ahead and open it up to public comment. any members of the public w

communications director for president obama as well as communications director for hillary clinton's campaign. also here is cnn political commentator alice stewart who was political director for ted cruz. thank you so much for joining us. jennifer, as someone who worked closely with president obama, what message do you think he's sending by saying this? >> i think he's trying to step back and give us all some context for how to think about these times. so, you know, you said in the opening that he was throwing some shade at his successor. i think he's trying to do something larger than that and have a way to think about this time, which is our democracy is still intact but we have someone at the head of it that is not honoring the rules by which the democracy is meant to operate. and it's incumbent on all of us as citizens to engage and try to make that right and to understand that this is something that's isolated to the united states, but it's happened in other parts of the world. he went on to explain, after all of the disruption and change and great economic loss that we went through after the great recession, it's right in some ways

well at least quite the opposite there is of course a big cities faction in moscow after the summit in alice and because of the new putin i really wanted to once again to try and to reset to the us russian relations on the personal level but he apparently didn't know why as the gas president was interested in that idea in any case since his inauguration relations between the two countries haven't improved in fact things have become significantly worse so far today moscow tried once again to find a way out of its international isolation and to normalize the u.s. russian relations also moscow has realized that it is probably going to remain in power for the second term and ultimately for the next six years whether they want it on not that's why is it today's summit was a great symbolic boost for russia's geopolitical and economic interests feels so alexandra phenomena we can talk about anything involving a president from without talking tweets so let's let's talk about this morning before the meeting even started president trump was badmouthing his own country here's a tweet he fired off befor