-- notify the recipient it is a behested payment.this is a heads-up to the recipient this is not just an ordinary check, this is made at the behest of an official. you'll see in the third box, there are requirements placed on organizations that receive over $100,000 in behested payments and may not always be vobo obvious to recipients whether or not a given payment is a behested payment. there is a requirement here that descroarns to tell them so they can know whether or not they're reaching the hundred thousand dollars threshold. if the donor is an interested party as we discussed previously, that will trigger a disclosure requirement. this is only one disclosure requirement and that is to say what the matterrers pending before the official are the outcome they're speaking and outcomes they made with official in furtherance of the matter. the matter could be a proceeding pending or a decision the person is trying to influence. lastly, the requirements on major recipients, note that there aren't requirements on all recipients of bee

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california is unique in how they define behest. they call it out specifically as a different item rather than calling it a contribution or prohibiting on a conflict of interest bribery or tit tit for tat. >> it's not that california is the only state at that doesn't prohibit them but california has taken it and regulating it by requiring disclosure of behested payments over $500. >> i know no other state that calls them ought as asks for other parties. >> thank you. so i think that in the different exceptions outlined here i think back, first is the policy question of where does the corruption lie. is it in making the ask? or when there is something exchanged like the pay to play. the quid pro quo. then i think about what should an ordinance be. it should be clear. and a ban is clear. but it becomes less clear when we have a long list of exceptions. it it becomes, i think, harder for people to dot their is and cross their ts and make sure they're doing what they're supposed to do and not what they're not supposed to do. clarity and

disclosure rult what exceeds any state requiremd limited it to the payments of 5r more, and only at the behest ofd officials. let's think about the disclosur. disclosure is no enforcing mech. who is going to know this? except the relatively few peoplf what? a850,000 residents? and probably 420, 430 registeres except those in this room and me more people who are watching on television? then what happens if there is disclosure? there is no city hall coverage? yes, i will pull history, when a supervisor, that press room was. every desk, occupied. nobody will know about this exca very few number of the 850,000 , approximately, who live in san francisco. let me just conclude by saying m disappointed. i voted no last month because i perceived that my fellow commiss wanted something to show for tid effort including all the time at of the staff. realizing that there are four vt are going to pass it. then, i com i come in tonight at all the give-a ways still don'ty those san francisco saints who e any application of prohibitionso nonprofit corporations which the no difficulty applying to for-p. the exe

yes, behested corruptions are a part of behavior -- [ inaudible ] behesteh contributions are sometimes a simple measure of goodwill. i recently gave money to the eugene mccarthy center for public service because a neglected official asked me to do so as part of his facebook birthday wish list. i have no financial interest and i don't want to be suspect for having done so. we know that over reaching laws has unintended very dangerous and often permanent consequences. for example, overreaching in the fight against terrorism has resulted in discrimination against arab people, partially legally and partially because such laws have had the unintended consequences of setting the tone that all arab people are dangerous. we know that overreaching tenants has made landlords reluctantant to rent to anybody who's four years or older because of a fear of being able to remove that person for legitimate reasons at a later point. this bill is fundamentally a deep overreach. it is an over reach that would create an unenforceable bureaucracy in san francisco, which is just what we don't need, some more

in regards to the behested payments, i -- a majority of nonprofits don't rely on behested payments as we've seen. most of it does go to non-profits that don't involve themselves with low income san franciscans and with the average citizen unless they've gone to organizations like the america's cup and hospitality tourism and training nonprofit. the most important thing for all of this is to make sure that whatever you agree on does get passed into law. because we've been working on this since january and the majority of the propositions here people do agree on and people want to see in city law. we've discussed this a lot and down the last final provisions and i would strongly urge that a compromise be reached and that we pass something eventually without trying expand the scope in bringing new laws to try to complicate the issue further. i urge that what you have now that you do agree on, you make sure it becomes and that you avoid trying to get moolah for either disclosure or appeal. whatever would require a new ordinance or statute i urge you to avoid that. trying to catch every se

at the behest of the german government has supported the water ministry to regulate this public private partnership so that our water quality in the price are good thank you ted but for now we have clean water at an affordable price and that means they can develop and send their children to school instead of spending their time fetching water in that's a foolish taking on some of us out to horn. every day three thousand households put their buckets under the tap ten buckets of water cost one euro. fresh water is a blessing but many families can't afford it. in addition it's the job of women and girls to lug the heavy buckets. it's a daily chore for this twelve year old. several hundred metres and during term time that's one way even clean water can prevent someone from getting an education . and. girls are particularly vulnerable as they have to take on household duties from an early age. that. come argos work takes energy. her days are long and the city's problems and less. basically every stream in dar es salaam is abused as a sewer and a landfill. in the rainy season the pollution is

and to simply say ban behested payments doesn't even begin to cover the concerns we have. for the record, i want it to be known to my knowledge, the chronicle did not reach out to any of the people who have expressed concerns about any aspects of this legislation. it is extremely one-sided and without the kind of detailed an thoughtful analysis that we'd love to see from a local newspaper and we hope that thattal is remedied as this legislation begins to move forward. thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioners i'm with san francisco open government. on a point of order, i want to notice that although i've been on the interested parties list for six years, i did not receive notification by e-mail that my hearing was today until 3:38 this afternoon it was sent out. my agenda packet was mailed out on friday and i received it sometime after 3:00 p.m. this afternoon. i have to wonder whether you were just hoping i would be fooled and not show up or if i did show up, i would be unprepared. that's what i'm used to from the ethics commission. i had sincerely hoped the executive dir

the global reach and i think that you have these corporations a continued to be appear to be the behest of the u.s. government don't know increasing drive people to leave them and go to other platforms which aren't under the same kind of influence. there are still six months until hungry goes to the polls in parliamentarian elections but things are already getting heated the government's claiming the billionaire george soros is trying to interfere in the country's internal policies the cyrus who was born in the country is fighting back so here can has the story billionaire george soros versus hungary and prime minister viktor orban. well the two seem to be at war. much dish two large bodied predators swimming here in the water a children's juice is the trans one order import of george soros tons of money and international hellier chile is. what hunger is health care and education systems in distress and corruption rife the current government has sought to create an outside enemy to distract citizens the government selected george soros for this purpose well organ once received a soros g

opposition to him and that's what he did and everything else is nice for him that it's not just at the behest of the saudis but also the because of i mean. that's one of the most amazing things or as mark said the nail in the head here is that all of this is going on we have breasts we have executions we have property being seized and this is being painted as liberalism in the era of the internet by the way as far as the condition isn't over it's you know there's another prison that used to have similar footing in the hague it was called the fear of the hilton well. nice p.r. but people like milosevic and others died there and there are quite. mysterious circumstances before that i was wary of the fish i want to overestimate the niceness of their three and one of the interesting things here is that something i think western media has overlooked is that this is where. rare of the the house of saud going after its own because they usually have protections you'll never go to prison you'll never be under arrest you and that would be in their spring or consents and you could be kind of pushed asid

he assumed responsibilities of leadership at a formative and a very challenging time, at the behest ofbe lauded and celebrated. but also a pledge to break from the past. i am not oblivious to the many zimbabweans from our political, ethnic and racial divides, who have helped make this day. so, what do we know about emmerson mnangagwa? jailed for ten years in 1965, he met mugabe in prison. there, the two men formed a close association. after independence in 1980, he became mugabe's right—hand man. in 1983, he was implicated in the mass murder of thousands of opposition supporters in matabeleland, something he denies. more recently, he was accused of orchestrating a violent crackdown on opposition supporters. those who are very close to him say that he listens more than he speaks. he is a soft—spoken man, a gentleman, contrary to what the reports say about him. a god—fearing family man. we have to give him some time because an improvement is something which cannot be improved like overnight. after two weeks of uncertainty, zimbabwe seems to be returning to normal again. no one knows what

the government ordered that on the behest of a high court judgment from islamabad that blasphemous social media material must be taken down subsequent to that text messages were sent across all its citizens saying that saying that if you if you read any blasphemous material that that it should be reported now this kind of thing is very unhelpful because essentially what it does is that it gives power to vigilant moms' it gives power to people like the groups protesting to take the law into their own hands and we've seen this happen time and time again except at the frequency is now growing we saw this and. as we also see and you know amnesty is recorded this extensively that once somebody is actually accused of blasphemy it doesn't matter if the accusation is correct or incorrect the mere accusation is going to land that person and his family and his lawyers and anyone else associated with them in a lot of trouble. and. the dangerous aspect of this the government doesn't clearly realize but this is now haunting the government itself the law minister you know we hope that we'll be provided

many reports that the july twenty sixth wall was at the behest of saudi arabia was at the request of saudi arabia and when the enemy israel. wanted to stop the war in the last day the saudi officials called them to continue. with the war. this is the worst. however israel's israel has their own calculations how would they act i would tell you later. it is not the war simply pick it has other calculations. and i'm not. it is clear that saudi arabia and the saudi officials have declared war against lebanon and hezbollah however let me tell you this is a war against. the entire lebanon not hezbollah and i want to know and here i would like to address the lebanese the lebanese with absolute veracity and openness and passion. propose also stress. points. i made. the happenings around us. and the state of the car we have been enjoying shears until the said saturday last. month a state and institutions presidency prime ministership stability security financial economic instability. all these benefits of pressures today many of the regions peoples are biting they fold that grave and dire sit

privileges, but it also brings back obligations, and we see oligarchs doing things perhaps at the behest of the kremlin and the russian state. we see one oligarch buy donald trump's mansion in florida. trump bought it for $40 million in 2004. this oligarch buys it a few years later for $95 million. which is very curious. and we also see oligarchs interacting with people in the trump campaign team, especially paul manafort. katty: luke, an alternative theory of all of this is that the trump campaign was certainly the most chaotic campaign i've ever covered in american presidential elections. people were freelancing. carter page may or may not, according to the dossier, have been meeting russian spies in moscow. but it is also quite plausible that donald trump knew nothing about that from the top down. and you have not uncovered evidence, have you, of a quid for the pro quo. that they promised to drop her sanctions relief if the russians gave dirt on hillary clinton. luke: there was a long-standing transactional relationship going back five or six years between trump and powerful russian s

global reach and i think that you have these corporations that are continued to be a good speed in the behest of the u.s. government don't know increasing drive people to to leave them go to other platforms which are under the same kind of influence the upper house of the russian parliament has voted to adopt a law on foreign media operating in russia medina carton of the has the details. the upper house of the russian parliament this wednesday approved the law on foreign media working and russia now is under this new piece of legislation any foreign media which receives funding from abroad could be asked to register as a foreign agent and as soon as this media is given this new status the status of a foreign agent should use a special disclaimer and its work and it will also be obliged to file reports on its funding to the russian government now next step for this new law is that it should be signed by the russian president now this particular move to introduce this new piece of legislation was the made in response to the recent demand coming from the us department of justice that our. brain

at the same time at the behest of the mayor of new york city, life goes on in a sense here. we'll show you some video from new york halloween parade. the village halloween parade, the 44th year for this parade and it stepped off on time. the police department said they had no intention of cancelling that parade. they did, however, increase the and unseen police officers here in new york city. thousands of people participating in the parade here, and it was very much like what you'd expect to see from a halloween parade here in new york city. at the same time, i can't help but notice, leon and doreen, that we are in the footprint, the shadow, if you will, of the world trade center. the tower tonight lit up in red, white and blue. >> and i'll bet that is a real shot in the arm for the people of new york. aaron, for people here who are not quite familiar with that tribeca area there of new york, talk about where this happened and what is nearby. there is a lot going on there. >> reporter: there is a lot going on here. but i think the tribeca neighborhood -- and i've visited new

the global reach and i think that you have these corporations are continued to be appear to be the behest of the u.s. government i don't know increasing drive people to leave them and go to our platforms which are under the same kind of influence. the upper house of the russian parliament has voted to adopt a law on foreign media operating in russia medina cotton of the has the details the upper house of the russian parliament to this wednesday approved a law on foreign media working in russia for this new status the status of a foreign agent use a special disclaimer n.-s. work and it will also be obliged to a fiery soon and this is exactly what we see at the moment. the international olympic committee has handed lifetime bans to four russian scholars and athletes two of the outer limits have also been stripped of their swords winter olympic medals the i.o.c. says it has disqualified the athletes for violating anti doping rules at the twenty fourteen games. antic purchased in a moscow market gave one french woman more than she bargained for it was only when she got hosed camera home that

and i think that you have these corporations that are continued to be appear to be acting on the behest of the u.s. government i don't know increasing drive people to to leave them go to other platforms which aren't under the same kind of influence or cyber security has become a major issue for the u.s. government but it seems there may not be other people to deal with it with key posts remaining unfilled i will explain more a bit later in the program. now the german president has so far failed to unite three parties that were supposed to form a coalition government aside from the refugee influx a major stumbling block was said to have been thought of climate change policy and now anglo merkel's title climate chancellor is being brought into question our environmental policy has long depended on reducing coal burning emissions which brought her the support of the green party but as time has gone by merkel stance has been shifting we don't as a country and we think we can become pioneers on the way to creating the age of renewable energy business we need deep cuts in global greenhouse ga

and i think that you have these corporations that are continued to be appear to be acting in the behest of the u.s. government don't know increasing drive people to leave them and go to other platforms which aren't under the same kind of influence. thank you for choosing r.t. international on a key aaron and also from me but do join my colleague to for the latest headlines at the top. of this. but no. other. the for. they call me a useful idiot i'm useful idiot you called me a useful idiot useful idiot useful idiots by expressing my opinions on t.v. there are thousands of us doing it behind this reform is a simple strategy we attack persons instead of talking about the art of what's next why stop will bend me from getting this close to the white house i'm with a group code pink why not ban the color pink why not scratch build the rock i should be sent to the town of london because i'm the try to break me on the wheel i have put up with my lifetime that this will come since you don't scare me and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak to him in good company i'm in good

he assumed responsibilities of leadership at a formative and a very challenging time, at the behest of that is to be lauded and celebrated. but also a pledge to break from the past. i am not oblivious to the many zimbabweans from our political, ethnic and racial divides, who have helped make this day. so what do we know about emmerson mnangagwa? jailed for ten years in 1965, he met mugabe in prison. there, the two men formed a close association. after independence in 1980, he became mugabe's right—hand man. in 1983, he was implicated in the mass murder of thousands of opposition supporters in matabeleland, something he denies. more recently, he was accused of orchestrating a violent crackdown on opposition supporters. those who are very close to him say that he listens more than he speaks. he is a soft—spoken man, a gentleman, contrary to what the reports say about him. he is a god—fearing family man. we have to give him some time because an improvement is something which cannot be improved like overnight. after two weeks of uncertainty, zimbabwe seems to be returning to normal again.

global reach and i think that you have these corporations continue to be appear to be acting on the behest of the u.s. government then no increasing drive people to leave them and go to other platforms which under the same kind of influence. and that's all round up of all our top stories and i'll be back at the top of the hour with more so to stay with us. see the good capitalist american and mandamus shares from gun owners don't be such a shock communist loving bootlicking stock insurance company's c.e.o. just take a cloudy willy nilly for making people hear what addicts do something constructive impose got insurance and stop the bloodshed. in america a college degree requires a great deal. paying a decade's old debts from. studying so hard it requires trust just. going through humiliation to enter an elite society. and partying to death sometimes quite literally. wants other true colors of universities in the u.s. . hey everybody i'm stephen bach gosh i'm a task hollywood guy usual suspects every proud american first of all i'm just george washington and r.v. and to suggest this is my bu

global reach and i think that you have these corporations continue to be appear to be acting in the behest of the u.s. government i don't know increasing drive people to leave to go to other platforms which aren't under the same kind of influence at russian hackers helped to keep the rest who accused russia of internal i am not sure what the total part of all the accounts that have been detected zakk information. college for his that he says it is all about sabotaging relations between europe and moscow. fortunately i think one of the objects of this entire campaign to talk about russian influence in both the us and in europe is about that very strategic goal of making sure that moscow and europe do not have good relationships the degree to which the importance to which it is it is being given to the russian president is simply laughably out of proportion. there is no way people in the know know this that there could be anywhere near the amount of russian influence that is alleged to be taking place in spain or in the united states hence the creation of this idea of the russian threat whic

global reach and i think that you have these corporations continue to be appear to be acting on the behest of the u.s. government then no increasing drive people to leave them and go to other platforms which aren't under the same kind of influence. quarter past the hour here in moscow despite security being a major issue in the u.s. key positions in the u.s. department of defense remain empty. and investigates over the past year we've heard cyber security touted time and time again as a top priority for the united states democrats and republicans must work together and devise comprehensive solutions to deter and defend against further cyber attacks counterterrorism and cyber security must be top priorities in keeping our home once a d.o.j. has made cyber security a top priority i'd like to take this opportunity emphasize the importance of improving cybersecurity and working related issues across public and private sectors now given how much importance has been attached to this issue it seems like very little is actually being done key vacancies such as department of homeland security cyber

global reach and i think that you have these corporations and a continued to be appear to be the behest of the u.s. government i don't know increasing drive people to to leave them and go to other platforms which aren't under the same kind of influence so u.s. state department officials are accusing the secretary of state of violating laws on the use of child soldiers that story and much more after the break. either good capitalist american. good insurance or gun owners don't be such a shy communist loving bootlicking not insurance company c.e.o. just taken money willy nilly from a can people here want to alex do something constructive impulse got insurance and stop the blood. everybody. this is my buddy max. she's a little bit different. with all the drama in our country. every day. to bridge the gap this is the. news that u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson violated a u.s. law on the use of child soldiers now that's according to a confidential memo by a group of state department officials tell us in his claim to have breached the child soldiers prevention act when he removed iraq af

threading through this story we see oligarchs doing things perhaps at the behest of the kremlin and thegarch buy donald trump's mansion in florida. donald trump bought it $40 million in 2004 and this oligarch buys it a few years later for $95 million, which is kind of very curious. we also see oligarchs kind of interacting with people in the trump campaign team, especially paul manford. luke an alternative theory to all of this was the trump campaign was the most chaotic campaign i've ever covered in the american presidential elections. people were freelancing. carter paige may or may not have been meeting russian spies in moscows. it's plausible that donald trump knew nothing about that from the top down. you haven't actually uncovered evidence that they promised to offer sanction relief if the russians gave them dirt on hillary clinton? there was a longstanding transactional relationship going back five or six yea rs relationship going back five or six years between trump and powerful russian state interests. there was a flow in both directions. there was information going from americ

just didn't produce what we hoped it would, so there are reasons there are provisions put in at the behest of pharma even though others could get the informati information. >> up for renewal so cross our fingers things will change. last question. >> i work in the intellectual property program and i would like to give you a moment to speak about nafta. there's there is a trade negotin going right now. they propose a quite aggressive chapter including a bout of higher protections with pharmaceutical companies existed and it's being negotiated so nobody knows what is going on. i wonder if you would comment either on the process of negotiation with the above should be in the negotiation. >> no pun intended left me disgusted generically. [laughter] i don't know what the issue is on the nafta negotiation but when there is a treaty, the questions, and there were attempts by the manufacturers of drugs to tell other countries coming in developing countries that they couldn't sell a generic unless they followed the act timetable of course we never envisioned, but we certainly didn't envision develop

and it was grant also at conklin's behest who had appointed arthur to be collector at the customhouse. i don't know about a personal relationship between them but that wing of the republican party and thosenew republicans and grants were close . >> i was particularly referring to thefact that you are both abolitionists . and i thought maybe there would be a relationship there . >> conklin also was a staunch abolitionist. that's what's interesting about these people, these characters are complex. not like conklin or arthur was altogether evil are onthe wrong side of every issue , but they, this was the politics of the time. >> you say that you researched and wrote this over four years or more. i guess i'm wondering about the golden moment at which you realized that current day was aligning with your research? >> actually, that was post-publication, i'd already turned it in. that was a lucky accident, for me at least. >> okay. i guess the other thing i wonder is about where and how we might find miss sand. some of us hoped ivanka might have been that person but do you have that comment

. -- it was more at his wife's behest. there was no practice of judaism in his home. -- and thisis wife led to the scandal that led to his resignation -- he and his his wife had950's, extremely lavish lifestyle. s.ey had twin rolls-royce 's wife had one closet of 150 shoes. offered by lbj to be attorney general. his wife said not on my life. he would have had to take such a big salary cut. he took a 90% salary cut to be on the court. his wife was livid. -- he hadeard this thaten two letters to lbj he would not accept an appointed to the court. to the ovalted him office to have a discussion. it was about the vietnam policy that he was an advisor on. he said join me, i'm going to the rose garden. there is an announcement i have to make. on the way over, i'm announced wife, i'mand his going to appointed to the court. there was nothing they could do. his wife was livid and furious. she calls the white house. one of the white house aides said they had never heard anyone talk to lyndon johnson like that. she berated him for half

one of them could behest cooperating and that would be surprising and obviously helpful to investigators because he could gif them information that they otherwise don't have. in my respects and not just in the campaign but his own involvement and conversations with the russians. a lot that he can provide to investigators. >> all right, shimon from washington, thank you. lets get straight to our panel helping us dissecting all of this. joining us now is paul callan. no one should draw the conclusion that this should mean anything of flynn cooperating. what could it mean if not cooperating? >> flynn was targeted as someone violating the foreign agent registration act. he did not reveal certain contacts that he had with the russian ambassador. there are issues that involves those issues and claims that he lied to the fbi and federal investigators. any of those are possible issues that maybe currently are being looked at. >> and of corey lewandowski, the campaign manager says about this development. >> i don't think this goes anywhere other to michael flynn and his son and what we have seen

this particular amendment was made at the behest of several educators concerned we weren't spending enough time and energy educating young people on the effects of cannabis on their developing brains. section 10.100-162, changes the fund to be a quote, community reinvestment fund, with monies going to entities and organizations working to address the failed war on drugs once the funding has been appropriated. i changed section 3322, subsection d to say compliance is the effective date of the particular ordinance. subsection 332d subsection 5 makes it so existing mcds looking to convert adult-use cannabis must have 30% of the workforce comply within 120 days. and section 3322d6 says existing mcds must complete and submit a plan before they consent to dault use and the existing mcds must make a good faith effort to comply with the equity plan before the director extends authorization to sell adult use. the final three amendments can be found intersection 1609, 1615 and 1633. existing mcds must submit a progress process. if there's not a good faith effort to comply with the plan the office of

the fact that at the behest of a 4-year-old kid he would bend over and let him touch his head like that a lot about this president and the impact that he had. what about let clearance? t the authorization that you had, and would he say i look great in this one? >> during the administration we tried to make public authentic pictures. he never looked at the photos before we made them public. >> it was almost always your call? >> i chose the photograph and then i would have someone either josh, ernest or robert gibbs look at them first before we released them. >> of the 2 million photographs you took, how many were made public? >> oh, gosh. thousands, probably. i don't even know the number. >> so if people go to the book and if they can go online and see the pictures? >> the white house instagram feed, the white house flicker account and white house.gov during the obama administration are all now archived. >> so the book is entitled obama, an intimate portrait, pete souza, the official white house photographer and you have a foreword in there by barack obama himself. >> yes. >> pete, thank

multiple sources say he met with him at the behest of the president. poomike pompeo to meet withe nsa conspiracy theory about the hacked emails last year calling them inside job and saying that it's not a result of a cyber hack by russian hackers. so with me now former analyst john nixon. welcome. >> good afternoon. >> so ben told cnn mike pompeo started the meeting by saying, quote, the president told me i should talk to you. how unprecedented is it for the president to push this meeting with a conspiracy theorist? >> it's quite unprecedented. and also really shameful, i think. one thing for the director of central intelligence to look into russian interference during the election, but another thing to be wasting time and resources talking with people who are not only the opponents of the administration, or trying to discredit the opponents of the administration, but also talking to people who are trying to discredit the findings of your own intelligence community. the director of central intelligence has got to it be somebody who will give the presid

it was more at his wife's behest.e had a little more interest, but there was no practice of judaism in his home. but what he said here is very revealing. he and his wife -- and this led to the scandal that led to his resignation -- he and his wife in the 1950's, his wife had an especially extremely lavish lifestyle. they had twin olls-royces. his wife had in one closet alone 150 pairs of shoes. he had been offered by lbj to be attorney general. his wife said, not on my life. you can't. he would have had to take such a big salary cut. he took a 90% salary cut to be on the court. his wife was livid. in fact, when she heard this -- he had written two letters to lbj saying he would not accept an appointed to the court. johnson invited him to the oval office to have a discussion. it was about the vietnam policy that he was an advisor on. he said join me, i'm going to the rose garden. there is an announcement i have to make. on the way over, unbenknownst to fortas and his wife, he said i'm appointing you to the supreme cour

he assumed responsibilities of leadership at a formative and a very challenging time, at the behest ofat is to be lauded and celebrated. but also a pledge to break from the past. i am not oblivious to the many zimbabweans from our political, ethnic and racial divides, who have helped make this day. so, what do we know about emmerson mnangagwa? jailed for ten years in 1965, he met mugabe in prison. there, the two men formed a close association. after independence in 1980, he became mugabe's right—hand man. in 1983, he was implicated in the mass murder of thousands of opposition supporters in matabeleland, something he denies. more recently, he was accused of orchestrating a violent crackdown on opposition supporters. those who are very close to him say that he listens more than he speaks. he is a soft—spoken man, a gentleman, contrary to what the reports say about him. a god—fearing family man. we have to give him some time because an improvement is something which cannot be improved like overnight. after two weeks of uncertainty, zimbabwe seems to be returning to normal again. no one k