. >> michael evans, benjamin dean. >> reporter: benjamin dean of fresno county seen here crossing the san francisco died and his wife seriously injured when they were struck by a driver who police say ran a read light. his name was among the 22 read at the start of meeting before board members of the san francisco municipal transportation agency. here is what came out of the meeting. in 2018, 22% of all traffic fatalities were people who were homeless. in the past five years, 27% of traffic fatalities were due to left turning vehicles. police have acknowledged that they haven't kept up with enforcement because of the lack of personnel. that's changing as traffic officers are being added. >> ideally, yeah, we would, you know, triple or quadruple that number and have that number of officers out there that can just solely focus on, you know, the focus on the five violations. >> reporter: those five violations are speeding, failing to stop at a red light or stop sign, failing to give pedestrians the right-of-way or yielding to pedestrians when turning. the city's goal is to get to zero fa

. >> benjamin dean crossing the street in san francisco died and his wife seriously injured in july when a driver who police say ran a red light. his name was among the 2 read at the start of the meeting before board members of the san francisco municipal transportation agency. here is what came out of that meeting. in 2018, 22% of all traffic fatalities were people who were homeless. in the past five years, 26% of traffic fatalities were due to left turning vehicles. police have acknowledged they haven't kept up with enforcement because of the lack of personnel. that's changing as traffic officers are being added. >> ideally, yeah, we would triple or quadruple that number and have that number of officers out there that can just solely focus on the focus on the five violations. >> the five violations are speeding, failing to stop at a red light or stop sign, failing to give pedestrians the right-of-way or yielding to pedestrians when turning. the city's goal is to get to zero fatalities by 2024. here is what the sfmta says will help get there. more enforcement, calming left turn traffic,

darrin travis, alexander rayes, alexander norton, michael evans, benjamin dean and wu ying. (moment of silence). >> we off adopted vision zero across the city and that's the route goal. it elevates the dignity and sanctity of human life and there's no reason to accept human life from traffic. this policy is partnered with our department of public health because every one of these fatalities is treated by the public health system. we work this with a suite of policy tools, we need to treat traffic fatalities with the same regard and i'll use this to centre myself. this is our sooning the trend's page. so this is our current trends and i think we need to back this up. how do we do that? so here we are, and so, in 2017, we had a city-wide low of 20 fatality and last year we had 23 and currently we have 22 recorded traffic fatalities and, you know, our prayer is that that will be the last this year. and we watch these trend and we're very careful and thoughtful about what they mean and how our work impacts these trends. and as the vision zero lead for sfmta i'm presented when yo

meeting with offering our collective deepest condolences to the families of michael evans and benjamin dean who were hit and killed in horrific crashes on our streets last week, as well as kelly dean who is critically injured and in the hospital. as was noted at the rally on the steps of city hall this morning, commissioner haney organized it, and motorists must slow down. the tenderloin, which is an area that commissioner haney and i share, his not a traffic sewer, it is a neighborhood, and i did not have a chance to say this morning at the rally, but when you drive through there, if you are watching my face, when you drive through there, you drive through there at 25 miles an hour or less. speed kills. i am going to depart from my remarks and say the following thing, which is we are joined by -- we were joined by senator weiner this morning who lamented the fact that law enforcement statewide has killed san francisco's repeated attempts to get automated speed enforcement. if you are looking at me, i would like the police officers association of san francisco to get an expressed carveout,

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to an expansion of the occupied west bank they say his plan would violate international law and now said the trump administration so-called dean of the century would provide a historic opportunity for extending israeli sovereignty over the west bank and other areas hi fossett has more from western a slam. benjamin netanyahu has a habit of promising dramatic announcements in the run up to elections and he did so again on tuesday when it came it was not a unilateral decision about amec sation as some had predicted instead the message to right wing settler voters was a vote for netanyahu would in concert with the trumpet ministration mean extending israeli sovereignty to all illegal settlements in the occupied west bank and in the shorter term the annexation of the jordan valley yes. there is one place where it's possible to apply israeli sovereignty immediately after the election if i receive a clear mandate to do so from you the citizens of israel in recent months of little diplomatic effort in this direction in recent days the conditions for this have ripened today i'm announcing my intention to apply with the formation of the

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intelligence and before me dean wideman report and he had extensive talks behind closed doors we do not know the details with russia's defense minister. and also talking about syria benjamin netanyahu mentioned iran's activity there. recently saying that israel has to react and we also heard ron wyden altering that this is no definitely not the last meeting between the 2 politicians he accepted israel's invitation to visit that country next year in january when israel celebrates its 75th anniversary of its legal ration we'll keep you updated on how the meeting back to you thanks to refer to the list from such. onto other matters now russia's requested through interpol from washington to provide information about missing russian national alike smelling cough he disappeared after the u.s. media reports claim this week that he was a high level spy extracted from russia to the u.s. back in 2017 to explain all is it is done. interpol request comes from the foreign ministry and according to maria's the heart of the spokeswoman of the foreign ministry a russian citizen the missing abroad this is something that any foreign ministry you should do to try to find out what happened t