darlene hall and i am here to speak on behalf of dominic paris' nomination to the committee. i'm known dome anything for 6, 7 years and i'm also in the same running club ~ dominic. but [speaker not understood], i'm a psychologist. [speaker not understood] expertise is voting election and he educated me on approaching voter election and taught me a lot of things >> aye. i don't know. [speaker not understood]. to more formal work around [speaker not understood] the different electionses in districts as well as people he talked to about the program [speaker not understood] master program that would actually help to support the formal side of learning, about all of this work to allow you to kind of back up the work he did you on the ground. i'm definitely seen his commitment and passion and i'm also someone who is very active and grassroots level in san francisco, both personally as well as through my work. and i see he the same passion and dedication through him around trying to bring help, [speaker not understood]. and, you know, he's a few years younger than i am. [speaker not

so, applicant number one, dominic ryan paris, would you -- >> good afternoon. do you have any starting questions or shall i just go into my spiel? would you still have faith in our american democracy if your vote didn't count? this is actually the question that got me interested in elections and voting during 2000. we all know it happened in florida, but what really isn't known is that 4 to 6 million votes were lost during that election, not due to fraud or anything, but just plain old mistakes. this sadly makes the united states rank 25th out of 73 countries as far as electoral integrity. should you choose to appoint me electoral integrity is my top priority for serving on the elections commission. i have a proficient knowledge of voting systems and as well as electoral good processes, best practices. i've done this through working for the center for election science helping small organizations adopt better voting systems and use better practices. i also have my second public policy masters is focused on elections and voting. an emphasis in comparative public

dominate. they met in paris. if that is anything to go by, the next few hours will be tough. >> a long day of dip loam as yea in paris brought no results. if at the end a wary john kerry hinted at progress, he said this is a difficult process. >> russia made a joys. and we have clearly stated that we believe it is the wrong choice, that is the choice to move troops into crimea. russia can now choose to de-escalate the situation, and we are committed to working with russia and together with our friends and allies, in an effort to provide a way for this entire situation to find the road to deescalation. >> foreign ministers had originally agreed to come to paris to talk about the syrian war and its impact on lebanon. even that conflict has been overshadowed by events in ukraine. >> all the activity suggests there's a willingness for dialogue. the gulf and perception between russia and the west is vast. russia considers the new government in kiev illegitimate, led by extremists. the west is going out of its way to h

paris run. they believe they'll continue to dominate that particular market.und in air travel, competition is a great thing for the travel ler and not bad for the operators either. >> simon, great stuff as always. simon calder. >> $9.00 profit per passenger. >> i'll do my sums now. >>> you told us about super expensive cities yesterday. we're doing super rich cities today in a minute here on "bbc world news." stay with us for that. the global super rich, where they want to live and how they plan on getting there. ng? yeah. getting your vegetables every day? when i can. [ bop ] [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. two full servings of vegetables for only 50 delicious calories. >>> welcome back, i'm david eades. the top story this hour, american secretary of state john kerry arrives in paris for high-level talks on the situation in ukraine, due to meet his russian counterpart sergei lavrov. >>> the oscar pistorius trial has been adjourned for the day. the pair olympian accused of murder in the death of his girlfriend. >>> you might have thought we were in a wor

paris as a close second. will have the headlines from today's papers. most of the prez today is dominated by the situation in ukraine, and that was where we will begin this hour. vladimir putin is giving a lengthy conference on the as leading conference -- conflict in ukraine. he slammed what he called a unconstitutional takeover of our, basically a coup in ukraine. he said that the illegal change cannot be encouraged, but understands the wanting of change. he says that viktor yanukovych is still the legitimate president. gave updent yanukovych our company excepted everything the opposition demanded. accepted the idea of holding early parliamentary elections committee excepted a return to the 2004 prostitution. he responded positively to the withst we made it, along our european partners, not to resort to the instant force. the order tosue open fire on the protesters. and moreover, he gave the order for police forces to retreat from the capital. and they complied with that. for more analysis on what vladimir wooten had to say today, i'm going to bring in our reporter in moscow. what more

paris needs to keep in mind the interests of more than 2 million people. this is the first real electoral test seven francois hollande who struggled in the polls. this is an election dominated by discussions about housing, the economy and security. and that two women are leading the race. politics here like in my places is still dominated by men, and at times during this campaign the two main mayoral candidates have been scrutinized in a way they wouldn't have been if they were men. compared not only on their politics. >> translator: the interest in the fact that the candidates are women could be seen in the media. for example, when they talked about the color of their hair, how they dressed. in fact, they have to play on a double-level, which is both one of seduction to the parisian woman but also on top of that to represent the image of the mayor. >> reporter: both of them want to revitalize paris. if gender isn't the main issue in the ballot booth this weekend, then just maybe it could lead to greater equality in politics here. emma hayward, al jazeera in paris. >>> speaking of politics, the first lady and her daughters visited the great wall of china today. the first la

considered a custodian in the male-dominated environment, but in our country we would have considered her a curator of the small museum which if any of you had been to paris and walked from the concorde to the lewd, you walked right past this building as was the kind of early stage indoor tennis court in the 17th century, and it became the central headquarters for the operation in france and paris in particular, and it wass there bu that the tens of thouss of words stolen from the great collectors and fans and others so many of whom were also dealer families were brought in and they were often photographed in inventory to sign and this is a particularly evil or pernicious element of what they did they puwould assign inventory code to these works of art so rothschild is an example, the number next to it would be the number of items that they had stolen, andd i've seen in the tory numbers up almost 6,000, and even that is an understatement because any of the things the monuments officers found, which michael has done a great job in the '80s writing about a lot of this were jewelry chests that might have hundreds of objects that count as one, or tomas the mo