we have not had a response to the february answers. i hope you will treat this as a priority and make sure that we do get answers to what i think are fair and sensible questions particularly in the light of the election manipulations we have seen. >> certainly, senator. those are fair questions. and we have been working on the response to your questions from the last hearing. it is accurate that the 501 c 4 organizations are required to submit donor list toss the irs. our focus in auditing those organizations is primarily on whether they are engaged in excessive political campaign intervention. it's not been focused on the source of the funds that are contributed to those organizations. and we will look, at this point we are not sharing anything information to my knowledge with fin sand or other organizations. but i take your quell seriously. and we will look into it, i promise. >> thank you. >> mr. chairman, if it does turn out particularly given all of the interests in this issue that has emerged that the irs is not in fact looking b

that's how warm february was. >> february when we had no rain. >> no rain in february. february was a weird month. >> thanks paul. >>> this bay area woman is camped out tonight thousands of miles from home all in the name of love. g... it's time for sleep number's 'semi-annual sale' on the only bed that adjusts on both sides to your ideal comfort, your sleep number setting. does your bed do that? it's the lowest price ever on the queen c4 mattress, only $1099 - save $500. ends soon. visit sleepnumber.com for a store near you. he's been called a rockstar lwinning pro bono battles for immigrants and the homeless. defending gay rights and gun control. democrat jeff bleich. after columbine, bleich led president clinton's youth violence initiative. with joe biden, bleich took on domestic violence. served president obama as special counsel and ambassador. maybe bleich can't pull off the rockstar look... but his progressive record is solid gold. the royal wedding... prince harry and meghan markle rode to windsor castle today... >>> getting right down to it. two days before the

after a florida school shooting in february. president trump knew he was playing in front of a home crowd as he addressed cheering gun enthusiasts in dallas he called again for arming teachers to head off future mass shootings like the one in parkland florida in february in which seventeen people were killed ninety eight percent of mass public shootings have occurred in places where guns are banned just so you understand. tragically as we see there is no shirt on more inviting to eye mare's killer then a sorry dad did clare's this school is a gun free zone come in and take us thank you i ninety eight percent think i you know they're cowards when they know there's guns inside they're not going to the n.r.a. has shown its support for the measures even though teachers and security experts have openly criticized the idea. in his speech which ranged across unemployment the economy immigration and nuclear proliferation trump made no mention of gun control proposals he'd floated in the past such as raising the age limit for buying rifl

that's how warm february was. >> february when we had no rain. >> no rain in february. february was a weird month. >> thanks paul. >>> this bay area woman is camped out tonight thousands of miles from home all in the name of love. g... my name is cynthia haynes and i am a senior public safety specialist for pg&e. my job is to help educate our first responders on how to deal with natural gas and electric emergencies. everyday when we go to work we want everyone to work safely and come home safely. i live right here in auburn, i absolutely love this community. once i moved here i didn't want to live anywhere else. i love that people in this community are willing to come together to make a difference for other people's lives. together, we're building a better california. the royal wedding... prince harry and meghan markle rode to windsor castle today... >>> getting right down to it. two days before the royal wedding now. prince harry, meghan markle, road to windsor castle today. i heard they had tea with charles. >> of course! >> and hiss wife. meanwhile -- and his wife. m

and then in your response to ray louie's letter of february 2, 2009, that's the letter where mr. louie who first came before this committee and didn't remember, but they be at his second remembered a lot more than he did at his first interview. on february 18 -- and i'm trying to find the letter here in my stack -- treadwell and rollo, with your signature on it, responded, and response number five -- and this is with regard to the reasons for the larger than expected settlements, you indicate that it could be attributed to several possible factors, one of which you just talked about, which was the languager than anticipated dewatering on-site. [please stand by for captioner switch] do you think dewatering at 350 or transbay could have had an impact on the settlement. >> i believe the mission was a cut off wall and we had measured, the water levels had already been drawn down quite a bit outside of 350 mission's footprint, if you will. but the issue with the watering is really extent in duration. t.j.p.a., as you know, is approximately 1500 feet long about 180 feet wide and about

this february saw a 55% increase in apprehensions over february last year. this march saw a triple number from last march and april saw a triple number from last april. those are the first months of the trump administration that we saw dramatic reductions. the trends are clear, the trends must end. 11 million people are here already illegally. that's more than the population of portugal or georgia. this situation, of course, is many years in the making. for decades, the american people have been pleading with their elected representatives for a lawful system of immigration that served the national interests. a system that we can all as a need be proud of. that is not too much to ask. the american people are right and just and decent to ask for this. they are right to want a safe, security border and a government that know whose is here and who isn't. donald trump ran for office on that idea. i believe that this is a big reason why he won. he is on the fire about this. this entire government knows how strongly he feels about it. the american people have a rig

remember how warm it was back the first week of february? the first week of february blew away the first week of may when it comes to high temperatures in san francisco. this month 61 degrees. in february it was 13 degrees warmer than the week we just finished. kind of crazy. the warmest weather of the year so far was the first week of february. vallejo 50 overnight. redwood city 50, san jose 52. union city, your microclimate forecast, cooler tomorrow, 73 degrees, partly sunny skies. wednesday morning, clouds, some afternoon sunshine. we'll have a cooldown down to the upper 50s. a storm will miss us 500 miles to the north. why does that matter for us? a hit is a miss even though temperatures stay well to the north. this low right here passing by to the north will kick off a stronger onshore flow. you'll feel the difference tomorrow morning at the coastline of san mateo and san francisco because the fog will return. temperatures kept down tomorrow. a little bit of cloud cover from that storm missing us to the north. as we look towards wednesd

instead of holding a concert in memory of a slain journalist and his fiance john was murdered in february while reporting on alleged connections between politicians in the country and the mafia. and welcome to the program russian opposition leader alexina vali has been detained along with more than a thousand other anti kremlin demonstrators according to monitors police seized him in moscow after he called for protests across the country ahead of president vladimir putin's gratian for another term as president. the the the down with the czar the rallying cry that brought together thousands of russians opposed to president vladimir putin they gathered in city squares across the country voicing their dissent and holding signs denouncing corruption. because they at my think that every responsible citizen should express their opinion that's my duty as a citizen of the russian federation is that i love my country and i want something here to change yet stable i'm fighting for democracy because today's russia is an authoritarian monarchy with an element of totalitarianism and i think we need to

what we said in february relative you needed it sooner and more.happened to be more or less consistent with where the market curve have been moving. moving toward three rate increases and the mindset of the committee was moving in that direction. meeting, wento this might you can't i apologize for being technical. we use the 15 day average. it's mechanical, as you know. it has increases over the next three years. so, it's interesting, in effect, it's -- but why is inflation coming back to targets sooner than they had expected before our perspective and it's not we haveof the week q1 accumulated evidence on the .astor from sterling we are not going to get as much of that pass through into import prices as we previously have. which i made in the report. that is why inflation comes back to 2% in two years time. we get a shallower path of a imported inflation. will -- unit labor costs and other indicators have come in line with what's not slightly firmer. given what's happened on the external side, that combined with the week of first quarter , it make

journalist and his fiance martino are being honored in a memorial to the couple was murdered in february in slovakia and was reporting on alleged connections between politicians in the country and the mafia. and its blastoff for a new mission to mars nasa launches an unmanned spacecraft to peer under the planet's cross and look at how mars was formed. and welcome to the program russian opposition leader alexei no volley has been detained along with more than a thousand other anti kremlin demonstrators according to monitors police seized him in moscow after he called for protests across the country ahead of president vladimir putin's an auger ration for another term as president. the the the. down with the czar the rallying cry that brought together thousands of russians opposed to president vladimir putin they gathered in city squares across the country voicing their dissent and holding signs denouncing corruption. at my hand that every responsible citizen should express their opinion that's my duty as a citizen of the russian federation because i love my country and i want something her

john could siac and his fiance martina were honored in a memorial to the couple was murdered in february in slovakia as could she have reported on a ledge of high level corruption. i'm michelle henery thanks for joining us floaters in lebanon are heading to the polls to elect a new parliament today for the first time in almost ten years so a new prime minister saad hariri and his future movement party are expected to remain in power the election will be the first under the country's new electoral laws with proportional representation replacing the previous winner takes all system the vote brings into focus the struggle for power in a country divided. along sectarian lines among those hoping to make gains in the country is hezbollah the islamist political and militant group financed by a red which supports the syrian president bashar al assad here's a look at the patchwork of groups and religions vying for power in lebanon on. the graves of lebanese hezbollah fighters who died in neighboring syria. the iran funded parties militias are revered by many shiites in lebannon. in syria the mili

on the evening of service day february the fourth twenty sixteen the start of the weekend in muslim bangladesh most of the central bank staff had gone home the building was secure but intruders were already inside. in the interim report experts commissioned by bangladesh bank said a malicious program was installed on the bank's computer systems where possibly delivered virus infected e-mail collected passwords and usernames and covered its own tracks. investigators say they found considerable evidence that the hackers used the bank's credentials to access a swift international messaging system used to send money around the world the hackers then generated search the five requests to transfer funds from bangladesh bank's account with the federal reserve bank in new york the orders came close to a billion dollars. most of the requests were blocked but ford did get through and as a result almost eighty one million dollars was sent to accounts at a bank called our c.p.c. thousands of miles away in the philippines i couldn't believe it. because nothing like that even a smaller thing like that never

men's ice hockey world championship has started in denmark and ambitious germany runners up in february's winter olympics had a tough opening group game against the host nation it was a tight affair which went all the way to a penalty shoot out. germany were just fifty five seconds away from winning olympic gold a few months ago but that success comes with added pressure and hosts denmark we're determined not to make it easy for them they went ahead early in the second period on the powerplay yes by the end sooner than man on target. germany wasted no time in hitting back the loose puck falling to leon and he made no mistake. but denmark took advantage of another power play to get back a head back in the driving seat though the whole live. yaseen feel it tight the game up again after a nifty move and that was that for regulation and overtime. denmark's hunch needs must be only meant to find the net in the shoot out the host's happy germany deflated. and our minder of the top stories we're following here for you russian authorities detained opposition leader. and several hundred others at

we refer back to the february information that we presented and specifically page 8 of that february material noted that by policy we applied $554,000 to the rates which we were going to do anyway. that was proof. there is $1,107,000 left in the carry forward balance of the rate stabilization reserve. we are recommending to use $1,065,000 of the remaining 1,107,000 that would leave a small balance in the stabilization reserve to cover the additional costs to employers of recommendation a. >> someone has asked what would happen to the 42000 remaining dollars? we could follow the example of some national activities at the national level and put it into a slush fund that the board would use to go out and do nefarious things with the permission of our council. we are not going to do that. we will figure out a way to benefit the members in this plan. don't worry about the 42,000. we will keep track of it. our c fo promised that. i know she will. we will use it for the intended purposes. >> commissioner sass. >> the reason i asked for the 2017 rereserve summary was to point out. this was d

the early february date down to 25, 35 we bounced off 2580. who am i to argue with jpmorgan? i don't know if 3,000 is in play we have defended it on the down side to make me think we have a shot to go to the upside, maybe tomorrow. >> tesla cratering after a wild performance from elan musculoskeletal musk jim cramer will weigh in the crypto craze is captivating wall street. a top investor will tell us how big of a bitcoin boom it could lead to. and guy is stepping up for the fast pitch and says a hospital stock is about to break out. much more "fast money" after this - i love my grandma. - anncr: as you grow older, your brain naturally begins to change which may cause trouble with recall. - learning from him is great... when i can keep up! - anncr: thankfully, prevagen helps your brain and improves memory. - dad's got all the answers. - anncr: prevagen is now the number-one-selling brain health supplement in drug stores nationwide. - she outsmarts me every single time. - checkmate! you wanna play again? - anncr: prevagen. healthier brain. better life. we use our phones the sa

after jacob zuma was forced to resign after years of corruption allegations raposo was elected in february following his victory as leader of the ruling a.n.c. party in december he made a number of promises and commitments during his first state of the nation address including improving the economy and fighting corruption so how has he failed or put that to our guests in just a moment but first malcolm webb has a report from johannesburg. they called it's rama the reaction of many south africans went through ramaphosa became president in february. things have gone from bad to worse for his predecessor jacob zuma his eight years were blighted by a series of corruption scandals. last year people protested calling for him to step down eventually resigned under pressure from his own party to run opposed he's been promising to clean up ever since this is the year in which. we were. in our public institutions thanks he began with a cabinet reshuffle some of the controversial ministers of the zumiez white house but other states including this man. now minister of home affairs leaked documents lin

i have labored under the impression that the response to the department of building inspections, february 2nd, 2009, letter, wherein the department asks these now famous eight questions including whether or not the building was tilting, differential settlement. and this goes back to a hearing we had a couple years ago but the funny story is we had a copy of the letter that d.b.i. wrote, which we got from d.b.i. but d.b.i. could not find and this has actually lead to changes in our record retention policies, the response that desimone gave d.b.i., including incorporated the treadwell and rolo letter authored by dr. golsorki, which interestingly enough were produced by millennium. our first hearing, i was like this is kind of interesting. we asked these questions, we never got any responses weish shooed a final certificate of occupancy, indeed we had gotten a response but i labored the last couple years under the impression the way at least a lay person would read this is no, the building was not tilting. but now if i have learned one thing, it's actually there was one data point and you ca

and i only shop expenses going back to february i also three months of electricity bills which have been piling up and i owed on the loan that i took out to keep my shop going. more and more buenos aires shops are going out of business argentina is soaring interest rates and a plunging currency have made it impossible for the owners to stay open. it's a stark contrast to president mauricio mccready's election in two thousand and fifteen he promised to boost caps to controls and strengthen the economy but the country fell into a rapid downward spiral earlier this year now it's holding out its hand to the international monetary fund once again. i don't intend to vote again what's more i don't believe politicians any of them i don't believe a word that they say anymore. the i.m.f. is still a dirty word to some argentinians who fear alone will mean crippling austerity and a devastating economic collapse similar to two thousand and one. that's it for your business update if you want even more you can check us out online on social media just search for d w business in the usual places i'l

hourly averages have reared up since the print in february.have to see from this jobs report from an average hourly standpoint to shake the markets or give the bulls a chance to have an upside run >> i hope we hit the metrics on the head i don't want to see a soft number or a hot number investors can take these outside moves and turn them into something negative i don't want to do that on a friday going into the weekend. >> speaking of that, these changes we've seen midday, it's got to be frustrating. >> it is the news cycle is. >> you have a good earnings print, then boom the stock falls midway through the day when you thought you were in the money in the morning, you're not in the afternoon what stocks are you looking at in the medium term to get past these bumps? >> financials is still my largest overweight you have a cyclical tailwind, rising rates, net interest moving higher, and evaluations are not compelling you're trading below market multiples. that's a place for investors to look number two right now, i'm not there, i will be there n

a total of 13 strikes have taken place since february. ceo john mark offered a pay rise over four years and invited them to vote for or against it. >> if the results are negative, i can't see how i can stay on his company had. -- head. reporter: in the end half of employees rejected the offer. some are kayak -- this will connect huge changes. the company incurred losses of 118 million euros in the first quarter, while many of its rivals posted several profits. helena: argentina's central bank has raised its benchmark, interest rate to 40%. the move is aimed at putting a lid on soaring inflation to help the country's plummeting currency. the depreciation is partly due to investors moving their money away from emerging economies and into dollars. this is the third time in a week argentina's central bank has put up its lending rate. back to fail now and the birth --phil and the birthday of a remarkable thinker. phil: saturday is 200 years since the birth of perhaps the most missiles political figure -- divisive political figure or economic t

back in february. and the physicist said swarms like this are not uncommon in the area. >> there's a small swarm now. and there was a larger swarm in february. at this point coincidence. but the valley has produced earthquake swarms like this. half a dozen times or more since 1970. >> so a lot of people want to know if the small earthquakes could be a sign that the big one is coming. they say no. it should serve as a reminder to be prepared. >> cautionary. now are you ready for the next quake? you can find guidelines for stocking a kit and developing an emergency plan. under prepare nor cal. >> police announce new arrests of members of a violent south bay street gang. suspected of carjackings, robbery and burglary. these five adults and eleven joouf joou juveniles are held on charges related to those crimes. when the police department first targeted the gang in a major operation. >> back in january we conducted a large scale operation against them and took people into custody. we recovered quite bait o

february? february was warmer. light showers, making it into the county, paralleling over the freeway right now. middle 50s outside. san jose, 58, concord, 57 degrees. that is where we stay, in the 50s, scattered showers overnight. in the tri-valley. 54 degrees, so, why is this happening? well, we typically have a blocking ridge of high pressure. we don't, forget about what month it is. if you have a storm, a low pressure area, approaching the coastline, giving us unstable air, does not matter if it is july or january you will get rainfall. we will see rainfall. strong onshore flood, keeping it in the middle 60s. now the clouds and scattered showers will be through. nothing will be heavy. it will slow you down on the commute. actually the latest future cast at 6:00 a.m. will show widespread showers than what we saw earlier tonight. scattered showers continuing in the early afternoon. north bay showers tomorrow evening as we head towards saturday. we start the day off with cloud cover. that is when the pattern begin

and then in february, the fol w following month of 2017, the washington post revealed of mr. trump and mr. kislyak. so again, the first question, mr. trump, what did you know about phone calls that mike flynn made with the russian ambassador during the transition and what was your reaction of the news report of the content of those communications when those news reports came out in january and february of 2017. third question, what did you know about salley yates' meeting. you will remember she was the acting attorney general for the first few weeks. she came to the white house to warn the white house that flynn had been lying about his secret communications with the russian government so the question to the president, what did you know of yates' meeting of mr. flynn. how was the decision made to fire mr. flynn on february 13, 2018. after the resignation, what efforts were made to reach out to mr. flynn about seeking immunity or possible pardon. after the resignation -- i am not sure what that means. after the resignation what efforts were made to reach out to mr. flynn of se

after jacob zuma was forced to resign after years of corruption allegations raposo was elected in february following his victory as leader of the ruling a.n.c. party in december he made a number of promises and commitments during his first state of the nation address including improving the economy and fighting corruption so how has the fed or put that to i guess in just a.

they're charged with the killing of 19-year-old lisette cuesta in february. she was found bleeding and crawling near livermore. she allegedly identified gross and leonardo as her killers before she died. investigators say cuesta worked with gross and willingly got in a car with the defendants. today's proceedings were briefly held up when a member of cuesta's family yelled an obscenity during leonardo's appearance. >>> human remains found a mile north of where the hart family's suv plunged off of highway 1 back in march. some of the remains were found in a sneaker and near a pair of

but their friendship would come to a brutal end during a meeting in monaco in february two thousand and fifteen eve bouvier's attorney david b. don't explains. the amount of them in the us obviously not all. but we. know that corky. old opinio that people should see me through a bit of live in. paris. you know even when you're that. early fusion to mature a bit of left. there. after. the weekend. the russian billionaire had filed charges against even. used him of making exorbitant profits of a billion dollars and his own personal loss. claim to have paid double what his collection was worth. take for example this painting number six by mark rothko. we managed to get a hold of the documents of the transaction. even bought it from wealthy landowners in the border region for eighty three million five hundred thousand dollars. a few weeks later as this invoice shows the painting was sold to an offshore company accent delight which belongs to the russian billionaire. acquired for eighty three point five million dollars. the rothko was sold for one hundred forty million. eve profit on the dea

remember back to the first week of february? in san francisco that average high was 74 degrees. the average high the first week of may, which wrapped up yesterday, was 13 degrees cooler than february. so we've gone through almost half the year and the warmest week we've had in san francisco, the first week of february. watching some showers and a few thunderstorms rumble around the redding area, that's the low pressure missing us to the north. we'll stay dry but we'll also feel a definitive impact from that low. tonight, 50s. livermore, 55. vallejo, 55. pacifica and santa rosa, 51 degrees. here comes that stronger ocean breeze tomorrow. what that will do, it will take those low 80s inland that we've had over the past couple years, drop them even 8 degrees tomorrow. breezy out toward the delta. not as warm. highs barely making it to 72 or 73 degrees tomorrow. pretty big difference away from the water. ridge to our south, storm missing to our north. clockwise flow over the ridge. counterclockwise flow below provides a wind tunnel coming from the ocean. that chilly breeze will be w

michael cohen's first statement about the stormy daniels payment was on february 13th which he said he was not reimbursed for the payment either directly or indirectly. april 5th on air force one the president was asked did you know about the payment of $130,000 to stormy daniels, his answer was no. he was then asked why michael cohen made the statement. he said, you'll have to ask michael cohen. so the fox hosts asked rudy giuliani, why? why this morning? michael cohen why he now said -- why he said he was not reimbursed if he really was reimbursed? >> i remember when michael cohen was interviewed about it, and it seemed like he was saying that he was never reintercontinental ballistic missile -- reimbursed that $130,000, now it sounds like the story is changing.

initially registered as a web domain right after christmas and that it was updated somehow in late february, but today it went live. today unnamed and unknown self-described long-term friends of paul manafort put out a statement announcing the existence of this website and this -- what purports to be this fund. i say it seems like it could potentially be a prank or a stunt, or it's at least a little strange in part because this website that they launched today, this paul manafort defense fund, kind of feels like it was cheaply translated from some other language. quote, let's band together and allow paul's position to be fully expressed and create an even playing field. in english, playing field is two

have been investigating high level corruption in the country there are still unresolved murders in february have led to mass protests which triggered the resignation of the prime minister amid demands to battle corruption and protect press freedom it should have been one of the happiest days of their lives but in place of their wedding friends and family are all knowing the murdered journalist ian could see a continued fiance martina with a memorial concert. is where we can accomplish the. investigation again and amount to mass murder as well as causes of corruption can be investigated it's not known who shot could siak and his fiance at close range in late february but when he died the journalist had been working on an article about alleged connections between leading slovak politicians and the italian mafia in the cigars that the in the article could siac named people and companies we have checked all the names and connected them to seventy criminal cases we're looking into possible links. prime minister little bad fits so has resigned but behind the scenes many believe he's still pulling

when gher wage costs caused the dow to drop 500 points on february 2nd during the jobs report. the reaction tod was aot more muted. the yield on the ten year rose to its highest leveln seven years but the price decline in stocks was much more modest back in february andum v was not particularly heavy down here indicating investors were not t rushin sell. so here's the key. question is the shock of higher prices starting to wear off? how cfortable are investors getting with higher rates? the economy looks strongn the second quarter if rates are going up because the economy is good, that's not as bad if rates are going up solely because ination is going up. the action in the next couple days will be a big test for the markets. is this healthy profit taking or are we just rolling over again? for "nightly business report," i'm bobisi at the new york stock exchange. >>> investors were also caughtf guard by north korea today. there were reports that that country hasel indefin postponed high level talks with south korea which were scheduled r tomorrow. the north koreans were reportedl

at the nra convention he seemed to dismiss the idea of tighter gun control laws after february's masshooting at a high school in florida. gary o'donoghue reports from dallas.

>> i would like to know, the facts around, on february 14th, to understand whether there is

on the evening of service day february the fourth twenty sixteen the start of the weekend in muslim bangladesh most of the central bank staff had gone home the building was secure but intruders were already inside. in the interim report experts commissioned by bangladesh bank said a malicious program was installed on the bank's computer systems where possibly delivered virus infected emails collected passwords and usernames and covered its own tracks. investigators say they found considerable evidence that the hackers used the bank's credentials to access swished international messaging system used to send money around the world the hackers then generated search the five requests to transfer funds from bangladesh bank's account with the federal reserve bank in new york the orders came close to a billion dollars. most of the requests were blocked but ford did get through and as a result almost eighty one million dollars was sent to accounts at a bank called fast c.p.c. thousands of miles away in the philippines i couldn't believe it. because nothing like that even a smaller thing like that neve

its biggest flight since february 5. that was during the macro risk off in february.not be down as much. the dow more than a thousand points. from a bond perspective, investors are seeking those bonds. the biggest rate since february 5. yen trading given higher against the dollar. bitcoin, it is hard to categorize that as a risk or a growth at it. but we have it higher y. some investors past seeing that as an alternative. overall a riskve off picture. oil as well confirming it. down 8% over the last days, it's worst stretch since february in the last macro risk off. last week, talk of an opec a egg like.part of oil still holding those losses as the dollar is trading higher. 500.e a look at the s&p oil may be lower but energy is actually not one of worst actors, down on financials down 3.1%. that affects the pressure of it is thought that the net margin would be less attractive, and rising yields are good for the financials so when they fall back, yields good for some of the sectors such as utilities, those look far more attractive. the money managers . hit by morgan a

from the chlorine was likely to have been used in an alleged chemical attack in northern syria in february chlorine released from cylinders through mechanical impacts was likely used as a chemical weapon and fourth of february twenty eighth in the el to little neighborhood of sorrow kip. we hope you see double investigation was focused on an alleged incident in the small town of static kid been the seriously province it was first reported on february fourth by a controversial pro rebel sources at the time the u.s. accused the syrian government of gassing civilians later though defense secretary james mattis admitted that washington had no evidence to back up the allegation so any further forward here now will fall british ambassador to syria peter for the money give us his view a peter good evening the o.p.c. w. fact finding mission has been attributed blame of course usually in the case like this not in its remit to do this it isn't what it does it just works out the facts of what actually happened there but will the conclusions nonetheless be used as a springboard for further accusations

conversation in the united states since the massacre at a high school in parkland florida back in february we saw student led movements walk out protests with lots of celebrities supports and really there was a sense that perhaps this could be a turning point where we might see some tougher regulations on guns in the united states now and we heard during the trump speech that he is back in front of the n.r.a. his fourth year addressing the convention and it does not seem that he has changed his tune after what we saw in parklands he said that he wanted it to arm a highly trained teachers that they should be carrying weapons in school of course when i was in parkland reporting on that story teachers there said that they would rather have school supplies than to have to also learn how to carry a weapon and use it against a potential shooter but it's interesting to see that we are more or less in the same point at least in terms of the kind of rhetoric we're seeing from donald trump as we were a year ago while you were. well we have elections midterm elections coming up in twenty coming up in