>> eric brooks again, san francisco green party and our party san francisco. just to amplify and reiterate because i had very little time to mention it, two things -- well, two things. one is that on sacramento lemgs lation, i would strongly ur lation, -- legislation, i would strongly urge you, chair fewer to have staff cue up for the next meeting an action item for potential legislation in sacramento so that by then -- by the beginning of next meeting, we will probably know what the problem bills are pretty clearly. we're already getting a sense of that, and we can send you e-mails before that and maybe hopefully staff at sfpuc and staff at other bodies will be able to contact you and say these are the problem bills, calcca. and that way, you will be able to take action next month before this stuff really starts flying through committees. so i'd really urge you to do that. i'd just like to amplify on the tetratech thing, so tetratech is a company that works for the navy all over the country, has been caught falsifying date a toxic public cleanup. our organiza

labour, 35, tories, 20, lib dem, seven, green party, three, independence, three.ncil since 1999, but here we are with labour on 35, and the lib dems down one. a quick thought on kirklees before we move on. this is tight, isn't it? this is coming back to this idea that neither the tories and labour, and i agree with one of our colleagues earlier on who said they are in many ways and in so many places neck and neck, or one party is inching slightly ahead of the other, and there isn't this clear idea of one of them breaking through which they need to do. the tories can't rely on taking votes from ukip. they will be pleased with what happened in great yarmouth as we heard earlier, and labour needs to do more in the midlands, which is what i was going to talk to tom watson about, because that's his pa rt watson about, because that's his part of the country. they need to show they are on course to win any sort of general election.” mentioned the fact the prime minister has been in barnet. thanking party workers. she hasjust been speaking so let's listen to what theresa

coup funding of could take for example including running for state office in california for the green party but probably your most successful campaign when you used to call nike and some people say brought it to its knees you know it's interesting alex in all the work i've done over the years as an activist the easiest are going after companies that have brand names and have some kind of outlet retail outlet so we went after nike for the way they were treating workers in china indonesia vietnam toxic chemicals they were using in the factories and you go outside a couple of nike stores and make some ruckus and they'll meet let's meet and so we we managed to clean up a lot of problems in the factories the muslim at many corporate p.r. man that many of them because i would go to the shareholder meetings to kind of get up there and create a bit of a ruckus there and then we took on sweatshop companies for the way they were treating workers and one other campaign was around starbucks for not using fair trade coffee and we started organizing protests outside starbucks immediately they came and sa

you'll blame the green party for that?tary of state and jeb bush shenanigans, you know all about that with the ballot. you gonna blame the green party for that criminality? that's why i call it political bigotry. democratic party, stop scapegoating, look in the mirror and ask yourself why you cannot landslide. the worst, the most corporate indentured, the cruellest republican party in history, look in the mirror. >> well put. i wouldn't want to have to battle you in court, but i appreciate you coming by "the beat," sir. >> thank you, ari, pride of cornell law school. >> thank you, sir. ralph nader. >>> now coming up, what was donald trump even getting at when he invoked tv ratings instead of discussing the humanity of those freed hostages. ( ♪ ) it's the details that make the difference. only botox® cosmetic is fda approved to temporarily make frown lines, crow's feet and forehead lines look better. it's a quick 10 minute treatment given by a doctor to reduce those lines. ask your doctor about botox® cosmetic by name. the

speaking on behalf of green party san francisco and our city sf. i've been a social and justice activist since the mid80's. i don't talk about this at city hall public comment with, i've anchored a deep study of global socioeconomics, and i keep very up to date on what's happening in economics, and i want to say -- i kind of want to add another layer of importance to what you're doing here with a public bank, and that is that currently, we're facing a situation with global neoliberal capitalism where it has become so bloated with debt and credit based money that it is going to collapse again like it did in 2008, but probably worse. currently the logan will gdp is somewhere near $200 trillion. the amount of credit that has been created by private banks and other banks has become something like 800 trillion to 1 quadrillion. so literally we're -- the problem we're facing is one like in 2008 but bigger. a collapse will happen, and if we do not have a public bank in place, by the time it does, we will be in trouble. we'll face what we faced in 2008, an

budget is a political struggle for money and power from brussels green party member of the european parliament tell get knows a thing or two about budget talks she's twenty cents at the negotiating table. the toughest is the behavior of especially the finest ministers or their ambassadors to say we don't have any money we are not ready to pay we are not interested in the common goals of politics because we are only interested in our national politics it's always every country looking at the tour saw how much to pay in as a country and how much to get back. brett says looming over the negotiations this time britain's departure from the e.u. will leave a gaping hole in the accounts of about ten billion euros a year how should this whole be filled should the budget be reduced as the austrian swedes and dutch suggest or a cuts to costly areas such as agriculture on the cards. or policies disproportion it's far too large a share of you spending and it doesn't deliver on the kit with the courts at the end of the day this is a very small part of the population and it receives essentially forty percen

mainstream politics that's why i ran as a green party but so it's not the individual it's the system alex and you know this is tim is so corrupted by money i mean we talk about it with the military industrial complex but take any big industry whether it's a while or pharmaceuticals the drug industry anyone they are all are giving money to the politicians to get something for those politicians and it's just not a good system so you've mentioned a few tough minded woman who felt perhaps they have that extra tough to succeed i'm a middle dominated world the politics hub of the the woman activists you for lying were from the women who are changing the whole system well yes and i think if you have a. even majority of women that are in politics that politics would be better than it is now if you have more women that are making decisions in general i think the decisions would be better if you have more women in the state department i think there would be more use of diplomacy now among the many accolades and awards you forsee for your career you one of the disappearance of the martin luther

we see from the green party in a moment.cannock chase, labour have just about held on, ukip down four. i think i am in a position to talk to jonathan bartley, think i am in a position to talk to jonathan ba rtley, who think i am in a position to talk to jonathan bartley, who is in our studio not far—away. thank you for joining us in waiting patiently, what should we be looking out for overnight for the green party and what are your thoughts? is it have situation for everyone but be seen some situation for everyone but be seen some exciting results in dudley, exeter and trafford, we will hopefully establish ourselves more and more as one of the four major parties that hall's seat up and down the country from south london to solihull, we are hoping to make gains overnight. undoubtedly it's a tough political environment, polarisation around the big parties, we are polarisation around the big parties, we are being targeted hard by party machines to take away our existing seats, we are hoping to defend those that make gains acros

cut off today with ahmed nouri pour a lawmaker from germany's green party for his take on the potential fallout from president trump's decision on the iran nuclear deal have a listen. i mean new report what does that stake today with the decision of donald trump. deal with iran is the only obstacle against a nuclear nation of the middle east it's obvious that iran's getting a fast track to the bomb without inspections and inspections are part of this deal so we need a deal to prevent iran from getting the bomb to get a bomb but of course after iran we know that there are a couple of other countries in the region who would try to get a bomb too if trump would say no what many expect today what would that mean is there still an option to renegotiate the deal or is there an option to change the american position in the future of course it's about the congress to congress could prevent the americans leaving libya but if they do not. if they do not stay in the deal and keep the deal it's our job as europeans and as signatories to try everything we can to keep the deal together with a with th

caroline lucas is to step down as co—leader of the green party. as been in charge alongside jonathan bartley since 2016. under the pa rty‘s rules, leaders serve two—year terms. she says she wants to focus more on her constituency in brighton. an exclusive investigation by this programme has shed light on the views of ordinary people in north korea, with one woman saying citizens criticise leader kim jong—un for operating like a businessman and taking their money. the bbc used a covert network of dissidents to put questions to people inside the secretive state over a number of months. it comes as a top north korean official is due to meet us secretary of state mike pompeo, suggesting the summit between president trump and kimjong—un could be back on. as speculation continues about the possibility of a summit meeting between president trump and kimjong—un, the debate about north korea's record on human rights has been largely sidelined. a prominent russian journalist has been shot dead outside his home in the ukrainian capital of kiev. arkady babchen

call for only of could take for example including running for state office in california for the green party but probably your most successful campaign when you used to call nike and some people say brought it to its knees you know it's interesting alex in all the work i've done over the years as an activist the easiest are going after companies that have brand names and have some kind of outlet retail outlet so we went after nike for the way they were treating workers in china indonesia vietnam toxic chemicals they were using in the factories and you go outside a couple of nike stores and make some ruckus and they'll meet let's meet and so we we managed to clean up a lot of problems in the factories you must i met many corporate p.r. man that many of them because i would go to the shareholder meetings to kind of get up there and create a bit of a ruckus there and then we took on sweatshop companies for the way they were treating workers and one other campaign was around starbucks for not using fair trade coffee and we started organizing protests outside starbucks immediately they came and s

joining me now exclusively jill stein, former green party presidential candidate. welcome.u with us tonight. >> it's great to be with you, martha. >> martha: the first question is in the era where we are investigating everything russia, you said you have turned over four of the categories that they asked asked you for, why not be fully transparent and hand over everything that you have if you have nothing to fear? >> writes, we are not using the fifth amendment. when you take the fifth is because you have something that could be used to incriminate you, something that exposes guilt, there is none of that here. we are turning over everything relevant to the question of russian interference. that is all communications with russian government, russian media, russian business, although we have no communications of russian business. we have opposition research and fusion gps and all of that, wikileaks, no communications there. >> martha: what are you not turning over? >> the only thing we are not turning over is what the constitution says the government should never ask of us. s

president against ralph nader in the green party primary in 2000. this is professor kovel speaking on democracy now! in 2007 after "overcoming zionism," was temporarily dropped after it caused controversy. >> i feel that the notion of the zionism, there is this destiny of the jewish people to have their own date, is just a wrong idea. it is an idea that requires signing on to imperialism, ,igning on to ethnic cleansing despite everything that has been set about it, it means, basically, becoming a racist situation where you are oppressing indigenous population and depriving them of their right to exist in and thinking somehow you can go ahead and have a decent life on that basis. you can't, in my view. those peoples with who feel that the time has come to basically think of israel the same category as southo!4zner a, as a state that has just gone wrong and needs replacement. " that is author, scholar, activist dr. joel kovel speaking on democracy now! he died monday in new york city at the age of 81. and those are some of the headlines. thth is democ

eric brooks, san francisco green party, our party san francisco, and californians for energy choice.o the -- this looks pretty good. it's a -- i think it's a nice, short presentation. one thing that, you know, on slide five, the projections of us getting to all renewable and greenhouse free looks really good, but now, i want to start pushing the envelope again as a climate crisis activist that -- that that actually is good, but it's not where we're going to need to be by 2030 if you look at transportation. so by 2035, not only do we need 100% of our building electricity to be renewable and greenhouse gas free, but we also need transportation to be the same. and that means that we're going to have to expand what the sfpuc's doing as far as public power goes and expand cleanpowersf so that it's producing enough -- these are producing enough electricity to power the entire transportation system in san francisco and replace all the buses that currently run on biodiesel, which is bogus and actually worse for the climate crisis. we need to change -- we need to be ready for that to happen i

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taken by her shoulders and pulled along with her heels scraping across the ground unpowered who's a green party member and anti fracking campaigner gave her account of the ordeal to r.t. earlier. i don't think they did consider me a threat i was simply a nuisance. they were wanting a big lorry to enter the sites and i was in the way. i'm obviously elderly person fairly frail now i wasn't a big difficulty of to them six policemen could've handled stream well three policemen i think it was handled me quite easily there's no difficulty to them so i couldn't do a stretch did anyone officially apologize to you following that incident. oh no no there's never been any apology i've never heard any official communication about it. speaking on world press freedom day the u.s. state department spokeswoman highlighted journalists who lost their lives while working but seemingly ignored palestinians covering the protests on the gaza border and it raised a few questions we urge accountability for the murder of journalists in malta mexico russia and slovakia and the apparent assassination of a b.b.c. passiona

but the american independent party, the reform party, the green party, these parties have not been successful in my opinion in electing people to public office or really impacting public policy in the united states. there does need to be a closer working together among those of us who want to see the african-american community improve. what i would say to the callers is probably a lot more cooperation and coalition building than meets the eye. sometimes the way to go effective is not to always pronounce it and announce it on television. but to simply work to get it done. i give you an example, we put together and released and expect to be introducing a bill later this week on what's called the main street marshall plan, which is a comprehensive plan to fix the conditions of urban america. that plan represents contributions of many, many interests and groups across the board. it's not just an african-american agenda, but it has as its focus helping to lift up, helping to grow and build stronger urban communities, stronger suburban communities. stronger rural communities. its name is the main s

the green party has a lot of support across the country. there is a green party mp in parliament.ts are invisible. you cannot really smelled amartey some and it is taking a lot of information to people for peoples's attitudes to change about what they should expect and the streets and towns. there is a mandate now for local government and the national government to start to ta ke the national government to start to take action. he but understand how dangerous these pollutants are. and to what is said that people will be talking about particulates and supermarkets and the hairdressers but we really have seen that at the foundation, people are getting the message that our streetjust foundation, people are getting the message that our street just a foundation, people are getting the message that our streetjust a not safe to walk down. it's a really big problem for people with lung diseases lung condition. sometimes the pollution is so bad they can actually leave the house. not that the time that we have to take action. we have been complacent for far too long to these pollution level

the environment labour is very different from the green party. different from the green party. we wantink that we absolutely do stand our ground. absolutely do stand our ground. are really showing distinction from labour which people like. labour which people like. forjoining us from brighton, caroline lucas for the green party. caroline lucas for the green party. and happy lib dems in south cambridgeshire. very happy. they are pleased. very excited. is the new lib dem leader in south cambridgeshire. cambridgeshire. i'm going to welcome bridget to the programme. bridget to the programme. thank you forjoining us. congratulations to you. you. going to look at the figures very quickly. quickly. losses for the tories and five losses for the independents. losses for the independents. and what was the reason for successful use there? successful use there? —— success for you there? you there? as well so it's getting very exciting. exciting. formidable group of candidates has been working tirelessly. been working tirelessly. they are getting theirjust rewards now. getting theirjust rewards now

germany are illegal possession of at least one firearm according to the government's own figures the green party says leaders a sweeping the problem under the carpet reporting from berlin is peter oliver. here in germany almost two thousand people identified as far right extremists have a permit to possess a firearm that's according to the government's own statistics twelve hundred of that number described themselves as reich citizens and since november of twenty sixteen around four hundred fifty of them have had their firearms licenses taken off them by the state but he was right citizens and dangerous reich citizen is a catch all term for a loosely affiliated bunch who claim that the federal republic of germany is illegitimate and say that the pre-war value mark constitution remains in effect that's the same system that allowed hitler to take power well today's reich citizen groups come in several shapes and sizes but almost all of them have some link to either neo nazi groups or far right ideology. the historical revisionism forms an ideological link that connects various right wing extremist

are in illegal possession of at least one firearm according to the government's own figures the green party leaders are sweeping the problem under the carpet reporting from berlin this hour peter over. here in germany almost two thousand people identified as right extremists have a permit to possess a firearm that's according to the government's own statistics twelve hundred of that number described themselves as reich citizens and since november of twenty sixteen around four hundred fifty of them have had their firearms licenses taken off them by the state but he was right citizens and dangerous right citizen is a catch all term for a loosely affiliated bunch who claim that the federal republic of germany is illegitimate and say that the pre-war constitution remains in effect that's the same system that allowed him to take power well today's reich citizen groups come in several shapes and sizes but almost all of them have some link to either neo nazi groups or far right ideology. the historical revisionism forms an ideological link that connects various right wing extremist currents and ri

extremists are in legal possession of at least one weapon according to media reports the country's green party say's the government is sweeping the problem under the carpet picking up the story for us this hour artie's peter all over. here in germany almost two thousand people identified as far right extremists have a permit to possess a firearm that's according to the government's own statistics twelve hundred of that number described themselves as reich citizens and since november of twenty sixteen around four hundred fifty of them have had their firearms licenses taken off them by the state but he was right citizens and dangerous right citizen is a catch all term for a loosely affiliated bunch who claim that the federal republic of germany is illegitimate and say that the pre-war constitution remains in effect that's the same system that allowed hitler to take power well today's reich citizen groups come in several shapes and sizes but almost all of them have some link to either neo nazi groups or far right ideology. the historical revisionism forms an ideological link that connects various

or in illegal possession of at least one firearm according to the government's own figures the green party says leaders asleep in the problem under the carpet though reporting from berlin here's our europe correspondent peter oliver. here in germany almost two thousand people identified as right extremists have a permit to possess a firearm that's according to the government's own statistics twelve hundred of that number described themselves as reich citizens and since november of twenty sixteen around four hundred fifty of them have had their firearms licenses taken off them by the state but he was right citizens dangerous rights. citizen is a catch all term for a loosely affiliated bunch who claim that the federal republic of germany is illegitimate and say that the pre-war value more constitution remains in effect that's the same system that allowed out of hitler to take power well today's reich citizen groups come in several shapes and sizes but almost all of them have some link to either neo nazi groups or far right ideology. the historical revisionism forms an ideological link that c

germany are in legal possession of at least one firearm according to the government's own figures the green party says leaders are sweeping the problem under the carpet reporting from berlin peter over. in germany almost two thousand people identified as right extremists have a permit to possess a firearm that's according to the government's own statistics twelve hundred of that number describe themselves as citizens and since november of twenty sixteen around four hundred fifty of them have had their firearms licenses taken off them by the state but he was right citizens dangerous right citizen is a catch all term for a loosely affiliated bunch who claim that the federal republic of germany is illegitimate and say that the pre-war constitution remains in effect that's the same system that allowed him to take power well today's reich citizen groups come in several shapes and sizes but almost all of them have some link to either neo nazi groups. the historical revisionism forms an ideological link that connects various right wing extremist currents and right wing extremists among right citizens us

beirut she heads up the middle east office of the birth foundation that's associated with germany's green party thank you very much. now let's look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today why didn't trump's new lawyer rudy giuliani says trump could defy a subpoena to testify in the special counsel's russia investigation speaking after a chaotic first week on the job giuliani also does his own statements about trump's payment of hush money to adult film star stormy daniels after trump criticized him for quote not having his tax strength desired. and then british foreign minister boris strong is urging the united states to continue backing the nuclear deal with iran and he says it would be a mistake to walk away from it at this time johnson is in washington for talks with the trumpet ministration ahead of the may twelfth deadline for the president to decide whether or not to pull out of the accord. and a lot of peer blood amir is set to begin a fourth term as russian president today but his immunology ration has been overshadowed by mouse arrests and allegations of po

germany are illegal possession of at least one firearm according to the government's own figures the green party says leaders are sweeping the problem under the carpet though reporting from berlin our europe correspondent peter oliver. here in germany almost two thousand people identified as far right extremists have a permit to possess a firearm that's according to the government's own statistics twelve hundred of that number described themselves as reich citizens and since november of twenty sixteen around four hundred fifty of them have had their firearms licenses taken off them by the state but he was right citizens and dangerous reich citizen is a catch all term for a loosely affiliated bunch who claim that the federal republic of germany is illegitimate and say that the pre-war value mark constitution remains in effect that's the same system that allowed adult hitler to take power well today's reich citizen groups come in several shapes and sizes but almost all of them have some link to either neo nazi groups or far right ideology. the historical revisionism forms an ideological link that

taken by her shoulders and pulled along with her heels scraping across the ground and power he's a green party member and anti flashing campaign gave her account of the ordeals to r.t. earlier. i don't think they did consider me a threat i was simply a nuisance. they were wanting a big lorry to enter the sites and i was in the way. obviously elderly person fairly frail now i wasn't a big difficulty of to them six policemen could've handled me extremely well three policemen i think it was handled me quite easily it was no difficulty to them so i couldn't have been a threat did anyone officially apologize to you following that incident oh no no there's never been any apology i've never had any official communication about it. american military forces in the african nation of djibouti are coming under attack from blinding chinese lasers the pentagon's latest statements also came with an urgent notice of extreme caution for its military in africa. this activity. threat to our air. we have formally to marsh. and we've changed it's it's a serious matter and so we're taking a very serious and now chi

germany are illegal possession of at least one firearm according to the government's own figures the green party now saying it is a sweeping the problem under the carpet reporting from berlin the europe correspondent. here in germany almost two thousand people identified as bar right extremists have a permit to possess a firearm that's according to the government's own statistics twelve hundred of that number described themselves as reich citizens and since november of twenty sixteen around four hundred fifty of them have had their firearms licenses taken off them by the state but he was right citizens and dangerous right citizen is a catch all term for a loosely affiliated bunch who claim that the federal republic of germany is illegitimate and say that the pre-war value mark constitution remains in effect that's the same system that allowed adult hitler to take power well today's reich citizen groups come in several shapes and sizes but almost all of them have some link to why the neo nazi groups of far right ideology. the historical revisionism forms an ideological link that connects various

budget marks a political struggle for money and power from brussels green party member of the european parliament helga to pose knows a thing or two about budget talks she's twice sat at the negotiating table. the toughest is the behavior of especially the finest ministers or their ambassadors to say we don't have any money we are not ready to pay we are not interested in the common goals of politics because we are only interested in our national politics it's always every country looking at those used to tour saw how much do i pay in as a country and how much do i get back. brecht's it is looming over the negotiations this time britain's departure from the e.u. will leave a gaping hole in the accounts of about ten billion euros a year how should this whole be filled should the budget be reduced as the austrian swedes and dutch suggest or a cuts to costly areas such as agriculture on the cards. or policies disproportion it's far too large a share of you spending and it doesn't deliver on the kit with the courts at the end of the day this is a very small part of the population and it re

for the green party which has upped its total number of councillors, it has been positive so far.a kicking at local elections but this time it hasn't happened. the tories had been in government for eight yea rs had been in government for eight years with austerity throughout and despite a difficult winter for the nhs and recent wind rush scandal, labour has only made small steps rather than big strides. it is relief for the tories and leaves labour puzzled. all is over, there are still result to come in, a final picture won't be revealed until later this afternoon. let's look in more detail now at how a few of those key council results impact on the national picture. in a moment, we'll report on barnet in north london where the conservatives had a majority ofjust one seat, and which labour saw as a key target. in contrast, trafford has been held by the conservatives for 14 years, and was their only council in greater manchester. meanwhile, nuneaton and bedworth is an area that often indicates the colour of the government at general elections. jeremy corbyn says his party "is now w

getting old in ninety six they are now the main opposition party in germany they have overtaken the green party and they're beginning to challenge the social democrats to a part of the grand coalition so there is a movement here towards trick stream right of hope for this movement a movement it was essentially by the large number of refugees will those millions that came in. on the open border policy so this is a problem that's going to remain here in germany the fact that in the book in the start you're hearing paranoid racially xenophobic anti semitic remarks and you know hearing them little rallies on the streets of berlin this is a problem that's going to be causing ructions within the grand coalition the social democrats want to keep a liberal attitude towards refugees but those parties trying to tighten up the borders restrict immigration two hundred thousand. that year so that's causing attention even within the grand coalition. we're going to see more cities like this and we're going to hear more from the old guard for germany because now essentially they see this growing maybe the demo

above the thirteen point six percent they got in last year's elections and now they've overcome the green party here so as you said they are now the main opposition and this is causing some sort of rift in the grand coalition that the social democrats want a much more liberal attitude whereas anger merkel's party very much are afraid of the effect the rise of the terms for germany is having on the whole shape of the german politics and inside the people in the study so we're set for a confrontation real next few years in german politics and today was set for a large confrontation on the streets of berlin two thousand police have been deployed because they're afraid that up to nine thousand protesters some of them are extreme left wing and they've said they are determined to try and take action again against the also for germany who are about to set off for the brandenburg gate of plenty more for us to keep an eye on we'll check in with you later david for now that's david chase of that. still ahead on al-jazeera we look at south africa's president's first one hundred days in office and see if h