the camp is located in the very south of the small country of kosovo where the german armed forces were supporting the peace process following a bloody war now the so-called k. four and nato led international peacekeeping force are packing their bags because the security situation is now considered stable for god this means he has to find a new job in a poor country with high unemployment. across the forty hectare military site everything is being unscrewed packed up and cleared out. entire buildings will disappear. like this gas station house or this has been our been going goes world for almost two decades he's a translator and one of two hundred civilian employees who have been working for the german bonus fair armed forces in prison for years. and he can hear or feel sad. because i had eighteen years of positive experience once again with the german k. four soldiers. but as we all know that time is over now and then it's really sad for us a billion employees. that's his dollar. many colleagues feel the same way. maybe they are here you're exhausted thanks we're fine. thank you a lot

not cherry brandy from kosovo one bottle is for are being. compared to kosovo's villages priest ren is a vibrant metropolis with some two hundred thousand inhabitants. after nato intervened twenty years ago the city of prison has developed considerably as everywhere in kosovo unemployment is high but prison is the most visited city in the country tourism is an important source of income here. nevertheless poverty is very evident every month when social benefits and pensions are paid out queues form in front of the banks. but the most important thing is that everything is peaceful nobody wants another war like the one twenty years ago the course of ours want a future in europe. most of all maybe small but it's also international nearly every family has at least one relative who works abroad many of them in germany. obviously need it to be a good thing almost everyone you meet speaks good english or german. with many try to improve their education. to be able to come independent. with some want to gain a foothold abroad with the scholarship. i'

kosovo may be small but it's also international. nearly every family has at least one relative who works abroad many of them in germany. obviously need if speak with english almost everyone you meet speaks good english or german. with many try to improve their education. to be able to come independent. with some want to gain a foothold abroad with a scholarship. i'm going to say prison in kosovo have developed positively since nine hundred ninety nine since the last conflict that's been completely. at home with the good guys as a family arbonne and his wife m.l. have made it through well so far although she is a dentist. her daughter recently graduated from university and granddaughter tonneau brings them lots of joy. at one of only predators and could usually happen on. the lead a normal life that's in part thanks to the german armed forces. their money. been always like german and learned it even before the war he worked in germany. but even when he came back he kept on learning german. i criticized him for that and told him that'

and not wanting to see a repetition of what happened in bosnia with the kosovo i was being massacred or subjected to genocide can but the fact is that there wasn't a resolution of the security council with arising this mandate of course he was also very strong on the need to do things correctly and according to international law and you know we had to support concoct a statement which kind of made both of these points which went rather in opposite directions and i was remember him looking at the draft of the same moment and saying this is the most difficult statement i've had to make since i've been secretary general well that was in one thousand nine hundred nine and perhaps there were some equally or more difficult ones later but it was it was very honest of him i think to say that you know in front of relatively junior members of staff around one one felt that this was a job he took very very seriously and he really wanted to get it right and he said one of his biggest regrets was not doing enough to ahead of the rwandan genocide later on in his life he he made a lot of moves that

protesters in kosovo attacked a police station to condemn what they call the government's failure to address violence against women activists from the left wing of veteran party pelted the building with bread paint the protest was triggered by the killing of a woman by her husband last week. the u.n. human rights policies of brazil's former president luis ignacio who got the silver should be allowed to run for president a piece of corruption conviction opinion polls show ahead of all candidates. election he's currently serving a twelve year sentence on a conviction his supporters say was politically motivated. italy's mourning the victims of the bridge disaster in genoa which killed at least thirty eight people why rescue a search for any survivors families the victims have paid their respects to their loved ones ahead of the state funeral tomorrow both italy's president. and prime minister just said they will attend the ceremony the country has declared saturday a national day of mourning meanwhile italy's transport ministry has opened an investigation into the bridges collapse but

rates is not the answer that he say's would only make the rich richer and the poor poorer seen on kosovo's al-jazeera the stumble the crisis in turkey is frightening to other emerging markets in india the roof years fall into a wreck hold low hitting seventy against the us dollar for the first time ever currencies in argentina south africa and mexico have also been hit. an explosive new report has accused more than three hundred catholic priests in the u.s. state of pennsylvania of sexual abuse details allegations of assaults on my nose by those described as spread it's a priests it's also suggest there could be thousands of victims spanning a seventy year period just in salumi has more. the accusations are stunning in scale more than one thousand victims of more than three hundred roman catholic priests for decades they escaped justice because of a systematic cover up that included high ranking church officials and allegedly went all the way to the vatican. the priests were raped raping little boys and girls and the men of god who were responsible for them not only did nothing they should

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as you point out, in kosovo and serbia, and throughout the balkans. i think the more we can do to help stabilize the situation, the better. i want to turn finally to turkey. there are a number of issues with turkey that i know the state department is very concerned about. one of those is there continued pursuance of the s 400 air defense system from russia. obviously, it would be in violation of half the law. can you talk about what the administration is doing on that front and if turkey does except delivery of that system, when would we invoke sanctions? >> thank you for that question. i have been very engaged with the turks on this. it is a very serious matter. we have been clear in all of our communications with the turkish government that acquisition of the s 400, which we would assess to have occurred when there is an actual delivery of the technology, we have been clear on multiple occasions with the highest level of the turkish government that there will be consequences. we will abide by the rules and when we determine a transaction has been ma

rates is not the answer that he say's would only make the rich richer and the poor poorer seen on kosovo al-jazeera the stumble for the crisis in turkey spreading to other emerging markets like india argentina and south africa on tuesday the indian rupee hit an all time low against the us dollar the south african rand on the argentinian peso also seen big drops in recent days many fear the crisis in turkey could now damage the global financial system should have a chance he explains. we've seen this all before in the run up to previous global crises notably the asian financial crisis of the late ninety's and that's why investors are concerned turkey in gold itself with cheap foreign loans many held in u.s. dollars when interest rates were low in the u.s. and elsewhere foreign capital flows also poured in to take advantage. of relatively higher interest rates in turkey a financial bubble expanded as the cash flow dim but now global economic conditions have changed u.s. interest rates have risen making the us an attractive investment destination the u.s. dollar has strengthened making it m

rates is not the answer that he say's would only make the rich richer and the poor poorer seen on kosovo al-jazeera istanbul. well the crisis in turkey is spreading to other emerging markets like india argentina and south africa on tuesday the indian rupee hit an all time low against the us dollar the south african ran down the argentinian peso have also seen big drops in recent days many fear the crisis in turkey could damage the global financial system should have a chance to reports. we've seen this all before in the run up to previous global crises notably the asian financial crisis of the late ninety's and that's why investors are concerned turkey and gorged itself with cheap foreign loans many held in u.s. dollars when interest rates were low in the us and elsewhere foreign capital flows also poured in to take advantage of relatively higher interest rates in turkey a financial bubble expanded as the cash flow dim but now global economic conditions have changed u.s. interest rates have risen making the us an attractive investment destination the u.s. dollar has strengthened making i

kosovo now there's cynical media. us all up with that about a. vision of getting. it on what it. this you know i mean mean you're not in the scene going you know why didn't i put this on among women out is. what i'm putting sony music you know what i'm with what it took and i said i know what his accent. is you know i mean you're my noticing gone you are getting in when you cry i don't want to. me nobody and unanimous. the show could go because i see it yes it's a. question i. can only say if i caught it going on once again funded. by mackenzie it gets as if to say i said. this is it we can use live from berlin clamp down on the end of the l a neighboring nations rushed to close their borders to fleeing migrants as the flood of venezuelans are scaping economic chaos grows the go friends at home launches a new currency in the hope for storing some stability also coming up a call to action pope francis asks for forgiveness and that child abuse scandal be promises no effort will be spared to prevent such situations in the future plus an economic.

i'll neverforget you, my little kosovo girl. colleen harris, bbc news.n will be held on 31 august in detroit, the city where she grew up. while the funeral will be a private ceremony, fans will be able to pay their respects at an open—casket viewing for two days beforehand. meanwhile, dozens of fans have been to the motown museum in detroit to leave personal messages in remembrance of aretha franklin. the mood there was upbeat, people first queuing then dancing as they filled books with notes of gratitude to the singer. thank you very much for watching. goodbye. hello there. this weekend, again, we look to the atlantic to see where our weather is coming from. we're going to add into the mix, just for good measure, the remnants of an old tropical storm. it'll feel quite humid out there this weekend. for many it'll be dry on saturday, more rain for some on sunday. there was a fair bit of dull, damp, cool and wet weather across some parts of the country on friday. a lot of that has moved through. this area of low pressure, though, contains remnants of tropi

interviewing senator mccain as naxperience on intervg him goes on 20 years ago when nato forces were bombing kosovo. what i take aawway from that ise was the go-to person 20 years ago particularly when it carbon monoxide to u.s. military and overseas. and he continued to be a prominent figure in the senate for so many years. obviously one of the leading minds in the senate when it comes to issues in the military, with his -- of course with his backgrounds. but somebody who for so many years was a focal point in the united states senate. >> you always got the sense that he knew the policy issues, he knew what he was talking about. my experience was in 2006 and 2007, i posted on my facebook. i will share it briefly. we were waiting for himman after an events. his handlers were saying they couldn't make any guarantees. when he came out he was so kind and at the time there were rumors swirling whether he would make a run-in 2008 for the presidency. he was koi about those answers but i will never forget how he treated me a vietnamese american journalist with the kind of respect and humility. we were abl

rates is not the answer that he say's would only make the rich richer and the poor poorer seen on kosovo al-jazeera a stumble or one raising the slumping lever is the recent u.s. decision to impose sanctions on turkey the white house is angry at uncle as refusal to free an american evangelical pastor who was arrested in twenty sixteen and accused of plotting to overthrow the government the u.s. has again cold for his release certainly the president has a great deal of frustration on the fact that pastor bronson has not been released as well as the fact that other u.s. citizens and employees of diplomatic facilities are not.

working with authorities in many cases to bring people back but there have certainly been cases in kosovo where six people were spirited away back to turkey also in ukraine. and also last month was a big scandal in mongolia where a plane was grounded because of allegations that there was a turkey syria citizen had been kidnapped and was about to be returned back to turkey. deny this but undoubtedly there is this international campaign to bring back people to turkey. dorian thanks so much for bringing us up to date on this aspect of the story from istanbul today. wrong some sports now and some huge football transfer news the premier league club chelsea a signed goalkeeper. from the let it go ball for eighty million euro zone that makes the twenty three year old the most expensive goalkeeper in the history of the sport couple will replace the ball courts wahoos joining real madrid could have made fifty three appearances in spain's a league of four bilbao is signed a seven year contract with chelsea. now most of us would have a real challenge on our hands trying to get a basketball through t

i'll neverforget you, my little kosovo girl.be held august 31 in detroit. —— aretha franklin. fans will be able to pay their respects at an open casket of viewing footy days beforehand. meanwhile, dozens of fans have been to be motown museum in detroit to leave personal messages in remembrance of aretha franklin. the mood was up eight, with people first queueing and then dancing as they filled books with notes of gratitude to the singer. —— mood was upbeat. astronomers say they have identified some of the oldest relics is in the universe, right on our cosmic doorstep. scientists analyse various galaxies and found one particular group of stars and planets close to the milky way, where we are, appear different to others. researchers from the university of durham in the uk and the university of harvard in the us used simulations like this one to study the stars. they believe this galaxy was one of the first to be formed after the big and, about 13 billion years ago. thank you very much for watching. goodbye. hello there. this weeke

i'll neverforget you, my little kosovo girl. colleen harris, bbc news.ranklin will be held on august 31st in detroit, the city where she grew up. while the funeral will be a private ceremony, fans will be able to pay their respects at an open—casket viewing for two days beforehand. meanwhile, dozens of fans have been to the motown museum in detroit to leave personal messages in remembrance of aretha franklin. the mood there was upbeat — people first queuing, then dancing, as they filled books with notes of gratitude to the singer. now to space. astronomers says they have identified some of the oldest galaxies in the universe, and they are right on our cosmic doorstep. scientists analysed various galaxies and found one particular group of stars and planets, close to the milky way, appeared different from the others. researchers from the universities of durham in the uk and harvard in america used computer simulations, like this one, to study the stars. they believe the galaxy was one of the first to be formed after the big bang around 13 billion years ago

i'll neverforget you, my little kosovo girl. colleen harris, bbc news. that's it. hello and welcome to sportsday, i'm chris mitchell. walking back into the side — ben stokes is back. he's in england's side for tomorrow's third test against india. no problem with pogba — mourinho denies there's rift between him and his star man. and there's fury at the weigh—in as wilder tees up a bout with tyson. good evening. ben stokes is back in the england team. having been found not guilty of affray on tuesday, the all—rounder has been included in the england side to face india. the third test match begins at trent bridge tomorrow. andy swiss has more. from the courtroom to the cricket field, ben stokes, back in the england team at the end of a dramatic week. it was only on tuesday stokes was cleared of affray, and just four days later, he will once again represent his country. the unlucky player to make way is sam curran, with five wickets and a half century, being man of the match in the first test. his captain says dropping him was one of the toughest decisions he has had t

which there are nations like as a by john kosovo least looks and book one of them will definitely go to the just one european championship yeah so i don't know whether that is a plus or minus i'm not sure but. ok and then for the big nations the nations league is some sort of a back door if germany doesn't qualify some you know this could happen or you know but is here number one in the nations league it will qualify for can i see the calendar again please it will qualify for something. the calendar please so if your money is in group one well number one and group one they will go to a playoffs in march twenty two and if they're that length three games that twenty nineteen or twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty those are the playoffs and four and if they win that. they can go to the european so the top for the u.s. so group langridge to get you for who wins that goes down to the next player it's a top team. they go on to the next round and the other one is there and if for example if you have if france is number one in that group yeah and they're already qualified than and then

i'll neverforget you, my little kosovo girl. colleen harris, bbc news. but new research from the us suggests that is the wrong approach. the study has gone further, concluding that people who eliminate foods such as pasta, potatoes and bread from their diets could reduce life expectancy by four years. here is chi chi izundu. this is the kind of carbohydrate—heavy food that for years has had a bad reputation when it comes to our diets. low—carb, high—carb, just meat, pla nt—based, sugar—free — there are so many different pieces of advice on what is best to eat. but a new study of more than 15,000 people over 25 years suggests that cutting carbs altogether could increase the risk of an early death. when people think of carbohydrates, they might think of foods like this, and this report is saying that those who substitute their carbohydrates for more meat isn't the best option. in fact, what they would rather you did was substitute it for more nutritious carbohydrates, so effectively eating more fruit and vegetables. researchers of the report say people who

i'll never forget you, my little kosovo girl. colleen harris, bbc news.te a wet, miserable and cloudy day across the west, still some heavy rain around. for the weekend, tomorrow looking the better day of the two with some more rain arriving to our shores on sunday. the rain across the western side of the country should tend to ease down a little overnight, though it will still stay wet across scotla nd it will still stay wet across scotland and northern ireland but a much milder night than last night. variable cloud, some clear spells and a breeze. for saturday, an area of high pressure will keep things more settled across southern britain, across the north that low pressure bringing more of a breeze and more cloud. that weather fronts straddling southern parts of scotla nd straddling southern parts of scotland and parts of northern ireland. could see some showers develop ireland. could see some showers d evelo p west ireland. could see some showers develop west of wales, but otherwise largely dry, central and eastern parts is should see good spells of s

working with authorities in many cases to bring people back but there have certainly been cases in kosovo where six people were spirited away back to turkey also in ukraine as a bodyguard and also last month was a big scandal in mongolia where a plane was grounded because of allegations that there was a turkish syrian citizen who had been kidnapped and was about to be returned back to turkey now to deny this but on touted leave there is this international campaign to work to bring back people to turkey. the good and the door in thanks so much for bringing us up to date on this aspect of the story from istanbul today. the gaza health ministry says that israeli airstrikes have killed a pregnant woman and her young daughter in the gaza strip one hamas fighter was also killed in those strikes is really our army launched the attacks after hamas militants fired more than one hundred fifty rockets into israel injuring at least three israelis the security situation in the region has been tense since march as some palestinians began staging their weekly protests along the gaza israel border israel

rates is not the answer that he say's would only make the rich richer and the poor poorer seen on kosovo al-jazeera istanbul well one reason for the slumping lever is the recent u.s. decision to impose sanctions on turkey the white house is angry at uncle as refusal to free an american evangelical pastor who was arrested in twenty sixteen and accused of plotting to overthrow the government the u.s. has again cold for his release certainly the president great deal of frustration on the fact that pastor bronson has not been released as well as the fact that other u.s. citizens in employees of diplomatic facilities have not been released and we're going to continue to call on turkey to do the right thing and release those individuals. still to come on the program i don't know if yemen's tice province arrives alone side bomb attack as violence escalates in the area food and supplies are running low five days into a bloody battle for control of the afghan city of gosney. and it was not quite as cold as it was by night in southern queensland but there are clear skies as you can see the next sy

rates is not the answer that he say's would only make the rich richer and the poor poorer seen on kosovo al-jazeera the stumble while the crisis in turkey is spreading to other emerging markets like india argentina and south africa on tuesday the indian rupee is an all time low against the u.s. dollar the south african rand on the argentinian peso also seen big drops in recent days many fear the crisis in turkey could damage the global financial system should have a chance. we've seen this all before in the run up to previous global crises notably the asian financial crisis of the late ninety's and that's why investors are concerned turkey in gold itself with cheap foreign loans many held in u.s. dollars when interest rates were low in the u.s. and elsewhere foreign capital flows also poured in to take advantage of relatively . interest rates in turkey a financial bubble expanded as the cash flow dim but now global economic conditions have changed u.s. interest rates have risen making the us an attractive investment destination the u.s. dollar has strengthened making it more expensive to

planned offensive by the government they're taking refuge in camps near the turkish border city of kosovo glue has more from may that's inside syria near the border with turkey. this is the marketplace of a refugee camp in northern syria by syria syria keyboard there the camp which is one of the oldest in the rising began and the reality shows more than eight hundred to. thousand syrian refugees those refugees this place maybe once maybe a couple of times since the sunni rising and the bashar assad regime's assaults began and many people here feel stuck because as the there is the syrian regime president bashar assad threatens to touch it these people say no where else to go because this was the ultimate point by the border that they could reach and now you see the dots you see the shops and people who are trying to make their living days friday the shops are all with them but when you speak the way they are going to be close they made up any outsold. by the syrian regime. parliaments has endorsed him on call on the next prime minister has to make insaaf party became the largest in the na

john took me to kosovo 20 years ago when clinton said we're going to send some people over to verify the crime sites, the ethnic cleansing. i went to pristina with john, went to montenegro, went to the world security conference in munich a few years after that. got to sit with piewp putin then. saw john mccain talk to vladimir putin like they were next-door neighbors. also like they were dutch uncles. i was so proud to be in a country that had a guy like john mccain who could break the ice with the toughest of our adversaries. speak up with pride for america and calm down when they need to be called in. yeah, john and i had some problems, too. mitch mcconnell gave me -- did me the worst favor of my lifetime when he made me the chairman of the ethics committee. that's a hard job. nobody likes the chairman of the ethics committee because they are scared of him. i got the ethics committee job at a time when john mccain was put on a special committee for the ethics committee to decide what to do on using airplanes during campaign events as candidates or for our pac's. john had access to

john took me to kosovo 20 years ago when clinton said we're going to send people over there to verify the crime sites, the ethnic cleansing. i went to pristina with john, went to montenegro, went to world security conference in munich a few years after that, and saw john mccain talk to vladimir putin like they were next door neighbors and also like dutch uncles. and i was so florida to have jackie who could break the ice with toughest adversaries and speak up with pride for america and called them down when they need to be called in. john had some problems, too, mitch mcconnell did me the worst favor of my lifetime when he made me the chairman of the ethics committee. that's the hard job and nobody likes the person who is chair because they're scared of you. but i got that job at a time when john mccain was put on the special committee for the ethics committee to decide what to do about airplanes during campaign events as candidates for for our pac's. john had access to a plane, and made it with the rules that we passed. didn't have to worry about the cause and effect, but john took a

states turkey double taxes on a range of american imports including alcohol cars and tobacco said in kosovo has more now from istanbul the government's decision to increase tariffs on the us products is welcomed by the turkish media and welcomed by the turkish citizens when you look at the new science and the and the social media because there is a positive response on the support for the government through television against the us united states increasing tariffs for the turkish products or course this is mainly a psychological impact where the economists say that healthful finance the psychology and this is the governments began taking some measures again through the central bank and through the finance ministry and the turkish lira began gaining value against the american dollar and other other currencies as wall and besides present are don't call for a boy called for american products and today's tariff the station is and encourage ford's turkish people in a psychological way they think that they have something in their head to response against the u.s. threats but of course on the oth

it was even before kosovo. i was taken by these comments that would not get films made and they were very few in those the critics variance then we had some of the first ones from kosovo in 1999. this is before and after those things. this was at a time when it was much more idyllic and peaceful at least in the international arena or so we thought. the power of seeing this film as i had never seen combat and i was that unfortunate half of the u.s. army in 1990 and 1991 that did not get to go to the great patriotic war while being in desert storm. >> i was in for carson at the time and undergoing transition and for that reason, we are working to deploy to the middle east several months later but it was all over in less than four days. i thought that i have missed the great armored conflict of the 20th century and the rest of my life is going to be downhill from here. to say this on the big screen depicting a way that i had never seen before the realism of combat and probably everyone in here is team the films mu

southern and central china we are looking it's very hot conditions more rain down here towards of kosovo hong kong over the next few days we are going to be seeing partly cloudy conditions getting mostly cloudy with more rain in the forecast there but up towards food show temptress you into the high thirty's but you will get a break as those rain showers command on thursday evening and then very quickly across parts of malaysia as well as into the shit we are since a very heavy rain across singapore over here towards coaching but much of the philippines is going to rain mostly cloudy over the next few days with one or so your shower to a thirty and down here towards jakarta at around thirty three degrees. they set sail for gold. but discovered their resources worth more than its way human be. driven by commerce enabled through politics and religion executed with brutality. in episode one slavery roots charge the birth and rise of the african slave trade mapping a history that has tainted humanity. for all the gold in the world and i've just got. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'

rates is not the answer that he say's would only make the rich richer and the poor poorer seen on kosovo al-jazeera the stumble off war in the story i'm joined now by alan makowski he's a senior fellow at the center for american progress our very warm welcome to the program so we've seen there that are the ones announcing that potential boycotts of u.s. electronic does turkey feel like it's under some sort of economic siege if i can put it like that well turkey clearly feels like it's rounder. an economic siege president erda wanted to talk about economic terrorism being directed against the country. but i don't think that boycotting us electronic goods is going to have much of an impact here in the united states. it may harm a few people but. the trade between turkey and the united states is rather limited it we each export approximately nine billion a year to the other country and for turkey that smore than five percent of its overall exports for the u.s. with chaz roughly. one and a half trillion dollars overall worth of exports it's really a minuscule amount i don't see much of an im

we americans -- the miss kravitzes of the world -- violated that immediately with bill clinton and kosovoi mean, we just can't mind our own damn business. >> mark kramer, does dave have a point? >> first of all, as elizabeth has pointed out a couple of times, in the aftermath of the cold war, from the late '80s on, you know, there's been a steady -- or pretty much steady decline in the number of people killed in conflicts, the number of international conflicts going on. there's still civil wars but it has declined quite dramatically, including the americans, despite the tragic number who lost their lives in iraq and afghanistan. it still is a tiny fraction of those who lost their lives in vietnam. so it is true that the united states has had a propensity over the last 70 odd years of being a kind of global policeman. there is significant support for that role, even though there is also a very significant counter sentiment. it is hard for u.s. presidents, ultimately, when called on by other countries or when pushed by domestic forces to refrain from somehow take iing a leadin role in the w

the prime minister of kosovo, again a country or rather a province that senator mccain supported at atime. also hearing from the new prime minister scott morrison in australia. prime minister morrison's words, we can reflect there for a moment on the testy relationship that president trump has had with his predecessor malcolm turnbull. i think here is a reflection what we are hearing from world leaders that reflects for a positively on senator mccain and perhaps less so on president trump. >> somebody that we ask you about often is vladimir putin and we know that mccain was a fierce critic of his. have we heard anything from him today? >> we have yet to get anything, that i've seen at least yet, from vladimir putin. i think one can expect something at some point, but you wouldn't anticipate that the russian leader would be rushing out to add words to those that have been so high in their tribute and praise of senator mccain at this time. >> nic robertson, as always, we appreciate the i sights and words from foreign leaders. thank you. >> thank you. >>> the pope is begging the lord's f

i ended up with three consecutive combat tours in iraq, afghanistan, and kosovo, and in my last assignment in the pentagon, i worked very closely with an organization that was focused on trying to get critical assets and resources to the folks that needed it the most. and i'd like to think i'd be able to help do the same for the veteran's affairs commission as far as the folks that we'd be representing. as far as who i am and what i -- what i -- what the reasons are for my desire to serve on the commission, that's pretty much the indepth detailed analysis that i can provide you in a brief three-minute presentation, and i stand ready for any questions you may have. >> supervisor safai: great. thank you. we'll call you back up if we have any additional -- if we have some questions. i think we're going to hear from the chair of the committee, mr. chesney. >> victim. victor olivari, i'm here to speak on behalf of georgia ellis, george isshikata, and matthew brauer. these are the people that i cannen ders for a commission that has a lot of work cut out in front of them. i would like to recommen