amanda lang. taylor: i am taylor riggs.is really interesting on the heels of the gdp report. all about productivity and wages. we found a way to tie that into the longest commutes. thought my commute was bad, it is 70 minutes one way. d.c. is the worst. you really wonder about the productivity of how this all folds in, and the wasted money on all of this. about $15,000 a year in wasted money that you are spending sitting in a wasted commute. outsidesome people live of cities to save it on the rent, but meanwhile, the mta is increasing levels of debt. a bit of a mystery. you can catch all of our interviews on the bloomberg with our function gtv . this is bloomberg. ♪ so with xfinity mobile i can customize each line for each family member? yup. and since it comes with your internet, you can switch wireless carriers and save hundreds of dollars a year. are you pullin' my leg? nope. you sure you're not pullin' my leg? i think it's your dog. oh it's him. good call. get the data options you need and still save hundreds of dol

we lost just over 200 acres"by farmers like kyle lang..."t our biggest cash cow"lang, a walnut farmer, estimates nearly 40 million dollars in lost income due to the spillway emergency in 2017....he is part of a lawsuit - blaming the emergency on the department of water resources -- for failing to properly maintain the nation's tallest dam.."we would be able to survive and continue farming"the lawsuit also accuses the d-w-r of having a culture of disfunction..(niall mccarthy - attorney for city of oroville, farmers and businesses)"there was an old boys network there, an organization that was rampant with racism and sexism and theft and safety was put in the back seat"attorney niall (neal) mccarthy is representing farmers like lang... along with the city of oroville and other business owners..court documents allege harassment, theft and racial discrimination.the lawsuit argues... workplace environment contributed to the issues at the spillway... mccarthy explains one example....(niall mccarthy - attorney for city of oroville, farmers and busin

i'm amanda lang in toronto. shery: i'm shery ahn in new york.e are awaiting president donald trump at any moment. he's expected to announce his nomination for the next world bank president. we are looking at secretary ross, secretary carson, linda mcmahon, the head of the small business administration. we will bring you those comments live once he begins. junk bonds are at all-time highs after a rally that followed a by the fed. turned high yield bond fund's have seen significant net inflows this year while sales of new bonds are down 24% year on year. for more, let's bring in our corporate bond reporter molly smith. is this mostly the fed turning dovish? molly: it is pretty much primarily the fed. we still have longer-term concerns that it was part of the slump in december. we have the overhang from the trade tensions with china. we still have larger concerns of longer-term slowdowns in global growth. the biggest change so far has been the outlook from the fed. having this dovish outlook has been a massive boost to u.s. credit right now. amanda

(charles lang) von sternberg developed a kind of a lighting that was very, very interesting.nd it was different from what other lighting was. and it was important to change things. and at that time german film was really the best, especially, i think, modern in that they were way ahead. so that these germans, lubitsch and von sternberg and marlene dietrich and billy wilder, fritz lang. and naturally i didn't start out working with them. i just was a draftsman; it was a great learning period. quite literally top executives particularly from paramount and universal would regularly go to europe for what were perceived over there as talent raids. to demille, art is international. so tonight we find him looking at a european picture, starring a young hungarian, franciska gaal. stop the picture a minute. get me budapest. c.b., it's 5:30 in the morning in budapest. you can't get that girl out of bed. and why not? operator. get me budapest, miss franciska gaal, g-a-a-l. (thomas schatz) and of course we're not importing movies, we're importing the talent developing in other countries.

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joining me now is professor andre lang cause of koopman university in seoul andres knowledge of north korea runs deep he studied in pyongyang as a university student in the eighty's and he is this apparent report between the two men going to produce any results. realm of responsible people especially khinjan then who cares not so much about emotions but about the interests of his state as a vice he's not enthused dynasty would not survive so i would not or is to made a measure of seem to see genital still try to play ball no prompt using personal relations if necessary to achieve his strategic goals now you've observed three generations of kims three generations of this cult of personality a tell us a little bit more about the kim ego as he needs the trump ego. i'm not sure of a huge has such a great ego he is probably is a morals but give elian is the best educated as the morse to racial or falsity of all those from the cool thing he wants to survive. and he wants to have a comic roles second but survival is more in forth and in this is it isn't the way he will never surrender his nu

amanda: i'm amanda lang.ezos'bombshell. accusing of amazon is american media of blackmailing him. we have spencer who covers amazon in seattle. this really does feel like a developing story. let's start with how important you think it is. is the access to the text on the scale of what we saw in the u.k. of possibly some kind of a legal maneuvering? how far couldn't reach beyond potentially american media? texts --cess to the there hasn't been any indication of hacking or anything like that. i'm not seeing lots of smoke there. the big issue is this notion of extortion. in that initial inquirer report a month ago, remember, they mposed bezos' extra arital affair, and there was mention about images that even we would not think about publishing. some images that he shared with his girlfriend, the inquirer obtain them. the back-and-forth between bezos and the inquirer is are we entitled to publish this? the inquirer say we have a right to publish these because it shows poor judgment of this ceo that many are count

jay lang, amy, patrick, joy, david, brad, jack, mark, carolyn. and supervisor -- or vice chair stefani has a quick question. >> supervisor stefani: thank you, through the chair, commander lozar, can i ask you a quick question about incident commander and what that actually means? >> when we put hsoc together about a year ago, we thought how can we put together a department that's organized and have an emergency management struck that you are that's -- structure that's used nationally. we gave everyone roles and the police department was really instrumental in putting the structure together. it was thought commander lozar, incident commander, this person can be ops chief, someone else can do admin finance, that sort of things. in terms of keeping it organized and on track, it doesn't mean in the field, the police are leading this, it means in the command center, we're organized. d.e.m. has contributed so much to this process. there's a staff person that's now the manager that keeps us on track for the meetings and helps us stay organized. we found

amanda: live in toronto, i'm amanda lang. welcome to bloomberg markets. here are the top stories we are following from around the world. trade pessimism, u.s. stocks fall the most in two weeks as investors grow anxious that the trump administration will not reach a deal with china before a march deadline. lights, camera, action. us to talko joins about what is in store for the company in the year ahead. softbank sores. sendsggest buyback ever shares surging the most in a decade. we are halfway through the trading day. stocks have taken a turn for the worst. taylor riggs has more. taylor: down new the lows of the session on the s&p 500. 300 companies in the index reporting. the top beating on line. 70% of companies beating on the bottom line. morning, a slew of earnings. the nasdaq by far the worst performer of the day. i want to go into the stoxx, smaller averages. stocks are up about 2%. nxp semiconductors gave the market what it was expecting, slower growth out of china. russell 2000, a stronger dollar but a weaker index. energy and consumer discretiona

amanda: live in toronto, i'm amanda lang. welcome to bloomberg markets. we are joined by our bloomberg and the an end bloomberg audiences -- bnn bloomberg audiences. shery: president trump says he will give the border deal a very serious look. lookresident trump's on trade electric takes a new three wheeler for a ride on the streets of vancouver. let's get you started with a quick check on the major averages. u.s. stocks gaining ground with the s&p rising for a fourth consecutive session. energy, financial leading the gains. utilities is the only sector in the red right now. energy stocks being boosted by wti which is now continuing to gain ground in a rebounding from the two week low, really close to that $54 a barrel level, even though we got a report today about u.s. stockpiles rising. we are seeing a broad optimism in the markets, amanda. ianda: despite that optimism, want to drill in on the latest survey from bank of america merrill lynch, representing money managers. what you're looking at is the amount they are allocating to cash. highest in a deca

when the thought of that was the first i saw with the big net lang down and a cup of tea and like millions of fish inside it but i didn't know what we do escape the appetite of a inside some of my pew pew research for dead q a quarter lying on that i was on a boat today so when that's when i found the one that is the scene i thought would there be a really big. bass to clean that big coarseness. out of him that his team of diverse today remove large quantities of course notes from the ocean bed every time they go diving. nets account for a ten percent reduction in fishing catch. even then the local fisherman have needed a lot of convincing to change how they do their business. to get better than that it will go to me at. the bottom but. being one of them would have been out on the water the better with them and worry about any man that when we start diving in that area. it had no doubt. both of you guys we got our dive and there was a reason any other. maybe later one when it appears to interact with the fisherman how the divers are helping to grow. we can say that we needed to get them th

. >> i am amanda lang. we are joined by bloomberg audiences. here are the top stories we are following. >> brexit showdown. e.u. officials want to put british prime minister to put everything up on a vote. >> the truth behind the fed 180. investors prays from the minutes from the january meeting where the feds turned patient. why subprime auto lones may not pose that big a risk to the system. a check on the major market arches. it does appear to be a bit of treading water happening ahead of the fed minutes. we look forward to what might be some of the most interesting minutes we have seen in a long time. we have seen some stocks that have been strong in recent days, including wal-mart amazon giving up ground. materials are strong, but everything else is weak. there is a storied stock taking it on chin today. cvs releases is numbers and lowering its outlook and revising expectations. investors not liking what they are hearing today. >> it has been hard for investors to find a new catalyst to prompt the rally higher. we are still awaiting a resol

i was very moved, again when i was younger, by the photographs of dorothea lange who photographed thethe dust bowl and the winds. and the great depression. as a child, people would come to the door selling little rags and things. they were the jewish refugees from the oncoming holocaust. i was made aware of all these people who were in danger, who needed their story told. and i wanted to tell the story of the people in algeria who were refugees. and who had been totally uplifted from their homes. nobody was talking about the refugees. that focus on people in the gravest of circumstances who had suffered so much, i just wonder what impact that had upon you. i am very mindful not so long ago i interviewed don mccullin the great british war and conflict photographer, and he said sometimes on assignments in war zones, ‘sometimes i felt like i was carrying, ‘not carrying the negative so much as pieces of human ‘flesh that come with me. ‘it was as if i was carrying the suffering of the people ‘i had photographed'. did that kind of intense deep emotional response come for you, too? of course

lang choruses it'll now focus on other commodities kian transition towards clean energy. russian president vladimir putin saysys thehe country needsds tos on raising l living standards. came in his state of the union address wednesday in moscow. putting use it to emphasize the need to tackle poverty which affects about 13% of russia'a's population. as a promising new policies tax breaks it's and housing subsididies for families. plus size a. from multinational population it is specifically the family units the raising of children procreation respect for older generations. that has been under means the powerful moral call. us. now here in france the country's housusing sector h has sounded e alarm on wednesday construction companieies and housingng on prs announceced that building permis for new residentiall developmems haveve dropped compared t to lat year. they say thatt new government policies are partly to blamee. claire rush rush he's me takes a closer look. if you were permit. last construction. fewer homemes on the market. according to french housing developers the

[applause] [singing "auld lang syne"] ♪ >> on the evening after the state of the union message, presidentn joined the diplomatic corps as they paid a farewell tribute to secretary dean rusk and his wife virginia. ♪ >> on thursday morning, just prior to the formal signing of the economic message, president johnson startled washington with a dramatic announcement. pres. johnson: we have had certain decisions that please us. we have learned certain basic procedural problems have been solved. new talks on the substance of peace in southeast asia can now open. this year, the impartial record will show we have made steady progress toward the peace we all devoutly pray for. i deeply believe if we can only remain united in the days ahead and if we can stay together on this path, we will achieve an honorable peace in southeast asia at the earliest date it is possible to do. >> the breakthrough which came after 10 agonizing weeks of diplomatic maneuvering meant talks could get underway. it meant happily that ceremonies like the one on the east room would no longer be necessary. pres. johnson: for t

years ever since the arrival of the first europeans they have suffered massacres they have suffered lang grabs but they're saying the situation now is that it's never been given the policies of the recently installed president joy about sanaa paulson out all during his campaign he said that not one centimeter of brazilian land would be dumber demarcated as indigenous territory he also asked why the us the one percent of the brazilian population should have control over twelve percent of the country's land total. in that sum much of that land was host to mineral wealth. looking territory that land should be exploited that should be allowed people should be allowed to make a profit that is also changing the law to allow more people to have guns so this is was really upset the indigenous community they fear a relaxation of the rules protecting their status within the constitution and any protections they once enjoyed under the law have been curtailed and they must now unify gather the support of as many non-indigenous. resilience is possible to try to fight against what they feel. at least

years ever since the arrival of the first europeans they have suffered massacres they have suffered lang grabs but they're saying the situation now is as bad as it's ever been given the policies of the recently installed president joe biden so now paulson out all during his campaign he said that not one centimeter of brazilian land will be dumber demarcated as his territory he was asked why the u.s. the one percent of the brazilian population should have control over twelve percent of the country's lantos. to get some much of that land was host to mineral wealth. looking territory that land should be exploited that should be allowed people should be allowed to make a profit that is also changing the law to allow more people to have guns so this is was really upset the indigenous community they fear a relaxation of the rules protecting their status within the constitution that any protection they once enjoyed under the law has been curtailed and they must now unify gather the support of as many non-indigenous brazilians as possible to try to fight against what they feel is a hostile gover

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years ever since the arrival of the first europeans they have suffered massacres they have suffered lang grabs but they're saying the situation now is as bad as it's ever been given the policies of the recently installed president joe biden up also now told during his campaign he said that not one centimeter of brazilian land will be dumber demarcated as indigenous territory he also asked why the one that's the one percent of the brazilian population should have control over twelve percent of the country's land total. to get some much of that land was host to mineral wealth to logging territory that land should be exploited that should be allowed people should be allowed to make a profit that is also changing the law to allow more people to have guns first this is was really upset the indigenous community they fear a relaxation of the rules protecting their status within the constitution that any protection they once enjoyed under the law has been curtailed and they must now unify gather the support of as many non-indigenous brazilians as possible to try to fight against what they feel i

but it's called system crasher this is a translation from a german term steamship lang which means children who don't fit into the system particularly this film is about a i emotionally disturbed nine year old girl we found this movie but we agree pages on it we both of us are right and we're actually going to have a closer look for that coming up on studio b. use arts and culture so stay tuned to do you go to for more on that. hour and our very own child a child some pill and david leavitt's at their bella nala red carpet where there is a lot of action going on in the and the backdrop catch up with you soon guys thank you for now. now a sadly british actor and five time oscar nominee albert finney has died at the age of eighty two his career spanned five decades but he was best known for his nine hundred sixty three starring role in the film tom jones in his later career he appeared in big budget action films including the james bond thriller skyfall. you're watching the news coming up next andy w. africa south africa's a serum opposed has just delivered one of the most important speeches

. >> even though they may not have used the lang we used in 2019, they knew their lives mattered. >>or civil rights right here in the bay area. the program takes place at the treasure island museum tomorrow. >>> people are encouraged to make reservations on their web site. web site. . >>> it feels like winter in the bay area. it will remain unset selled for the weekend. it is a big snowmaker. you see the areas in blue indicating the storm warning. we have a winter storm warning in place through a good portion of the weekend. as far as the west slopes of the sierra it's shaping up like this. the snow totals are adding up. could be talking about amounts approaching 4 feet. travel will be very difficult. here's the radar imagery, you can see what happened earlier today. there's not as much coverage on the radar. fill-in the bay, oakland, hay wood. back the maps out here and show you, a few thunderstorms to the west of santa cruz. lightning strikes detected for tonight. current numbers it is chilly. most areas are from the 40s right now. here's the live camera. rain showers nearby. you c

really true lang's us. how big that influence this may become clearer after saturday's vote. on the decrease i'll just come to nigeria tech giant google says it made an error after failing to inform users have a hidden microphone and cite its own security device and samaras only found out about the nest cards built in microphone when google announced it was updating a product with the voice command assistance company says it was never intended to be secret and should have listed it as a feature also said the microphones must be activated and order to work. our web site right there al jazeera dot com keep you up to date on all of the day's news including the fire that killed seventy people keep it or. the headlines right now on al-jazeera at least seventy people have been killed in a large fire the break through several buildings in the bangladeshi capital dhaka the fire broke out in a residential complex which also house a chemical warehouse. or from dhaka what happened yesterday we have some quotes from the witnesses in the neighborhood there said that there was an explosion

it has been so smooth for peter lang. he is a rising star.akes him out of running ecb president. he has definitely been talked about in those cycles. guy: so qualified for both. let's check in with "first word news. china accusing the u.s. of playing tricks on the eve of high-level trade talks. according to reuters, two american warships sailed through waters in the south geithner guests south china sea. a foreign ministry spokesman did not say whether the move would impact trade negotiations. they are expected to get underway tomorrow. president trump heads to el paso, texas to visit a campaign rally. a trump campaign advisor said the president sees the rally as it opportunity to reshape the debate around the proposed border wall. it will be held at the border fence to mexico. mike pompeo in hungry on the first leg of a five nation tour. he is talking about the concerns of growing tensions. you will highlight the presence of huawei in hungry. venezuela's administer made a surprise visit in india. he was trying to secure closer facingth opec

. >> and live in toronto, amanda lang, welcome to bloomberg markets.e top stories we are following from around the world. >> optimism out of washington, u.s. stocks are rising over positive signs on trade talks and a tentative deal to avoid a government shutdown. >> a new study finds that retailers could lose up to $66.5 billion in revenue on auto tariffs. 1984 in 2019? google and amazon want their devices smart to mine even more data. we have seen positive action and certainly posting the higher in the session. a bit of a 1-2 l good news with president trump letting the march 1st tariff deadline slide with china, and it looks like a little bit of motion on talks on a border security wall. materials,he upside, financials, energy are all gaining. only real estate stands out as weak today. a 1.5% moveg higher, but financials are right behind them. we are seeing strength across the big markets. shery: when it comes to the month of february, we have traded sideways and we have been held back by some of the technicals like the 200 moving day average. 200we

and dorothea lang took a remarkable series of photographs there. very recently, we lost the big iron gates that were the backdrop for some of those photographs. they were there one day, and then, they were gone, and the community had no say in that. they just disappeared, and it's tragic. and i do know from experience that historic designation does not have to increase costs monumentally and doesn't have to stand in the way of what needs to be done. that's been shown by many groups, and i've worked personally with little friends -- nihomachi little friends that has preserved a julia moran building, added onto it, and really taken care of it, and it has become a great asset to the community. so i thank you for moving ahead on this, and i hope that we can engage the school district in greater efforts to reach out to the communities to do more of this kind of work. thank you. >> chair peskin: thank you, karen. i really appreciate it, and i appreciate your work at niomachi little friends. are there any other members of the public that would like to com

very welcomea lang to bloomberg markets.ed by our audiences and here are the top stories from around the world. coming together on trade, president trump expresses a tariffs deadline and says he would have a signing summit with president xi. taking on opec, president trump asking the cartel to take it easy. wti tumbling. barrick's gold goes hostile. they are not budging from their $17.8 the canadian rival billion takeover bid is -- [please stand by] they had defaulted on their debt, finally getting confirmation of the news. amanda: that is a dramatic decline in the share price on a day when the averages are tracking higher. we have lots of trade optimism including president trump occluding -- appearing to relax his view on where terrorists need to kick in. you can see gains across the leading,dustrials are materials, general electric is a standout. we are seeing every trade related name, including caterpillar also gaining their it you can see the financials pushing the broader markets higher but it is worth noting in terms o

amanda: i'm amanda lang in toronto.nt trump will deliver his second state of the union address at 9:00 tonight after being postponed for one month coming off of that partial government shutdown. the president is expected to touch on infrastructure, trade, and immigration. we have been asking all of our guests for their take on the address. this comes against the backdrop of the shutdown, all the emphasis on the southern border. willnk it will -- he reemphasize that, his chance to make the case that his administration is successful. is said aboutt china, any positive comment whatsoever will be interpreted that by the end of march we will have a deal, even if it doesn't have much in it, it will be a deal. we will be looking for signs that he is doing a victory lap on trade ahead of what is lucky to be a summit with xi at the end of the month. similarly, that he is not starting another round to the shutdown. it would be great to see something on infrastructure that we have all kind of given up on that. urijah -- eurasia gr

amanda: live in toronto, i'm amanda lang. welcome to "bloomberg markets."are our top stories from around the world. happy holiday for walmart. the retail giant had its best holiday quarter in years. bounce. the cryptocurrency gains a second day, jumping to its highest level since january 9. america's cbd boom. the trendy cannabis compound is generally believed to be safe but scant returns has been conducted on its medical benefits. is this the new snake oil? let's get started with a quick check on the major averages. u.s. stocks gaining ground for a second consecutive session with the s&p 500 being let higher by consumer staples, materials. walmart came out with solid numbers, lifting retailers. financials under some pressure given that the 10-year is falling to around the 2.624 level. .he nasdaq up this week we are focusing on china u.s. trade talks. the chinese delegation in washington, d.c. those talks continue today. bloomberg has learned the u.s. is asking china to keep the value of the yuan stable as a part of the trade negotiations. the offshore yuan

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amanda: live in toronto, i'm amanda lang. welcome to "bloomberg markets."he top stories we are following from around the world. green on the screen. tech shares push the nasdaq toward six weeks of gains ahead of alphabetic earnings after the bell. the diplomatic standoff in venezuela continues. we speak with the u.s. charged affair with venezuela carlos ghosn ikea. and the crackdown on china's huawei continues. we will hear from the ceo of a chicago-based startup who claims the company was trying to steal his technology. let's start with a quick check on the major averages and the check on oil. we had strong economic data friday. it is still earnings at the markets appeared to be contemplating. it is a mixed bag. we are seeing tech among the leadership year ahead of the earnings. not in a meaningful way. health care and materials are weak on the day, dollar strength. oil giving up some ground as stockpiles go up in the u.s. some worry about the future outlook of the economy. mind: you have to keep in oil is falling after reaching that two-month high. we had

david leads the san francisco office of jones lang, one of the premier commercial development consultants in the world, and david is also the recent president of the alumni, and has a deep, deep personal and long-term commitment to addressing the plight of homeless students. he immediately agreed to get on board. and then devon said, but you also cannot do this without the brilliant and talented and, and brought her into the project. she is one of the great commission leaders and activists. she is also a brilliant architect who helps design the mission campus for city college, as well as the renovation of the ferry building. with this dynamic trio, we got all of the needed improvements taken care of, and pretty much did it and ripped -- record time, given san francisco's slow pace of getting anything of this size done. david also engaged a number of contractors to help with the shower construction, and in -- and the design associates. they designed all the needed changes and managed hundreds of logistical details. devon kept us all in the loop throughout the process, and was really the pr

. >> in toronto, i'm amanda lang. we are joined by our audiences.the top stories we are following. in hanoi.trump lands he will meet with kim jong-un. we will explore what is at stake in the summit with the former ambassador to china. and a chilly season for retail sales, they implemented -- they have plummeted in december. a quick check of major averages. sideways action in the major averages today. we saw some intraday reaction to jay powell. we heard from him that the growth outlook may be uneven, but that he is not worried about inflation, so we have a pricing in of expectations for were the fed could go on rates. what you saw was a decline in treasury yields. we saw a reaction there, certainly. in terms of where we have been, take a look at housing starts, analysis about the 2016 low we are seeing in the start of new home built in america is attributed to financial uncertainty, the turbulence at the end of last year, a partial government shutdown, and we saw that show up in other data, including consumer confidence. the decline playing out acro

. >> it's interesting the lang of business.e very worried what you see unfolding between the u.k. and european union. you're a big investor in the u.k. as a country. >> yes. >> this is kind of a disaster waiting to happen. you have to suggest -- you have to be wondering what are you going to do with your invegsment and obviously the supply chain you have between the u.s. and europe. >>ee believe the u.k. issue is between the two parties, they need to make a decision and very wise decision about the brexit. the second is the u.k. and what is the u.k. going to do on day one after brexit. i mean, it changes once this whole thing ends. which means the u.k. has to make some decision about their future -- i know they have signed an agreement with the swiss -- >> really late to the game. >> these kind take years before they're approved. what we have done on our side we have coordinated with a number of private sectors to make sure they are also protected whether it's in the eu or in the u.k. and we make through these sort of negotiati

somehow not quite sincere in that on the other end, president trump sort of like open use of racist lang res wha r somehow more authentic. i think there is a -- i'm not saying it is authentic, but there is this archie bunker quality that people are willing to look past versus a kind of suspicion based on this country's history with racism of anyone talking about it. >> brennan: we've got to leave it there >> dr. stanley: remember this: cannot change the laws of god. when he has visited you in some form of adversity and he brings you through that, that's like he has increased the strength of the foundation of your life and your faith in him. [music] >> brennan: the trump administration missed a congressional deadline the officially weigh in on whether saudi crown mohammad bin salman was responsible for the murder of jamal khashoggi. we spoke friday with the saudi minister of affairs adel al-jubeir and asked him about his meeting with the secretary of state earlier in the week. >> the death of jamal khashoggi was a massive tragedy. it was a mistake. it was committed by officials in the sau