so i wouldn't -- i would move that we appoint supervisor walton to the bay area air quality management boarddirectors to the full board as a committee report without objection. >> clerk: this matter will be recommended as a committee report to tomorrow's board meeting. >> supervisor mar: great. all right. i -- i guess we'll -- well, we'll wait for him. >> clerk: next item on the agenda is motion number two, is a motion reappointing supervisor raphael mandelman, term ending june 30, 2022, to the bay area air quality management board. is there a motion to recuse? >> supervisor walton: yes. supervisor manned widelman, thu so much. with that said, public comment on item number two? you'll have two minutes. >> eileen bogan, coalition for san francisco neighborhoods here on my own behalf. hearing supervisor mandelman's reappointment to abag, i would like to thank him for his willingness to serve and his opposition for sb 1487 on july 13. i would also like to thank the planning commission for its informational hearing at its june 27 meeting. both supervisor mandelman and a member of the public read

based on all this information the board of management consider the liability risk in connection with life's a fate to be low. at the same time we're also aware of the tremendous importance of life estate for the global food supply and. bayer has battled fierce criticism from environmentalists but steel with monsanto has also been denounced in german boardrooms like here in frankfurt at the asset management group of us its main shareholder is deutsche bank. yeah i'm susie i can afford it they wanted it too badly and if you invest a lot of time on something this deal was more than 2 years in the making then there's often a tendency to say we've spent so much time and money so even if it's all not perfect now. we have to go ahead with it sourcing. christiane speaks for many bayer.

what they are make of monsanto's evaluation today but no one from management of the supervisory board is willing to grant us an interview they sent us a man with the title of president of agricultural affairs who tells us that to date he's had nothing to do with the monsanto merger. we based our evaluation on the documentation we received and on licensing documentation from around the world the ingredient has been licensed internationally for 40 years it has its merits and advantages and we didn't see a problem. and it will be what is it. but monsanto evidently did in 2014 its leading toxicologist raised another red flag. what we have long been concerned about has happened. is on for an eye arc review. why concerned the international agency for research on cancer is totally independent its verdict carries weight. york as part of the world health organization which in turn is a specialized agency of the united nations australian professor lynne fritchey was on the panel of experts who study glyphosate ever since she's been targeted with harsh criticism from the agricultural industry. p

and chairman of the management board and royal d.s.m. is joining us if i can see this my senior advisor to the world economic forum and also the interim merican development bank caroline n.c. . and we have the co-founder of bye-bye plastic bags and also one of the co-chairs at this year's summit lotty wise and we have the prime minister of stand up joining us from there alan tatham thank you so much to all of you for being here today and please let's give our panel a very warm welcome thank you and mike i'd like to begin with you because you have a company you're helping to run a company that wasn't always sustainable you've been around for more than a century you started lining to chemicals now you are a leader in nutrition and food ingredients and i found it quite interesting i've heard you claim before that you can both make a profit and improve the world's so you've cracked the code. and i believe that the role of thesis is to make the world a better place and we are not a charity foundation to we need to make money. but we need to m

by 10 times harder if we also have some plans of introduced in technology for the c o 2 waste management board including out of fish artificial photosynthesis waste acknowledge choice with the more people work i don't wish on. the floor to paddle be one of the leaders in terms of innovation used in the current technologies and state of the art technology is. what your model just gets in that you have traced this issue up with her many times a day ago already rumors some mused things that you were consonant with about what is the most much you were promised and history in coworker in a share so environmental protection yes environmental protection is close the interlinked with an issue that is something that we've been talking about when we could be global warming. impacts russia amount of other countries i mentioned it to try to summit mushroom here in russia according to our data according to international experts to be. woman is more than 2.5 times weaker than it on the planet in general and this poses a certain threat to us to go 1st and foremost in the north where you were right to mention

creation opportunity, but demanding some big changes, including divestitures, changes to the management boardd some aggressive cost-cutting. we are also looking at energy rising, and that means oil is doing pretty well, today rising for the fourth straight day. we can see brent crude for the fourth day, up some 6.7% in that time. we heard from saudi arabia's new energy minister signaling there would be no change to opec policies of production cuts. let's take a quick look at some movers for you. , risingt netflix again by some 2.7%, getting a bit of a boost from bank of america. the analyst sees significant react seller a in the third quarter. insignificant acceleration the third quarter. amgen falling some 3.2% on disappointing data out of its latest lung cancer drug trial. a number of analysts say that will allow smaller mid-cap bitetitor mirati to gain a of a benefit, as it is looking at similar treatments. vonnie: thank you. we are back now with ed hyman, evercore isi chairman. we are embarking on another earnings season shortly. what is your estimate for the next earnings season? ed: i t

joins us on the phone probably from an elliot management board room kidding. what do you make of the call you must agree with elliot, but do you think it's the right strategy >> the nice thing, it is a clear cut case management is on one side. elliot wants them to go the opposite direction management wants a vertically integrated company elliot says no, it's not working. split up the company first off, elliot's right. the facts of total shareholder return bare bear them out and secondly, if you get boo a fight with elliot, you know who wins elliot wins. ceo of another company said when he gets a letter from like this from elliot, it's like googling what's the thing on my arm and getting the response back you're going to die okay there's no question that elliot wins this. both on the merits and on the fact that just a tough, tough firm i mean for crying out loud they impouned an argentine naval vessel, albeit a sailing vessel when they were in a dispute with them underlying this is a really, really good company. it's undervalue d, splitting it up will probably

management. the bank's board is set to meet later today to decide on the fate of executives implicated in a botched asia finance managing editor joins us. what are we expecting? >> where do we go from here is to this board meeting and we are expecting the chair to make a decision on the state of the credit suisse executives --olved in basically decided that is according to a person with knowledge of the matter. all of this stems from an atercation centered around former star banker at credit suisse and is set to join ubs. credit suisse hired a private investigation firm to shadow him because they were worried he might try to poach some of his former colleagues. this led to an altercation in downtown zurich. it prompted credit suisse to launch an internal probe. we are looking ahead to the board discussing the results of expecting and we are the chair to make a decision about who ordered and whether any policies were violated. bankad: how are the shareholders reacting to this huge enveloping drama? not clear yet what the final decision will be but what we understand, the board is leaning toward spar

it sounds as though the at&t management is on board with elliott management. sound like there a hostile relationship. perhaps things will get done over time. guy: thanks very much. coming up next, our global battle of the charts. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ here, it all starts with a simple... hello! -hi! how can i help? a data plan for everyone. everyone? everyone. let's send to everyone! [ camera clicking ] wifi up there? -ahhh. sure, why not? how'd he get out?! a camera might figure it out. that was easy! glad i could help. at xfinity, we're here to make life simple. easy. awesome. so come ask, shop, discover at your xfinity store today. guy: time for our global battle of the charts. you can find all of these on gtv . romaine bostick, over to you. romaine: let's look at gold. a lot of people questioning whether the rally in gold has any legs. i want to draw your attention to the price volatility. you can see it on the left side. when you go to the right side of your screen, you can see the yellow line trending upwards. that is an increase in vola

board. we manage funds across-the-board. we have many retail investors.ly helped us start out that fund. now, we have institutional investors moving into our etf. it is very interesting to watch sovereign wealth funds who are trying to learn more about the health, health care systems and health care breakthrough so they can improve lives for their own countries. they are even moving into our etf because they can treat our etf like a stock and it does not have to go through a lot of due chiefnce and go to the investment officer. whoe are younger advisors are actually very excited about what we are doing. taylor: wonderful. that was cathie wood of ark investment. if cathie met -- mentioned gene editing, our wired for health series will be featured this friday. we will have many guests and innovators providing the latest insights from the intersection of medicine and technology. still ahead, celebrating the work anniversary. microsoft and linked nearing three years as we find out how the coupling is doing. our conversation with the ceo is next. this is bloom

motion to appoint supervisor walton, term ending february 1, 2021 to the bay area air quality management district board of directors . >> supervisor yee: okay. can we have a motion to excuse supervisor walton on this one? motion made by supervisor brown and seconded by supervisor ronen. without objection, supervisor walton is excused. roll call please. [roll call] . >> supervisor yee: without objection, the motion is approved. . >> clerk: a motion to reappoint supervisor mandleman, term ending june 30, 2021 to the association of bay areas government executive board . >> clerk: no objection. supervisor mandleman is excused. [roll call] . >> supervisor yee: without objection the motion is approved unanimously. madame clerk, i want everybody to know that it is 2:51 and we are going to go to roll call. [roll call] . >> supervisor haney: that was quick. today, my colleagues, we are calling on the sheriff and the city and most traders office for a plan to shut down county jail number four at the hall of justice 850 bryant street and present these plans at hearing here at the board. built nearly 60 years ago,

some board members are fed up themselves, maybe there are shareholders, very angry and this gets the ball rolling >> that's a great point, jim oftentimes in situations like this, in some ways, managementight not or the board might actually view them as a positive i don't know what matt rose, the lead director, is thinking here. he's a pretty serious guy. glen hutchins on that board, another serious guy we know well you wonder whether this will if they continue to apply pressure and the board despite decicides along with them, results in changes in upper management. but you're right it can sometimes be a positive that said, i couldn't help but think about another large activist investment, very similar size but did not go particularly well in a storied name. >> talking ge? >> i am. ge and triad 3.2, similar size stake. in this case, these guys will say, listen, the dividend is not just -- it is safe, there is no question about that. you and i had a conversation about that last week i indicated obviously there is any number of investors who i speak to who have different questions, longer term at&t comes back sharply and says are you kidding us our dividend coverage ratio sbe is the best

board. we manage funds across the board. we have many retail investors.ally helped us start out the fund. now, we have institutional investors moving in to our etfs. it is very interesting to watch sovereign wealth funds who are trying to learn more about the health care systems and health care breakthroughs so that they can improve lives for their own countries. they are even moving into our etfs, because they can treat our etf like a stock, and it doesn't have to go through a lot of due diligence and go to the chief investment officer. these are younger advisors who are actually very excited about what we're doing. taylor: that was ark invest ceo cathie wood. still ahead, linkedin is one of the social media companies operating in mainland china. we discussed the company's operation in the world's second-largest economy amid u.s.-china trade tensions, next. my interview with the ceo, jeff weiner. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: it has been just over three years since microsoft announced its intention to buy linkedin. the job listing site is set to boast 20

all of which weighs on the psychology that is evident in a board room or on a management team, whichs on one hand, their equity prices are elevated bond financing or financing for expansion is very cheap on a historical basis notwithstanding those two positive factors, uncertainty as to where the market is going is weighing on board rooms and management teams. >> you stay in europe now for this week. it kind of reminds me to the time back at the crisis which the u.s. was so strong, europe had a problem, and we are once again in that weak spot, looking at italy so what do you think is italy a problem or just the side show politically? >> i wouldn't call it the challenges of any given country in europe a side show. but, of course, it is all to be measured against the significance of any given geopolitical issue that is at play economic trends in germany are a big issue. chin kra tra china trade is a big issue what plays out in italy or spain, all of these in themselves are large taken together, they lead to the psychology you're referring to, i suspect not only weighs on u.s. board roo

that's in the wake of a scandal over surveillance at the bank's former head of wealth management. the boardleading toward sparing the chief executive, but investigators have been looking into the chief operating officer. they are set to meet today. bp chief bob dudley is preparing to meet the company within a year, according to sky news. he took the helm after the deepwater horizon crisis, leading the energy giant for almost a decade. they had a fit during his tenure. bp declined to comment. that's your bloomberg business flash. manus: thank you for the roundup, selina wang in our beijing studio. donald trump has demanded to meet the anonymous whistleblower, whose complaint kick started the impeachment inquiry. the person is under federal protection, out of fear for his or her safety. that's according to cbs news. in a series of tweets, the u.s. president called for adam schiff, the highest intelligence committee chairman the quite -- be questioned for treason. joining us in london is ever bloomberg u.s. government reporter. it's a pretty spectacular story. what is the latest from the democ

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it's you just never know where there's a large fire there are no passing it's not just the board the management ones who have just been dismissed for their failures because it's more than just a failure because when you read the report they are chiefly help structed the investigators into it but it's obviously a failings on the education system in the area to actually fully check before myself i think it's also a problem where anybody who questions anything to do with islam is vilified and that's a real concern but people should be able to openly raise concerns of anything that they feel is a problem and let it be investigated and if there's no problem phone north. then obviously the children are the pio. now we have another breaking news story this hour as. the u.s. national security adviser john bolton has quit at the request of donald trump and a tweet the us president said he informed the bolton last night that his services were no longer needed as both he and many members of the administration didn't agree with his views on key issues trump said he asked for his resignation which was provi

board approval. last night, the stadium authority voted 6-0 to start the process to terminate the team as the stadium managere board approval moving forward. the stadium authority which included seven elected members of the santa clara city council highlight these reasons to end the deal "misrepresentation to the stadium authority regarding their qualification and contract procurement for public works. noncompliance with state laws, including failing to pay revealing wages, and their failure to properly manage the stadium and maximize the performance of non-nfl events." >> you're not saying you can't spend any money just saying some of the contracts first, show me the procurement procedures that you went through. and sure that the workers that are being paid under this contract are being paid the proper wages under state law. and sure that there is no conflict of interest in how you procure this contract. that is all you are doing. >> reporter: in a news release, the authorities said the failure to impart includes booking non-nfl events that lose money. back in january the niners lost about $10 million after

you just never know where there's a large fire there are no passing that it's not just the board the management ones who have just been dismissed for their failures because it's more than just a failure because when you read the report they are chiefly. the investigators into it but it's obviously a failings on the education system in the area to actually fully check for myself i think it's also a problem where anybody who questions anything to do with islam is vilified and that's why we are concerned but people should be able to openly raise concerns of anything that they feel is a problem and let it be investigated and if there's no problem phone off. then obviously the children other pio. thanks for choosing r.t. international we're back in 30 minutes with more we see them. today there are good terrorists and bad evidence the bad terrorists and those in yemen who the united states deems to be a threat the looked at those one in syria the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions really throughout the world. where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up th

remember mobile scramble where there's a large fire there are no passing that it's not just the board the management ones who have just been dismissed for their failures because it's more than just a failure because when you read the report they are chiefly. the investigators into it but it's obviously a failings on the education system in the area to actually fully check before myself i think it's also a problem where anybody who questions anything to do with islam is vilified and that's a real concern but people should be able to openly raise concerns of anything that they feel is a problem and let it be investigated and if there's no problem phone off but if they were then obviously the children other pio it's an important point if there were that report you're watching r.t. we're going to take a quick break more from us and take. when lawmakers manufacture consent to public wealth. when the roman clauses protect them so. when the framers. to ignore middle room signals. the real news is. the barbarians the vandals of wall street are now actively plundering your bank account with a negative intere

you just never know where there's a large fire there are no passing that it's not just the board the management ones who have just been dismissed for their failures because it's more than just a failure because when you read the report they are chiefly helps to the investigators into work but it's obviously a failings on the education system in the area to actually fully check before myself i think it's also a problem where anybody who questions anything to do with islam is vilified and that's where we are concerned but people should be able to openly raise concerns of anything that they feel is a problem and let it be investigated and if there's no problem phone off. then obviously the children are the pio it's their global news update continues after the short break. max kaiser financial survival guide liquid assets now those that you can burn using that's quite easily. to keep in mind no assets i mean to inflation. or. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. you know world of big

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it's you just never know where there's a large fire there are no passing it's not just the board the management ones who have just been dismissed for their failures because it's more than just a failure because when you read the report they are chiefly. the investigators into it but it's obviously a failings on the education system in the area to actually fully check before myself i think it's also a problem where anybody who questions anything to do with islam is vilified and that's where we are concerned but people should be able to openly raise concerns of anything that they feel is a problem and let it be investigated and if there's no problem phone off. then obviously the children are the pio it's. the italian prime minister with his newly formed. government is facing a 2nd confidence vote on monday decepticons on the 1st one and also announce the new direction and take on of the coalition he now leads by now to our correspondent charlotte charlotte what more did the prime minister have to say. well some very different language coming out from just seppi kaante when he addressed the italia

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know it's you just never know where there's a large failure on all parts in the not just the board the management ones who have just been dismissed for their failures because it's more than just a failure because when you read the report they are to flee. to the investigators into work but it's obviously a failings on the education system in the area to actually fully check for myself i think it's also a problem where anybody who questions anything to do with islam is vilified and that's a real concern but people should be able to openly raise concerns of anything that they feel is a problem and let it be investigated and if there's no problem phone off but if they're released then obviously the children are the priority. italy's prime minister and his newly formed government are facing a 2nd vote of no confidence no monday just because he won the 1st vote and also announce the new direction italy would take under the coalition that he is now having. he has more. much more toned language coming from italy's prime minister decepticon to talking about the new government having to have more humanism

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you just never know where there's a large fire there are no passing the it's not just the board the management ones who have just been dismissed for their failures because it's more than just a failure because when you read the report they are to flee. to the investigators into it but it's obviously a failings on the education system in the area to actually fully check before myself i think it's also a problem where anybody who questions anything to do with islam is vilified and that's a real concern but people should be able to openly raise concerns of anything that they feel is a problem and let it be investigated and if there's no problem phone off but if they were then obviously the children are the pio. british prime minister boris johnson. has lost a 2nd triggering a snap general election success of the ballot box could have allowed them to repeal a recently passed law aimed at blocking a no deal bragg's it during a heated debate in politics both sides of the house accuse each other of playing political games. many of our constituents will be confused tonight because the labor party this

when the boarded up in the manager of the fish market dino stupid is an old friend of this he's very worried about the future. the only way of protecting the fish stocks would be for no one to catch anything in april and may no matter what method they use should be in fishing in those months. but i would think their leaders upshot of this guy yelled at me again that's what we said to. him if you go no more none of them and they should stop the big trawlers putting out to sea from august to october and from april to may look over the actual come up in a bit of an opening to give my. they should give the fish a chance to breed and to grow in april and may. if the troll is keep on fishing the way they do one day the waters could be completely devoid of fish. now that hey larry how are you guys are you sleeping. because they have to do something and i used to have to stop the trawlers coming out to hear the coast well now then we would have big fish again and enough work. because that is more than you i make us with the ticket do a choice has been an issue well like. that's i hope people

i'm going to speak particularly point.e women at this it had a board of women managers in a women's building that was elite,much used by for tealass women, s and receptions, so the fair makers word defining them as cultivated and so forth. one of the stories i tell is about andy taylor in the way she taylors this -- annie and the way she disrupts this. she is a wild woman. she crossed the continent eight times, and there she is with her barrel heading down the niagara river, so there is a story about women there, and what i don't discuss enough, and i would love it if somebody pursued this is particularlywomen, african-american, immigrant women working at the fair or who wanted to visit the fair but did not have enough resources to do so, so there are more stories to be told. mark: why don't you talk about mary? exhibit on -- blacks were called need rose then, so it is the negro league exhibit? talbert was a very accomplished african-american activist who took great offense at the idea that african-american history would be represented by the old bringtion, so she helped to buffalo this rema

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