and mediation program. i was recruited from the department of justice by paul henderson who was my boss when i was a prosecutor at the da's office so this is the second round of his supervising my work, i must say. so neither of us really understood how the mediation program worked. but what paul told us very directly is i don't want a gap. i want this to be a highly professionalized program. i want you to hit the ground running. because the director had resigned, actually retired a year and a half before we arrived. now, we were very fortunate, because the program was well-established and it was well regarded. so just like anybody else, you know you stand on the shoulders of people who have gone before you. we were very fortunate in that sense. the liability we had as i said, we did not really understand the mediation process the program what to expect and most importantly, we really did not know the mediators. so we took the opportunity to hold a forum. and we were very fortunate, because we sent out e-ma

the mediators set the tone. they have informed prior to the beginning of the mediation the parties as to what the ground rules are. we expect that people will remain respectful that they will stay to the issues. we allow one hour for the mediation. and that has been very successful for us. officers do come on duty typically. and oftentimes the complaint will have to come either from work or from some place outside of the city. we have made an attempt to make this as efficient as possible by meeting with complaints who have schedules such as 6:00 in the morning or 9:00 at night. and we've also done this for officers to accommodate their schedule. the purpose of the meeting is designed to reach a satisfactory outcome a mutual understanding of what the issue is. so we typically are successful. in fact, smart over the last year and a half that i have been on board, we have about a 98 percent success rate. and i would certainly like to take credit for that, but credit is due to two entities. one is our coordinator di

tran now this goes back to a request from the president of egypt to president trump asking him to mediate in this a longstanding dispute between the 3 neighbors president trump's administration sent out a letter in the mid october asking foreign ministers to come to d.c. for talks in a bid to resolve this particular issue now ethiopia has been insistent it doesn't want any 3rd party mediation but it would appear that the message from president trump was enough to persuade it to take part in these trilateral talks and these talks have been going on in the course of the day as i said at treasury department under the direction of steve newton as you say it is a longstanding dispute isn't it my might america's intervention here possibly break the deadlock. well there could be

those are the mediators. the mediator have a responsibility to complain these visualization as well in order for the public to understand better. whoer the mediators in the case of sharpiegate, the meetadors will be the people briefing president trump about the maps. another reason why he got that wrong and sent the tweet is because that morning, september 1st, sunday, he didn't receive his briefing. just remembered the maps from days before, and made the tweet base on the maps because he had not received the briefing from hi people. what can we do? we can do self things. obviously one of the best things is to pay attention to any graphic. but we need to assume that in any situation or many, many situations, we can assume one of these roles. the designer, the reader or the mediator, but in many cases we'll assume more than one role. and i will get to what i mean by these. depending on the role we are assuming when dealing with a chart row can remind mouthses or ask yourself certain questions. we're the design

we are willing to mediate. we did not receive the actual offer mr. patterson is discussing in his letter as a definite offer with any monetary terms or move-out terms. i was told there is a place available we might be able to move her in there. will she go out and look at it? she didn't go out the next day because she was sick. she went out two days later and viewed the place and came back and was interested in moving and talking, but the place didn't fit all of her needs for her family. there are five of them. disabled daughter, daughter's husband and son and grandson all live together. i told mr. zacks we are willing to discuss this concept. send me more details with the actual offer and have the broker or who is finding a place talk to ms. long directly instead of going through the lawyers. you decide what your needs are for your family and that kind of thing. very few people decide to move on two days' notice having seen one place. >> you mentioned by doing the work it takes the building out of rent control? >> correct. >> is that true that it is

an agreement without any mediation from any outsider ok i y. self i don't i don't i don't think i don't think usa have any any. pressure or peepers which. can inforced these countries to reach conclusions ok water security is potentially a big issue for many many countries around africa around north africa and where north africa bumps into the middle east with so many countries of water critical just in a matter of days if not hours. are those worries realistic on the part of egypt and to the other countries involved in this get that they understand it i think the border security is at issue. for sudan and egypt. and the the the a man disadvantage. when we have this. project stream sudan border it died there is an outside controller for the hotel really should run before that naturally we was in sudan to have a envisioning point the border of a sepia to operate our bomb or said is done for example now or as ruth said is dumb and other dams and all the downs along along the 9. would be controlled by the operation system of the that i mean by say

was speaking to the other 2 foreign ministers and to the mediation of the u.s. treasury secretary a very strong indication that they could be movement that after years of argument there is a possibility of some kind of agreement in the months to come. a few hours judges at the international criminal court will sentence bosco and again the former rebel leader in the democratic republic of congo and again there's been convicted of 18 council war crimes and crimes against humanity for atrocities committed by the rebel fighters he led 2 decades ago the prosecution wants a 30 year prison term catherine sawyer reports from q one in eastern d r c we both going to go and i has been nicknamed by the people of eastern democratic republic of congo as the terminator he's a former rebel leader hues of human rights abuses in several parts of the region judges at the international criminal court found him guilty of crimes against humanity and war crimes including murder in child soldiers and sexual slavery. the crimes are committed to a province between 200220035 the patchy ar

was speaking to the other 2 foreign ministers and to the mediation of the u.s. treasury secretary a very strong indication that they could be movement of the years of argument if there is a possibility of some kind of agreement in the months to come 8 people have been injured in a knife attack in the jordanian says he had a chair rash 3 mexicans and a swiss national were among those stabs cities one of the most popular terrorism destinations in the country there is planet smith reports now from the jordanian capital amman. the one is our father is one taurus lies face down apparently bleeding heavily another tries to stop the blood flow. a woman screams in spanish he's got a dagger. witnesses say a man jumped over a fence at the roman city injured and randomly slashed and stomped at people around . it he was heading towards the cafeteria and i was standing by the door behind me while the tourists aleut the men to the cafeteria passed in front of me in a link towards them slipped in instead me then backed away moving towards the policeman he gave the policeman a

was speaking to the other 2 foreign ministers under the mediation of the u.s. treasury secretary a very strong indication that they could be movement that after years of argument there is a possibility of some kind of agreement in the months to come. new delhi is air pollution is add a very unhealthy level according to the u.s. embassy that's a slight drop from its peak on monday a car rationing scheme and light wind and rain have helped improve the city's quality but the river is covered in thick foam signaling high pollution in the water 8 people have been injured in a knife attack in the jordanian city of jarrah 3 mexicans and the swiss national were among those stabbed in the popular tourist sites but smith reports from a man. as one tourist lies face down apparently bleeding heavily another tries to stop the blood flow. of woman screams in spanish he's got a dagger. witnesses say a man jumped over a fence at the roman city in general and randomly slashed and stopped at people around. you he was heading towards the care for tear and i was standing by the do

i want mediators that are trained so we provide mow professional services in terms of our mediation component in d.p.a. in terms of the outreach, there's a number of events and lift them and not go into much details unless you have questions about them and in aging your way and partnership and the role we play in the city on october 17th and we have a community meeting with informational both that we staffed for park and rec that did a form on health and wellness for the community and on october 24th. we went to another community meeting with the -- we are the city family summit with the recchiational center and we had a presentation at the we are the city family summit at the richmond recreational center. we also attended community meetings at both the tenderloin station and the mission station since our last meeting. i point out that i just wanted to mention i think i sent it to the commissions but our policy director at d.p.a. was awarded a recognition by the department on the status of women last month so very proud of the work she continues to do for d.p.a. on behalf of the rest of the c

that in 2016 when fighting again erupted between forces and loyal to the 2 men sudan stepped in and mediate said best if these deals signed in september 28th and has never been implemented and last week the 2 men failed to meet a deadline to form a unity government in the last 5 years of conflict nearly 4 100000 people have been killed more than 4000000 have fled its the country and others have been displaced within south sudan. it's not much but at least it's safe the town of tambura has welcomed nearly $200.00 displaced families this year. angelina witnessed horror in her home village but here she has found room for hope . that kind of a village was destroyed. and some of her relatives and all the elders were killed and some praying to god that peace will be implemented for country than. since independence from sudan 80 years ago the people of south sudan have hardly seen peace millions have ended up in refugee camps because of fighting between government forces and rebel groups. these are the man who can help bring peace president salva kiir in the hat and rebel leader rick machar the pe

don't know how long this will go on no where that it will you know become another war or whether mediation efforts will work at this time having said that even if there would be a come at some point you know people have always this in the back of their mind can break out any time it's so unpredictable because there is no real solution no political solution it's usually this formal calm for calm that has been working for some months but then you know there's another escalation so it is a very difficult time for civilians on both sides tony thank you very much for bringing us up to date w's tanya kramer in jerusalem. some sports now and in tennis austria's dominic team booked an early sunday final spot at the a.t.p. finals with a stunning group stage victory over world number one novak djokovic circuit which took the 1st set 76 but the 5 time champion could not hold team all longer than 26 year old won the next 2 sets and called this the best match he's ever played he has now beaten roger federer and novak djokovic back to back to book his place in the semifinals the prestigious tournament i

is mediating talks between ethiopia egypt and sue done to try to reduce tension over a hydroelectric dam on the nile river officials arrived at the u.s. treasury department to start talks with the 3 countries in an effort to break the deadlock ethiopia has been building the so-called renascence dam near its border with sudan for 18 years now but egypt fears it will reduce the flow of water along the river which accounts for nearly 90 percent of its supply let's go live now to washington al-jazeera is mike hanna is the mike what sort of mediator will be u.s.b. here what's its position on this dam. well it's very interesting a way that this came about it started with a request apparently from the egyptian president to president trump to mediate in this ongoing crisis ethiopia's being completely opposed to any 3rd party mediate insisting that it's a matter that's got to be resolved between the 3 countries concerned rather than have any outside assistance but certainly now the fact that the ethiopian foreign minister is here in d.c. along with his counterparts from sudan and egypt a very

mean there are reports coming in from cairo that egypt is trying to deescalate the situation there mediationfforts under way had always play its role in the past when we had these times of escalation over here but at the moment because this time it's mainly a focusing on the actions of the islamic edgy hard it is not yet clear whether they succeed in these mediation efforts this flare up of hostilities hanya comes amidst a serious political crisis in israel what do you make of the timing of this confrontation. well i would say that a political commentator see an israeli journalist to have actually quickly questioned the timing of this operation as you say israel is in a political crisis it has currently a cat acre government with prime minister netanyahu who failed in the 1st round of coalition talks to put a coalition together now it's up to benny gantz also former army chief of staff who's has again one week left to put a coalition together so there's some questions about that but prime minister netanyahu addressed these speculations himself on tuesday together with the army chief of staff

sending almost 200 rockets towards israel egypt and other international officials are working to mediate a ceasefire between israel hamas and islamic jihad matheson is live in west jerusalem covering all of this for us so what is the latest. well as of about 6 o'clock this morning local time that's right about 4 g.m.t. we understand the rockets started to be fired from gaza into areas in israel which run along the border with gaza but 2 of those areas were also in the general direction of jerusalem up towards the north of though they're not particularly close to jerusalem we also understand that islamic jihad is saying that it's attempted to fire an anti-tank rocket at an israeli tank to the east of gaza as well all of this is happening as the israeli military has been carrying on what it's describing as a 4th wave of air strikes targeting it says islamic jihad rocket launch sites and undercut underground facilities but we've heard from sources inside gaza that that also includes empty fields and a house income units which is to the south of does and as you say the gaza health ministry r

fighting these are live pictures from gaza where calm appears to have been restored egypt has been mediating between the 2 sides there began after a senior leader of islamic jihad was killed in an israeli airstrike where rob matheson joins us on the phone now from west jerusalem rob so what more details have emerged about this cease fire. well we've had no official confirmation daryn yet for here in israel that this is for a cease fire in place but it is being widely reported in the media it is expected to have gone in to have begun about all 530 local time this morning we have teams both in gaza 3 'd the on board the israeli border with the team in gaza has been telling us that since that time they've have had rockets 'd and explosions inside gaza the team on the israeli border with gaza has been saying that sirens have been sounding in areas which are close to the border now we should stress that whenever there has been a cease fire in this is the pattern that does occur that it takes time for the details and the notifications of the cease fire to be put into place to park early and theref

reports a cease fire has been agreed in gaza for 2 days of cross border fighting egypt has been mediating between israel and the palestinian group islamic jihad negotiations were taking place as more missiles and rockets were exchanged in the early hours of thursday $32.00 palestinians have been killed since tuesday the escalation began after a senior leader of islamic jihad died in an israeli strike. well. firstly you want a stop to all the assassinations inside the gaza strip and the west bank generally secondly to cease firing on all the protesters taking part in the great march of return thirdly for israel to abide by agreements discussed in cairo relating to measures that have to be taken to break the siege on the gaza strip. hong kong is bracing for another day of transport chaos protesters are planning to block more roads authority has already shot a major tunnel as a precaution let's get more now from sarah clarke she joins us live from hong kong sara so another day of transport chaos in hong kong. this is the 4th day of the week to protest the general strike that was called by th

to mediate bolivia's political crisis comes as the new interim president says moran is will be barred from running in the next election while the former leader has sought asylum in mexico his supporters continue to demand his return to isabel has more than the past. thousands of protesters surround bolivia's presidential palace they came here to show support to their leader in what alice. is a 25 year old student he says he's worried about what's happening in his country. it's an interim government that does not represent us it's filled with white people that look at us with racism and hatred we came here to show who the original people of bolivia really are. on wednesday interim president anyone yes swore in a new cabinet in a place where bolivia's mostly indigenous community was well represented and where the spirit of but mama or mother earth sacred to that community was once revered it's now been replaced with a bible across and mostly non indigenous representatives. because people are demanding the resignation of as i mean. they're also saying that now it's time for civil war. to

is mediating talks between ethiopia egypt and sudan to try to reduce tension over a hydroelectric dam on the river nile if you have here has been building the so-called renesas on stand for 8 years now but egypt fears it will reduce the flow of water along the river which accounts for nearly 90 percent of its supply of zeroes mike hanna reports from washington. the u.s. treasury department an unlikely mediator in a decades long conflict in a region thousands of miles away a new party attempting to resolve the dispute over a multi-billion dollar water project being developed on the nile river as it flows through ethiopia neighbors egypt and sudan have been deeply concerned at the consequent impact on their own water supplies this round of negotiation flowing from a meeting between u.s. president donald trump and is a gyptian counterpart abdel fattah el-sisi at which the us leader was asked for help in resolving the but a dispute between the countries. and this week the 2 presidents held a follow up phone call after which the white house released the statement president trump expressed

and around $220.00 rockets towards israel egypt and other international officials are working to mediate a ceasefire between israel hamas and islamic jihad harry posset joins us live from the israel gaza border so harry what have you been seeing there at the border and where do things stand with tamping this town. well as for what we're seeing and hearing indeed just in the last couple of minutes just before we came to where there were several loud crunching explosions coming from gaza which is a few kilometers behind me so the israeli airstrikes do continue and as you say there have been a further 7 deaths inside gaza as another strike you can hear in the background for the 7 deaths inside gaza during the course of this morning in 3 at least 3 separate strikes israel says that and indeed the policy health ministry of confirmed that at least one of those killed was a senior field commander for islamic jihad the message from israel is that the targets that they are concentrating on are islamic jihad sites and personnel and we are we're getting that message both in what they're targeting a

firing at least $220.00 rockets towards israel egypt and other international officials are working to mediate a cease fire between israel hamas and islamic jihad harry force it is on the israel gaza border hi there any sign of this calming down at all. no sign of that at school yet we've just been hearing some more crunches of explosions inside gaza so more israeli firepower being unleashed inside the gaza strip as you say 13 people have been killed so far during the course of wednesday israel says it's targeting islamic jihad fighters among those it says it has killed was a field commander. responsible for a group of fighters in the center of the gaza strip islamic jihad the palestinian authority and also confirmed that and there have been a large number of rockets being fired out every few minutes really over the last 2 or 3 hours and earlier in the day as well there was a big bear raj so there is no sign yet that this is coming down there are efforts underway as you say both through the united nations and egypt to try to mediate the big unanswered question so far is the exact extent to whi

sending almost 200 rockets towards israel egypt and other international officials are working to mediate a ceasefire between israel hamas and islamic jihad a fossa joins us live from the israel gaza border so mary what is the latest. well the rocket fire continues of gaza this morning just when we arrived at this location just about 5 kilometers north of the border there were several interceptions of rockets overhead the israeli military is saying some 220 rockets is the latest is the latest approximate number that have come out since the beginning of all this early on tuesday morning and the israeli air force continues to strike inside gaza as well since dawn this morning there being 7 further deaths of palestinians the that brings the toll up to 17 inside gaza since this latest escalation started israeli military is saying that they are into dictating islamic jihad fighters who would otherwise be firing rockets into israel the palace in health ministry is reporting those deaths as they happen what is also interesting about all of this is that so far israel is very much targeting islami

was speaking to the other 2 foreign ministers and to the mediation of the u.s. treasury secretary a very strong indication that they could be movement that after years of argument there is a possibility of some kind of agreement in the months to come. 8 people have been injured in a knife attack in the jordanian city of popular 2 isn't sports 3 mexicans and a swiss national were among those stats and smith reports from the jordanian capital amman. the one is the other as one tourist lies face down apparently bleeding heavily another tries to stop the blood flow. of a woman screams in spanish he's got a dagger. witnesses say a man jumped over a fence at the roman city n.j. rash and randomly slashed and stopped at people around a little girl who. was heading towards the care for tear and i was standing by the door behind me were all the tourists a little men to the cafeteria passed in front of me in a ling towards them slipped in instead me then backed away moving towards the policeman he gave the policeman a slight stir and tried to attack him from behind and i p

already been removed and that was ethiopia's insistence that it would not accept any 3rd party to mediate it insisted that any agreement would have to be reached between egypt sudan and itself however the fact that the foreign minister traveled to d.c. at the u.s. his invitation appears to indicate that there may be a willingness now by ethiopia to accept some kind of outside mediation in the form of the united states in this particular case so that is certainly a step forward now the other points that still need to be resolved essentially egypt long ago gave up any idea of halting construction of the dam what it's looking for is an agreement on how much water will be released from the dam what egypt once is not to see its supply of water coming down the nile being reduced because of that particular dam ethiopia continues to insist that the level of water within the dam is up to it to decide it is determined by local factors within ethiopia itself but certainly by the fact that ethiopia is now willing it would appear to talk with the presence of a mediator then this is a significant shift

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egypt more leverage now for these mediation efforts so as to say that there was probably not really an interest within hamas but also not within this well to further escalate the situation but of course it always remains very. truce or cease fire tanya thank you very much for bringing us up to date w's tanya kramer in jerusalem. now it's catch up on smaller stories making headlines around the world today germany has narrowly avoided entering a recession according to the latest statistics experts had expected growth to grind to a halt in the 3rd quarter u.s. china tariff dispute has helped drive germany's key manufacturing sector into a sharp downturn. students from mainland china are leaving hong kong university says lot of protests affect campuses many courses have been cancelled protesters have continued to build barricades and disrupt public life demanding that hong kong remain independent of mainland china. and new zealand lawmakers have voted in favor of legalizing euthanasia the final decision will now be put to the public in a referendum during the country's general election nex

to 0 doubt we'd actually found out that muslim intellectuals had already offered this when the mediations took place earlier this year as a possible solution to have broader peace between the 2 communities but just to clarify here is the way that this is being characterized at least in the indian media is that this is a side where a mosque wants to for hundreds of years and it's now a trust board of trustees going to decide how to build a temple there or simply what to do with the land. well how it's being understood here whether you talk about the indian press or whether we talk about the analysts that we speaking to is that it's going to be a board of trustees it will be with a board of trustees which will be formed in 3 months this we are clear on and i know this is that this board of trustees would go ahead with the construction of a temple in given di in. this analyst's is the reason behind this analyst's is is because the court has already clearly said that the muslim side the sunni walk board will get an alternative piece of land so that's where this analyst says is really emerging

proved this is already a tenuous cease fire bolivia's former president over morale is calling for un mediation to end the political crisis insist he's the legitimate president he's been forced into exile in mexico the disputed election results but the interim leader says morales will not be allowed to run in the next election you're going to go it alone i have plenty of confidence in the un because we've had extensive talks at the un secretary-general he has a lot of social conscience plenty of commitment to the poor he should be the mediator not just a facilitator peps accompanied by the catholic church and of pope francis is needed we should have you know thousands of protesters in chile back out on the streets there marking a years since an indigenous man was shot dead by police that's putting more pressure on the government on an almost 4 weeks of the ministrations international criminal court agreed to investigate crimes against rohingya muslims in myanmar more than 700000 fled to bangladesh in 2017 the i.c.c. says there is reason to believe crimes against humanity have been committed. an

egypt more leverage now for these mediation efforts so as to say that there was probably not really an interest within hamas but also not within this well to a further escalate the situation but of course it always remains very. truce or cease fire tanya thank you very much for bringing us up to date w's tanya kramer in jerusalem. germany has narrowly avoided entering a technical recession the economy grew by 0 point one percent in the last quarter surprising a list suit expected stagnation the data just came through a short while ago there were fears that europe's economic engine was headed for a recession after roast slowed in the previous quarter exports reliant germany has struggled as a result of the u.s. china trade war and slowing global demand. chelsea villany is tracking the data from germany's financial center frankford for chelsea is is this reason to celebrate it's certainly relief that germany doesn't fall into a technical recession but this report really illustrates the sort of to me of a mixed picture and the german economy in some aspects where it work could exports ros

|j think mediation effort has not worked?”ink it worked partially, but the fact that stand—off is still going on is not particularly encouraging. i think the protesters now have to make decisions. do they want to carry on with the protests this week 01’ carry on with the protests this week or should they themselves call a truce, because don't forget that next weekend we have local elections here in hong kong stopping in the past, carrie lam have said that those could be suspended if there was continuing violence and at the moment it doesn't seem to be any sign of the violence abating, so carrie lam might carry out that threat. if she does, then things can actually get an awful lot worse. do you get any sense that the police wa nt to you get any sense that the police want to get this over with and move into the university simply to reoccu py into the university simply to reoccupy all of it? we know they have occupied part of it but they wa nt to ta ke have occupied part of it but they want to take all very quickly?” think the l

talks can start, despite mediation efforts by egypt and the united nations.e diplomats on the un and. for us, there needs to be direct dialogue between the palestinians and the israelis. this flareup is different. israel normally blames hammes which controls gaza, for any violence in the region. but for the first time it is made the distinction between hammes and palestinian islamic jihad, an attempt to avoid further escalation, possibly. despite that, missiles are still flying and people are still dying. venice has been hit by severe flooding. the highest tide in more than 50 years has sent water levels in the canals up by at least 6 feet. the city's mayor says the cost of repairing the damage will run into hundreds of millions of euros. here's our rome correspondent mark lowen. italy's city of water has succumbed to it. venice, submerged by its highest tide in over 50 years. six feet, the second—highest since records began. st mark's square, with its byzantine basilica, drowning in water, its 12th century crypt flooded, no word yet on the priceless frescoes