deeply implicated by it it's clear that she can't now avoided some reports suggesting that so michael phelan was pushed that he was forced to resign by the prime minister who has said that she will demand the same of any minister found guilty of such misconduct so michael phelan in his letter of resignation to the prime minister saying that you know look what the conduct may have been considered acceptable ten or fifteen years ago clearly is not now the culture he said has changed he was accused he's admitted putting his hand on the knee of a journalist three times during a dinner in two thousand and two was among the fallout on thursday senior conservatives calling for a sea change for much deeper change for the prime minister to use this moment to draw a line under what has been described as a sort of boy's own locker room culture essentially that men in positions of seniority of power within the parliamentary infrastructure using their power improperly over colleagues over junior staff and volunteers the fifteen thousand or so pass holders who come and go from the powers of westminster ev

streets in protest gavin williamson has been appointed britain's new defense minister he replaces michael phelan who resigned after allegations emerged about inappropriate sexual behavior fallon's departure is the latest twist in a growing scandal over abuse in the u.k.'s corridors of power here in germany more than a month after the national election and the country is still struggling to form a coalition government and there's no sign of a breakthrough the parties the political parties are trying to hammer out an agreement on a host of issues but negotiations are becoming as we hear it increasingly contentious the greens have accused the free democrats of using populist platitudes the free democrats have called for more mutual respect. negotiators arriving for the latest round of exploratory coalition talks foreign and security policy is one area where the parties have widely differing positions the c.s.u. wants a complete home to negotiations on turkey joining the e.u. . politic in the foreign policy it's clear to us that we need a commitment that turkey will not be able to acquire full membe

deeply implicated by it it's clear that she can't now avoided some reports suggesting that so michael phelan was pushed that he was forced to resign by the prime minister who has said that she will demand the same of any minister found guilty of such misconduct so michael phelan in his letter of resignation to the prime minister saying that look what the conduct may have been considered acceptable ten or fifteen years ago clearly is not now the culture he said was changed he was accused he's admitted putting his hand on the knee of a journalist three times during a dinner in two thousand and two with among the fallout on thursday senior conservatives calling for a sea change for much deeper change for the prime minister to use this moment to draw a line under what has been described as a sort of boy's own locker room culture essentially that men in positions of seniority of power within the parliamentary infrastructure using their power improperly over colleagues over junior staff and volunteers the fifteen thousand or so pass holders who come and go from the powers of westminster every day

still the conservative party is seriously implicated cannot now avoid it reports are that sir michael phelan was forced to resign told to resign by the prime minister who has made it clear that she would demand no less of any minister found guilty of this sort of misconduct michael fallon in his resignation letter saying that the sort of conduct that was perhaps deemed acceptable ten or fifteen years ago no longer is the culture has changed he said he's accused of course or admits putting his hand on the knee of a journalist three times over dinner back in two thousand and two senior conservatives the fallout today within the party calling on the prime minister to use this moment to draw a line under this scandal to demand much deeper change in the culture a new conservative code of conduct for instance to end what one senior conservative described as a sort of boy's own locker room culture inside parliament that dates back many many years. essentially what this means is men principally in positions of power using their power improperly over colleagues junior staff and volunteers there are s

in the attack the british defense secretary michael phelan has quit saying is conduct has fallen below the standards expected of the position it's the first resignation a sexual harassment scandal at westminster. in recent days our legations have been made about m.p.'s conduct including my own many of these allegations have been false but i realize that in the past i may have fallen below the high standards that we require of the armed forces that i have the honor to represent i have reflected in our my position in government and i am therefore resigning as defense secretary britain and israel will be celebrating the same ten re of the belfour declaration in coming hours israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is on his way to the u.k. to meet prime minister to resume a to mark the anniversary. thursday marks an international day focused on ending crimes against journalists the u.n. estimates eight hundred reporters have been killed while doing their jobs in the past decade but only one in ten cases has led to conviction mexico and syria or the world to most dangerous countries for m

defense secretary has quit and they're developing scandal of a sexual harassment at westminster michael phelan says his behavior may or fallen short of the standards expected of the u.k.'s military he's been accused of improper conduct towards a journalist fifteen years ago in recent days allegations have been made about m.p.'s conduct including my own many of these allegations have been false but i realize that in the past i may have fallen below the high standards that we require of the armed forces that i have the honor to represent. i have reflected now on my position in government and i am therefore resigning as defense secretary miss peru beauty contestants have turned a pageant into a protest they quoted figures on violence against women and a warning this report from ariana son she has includes some graphic images. revealing their body measurements they had a message. my name is camilla can i call her and i represent the department of labor my figures are two thousand two hundred two cases of reported fame aside in the past nine years in my country my thanks. to candidates walked in po

stockpiling supplies but are now being forced to dig for drinking water the british defense secretary michael phelan has quit saying his conduct has fallen below the standards expected of the position it is the first resignation in a sexual harassment scandal at west minister. in recent days ago sions have been made about conduct including. many of these allegations of being false but i realise that in the past i may have fallen below the high standards that we require of the armed forces that i have to represent. i have reflected now my position in government and i am therefore resigning as defense secretary angry mobs protesters of mob members of the ousted catalan parliament to arrived in madrid late wednesday head of a court hearing expected shortly the spanish court wants to hear from members of the sect catalan cabinet are facing rebellion and sedition charges over this ascension declaration last week the deposed president of the region colors pritam wants lawyer says his client won't be at the court hearing the number of children and i jerry are dying of pollution related illnesses is on the

priority prime minister to resign may appointed conservative chief whip gavin williamson after michael phelan quit the role of allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior. so immense privilege to be appointed secretary of state the defense and what we need to be doing is continuing to focus on country and making sure that our national security is before from today everything that we do and we have some good graces i'm services you such a privilege to be able to do. the presidents of south sudan and sudan have met in khartoum to try to ease tense relations its third visit to the sudanese capital since the country's split in two thousand and eleven following a twenty two year civil war the leaders addressed border disputes and mutual accusations of supporting rebels in each other's territory sudan also agreed to help south sudan restart production in oil fields destroyed by the conflict now throughout the past decade more than eight hundred journalists have been killed while doing their jobs through the cases have ever been solved and in mexico two thousand and seventeen is said to be a record

investments in those defense issues ok after the resignation of a disgraced defense secretary michael phelan to resumes chief whip said i was absolutely flabbergasted when the prime minister brought me in and asked me to be the second is david defense were you one of the people anxiously googling to find out who this man was when you heard of his appointment well i was very interested in who's going to take over i have to meet i was slightly surprised when i mean i only knew of him as a man who keeps a tarantula and was a chief whip and so i was surprised and i did google him and look him up and see things but then i thought to myself well you know the last outgoing defense secretary i'm afraid was disingenuous and buried his head in the sand about defense kept saying there's lots of money everything's getting better the navy's getting bigger which was all clearly wrong until the last few days. he was in office when suddenly you know it's like the road to damascus because he was about to go and he said we need more money in defense you know it's no good we need it so i thought well if he's b

been held in new york for the eight people killed in the attack the british defense secretary michael phelan has quit saying his conduct has fallen below the standards expected of the position it's the first resignation a sexual harassment scandal at westminster. in recent days are legations have been made about m.p.'s conduct including my own. many of these allegations have been falls but i realize that in the past i may have fallen below the high standards that we require of the armed forces that i have the honor to represent i have reflected in all my position in government and i am the full resigning as defense secretary but then israel will be celebrating the same ten re of the balfour declaration in coming hours israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is on his way to the u.k. to meet prime minister to resume a to mark the anniversary. thursday marks an international day focused on ending crimes against journalists the u.n. estimates eight hundred reporters have been killed while doing their jobs in the past decade but any one in ten cases has led to conviction mexico and syria of th

priority prime minister to resume a appointed conservative chief whip gavin williamson after michael phelan quit the role over allegations of inappropriate sexual behavior. so immense privilege to have been appointed secretary of state the defense and what we need to be doing is continuing to focus on countering dash making sure this our national security is a forefront of everything that we do and we have some of the world's greatest album services you such a privilege to be able to get. to us b. one bombers have flown over the korean peninsula they were joined by south korean and japanese fighter jets the u.s. says it was a shared jeweled exercise over the south korean airspace but it comes at a time of heightened tension with north korea president trump and senior officials are due to visit so on choose day as part of an asia tall film yang has consistently said such military exercises are provocations. you know we've released documents recovered from osama bin laden's compound shows secret dealings between iran and kind to the cia he says the files including videos documents on photos p

housing, and approximately 17 acres of property at ocean beach and phelan avenues in san francisco known as balboa reservoir. >> michael carlin, deputy g.m. i will be brief on this item since there was 160 pages of information in your packages that i assume you've all read. i thought i would answer a couple of questions raised by people. the first that keeps come thing up is city college in san francisco. and city college of san francisco has been a partner of ours in this process since 2015. over the last two years, we've been working together to basically find a developer for the site and select the developer. they knew what our plans were. they were instrumental in helping to get the request for qualifications developed and approved and the requests for proposals approved. we've been transparent with city college during this time. and i think that's a significant thing that's lost on the public that they did know about this project and it's important. i also want to point out that basically, there's been some confusion on notification to other parties about the potential for this underutilized property for them to b