while the man from china who is considered here by many investors as the new mr ford from china he really needs to get a truss on the one hand from the employees at the headquarter of time now that's why is there we are also hearing that he will be meeting with top officials from the german government as well because yes investors from china there is always this question how reliable they are dacha bank in the past have problems for example with a also their biggest shareholder from china so yeah their homework mostly is to gain trust here in germany and you called in frankfurt thank you. in persisting energy deficits in south asia that's the idea behind a new pipeline delivering natural gas from turkmenistan into afghanistan pakistan and india the project has been planned for more than twenty years but conflict and political instability in the region proved hurdles to development now construction has started in the afghan section and even the islamist taliban has signaled support. much is riding on the transit ghana's than pipeline natural gas from turkmenistan is supposed to help allevi

because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life is part of life it's culture news has never been more available it's a constant barrage that they put every day but the message is a simplistic you have brain good logical rational person crazy amounts and misinformation is rife dismissal and does not well documented accusation and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narratives at this time on al-jazeera. at least a hundred eighty two people killed since monday most of them civilians as syrian and russian planes pound rebel held areas of eastern and. i don't tell you this is out.

>> pass over to mr. ford to do that. >> no problem. so after the hearing at this committee two weeks ago today, we met also with staff and with supervisor peskin and we tried to put together amendments to the ordinance for the commission to consider at their meeting tomorrow that would address some of the important concerns that you all had raised in the last meeting. so i'll go through them in order by code section. the first is to the contributor card. we heard the concern that having the contributor card be a mandatory requirement for all contributions of $100 or more, i think supervisor peskin, you had raised the concern that would discourage small dollar contributions and so we thought that making this voluntary, but still allowing the committees that received the card to benefit from a rebuttable presumption, the contributor does not violate the code sections that still address the same concerns. the version of the ordinance that the commission will look at tomorrow makes that contributor card voluntary. so that's the first chang

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the last little bit of information i heard in my office with mr. ford was that they wanted to put it on the ballot tomorrow. which means this that they have a handful of dates to take it off. that is the wrong path. i would offer if the president is willing and in the spirit of the amendments that are made by commissioner tang and the ones i am about to make to offer the concept of a joint meeting to see if we can get it done quickly and as i said at the last meeting, get it done right. again, not to sound like i am picking on anybody, but staff at the ethics commission is holding new staff. it is relatively new. you gentlemen are relatively new. the reality is, you guys have been working on the piece of legislation for quite some time. i mean for over a year. and then it comes to you and we have a compressed time frame to discharge our job and up until this week, i personally communicated my disappointment that the level of communication between staff has not been everything it could be. i am appreciative of the meeting we had this week and the fact th

quick look at this guy tells me that he's reasonably stable and his life is not in acute danger as mr ford could fit. the boy his upper body covered with inadequately treated and burns arrived with another injured boy critical. if it's right that we're in if a mortar round landed near him a couple of days ago and he sustained these wounds it will be. ok. sure. he will take off the bandages say it. was fifteen year old our boss was at home when the shells hit the doctors want to know where his parents are. get it all ok and then they were separate from that that doesn't on our own. how i. know by them but then thought of on the job not that they all did ok. the second boy has a bullet wound in the face but he's alive so i go well. i think it's him and a lot of. the doctors don't know him. the boys have any family left the unit will make light of them here are accompanied or their parents are dead according to the boy so as for us that means we don't just treat their wounds we have to inform the un that we have unaccompanied minors here. because the un has a special protocol for this situati

well the man from china who is considered by many investors as the new mr ford from china he really needs to get a truss on the one hand from the employee keys at the headquarters of that's why he is there we're also hearing that he will be meeting with top officials from the german government as well because guess investors from china there is always this question how reliable they are dots of bank in the in the past had problems for example with him and also their biggest shareholder from china so yeah their whole work mostly is to gain trust here in germany when you called in frankfurt thank you . well with venezuela's ball of our trading one hundred thousand to one dollar on the black market some venezuelans have become creative about ways to make money out of them anyway one trader took piles of value over the border to colombia where he craps them into fashion accessories each item brings up to fifteen dollars huge markup from the face value of the items and then there is the graphic designer first of all who has sold thousands of his illustrated all of us to customers at home and a

language here building because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life it is a part of life it's culture in twenty twelve al-jazeera traveled to iraq people here are definitely scared to speak on camera they're saying that if they talk to us they think they'll be arrested down the line to take the pulse of a country ravaged under us occupation some of these graves are completely destroyed it's one of the most holy and sacred sites in all of iraq could turn into a battleground between the mighty army and the americans six years on rewind returns to iraq after the americans at this time on all dizzy. we al jazeera is our eyes and ears on the ground in southern africa identifying all the crucially important stories for the audience that's incredibly. you're watching our deserves a whole raft of these raw top stories athletes from north and south korea a unified careers flag for the opening of the winter olympics a charity south korea's president moved to use these terribly to reac

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we're asked mr ford a car to write all this down for us so we can bring the matter up with the head of germany's domestic intelligence service i asked mr marson about germany's cooperation with the u.n. regarding north korea. so your question because i know nothing about this. we do as a rule reply to all inquiries we received by the foreign ministry. but i can provide no information on this particular matter. and you can prepare first. as has been said such inquiries are answered as a rule but that's a huge allegation it is indeed an allegation but from my perspective i would not say it is a serious one because i presume that if it were the president himself would have been approached or i would have been approached by the foreign ministry. and i haven't heard that that has happened. does not amount to a clear denial the suspicion remains that germany has failed to support un monitors the way it should now. it's not just small parts that have made their way into kim jong un's missiles things all kinds of goods under north korea by road done don't. we know that get delivered the questi

language he had been because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life here part of life is culture. sporadic attacks and reports of syrian troops trying to push their way into eastern huta during the second humanitarian forms. you're watching al jazeera live from london also coming up on the program on the olive branch for the taliban the afghan president to recognize them as a legitimate political party songbird but students return to the florida school where a gunman killed. two weeks ago plus. u.k. prime minister good grief anger in the u.k. is the e.u. proposes a common area across the northern ireland border. and campaigners celebrate is a supermarket in amsterdam the world's first. thank you for joining us syrian government troops are reported to have launched a ground assault on the edge of eastern who spied a russian order pause in hostilities footage from inside the damascus suburb appears to show renewed airstrikes on the rebel held town clave russia and syria were s

both president and mrs. ford asked him to deliver a eulogy at their respective funerals and he did. and he is presently living in grand rapids, michigan, where he is researching and writing his next biography about president gerald ford. he is a prolific writer who has led a fascinating life of scholarship and leadership. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our first speaker of the series, richard norton smith. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you, very much. extraordinarily generous introduction. i apologize for the cane. though i'm told there is no community in america where it is also necessary to apologize for a cane. consequence of a very prolonged recovery from foot surgery. in about an hour you can decide whether it was surgery to remove my foot from my mouth. it is a delight to be here. practically so because in west michigan, the last time i checked, it was about 6 degrees and snowing. but even more because of the encouragement one draws from the fact that there are so many people in this country whose intellectual curiosity is not automatically gratified by stairing at a

for the record has ju record -- mr. ford has just addressed. >> i would move that we would adopt the amend. >> i second. >> there's a motion and it's been seconded. commissioners, any further comment or discussion before we go to public comment and vote? >> i mean, i i thought -- i think there was merit in supervisor peskin's belief that the swearing that was necessary, that the contributor -- that if i were a $150 donor, and i was asked to sign a card swearing that i haven't violated sections of the cpro, which i might -- i have no idea what they are, i might say to heck with it. so i think it makes sense. it's a committee who has the benefit of getting [ inaudible ] and if he wants to run the risk without them, that's his decision. >> so let me comment. i don't think it's a burden, but i don't know. unless it's been used somewhere where there's information as to whether it constitutes a burden, and i would ask through the chair that -- not today, of course, but the staff specifically investigate other jurisdictions which m

language he had been because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life it is a part of life it's culture. it was oil upon which modern day venezuela was a stop that. for over a century this lucrative resorts has divided the people of less than cursed with the world's largest reserves. charting the impact of industrialization and the legacies of its prominent leaders we shed light on the troubles afflicting venezuela today the big picture the battle for venezuela at this time on al-jazeera . a magnitude six point four earthquake rocks the east coast of taiwan two people have been killed and more than one hundred others injured. so this is al jazeera live from london also.

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a more detailed report on this in a few months time we will have to leave it there for now though mr ford is great to get your thoughts your insights your analysis on this and petty for joining us live from london thank you. now african refugee and israel's hallmark detention center have gone on hunger strike in protest against the imprisonment of seven ever trains they refused to leave the country where you're going to be later. on the man of the first to be jailed under new deportation scheme many of the thirty seven thousand african refugees and israel have been given three months to take up a cash offer to leave for wander or face indefinite time in jail or burn a smith has more from tel aviv. the hardest jobs to fill in israel's restaurant industry. people like dhaka who walked from darfur in sudan to israel eight years ago we go to the situation there was very difficult for us to see death every day i saw the death of my father with my own eyes you can't go back from here there's no way back no return but tom is in israel illegally now he faces deportation his boss says those refuge

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language he had been because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life it is a part of life it's culture in twenty twelve al-jazeera traveled to iraq people here are definitely scared to speak on camera they're saying that if they talk to us they think they'll be arrested down the line to take the pulse of a country ravaged under us occupation some of these graves are completely destroyed it's one of the most holy and sacred sites in all of iraq had turned into a battleground between them and the army and the americans six years on rewind returns to iraq after the americans at this time on all just see. as bombs rained down on east and for a fourth consecutive day syria accuses the u.s. led coalition of war crimes for attacking its fight has. a low i'm maryam namazie this is al jazeera lie.

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that part of the plea agreement will be testimony that mr gates will provide demonstrating that mr man of ford was a foreign agent that he knew he was operating on behalf of the government of ukraine or at least a political party if ukraine didn't register gates were reportedly gain a more lenient prison sentence in exchange for his cooperation former national security adviser michael flynn and campaign advisor george papadopoulos both pleaded guilty late last year to lying to the f.b.i. and on feb seventeenth miller filed charges against thirteen russian nationals for conspiring to help trump when the twenty sixteen election although the indictment did not allege that trump's team knowingly colluded the president's attempts to cast doubt on the investigation could be undermined by the guilty pleas it discredits more and more the claim that this is just fake news there's nothing there but there's nothing there why are people pleading guilty the russia scandal has been a growing stain all the trump administration infuriating the president who perceives the investigation as an attack on the legi

mr. tario. and miss ford. >> supervisor kim, supervisor fewer, connie ford, i'm speaking on behalf of san francisco labor council. f.f. clout, the non-profit i run in the labor council and others who couldn't make it today. mostly talk about the affordable housing situation on this project. we are thrilled that 40% is the highest we have had so far, as we grow, and we are also thrilled by the levels going from not taking any economic position that out does and out sources another one, so the housing for the 45% a.m.i. up to the 150%, take the teachers as well as their para professionals into account. and the 2 or 3 bedrooms is also an extending position that families are welcome in this project. i guess i want to say that we'll be back, because 50%, 40% is good, it's a good standard bearer, and next time we want more, you know, because this housing crisis is in, where we are in a crisis and we can continually push this envelope. i would love to talk further at some point about schools and the necessary of schools having been a parent and children go through schools and now have grandchildren in the

mr. president, i am really excited to be here the i know i am being consider ford both portraits, she saidned to me, and she said, i'm really hoping that you and i can work together. ha-ha. you maybe had a particular interest in painting her. >> yeah. yeah, yes. i mean he was asking questions as well. and she was like, no, no, no. >> unlike wily, president obama's portrait, amy cheryl had been largely unknown. this was her big break. >> you had taken out loans. you waited tables. tell us how game changing this moment is? >> i am relieved that i can pay back my school loans. it is not about hard work. you have to put the work in. that doesn't mean you will make it. i've mean hustling for that long, it kind of chips away at your self-esteem. and then the breakthrough comes. you are like that's really wlu i am. her models exclusively black and never smiling are usually strangers she meets on the street. not former first ladies. >> as the process onto on, with the first lady, did you get more comfortable? >> i did. yeah. we had two sittings. but you are still always a little nervous having to

ford north america is leaving the company immediately. this is following an investigation by the company into complaints about the conduct of mr. nair. been in charge of ford north america since june of 2017 the company is not detailing what the complaints were that led to the investigation of mr. nair, but in the departure, there's a quote from raj nair, where he says i have not exhibited leadership qualities and behaviors consistent with the conduct that's expected of the executives at the ford motor company, so, again, raj nair is out as president of ford north america following an investigation into his conduct kelly, back to you >> phil, real quickly, being president of north america sounds like it's one of the most important roles of ford, right >> caller: clearly one of the top roles at ford. now, is he at that very next echelon underneath the ceo no, but he's pretty darn close, and prior to this, he was in charge of product development, chief technical office, and at ford for a number of years putting this in context with regard to ford we know all corporations are looking at the conduct of their employees, not just their exec