i want to welcome nadeem and i want to than nadine and thank albert. that concludes my report. [applause.] i think nadine is here somewhere. if you want to come up and say a few words or wave so people know what you look like. >> if you could come to the microphone, please. >> thank you very much. i would like to thank ed for giving me this opportunity to serve the city. as he mentioned, transit is what i do. i took this on as a challenge, and i feel that i can help to bring this project to the finish line. thank you very much. >> thank you and welcome. with that we are now at public comment on items only on the director's report. if you have any comment you will have two minutes. >> he is the only speaker card on this topic. >> good afternoon. i just want to first say i remember meeting ed his first month in office. i never forget that. his door was open. once in a while i would send him e-mails and he addressed those. i only sent the e-mails on serious things. i did not try to bombard you. lately i did because there were issues from preventing cabs from serving the city and y

pulled out last year let's go live to paris now and correspondent then again barbara nadeem so this meeting seems to have come about as a result of a french proposal do we know anything more about it. well we seem to know the bare outlines because president mike home wednesday said that he made proposals either to soften the sanctions on iran or to offer some kind of a credit in the words of the french president a compensation mechanism to allow the people of iran to live better he's referring to the the effects that the sanctions the reimpose sanctions are having on the iranian economy of course those sanctions re-imposed after the u.s. pulled out of the deal last year and on thursday zarif and denounced what he called reckless u.s. multi-lateralism and he said that he'd been stressing the need for multilateralism and the rule of law will the rule of law is something that paris wants to see they want to see in iran meet its obligations because recently tehran's admitted that it's breached the levels that it's allowed to produce of enrich uranium which it says is for fuel for nuclear reacto

nadeem shad from our reality check team takes a look at five things we can do to help stop water shortagessource, but over 1 water is our most valuable resource, but over1 billion people currently lack but over1 billion people currently la ck a ccess but over1 billion people currently lack access to clean sources of it and our demand is growing every year. if we don't act now, the consequences could be catastrophic. by consequences could be catastrophic. by 2025, over 2 billion people could be facing severe water shortages. it's not that there isn't enough water on earth. over two—thirds is covered by ocean. but if we look at all the water on the planet, only about 3% is freshwater. at least 90% of that water is used for agriculture. the rest is for industrial use or for drinking. so if we're going to avoid running out of water, here's a view things we can do. we can conserve water by using more efficient appliances and by managing our daily usage better, but also we need to fundamentally rethink agriculture by growing crops that use less water, and using group irrigation two survives in e

security adviser john bolton will be receptive to any of these ideas is hard to predict right now nadeem thank you very much nadine correspondent in paris. the japanese prime minister shinzo army says he expects south korea to work to rebuild trust between the 2 nations this comes after seoul ended an intelligence sharing agreement emitted to speak over compensation for south koreans who were forced into wartime labor by the japanese the pact was aimed at sharing information about north korea and its missile and nuclear program for the 2 countries locked in this space around over trade and as i've mentioned japan's wartime atrocities of the last century last month tokyo restricted exporters from supplying south korean companies the chemicals necessary to make smartphones and displays screens south korea is the world's largest supplier of computer chips and smartphone displays tokyo has also decided to strip seoul of preferential trade status citing national security grounds south korea says the measures are in retaliation for court rulings that altered japanese companies to compensate vi

the french themselves so it's not quite clear how much progress they have made is the main takeaway nadeem with these sorts of talks when we especially when we have not much concrete that simply the lines of communication are still open and i'm imagining that might be important so mccaughan given that the g. 7 is literally around the corner. definitely right i mean it's not just president mccraw who believes that it's essential to preserve the deal it's the other european signatories and china and russia as well who are behind it the question is how do you go about saving it given the tough line being taken in washington now president micro and his foreign ministry have been criticized for dealing directly with.