out of the building we understand that this high national election commission is going to asian that is concerned that with with. voters for the upcoming presidential and parliamentary the parliamentary elections before the end of this year and conduct the elections was suggested by. and backed government of national. and also united nations support mission in libya so many officials organizations were getting greedy and were really encouraging conducting. elections before the end. of this year but so far we cannot confirm. that is behind this attack but it seems that the attackers who managed to get into the high national election ok commission as has have tried to send a message tried to say to. conducting the elections. we have to meet the thank you very much for the update an investigation in brazil has uncovered allegations of abuse of young gymnasts by a former coach challenges him as john home reports. dozens of brazilian gymnasts have accused to form a coach of the national team of sexual abuse among them the pan american games gold medalist but. that psychological pressure o

to contain this situation and now it's kind of this is still very tense around the high national election commission and they're getting. checkpoint in front of the commission. they're stopping active vehicles and they're ok to apply security measures in that area much more just briefly so how is this attack likely then to affect the registration process for the elections later this year this is a huge. hit to the process because this commission has been concerned with it has been working for the last one year and a half. preparing them doing its job to prepare voters to register for the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections that was supposed to be before the end of this year and now after the attack i think this is a huge huge. to do the work of the commission and also the institutions that have been that have been cooperating with the national election commission like the united nations mission and also internationally recognised in libya ok mark what do i have thank you very much indeed for the update when earlier we spoke to an os political analyst and director of the tripoli based s

to attack a teen aged themselves inside premises of the high national election commission engaged with their security forces at the gate and killed a number of the security forces so called in a similarly believes that it's behind this attack we understand that the high national election commission has been supported by international organizations like the united nations support mission in libya and also by other united nations backed internationally to nice to sions in libya like the national government there the house of representatives and eastern city of tobruk and the high state council in tripoli here so it seems that there is some. kind of going to zation which is against conducting the elections as we know mr that this commission has been preparing for the for connecting problem entry and presidential elections in libya to end the crisis. before the end of this here so clearly there was security outside the building probably inside the building the attackers knew that and they came prepared. exactly i witnesses in order shall district that's where the high national commission i

in libya, two suicide bombers killed at least 14 people at the national election commission in trili. islamic state group claimed rg esponsibility, say was trying to prevent a nation-wide vote later this year. vonideo postene by libyan television stations showed smoke rldising from the bg. the election commission said its electoral database was undamaged. the u.s. has transferoud a prisoneof guantanamo bay, for the first time under president trump. ahmed al-rbi was sent to a rehabilitation program in his niaative saudi ar he pleaded guilty in a 2002 attack on a french oil tanker. 40 detainees are left at guantanamo. protesters were out in full force across armenia today, after parliament rejected the opposition leader serving as prime minister. his supporters blocked major roads and ministry buildings in a national strike. this on the heels of weeks of protests against corruption. later, the opposition leader called off the protests after the ruling party said parliament will vote again next tuesday. palestinian president mahmoud abbas is under fire after suggesting european jews have

big majority in parliament in effect ending six decades of rule government by the national front the election commission saying official results has the opposition so far winning i think it's hundred thirteen out of the two hundred twenty two seats in the parliament the national front. that's in our party has so far won seventy nine is a stunning defeat and it also makes marty a mohamad at ninety two years old the world's oldest elected leader let's just listen in to the prime minister the former prime minister one should say. elect a thing to give my profound stinks. to a leader is often does a national his party. that initial level. also look. at the grassroots level and the friends in those initial know who have worked. day and night. to prepare the programs and activities that. are connected with the general election. since that took over the role. in two zero zero nine. the government tried. as best as they could do to raise. the quality of life of the people and also to. as a team to future so they would be better for everyone and that future generations. nearly. three million jobs have been creat

shiite cleric and solder won the most seats in national parliamentary elections that's according to final results released by the country's electoral commission last week's vote was marked by record low voter turnout. italy's anti establishment party five star has reached a coalition deal with the far right league the two parties in our handling over who will be the next prime minister the g. to present a nominee for approval by its lease president on monday. german chancellor angela merkel and russian president vladimir putin have held talks in saatchi after months of tension the two leaders found some common ground over opp holding the iran nuclear deal and implementing the north stream to gas pipeline which is the project that will allow russia to export more natural gas to more than europe. well turning now to other news in cuba has begun two days of mourning for the victims of friday's plane crash more than one hundred passengers and crew died in the disaster but authorities say three women were pulled alive from the wreckage the plane came down their home vanished shortly after taking off its cuba's worst aviation accident in three deca

the attack came as the electoral commission is working to register new voters across voters ahead of a national electiono be held by the end of the year. this is em-ad al-sayah, chair of the commission. >> this targeted the libyan people. it did not target the commission. what a targeted was the future of the libyan people and the power of choice. the united states has returned thousands of ancient artifacts looted from iraq and illegally acquired by the u.s.-based christian craft chain store hobby lobby. wednesday's handover of 3,800 artifacts to iraq's ambassador including -- artifacts, including body bolt, to iraq's ambassadador in washingtgton cae arly a year after hobbbby lobbby agreed to pay a $3 million fine, after it spent over $1.5 million in 2010 to purchase artifacts from a dealer based in the united arab emirates. the sales violated a ban on the sale of iraqi cultural artifacts in place since 2004. hobby lobby's owners are conservative christians who recently opened a museum of the bible in washington, d.c. a 2014, hobby lobby won landmark decision at the supreme cocourt which ruleled privat

cleric mcdonnell solder has won the most seats in national parliamentary elections as according to final results released by the country's electoral commission last week's vote was marked by record low turnout. german chancellor angela merkel and russian president vladimir putin have held talks in sochi after months of tension the two leaders found some common ground over upholding the iran nuclear deal and implementing the north stream two gas pipeline which is the project that will allow russia to export more of natural gas to northern europe italy's anti establishment party five star has reached a coalition deal with the far right league the two parties are now haggling over who will be the next prime minister to do to present a nominee for approval by italy's president on monday. here in germany a nineteen year old man has been charged after an assault last month in berlin on a man wearing a jewish skullcap the suspect an asylum seeker from syria yelled jew in arabic and whipped at the victim with a belt. to the united states now where residents in the town of santa fe taxes are reeling after nine students and a teacher were killed in a

elections commissions. i urge you to appropriate the $4 million we asked the election commission to ask you for. i think san francisco can be a leader in the nation here and it can succeed where travis county failed by building this project in potions, which is what travis county did not try to do. they abandoned their project because they got rfp submissions for what they tried to commission but not all of them. they threw in the towel. we can build a vote by mail system first. i wanted to mention, as some commenters have mentioned before me, there are already open source election related systems in production in other states, new hampshire has a system called prime three they use. and colorado had a system built this last year called colorado to outsidity their elections. we already have software for voting for making ballots and we have it for auditing elections. we need the missing middle. that's what i urge san francisco to build. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker. >> hello. my name is mary ryan. i'm a san francisco native and a volunteer with the california clean money campaign. i want to thank you for taking the time this morning to he

senator durbin: federal election commission says expressly that regulations prohibit foreign nationals from directing, dictating, control, or directly or indirectly participating in the decisionmaking process of any person with regard to any election related activities in the united states. so there is a red flag or red union jack whatever you want to call it. that should make it clear that we're in a territory here that may be, may be a violation of law. you have said that the involvement of cambridge and successor organizations and russia came after you left, is that correct? mr. wylie: can you clair phi at you mean by -- my experience directly as it relates to luke oil, as relates to understanding the research that was being done in terms of the focus groups and all that. it senator durbin: the use of information by the russians in the election campaign -- mr. wylie: sorry. i misunderstood. yes. senator durbin: that happened some other place or after you left? mr. wylie: yes. i was not aware at the time that there was activities in russia to influence the united states elections. se

elected officials could take. number one, the national criminal justice commission. there is a need to establish a national criminal justice commission. this would not be just another study the establishment of such committee would set for a strategic blueprint pour criminal justice to guide efforts to protect our communities for years to come. the last commission was created in 1965 and produced landmark changes for the criminal justice system. training. law enforcement officers need training to identify, investigate and report hate crimes. train something also needed to help understand victims language to understand what questions to ask. enhance community and police relations. positive relations between the law enforcement and community will encourage to report hate crimes and enhance reporting. provide additional incentives for states and localities to report crime data, particularly hate crimes to the fbi. specialized units, funding to create specialized hate crime units and help agencies team up to develop a multiagency task force. speak out against hate crimes

in the exit poll that rte, the irish national broadcaster, commissioned, the main thing that influenced people's votes in this electionempathy they felt with these women who were brave to tell their stories about travelling for a termination. and this country that we have grown up in, it is a nation of storytellers, we have a word for a person who told stories but there was silence about these issues for so many decades. i think people around the world might be thinking, "hang on, how can it happen so quickly?" if you look at it, i described it as it happened gradually and then suddenly but one of the effects of the eighth amendment which was introduced in 1983 was it acted as a censor, not only over issues of abortion but all issues relating to family and reproductive rights. here in ireland in 2018, we still have no laws guard —— governing idea, surrogacy, embryo transfer, all of those hugely important issues because of the huge shame and stigma and failure to tackle that and it's remarkable that what women found and the men that support them who are also affected by this, they found their voice and they were able t

there's an unwritten law here with you commission not to interfere with decisions that are nationally made for example the french electionslast year although there was a clear preference in the european institutions for him under with michael who were instantly became president they didn't say that too loudly even if it was against money in the pan the far right populist of the fullness and in france because they wanted to keep out of it they didn't want to influence the election neither one way nor the other way or take the bricks and referendum same thing i clearly remember the head of the e.u. commission to refusing to take a stand on that and by the way after what i said today head of the e.u. commission did react along those lines in a twitter message she said italy is a founding member of the e.u. that will and will continue on its european path italy deserves respect. no different interpretation there barbara how worried are the italians that the current political standoff could spark potentially another financial crisis. the funny thing is that this message particularly has not reached italy at all what happens he

election, according to the country's electoral commission. the populist cleric is a long—time adversary of the united states and the election puts him in position to pick iraq's prime minister. the united nationsisrael used completely disproportionate force against palestinians protesting the opening of the new us embassy in jerusalem. zeid ra'ad al—hussein was addressing a special session of the united nation's human rights council which had been requested by arab states in response to the shootings. more now on our main news, the royal wedding which takes place in around nine hours' time. we are counting down. 0ur correspondent andy moore is spending the night in windsor and has been talking to people who've already bagged their space to watch the day's events. there certainly are a lot of people here. you can see the castle floodlit behind me in the distance. as you say, we are here on long walk, which has been renamed by some people here as long wait. there are a lot of people camping out tonight, fairly chilly this evening but people are bedding down and getting ready for the big day later on. let's talk to one family, three generations of royal watchers here. first of all, let's talk to

election, according to the country's electoral commission. the populist cleric is a long—time adversary of the united states and the election puts him in position to pick iraq's prime minister. the united nationst palestinians protesting the opening of the new us embassy in jerusalem. zeid ra'ad al hussein was addressing a special session of the united nation's human rights council which had been requested by arab states in response to the shootings. the former spy sergei skripal has been discharged from hospital, although police are refusing to comment on his whereabouts. mr skripal was poisoned more than two months ago with a nerve agent in salisbury. it's understood that he is able to walk but is not completely well. nasa's admitted a failed mission of sorts on the international space station. one of the crew ran into difficulties on a spacewalk, telling houston "we have a problem." andy beatt reports. a view to remember. 400 kilometres above planet earth. definitely one to the scrap. and after some routine maintenance on the international space station, time to this astronaut to reach his camera. but plans to record the spacewalk for posterity hit a snag. houston, i have a question about t

our elections and inspire other communities across california and the nation to improve the way that they do elections. finally, i would like to emphasize my deep commitment to serving on this commission. to the very best of my ability. i believe public service is a privilege and it should not be taken lightly. when i will close by saying how grateful i am once again to be recommended for your appointment to the elections commission. i care deeply about san francisco boston's democratic paul sent -- process and i want to do my part to ensure fair and inclusive elections. thank you. >> clerk: thank you very much. i don't have any other people lined up for this item. any comments or questions from the board? >> i want to congratulate you. i know you will do a fantastic job and i'm very excited to see you taking on this role. one of the things that we have appreciated in the past when we have had our appointee is due the commission, lives in different ways that you can continue to engage us. i'm sure this came up in the rules committee as well, but, you know, we would like to do a better job making sure our students are engaged and registered and supporting them in their civic engagement

elected officials could take. number one, the national justice commission, there is a need to establish this.is would not just be another study. establishment such a committee would set forth a strategic blueprint for criminal justice that would guide efforts to protect our communities for years to come. the last one was created in 1965 and produce landmark changes for the criminal justice system. training peer law-enforcement agents these need training. training is also needed to help understand the victims culture, language and what questions to ask. enhancing community police relations. positive relationships between law enforcement and communities will encourage members to report hate crimes, and minimize the chances of retaliatory crimes. provide incentives, particularly hate crimes to the fbi. specialized units, funding to create units or to help agencies team up to develop multi agency taskforces. speak out against hate crimes. the president, members of congress, state and local officials all need to condemn acts of bigotry every time they can. and on behalf of the -- i conclude by tha

election commission. pennsylvania congressman tom marino is another, up to be the nation's drug czar. he dropped out after it was revealed he helped guide legislation that weakened the dea. he's still on capitol hill. if haspel withdraws or gets rejected, she could continue in her current spot, her post, as deputy cia director. we shall see about that. first, let's figure out what is going on with her actual nomination. kaitlan collins is at the white house, barbara starr is at the pentagon. what are you hearing about haspel from your post over there? >> reporter: there is a significant difference between gina haspel and some of the other cases. there is no question in anybody's mind we have seen that gina haspel is eminently qualified for the job. she's served in the intelligence community for several decades, some under cover. her qualifications are applauded by republicans and democrats, former cia directors who are opposed to president trump, her qualifications are not the issue per se. the issue at hand for gina haspel is her role during the george w. bush administration. in what

electoral commission headquarters in tripoli at least one suicide bomber blew himself up as other armed men tried to storm the building people were there to register to vote in the country's national election expected later this year islamic state has claimed it was behind the attack. well here at r.t. we'd love to hear your thoughts on all of our stories though do get in touch by following us on social media i'll be back with the latest headlines in about thirty minutes i'll see them. that's. what politicians do so. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject . so when you want to be president and. want to. have to go right to the press it's like them before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. first sit. in the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better god than forty. swiss customs. all the science is controlled by them and they impose the opening to un so it was it was a do it just for us the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe must to pieces by artists like and modigliani camps boards and sold inside this warehouse that's where the rep

the country possible electoral commission says he was the front runner in national elections.r just over half of the country's provinces. the record low turnout was the first since iraq declared victory over the islamic state group, and since the 2003 u.s. led toppling of saddam hussein. the united arab emirates has enough spare capacity to cushion oil markets when the u.s. reimpose his sections on iran. the uae energy minister spoke to bloomberg in upper darby. >> we have been there before, and i think have been resilient to deal with those issues in the past. countriesf the member , they have definitely a spare capacity. wheneverbe used production is required. taylor: global news 24 hours a day powered by 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am taylor riggs. this is bloomberg. tom: taylor, thank you so much. what a great briefing this morning from bloomberg opinions. tim colton, usually in taipei. we will go to him. this is one part of a phenomenal essay on the reality of business. is is the telecom cut -- it is the telecom company zte. tom: shock, the

election commission took its time to announce. yes, none of the pulses and pundits predicted this. you basically saw the opposition coalition sweep parliamentary seats, state seats throughout the country, defeating the incumbents barisan nationalthat is a very long time. their dominance over the malaysian political scene has always been seen oi’ political scene has always been seen or considered to be underfeasible. this is the time when the citizens actually rose up and spoke up against what they felt to be a corrupt government is, a compromise through many huge scandals, use basically 222 parliament being slapped. they took more than 120 seats, if you count the various opposition parties that are going into coalition against barisan national... if i could interrupt very quickly, the odds were stacked against the opposition alliance. they would have been in malaysia late couldn't —— elections, especially with the redrawing boundaries recently, how was the opposition able to pull this off? you are right. the recent regulation conducted by the electoral commission, which was largely seem to be in favour of the barisan national ruling coalition, what affected even more, i think what the opposition was able to do was to change th

elected officials could take. number one the national criminal justice division there is a need to establish the commission not just another study the establishment would set forth a strategic rule to guide efforts to protect communities for years to come that commission was created in 1865 producing landmark changes law-enforcement officers need to be trained to identify investigate and report hate crimes and to understand victims culture and language and what questions to ask. positive relationships between law enforcement community to encourage members to report hate crimes and minimize the chances and to provide additional financial results to report crime data and hate crimes to the fbi and to create those euros to help those agencies team up through the task force. and speak out against hate crime state and local elected officials all need to not down the acts of bigotry at every chance they can thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today i am happy to answer any questions that you have thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today i am happy to answer any questions that you have good

twenty two seats up for grabs in the nation's parliament but he thing what he said is that these results have not been officially endorsed yet by the election commission and he's suggesting that there is some hanky panky going on we believe is what is happening and these unofficial results of hound to when the ballots are taken when ballots cost and when and when that when voting has closed the ballots are counted at the voting stations so it's the election commission officials who count it as well as counting agents from the party from from from the candidates party now and then these votes are taken to a counting before they take into account sometimes that they have to be signed off by the counting agent from the respective parties as well as the election commission officials now so what's happening in some places is that election commission offices have refused to sign these forms so that's why results are not coming in as official results even though as mahathir is that these votes have already been counted there are also several recounts that are taking place but he believes that you know that the ruling alliance is unlikely to form the next gov

commission has been registering voters ahead of elections in the country. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has attacked palestinian president mahmoud abbas for making anti semitic remarks at a meeting of the palestinian national council on monday abbas suggests that that the genocide of european jews by the nazis was because of the jews role in money lending rather than because of their race or religion netanyahu said the palestinian leader was quote still a holocaust denier and he called on the international community to condemn what he called abbas a severe anti semitism all right let's get you insight now from mark rings he is director of the conrad adn our foundation in ramallah all right a very good evening hopelessly thinking what prompted this rant. well besides what we can also talk about the who it was as a woman says that if you want service as such in this two hours last speech i know from all the shows that has direct environment water and not to speak of our earth is a spoke in his perspective on european history but he wanted to convey this message my understanding or my thinking as it was maybe to convince seniors to support him again because the support of rates are quite look only besides tha

elected officials could take. number one, the national criminal justice commission, there's a need to establish a national criminal justice commission. this would not just be another study. the establishment of such a committee would set forth a strategic blueprint for criminal justice that would guide efforts to protect our communities for years to come. the last commission created in 1965 and produced landmark changes for the criminal justice system. training, law enforcement officers need training to identify, investigate, and report hate crimes. training is also needed to help understand the victim's culture, language, and what questions to ask. enhancing community police relations, positive relationships between law enforcement in the communities will encourage members to report hate crimes and minimize the chances of retaliatory crimes. enhanced reporting, provide incentives including additional financial resources to states and localities to report crime data. particularly to the fbi. specialized units, funding to create specialized fund units and team up for multi-agency task force. speak out against hate

national leadership nfr. and the election security and in turn, we benefit because the how the leaders are affected in the united states affects us as a whole including the presidency. so in march the elections commission unanimously voted to support three different things. first, to request at least $4 million for the 2018-19 fiscal year. second, to ask the mayor and budget chair to support assembly member chiu and senator weaner's budget request of $8 million from state matching funds. third, to support is technical advisory committee's recommendations of next steps and what should be allocate d first and this recommendation said two things. number one t city should hire full-time staff project and report to the director of elections. second, the vote should be started first and these parts are simpler, fewer, cheaper, and would cover more than 60% of the voters. this is an example of what is known as an agile approach. it is better to view the project not just as one big mojt. and they can be started one at a time. and and there is the accessible device for people with disabilities, and so on. each part can be developed and used even if the rest isn't yet open source. start i starting smaller, we be

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nationals, over the course of the election season. the emails and correspondences that represented senator wyden have been turned over to the federal election commissionthey investigate and furthermore whether they find anything remains to be seen. right now, dealing with a lot of potential and reports. julia: we do not know as you pointed out several times. again, points to the scope of the investigation. investigation. scarlet: absolutely. thank you so much. thank you for watching this through and previewing the fact that this would be more like a campaign rally. it did feel like something that kicked off the campaign for the midterm elections. polly covers guns for bloomberg news. we will continue to monitor the president's's speech to the nra. you can continue watching his comments on live go and bloomberg. still ahead, in the best way to play time warner and the decision on at&t. a reminder that you will want to to good alltv the charts that we highlighted throughout our programs. we have a couple of different charts here, including the dollar rally to continue. this is something of a government earlier -- something abigail brought up earlie

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