the share of is an elected official is expected -- sheriff is an elected official. we differ very much on that point. >> i apologize. i do not understand whether he can perform his job going forward is relevant to whether he engaged in a wrongful behavior relating to the duties of his or her office including any failure or neglect of an officer to perform -- meaning -- to perform. what am i missing? >> ok, the portion of the charter that you just cited is the first prong of the official misconduct. we consider this to be more relevant to the second prong of the misconduct. a person who is elected to an office takes actions that disable them from affectively performing the duties of that office, that is something that falls below the right kind that that is required. >> let's talk about the second prong. i have a disagreement with both parties as to what this is supposed to mean. this refers to the standard of decency, good faith, and right actions required of all public officers, including any violation of a specific conflict of interest. i did not see this as one s

the official story says a group of students provoked a riot. the demonstrators demanded that chinese leaders do more to improve human rights on the mainland. the media spotlight on chen quan chen has increased scrutiny of those issues. the human rights activist fled house arrest in april and then moved last month to new york. communist party officials are preparing for a change of leadership this fall and the government has been cracking down on pro-democracy activists. >> translator: i feel the chinese communist party is also tightening its control over the people of hong kong. we have to strongly oppose this. >> about 600 young people joined a candle light vigil in taipei. university students organized the event. they showed a film of the crackdown and participants prayed for the victims. one of the people who led the protest in beijing spoke about the importance of the democratic movement. he lives in taiwan. the organizers said they hope that authorities understand how taiwanese see human rights. >> translator: i want many young people in t

chinese officials are building up their navy. their neighbors say they have become increasingly aggressive. officials in china and the philippines, for example, both claim sovereignty over the scarborough shoal in the south china sea. they've been locked in a maritime standoff for nearly two months. still, panetta has dismissed the notion that the new strategy targets the chinese. >> all of the u.s. military services are focused on implementing the president's guidance to make the asia pacific a top priority. >> the chinese defense minister did not attend, though officials in beijing won't say why. instead, they sent a senior official from the military research institute. he said the meeting is not the proper forum for resolving disputes. >> the conference is intended for mutual communication. >> panetta held meetings over the weekend with security leaders from across the region. security analysts are trying to figure out how the american strategy will play out and how the chinese will respond. earlier, our shery ahn spoke with k

officials at the u.s. national highway traffic safety administration say they're targeting over 1.4 million cars. affected models are camry and camry hybrid, yaris, highlander and rav4 built between 2006 and 2008. so far nine people have reportedly been injured from the fault and 161 claims have been filed. some of those claims prompted a preliminary investigation that began in february. administration officials have expanded it to a full-scale study. toyota executives say they'll cooperate fully with the probe. >>> mexico will formally join negotiations on regional free trade agreement for the asia pacific. u.s. president barack obama congratulated the mexican president, saying the united states supports the bid to join the transpacific partnership. the leaders let in mexico before the opening of the g-20 summit. the office of the u.s. trade representative said the eight other countries in the negotiations welcomed their new partner. mexico will join the talks after lawmakers there gave their approval. th

still officials are upbeat about the future. they predict the index will rebound to plus 8.8 in the july to september period. they expect the world economy to get a little better. >>> leaders of a global airline group say 2012 will be a bad year for its members. they predict their profits will nosedive due to the impact of europe's debt crisis. officials with the international air transport association made the prediction at their annual general meeting. director general tony tyler said the net profits of the association's 240 members will total about $3 billion this year. that's a sharp drop from $7.9 billion last year. he based his prediction on an expected decline in the number of passengers worldwide. he pointed to prolonged debt problems in europe and high fuel prices. but tyler noted that high fuel prices have started to fall and more passengers are traveling by air in emerging nations in asia and south america. >>> the first plane to be used by a discount airline in japan has arrived at narita airport outside tokyo from f

public official being the relevant body of individuals. not that you can extrapolate from the fact that yes, these standards, when applied specifically to a profession, can be used, but that this is referring to the specific profession. >> the mayor would disagree with that. there is a different standard of conduct imposed on a chief law enforcement officers that is not the same standard of conduct that is imposed on an elected dogcatcher. mr. mirkarimi did not run for a job that was devoid of these extra responsibilities. he is both elected and a chief law-enforcement officer and a chief jailer and a department head who will have to deal with many other department heads. not every elected public official has that constellation of duties. we do have experts coming prepared to explain what it is that is inherent in a sheriff's job that sets forth the standards of conduct for that particular position. chairperson hur: thank you. questions from the commissioners? >> i am going to try my question again. what is the offer of proof you are makin

official misconduct? >> no, i do not. >> it has been argued that the mayor's decision to attempt to remove an elected official for official misconduct is purely discretionary. you agree with that? >> i believe that it is a duty through the charter. san francisco charter. >> you have the discretion to decide whether you are going to attempt to move someone or not? >> yes. >> is it your position that every public official who is convicted of a criminal offense is guilty of official misconduct? >> i think it is a case by case basis. >> merely being convicted of a crime does not constitute official misconduct? >> i believe in this case, it does. >> that is not my question. my question is, does the fact that an elected official is convicted of a crime, does that constitute official misconduct? >> i believe i have answered that. it is a case by case basis. >> there are some credit card -- criminal convictions he would not seem to be official misconduct? >> possibly. >> like what? >> i do not know because i have

>> do you believe that a sufficient to remove an elected official from office? irrelevant, objection. >> overruled. >> i do not. >> you have confined yourself to the incident between the sheriff and his wife on december 31, as well as allegations that the sheriff may have been involved in attempts to dissuade witnesses, right? >> objection. you have a document you would like to put in front -- >> i would like to ask the witness a question. >> ok, what is the basis of the objection? >> i think he is misrepresenting the document. i think it would help the witness to see the document rather than being quist from memory. -- quizzed from memory. >> i think the question was unclear. i would ask that you rephrase it. >> let me ask you about your claim that the sheriff engaged in a witness dissuasion. in your original written charges of misconduct, the only thing that you claim was that he may have been involved in a witness dissuasion, correct? >> i cannot remember the exact wording. i understand the issue, yes. >> in the amended charges, you stated he did participate

syrian government officials blamed turkey for the incidents. they say the military plane violated their nation's airspace. >>> russian president vladimir putin is urging israeli and palestinian officials to resume peace talks. he called on both side to void any move that would jeopardize the process. putin met with mahmoud abbas. the palestinian president in the west bank town of bethlehem. he held talks with benjamin netanyahu. the russian president criticized the israelis for building settlements for jewish immigrants in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem. he called on the palestinians to exercise self-restraint in seeking u.n. recognition for the independent state. abbas said negotiations with the israelis reman hin his key goal. he said only talks can achieve peace. he asked for putin's cooperation in restarting the process. the talks were suspended two years ago. >>> monday after the credit ratings of spanish commercial banks were downgraded by moody's. italian leaders are also struggling to shore up their finances. they say an inje

an appointed official? >> in some counties, who do not have the ability to remove somebody other than a recall process. but the standard, the ethical conduct, the integrity, being the same person on duty and off duty, the trust we talk about is exactly the same. your the head law enforcement person. -- you what are the head law enforcement person. commissioner renne: thank you. chairperson hur: any other questions for chief lansdowne? >> i want to go back to your testimony about what you believe the sheriff affirmatively needed to do, with respect to the press and media attention that ms. madison was receiving. i want to give you a hypothetical, since you are an expert. >> yes, sir. >> if the sheriff did not tell the press to harass ms. madison, is it your opinion that we should find official misconduct because he did not take affirmative steps to protect her from such harassment? >> i do not think this case is complex. >> i just want an answer to my question. >> that alone, the answer is no. >> if the sher

officials at u.s.on and customs enforcement or ice say agents have rescued 18 children and arrested nearly 200 people, most of them here in the u.s. they've called it operation orion. in one case, agents took into custody a 28-year-old man from michigan. officials say he is accused of keeping more than 1,000 explicit images or videos of children on computers in his home. james rosen with this story in d.c. tonight. we understand there's another suspect in this case and a military guy? >> that's right, among those arrested in operation orion, month long investigation that spanned oceans and continents, helicopter pilot stationed in north san diego, this 28-year-old u.s. marine allegedly possessed nearly 4,000 images and video files that reportedly included scenes of child beastality and bondage. ice says during the last fiscal year alone, computer forensics investigators examined the equivalent of 16 1/2 million filing cabinets looking for data related to the exploitation of children. thus far, 89 defen

officials decided to continue military aid. the aid began 30 years ago after egypt signed a peace treaty with israel. >>> back with more on world weather. >> we have been tracking the severe tropical storm heading towards northern japan. as it does so, dumping, drenching amounts of rain fall. tonight is where central metropolitan tokyo is targeted with torrential rain. as it moves towards the tohoku region, it'll taper off to the west and southern half of japan. even though this is not the typical typhoon season, we have another system over the china sea. it has been lingering for a while, so the rain accumulation is quite staggering. in southeastern china, 140 millimeters reported in the past 24. an addition of 250 millimeters could be possible as this tracks just skillfully in between taiwan and southeastern china. the wind gusts are going to be swelling the water around the areas and picking up high waves as it tracks towards us, which is bad news. it looks like it'll be dissipating by the time it reaches southwestern island

of the public official and the relationship between those facts and public official's petition. -- position. we need to be able to explain his conduct and ms. lemmon was being offered in the criminal case, would have gone and served at trial for that exact same purpose, to show that there is more content than when share mirkarimi has a willing to admit. we think she is important for that reason. we have heard about -- what expertise where she offering? >> although she was the prosecutor in the case, and that case remains ongoing she is not coming to specs to this case. she is coming as the chief domestic violence prosecutor in the da's office to help you understand what that plea deal meant and what the sentence means and what it does not mean that they dropped the other charges. do have seen in the briefing some assertions -- the facts have not been proven, there have been set aside. that is not exactly with the pre deal means. it goes to our stickout -- what the conduct was and the conclusion of the criminals proceedings. and as many volunteers to necessarily know, myself a since -- and i

the assembly brings to the senate a charge against an elected state official. the senate holds the trial and the senate votes by two-thirds of its members whether or not to remove the statewide elected official. that sounds like this procedure. in any event, what is most important here, what controls this is not the law under the state code or some other law of some other state altogether. what controls this is the charter. to the extent that there are holes in the charter that cannot be filled any other way. maybe there is a debate about what to import. we did not find anything about that. we thought it was perfectly clear given the language and the standard procedures of the commission. and the way in -- that these sorts of inquiries are routinely run, it is not mysterious at all. we do not need to borrow an entire set of procedures. >> you have answered my question. thank you. i do not know of others have questions. -- if others have questions. the next item that i would like us to consider and address is the type of evidence to be considered. the sheriff ha

officials alerted authorities. police launched an investigation that revealed they were stealing gas from county sites. >> these individuals are using their county issued gas cards to obtain fuel at the county site. they are using it for personal use is in personal vehicles. >> they now face a theft charges. if you're thinking about going on the road trip, you can expect to find some relief at the pump. the national average is three hunt -- $3.40. there is better news in the baltimore area. a gallon of regular gas will cost $3.32. some energy experts said the national average could get another dime in time for the fourth of july holiday. >> we have learned for of the firefighters who were reprimanded for their improper posts of mine have lost appeals. earlier this month, a volunteer posted a complaint about a sonic restaurant offering a discount not to firefighters. the managers still says only police and military get the discounts. we appreciate the support. that was followed by a chain of comments from fellow fir

the share of is an elected official is expected -- sheriff is an elected official. we differ very much on that point. >> i apologize. i do not understand whether he can perform his job going forward is relevant to whether he engaged in a wrongful behavior relating to the duties of his or her office including any failure or neglect of an officer to perform -- meaning

they will announce their official results on thursday. meanwhile, the council of the country's armed forces issued new amendments to the country's interim constitution on monday. they stipulate that parliament's power to draw up legislation and approve process will be transferred to the army temporarily. they also say a committee to draft a new constitution will be organized by the army. the amendments forbid the president from interfering with the military personnel affairs. the interim military administration says it will transfer power to a civilian administration this month. the move to strengthen the military authorities have angered the egyptians and muslim brotherhood. a large rally to protest the amendment has been called for tuesday. nhk world, cairo. >>> iranian officials say their country will continue producing highly enriched uranium. they expressed their resolve in a new round of talks on irans nuclear program. the first day of' two-day meeting in moscow ended on monday. participants included the new negotiators and five u.n

officials say the young bear has quite a travel log.it reportedly swam across the cape cod canal and wandered around there for a couple of weeks. officials captured said bear and released it in central massachusetts. since then they say it wandered some 100 miles east before ending up in a boston suburb. the bear became a bit of a local celebrity. officials say this time they will will bring it to a remote spot in western massachusetts but that they cannot guarantee it will stay there. word is it's on the move for lauren over the red sox. out west in california. wildlife officials captured 100-pound bear in the backyard about 40 miles east of los angeles. officials say they were able to chase that bear up a tree after it spent the early morning hours looking for food. the fish and game folks tranquilized the bear they say it took about 15 minutes to knock the thing out. officials say they plan to he release t. i don't know. maybe massachusetts? nbc is reportedly planning to pay "the today show" co-host ann curry 10 million bucks to leav

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officials in georgia say they plan to help the bid to adopt a section of a highway after state officialsdenied an election from a man who called himself the exalted international keystone knights of the kkk. impressive. if the group gets permission to join the highway clean up program it would be recognized with a road sign. georgia doesn't want that. but aclu lawyers say this is the first amendment issue and jonathan hunt is with us. i'm guessing, maybe, the kkk might not like being lined up with the aclu. maybe that will do it trick. >>jonathan: unholy alliance but officials in georgia are unhappy about in and unhappy about the application from the kkk in the first place and unhappy that the achu now are saying they will help them out in trying to adopt this portion of route 515 in georgia. we spoke to officials in the governor's office today and the deputy chief of staff said this is not a program to promote the visibility of groups that are being associated with discrimination and violence. this is a inaccurate reflection on our state. this is not the image we want to project and the

it creates difficulties for other city officials and figuring out how to proceed, whether they can have confidence in this sheriff, whether he will continue to obey the professional standards that he has already once broken. conflict of interest is one problem. another problem is the morale of the office. being an example of how best to in prison people is gone to be very difficult once you have been convicted of unlawful leak imprisoning one's own spouse. a lot of this -- on lawfully -- unlawfully in prison in one's own spouse. there are many duties of the sheriff's office that are affected by his particular conduct and by the sentence that was imposed on him. these are not un connected items. for example, there are a number of cases in california lot of about the effect of being convicted of possession of marijuana on one's ability to practice one's profession. invariably, for law enforcement officers, correctional officers, these people are being terminated and the courts are upholding the termination because there is a relationship between that criminal act and their duties. at the

so officials can't really say speedy is unreliable and accurate. the system is there for the japanese people to help regulation dents residents avoid radiation exposure. >> translator: the government did not fulfill its obligations. >> the head of the government panel investigating the fukushima accident says if officials had released the speedy data and explained its reliability, people in namie could have used the information to come up with an evacuation plan. instead, they stayed in the town and were exposed to radiation for a month. >>> japan's prime minister says it's essential to restart central japan's ohi nuclear plant. now, the mayor of the host town looks to give his consent. the plant in ohi town is offline for scheduled safety checks. the prefecture's nuclear safety committee has declared the plant's number three and four reactors safe. ohi's mayor is expected to tell the town assembly thursday that he supports switching the reactors back on. fukui's governor also needs to give his approval before the plant can come back online. >> tra

leaders met with other senior officials in tehran. said senior leaders do not support any administration in syria. but he said they cannot back foreign intervention to bring stability to the country. russian officials have proposed an international meeting to discuss the crisis. salehi said he accepted an invitation to attend. >> translator: the iran government has announced many times the issue of syria needs to be dealt with isyria by syan not through the interference of others. >> salehi criticized. >>> now to other stories we're following. investigators in japan are trying to figure out if chinese officials broke international rules. u.n. sanctions are designed to keep north korea from building up its military. they've got documents proving a ship transported special vehicles. they say the vehicles could be used as launch pads for ballistic missiles. the customs officials say they found export documents of the ship in october at osaka poert. the firm has been designated as an entity violating u.s. sanctions. they say the paper wor

it was official misconduct. again, for many of the same reasons that we argued against the admission of mr. henderson's declaration, we do not think that this sheds any light on the issues you have to decide. for that reason, other than the of -- the portions we agree are relevant, para wraps 19 through 25, -- 22, and the specified evidence, we do not think this should come into evidence. >> is it your position that the fact that the sheriff would be on probation during the time he is in office is irrelevant to the question of whether or not the mayor acted properly in saying he could not carry out the duties of sheriff? >> i would have to answer by saying that i take issue with one of the premises of the question. the inquiry is not could he fulfill the duties of sheriff. i do not think that is what the commission needs to decide or should decide. i think the inquiry is was what he did official this conduct. -- misconduct. in politics, people may get elected that do not get along with other members of the city

officials insist spain does not need a bailout. however, some financial analysts believe the country will have no choice but to ask for international assistance. >>> u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke urged european nations to take further action. he said europe needs to improve the balance sheets of financial institutions and to dispose of bad loans. bernanke made the statement at a congressional panel hearing on thursday. >> the more will likely be needed to stabilize euro area banks, calm market fears about sovereign finances, achieve a workable fiscal framework for the euro area, and lay the townatitow foundations for longer term economic growth. >> he also said the crisis in europe has affected the u.s. economy by acting as a drag on its exports. this is weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring domestic financial markets. bernanke stressed that the fed will take appropriate action including additional monetary easing if the economy deteriorates. >>> but in the markets the dow jones industrial average

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they plan to announce the official results on thursday. meanwhile, the council of the country's armed forces issued new amendments to the country's interim constitution on monday. they stipulate that parliament's power to draw up legislation and approve projects will be transferred to the army temporarily. they also say a committee to draft a new constitution will be organized by the army. the amendments forbid the president from interfering with the military's budget or personnel affairs. the interim military administration says it will transfer power to a civilian administration this month. the move to strengthen the military's authority have angered the egyptians and muslim brotherhood. a large rally to protest the amtd has been called for tuesday. nhk world, cairo. >>> iranian officials say their country will continue producing highly enriched uranium. the officials expressed their resolve in a new round of talks in iran's nuclear program. the first day of a two-day meeting ended in moscow. it included delegates from five u.n. security

what are officials saying about this last minute move?> charlie damages band once sang the devil went down to georgia this is the unholy alliance he came up with. officials there are not happy about it. they are going to fight it all the way. brian robinson the deputy chief of staff in the governor's office told us today, quote this is not a program to promote the visibility of groups that have been associated with discrimination and violence. this is a poor and accurate reflection on our state. this is not the image we want to project. prepare yourselves for quite the court fight. >> shepard: tough to beat the first amendment? what's the plan here? >> very tough to beat. what officials are likely to do is refer to the criteria for the adopt a highway program that have placed quite publicly on the department of transports web site. one of those criteria for instance which they will say the kkk doesn't meet reads any civic minded organization civic minded being the key there. city county federal agency is welcome to volunteer in the georgi

eu officials said they're ready to provide that and more. the finance ministers are still wrestling with the challenges of greece. the new government wants to relax austerity measures necessary for billions of dollars in aid from the eu. the eu officials will visit government leaders in athens to check on their plans. they fear they will have to help out the troubled neighbor once again. nhk world, luxembourg. >> eu officials find new faces on the other side of the table in greece. prime minister anthony samaras has launched his new coalition government. his party won elections but fell short of the majority. samaras persuaded the parties to join the coalition. the leader has pushed to carry through with the austerity program of spending cuts and tax increases. the inauguration of a new government ends nearly two months of political deadlock and dampens speculation that greece will leave the euro zone. greek leaders must implement the austerity measures to continue to receive eu aid. the leaders of all three ruling parties pledge to negotiat

now it's official. the two companies say they plan to come up with technology for the mass production of organic, e-lectroluminesce ennc displays by the end of next year. these displays are thinner and produce clearer images than lcd panels. they plan to develop large 50-inch displays for tvs and professional use. sony and panasonic have long been rivals in the electronics market, but they have decided to join forces to catch up with south korea makers in ole production. ? japan, smartphone sales tripled in 2011 over the previous year to more than 24 million units. panasonic has launched a new microwave oven this month. automatically sets the temperature and heating time when people put a smartphone equipped with cooking data close to the finish. designers have come up with a model after noticing that consumers often use their cell phones to look up recipes. another maker, jvc kenwood is selling camcorders that can transmit video date to smartphones when people pass before the product it will capture th

the fire is now being investigated by federal officials. could hundreds of jobs becoming to oakland? we will tell you after the break. " can't let them in advance if i lay down >>pam: good news for oakland, of the 500 new jobs will be available in the alleged with a new project, that is according to the project economic report. the $45 million project will have a ross door, and market, they are a part of the kroger supermarket chain. the 13.5 a. commercial mixed use project will be located west of interstate 580 in southeast oakland. construction is scheduled to begin immediately and will be completed by early 2013. >>pam: state lawmakers have approved the state budget on time. passing a budget before tonight's midnight deadline means that lawmakers will not be docked pay for each day that the budget is late. >> lawmakers passed the main budget bill, controversial bills like fighting for the high-speed rail and eligibility rules for welfare will be hashed >> there have been a series of home break-ins in concord. and in the past seven days.

officials expect the death toll to further. monsoon rains triggered floods that inundated more than 2,000 villages. about 1 million people have been forces to evacuate. >> translator: we face a lot of problems. floods swept away our homes. there's nothing to eat. no place to live. this village is completely submerged. there are two or three more villages hit by flooding. >> across the border in bangladesh, reuters says a railway bridge has been washed away and roads are under water. the capital dhaka is cut off from many disaster-hit areas. landslides and flash floods have killed more than 110 people in south and southeast bangladesh. about 250,000 people are stranded. rescue operations are under way, but weather officials forecast more rain over the next few days. >>> and next to singapore where a spectacular new city center park opened on friday. the crowded city state is normally known for promoting its expertise in finance, i.t. or life sciences. but by choosing to invest in a park, singapore is creating a new role for itse

for us in the palin proves a new bill in visa bans and sanctions against russian officials implicated in alleged human rights abuses in the latest diplomatic route to hit times between moscow and washington. western backed revolutions turn arab states into terrorist hobb as a training grounds according to a case by cheap as the threat of homegrown extremism in europe grows more evident. in the russian gavel you're watching r t with me or you know josh welcome to the program the syrian president has called on his newly sworn in one ministers to do everything in their power to win what he called an ongoing war a shot was his appeal follows a daring rebel assault on the outskirts of damascus while international efforts to end the conflict are being stepped up let's now get the latest from our correspondent maria banaszak there for us now maria this is the strongest statement from the syrian leader since the uprising against israel began more than a year ago so how bad things look. but many indeed this is the strongest statement from president bashar assad since the uprising began sixteen

the officials have held posts since 2002. that's when the government warned a huge earthquake could strike the area around the fukushima plant. the plaintiffs argue the executives are responsible for the nuclear accident because they failed to take necessary measures to protect the plant from the quake and tsunami. they are demanding damages of about $70 billion. the executives say they did not -- they did what -- they did what was necessary in line with the government's safety standards. the company has argued nuclear power plants should continue to play a role in japan. the plaintiffs say they want top tepco executives to testify in court. they are aiming to clarify who is responsible for the accident. >>> officials in the u.s. state of oregon are trying to get rid of a 20-meter-long problem. they're searching for a company to haul away a piece of debris from japan's tsunami, but the cost estimates to remove the concrete and polyestering foam docks are way too high. oregon officials put out a call for tenders wednesday. six