and i'm from the school of oriental and african studies thanks for being with us on that here in doha thank you. well to algeria now where protesters are also back on the streets of the capital algiers there demanding democratic reforms and the removal of politicians from former president bush a fake us government presidential elections are expected in july the longtime leader was forced to step down last month and police have arrested several people for corruption. while iran's foreign minister jobs aris is in china he has been touring the region to shore up support after the u.s. tighten sanctions on iran's oil sector china is part of the 2015 nuclear agreement and the biggest buyer of iranian oil but ties between them are now coming under pressure from washington as adrian brown explains from beijing. both china and iran are involved in worsening dispute with the united states for china the issues trade for iran it's the threat of war iranian foreign minister zarif was last here 12 months ago just after the u.s. pulled out of the iran nuclear agreement that china helped broker it w

civilians by the african union or the suspension while ahmed adam is a research associate at the school of oriental study and african studies which is part of the university of london he's with us now in the studio thank you very much indeed for being with us as we were saying there is pressure from the african union for the military to hand over power to the civilians do you think they're going to listen they're going to do that. i think. i don't know is going to happen but actually you know. the military are in that enormous pressure not only from the african union but actually from the protests of themselves and the agent of change action on the ground because they want them to hand over because that is body poured so right now actually the equation the balance in the equation of porridge now on the ground actually in the action that action of the of the civilians and civilian they want severe or and that is very important action for them so that is it cannot pressure and also that is the pressure from the african union but people are very suspicious in sudan that whether the african union is go

i'm going to thomas a research associate at the school of oriental and african studies which is part of the university of london he says the ongoing standoff between the military and the people could lead to conflict. dimity enormous pressure not only from the african union but actually from the protests of them serve. on the ground because they want them to hand over because that is ready for board so right now actually the equation the bronston in the question of what i know on the ground actually in the action of the civilians and civilian they want civilian or that is very important action for them so that is internal pressure and also that it's a pressure from the african union but people are very suspicious in sudan but whether the african union is going to be actually you know determine or committed to this kind of you know pressure or some sort of because some of this would in doubt they can in themselves actually they're supporting the military council and they don't want action at a concert over the power to the people of sudan and that's one of the big problems i think the

was being treated for prostate cancer ands now cancer--free ao the fer head of denver public schools is known as a policy-oriented moderate. >>> now time to take a look at our weatr sand near record heat today. >> it seems like the temperatures have been kind of up and down all week. so where does that put today, amelia? >> well we'll be hot out there with high temperatures near 90re deg. these are the current temperatures now. 74 in washington. es78 degre in manassas. 70 in frederick, and 66 in leesburg. what i'm showing you now are the dew point temperatures. this is how we track the humidity. when the dew point 60 or higher it is humid. so it is muggy out there for this time of the year. we're at 63 dewmoint terature in washington. so noticing that humidity especially over to manassas where theer dew point th is 67. so not only are we hot on your thursday afternoon, but humid well with the high temperature of 87. now the record high today, 89 degrees. we'llome close but i don't think we'll break it. this is the only day in the month of may where the record high temperature is in the 80s. every other record to

the three term senator is a former head of the denver school district that has carved out a professional at a policy- orientedly shooting at the university of north carolina in charlotte is due in court today for the first time. 22-year-old trystan terrell did not reportedly target a specific person, but he intentionally hit that school building where the attack occurred earlier this week. >>> a school shooting threat at cal high school is prompting heightened security from san ramon police. one student found graffiti on the wall of a boy's bathroom calling for a shooting on may 9. this is the third time in a year that cal high has received an anonymous threat. >>> and the defense in the ghost ship warehouse fire trial is suggesting someone or some group intentionally started that fire by throwing in molotov cocktails. since fire investigators never officially determined why the warehouse caught fire, part of the defense strategy is to clear the defendants derick almena and max harris by blaming the fire on unknown arsonists. the witness testimony begins monday. >>> the time is 5:34. new this morning wikileak

school is very different than it was. >> i learned many different things from other types of people like sexual orientation, race, gender, everything >> together we form a better -- a better group rather than being separated >> reporter: but it's not all better recently segregation for black students has expanded in most of the country. thnumber of mostly black schools more than tripled between 1988 and 2016. >> raise your hands if you think more should be done to integrate schools. >> the perspectives of different races makes the school a better place overall. >> reporter: students understanding the past and hoping for a better future. raheema ellis, nbc news, topeka, kansas >>> and that is "nbc nightly news." i'm lester holt. i'll see you a little later for the popular hangout e center of the new case. >>> at 6:00 a measles scare in the bay area expands. the popular hangout at the center of this new case. >>> rain set to return for the weekend. here it is. right there. we will have a preview of the timeline in less than three minutes. >>> first, thousands of cherry trees ripped from his former 49 the farm is offering

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discrimination based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, and ensure safer school environments where lgbtq youth can thrive academically. schoolt recent national survey said 18% of lgbtq youth experience of discriminatory practices. lgbtq-relatede issues.natory they had lower self-esteem and higher levels of depression. we wanted to get your reaction to that statement. guest: i think every student should be able to study and to learn and grow in a safe and supportive environment. students -- no student should be bullet or discriminated against. but the concern with the law we it is that about, the act discounts the ft and privacy concerns of, a lot of it, female students. for instance, in public schools, where we see this problem occurring, even in kindergarten, there is a girl who was sexually assaulted in the school bathroom after the school passed a transgender bathroom policy. again, with no consultation to parents. after she was sexually assaulted, the school did nothing to address her assault. she ended up being the one who had to transfer to a different school to be in a safe environment. we believe that the best way for communities to address this is for

of my life. like i always say, i was church oriented, and i went to school in a church-oriented school, and that's the way i came into the marine corps. but today her and i discussed it at length, whether it's at the table, shall i go or shall i not? but i'm here today, enjoying your hospitality with your invitation as a production for us to be part of the program that would be your endeavors to create a further development of the project and to enhance the education of the future generation after generation. >> you were a communications expert obviously, and you used the code. did you use the code in this very place? were you communicating with the ships or anything like it? if you'd like to share that with us. >> many times you come up on resistance on the line, foreign line. they're there, and it's hard to get any -- maybe we run out of ammunition because of those caves with the rifles or machine gun. so given the message from the squad leader or whoever it is, and they're well conditioned. they spent many years in the corps, and they know what to do, and they'd give us a message. there were tw

time instead of at the ideal a dream which began in our school last today up until that day. he was a very responsible and goal oriented person and he was always ready to take a bit see that's exactly what you showed on that day. he was expected to be at the front of the plane but he switched places with a stewardess perhaps he expected something bad would happen he took the heat and sun. has stayed inside the aircraft and pushed the surviving people along the new flight of all round it was inhaling smoke and then lost consciousness. for the little look at his face he always smiled always he wanted conflicts he was the kindest person he is looking out from the photo but he can't say a word and i can't stop looking at him. yeah and that's why he's being labeled a hero igor should all of has been recounted as well the stories of some of the other people who lost their lives on sunday. this is. a businesswoman and single mother she was returning from a business trip back to more months back to her ten year old son she was raising on her own somewhere in the same boarding queue with well being or you give me and twelve yea

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school is very different than it was. >> i learned many different things from other types of people like sexual orientation, race, gendereverything. >> together we form a better -- like, a better group rather than being separated. >> reporter: but it's not all better. recently segregation for black students has expanded in most of the country. the number of mostly black schools more than tripled between 1988 and 2016. >> raise your hands if you think more should be done to integrate schools. >> the perspectives of different races makes, like, the school a better place overall. >> reporter: students understanding the past and hoping for a better future. rehema ellis, nbc news, topeka, kansas. >>> another break, and coming up, an attempt to answer one of the more enduring questions of our time when "the 11th hour" continues tonight. >>> last thing before we go tonight, we might have at least a partial answer to that eternal question, who's a good dog? well, here are several. these are the faces of the therapy dogs at parkland high school in florida. some of these very good boys and very good girls are as responsible as an

of the place. to get into the. ideal a dream which began in our school last sit up until that date. was a very responsible and goal oriented person and he was always ready to take it that's exactly what you showed on that day. on the youths he was expected to be in the front of the plane but he switched places with the students perhaps he expected something bad would happen he took the heat and sun. his they didn't side the aircraft and pushed the surviving people along the way to go round it was inhaling smoke and then lost consciousness. the little look at his face he always smiled always he would conflict he was the kindest person he is looking out for the full two but he can't see rude and i can't stop looking until. he goes down off next recounts the stories of some of the other people who also lost their lives on sunday. this is. a business woman and single mother she was returning from a business trip back to more months back to her ten year old son she was raising on her own somewhere in the same boarding queue with all bina you've gagne and twelve year old sophia the surgeon had been giving his daughter an escape

of that plane. to get into the. ideal a dream which began in our school would last and up until that date. was a very responsible and goal oriented person and he was always ready to take it that's exactly what you showed on that day. he was expected to be at the front of the plane but he switched places with the students perhaps he expected something bad would happen he took the heat inside. his stayed inside the aircraft and pushed the surviving people along the ground was inhaling smoke and then lost consciousness. look at his face he always smiled always he wanted conflict he was the kindest person he is looking out from the photo but he can't say a word and i can't stop looking at him. so the investigation continues the plane's black boxes have been recovered and that jet is now been removed from the runway as we heard its entire rear section was destroyed in a fire we asked a variation expert david gill a face thoughts on what might have gone so badly. i believe the flight control system was working ok but not in the usual mode of operation so it's quite right that the investigation will take some time to look at hell the pi

school is very different than it was. >> i learned many different things from other types of people like sexual orientation, race, genderwe form a better, like, a better group rather than separated. >> reporter: but it's not all better. recently segregation for black students has expanded in most of the country. the number of mostly black schools more than tripled between 1988 and 2016. >> raise your hands if you think more should be done to integrate schools. >> the perspectives of different races makes, like, the school a better place overall. >> reporter: students understanding the past and hoping for a better future. rehema ellis, nbc news, topeka, kansas. >>> another break and coming up, an attempt to answer one of the more enduring questions of our time when "the 11th hour" continues tonight. fact is, every insurance company hopes you drive safely. but allstate actually helps you drive safely... with drivewise. it lets you know when you go too fast... ...and brake too hard. with feedback to help you drive safer. giving you the power to actually lower your cost. unfortunately, it can't do anything about that. now t

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i took my son to his pre-school orientation last week and i thought abousomething i didn't have to think about when i was going school, is he safe in thig buil the issue ofety in our schools and churches and the places we gather it's top ofor mind voters. >> woodruff: turning a corner for something on people's minds, the trade war with china. you've said you don't thi the trade war is ben efficient. again, what would you do fferently from what president trump is doing specifically? would you go back to theob a-biden trade policy? >> i'd form a class action. we're in a significant trade deficit with china. sithe way the prent is prosecuting it is incompetent. they're a bad actor on intellectual property, dumping steel and manipulating currbuen. the issue is can you ban together with australia, japsoa, h korea, other victims of what china is doing to prosecute the case against them. our presidlit hasated us from our traditional allies. i would know who our friends are and go to them to make the case against china to protect our s farmerelworkers and intellectual innovators. ds woodruff: and on the subject on the mf democrats and republicans right now, that

school to discriminate based on someone's sexual orientation or gender identity? coverhave laws that discrimination -- discriminatory efforts. our office for civil rights has continued to be very diligent in investigating any allegation ofination and wilill contie toto do so. >> is that a yes or no? >> we follow the law -- >>>> personally, you don't t han opinion?n? you argiving money to some charter schools that do discriminate. nermeen: that was education secretary betsy devos posted meanwhile, second lady of the united states karen pence is working at a virginia private school that explicitly bans lgbtqp workers and students. ence is teaching at the immanuel christian school in washington, d.c., suburbs where an employment application requires job candidates too pledge not to engage in homosexual activity or to violate the "unique roles of male and female." the application also advises women that "a wife is commanded to submit toto her husband as te church submits to christ." whatuld you respond to devos said and also vice president pence's wife? >> it hurts my heart. what if a student while in her carere begins to figure out who they are in this world? what if they figure out they are gay or lesbian or bi or trans a

of the broader community. we do serve the public. we have high school groups coming in, the san francisco police department is there, tennis is played there, we are very much a public community oriented as well as a private club. what fun it is for the children to see serena williams come on the court and take pictures with them. she would not take pictures with me. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> hello, commissioners. my name is seth and i am the cofounder and executive director of san francisco sports and recreation. i just want to talk a little bit about the public benefits that have already come out of this project through our partnership with alexandria and the project sponsors. to date, san franciscans for sports and recreation has donated over -- exactly $1,864,000 to public recreation in san francisco. while this is not an exhaustive list, i do want to call out some of the ways we have already been contributing to the city of san francisco, and my colleagues and i, whom you just heard speak, are quite proud of these accomplishments. $864,000 has been donated to the san francisco recreation and parks department towards resurfacing public tennis courts fifteen public ten

why it was so good a lot of the faculty, black faculty could fought get jobs at the universities around the country so they had to teach high school. so that was his orientationand he worked all the way through high school, college, medical school, he went to howard under grad, and howard medical school, my mom grew up in chicago, also lived in the black community because they had re strictive covenants in chicago back during the 50s, 40's, 50s, under jim crow. had parents, agreements, great grand father who was the first african american when went to mi t, whose father was born into slavery in charleston, southern california. and his father's father was a slave master. when the slave was freed during the civil war he saved enough money to send my father to mit. and they told me these stories about their parents and grandparents and the over recognized message was you have to work twice as hard, and never finish a sentence, we all knew what that meant, you have to have a big dream, and you have to push, and you're going to get knocked down, and you have to fall down, and i would say it's not fair, and i said who told you life was fair. and my mother is a comp

discrimination based on their sexual orientation and gender identity, and ensure safer school environments where lgbtq youth can thrive academically. schoolt recent national survey said 18% of youth experience of discriminatory practices. lgbtq-relatede issues.natory they had lower self-esteem and higher levels of depression. we wanted to get your reaction to that statement. guest: i think every student should be able to study and to learn and grow in a safe and supportive environment. students -- no student should be bullet or discriminated against. but the concern with the law we it is that about, the act discounts the ft and privacy concerns of, a lot of it, female students. for instance, in public schools, where we see this problem occurring, even in kindergarten, there is a girl who was sexually assaulted in the school bathroom after the school passed a transgender bathroom policy. again, with no consultation to parents. after she was sexually assaulted, the school did nothing to address her assault. she ended up being the one who had to transfer to a different school to be in a safe environment. we believe that the best way for communities to address this is for the s

orientation and employment, housing, and public accommodation, and fewer have protections for gender identity. the inconsist ten patchwork of state laws leaves millions of people vulnerable to discrimination at work, school, and many other parts of their daily lives. as chairman i was proud to hold a hearing on --on this important civil rights legislation in the committee on education and labor. witnesses testified that all too many americans are experiencing discrimination in they are everyday lives, especially the workplace, and even in the educational system where many of them were experiencing discrimination and even elementary school. this is not acceptable. this bill assures -- this bill also ensures that the religious freedom and restoration act or riff a could not be used as a free pass to discriminate. rifra was originally enacted as a shield to serve as a safeguard for religious freedom but recently has been used as a sword to cut down the civil rights of too many individuals. freedom from discrimination is a core american value. passage of this bill is long overdue. we must affirm that all americans are equally protected from discrimination under the law. and i therefore urge all of my colleag

orientation and employment, housing, and public accommodation, and fewer have protections for gender identity. the inconsist ten patchwork of state laws leaves millions of people vulnerable to discrimination at work, school, and many other parts of their daily lives. as chairman i was proud to hold a hearing on --on this important civil rights legislation in the committee on education and labor. witnesses testified that all too many americans are experiencing discrimination in they are everyday lives, especially the workplace, and even in the educational system where many of them were experiencing discrimination and even elementary school. this is not acceptable. this bill assures -- this bill also ensures that the religious freedom and restoration act or riff a could not be used as a free pass to discriminate. rifra was originally enacted as a shield to serve as a safeguard for religious freedom but recently has been used as a sword to cut down the civil rights of too many individuals. freedom from discrimination is a core american value. passage of this bill is long overdue. we must affirm that all americans are equally protected from discrimination under the law. and i therefore urge all of my colleag

that taught there, like faculty, should not get a job any of universities around the country so they had to teach high school. that was his orientationhe worked all the way through high school, college, medical school. he went to howard under school, my mom grew up in chicago, also lived in the black community because he had restricted covenants in chicago back during the 50s, '40s, 50s under jim crow. had parents, grandparents, great grandfather who was the first african-american to go to mit, whose father was born in slavery and charleston north carolina. and his fathers father was a slave master. when the slave was freed after the civil war he saved enough money to send my great-grandfather to mit. and my parents told me this story is my whole childhood about their parents and the grantors, et cetera, and the overriding message was you have to work twice as hard as they never finished since but we knew what that meant. gift of a big drink and do it to bush and you will fall down and get knocked out and i would come home from a fight and my mother would say, it's not fair and cutesy who told you life was fair? get back out there an