simon in the car on the 24th of april, did you not? no. >> and finally the defense confronted him with what it said was proof of sexual assault, what it called the smoking gun text, the one you will recall which clearly suggested sex had taken place. in the text the boy apologizes, promises to never put you through that again, baby girl. >> first of all, did you send that text message? >> yes. >> can you explain to the jury what that meant? >> never doing anything again in the car. >> and it is your testimony that that text message is only because it was uncomfortable in the car? >> yes. >> it was consensual between you two? >> yes. >> when he was finally allowed to leave the stand, it appeared that abby's defense and her freedom depended on the story she and she alone was about to tell. >> we would call abigail simon to the stand. >> the question? despite all of those text messages professing her deep and abiding love -- >> good morning, ma'am. >> -- would the jury, could the jury believe abigail simon's claim that she was a victim. >

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lateefa simon, former b.a.r.t. board member, is taking the reins and she's taking over for representative barbara lee, who held onto that seat about 26 years. tonight is about reminiscing on a job well done for lee and also passing that torch to simon who tells us she is very excited to get started. lateefa simon, a lifelong bay area resident, will head to washington in january to represent district 12. she says her past experience as a long time advocate for social justice prepared her immensely for the job. >> it taught me no one is going to come save us in our communities, that we'll have to create the conditions that make us better, that make us safer. >> reporter: simon's long history of public service started at 16, when she worked as an outreach coordinator for the young women's freedom center, a nonprofit focused on keeping women out of prison. it catapulted her ultimately to a position within san francisco district attorney, an anti recidivism project for young people. simon credits kamala harris with thin

happy birthday to simon & schuster.ween the man's skull or and brain it was a strip of blood, known as a subdural hematoma, usually a surgical emergency. as i was ready to take the step, told me the patient's ang, 93. suddenly several things started to swirl in my head. what kind of life about this man have? what kind of life would he want? and where is that line between prolonging life or prolonging death? i thought a lot about my own parents. what would they be thinking at that age. with all of this in mind i went to go talk to his family to have a conversation. now, a woman who looked to be only in her 60's walked over to me, and introducing herself as his wife and i momentarily hesitancy. >> sensing my confusion, i'm older than she is. i robbed the cradle. she was 94, perfect health, no issues, and had driven her grandchildren to school. and he was still an avid runner, worked part-time as accountant and kept them around, his 65-year-old told me he's a whiz with number. in fact his brain bleed occurred because he ha

happy birthday simon & schuster.use] hi everyone. hi friends. so, laura and i are legitimately very, very close friends. she is my first phone call in a crisis or on a tuesday, sometimes they are the same thing. we were on the phone a few weeks ago i was getting ready to leave for book tour it's out now everywhere books are sold. thank you. might draw just came off of its hinges.da we were supposed to speak that day about this. instead we were talked about why make deep seated fear of death by jaw. >> that got us thinking about fear specifically beer and writing. and we were curious if there is anyone in this beautiful group of people tonight who was interested in writing this book? yes. we have some hands. don't be fearful. we thought we would talk a little bit about two fearful people the idea that fear can be your gift when you're writing a book. >> i want to tell a story tonight that is really special to me. when i was getting ready to write my novel in five years and with the main characters was going to have to

rachel, simon, we could go _ deserve. rachel, simon, we could go very _ deserve.ime —— that the public deserves. we still have a few days of debate and i'm sure it will be used in terms of hearing more from both sides of hearing more from both sides of the very motivational. thank you both forjoining us. —— very emotive issue. around the uk and across the world, you're watching bbc news. you're watching bbc news. let's stay with uk politics. here in the uk, the government is pledging to reduce the benefits bill by getting more people into work. bbc verify�*s ben chu has been looking at those proposals in more detail. the government says it wants to get britain working and is outlining new policies to achieve that. let's start by looking at the problem the government is trying to address. the government is concerned about inactivity. that's not the same as unemployment, which is people looking for work who can't currently get it. inactivity is people who are not looking for work, so essentially the government wants to get more people out of this group and into work

simon and schuster. and in that same issue, are enterprising founders announced their first fall list, including two novels, one biography, one book of poetry, and four more puzzle books. by the end of 1924, the five crossword books had sold million copies and. richard simon and max schuster were and running, at which point. max schuster, who had admired abraham lincoln ever since high school, decided to adopt lincoln as his middle name and would forever after sign his name m lincoln. so what better threesome could we have as our founding fathers? richard simon, mack schuster, their silent partner, abraham lincoln. it is a mark of how old i am that, as has been my publishing for nearly one half of its 100 year history and all well. and over these nearly five decades, s.a. never lost faith in me as i took an inordinate amount of time to complete each book, twice as long to write the civil war and lincoln's team of rivals as it took the war to be fought longer than world war two to write about franklin and

simone, thank you _ cannot fight that. simone, thank you for _ cannot fight that. thank you for your time i cannot fight that. simone, thank you for your time on cannot fight that. simone, - thank you for your time on bbc news. as simone mentioned, we are across the day on bbc news. there are two special programmes available to watch now on bbc iplayer, the true cost of leasehold and the leasehold trap. the covid inquiry has been interviewing matt hancock. he has been asked about the impact of covid and the restrictions on people with disabilities. lets develop a strong package of interventions. if we do, i have complete confidence that this committee and our government can move the dial and prevent a replication of disproportionate impacts in the second wave. mr hancock, what did you do by way of bringing much more ambitious and far—reaching proposals to prevent a replication of disproportionate impacts on disabled people in the second wave? . ., disabled people in the second wave? ., ~' ,, , disabled people in the second wave? ., ~ , wave? thank you. this was obv

so ready to go. >> lateefah simon calls barbara lee, her mentor. lee was her professor at mills college. and simon says she's always told her to have the moral courage to do what is right. so for me that really that means no calling for a peaceful world. it means. >> she am putting a woman's right to choose. it means as she has done work across the aisle, but work with the grace and intellect that is worthy of this position. i am. i'm so proud to be able to follow her example and she's she's giving me her desk, which is such an simon, a bay area. progressive had hoped to be working to support a kamala harris administration. >> after the democratic party's stunning losses. she says she knows the party needs to have a hard conversation. sure. we're going to have to learn a lot working in >> environment where i do believe we have the senate to and we sure don't have the white look at the map. the united states spoke and we need to be able to speak to them clearly. so that were articulating our values and what we're fighting for ways that folks can app

white, this is the icture of woman simone white, this is the picture of the _ woman simone white, this the 28-year-old, - picture of the 28—year—old, they have just released a statement saying, we are devastated by the loss of our beautiful, kind and loving daughter simone. she was one—of—a—kind and had the most wonderful energy and spark for life. she was a soul that gave so much to so many and was loved by herfamily, friends and colleagues. simone has been taken from us too soon and she will be sorely missed by her brother, grandmotherand will be sorely missed by her brother, grandmother and entire family. the statement ends by saying our hearts go out to all the other families who have been affected by this terrible tragedy. that is a statement just released from simone white's parents in the last few minutes. let's stay with this. the bbc�*s rupert wingfield—hayes has the latest from bangkok. she was treated in a hospital in the capital of laos. this she was treated in a hospital in the capital of laos.- in the capital of laos. this is a growing — in the capital of laos. this is a

andrea simon, thank _ is very vital indeed to. andrea simon, thank you _ is very vital indeed to.indeed to. andrea - simon, thank you for taking time to speak to us this evening. laugh fell on people waiting underneath, bearing the station had been built as well as a high... the canopy was not part of that work cctv footage shows the mp punching the man to the ground and repeatedly hitting him last weekend. bye amesbury was voluntarily interviewed and has since been suspended. gps, care homes and hospices have voiced concerns that they'll have to pay the higher employer national insurance contributions announced in the budget. the nhs and rest of the public sector are exempt from the tax rise, but that does not cover private care homes or hospices, which provide nhs services. there is also confusion over the impact on gps, many of which are run as small businesses. our health correspondent dominic hughes has more. gp surgeries are often referred to as the front door of the nhs, but most often run as independent businesses. as things stand, they will be hit by the rising national i

the simon was packing for washington. catherine, you say she seems genuinely excited to start this new job. >> thank you so much. i'm so humbled. so ready to go. >> lateefah simon calls barbara lee, her mentor. lee was her professor at mills college. and simon says she's always told her to have the moral courage to do what is right. so for me that really that means no calling for a peaceful world. it means. >> championing women's rights to choose. it means as she has done work across the aisle, but work with the grace and intellect. that is worthy of this position. i am. i'm so proud to be able to follow her example and she's she's giving me her desk, which is such an simon, a bay area. progressive had hoped to be working to support a kamala harris administration. >> after the democratic party's stunning losses. she says she knows the party needs to have a hard conversation. >> sure, we're going to have to learn a lot working in environment where i do believe we have the senate to and we sure don't have the white look, th

simon jones, dangers are still there. simon jones. thank _ dangers are still there.ers are still there. simon jones, thank you very - dangers are still there. simon jones, thank you very much. i jones, thank you very much. let's speak to our weather presenter, ben rich. how's it looking? _ presenter, ben rich. how's it looking? storms _ presenter, ben rich. how's it looking? storms are - presenter, ben rich. how's it looking? storms are nothingl presenter, ben rich. how's it - looking? storms are nothing new in the _ looking? storms are nothing new in the uk — looking? storms are nothing new in the uk during autumn. one thing— in the uk during autumn. one thing we— in the uk during autumn. one thing we have seen with storm bert _ thing we have seen with storm bert is — thing we have seen with storm bert is an_ thing we have seen with storm bert is an awful lot of rain. this— bert is an awful lot of rain. this is— bert is an awful lot of rain. this is consistent with our changing climate. climate change _ changing climate. climate change may not make the uk more storm

but he simon. hopes to fill the role held by her mentor, harper lee for decades. >> but first, why the oakland diocese is facing pushback over its plan to settle hundreds of assault cases. >> our top story this half-hour, oakland diocese plans to settle with more than 330 assault survivors after filing for bankruptcy. >> and the >> survivors are pushing back. >> the diocese of oakland created a trust settle a lawsuit. but as kron four's terisa stasio explains survivors attorneys call the plan a scam that further traumatize is the survivors. >> you know, it's an insulting offer. to these 400 survivors. who had a lifetime of harm and pain. >> that is damac move in. he is with snap the survivors network of those abused by priests. he spoke with me about the latest development between the oakland diocese and hundreds of survivors alleging years of abuse by priests. we are aware. >> that the oakland diocese has. 3 to 4 billion dollars in real estate. a 3rd of it is in vacant land. and so it doesn't affe

not that we're quite there, simon. no, no.ter this, i think it's a really important point, because, you know, there's a structural shift here in terms of the size of the state, and that may be dictated by the fact that we have an ageing population, we've got a sicker population. and if you want that to be catered for in a kind of european—style way, you need european style taxes. and even after these tax rises, it puts us kind of middle of the pack, in terms of oecd countries, we've gone from, you know, sort of 16th to 14th in terms of higher taxes, something along those lines. and i think there's another interesting structural shift here, which is that if you look at the kind of things that were taxed in this budget, things like shares, capital gains, things like property, whether it be intergenerational farmland transfers, which maybe we'll get into. if you look at the fact that pension pots are now being put within the orbit of inheritance tax, those are generally taxes on older people, the boomers, who've got all the money

how did paul simon come into your orbit? he came to stanford really looking for hope, and he was very interested in finding the latest in hearing research. and your center has had some success. and correct me if i'm wrong, restoring hearing in fish. could it also work for humans in fish and mice and birds? and we are using insights from all these animal models to really accelerate progress and translation to patients. absolutely. so fish and mice, how long have you been researching fish in mice and then when could it translate to humans? are we talking months from now or years from now? now we are talking about years, and it's always difficult to put a number. all we can do is work as hard as possible and dedicate ourselves and work in teams of people to accelerate progress. and we were just hearing a lot about the weather and redwood trees. and the tree is even in the stanford university logo. and i really like the metaphor of redwood trees living together in the so-called family circles, where they not only provide nourish

hi, laura, james, and simon. we're losing historical levels of public. financial support whilst trying to switch to a food _ production model that is more environmentally. and economically sustainable. so the removal of apr relief against this - backdrop is so devastating, i because farmers will now have to hold back investment in the land to prepare . for an iht bill that - threatens the very viability of the enterprise. james, do you want to take that on? well, yes, but that involves explaining the acronyms, doesn't it? so agricultural property relief, and because of it an higher inheritance tax bill. that's what we're talking about. and this is this has been a pretty controversial area of the budget. farmers, some farmers at least are up in arms. there's a protest planned in a couple of weeks' time outside westminster, where the farmers are coming. i don't know if they'll be bringing tractors or what that will look like. i'm sure they will. the national farmers' union knows a thing or two about a photocall. th

the missiles will speak for themselves, simon said, but scoffing dw reporter stuff in simon's isn't washington. i asked him why biting has made this decision. now, a very good christians. why now? well, the, if there is still is no official statement from the white house for the state department or anybody else in this administration right now. why this decision was made right now at this point. but of course media outlets here and everybody else is talking to sources and those government sources say that the decision was made by a president biden because of the north korean troops, which i've now joins russian ranks specifically in the cursed area. in the area of kirsten southern russia, which the ukrainians had taken in the summer months and still holding. but now russia has a mess around $50000.00 troops. and with that also north korean troops, 10000. and that was taken as an escalation, as to the escalation by the white house and by the administration. and now this decision to counter this escalation. so it's a little bit of a tit for tat. at least that is what experts or analysts say. now

all right, that was dw the stuff on simon's for us. and washington dc stuff and thank you very much i and now we have the line to the w as in the mission address while who is standing by for us in care of. so the mission of this is a huge shift in policy. the ukrainians have been asking for this for what seems like forever. how has the news been received there? but am i on exactly the ukrainians have been asking for this for months now. and the news has been received joyously at least from the public, from news websites and blog for municipal doesn't across social media channels. we are seeing celebratory announcements about this, this the, the support of which i comes to permission to use attack cms. we had already seen people releasing map of exactly how far into russia these attack them scanned. regional of course, the current reports seem to indicate that this will emission initial mission would be, of course, but these mass already sold the range across russia and also military blog goods here and analyzing that. could this be bid

dw political correspondence. simon young is at the demonstration in the heart of berlin. simon, what are you seeing? what are you hearing? well, as you probably hear, there is a pretty no easy and angry demonstration. hundreds of people, most of them, of course, people of russian origin, living in berlin or around germany. lots of decay of leading dissidence to come through the center, march through the center of berlin today to express the wish for a different roster or a free a roster as they call it. and the demons all pretty clear. they say they want it and to the war and ukraine, they say they want to why they may have polluted put on file as a war criminal. they want political prisoners who is still in jail, many of them in russia to be released. and as i say they are, well, they many different kinds of people from different walks of life with different perspectives. and maybe the russian hill physicians are just make is not united, but they all united to die. that's what the message they want to say, that they are united in their position to vladimir putin in his regime. so i'

that is a statement released from simone white's parents.something milder, but a lot more stormy. now, today was a quiet day of weather. still very cold, icy, some snow underfoot, but some blue sky and some sunshine, too. but there will be some severe weather through the weekend from storm bert. widespread gales towards coastal areas, severe gales, heavy rain, and as the heavy rain bumps into the colder air, it's likely to turn to snow. there'll be drifting snow over the tops of the hills. here are some of the snowfall amounts perhaps, and there'll even be blizzard—like conditions. snow to lower levels, toom particularly across parts of the central belt and down through north—east england. here's the storm approaching tonight. now, for a while, temperatures are likely to dip below freezing again, and there will be some snow for a while across northern ireland, parts of wales and north—west england. perhaps temperatures in eastern scotland could dip as low as —12 celsius, the coldest it's been all week. but temperatures will be rising as the

simon jones reports.t for young tourists, many of them british, backpacking across southeast asia, enjoying the scenery... and the nightlife. the freedom of being away from home, often for the first time. but for simone white, a lawyerfrom orpington, it cost her her life. it's thought she had unknowingly consumed a drink laced with methanol — a deadly substance often found in bootleg alcohol. other british tourists have been rushed to hospital in neighbouring bangkok. another to die is australian bianca jones. she was 19. her friend holly bowles was also taken ill. her father gave this emotional update. right now, our daughter remains in the intensive care unit, in critical condition. she's on life support. we'd just like to thank everyone from back home for all the support and love that we're receiving. tributes to bianca jones have been paid in the australian parliament. bianca's trip should have been a joyous time and a source of fond memories in years to come. memories that she should have carried wit

in the last hour, the parents of simone white said thery of simone white said they were "devastated byul, kind and loving daughter." police have arrested the manager and owner of a hostel, in connection with the deaths. jessica lane has the latest. the death of holly bowles has been confirmed this morning, the day after that of her best friend bianca jones, who was also 19. holly had been rushed here to hospital in bangkok after drinking alcohol that's suspected to have contained methanol. she's the sixth person to have died in the suspected mass poisoning in vang vieng in neighbouring laos. in a statement, holly's family said... holly and bianca played on a football team together at home in australia. tonight at the season's launch, their friends say they will gather to remember them. families are taking a huge amount of comfort from the overwhelming support right across australia. back in vang vieng, people are worried. i won't drink from a glass, i won't drink from an open bottle and i won't drink home—made alcohol. it's scary, because not every day people are i dying just like this

but for simone white, a lawyerfrom orpington, it cost her her life.t she had unknowingly consumed a drink laced with methanol — a deadly substance often found in bootleg alcohol. other british tourists have been rushed to hospital in neighbouring bangkok. another to die is australian bianca jones. she was 19. her friend holly bowles was also taken ill. her father gave this emotional update. right now, our daughter remains in the intensive care unit, in critical condition. she's on life support. we'd just like to thank everyone from back home for all the support and love that we're receiving. tributes to bianca jones have been paid in the australian parliament. bianca's trip should have been a joyous time and a source of fond memories in years to come. memories that she should have carried with her into the long bright future that lay ahead of her. it is beyond sad that this was not to be. bianca had been staying at this backpacker hostel in vang vieng. it's now closed for a police investigation. guests say they were given a free shot of vodka on arriv

simon jack, bbc news.r's questions. this is the scene in the house where the prime minister sir keir starmer will be appearing shortly. we can now speak to our political correspondent helen catt. what do you think the focus will be for pmqs this week? the newspapers are leading with the government plans to change its electric vehicle rules at the moment. electric vehicle rules at the moment-— electric vehicle rules at the moment. , . ., , , moment. this has certainly been the big story _ moment. this has certainly been the big story over— moment. this has certainly been the big story over the _ moment. this has certainly been the big story over the last - the big story over the last couple of days or certainly the last 2a hours, hasn't it, because of the closure of the luton plant that you just heard simon jack luton plant that you just heard simonjack outlining his report. that has thrown into relief the focus on the government's policy which of course it did inherit from the last government of putting in

do you think, simon, i think it's going to be a massive issue. as you say, that have already been layoffs, particularly in the auto industry and their fee is. but that could be more of that going forward from the social democrats to day. we heard that they will be concentrating on issues like pay and pensions and other social issues. they think that that's where they can really a galvanized that base and may be serge in the coming months. the other big issue, i think, undoubtedly will be the war, and ukraine is a big concern for a lot of voters. and it's an issue with a black shoals that sort of styled as the piece john slot. with his cautious approach on ukraine, avoiding escalation has a very different line from the city you lead to freed reach. matt, so talks about delivering long range missiles to ukraine that will certainly play big. but it is going to be an incredibly difficult job for ourselves to catch up at almost a 20 point deficit in just a few months until the election, the end of february, the w simon young. finally, thanks so much.

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our correspondent simon jones has more.ideo, he identifies himself as james scott rhys anderson, and says he is 22 years old, and he says that he was part of the british army forfour was part of the british army for four years before was part of the british army forfour years before being sacked. he then applied to join the international legion. that's part of the ukrainian army made up of foreigners. he said he travelled to poland to get himself to ukraine. now tonight we had report from a news agency, the russian news agency, saying what it calls a british mercenary has been captured in the kursk region, part of southern russia, and there has been fierce fighting there has been fierce fighting there after there was a surprise incursion into that with one issue gaining greater prominence — immigration. part of the reason for this is the number of asylum seekers in ireland relying on the state for accommodation has more than quadrupled in three years and many have been sent to rural communities. our special correspondent fe

for more let's go to our political correspond to simon young simon. that what do we know about more? what do we know about this phone call between schultz and food you? it's yeah, get hard to a government sources of the told d w that john sla set to president putin, essentially what he said before. he condemns what's described as russia is more of aggression in ukraine called upon him to an end the war and to pull out the russian troops and pointing out to him that as the chancellor put it, that none of russia's more items have been achieved. in particular, he condemned the attacks on civilians infrastructure and you kind of course, we've been seeing increasing drug attacks and so miss all attacks. so when in recent months, sort of really broad suffering to the ukranian civilian population. and he also referred to the presence of north korean troops on the battlefield release in the russian on russian territory, fighting on russia's behalf and said that was a very serious escalation of the conflict. and again, he repeated germany as an unbreakable res

so let's bring in the w. pettis co. correspondence, simon, young, high, simon, that this is likely to end the weeks the speculation of what will i feel it's and whether he'll be his policies shots latan does it, but how much damage has all of this done to him? yeah, and yeah, i think get this has done raise the so protracted debates about who would that lead to the social democrats since the election is really damaged, the policies damage sholtes and they've already plenty of people in the gym and public who concerned with worry wondering about the leadership qualities of life. shouts off to his 3 party coalition. the fella pauses. he mentioned that in early november and what came off to that? well, that the, there were a couple more weeks of questions about whether a life phillips has the right man to be charged to the going forward. as people were talking about the defense minister bowers. but story is, as possibly the best to try to take as much more popular in the polls than allow sholtes. he's there and it took 2 weeks. but as far as the story is to finally come forward and say,

simon, a single mother of two, has just located a new school for her 13-year-old daughter, layla. >>ou told me one of your biggest concerns is your eighth-grader passing that french class. >> you know, i believe and i'm hopeful that every parent in government thinks about their children first. our jobs, if you're a public servant, is to deliver for the people you're representing. but the best job that i have is that of i apparent. >> reporter: born legally blind, simon is a civil rights advocate who helped victims of sex trafficking and became a protege of vice president kamala harris years ago. >> she believes so deeply, even at that young age, in coming at your best if you're coming to work for the people. so my job is to make her proud. >> reporter: simon joins the dozens of other newly elected house members who've arrived in washington preparing to take office january 3rd. >> isn't it nice to win? >> reporter: while president-elect trump snags headlines, the new arrivals are adjusting to their new normal. >> you are a working dad with a commute now. >> yeah. >> big commute. >> ye

so ready to go. >> lateefah simon calls barbara lee. her mentor leave was her professor at mills college. and simon says she's always told her to have the moral courage to do what is right. so for me that really that means no calling for a peaceful world. it means. >> championing women's rights to choose. it means as she has done work across the aisle, but work with the grace and intellect. that is worthy of this position. i am. i'm so example and she's she's giving me her desk, which is such an simon, a bay area. progressive had hoped to be working to support a kamala harris administration. >> after the democratic party's stunning losses. she says she knows the party needs to have a hard conversation. >> sure, we're going to have to learn a lot working in environment where i do believe we have the senate to and we sure don't have the white look, the map, the united states spoke and we need to be able to speak to them clearly. so that were articulating our values and what we're fighting for and in ways that folks can appreciate clearly

so ready to go. >> lateefah simon calls barbara lee. her mentor leave was her professor at mills college. and simon says she's always told her to have the moral courage to do what is right. so for me that really that means no calling for a peaceful world. it means. >> she am putting a woman's rights to choose. it means as she has done work across the aisle, but work with the grace and intellect. that is worthy of this position. i am. i'm so proud to be able to follow her example and she's she's giving me her desk, which is such an simon, a bay area. progressive had hoped to be working to support a kamala harris administration. >> after the democratic party's stunning losses. she says she knows the party needs to have a hard conversation. sure. we're going to have to learn a lot working in >> environment where i do believe we have the senate to and we sure don't have the white look, the map, the united states spoke and we need to be able to speak to them clearly. so that were articulating our values and what we're fighting for and ways t

so ready to go. >> lateefah simon calls barbara lee, her mentor. was her professor at mills college. and simon says she's always told her to have the moral courage to do what is right. so for me that really that means no calling for a peaceful world. it means. >> championing women's rights to choose. it means as she has done work across the aisle, but work with the grace and intellect. that is worthy of this position. i am. i'm so proud to be able to follow her example and she's she's giving me her desk, which is such an simon, a bay area. progressive had hoped to be working to support a kamala harris administration. >> after the democratic party's stunning losses. she says she knows the party needs to have a hard conversation. sure. we're going to have to learn a lot working in >> environment where i do believe we have the senate to and we sure don't have the white look at the map. the united states spoke and we need to be able to speak to them clearly. so that were articulating our values and what we're fighting for and ways that folks can apprec

i think it's a simon mayall. welcome.ining the house of war, explaining the contention between the caliphate and christendom over 1300 years with an enormous array of heroes and villains coming through . and villains coming through. what sort of prompted you to write this ? write this? >> an interest, really, in the middle east? and the there was a sort of gearing mechanism when i was at, at university with a tutor called maurice keane, who's quite well known to people between my family's experiences abroad the whole time, an academic enthusiasm for history, and then sort of a professional by necessity, a professional interest in the middle east, and i was brought up in aden. i served the sultan of oman for three years. first gulf war, the wars of 9/11, of course, and then ended up as the defence senior adviser, middle east. so although i had written a previous book called soldier in the sand , which was really the sand, which was really intertwining the family story with the history of the middle east from the fall of th

all right, that we did the reporter stuff in simon's in washington dc. thank you very much for your reporting now, hours before it emerged that ukraine is being given more freedom to use western weapons inside russia, the kremlin unleashed because wave of missile and growing attacks and months from apartment targeted ukraine's energy grid causing nationwide power outages. as the air raid sirens and nothing used at the residence of keys who calmly make their way to metro stations for shelter. russian ass strikes up becoming to almost daily occurrence for them. but this power wash of drone and misaligned attacks was the biggest and most widespread in at least 3 months. with russia, nation at least $120.00 messiah was a 90 drones all across the ukraine. from vive, in the west, to separation in the east. under desa and the south officials in several regions, confirmed damage to infrastructure. already quoted power, including in the black sea port and result ctf, odessa, russia's defense ministry. he says it's targeting, quote, critical energy infrastructure

simon will succeed. representative barbara lee and districts 12 representing parts of the east bay and congress. lee had been in the position since 1998. vacating office earlier this year to run for senate. simon was born legally blind. she has served on the bart board of directors since 2016 on social media platform exit. she vowed to fight for representationiand equality for all. taking a live look now kron four's kathy trafton this year to talk a little bit about our weather forecast. cathy, those winds have finally died down. we've got a little rain coming our way soon. what's going on? >> it was week fire weather. >> because there very gusty offshore winds. it triggered a red flag warning. we had very dry atmosphere and now this weekend, things are about to change because we're going to get more clouds are going to get some drizzle. and yes, even some rain is in the forecast. so dry tonight. cirrus clouds coming in for the north bay. that may keep the overnight temperatures slightly warmer than this

so, i mean, you only the latest here in berlin, simon. thank you. started staying with the conflict in ukraine where it keeps, as north korean troops are already engaging with ukrainian soldiers fueling for years of a major escalation. russia in north korea have recently strengthened their military cooperation and concerns are now rising that young gain could soon be supplying moscow with masses of more drones. north to reinstate media is reporting that leader kim jong own, has ordered his military to begin mass producing exploding drones. john yang has been ramping up the development of new weaponry in the last few years. the attack drones carry explosives and crash into their target. and they are better at evaluating air defenses then missiles, it's all right, some more. i'm going to pull in random wrong. she's a post doctoral researcher in the more studies department at kings college, she is in munich tonight. it's good to see you. so ukraine says that there are already north korean troops, mostly in rushes course region, trying to pus

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lateefah simon, now officially elected to u.s.ongress to represent district 12. >> the 49 ers are getting one of the best offensive weapons in football. back coach kyle shanahan confirming today christian mccaffrey is good to go this sunday against the tampa bay buccaneers. center jon feliciano could also make his season debut after coming off the injured reserve wide receiver jauan jennings and kicker jake moody are also set to play, making this one of the healthier niners offensive. we have seen so far. there are some questions on the defensive side, though. nick bosa is listed as questionable after suffering an injury in practice. >> i am to a degree he wasn't able to do a lot. i mean, he definitely was extremely limite. i'm hoping he'll be all right, you know, but we'll see on sunday going into the bye. no, no. just banged into somebody got a little hip pointer. >> and sunday's game kicks off at 10 a.m. you can watch it right here on ktvu. >> former warriors fan favorite and splash brother klay thompson set to play in his firs

young has more for us now. simon chancellor shoulds now say he's willing to face a vote of confidence before christmas. what's changed? it's yeah. clear. i think, you know, the pressure is growing on him day by day. it's not just the opposition parties, all of whom cooling for shows to trigger elections as soon as possible at even the green party, which uh for the moment remains in government along side sales is social democrats . so saying that they want to decision on this this week at one argument the show is displayed using is that the still various bits of legislation that he's trying to get through the parliament. for instance, a little to bolster and protect germany's constitutional quote, which is one of his keys of the constitutional institutions against and the efforts to undermine it by extreme is which obviously could be something that be very important during an election campaign. but other than point to that, actually at the book this talk department can continue to pos, lowe's, even if the at show it's the resigns. now looking at the polls, 65 percent of gym and just sa

catherine heenan spoke with simon and has more on her story.esswoman elect this weekend as she was packing for her trip to washington. but if a simon begins freshman orientation this week and she really does sound genuinely enthused about starting the new job. >>thank you so much. i'm so humbled. so ready to go. >>lateefah simon calls barbara lee, her mentor. billy was her professor at mills college. and simon says she's always told her to have the moral courage to do what is right. so for me that really that means, you know, calling for a peaceful world, it means championing women's rights to choose. it means as she has done. >>or across the aisle, but work with the grace intellect. that is worthy of this position. i am. i'm so proud to be able to follow her example and she's she's giving me her desk, which is such an honor. simon, a bay area. progressive had hoped to be working to support a kamala harris administration. >>after the democratic party's stunning losses, she says she knows the party needs to have a hard conversation. sure. we're

then simon heard about a project here in palo alto at the initiative to cure hearing loss at stanfordcells using gene therapy can drugs. they're studying how zebra fish can naturally regrow inner ear cells in hopes of one day potentially unlocking similar possibilities in humans. >> is that regeneration? >> this is without drugs, so we see that human can actually start the process of regeneration before we put drugs in. >> gives me hope that there is significant improvement on the horizon. >> oh, simon calls the research deeply personal, giving him hope one day his hearing could be restored, keeping his creativity alive. >>> all right, as for the rain, stay dry if you can. stick around for us be more news on kpix.com, on the cbs your business needs a network it can count on... even during the unexpected. power's out! -power's out! power's out! comcast business has got you covered, with wifi backup to help keep you up and running. wifi's up. let's power on! let's power on! -let's power on! it's from the company with 99.9% network reliability. let's power on! power on with the leader in

but we picked up the stuff from simon's in washington. thank you very much for your reporting. let's take a brief look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. and is really airstrike is killed at least 5 people in a densely populated area of lebanon's capital. a route local media said 2 missiles struck, a neighborhood were local, you in the headquarters and lebanese government offices are located. the strike comes with the u. s. the west presses a head with proposed truce between israel and lebanese. as hezbollah militants succeed, a state of emergency has been declared in ecuador due to ongoing droughts made worst by forest fires. some 10000 hector's, a forest have been destroyed. ecuador relies heavily on hydro, electric power. critically low water levels have led to rationing of electricity. health emergency has been declared in pockets on 2nd biggest city of lahore, which is seen unprecedented levels of air pollution. hospitals have reported a surge in cases of asthma and other breathing disorders. small clouds have been so thick that it could be seen f