at any rate, the crown was furious. the result, they passed, parliament passed, a number of coercive acts to force the americans to get line and quit protesting. as a result of that, the colonists decided that maybe they should have a congress and talk about what action they should take to these course of acts. so the 13 colonies appointed, well, 12 of the 13 colonies, appointed representatives to meet in the largest and most sophisticated city in north america, philadelphia. and they, the various colonies sent a few men to meet together, most of whom had never met each other. and, of course, in the 18th century, each colony was really a separate organization with its allegiance to the crown. so, there was not any sort of national unity to speak of. and when the delegates came, everyone said, we'll meet at the pennsylvania state house, i.e., independence hall. however, it was associated with the fo proprietor, a supporter of the british crown. so they thought, where can we need? well, it happened that joseph fox, master

he worked for the crown. it was the secretary to three royal governors and the treasurer for the colony. he married into a wealthy planter family and became a planter and merchant. when he moved here, he had connections to charleston. he joined a company that inputted -- imported goods. he had a ship that went to england, and one that went to new england. a couple went to the caribbean, where he would import goods into north carolina and back to europe. we know he didn't actively buy and sell slaves to make money, but we knew no -- but we do know he transported. someone in wilmington said they had slaves are just in the caribbean, someone of your ships take them up and transport them, and he would do that. over 300overall people. we know he actively bought and sold them on a regular basis. but to make money, that was not his trade. this house is the little different. this is southern port, and owned by a wealthy georgian. this is a georgian society. unlike later on, houses were used a little differently. this

he worked for the crown. it was the secretary to three royal governors and the treasurer for the colony. he married into a wealthy planter family and became a planter and merchant. when he moved here, he had connections to charleston. he joined a company that inputted -- imported goods. we know he did not actively buy and sell slaves to make money. somebody in wilmington said i have slaves that are purchased in the caribbean, can one of your ships bring them back here? he would do that. he owned overall over 300 people. we know he actively bought and sold them on a regular basis. but to make money, that was not his trade. this house is a little different. it is owned by a wealthy georgian. this is a georgian society. unlike later on, houses were used a little differently. this not being the primary home, it's only purpose being business, would have been built with that in mind. the first thing to notice is the walls are white, the trim is colored. usually paint her colors on the wall and the trimming is white.

again, the area that is being closely watched is the crown hotel at 528 valencia street. >>> lots of restaurants and businesses in that area, and joining us on the phone right now is the manager of a cafe in that area. thank you for joining us by phone. we're glad you're safe. can you talk a little bit about the evacuation process, how you first got word of this from police and what they asked you to do? >> i was working. i didn't have no idea what's going on. suddenly two police officers come to me and ask me is there any way to get on the top of the roof upstairs. and i didn't have no idea. and i say i think, yeah, in the back and i let them in. since that, two more come in, we don't have no idea. and everybody is terrified here. we don't know what's going on. everything is empty. i never see valencia as empty as right now and a lot of police with guns and with big guns. i see a couple of them in the crown hotel because it's in front of me, in the stairs there, and we don't know what's going on at all. at all. we're still here. >> how many police officers do you see from your locati

many charters have been issued by the crown. their authorization for their founding comes from the english monarchy. there is no structures to tie them to the mother country to speak of whatsoever. between 1644 and 1638, massachusetts received no help from england in terms of fighting in that conflict. nor did virginia in the course of the third anglo conflict. both of these were fought entirely by the settlers themselves. using their own weapons, they had to build their own for its, there is no english troops involved whatsoever. over the course of the 16 30's, having dutch penetration of english possessions in terms of overseas trade. charles the first issued a number of directives to the virginia council of states to governors insisting tobacco being shipped from virginia and the chesapeake be sent to england. there is no system of regulations requiring basin produced england at all. ok. that is going to change. to understand what is happening, we need to understand a little bit of english history. when we think about the acts

the person we're talking about is in the crown hotel on the third floor.as far as they know, that person is still in there with the gun. they know they did not get out of that apartment. and they've got snipers across the street. we talked to a man who was told to get out of his apartment because two snipers wanted to get in. he said he was evacuated. >> it was an officer with a sniper rifle and sniper gear on, and across the street on the ground on each level, at the crown hotel, there was officers with tactical gear on. >> reporter: and so people are still evacuated from their apartments, from their businesses. a lot of residual effects. the traffic that we talked about earlier and sfpd says there's no major problems right now, but on a friday night this many streets being blocked off can cause some issues. i talked to a restaurant owner a short time ago. she says now she's going to be shut down the whole night it looks like on a friday night. that's a lot of money for her restaurant. thom jensen, nbc bay area news. >> we'll keep you in place and get upd

on trial: the crown prince of samsung. ke, the reputation of asia's richest family — and one of its most successful companies. plus: attracting the high flyers — airlines show their business class at the berlin travel show. hello and welcome. this is world business report. i am sally bundock. also in the programme, producer prices have been rocketing in china. is that suddenly we should be concerned about? rico hizon will make sense of that for you in a moment. but we start in seoul, where the trial of the century is getting started. the head of the biggest company, samsung, is on trialfor bribery. samsung might be a household name, globally, but his bossis household name, globally, but his boss is not. so what we know about him? he is the boss of the company, jay y lee, but is known by south korean media as the "crown prince of samsung". that is because he is the only son of the chairman, lee kun—hee, who was convicted of bribery and tax evasion himself, but was pardoned. so jay y lee has been in charge since his father ha

let's go live now to sky 7 live over the crown hotel where police say that man is refusing to come outfternoon, everyone, i'm larry beil. >> and i'm kristen sze. ama daetz has the day off. this all began shortly before 2:00 this afternoon in san francisco's mission district. >> melanie woodrow is live near the scene joining us now with the latest on a developing situation. melanie, what do we know? >> larry and kristen, we've been moved a couple of times. this is the perimeter right now. you can see at 16th street, that's where the perimeter had been. they have been expanding this perimeter because as you said there was a report of a man that had a gun and a possible incendiary device inside the crown hotel. that's a single room occupancy hotel that's just beyond 16th and valencia. video to show you from sky 7. you can see what it looked like here just about an hour or so ago as police officers were arriving here. this is very close to the mission police station. and you mentioned officers that were running. we also saw officers hugging the wall, and that's the instructions we got when

this is the crown hotel where police are trying to get that person out of their hotel room and disarm them. >> we want to show you the area on a map. it's here at valencia and 16th street. the area under lockdown, no one is allowed in, no one is allowed out. >> it's been going on like this for quite some time. good evening, i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm kristen sze. this all started when the manager of the hotel went door to door to tell the tenants they were going to spray for pesticides and a person got upset and pulled out a gun. >> we want to get right to melanie woodrow with the very latest live from the scene. melanie. >> reporter: dan and kristen, this may be an example of those de-escalation tactics that we've heard about recently. san francisco creating time and space. you can see the streets here are largely empty. san francisco police officers have moved the perimeter several times in the last couple of hours absolutely clearing the area on valencia and 16's streets. we have some video from sky 7 to show you what it looked like a couple of hours ago. when we arrived here on th

barricaded inside the crown hotel. nd has forced a shutdown of two blocks as you can see blocked off by tape there. get updates on the breaking situation by downloading abc news ap and enabling push alerts. >>> somewhere inside this forest of trees, searchers are hoping to find a woman who went liking and never came back. she and her dog left their b & b for a walk along skyline boulevard. 56-year-old bethany haury has dementia and needs insulin. we have updates on the search. >> and bethnee. >> reporter: search crews called out her name. bethnee went missing yesterday when she went hiking with her dog, an australian shepherd by the name of camaro. >> she was reported yesterday afternoon. her husband reported her missing. >> reporter: she is a 56-year-old woman, 5'5", 140 pounds wearing yoga pants and a pink shirt. she was last seen on skyline boulevard in woodside. she and her husband and son were staying in a nearby bed and breakfast. they are from mountain view. there was concern for her health. >> she has early on s

police say they went from room to room inside the crown hotel offering his services. when he knocked on the suspect's door, the person opened it holding a gun. that's what prompted a response. >> so we're being evacuated from the building. >> three busy blocks of valencia street had to be cleared of residents, customers, and employees of businesses here. >> the police officer just told us you should run, you should run because we got out, and we were walking, and he was kind of gesturing towards us like you better run, you better run. he told us we were in the line of fire and ran out into the street. we were not under any kind of cover from what we could tell. it was a little chaotic and scary. >> we did see officers with ballistic shields escorting people closest to the danger zone. 12 hours into the standoff it finally ended. >> she was taken into custody and then taken to a local hospital for a physical and psychological evaluation. reporting live in the mission district of san francisco, i'm -- abc 7 news. >> sergio, thank you very much. we've been sending out pus

that person is thought to be armed inside the single room hotel. this is crown hotel. sfpd as part of its de-escalation tactics is waiting it out so it could be several more hours near the b.a.r.t. station. >>> a police shooting in sanity clara left a young man dead. police say officers responded to a qual a man with a knife. robert honda broke the story earlier. it is believed he stabbed himself first and still had the knife in his hands when police confront him. >> officials have tentatively planned to provide more details. what do we know right now? >> reporter: right now we do know the details reported early. we confirmed that police and the family reported strange behavior that apparently led to that fatal encounter. they had us the man police shot and killed had at one point been stabbing himself with a knife and that's why he left bloody hand prints on the window to flee the home. they said he had a history of mental illness and possibly drug abuse and police had come to the house several times before because of bad behavior. neighbors were sad about the death. >

police say they went from room to room inside the crown hotel offering his services. when he knocked on the suspect's door, theened it holding a gun. that's what prompted a response. >> so we're being evacuated from the building. >> three busy blocks of valencia street had to be cleared of residents, customers, and employees of businesses here. >> the police officer just told us you should run, you should run because we got out, and we were walking, and he was kind of gesturing towards us like you better run, you better run. he told us we were in the line of fire and ran out into the street. we were not under any kind of cover from what we could tell. it was a little chaotic and scary. >> we did see officers with ballistic shields escorting people closest to the danger zone. 12 hours into the standoff it finally ended. >> she was taken into custody and then taken to a local hospital for a physical and psychological evaluation. reporting live in the mission district of san francisco, i'm -- abc 7 news. >> sergio, thank you very much. we've been sending out push alerts a

the crown did. the crown wanted to take it away. what they gave and what they realize it was we have a problem here. we must keep our weapons so i need the american people to understand that we all -- sandy hook makes us sick. don't understand that. we weep for charleston and recognize there are people with mental illness, with issues we have to figure out a way -- i level live in the commonwealth of venezuela. i'm a gun owner and group up in a mail tear house and aim a lifetime, nra member, bottom line is, i believe fundamentally in this principle because it's what keeps us free, and if as hamilton was saying you ever allow the government to erode that particular liberty of that second amendment you're walk downing a dangerous path. i don't knee if -- for some reason our government went rogue and that would a coup d'etat, we have tanks and if it ever turned on the citizens our see movies like red dawn and others. people think that can't happen here. it can happenner here. it can happen anywhere. the second amount is fundamental to

a woman was brought out of the crown hotel on a backboard and then placed on a stretcher. she was conscious at the time, but it put an end to a seven hour standoff here in the mission district. it was on the third floor of the crown hotel an sro in the mission that the hours long standoff began. >> the victim was attempting to enter that apartment for pest control services when the occupant pointed a firearm. >> reporter: it was 2:30 in the afternoon and restaurants on valencia were still full from when sfpd squad cars from nearby mission station flooded the neighborhood. >> both of us were like looking out the window sticking our head out the doors. we didn't know the full situation yet and then another police officer approached and said there was someone with a gun in the window. >> reporter: restaurantgoers turned to their smartphones not knowing what the situation was behind the glass. >> somebody turned on his phone and of was trying to listen in -- and was trying to listen in and see if we could get information this way. >> they told us we were in the line of fire and

but fallon reclliming the late night crown? onight show" host recently debuted a new segment that may be in response to colbert's political focus. >> this is what we call this week in words. >> here is what president trump had to say. >> jimmy falcon is more of an entertainer. there is a real difference between the two. and the audience, which is very engaged in politics right now, is making the choice. >> let's keep moving. there are are certain tv moments that you never forget like the finale of the very first season of survivor on august 23rd, 2000, mind-boggling number of people tuned in to watch that man, richard hatch, take home the crown. tonight the show celebrates its 500th episode and we break down the magic, mayhem, madness that occurred during the she's amazing run by the numbers. >> hard to believe that cbs hit has been on for 17 years. >> that's the challenge right there. >> over 34 seasons survivor traveled to 18 countries, followed 498 cut throat contestants. >> just like me, and i would get rid of me if i could.

the crown prosecution service is considering its options. he court if his sentence is reviewed. judith moritz, bbc news, manchester. president trump has signed a new executive order reversing many of barack obama's efforts to limit global warming. the order is meant to boost employment in america's energy business, lifting a moratorium on the development of new coal fields. president trump has in the past called global warming a "hoax" and has repeatedly promised to help the struggling us coal industry. as our north america editor, jon sopel, reports. the coal industry was beginning to look like an endangered species in the us under barack obama, but if president trump has his way, coal will soon be king again, and today he signed a raft of measures reversing the policies of his predecessor. 0k. my administration is putting an end to the war on coal. we're going to have clean coal, really clean coal. with today's executive action, i am taking historic steps to lift the restrictions on american energy, to reverse government intrusion and to ca

in business: on trial — the crown prince of samsung. utation of asia's richest family — and one of its most successful companies. plus, attracting the high flyers — airlines show their business class at the berlin travel show. hello again. the trial of the billionaire boss of one of the world's biggest companies begins today. the south korean business conglomerate samsung, and its boss, jay y lee, are accused of paying bribes to gain political backing for the company. it's alleged samsung paid more than $37 million to the country's impeached president park geun—hye in exchange for the government's support on a merger. the company admits donating money but denies seeking any favours in return. steve, we know it happened, and we know the merger occurred. but this case is something else. it is. it goes to the top of the country. in credit for hours, the president could be kicked out of the presidency, and shortly after fighters of accused of serious crime, corruption. because it goes to the very top of one of the biggest companies in the wo

barricaded inside the crown hotel. nd has forced a shutdown of two blocks as you can see blocked off by tape there. get updates on the breaking situation by downloading abc news ap and enabling push alerts. >>> somewhere inside this forest of trees, searchers are hoping to find a woman who went liking and never came back. she and her dog left their b & b for a walk along skyline boulevard. 56-year-old bethany haury has dementia and needs insulin. we have updates on the search. >> and bethnee. >> reporter: search crews called out her name. bethnee went missing yesterday when she went hiking with her dog, an australian shepherd by the name of camaro. >> she was reported yesterday afternoon. her husband reported her missing. >> reporter: she is a 56-year-old woman, 5'5", 140 pounds wearing yoga pants and a pink shirt. she was last seen on skyline boulevard in woodside. she and her husband and son were staying in a breakfast. they are from mountain view. there was concern for her health. >> she has early on set of dementia.

the deputy crown minister, also the defense minister of saudi arabia. they're now having lunch with other senior aides, including the vice president, mike pence, also in the room. senior adviser jared kushner, chief strategist, steve bannon, and national security adviser general h.r. mcmaster. they're all having lunch. we're going to see video from that luncheon shortly. we'll bring it to you, of course. in the meantime, let's bring in our white house correspondent, jim acosta, joining us from the white house at our congressional correspondent phil mattingly joining us from capitol hill. jim, what you hearing, first of all, the reaction from the white house to these congressional budget office numbers? >> well, wolf, we should point out in the moment you just showed everybody a few moments ago, the president sitting down with the deputy crown prince, here at the white house, the president was asked a question about that cbo score that came out yesterday, that you just talked about to our viewers. the president did not bite on that question. and the pres

in the oval office with the president of the united states, recognizing hbcus as one of the crown jewels in this country. certainly, that's a big deal. if i was talking in terms of baseball, i would say, this was a home run. this president took the time to have a presidents hbcus from around the country in his office and promised to make hbcus in this country a priority of the white house. hbcus have been a part of the department of education. this president recognizing the importance of hbcus is now reinstituting the notion that now it is the white house initiative on hbcus. >> yes, sir. >> hi, good afternoon. i'm leslie baas kerville. president and ceo of the national association for equal opportunity and higher education, nafeo, advocacy for the black colleges and universities and 80 predomina predominantly black institutions. this is a great day for membership and america. we came at the invitation of president trump who realizing the centrality of hbcus to the realization of his robust agenda whether it's education or economic development, whether or not it's revitalizing our higher

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i will only accept the crown. no run nerup. or second place. >> may be my favorite. ty of wheel of fortune fails in the past. this one may be one for the books. >> okay. >> literally. >> yeah, exactly. during yesterday's episode. contestant, kevin filled in every letter of this puzzle except one. can you guess this title? >> he is going for it. >> $600. >> k. >> a streetcar named desire! >> that's it. >> and although y right answer. i would rather see kevin's play. >> naked desire. maybe he has a video at home that does have the title. that's what he was thinking about. [ laughter ] >> probably does. >> he's like, what? why is everybody looking at me look that. that's the title. >> i thought he was going to guess, l. no, no. he went a different route. >> understand it. >> exactly. >> so you did end up walking away with $1,000. he could make it rain some where. at a club where there is -- some one named desire. all right. we'll give him the benefit of the doubt. >> good luck, kevin. >> we feel you. >> all right. >> coming up. spring break vacation, the question is woul

so far 12 police forces have sent files to the crown prosecution service. l expenses all together. more than £3,800 for hotel rooms in margate, over £63,000 of spending on the battle bus tours and almost £105,000 of other spending. we have complied fully with the electoral commission throughout their investigations. they have imposed a fine on the conservative party and the conservative party will be meeting that fine. we will pay that fine. if there are criminal prosecutions, they could lead to by—elections in constituencies like south thanet. recently labour and the liberal democrats have also been fined for illegal expenses returns. the electoral commission is worried that parties are starting to see the fines as a cost of doing business, rather than a way of keeping british elections fair. daniel sandford, bbc news, ramsgate. president donald trump says he stands by his claim that former president barack obama ordered trump tower to be wiretapped during the 2016 campaign. it comes as a senate committee has said there are "no indications" that trump tower

the blaze broke out before 4:30 in the woods community along the 1700 block of crown point road, crews tell "action news" that the fire was contained to the exterior of the trailer, and they were able to get the fire out quickly. no word of injuries. >> the white house is being asked for a full accounting of any member of the trump administration met with russian officials during the campaign or transition period. both president trump and the russian foreign minister are on the defense. >> reporter: good afternoon rick, witch hunt is exactly weear that fepub fm the russian democrats say that if there is nothing improper about the meetings, why didn't sessions just disclose them. >> jeff sessions back at work today. >> good morning -- >> after afounding he would recuse himself from an investigation into the trump campaign following the revelation he met twice with the russian ambassador and failed to disclose this every time. and sessions maintains he did nothing wrong. my reply to the question of senator franken, was honest and correct as i understand it at the time. >> gave false test

so far 12 police forces have sent files to the crown prosecution service, kent police is not one of themal experiences all together. more than £3800 for hotel rooms in margate, over £63,000 of spending on the battle bus tours and almost 105,00 pounds of other spending. we have complied fully with the electoral commission throughout their investigations, they have imposed a fine on the conservative party and the conservative party and the conservative party and the conservative party will be meeting that fine. we will pay that fine. if there are criminal prosecutions, they could lead to by—elections for in constituencies like south thanet. recently labour and the liberal democrats have also been fined for illegal expenses returns, the electoral commission is worried that parties are starting to see the fines as a cost of doing business, rather than a way of keeping british elections fair. the leaders ef france andgermanu of the general election in the netherlands, where the prime minister mark rutte has seen off a threat from the far right. with most of the votes counted, mr rutte's centr

so as early as 1542 the spanish crown prohibited under all circumstances the enslavement of indians. so what happened was that owners who had benefited from these labor for half a century by then, resorted to all kinds of euphemisms and all kinds kinds b at the fuming to maintain mastery of the slaves and it targeted native americans and even more fundamentally because it operates in different ways. it sometimes requires detective work in order to figure out what the real libber conditions or -- labor conditions are for enslavement, based on debt, based on the legal system, or some other circumstances. so that's what i start eddoing. i have to start outer by emphasizing that slavery was not a european invection. native americans had enslaved each other well before the arrival of europeans. but these practices expanded and resembled the human trafficking that are recognize able to us today. the story that i tell is a moving story. it begins in the caribbean, where i tried to show that as much as biological speaks in the enslavement of native americans is a very significant factor for

congrats, by the way, on the crown. essions. [ cheers and applause ] you got into character. >> yeah. >> jimmy: you put the mouth thing in. >> i did my progresso soup pitch with my churchill cowl. >> jimmy: cause, yeah -- that's how fun you are, but i've got to say after you came on, that is the only thing people talked about for months. they kept saying, have you seen "the crown" yet? dude, that's my crown, my friend. >> we're all -- >> jimmy: have you seen "the crown" yet? john lithgow, he's a genius, you got to check him out. i go i know, he's on the show. i saw the first episode, and they go you got to watch the whole thing man. he's a genius. he's brilliant. you've got to watch it. it's my favorite show on netflix. i go, i get it. get off my back, and i did watch it. man, oh man, it's fantastic. >> it is wonderful. >> jimmy: i mean -- i don't see you in my brain as playing winston churchill. now i do. but how does the casting director see that? >> i don't -- honestly, i was shocked when they cast me. >> jimmy: me to

they are tired of the way they're being treated by the crown. they got this undergroun undergg going with a can communicate. they have a whole communications network with the rest of the colonies over down south. they're talking to each other. they understanding the problem but the one thing they understand is that their guns, their guns are everything and ironnet of this, everything that defeated the crown, the crown made it mandatory for every boy of a certain age to have a musket. it was mandatory. the crowd wanted to take it away. what they gave with the realized was we have a problem we must keep our weapons. so i need the american people to understand that we all, for fund -- for sandy hook and makes us sick and we understand that. for charleston. we recognize there are people with mental illness, with issues that we have to figure out a way. i live in the commonwealth of virginia. i have a gun owner. i grew up in a military house. i meant nra member, lifetime member. black woman, and are a number, back of the book. bottom line is, is that

what happened was that the crown prosecution service, there is evidence because the speech was filmedight of review, a right any potential victim of a potential crime has to ask the cps to reconsider that decision, and they will apply their normal tests and they will look at the evidence to see if there is a realistic prospect of conviction and if so, whether it is in the public interest to do so. having declined to prosecute and the claims the requests for a victim right to review, the campaign against anti—semitism looked to bring a judicial review, to review both decisions. i understand this week, before that, they were successful and before the full judicial review was to take place, the cps agreed to get a senior lawyer to review the original decision not to prosecute. the reason, they say, is they have advice from a senior lawyer in relation to the consideration of the human rights aspects of the prosecution and it was that that forced them to rethink. more broadly, can i talk with you two about anti—semitic hate crime generally and the figures i mentioned in the introduction fr

had the crown, didn't quite fit. through the song the crown fell literally over my face. for half a second, i was mortified. just embarrassingly right in front of my face. everyone laughed and i thought, it's all good, doesn't matter. that's sort of when i got hooked, when i was five. >> stephen: one of the reasons i got hooked on comedy is because i had done drama for years and i found out if you're doing comedy, and you (bleep) everything up, you still get a laugh. i thought, this is for me. ( laughter ) >> when i met you and your family, your son found you funny. i remember that. i remember him laughing, you telling jokes and your wife and son were laughing. i thought that was amazing, like normally. ( cheers and applause ) it is, right? it is amazing. >> we have a good time with the show. i laugh at them, too. yeah. >> stephen: i remember my son having a friend come over, he was about 13, and the guy was peppering him with wolverine questions. my son said nothing and i'm in the room next door and i said, listen, m

the crown prosecution service is reviewing its options in the case of a man who walked free from courta suspended sentence by a judge at manchester crown court last week. thejudge has been criticised by campaigners for questioning the vulnerable of basheer‘s victim. 0ur correspondentjudith morris reports. mustapha ashley claimed he was a promising cricketer on the verge of a professional career, in fact he was an abusive husband who hit his wife with a bat and forced her to drink bleach. he was given an 18 month suspended sentence. judge richard mansell said he wasn't convinced the victim was particularly vulnerable and that she was plainly an intelligent woman who managed to hold down a job as a receptionist, had friends and went to university. those remarks and the sentence have distracted strong criticism. we've got to see if this can be reviewed. i'm writing to the attorney general and thejustice secretary. in a case like this were the comments are so wide of what society expects, the judge the comments are so wide of what society expects, thejudge really has to question himself ab

deputymentioned the crown prince. he did fly to washington earlier this month. t more about building a good relationship with the u.s. or is it about the lineup is a political profile in his own country? >> at the online same time thate king has been traveling to asia with a retinue of over 1000, they are focused on money, in wantase of the u.s., they defense contracts and intelligence cooperation and for the relationship to be good. the saudi's were shocked by the passage of the legislation that allowed for the litigation against the government if it was seen that there were citizens involved in the terrorist attack. you are empowering lawyers here which as we know in the u.s. is always a bad thing to do. when i think about the u.s.-saudi relationship, they has been deeply worried. they were unnerved by the obama administration. they like donald trump he does not talk about human rights so they will not get that criticism domestically. they like donald trump because he does not like iran. the balancing to the degree that happened under obama is something they do

than usual, and he had built for himself a platform inside the crown of that hat in which he would place botanical samples and he would take those home and press them between this large collection of flute music that belonged to his father and was heavy and he's making his own herbarium. he's pressing all of these specimens that he can store in the addict of his mother's house on main street. he actually, one day he puts, i wish i could remember the name of the kind of plant, but he puts a collection of seedpods in the crown of his hat on that little platform, and they are kind of seedpods that explodes with seeds that are at a particular time year end apparently he's walking home with these and they start going off and he says they sound like gunfire above my head. he is doing this very empirical fine-grained natural history from the early 1850s on, and when he gets a hold of darwin's book, and he doesn't get this one, he talks about it with the others at dinner on new year's day, and what he does is he pesters the library to get a copy as soon as possible and the librarian does by late

he one day -- the kind of plant, put the collection of seedpods in the crown of his hat on the littleplatform, a kind of seedpods that explode with seeds at a particular time of year and is walking home, and they sound like gunfire but he is doing this very empirical fine-grained natural history from the early 1850s on, when he gets a hold of darwin's book, he doesn't get this one. he talks about it at dinner on new year's day. what he does in his typical henry david thoreau way is get a copy as soon as possible and the library and apparently does by late january and he reads the book. it really transforms a lot of what he is doing as a writer, he takes these enormous newspaper sheets of paper and begins to create what look like very early forms of spreadsheet and traces every single plant and animal he has observed over the course of eight years. at the top, 1852, january through december and this long row of plants and animals, primarily interested in botany. when they lost the lease, saw a seed planted, all these things he records. these are at new york public library, enormous spr

while the situation in the capital is tense it is a different story in the crown -- in the countryside when agricultural sector is looming. >> finally in a move to promote gender diversity, a new series of prefixes have been removed -- have been unveiled for those who do not identify as male or female. out clients in the u.k. can choose from 10 gender-neutral titles, including ind for individual and the simple letter -- their training staff on how to clients. anchor: thank you very much for that. don't go away, i will be back in a couple of minutes with top stories here on france 24. 03/31/17 03/31/17 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy:from pacifica, this is democracy now! >> in addition to what we know, in a full accounting must find out what if any contacts, communications, or connections occur between russia and those associated with the campaigns themselves. i will not prejudge the outcome of our investigation. we are seeking to determine if , but is an actual fire there is clearly a lot of

what can you tell us about the meeting between the deputy crown prince on the president? >> as i understand, it went very well. i think they got along well on a personal level and discussed many important issues. i think they found agreement on most of those. the prince was keen to meet president trump as early as possible to re-emphasize the importance of the relationship between the two countries and reinvigorate the partnership we've had with the allies and partners for 50 years. saudi arabia has been a stable and reliable partner for the united states and i think the prince was keen to make sure we can move into the 21st century together in a positive and mutually beneficial way. >> bret: as you know, candidate trump did not shy away from saying what had to be done with gulf states paying their fair share for protection are going after isis, something he reiterated after getting elected. here he was in december. >> when i look at what's going on in syria, it's so sad. it's so sad. and we've got to help people. we have the gulf states. they have nothing but money. we d