the national union said that kaiser needs to fix the problem that force patients to wait a month or more longer run its earlybird service starting at 4 am. ange to the schedule. alternate but is offering to early morning commuters. >>> but workers were here earlier this morning helping the earliest commuters plan out their trip letting them know 4 service will no longer be in commission come february. the time change will be systemwide starting february 11, the 4 am service will end. this will impact 2900 writers who regularly use the first hour. the hour time changes for a massive project that will retrofit the trans bay tube in case of a an earth quake event. the new bart 5 am start time will be in place for the next 3.5 years and inconvenience too many writers. >>> it's a huge deal. the one hour is i mean i might as well drive into work and pay $30 a part. >> to make up for the service bar will offer the earlybird express bus service. we partnered with eight different agencies that operate through the area to establish 14 new bus lines in the 4:56 am hours to accommodate the writers.

the other thing that came up today was, sundar pichai reiterated google's support for national privacy law. something similar to what we've already seen in the european union with gdpr. and, that could offer more protections to consumers, especially around security consumers. earlier this week, we learned about another security bug with google and basically if the u.s. were to adopt laws that were more like gdpr, if there were data breaches, companies would have to report them much more quickly than they do now. >> finally, before we let you go, also today, sundar pichai was asked about the possibility of google essentially developing a censored search engine for china and he did not rule out this possibility. he simply promised that there would be sort of transparency as the project moves forward here. did you get the sense that lawmakers were satisfied with his swers there? >> i don't think so. i think this is an issue that's going to continue coming up with google and other technology companies as they look at this very quickly growing market in china. i think he was careful whenever he talked about that google does not have plans to introduce a search

accommodation shifting steadily upmarket, according yo research by student housing charity unipol and the national unioncrossanjory, vice president for welfare, national union of students is here. explain to me how it's been that prices for students, rental prices for students have risen so much over the last six years? hello, thank you for having me. what we've seen is a huge inflation in student rent, rent has been rising every year above inflation and it's being driven by the market and not thinking about the market and not thinking about the students. one of the concerning things is looking at the prices of accommodation which have not only risen but in proportion to maintenance loans, previously they would have been 59% of the loan going into accommodation and now we are looking more at 73% of the loan going into accommodation which means stu d e nts going into accommodation which means students have to take on many more hours working and it's creating an affordability crisis where people cannot access education anymore. there is evidence that the standard of living has improved for students, stu d

. >> reporter: but the national union of healthcare workers says kaiser was already putting its patients at risk thanks to weeks long wait times and grueling clinician workloads. to prove that point, 4,000 workers across the state walked off the job this morning. >> these clinicians have been bargaining with kaiser since june. the strike is a last resort. people don't want to strike. it's a critical situation going on. >> reporter: kaiser says some appointments have been canceled but doesn't know an exact number just yet. to help meet the demand at one of the busiest times of year, they've brought in additional staff to cross the picket line and pick up shifts. they say it's simply too dangerous this time of year to leave patients without options. >> that our patients should continue to reach out to their providers, reach out to our facilities. our facilities are all open. >> reporter: the strike will continue through the week. workers will be outside of several kaiser locations starting at 6 a.m. and breaking at 4 p.m. again, it will end at 4 p.m. friday. in san francisco, emily turner,

anything that they do not believe in we apologize for the misunderstanding so is this a one off the national union of students seems to think so and says it has no evidence universities are dictating what guest speakers can say however there have been several other cases in the u.k. where comics have been stopped from performing or had their material censored that the laffs was banned from performing at cardiff university after hundreds signed a petition complaining his show trivialize rape and activist and comedian capes birthweight had her performance cancelled at a london university because of her views on prostitution she debated the story with media commentator lionel absolutely trivial for me to sign this document and to be honest if you have to stop and go what you know what they're asking me not to be sexist how could they then maybe it's about time that you sort of thought about the fact that it's twenty eighty and checked out what your material is if every time you see a cup of coffee you shout i hate coffee it's disgusting or you won't be working in a coffee shop next week now let me ex

russian senator has said this morning i believe and so i think really i mean i'm a member of the national union of journalists and i'll be writing to my union in the new year to ask what the union is planning to do about this because people who work for russian media british journalists who work i think are being threatened of being persecuted and i think that you know we've got to stand up against this mccarthyism. mccarthyism on steroids really what we've got at the moment you know against russian media and what the you know you had your court about the m.s.p. the member the scottish parliament there who actually is a liberal democrat will be a liberal democrat what could be more liberal than basically saying that russians in britain who basically disagree with encounter the official line on foreign policy the british government could have their ass it seems that's what he said but he's talking about people spreading propaganda as anybody that doesn't follow the neo con line who's russian could lose all their assets that's extraordinary illiberal isn't it and imagine if you said that about ot

the other members of the european union parliament is set to vote on choose a own prime minister trees amaze planned to leave the block. the french president stooge address the nation after meeting unions and protest groups to try to ease the so-called yellow vests movement the demonstrations were initially overtop his own feel but they've now broadened to include many aspects of life in france today and many a calling for president mackerel to resign. the world leaders are gathering in morocco to sign a u.n. deal which aims at improving cooperation on migration but the consensus around the pact is far from solid a number of countries are refusing to support it including australia and the united states and in europe in particular supporters crumbling nowhere is that more evident than in austria paul brennan has more from the capital vienna. in vienna and across central europe the traditional christmas markets are well underway the symbolic of a christian heritage and a sense of european cultural identity twenty sixteen the european nations led the campaign for a global solution to the migration crisis but a string of populist election victories since then means the

i think is tantamount to almost it might put those people's lives in danger i'm a member of the national union of journalists and are we right into my unit in the new year to ask what the union is planning to do about these journalists working for russian media organizations here in the u.k. have had to develop a thick skin over the past few years as tensions between london and moscow have heightened articles calling for outlets like r.t. and sputnik to be banned have become a regular occurrence but recently the big papers have gone a step further and they started singling out the journalists working for russian media outlets. this is the london bureau chief for russia's channel one more serious zia of last month he did some filming outside the gates of a british military base for a story about the british army's cyber warfare unit aimed at fighting so-called russian propaganda he didn't break any laws gave his press credentials to all the security guards he met and left several weeks later the u.k.'s daily mail newspaper printed his personal details and accused him of being a spy the story wa

the national education union surveyed its members and found child poverty is having an increasing impactre are children in their school who'll go hungry over christmas. 63% said the past three years has seen an increase in families unable to afford adequate winter clothing or shoes, and 46% believe there's been a rise in the number of problems with housing. we find many children are homeless, to a certain extent, sharing accommodation, three—bedroom flat will be shared by four families so each family's living in one of the rooms. so accommodation is a huge issue. sometimes it's feeding the children, bathing them, because there's such a rush for the bathroom and toilets and stuff like that. the government says teachers shouldn't have to step in to tackle these issues and it's already taking action to make sure it, they don't have to. since 2010, there's 300,000 fewer children living in absolute poverty and it spends £90 billion a year on welfare for people most in need. meanwhile, charities work to fill in the gaps. sometimes it's more busy, like the christmas period now more definitely,

south yorkshire mine is association building in bones the and i'm with the general secretary of the national union of mineworkers chris thanks for letting us into this is storage building just before we get onto that history what do you have that the conservative government are going to go ahead with an inquiry into will grieve after denying you one well i'm hopeful that the will see the reason that a jew to eat the questions that need to be answered you know it was it was orchestrated riot as far as i'm concerned because i was there but the riot was not on our side it was all straightened by the state and the police and i think that we need to know all. that and so that safe gas can be put in place to make sure it doesn't happen again you see people are now saying that new documents show that there has been surveillance of people after all agreed you think you were under surveillance i don't think i would personally on the surveillance as a seventeen year old striking miners at the time but i definitely believe that that the. was under surveillance and was able to infiltrate was this building wou

demonstrators demanding for the reforms as french president emmanuel back home values to address the nation and make the union groups in the coming day. i'm rebecca riches it's good to have you with this vote counting has begun after amin is snap parliamentary elections today preliminary results are expected in several hours the reformist prime minister nichol passion young pushed for the early ballots after a pace full anticorruption uprising swept into power earlier this year it was the most sweeping transformation in the landlock locked caucasus country since its independence from the soviet union nearly thirty years ago international election observers were monitoring today's vote which was cold as passion no six a strong mandate impala meant for his planned reform drive. to his supporters he's a true man of the people a former journalist turned politician nicole pushing has a way with words and an unassuming style that has won the hearts and minds of many armenians. pushing young was elected prime minister by parliament in may after galvanizing a civil disobedience movement to protest a power grab by the

the national union said staffing problems forced patients to worry and wait over a month for an appointmentct to protect and area on the peninsula from flooding has been completed. this is between highway 101 and the bay in east palo alto. this has undergone a transformation that includes a widening of the creek and it will connect to a marsh. the completion comes as welcome news to everyone including the mayor. >> i live in thisneighborhood that has been impacted by the floods. i am grateful that this work has happened and my house is protected in all of these homes that are lined up against the levy are protected. they now don't have to worry about the rain and flooding. >>> back in 1998, the area flooded as you can see in this video. more than 1000 homes were damaged. the flood protection project was put out at that time. >> it is a holiday party where people dress up as santa. it has a reputation for bad behavior. now it is spreading to oakland. >>> plus facebook revealed a bug that exposed facebook users pictures without their permission. >> here we go again. facebook is in the hot sea

they're being booked out 4-6 weeks, and this is from the national union of health 1,000 patients in california. according to it, they've invested 75 million to expand h >> we see health care as a top priority in kaiser permanente. we have created many models to do that. there are office visits, electronic visits and telephone visits. >> and a nurse says they need requirements for patient appointments and pay their employees the highest wages in the state. she calls the strike a union tactic. we've been at the bargaining table the last five months, we don't think our patients needed this. >> what both sides can't agree on, [ chanting ] >> of course, there are a lot of people out here, hundreds, like i said, and they're kind of in front of the kaiser here in oakland, but all offices,sti >>> and google ceo faced 3 and a half hours capitol hill, he w potential political bias on google platforms and the data collection practices, and we're joined live this afternoon to get an explanation of what it means for google. edward? >> reporter: he defended google from point 1 coming into capitol hill. he g

the national union of health care workers says case remember has to fix staffing problems forcing peopleit a month or more for therapy appointments. they said on average there is one clinician for every 3,000 patients in california. >> we tried to work collaboratively with kaiser and it hasn't worked, kaiser doesn't seem to want to listen to us, so-called experts and what would work best for their patients. >> and spokesperson for kaiser called the strike disheartening, especially during the holiday season when mental headlight patients may be the most vulnerable. >> we value our therapist and we urge them to bargain constructively and stop putting our patients in the middle of their contract demands. >>> new information about a deadly police shooting in napa, in an unusual move, the police released body cam video after a confrontation with an assault suspect. >> subject down. >> the body camera was worn by the officer who shot and killed police chief said the video captures the moment when he grabbed the officer's rifle and he began firing. >> i thought it was important that wtransparen

demonstrators demanding further reforms as french president emmanuel back home values to address the nation and meet with union officials in the coming week. i'm rebecca ritter's it's good to have you with us polls have just closed moments ago in armenia as a snap parliamentary elections reformist prime minister nicola passion pushed for the early ballot after a peaceful revolution swept into power earlier this year the prime minister is now seeking a strong the mandate from voters for his reform agenda he stepped down two months ago so polman could be dissolved to this election national road a wave of popular discontent and mass protests against corruption but the former ruling party still dominates the current parliament. for more i'm joined by journalist joshua cooke charities in the capital yerevan joshua what was the turnout for today's election. well as you said the polls just closed but we the latest data we have is now three hours old five pm local time at that point it was just under forty percent eligible voters had voted it was interesting is that that's down from fifty one percent in the last parli

the national union of health care workers say staffing problems force patients to wait more for apartmentincreased staff by 30% in 2015. >>> a hearing in san francisco on the appeal by the electric scooter company lime was denied a permit to operate in san francisco, lime with another scooter company, bird flooded their scooters back in may. the city put temporary ban in place and developed new rules for a pilot program. in the end skip and scooch were the only two companies allowed to go in san francisco and loom appealed that position saying they were being unfairly shut christmas? >> what. >> if you need to mail practices, they need to be mailed today to make it in time. after that you'll have to pay more for two-day or next day shipping. monday somebody the day for ground delivery, for ups, it's tuesday. >> you have to remind me earlier. >> have you shopped at all? >> no. >>> okay. >> the time is now 6:40, still ahead, the food and drug administration cracked down the e-coli contaminated lettuce, where one of the growers is located and what's behind the problem in that property. >>> a

the national union of health care workers says kaiser should fix staffing problems that force patients to wait a month or more for therapy appointments. a kaiser spokesperson called the strike disheartening, especially during the holidays when mental health patients are often very vulnerable. >>> oakland unified teachers p today. of teachers at oakland high school walked off the job, marched to city hall, then marched to the school district headquarters. the teachers have worknc last july without a contract. they want higher pay and smaller class sizes. >> we're asking for 12% over three years, which would do something but still we need higher in order to be able to attract and retain teachers. >> we all want our educators to be paid more. there's no question about ators we all want our students educated by the best people possible and certainly that's going to be the challenge we're undertaking right now and we've been working on it now for a year and a half. >> the oakland unified school district said it's keeling with a -- dealing with a multi- million deficit. yesterday's strike wa

the national union of health care workers say staffing problems force patients to wait a month or more for therapy appointments. kaiser has increased staff by 30% since 2015. >>> and tonight former first lady michelle obama will be in san jose, it's part of a nationwide book tour. she's promoting her new book, becoming, they're sold out. the cheapest tickets on a resale are $400. former first lady michelle obama will take part in a leadership work event in san jose, it's being held by a nonprofit group and former first lady michelle obama was executive director of the national league allies. it provides career development for young people in diverse communities. >>> and police are asking for help to find and missing man. jimmy bagget. it was seen at ucf, he's 35 feet 6 inches tall and he ways 170 pounds. he suffers from dementia, he's a retired mta worker, he was wearing a white hooded sweat shirt and a sweat shirt with alaska printed on the pocket. none with information call police. >>> and there was a bizarre rescue operation in a castro muni center. a man on top of a train was rescu

day strike, for the clinicians, if the psychologists, kaiser and others to be hold the staff, the national union of health care workers stay if staffing problems force patients to wait a more for appointments. kaiser says it's actually increased staff by 30% since 2015. >>> facebook is apologizing to be users as it announced today or after it announced today that a software bug allowed users to access thousands of photos put up privately by users. the photos were expose bid third party apps. it will notify users who were affected p the company is working with developers to delete those photos. >>> michael cohen breaks his silence after being sentenced to three years in prison. what president trump's former lawyer said about the president this morning. >>> and her book, becoming is the fastest nonfiction novels either. the hope former first lady michelle obama is hoping to have on two stops today. liforns free specialized phones... like cordless phones. - ( phone ringing ) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. the impact former first lady michelle obama is hoping to have on two stops today. l

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we made a national and fixed union festival. the editor asked the president to issue his proclamation for a day of national thanksgiving for the last thursday of november. she also implored him to appeal to the governors of all the states to do the same. she concluded, plus the great union festival of america would be established. she mentioned she had already written to secretary of state william seward, who she knew when she was governor of new york. the result, as we know, was lincoln's decision to write to call a national thanksgiving. stewart, who had issued proclamations in albany, drafted lincoln's proclamation. there is no official record of a meeting the twin lincoln and hale, but indications that one may have taken place. her biographer reports that her grandson told her, i remember her telling me she had visited president lincoln and found him a very kindly and interesting gentleman. hale might easily have secured an interview with the president in her capacity for editor of the nations most popular magazine. but in addit

for the reforms his french president and the new and back home valves were addressed the nation and meet with union groups in the coming days. the only. kind of a home free glad you could join me for counting is underway off to armenia snap parliamentary elections today preliminary results saw expected in several hours time the reformist prime minister they called passion and pushed for the early ballots off to a peaceful anti corruption uprising swept into power the of this year it was the most sweeping transformation in the south caucasus country since its independence from the soviet union nearly thirty years ago. and international that the election observers were monitoring today's vote which was cool this passion and seeks a stronger mandate in parliament his planned reform drive. to his supporters he's a true man of the people a former journalist turned politician nicole passion jaan has a way with words and an unassuming style that has won the hearts and minds of many armenians pushing young was elected prime minister by parliament in may after galvanizing a civil disobedience movement to pr

opinion poll ratings are very low twenty four percent so for him when he speaks to the nation when he speaks to the unions this week he has to address the concerns that have been expressed not just on the streets but also in wider society it's a landslide victory for i mean his acting prime minister following snap parliamentary elections they call passing and led the so-called velvet revolution and took hour after a week of protests toppling the governments of nearly twenty is his party has won more than seventy percent of votes with almost ninety percent counted. greenpeace activists have projected the message on to the venue of the un climate conference in poland demanding urgent action from world leaders the first week of climate talks and say ended without agreement the intergovernmental panel on climate change recommended global warming be kept below one point five degrees celsius but saudi arabia kuwait russia and the united states refused to endorse its report chile has become the latest country to pull out of the un pact aimed at improving global cooperation on migration it's due to be signed in m

the national union of healthcare workers says staffing problems forced patients to wait a month or more to get therapy appointments. in response, kaiser said it has increased staffing 30% since 2015. >>> tonight, former first lady michelle obama will be in san jose. she will be out the s.a.p. center, part of her nationwide book tour. tickets for the event, promoting her book called "becoming", are sold out. there are tickets on the resale market. the cheapest about $400 each. this afternoon, the first lady will take part in a youth leadership workshop event in san jose hosted by the organization public alli. back in the 1990s, michelle obama was executive director of the chicago chapter of public allies. they focus on providing leadership and lopment for youn from diverse communities. that is a look at some of the top stories we are working on. >>> santa con coming to oakland , the first ever starts tomorrow at noon. there will be a rally, pub crawl and after party. there also be a donation drive to help the alameda county community food bank, one warm coat and other local charities. we

opinion poll ratings are very low twenty four percent so for him when he speaks to the nation when he speaks to the unions this week he has to address the concerns that have been expressed not just on the streets but also in wider society. greenpeace activists have projected a message on to the venue of the un climate conference in poland demanding urgent action from world leaders the first week of climate talks and cuts of it so ended without agreement the intergovernmental panel on climate change recommended global warming kept a below one point five degrees celsius but saudi arabia kuwait russia and the united states refused to endorse and support has more as part of our special coverage despite more than twenty years of climate conferences like the one underway in poland right now the amount of carbon emitted continues to rise so you can say that international political cooperation has so far failed some believe we should put more effort and money into radical scientific solutions to keep climate change your way we focus now on geo engineering the injection of millions of tons of sulfur dioxide into t

know and you have probably seen this on the news that we have a strike going on with nuhw, the national unionalth care workers. we were notified a couple weeks ago and knew that strike would begin at 6:00 a.m. on monday morning and it concludes at 6:00 a.m. on saturday morning. in addition there's a sympathy strike going on with c.n.a. and the union of operation engineers local 39 as well. they do some of the facility maintenance and engineers within our facility. the important part of this is that all facilities are open, all care is moving forward. there are some routine surgeries and routine visits that may be rescheduled but we did have kaiser permanente individuals call personally to those affected by that. anybody who needs care or they handle our mental health workers and anybody who needs care is still able to get care. we have outside contracted mental health workers, therapists, that are able to take care of any demands that we needed this week and we also have traveling nurses working to assist with any nursing care that we needed. so all has continued this week. as usual and in pr

. >> this morning, roger johnson, president of the national farmers union talks about the farm bill andpolicy. then bloomberg news reporter zeke foxe discusses how a loophole in the cash advance industry is affecting small business owners. talkster, tony payan about the future of u.s.-mexico relations. as always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on race book and twitter as well. "washington journal" ♪ host: good morning and welcome journal."gton investigators working on russian meddling in the united states government, several prosecutors filed papers implicating , accusingdonald trump his former campaign manager of lying to federal prosecutors about his contacts with the trump administration and with a man with ties to russia intelligence. this comes as the president's former personal lawyer michael coco faces sentencing

. >> reporter: but the national union of healthcare workers says kaiser was already putting weeks longt times and grueling clinician work loads. to prove that point, 4,000 workers across the state walked off the job this morning. >> these clinicians have been bargaining with kaiser since june. the strike is a last resort. people don't want to strike. it's a critical situation going on. >> reporter: kaiser says some appointments have been canceled but doesn't know an exact nu yet. to help meet the demand at some of the busiest times of years they've picked up staff to cross the picket lines. the strike will continue through the week. workers will be outside several kaiser locations at 6 a.m. and breaking at 4 p.m. again, it will end at 4 p.m. on friday. in san francisco, emily turner, kpix5. >>> santa clara county has just bought two hospitals for a price tag of $235 million. the two hospitals are o'connor in san jose and st. luis regional in gilroy. the city said they'll allow people to have access tt county run valley ntnning 91% y new ti home e soon to san biggespr a rnmayor m liccar

saturday morning, a discussion on the farm bill, trade and tariffs, and climate change, with the national farmers uniondent. -- at how a at the loophole in the cash advance industry is affecting small business owners. the future of u.s. mexico relations under mexico's new president. joining us for that is the baker institute. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. the supreme court heard oral arguments for apple inc. v. pepper, which could decide if a group of iphone app purchasers could sue apple for antitrust damages over its apple store and pricing scheme. this is one hour. >> the argument first this morning in case 17204. apple inc. v. pepper. >> thank you mr. chief justice and may it please the court. thisnly damages in monopo

he is the head of the national treasury employees union. he says his members are anxious and angry. >> they have been cast in the middle of a fight, not of their creation and they do not have the power to resolve. they are fearful of not being able to pay the mortgage or rent or pay the college tuition bill for their children. they want congress to do their job. congress and the administration to do their job. we had an individual let us know that recently his wife died. he is unable at this time because of this shutdown to pay for her headstone. >> some banks like chase and wells fargo are willing to work with federal employees whose accounts are in good standing and as questions linger how far president trump may be willing to bend on border security, his outgoing chief of staff john kelly is publicly clarifying somewhat one critical point. for more on that, we have sarah westwood at the white house. >> reporter: alex and alison, president trump is holding out on the shutdown as it drags into the second week. the president's allies are mud

to other members of the european union parliament is juge a vote on tuesday on prime minister to resign may's plan to leave the block. the french president is jews or address the nation after meeting the unions and protest groups to try to ease the yellow vests movement the demonstrations were initially over taxes on feel they have now broadened to include many aspects of life in france today many are calling for president mackerel to resign. and world leaders are in morocco. to work on a u.n. deal which is aimed at improving global cooperation on migration the group has just signed the pact but consensus around the agreement is far from solid a number of countries have withdrawn their support for the deal including australia and the united states. today more than eighty percent of the world's migrants move it to be in countries in a safe and orderly fashion but and regulated migration is a terrible human costs. in lives lost on very lives journeys across the oceans and rivers and the cost in lives ruined their hands of smugglers and script was in lawyers and other daters more than sixty thousand migrants ever died on the move since the year thousands and these is a

the national union of healthcare workers says staffing problems forced patients to wait a month or more for therapy appointments. in response, kaiser says it has increased staff by 30% since 2015. >>> well, here is a live look outside. a bit of rain is on the way this friday night. a gloomy day out there as we are looking, and of course, more is on the way. more rain, that is. for a look at the conditions, let's bring in meteorologist rosemary orozco. >> this is the weaker of the two storms we will see across the bay area over the course of the weekend. let's take a look, a gray, a dark gray start at that. you can see over areas of san francisco. as we move through part of your evening drive, i think we are going to be in and out of those scattered showers. a lot of cloud cover and it's really not going to wind down until tonight, only to pick back up tomorrow morning and i'll show you that. take a look at where the radar is. we do have hit or miss showers. if you start in the north bay, down toward areas of richmond, you can see there, a little bit of green on the screen through san fr

demand for the reforms is french president to money where mccall now is to address the nation and meet with the union groups in the coming days. are going to honk free glad you could join me thousands have taken to the streets in london to voice opposition to the government's plans on breaks it right wing at protests to say prime minister theresa may's deal negotiated with the european union makes too many concessions according for a different deal meanwhile groups on the left. gathered to demand that the government abandon its fans to leave the european union altogether the prime minister is coming under pressure from all sides as parliament protest a vote this week on her deal to leave the e.u. with many expecting to make as to reject the time. showing their colors before the decisive parliamentary vote these people are protesting against the braggs a deal struck by prime minister theresa may they want to stay in the. the country is divided many now think bragg's it is a mistake wales has flipped a majority here voted to leave the e.u. two years ago latest polls suggest that's changed. i did but. t

the contrary, they saw themselves as fighting to free nations. to free the nation the independent nations of the globe from the threat of being controlled by the soviet unioni think obviously these things are not sudden, there's a progression but i think that we can point to the fall of the berlin wall as kind of a turning point in the way that americans and europeans thought about the independence of nations this had been cooking all day since the 1950s the communist menace evaporates within a couple of years and as you know there were voices in the united states, individuals like irving kristol, jean kirkpatrick, who said we want our work, we freed the world. now let's bring the boys home. let's focus on the serious troubles that we as americans have at home. they were kind of pushed aside by events as was margaret thatcher, proposed by her own party the conservatives in 19 d because she wasn't sufficiently synthetic to the european union and the idea of dismantling the sovereignty of nations in europe. and bending it around that time 1990, 1991, from the moment george hw bush, president bush declares the arrival of order, there's an astonishing consensu

demand further reforms as french president and mine went back on the ground to address the nation and meet with union groups in the coming days. the looming. front of the home free glad you could join me for years of being counted off today's parliamentary elections in all may on the media state media report that the acting prime minister in a call question yan's alliance is needing in the early preliminary results he had pushed for this not bad at all for a peaceful anti corruption uprising swept into power the of this year it was the most sweeping transformation in the south caucasus country since its independence from the soviet union nearly thirty years ago and international election observers were monitoring today's vote in which passion yet is seeking a stronger mandate for his planned reform drive. to his supporters he's a true man of the people a former journalist turned politician nicole passion jaan has a way with words and an unassuming style that has won the hearts and minds of many armenians pushing young was elected prime minister by parliament in may after galvanizing a civil disobedie

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it deal that have split her party and polarized britain's parliament but the other twenty seven member nations of the european union they have agreed they can offer warm words and support but no renegotiation of the withdrawal deal itself. theresa may needs help selling for exit deal at home and right upon arrival at the summit european leaders seem eager to offer support to say i just said i think i'm ready to help. we're ready to have ice agreed to suspect from the way she's doing this the tenacity rather than i do is delia's she really has reason to your question i really admire and meanwhile the british prime minister is facing an impossible task lobbying for concessions on the withdrawal agreement that none of the other leaders want to make i recognize the strength of concern in the house of commons and that's what i will be pushing to colleagues today i don't expect an immediate breakthrough but what i do hope is that we can start to work as quickly as possible on the shore and says if necessary. headwind for may also from outside the european council this group of activists had come all the way from london t

the french presidency to address the nation after meeting unions and protest groups to try to ease the sacred yellow vests movement the demonstrations were initially of the taxes on fuel but they've now broadened to include many aspects of life in france today and many are calling for president to resign. the army is leader is promising an economic revolution after an election that has consolidated his power nicole and led mass protests in april wishful sout the party that had ruled for almost twenty years his my step movement is leading the vote with a huge margin and as robin foote s.c.a. walker reports from the capital. even in a suit and tie. acted like the ordinary guy just checking in at his local polling station the person young are you looking for your name on the list a family man is looking for my name or where you are voting as well today with your father. but this is armenia is revolutionary leader on a mission. i can say that we would have preached already general. and it is really free transparent and democratic elections and democracy it's all general to reach and i thin

we have the president and chief executive officer of tower federal credit union. he testifying today on behalf of the national association of insured credit unions. without objection, the witnesses written statements will be made part of the record. thank you mr. chairman. thank you for inviting the housing policy counsel to be part of this discussion. i want to thank you for your long service to our country and your pursuit of a sound housing finance system. i also want to recognize congressman delaney and the other members of this committee whose time on this committee is going to a close. thank you for your service to this nation. we believe the bipartisan housing finance reform situation we are here to discuss is an important advancements in this long standing effort to modernize our housing system and replace the precrisis model that failed us so badly. -- it to acknowledgment knowledge congressman delaney and congressman himes. for working with the chairman on this compromise draft. i also want to thank ranking member waters for the contributions made in her 2014 reform proposal, which also contributed

the union. and it was like a dual -- one cause was liberty and union. explicitly embracing liberty. if for no other reason, that led to the end of slavery. it guaranteed the survival of the nation and the union. while they usually cited both, many g.a.r. men went one step further. they understood the horrific price paid by their generation. "as he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free," they often echoed. i will emphasize emancipation, because they have been accused of forgetting it. the key of interracial comradeship is in as many layers to the cause. white veterans embraced black veterans because they symbolize what they had achieved. what had their hard-won victory meant? all this suffering is worthwhile because they have this law that transmits differences. they would go to these meetings and have living reminders. a new york official said the six possibly. "the g.a.r. excludes no man by way of rank, color, or effect. look around this gathering and see the face of one of that race which, for so many years, we held in bondage under our boasted government of freedom. they are our comrades, and they are our brothers." they generally said it among themselves. they

the european union. france's president emmanuel macro is you to address the nation after holding talks to try to resolve the so-called yellow dress movement cabinet ministers of joined the talks in paris alongside union meetings. and world leaders at a un conference in morocco have adopted a pact and she's aimed at improving cooperation on migration but fewer governments joined than had previously been thought a number of countries refused to support it including australia and the united states and several european countries today more than eighty percent of the world's migrants move between countries in a safe and orderly fashion. but and regulated migration as a terrible human costs. the lives lost on every lives journeys across the oceans and rivers and the cost in lives ruined the hands of smugglers and script was in lawyers and other daters more than sixty thousand migrants ever died on the move since the year thousands and these is a source of collective shame all right let's go to our correspondent. there in america and we now get an idea of what this u.n. pact seeks to achieve but how does it thi