the fire chiefs of the united states level. this is not something we can do in san francisco. increase the rate of reimbursement for medi-cal and medicaid. we have a lot of people in the department who belong to various organizations. this should be a broader discussion. the only way it will be changed is through the federal. we're uniquely impacted because we're the oldest city in the united states. we have the most -- well we have the fewest number of children of any major city. and we skew much older. there are more people who are getting money to help with the reimbursement of their bill but they're living on a razor-thin budget because of the cost of living in san francisco. it's not that they're trying to skip out on the bill, some of them, it's they just don't have the money because they're on social security or some social security or something else. >> just to that point, your point with regards to changing state or federal and having chiefs' organizations to that and the chief can probably talk to it a little bit when it started. i guess five years ago now, there was

was thinking that when you compare the population of europe and the population of the united states on consumption levels you see a major disbalance there because the american population is smaller but the level of levels of consumption so much larger do you think there is any link between in. the higher disease costs and the over consumption of beaches frankly is encourage dividend american system well what we've seen most recently is rapidly accelerating evidence that chemical in these products contribute to obesity one example of a prototype chemical that's a so-called of b. sentient is bisphenol a which makes fat cells bigger disrupts the function of a protein that protects in the heart protects the heart called out upon nekton and it's also synthetic estrogen so it can affect body mass in a way that spin. civically effects women more than men so the science is suggesting that the consumption of a variety of products can affect our health independent even of unhealthy diet and poor physical activity i'm not minimizing those factors as important drivers of the obesity and diabetes epidemic we have a n

i have had on al-jazeera the taliban threatens to walk away from peace talks with the united states and brain level and report on the freezing weather bring more misery to syrian refugees. hello again we're here across north asia we are still looking at those very cold temperatures in place across the russian maritimes as well as into northeastern china we do expect to see here on thursday a lot of sun in the forecast vladivostok a high few of minus seven over here toward sapporo and we're going to see some snow just to the north and to the east of you tampa there of minus four down towards tokyo it is going to be a partly cloudy day but just to the west in the higher elevations it is going to be a combination of rain as well as snow over the next few days for tokyo there on friday attempt a few of ten degrees well here across china there is not going to be a lot of clouds or rain to talk about most of these clouds are going to be pushing away in the forecast map is going to be pretty clear in terms of the temperatures down into the low teens for food show about thirteen degrees there over toward s

for was convicted of financial fraud he pleaded guilty to conspiring against the united states charges have been leveled against russian intelligence officers and another group of russians for a social media campaigns designed to influence the election and hacking of e-mails . the afghan taliban has named one of its co-founders to lead its political office in qatar. is expected to join negotiations with the u.s. which looked to be gaining momentum victoria gate and the reports. abdul ghani baradar was the former right hand man of taliban found. he spent eight years in a pakistani prison before he was released last october analysts say his appointment as political leader of the taliban's of his thing cattle shows the armed groups commitment to the afghan peace process he is somebody who all was favored negotiations in peace talks and therefore the pakistani government put him in prison years back and here he has this anti pakistan narrative and at the same time favoring and a strong supporter of the peace process the taliban was pushed from power by u.s. forces in late two thousand and one discussions be

united states? susan: well, at the state level in tennessee, the incumbents, comcast, at&t and the rest, really didn't want to see the chattanooga network go beyond city limits. they got a law passed that would block the electrical utility in chattanooga from extending its network. it can't reach the suburbs because step legislature has been captured in such a way to block that. that sounds angry, it is not at all. it is in the incumbents' interest to keep the public option hamden and not have it compete with their offerings in the rest of the state. the same thing has happened in 20 states whose statehouses have been cajoled into blocking cities by making it difficult for them to build their own network. in the midterms in colorado, two thirds of cities -- two thirds of the population of colorado that might be subject to one of these laws blocking cities from building their own networks, two thirds of that purple state has opted to remove that restriction, to allow their cities and towns to build their own public options to avoid being under the thumb of the local incumbents. peter: but professor, is

was a few screws that are the constructive proposal of the russian side to allow the united states at the expert level to inspect the nine and seven to nine missile which they suspect of violating the treaty however the united states arrived with a pre-determined position which consisted in an ultimatum and in demanding that we under. american supervision destroy this missile it's launches and all equipment associated with it. previously we've heard many times that the landmark i.n.f. treaty is a real pillar of security in europe so this time we even heard surrogate of move on by saying that he's counting on european states in this case to. the population of oxford to go to we are still ready to work to save the treaty on medium and shorter range missiles i hope that the european countries that are interested in this will also make efforts not to bounce to america's opposition and not to accept statements to nato blaming russia we will try to ensure that washington takes a more responsible position. my question was about paul whelan an american as we first thought who was charged officially with espio

for was convicted of financial fraud he pleaded guilty to conspiring against the united states charges have been leveled against russian intelligence officers and another group of russians for social media campaigns designed to influence the election.

united states. think about the level involved here. e president of the united states directed someone to lie to congress right away. they are drawing that. and many pundits said yes. if i robbed a bank last thursday. then i'm guilty of that. if it's true is a silly formulation. one person said you should not be talking about a story if you don't even know if it is true or not. the point is there is a lot of political rhetoric here. they did the right thing. and it is ironic because one of the other political course that you find. as they will love bob mueller one week and then it will not like him the other week. and then right before the election. he is great. i will flip it on its head. they are saying he is to be commended after they had been ripping him. political politically it is kind of comical. it doesn't always work so well. the former federal prosecutor. senate minority leader bashes president trump's proposal to end the partial government shutdown. it was the president who single-handedly took ahead of those. they were taking

united states? >> guest: well, at the state level in tennessee the incumbents, comcast and att and the rest, really did want to see that chattanooga network go beyond the city limits. so they got a law passed that would block that electrical utilities there in chattanooga for extending its network. so that can't reach the suburbs because state legislature has been captured in such a way to block the building. look, that sounds angry. it's not at all. it's in the incumbents interest to keep the public option him then and not have it available to compete with her own offerings in the rest of the state. same thing as happen in 20 states in the united states, whose estate houses have been cajoled into blocking cities are making very difficult for them to build their own network. quite recently in the midterm in colorado, two-thirds of cities -- sorry, two-thirds of the population of colorado that might be subject to one of these laws blocking cities of billy goat networks, two-thirds of that purple state has opted to remove that restriction to allow their cities and towns to build on public options, to

you would have no idea if you watched networks in the united states -- not just fox, but cnn in any regular way what is unfolding. the levelinvolvement of the united states, right through to this video that vice president juan posted right before guaido announced from the streets that he was the president, the head of the national assembly, the nancy pelosi equivalent. the mainstream media has been complicit in this attempted coup. the mainstream media has conundrum ofough a atmosphere that the public should accept this regime change imposed by the united states on the people of venezuela because ultimately it is supposed to be for the good of the venezuelans. now, this reminds us of the invasion ofe iraq 2003. supportedream media all of the lies, all of the manipulations of george w. bush and tony blair, to convince the world that saddam hussein had weapons of mass distraction. and on this excuse it was m made somewhat palatable to world public opinion that you would enter iraq and change the government by force. the fact is that here you had aggression,rime of not ononly an illegal war as former -- the late ticket terry

north and south korea going forward there's been far less progress between the united states and company several high level talks been cancelled and yet to be rescheduled in his speech kim as you mentioned says that he wants to meet we don't trump again in the new year and trump has said that he is also interested in that and so what this what many will be looking for out of that summit will be specific some kind of agreement that both sides can work towards in the future that they didn't get in their last summit . until north or to say they suspect a car attack shortly after midnight on new year's day he was motivated by his then a phobia the fifty year old suspect is said to have driven a car into a group of pedestrians in the western german city of basra four people were injured and police say afghan and syrian nationals were among the victims the state interior minister says the man clearly intended to kill foreigners. correspondents walsh is in basra where that attack took place welcome alice to talk us through what happened. last night just before new year's eve a man in his fifty's a german man trie

thought was convicted of financial fraud and pleaded guilty to conspiring against the united states and charges have been leveled against a russian intelligence officers and other groups of russians for social media campaigns designed to influence the election and the hacking of e-mails a lot to get through and hopefully joe watkins is a republican political strategist and has worked as a white house aide for george h.w. bush will be helped out to help us out your life for us in philadelphia good to have you with us on al-jazeera let's just begin with how significant the arrest is considering what. he's being arrested for is about his conduct with investigators rather than specific issues over the russia investigation plus he is a very close confidant of the incumbent president. that's corrected so this is very very significant because roger stone has been for a long time a close confidant of president trumps and one of his close is the most trusted advisers and unlike. some of his other past associates like michael cohen roger stone has said that he will never under any circumstances testify against the preside

or a foreign country it would necessarily constitute treason which under the united states constitution requires a leveling of war but certainly the evidence that was accumulated suggesting that there was some kind of collaboration between president trump and russia because the house democrats you know now control the house of representatives they can undertake an investigation issue subpoenas to those at the f.b.i. and even though this wasn't you know a crime necessarily it certainly bears on the fitness of the president for office and which means impeachment covers actions that are short of criminal activity but where does this go next and i can guarantee you that the house government affairs an oversight committee will probably issue subpoenas on monday to get the bottom of this why did the f.b.i. think the evidence was credible enough to suggest that mr trump was actually spying on behalf of the country of russia and now another report coming out on the president and russia apparently the washington post is reporting that he has been concealing a face to face details of meetings rather with the russian

>> there's essentially no diplomatic contacts between the united states and iran, high-level, sustainedontacts. and it is going to take some type of a quid pro quo for iran to release these prisoners. >> reporter: before the u.s. exited the nuclear deal last year, iran refused u.s. requests to set up diplomatic talks about prisoners. recent overtures by iran have gone unanswered. the trump administration issued a public call on tuesday for iran to release innocent american detainees. margaret brennan, cbs news, washington. >>> texas authorities filed a capital murder charge against the gunman they believe killed 7-year-old jazmine barnes. 24-year-old larry woodruff is accused of shooting barnes last month in a drive by. the suspected driver, eric black jr., is also charged with capital murder. the houston community gathered yesterday to say good-bye to barnes and to support her grieving family. >> as she wasn't only my daughter and my baby and angel, she's all of our daughters. >> the shooting was initially thought to be racially motivated, but the sheriff says it appears to be a case o

as regards consolidation, do you see something happening in the united states at higher levels or will it be regionally? barrington: i think it will be at these smaller level. i do not think we believe in the larger scale at this stage. vonnie: in terms of succession, what banks are you looking to pull a rabbit out of a hat in europe, where we see people leaving investment bank units but not getting placed anywhere else. barrington: a very unusual scenario developed. in reference specifically to the santander, looking at the environment, a slowing global growth environment, the current ceo is a safe pair of hands and if we were to enter slower growth, having a top class retail commercial banker at the helm is comforting. guy: good to talk to you. thank you for spending time with us. thank you. vonnie: let's check in on first word news. courtney donohoe is here. >> vice president mike pence is urging venezuela to rally around and opposition leader. the neweo, he called head of the national assembly courageous and denounced the president. they video was released a day before national pro

or a foreign country it would necessarily constitute treason which under the united states constitution requires a leveling of war but certainly the evidence that was accumulated suggesting that there was some kind of collaboration between president trump and russia because the house democrats you know now control the house of representatives they can undertake an investigation issue subpoenas to those at the f.b.i. and even though this wasn't you know a crime necessarily it certainly bears on the fitness of the president for office and which means impeachment covers actions that are short of criminal activity but where does this go next and i can guarantee you that the house government affairs an oversight committee will probably issue subpoenas on monday to get the bottom of this why did the f.b.i. think the evidence was credible enough to suggest that mr trump was actually spying on behalf of the country of russia i thought a teenager who fled her family because she feared for her life has arrived in her new home country ross mohamed al clune flew from thailand to canada after an offer of asylum eightee

or a foreign country it would necessarily constitute treason which under the united states constitution requires a leveling of war but certainly the evidence that was accumulated suggesting that there was some kind of collaboration between president trump and russia because the house democrats you know now control the house of representatives they can undertake an investigation issue subpoenas to those at the f.b.i. and even though this wasn't you know a crime necessarily it certainly bears on the fitness of the president for office and which means impeachment covers actions that are short of criminal activity but where does this go next and i can guarantee you that the house government affairs and oversight committee will probably issue subpoenas on monday to get the bottom of this why did the f.b.i. think the evidence was credible enough to suggest that mr trump was actually spying on behalf of the country of russia and while all this goes on the u.s. government is now officially in its longest shuts down ever around eight hundred thousand federal employees have now been going without paid work for twent

it's feeding actually into the current tensions that we have between china and the united states on so many different levels right now but certainly these charges that have been brought against weiwei are going to prove to be a further irritant because what the united states has done as presented its argument its complaints against china wrapped in a very thick legal ribbon and i didn't just brief them on the timing of the charges is quite interesting isn't it given that trade talks between both sides are set to resume in washington this week. yeah and so you can imagine that's why the chinese regard the timing of these charges in such a suspicious light they say why is this happening now just as china and the united states are about to sit down to hopefully finally settle their trade differences is this the united states trying to gain a bit of leverage in those talks with it we should also remember daryn that another thing that featured in those charges that are being bought by the united states is the name of mung wearing show they have said in the united states that the case against her will proceed chi

continued support on this particular report and her report how we create a state of the art stress unit. and there are state level resources force that. looking forward and hoping for the best. >> thank you, very much. in terms of this particular report, i wanted to report out, that i have reached out to the president and vice president of the health commission this is in light of the discussion of shared information but shared costs. or some revenue source on the discussion we've had. i wanted to report the president, dr. ed chow, dr. james lawson were very open to that and i have checked out with the commission wally in terms of the proper procedures in order for us to conduct that one of the goals with a joint meeting with the health commissioners is information. all of the dialogue and information we have on the fire commission i'm not so sure they're a very of that in detail. as point of information as chief hayes-white indicate, 1997 is when we inherited ambulance services and there was a joint meeting between the fire ctmmission and heath commission to launch that particular program. there has been precede

provides to the other or perhaps in that advantage an education in the united states designers have over the chinese that kind of level playing field is very difficult to create and not just between countries if you look at the united states or if you look at europe or if you look at even countries within europe even germany there aren't level playing fields basically anywhere there's always differences regionally locally and nationally very hard to iron out that's what trade talks are for to provide with tariffs an effort to get close to that what the world could look like with all the bots in fact it's. it watching v.w. news will have more nextel. trust but verify a cardinal rule of business on supervisory boards. in the eurozone. in the fight against corruption tax evasion and data theft. how important are checks and balances to a functioning economy. made in germany next on d w. n church the conflict zone confronting the powerful. this week in a special edition comes in zones coming to you from the bombing policy for my guest is a veteran buffalo syrian chief negotiator saw the america. he sees dream of an indepen

level like ever before in our country. count saeeda. to president of the united states. the power was in the data we will honor the american people with the truth and nothing else. for winning the white house unfair game on al jazeera. or do you want yards or a reminder. top stories just venezuela's president nicolas maduro says he's ordered every version of diplomatic relations with the united states that's in response to vice president mike pence declaring support for opposition leader point tried to do is calling on venezuelans to protest on wednesday. the wife of an anti-government activists arrested in sudan has told al-jazeera she's had no word on her husband's whereabouts sudanese american one was detained six days ago nancy down with the united states to help from him. now to the war in syria where a car bombing has killed at least one person and injured fourteen others in the city of latakia authorities found a second device at the scene and defused it just before the church blow up the attack comes only a few days after another explosion hit damascus apparently

the civil war basically increased the price level in the united states very significantly so that when world war -- when the civil war was over, one of the things that most everybody agreed to was that we have to get the price level back to the level that it was prior because we were on a gold standard, and i don't want to get into complexities of pricing but there was an act that made -- buy basically said by 1870, we had to get the price level down, and indeed we did, but in that whole period, what we learned is that falling prices have a very significantly different impact than rising prices. it's not symmetrical and that periods of declining prices, you get not only populism, but you get all sorts of reactions which are beyond what we ordinarily expect, and william jennings biessentially changed the structure of this political discussion in the united states from laissez-faire is as close as you can get to it to what eventually developed through teddy roosevelt and franklin roosevelt and actually woodrow wilson as well. very significant shift in direction of inflating, and declinin

>> there's essentially no diplomatic contacts between the united states and iran. high-levelcontacts. and it is going to take some type of a quid pro quo for iran to release these prisoners. >> reporter: before the u.s. exited the nuclear deal last year, iran refused u.s. requests to set up diplomatic talks about prisoners. recent overtures by iran have gone unanswered. today, the trump administration issued a public call for iran to release innocent american detainees. jeff? >> glor: margaret, thank you for that report tonight. l ahl ahead here, prosecutors e af notice after a documentary raises troubling allegations about the singer r. kelly. whoa. this looks worse than i thought. mike and jen doyle? yeah. time for medicare, huh. i have no idea how we're going to get through this. follow me. choosing a plan can be super-complicated. but it doesn't have to be. unitedhealthcare can guide you through the confusion, with helpful people, tools and plans. including the only plans with the aarp name. well that wasn't so bad at all. that's how we like it. aarp medicare plans, from

>> there's no diplomatic context between the united states and iran, high level sustained contacts. it is going to take some type of a quid pro quo for iran to release the prisoners. >> before the u.s. exited the nuclear deal last year, iran refused u.s. requests to set up diplomatic talks by prisoners. recent overtouures have gone unanswered. they issued a call to release innocent detainees. >> thank you for that report tonight. still ahead, prosecutors take [cell phone rings] where are you? well the squirrels are back in the attic. mom? your dad won't call an exterminator... can i call you back, mom? he says it's personal this time.. if you're a mom, you call at the worst possible time. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. where are you? it's very loud there. are you taking a zumba class? your digbillions of bacteria,es habalance.fe.. s.can tyshrow tf (vo) re-align yourself with align probiotic. and try align gummies with prebiotics and probiotics to help support digestive health. >> prosecutors in c

any notion that some agent can withy nilly open a case on the president of the united states is misguided. the level of review, the department of justice review, the number of lawyers that would have to have touched this to allow this to happen is almost immeasurable. so i want to try to dispel that nation, that there would have to be multiple points of failure, multiple people in the conspiracy to even open this case and it's just wholly unrealistic to think that happened. >> we're so grateful to our guests tonight and michael schmidt for starting us off and barbara mcquaid and chuck rosenberg and frank, thanks. >>> coming up for us, our coverage continues. the night's other major story, your government remains shut down and it's about to set a record as such. federal employees left with no income for no fault of their own and no end in sight. when we continue. >>> almost exactly 30 minutes from now, the current government shutdown will become officially the longest in our history. today, hundreds of thousands of federal employees missed their first paycheck as frustration and now real financial pe

level officials. so if they can do that in guatemala why can't we do that here in the united states? y can't we at least aspire to that level of courage and political consciousness and civilization? i remember as the verdict was being read i was in n the courtroom. i was thinking my god, imagine if this were done in the united states. imagine a trial in texas of bush jr. . for a rock or of obama -- iraq or obama for the drone killings or a figure like elliott abrams for guatemala and el salvador. and it really was inconceivable in the current political moment in the united states. but i think we will get there and we should take the example of the courageous survivors and lawyers of guatemala. bolton on go to john fox business. >> we are in conversation with major american companies are either in venezuela or in the case of said go here in the united states -- citgo here in the united states. venezuela is one of the three countries i call thehe troika of tyraranny. ifw wl make a big difference we can have e american oil companies really invest t in and prododuce the oil c capabilitien

or a foreign country it would necessarily constitute treason which under the united states constitution requires a leveling of war but certainly the evidence that was accumulated suggesting that there was some kind of collaboration between president trump and russia because the house democrats you know now control the house of representatives they can undertake an investigation issue subpoenas to those at the f.b.i. and even though this wasn't you know a crime necessarily it certainly bears on the fitness of the president for office and which means impeachment covers actions that are short of criminal activity but where does this go next i can guarantee you that the house government affairs and oversight committee will probably issue subpoenas on monday to get the bottom of this why did the f.b.i. think the evidence was credible enough to suggest that mr trump was actually spying on behalf of the country of russia there's been scuffles in france during a ninth saturday of yellow vest protests police fought with demonstrators in central paris tear gas and water cannons were used to push back those who threw

plastic but once it makes its way up to us in the food chain it's getting to levels that are harmful. and. in the united states we've proactively worked brominated flame retardants to be put into furniture and carpeting among other things and that's resulted in extremely higher levels all those flame returns in the human bodies of americans as opposed to europeans and that ultimately has affected the cognitive outcomes of literally a generation of american children. u.s. veterans who come back from war often until those same stories. they were not interested in that. already several generations of them just got this memo from the search. and destroy the government. in five years americans pay for the wars with their money. if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war surely we can risk some discomfort for easiness. in early february twenty fourth as the made crisis was getting more violent there was a phone call that was intercepted was a call between the assistant secretary of state for european affairs victoria nuland and the u.s. ambassador. geoffrey pyatt questions of

let's catch up on where we sit in the united states with the key levels being watched.e have the details with abigail doolittle. 500 up a tenths of 1% at the high on this intraday chart. take a look at this, moments ago the s&p 500 almost went negative. modest gains, some of this could be a reflection on the volatility we have seen. it is also an interesting story journal,"wall street we will see pretty decent declines for fedex and ups. both of these stocks lower, as "the wall street journal" is saying that amazon may be trying their shippingf business. home deliveries, plus helping out the shippers in terms of taking up at the warehouses and lower shipping prices. at this point amazon is still amazon had been up 1.5%. volatility remains the name of the game. all right, abigail. pluto tv at aired price tag of $340 million cash. it's their first foray into this for viacom and the latest in their series of small deals as they turn themselves around in a evolving media landscape. the man responsible for providing the shift, i'm delighted to have the ceo here. congratulati

metaphor was convicted of financial fraud he pleaded guilty to conspiring against the united states and charges have been leveled against russian intelligence officers and another group of russians for social media campaigns designed to influence the election and hacking off e-mails. still ahead on al-jazeera now that hamas has rejected a fifteen million dollar donation from qatar we'll tell you what that money will be used for now. out of the quiet skies of return to iran and they are returning to afghanistan is a mess a cloud of the corpses of the moment and yet more weather stormy weather is brewing in the mediterranean it's been causing floods and storm damage actually in western turkey and that is coming across turkey into northern lebanon syria and iraq over the next couple of days so this is the position that the position on sunday was rain for many places and stuff of course a target in northern iraq and syria up into the caucasus the rain will spread down across the border into northern side was a massive cloud to the south of that but that's about as far as against certain immediate future of the arabi

. >> rr: arctic cold in the united states, sending temperatures plunging to levels haven't seen in two decades rj we're talking wind chills up to5 below zero. >> reporter: states used to cold weather having to declare emergencies. wind chills so low frostbite can occur in minute >> this is an event unlike any we've seen in a generation and it's important to protect people. >> reporter: michigan's governor toured one of the hundreds of warming centers across the gion. more than 85% of the united states will see freezing temperatures with 75 million people living where temperatures are below zero. >> i've been out here for a couple hours, been taking breaks because it's so cold. boilingter: so cold water freezes instantly in the open air. roads are freezing as well, causing treacherous driving fconditions. gid as it is now. the worst is yet to come, with temperatures continuing to dive overnight. >> wow. >>ell, winter weather advisories are up back here across our area. >> let's get the team coverage with your forecast. what's t rd? >> this is a quick hitting system, it's going to only b