to one another. this is a teaching moment for me with my kids. as they grew up seeing that, gave us an opportunity to talk about it. for us to eare move that takes the subject off the table, and i just want to tell you that feel like you made the right decision. >> thank you. okay. so seeing no other public comment, we will move on to item number three, commissioner comments and questions. is there any commissioner comments? seeing none, we will move on to item four. the adoption of the minutes. >> any additions or corrections, commissioners? >> adoption of the minutes. so commissioner lazarus moves to adopt the minutes. >> yes. so president fong fong -- i'm sorry. is there public comment on the adoption of the minutes? okay. seeing none, president fong. >> aye. >> commissioner honda. >> aye. >> a commissioner wilson? >> vice president swig. >> yai yai. >> okay. that motion passes. minutes will be adopted. okay. we will now move on to item 5a, 5b, 5c, and 5d. these are four appeals. appeal number 18-017, 18-0818, 18-040, and 18-041. denny and perjalian versus department of building inspection. i believe one of the commissioners w

to keep us safe. some of it is covert work the police will do. other is relying on the public to give information to the police. they need us to be the eyes and earsrussia warns president trump there will be a "tough response" to new us sanctions on businessmen and officials close to president putin. 1a people have been killed in a crash between a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team and a lorry in western canada. an absolutely massive collision. a 25% increase in holiday makers losing their money to fraudsters — for airline tickets or accommodation that didn't exist. also in the next hour... medals are pouring in for team england at the commonwealth games. cheering and applause there's gold for nile wilson in gymnastics and there has been double gold in the men's and women's pa ra—triathlon. can pep guardiola's manchester city win the premier league today? his team just have to beat manchester united. and the dateline london panel examine the diplomatic fallout of the russia nerve agent attack in salisbury. that's in half an hour here on bbc news. good morning and welcome to bbc news. 300 extra police officers are being deployed in areas of lond

to keep us safe. some of it is covert work the police will do. other is relying on the public to give information to the police. they need us to be the eyes and earsbut also stop and search is a valuable tool. russia warns president trump there will be a "tough response" to new us sanctions on businessmen and officials close to president putin. 1a people have been killed in a crash between a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team and a lorry in western canada. an absolutely massive collision and obviously catastrophic outcome. a 25% increase in holidaymakers losing their money to fraudsters — for airline tickets or accommodation that didn't exist. also in the next hour... more gold for team england at the commonwealth games. james wilby coming back of the book. gold to adam peaty and silver to james wilby. peaty completes a four—year sweep of major titles. and there's been a gold rush for all the home nations. can pep guardiola's manchester city win the premier league today? his team just have to beat manchester united. and click looks at 5g — and the world of computer robotics. that's in half an hour here on bbc news. good morning and welcome to b

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use e your user agreement sucks. you can spot me 75 iq points itch i can figure it out. you can figure it out. the purpose of the use ear agreement is toer facebook's rear end. it's not to inform your users about their rights. >> i mean, i think he was obviously playing to the crowd. trying to look tough. but he is basically right. >> yeah, i think, part of the nature of informed consent is informed bit. you can't have informed consent if you are not informing users. broadly, having a policy of reasonable expectation on most of the tech platforms would be a welcome development. because, itf an app is doing something, platform is doing something not reasonably expected. you sthunt houldn't be allowed it. irrespective of what the terms and conditions say. >> he also said, so help me, if you don't fix it, we are going to regulate you. it is clear that the congress doesn't want to do that. they dent waon't want to regula. >> see, an area that is calling out for regulation. this has the to do with the integrity of the democracy. this has to do with, safety. this has the to do with, weather or not we have informed citizens. this is, this is,

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to keep us safe. some of it is covert work the police will do. other is relying on the public to give information to the police. they need us to be the eyes and ears. but also stop and search is a valuable tool the police use. 1a people have been killed in a crash between a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team and a lorry in western canada. just an absolutely massive collision and obviously a catastrophic outcome. russia warns president trump there will be a "tough response" to new us sanctions on businessmen and officials close to president putin. a 25% increase in holiday makers losing their money to fraudsters for airline tickets or accommodation that didn't exist. also in the next hour, more gold for team england at the commonwealth games. adam peaty completes a four—year sweep of major titles. and there's been a gold rush for scotland and wales. we're getting reports of fatalities and many injured people after a van ran into crowds in the german city of muenster but has not confirmed numbers. police say it is not clear whether the incident is an attack. some have said that 30 people have been injured and there are some pictures there, or the

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to do your best. dig through things as much as you can, use basicjournalistic tools like your eyes and your ears to tryfind out what is going on. but, no, it's not easy, it's hard. one of the other things that seems to have changed over the last few years is the role of social media. there are concerns about governments using it as a way of asserting their version of events. what impact does it have on you reporting? well, you know... maybe i shouldn't admit this, i don't look at social media that much. i keep an eye on twitter. i put things on twitter. but i think that social media has changed our job. things fly around the world much more quickly, and social media is a big part of that. but i don't think that the essence of journalism has changed. you still need to find out what's been going on, you still need to be accurate, you still need to be timely. you still need to be fair. your colleague, lyse doucet, is out there now in syria. you have, of course, been many times as well. when you are on the ground, inevitably, you probably find yourself embedded with either the syrian government or the rebe

to keep us safe. some of it is covert work, they need us some of it is covert work, they need us to be the eyes and ears. stop and search is a valuable tool. 1a people have been killed in a crash between a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team and a lorry in western canada. russia warns president trump there will be a "tough response" to new us sanctions on businessmen and officials close to president putin. a 25% increase in holiday makers losing their money to fraudsters — for airline tickets or accommodation that didn't exist. alsoin the next hour: more gold for team england at the commonwealth games. peaty completes a four—year sweep of major titles. and there's been a gold rush for all the home nations. can pep guardiola's manchester city win the premier league today? his team just have to beat manchester united. and... witness speaks to a de—mining expert who accompanied princess diana. that's in half an hour — here on bbc news. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the mayor of london, sadiq khan, says police should feel confident to "stop and search" people as they try to combat a recent spate

anybody want to come fight us, we will take the earrings off. we got this, but doug jones needs to understand we will get this for him, but he needs to also get something for us. reaching across the aisle. my arms are wide, too, but make sure you even close to home. we want a little help, too. don't forget our needs. don't forget our desires. don't forget the issues that we need. we need health care. we still need jobs. the unemployment rate is low, but in my neighborhood, it is still high. we still need vocational training. we still need to support our hbcu's. i was laughing the other day. i said i graduated from lsu. tell seven, xavier, dillard, and grambling that because i give them my money. i give lsu my alumni donation. i give them my money. because i understand that 's, we woulde hbcu not have a generation who was able to fight for my education. let's not forget that. when you look at 435 members of congress, this is our moment to expand our reach and let new -- elect new people. because i want to take your questions and bring up this haze

none of that is music to the ears of the trump hating elite. follow ust nextrevfnc. >>> here to discuss all of these significant developments tezlyn figaro and charlie hurt. thank you for joining us instead of being in the elite. >> i never had a better excuse to skip the correspondents dinner. >> we'll get to that. steve: a lot happened this week. let's start with the serious stuff. the foreign policy aspects. there are things we saw this week cre korea has been widely commented on. also the way he made progress on the iran issue with when just a few weeks ago they were saying hang on a second. he doesn't know what he's talking about. they are coming around to his position. they can't give him credit, can they. >> no, i don't think they will give him credit. it's not the tens of millions of fellow humans but the nobel prize committee would have to give him a prize. it's amazing. we talk about domestically what donald trump has meant. around the world, doing things differently. maybe in some cases doing thing worse then the way establishment was doing. i

earring. if they force us to be that's our goal. that's where we are. this is so our. goal you can see this suction this job. now there are families. that are no longer you. know. we don't know about that and that's what you what we will do. for saving is that we fight with this fight and this conflict has been revealed. i would be arrested for any of the century and that it's gone down there i should and iraq and that was the only we we've not. got three countries three of the power of all the war going to the fight here and russia. as. my missis if. i did you. instead of. yes if i write the speech. might be. that. i've been lost like more then twenty five or twenty six right. there. i. love them all day for nothing. my life. spotless force winds. and said. and all that it's going for nothing. well today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of a traumatic chapter in germany's post-war history on april second one thousand nine hundred sixty eight bombs went off into frankfurt department stores one of the perpetrators was andreas bother he went on to found th

than enemies and him at all mark or in that way is really trying to use his position to perhaps influence trump sometimes at least have his ear but at least make sure that donald trump perhaps doesn't get in his way internationally and in that way that is why is no cheering this relationship which can seem quite unusual from the outside thank you very much indeed. three suicide bombers have attacked the pakistani city of quarter killing at least six police officers one bomber detonated his explosives near a police truck on the road towards the airport where two others attacked a paramilitary checkpoint on the city's outskirts fifteen police and soldiers were wounded in the attacks no one has so far claimed responsibility and egyptian court has sentenced the country's former anticorruption chief to five years in prison or charges of spreading false news if i'm going in i was arrested in february for accusing presidential candidate sami halfassed a nun of having documents that incriminated the state's leaders and in a was fired by president a defacto c.c. in twenty sixteen after claiming corruption cost egypt up to seventy five

impossible not to conclude lush ya will always prevent attempts to hold those responsible for using chemical weapons to account whether it‘s earn, a former commander of the british chemical and biological forces who has been following this case closely. what do you make of the way that russia is trying to co—ordinate its own propaganda campaign around this? well, it‘s not surprising the russia disinformation campaign has actually been brilliant in a preverse sort of way. they are weaving around trying to avoid getting involved in an investigation wherever they can. they are absolutely guilty. i agree with the prime minister‘s statement the other day. we now have porton down confirming novichok was used in the salisbury attack and all the other evidence points towards russia. they are trying to prevent the investigation. but they are signatures to the chemical weapons convention and should be supporting it. they are really, in my mind, showing that they are a guilty party here and will do anything to get out of answering the very serious questions of using a chemical weapon in this country. what do you make of the debate around

used to build an explosive. investigators expeerment and use them to investigate bombings. >> wow. >> glad i had these in my ears-plea sich testing range. you can feel the power of the blasts. even from 200 yards away. austin, texas, was left on edge in the weak of multiple package bombings last month. here, atf agents have been studying similar home made explosions. >> what kind of damage might it have done if there were people around that? >> you would have people with, internal injuries to their lungs. and earrings. also, brain. >> the atf sent hundreds of agents to austin. follow followed sand of leepds. some of the most important evidence from the austin attacks. bomb fragments themselves. when of which are held in the secure lab outside washington, d.c. awe all very good at retaining finger prints. >> tape is. >> atf. what is left of an explosive device is preserved for a reason. off up awe are going to try to recreate and collect much of the evidence left over from the bomb. it doesn't all go away. >> the devastation left behind is stunning. >> like we are on the surface of the moon? >> causes a good size

than just use an instagram little time lapses so i started to use social media just to get people an insight into my working process the advertising industry has also taken an interest in your ears paper she has created works for an american airline. a japanese design a fragrance. and a british car brand. religious even graced postage stamps. and not long ago one of her designs was reproduced in advance of formats in central london now serves as a window display in a clothing store first step in the artist's next direction. my plan is to also try to work on the slightly larger q. four and make the impact when they get the largest scale. my next goal is to try and find a way to just. make it. has no desire to experiment with other materials she's already found her ideal medium with paper her ideas blossom. ok time now for brief roundup of other stories making headlines on the culture seen in today's express. do plants respond to human feelings. the florence experiment at palazzo struts he seeks to find out. the installation by german artist carsten helena and italian biologist stefano mon crusoe comprises a pair of intertwined slides that spiral visitors twenty meters from the se

don't forget to hit subscribe while ire good, good evening, rachel. >> in your ear is. >> my voice in your ears. >> that's a phrase that's almost never used in any context, but i think it's perfectly -- >> slightly gross, but hey, it's the truth. >> not grout at all. thank you, mea dear. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it's been a remarkable day of news. there's late breaking political news out of the washington that sounds like it's a surprise to the white house. we'll be getting to that with some of the -- with one of the reporters who broke that story tonight. the big positive news for the white house today concerned its nominee for secretary of state mike pompeo. there's big any any of news out tonight about the presidential nominee to head up the veterans administration, that v.a. nomination looks like it is on the rocks, and indefinitely delayed at this point. again, that news is just breaking as we're going to air. we'll be getting into detail on that story with one of the reporters who broke that, coming up. >>> of course the news that dominated today's headlines and everybody's focus all day today was out of t

they were doing and the rest of us didn't know what we were doing, and they were going to go by -- i'm an old-fashioned person. i listen to people. god gave us two ears and a mouth for a reason. and all those numbers and all that quantification, it doesn't come up with really understanding what's in people's hearts and souls. sometimes some of the men in that campaign, i think, didn't understand how working men and women in this country felt. >> look, a couple times in this interview you have talked about wanting to focus on the issues and that's what needs to rise above the noise. what do you think are the issues that democrats have to focus on to win in the midterms this year, and will those issues rise above the noise? >> well, i can tell you they sure are where i live. yesterday -- i think people know that i have breakfast regularly with this group of tea partiers. they were in fine fighting form yesterday. but i go to the grocery store and we have teamsters whose pensions are threatened. men and women who work a lifetime thinking they would have a safe and secure retirement suddenly don't know what they're going to live on. that's going to be on

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used, it is consequential. i hope it's a serious hearing and i have a feeling that he is going to accept responsibility. i've found him to be a humble guy who actually listens. he's got two earsouth and uses them and that proportion. he's listened very carefully to me and other people and i was impressed by him, but he's going to get to ear. at least from that hearing. i hope constructive things come out of it. maybe regulation and they've admitted that that's what should happen. let's be constructive. >> martha: thank you, always good to see you. bill bennett, thanks for joining us. coming up, oklahoma teachers protesting for better funding, higher salaries, and there governor said this. >> teachers want more, there's more to having a kid who wants a better car. >> martha: plus president trump campaigned on draining the swamp in washington, now a new mini documentary gives us a behind-the-scenes look that i think will turn your stomach. stick around for it. >> as soon as you want something, they've got you. as soon as you want something, you become part of the swamp. ♪ but i realized something was missing... me. the thought of my symptoms returning was keeping me from being

to monitor the animals in the park. >> ear notches are permanent marks and you can be able to use them for the life of the animal, they permanent. the horn transmitters which we usually put on animals have a shelf life, they usually take two to three years then the battery goes down. so after that you are not able to track that animal, unless you immobilize it again and put another one, meaning then you have to keep on doing the same. >> reporter: using these methods to monitor and track its small rhino population, kenya hopes it can help save these als from poachers and, hopefully, from the same fate as their northern white cousins. >> sreenivasan: finally tonight, colorado's most widelyci ulated newspaper, the "denver post," ran a scathing editor owner, new york-based hedge fund, alden global capital. cutbacks at the post reduced its staff from morthan 250 a few years ago to less than a hundred today with more layoffs expected tomorrow. the editorial accuses the paper's owners of lowering the post's journalistic standards even as subscription rates have been going up. that's all for this edition of pbs newshour week

these are going to want us where despite the good news rene will be living with the consequences of his illness for the rest of his life he'll never be able to hear properly with his left ear again and the tinnitus and dizziness are likely to improve. really doesn't really feel he's out of the woods. for a little and therefore if you don't looks very promising nine out of ten cases turn out well. i'm a positive person my glass is half full. what if i'm that one in ten and i. try not to think about it i'm just living in the here and now it would be different if it was just me but i've got two kids lives got to go on. this. at the circus to animal feed the electricity rent all need to be paid for regardless of how few people. many zante vet can't help fretting. she has very day was a black day but we've got to stay positive however hard that may be i always put a great pile of tickets here in case lots of people come. i could just lay out a few because i know not many people are coming but i can start thinking like. anything. but apart from the neighbors no one comes at all. today's performance is cancelled . yeah from the stress of my all. this working in a tale of the few

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to the ears of donald trump. stephen engle, good to see you. you have warned us yesterday. ng in my year. -- in my ear. i don't believe an awful lot. are you any further along the events was road from the gang -- from yi gang. stephen: i am the babyface curmudgeon. i have heard a lot of things from these chinese leaders. 24 hours later, i am starting to be convinced a little more because yesterday, when xi jinping talked about a new phase of openness, i go, here we go again. within 24 hours, we got some specifics including some dates so he gone -- so yi gang speaking on a panel with john micklethwait, giving dates as of may 1, the quotas of north and southbound on the shanghai-hong kong connect so the equity markets will be opening up. by june 30, we are going to get new rules on eliminating or reducing significantly the foreign ownership cap's in the financial services sector and insurance for fund managers and in banks within three years, many of those restrictions are going to be removed altogether. he also talked about the remedy exchange rate -- or maybe exchange rate.

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but that's -- bannon no longer is the -- has the stature that he used to when it came to being the person that was in the president's ear about everything. and that, of course, you know, goes back to last summer, the "fire and fury" book, bannon leaving the white house and all of the bad blood that still exists there, which potentially mitigates how much influence bannon can have over the president and his allies,who need to listen to him and put this sort of a plan in effect. the political stake of doing so are very high. >> karoun demirjian, thank you very much. joining us is josh green who wrote the book on steve bannon called "devil's bargain" and just got off the phone with bannon about this plan. josh, what did you learn? >> reporter: basically, i asked him, what made you change your mine? bannon has been in the camp up until now, don't fire people, you can't get rid of this investigation, he was against firing james comey. now he's flipped. he said what changed his mind is that mueller and his team crossed a red line, this is a quote from bannon, he said they crossed the red line by subpoenaing the trump organiz

slowly perhaps for the people of yemen with ever allowed to warnings about the ongoing catastrophe falling on deaf ears. a former cia officer told us that the us found deals happen in no most impact on the plight of civilians in yemen the idea that it's civilian suits continue to pay the price the heavy price in yemen is simply unacceptable whether or not it's saudi whether or not it's american led american controlled or even american advised that is no excuse in the end one of the big problems of course is the recent american deal with the saudis selling them twelve point five billion dollars in arms i mean the americans may try to stay at arm's length but frankly they are involved it's their weapons that are being used they do have a very strong influence on the saudis and the problem right now is that the americans seem to be just fine with allowing this to continue to play out as it has for them to turn around now until the saudis that they have been killing civilians when in fact the americans and others too frankly have had similar problems in other war zones including syria may be very difficult for the americans to do or sa

to you. >>> thank you, mike. all of us know, we'll tell you what sounds like music to some people's ears is a nightmare to others. ♪ >> still ahead, the controversy over a singing highway. and why some say it needs to go. >>> tax time means tax scammers are coming for you, even if you already filed. we'll help you avoid that headache. nbc bay area responds next. it he time every year. as millions of americans file their taxes-- sophistica >>> 6:24 right now, it happens around the same time every year. millions of americans file taxes, sophisticated crooks look to steal from hard working taxpayers. >> chris has some important reminders for all of us ahead of tax time. >> even if you've already filed your federal tax return keep your guard up, fraudsters are persistent and increasingly creative as they try to get their hands on your money. the treasury department says californians are out at least $10 million to irs impersonators and that's more than any other state. these crooks call and say you owe hundreds and thousands of dollars in unpaid taxes and demand immediate payment and they threaten you with arrest or

that i used to know but bobby is number two in washington but i think he began to think about 68 around 61 or 62. he didn't want to wait out johnson a ears he didn't like him he never did and for good reasons did not like. him. johnson's press secretary said it is like two dogs walking on the sidewalk. there is only one sidewalk.th there is a whole history going back to 1940 and is sitting in the oval office. and talking to kennedy senior that fishing home that would be wonderful and then set i will fire the sop. and then said if you mess with the kennedyl, family. bobby never forgive him. so then to spend most of their lives without physician of world war ii. just like in the godfather and to be patriotic. and with that issue patriotism how doespe that play out? next time you go to the belmar. and then to get him on the ticket. then with a hand written letter to do whatever you want. basically. d and then he said to one of his minions. and then he 174 he goes to bed tonight. but what they had to do. no other way to do it. lbj might be able to deliver it. so the next morning at 8:00 o'clock in the morning and that is as simple as it can

to say use, but their importance today? >> well, i think it is very similar to what they're importance is always been. they are the eyes and ears and mouths of the president of the united states or the head of any country. they are there in order to explain a lot about the country that they're representing and to learn about the country where they are stationed. i teach a course on the national security toolbox and diplomacy is the major tool of international relations. it is the language and the means by which countries communicate with each other. so i do think that they are very important. the thing that has changed quite a lot, however, are the means of communication. i do think that technology and information has changed a lot about diplomacy, but not the role of the diplomats in terms of caring on relationships with the country where they are stationed or multilaterally in organizations explaining and working out solutions. >> and you probably know that there are quite a lot of groups asking congress to look very, very carefully at pompeo's record and indeed john bolton's as well although he's not up for confirmation. the

come to two hundred ten a version of the documentary marx and his ears. great to have you back with us you're watching the news live for girl and i'm will of iraq these are made headlines right now. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has gone on national television claiming that iran lied about its nuclear weapons program he says israel has proof then iraq always did have a program despite denials and that it is still working on it despite having signed the nuclear chord with world powers to stop it from doing so at least twenty five people have been killed and scores injured in two back to back suicide bomb attacks in kabul as diplomatic quarter of the islamic state troopers claimed responsibility a third blast in the south killed eleven children. human rights groups estimate that more than seven thousand women are behind bars in syria's notorious prison system while exact numbers aren't known but reports from female prisoners who've been released are disturbing they talk of systematic humiliation beatings and the use of electric shocks correspondent you johan went to the turk

superhero, he wanted to use his voice and pen to advocate for african americans a transition from slavery to freedom. any super was called the new national herald. he also wanted to have the ear of all the politicians in and around washington, because in 1872, the home that he purchased was not too far from the actual nation capital. susan: this was the period of the construction in the south. how was he able to influence policy at all? kamal maclarin: i would say that he did, because we saw that the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments were passed. but what we find is that as the reconstruction era was winding down, we see douglas becomes jaded by the whole reconstruction era was winding -- jaded by the whole reconstruction experiment in many ways, because there were all the things, all the advancements that were made during that critical period were pretty much being undercut or rolled back. susan: is it true that when he arrived, president rutherford hayes helped his finances by giving him an appointment, a federal appointment? kamal maclarin: rutherford b. hayes, did appoint him as united states marshal, and that is when he would transition to his retreat and purchase his home

to do your best. dig through things as much as you can, use basicjournalistic tools like your eyes and your ears to try the last few years is the role of social media. there are concerns about governments using it as a way of asserting their version of events. what impact does it have on you reporting? well, you know... maybe i shouldn't admit this, i don't look at social media that much. i keep an eye on twitter. i put things on twitter. but i think that social media has changed our job. things fly around the world much more quickly, and social media is a big part of that. but i don't think that the essence of journalism has changed. you still need to find out what's been going on, you still need to be accurate, you still need to be timely. you still need to be fair. your colleague, lyse doucet, is out there now in syria. you have, of course, been many times as well. when you are on the ground, inevitably, you probably find yourself embedded with either the syrian government or the rebels. is it possible to get the whole picture that way? well, when you do syria, you basically either do the rebels or