we also might try to block the voice, dialogue the voice, it is called —— talk to the voice.ship to be a more positive one. you know, it is really hopeful kind of situation, as has been said already. a lot of people might go on to stop hearing voices, or at the very least they might have a better relationship with the voices. thank you so much for coming in today. very grateful to you. thanks much. still to come. 10,000 uk football fans are expected to travel to the world cup in russia, but there are fears of racist and homophobic intimidation. we'll be asking just how safe it is. and canada moves one step closer to legalising the recreational use of cannabis. we'll speak to a campaigner who welcomes the move. time for the latest news. here's annita mcveigh. the bbc news headlines this morning. the foreign secretary boris johnson has been secretly recorded suggesting the brexit negotiations with the european union could lead to a "meltdown", and the uk won't get the deal it wants. he's also been critical of the treasury, describing philip hammond's department as being "the he

[speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: family housing. families can live with dignity and respect. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: thank you. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: good morning my name is margarita. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: i'm a member with the coalition on homelessness. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: i'm here to request a fair budget. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: so you provide funding for first friendships ,-guessed shelter, homeless shelter. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: there are no showers for children to take a shower. what do you think about that? i am here to provide more budget for housing. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator: as well as your help with subsidi subsidies, as i am receiving some housing subsidies for me and my family. >> voice of translator: so my children have better housing. [speaking foreign language] >> voice of translator:

she has written three books, voices from syria, violence, nonviolence and occupied voices, stories of every day life from the second. she holds ph.d from harvard and conducted research in spain, germany, lebanon, jordan and turkey and israel and the west bank and the gaza strip. today we will be discussing wendy's latest book, we crossed a bridge and it trembled. voices from syria which has received high praise from viewers across international publications. the guardian has called it heart-stopping, syrians rights are too often cast as victims to be pitied, bodies to be sheltered, radicals to be denounced or threats to be feared. it can be difficult to find chances to actual syrians as human beings. but she has listened. welcome, wendy pearlman. >> thank you. [applause] >> so to begin our conversation i wanted to ask you why did you come to write we crossed a bridge and it trembled? >> i have been in middle east since abroad, traveling in and out of the airport, so when uprising began in 2011, like most people on the planet captivated by slow of people's power, people going into the

my name is april, and i am a parent leader, parent voices in san francisco. and we just want to thank you, the voters, for passing proposition c. even though it's passed, proposition c, it's not going to take effect until 2019. in the meantime, we have people, infants and toddlers who will lose their child care if we don't continue the million funding from last year, so we're just asking for that continuation. thanks. >> supervisor cohen: thank you. >> hi, everyone. mari villaluna, mommy to this two-year-old. i want to talk about child care. i just want to thank last year, you all provided 4 million for child care that was one time funding. so it makes me a little saddened to see the current funding for 200,000. that's a big shortfall. if we don't do at least $4 million this year, we will have people in this city that will have their child care cutoff? some might be able to make it, some might not. i lost my dream career. since then, i've been unemployed, so i urge you, please do not do that to one parent in san francisco. please keep the funding way higher t

are being elevated and voices are being listened to because those voices have their always been there and it's so import. that you say those voices have always been there we have a tweet from choco skin saying on twitter it's both a natural progression of our politics after decades of work by other native activists and a response to concerns about alarming policies and budget priorities coming out of d.c. again you know kind of to all the people who have endured and thrived to use a word that's been used and you know i think it's worth kind of sharing this video that also came in where mark trahant really sums up what is actually happening here and what this moment means take it take a look at this. first there's been a build up of capacity more and more native americans every year have seen others take that route and have been successful and so they're following and adding more to the equation the second reason is the success of. legislation particularly at the state level you're seeing states where like montana has for all and people see that being a strong policy that works for eve

[speaking spanish] [voice of interpreter] >> good morning, supervisors. my name is roger, and i'm one of the members of casa gusta. we're here to demonstrate the importance of youth programs, programs provide the support and resources youth need to grow as people and leaders. youth have the opportunity to understand what are the roots -- root causes of the problems and conditions we see in our communities. we understand that we also have something to contribute to the struggle and are able to create change through political campaigns and organizing the community. instead of punishing us or incarcerating us, you should support us so that we can all be stronger and more unified. think not of just the youth of today but also generations to come. [please stand by for captioner switch] >> we pride ourselves in supporting the api and san francisco community. due to a transition of life circumstances and education and many more. this year, we are requesting funding for our long-standing families in transition at youth program, and our pulmonary programs. since 1

we are many voices. to protect your voice and every voice we must speak as one.e are all louder together. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, pen america's president, jennifer egan. [applause] >> thank you. i am jennifer egan, president of pen america. i would like to welcome all of you to the 2018 pen america gala. [applause] >> the first time i came to this party in 2005, itike l waking up in ours. a literary event i had always fantasized, happened all the time in new york but took me 18 years of living here before i managed to fumble my way into one. i would like to recognize the people whose hard work has brought us together this evening and hold our applause to the end. our gala chair, roxanne donovan, sean kelly, the gala committee members, the entire team at simon & schuster. and our special benefactors, peter and pamela barbie, tony and jason gooddale could you stand so we can give you the rousing ha you deserve? [applause] >> next, i want to celebrate the wealth of writing talent in this room. would all writers please stand. literary hosts, guests, trust

out of silence, there can voice. —— there came a voice — a voice that had not been heard before, thatlar place. and when it went out into the world and became a bestseller or universality, that was then implication that it was important to get the character and moment right. i want to thing about global perspectives. you spoke about the ways something like uncle tom's cabin could forge a path, like things fall apart, which tells the story of the composition of an african tribe from the point of view of an african. it exploded stereotypes about africa. it brought to life the true impact of cross—cultural misunderstandings. he said himself that this was the first time we are seeing ourselves as autonomous individuals rather than half people, or as conrad would say, rudimentary souls. a very worthy number five in your view? absolutely, but he was pointing at was the importance for people wake him up seeing their story in print, the importance of representation, of that sense that you exist in the world, that your story matters and can be told, that you are not just this undifferentiated

we are many voices but to protect your voice and every voice we must speak as one. we are all louder together. [applause] pan america's presidents, jennifer egan. [applause] thank you. i'm jennifer egan, presidents of penn america. i welcome all of you to the 2018 penn america gala. [applause] the first time i came to this party in 2005 was like waking up anonymous. i had always fantasized. i would like to recognize the people's whose hard work has brought us together this evening and please hold our plus to the end. our gala chairs, the gala committee members, the entire team at simon & schuster, and our special benefactors, peter and pamela barbee, and bridget coleman. could you please stand. [applause] [applause] next, i want to celebrate the wealth of writing talents in this room. would all writers please stand, literary house, guest, trustees, waiters? [applause] [applause] thank you for taking time away from your work to be with us. [applause] this gala has a purpose beyond celebration. that is to fuel penn america's work. thank you to everyone here we surpass

i became a curator of voices. what we both love is a counter to that expression being the voice of the voiceless is the idea that just past the microphone. i felt like my mission was to pass the microphone or to press play on the audio recorder. i felt privileged that had a chance to resources and time to travel to these places and sit down with the syrians so many walks of life and i was lucky enough to record those conversations, bring them back home with them together in a format that i hope another reader will get sense of what is like to sit down and have these conversations. >> we crossed a bridge andou trembled and it's a distinct title and much meaning behind it. would love if you tells about how you chose the title and where it came from. >> just like the book insists on being strictly a commission of testimonial and only the words from it from the voices of syrians themselves after a brief introduction in my voice that gives context it t is important that it was from one of those testimonials. this comes

the voice of home for germans and especially the voice of freedom it always has and it continues to lend a voice to those who lack freedom in their own homes and live with the threat of being silenced. to go to first went on air in one nine hundred fifty three west germany had an international broadcaster in german. is to give it a go other languages were added. and who knows you know what it's like that. your village grew quickly to asia the middle east africa more and more listeners began tuning into the shortwave radio broadcaster based in cologne. the cold war escalated the wall went up in berlin. the monday idea of houston amoa through. this division driven by the us and the west and the soviet union from behind the iron curtain would dominate work for decades inside the sky during the cold war it was a wrestle with of information east of the curtain read because it brought uncensored news about political events in that sense it was of course a thorn in the side of the people in power in the soviet union and germany. and. you know the leader of fuel in kigali. that it was divid

between voice of america. and. not just. the budget comes from the. there is no independent news is. but in a way with a selected constellation of views that pushes forward a very particular line of understanding the war one of the questions that has arisen involving v.o.a. and other broadcasters in recent years has been are you simply providing journalism to those people. or are you trying to. and fan the flames of resistance in any target country you're broadcasting to. we shall speak to you about america and the war the news may be good or bad we shall tell you the true voice of america was started during world war two by the office of war information as a vehicle to counter nazi propaganda today here is a new and forthright attack on moscow from the transmitters of radio free europe privately sponsored american organization with just sales communism with no holds barred radio free europe and radio liberty began life during the early years of the cold war as an oppositional broadcasting station to the communist world the claim that they were privat

the body within the state department that oversaw voice of america. was drafted in to boost the agency's prestige in practice he did more than that this memo from morrow to the cia director of the time offer the support of the u.s.i.s. cuba broadcasters to aid the cia in its efforts to overthrow the castro government broadcast could urge cubans mars said to engage in relatively safe forms of sabotage if will results were achieved he continued the voice of america could report these as evidence of opposition to the castro regime through interviews with refugees and extracts from letters. the one nine hundred seventy s. saw efforts to create more distance between the government and its broadcasters in one thousand nine hundred ninety one the cia's funding of radio free europe radio liberty was revealed and swiftly terminated five years later a law of creating voice of america's current charter was passed including a barrier a kind of file intended to prevent government interference before was often trotted out as an example of the shield that enables re

it the hatred in their voice. it's really kind of stare. i have been in politics for 10 years, i got my start in the tea party movement. i'm used to be calling names. i have thick skin. i let it roll off my back but this has been taken to a whole another level. people need to calm down. i have a family. and when my daughter heard

everything people said at the podium you would have a voice to say that and an authorized voice to say that. i think that's been missing. also a point about organized labor. i think that every part from the people trimming the plants to the people selling the product or delivering, that can be organized union workforce. you are right it is not a billion dollar industry here. we want to grow this industry and make it robust. a commission would lend accountability and transparency, but be really a body that has a first hand knowledge about the industry and because there is equity applicantcy on the commission, how hard it is to start a business like this in fran and how legislatures could make it easier. today i am bringing forward some simple amendments and they are to add a labor seat on this for the seat that was for a low income person and to add workforce instead of just workforce and economic development to page two, line eight. >> supervisor safai: god it. got it. can we make a motion to accept those amendments. motion moved. we will accept those a proposed. >> i didn't catch who

absolutely. -- that voices are heardlj voices are heard. absolutely. -- that voices are heard.other women who wouldn't normally have that platform and making sure that not only issues are heard but also that we do something about it. we spoke to mary beard earlier. she wrote a book about women and women in power and the history and examine the history of women in power and how they have been portrayed in history. i asked her if she thinks times are changing. do you think that? women, voices, being heard and acknowledged? this times are changing. we had the #metoo campaign and there is willingness to make sure that are represented equally across society that so much work to do on the gender pay gap. housing inequalities education and health inequalities education and health inequalities are many marginalised women face. there is still a lot to do. last year around the 2017 campaign, we did a view in mind that basically we were going to come up to 100 years since some women were given the right to vote. we ran a campaign about getting women involved in democracy and politics. tha

listen to the positive voices of solidarity, their voices. these are also voices of people who vote. >> it is heartbreaking to think only one western european country, one democracy would accept this boat full of refugees. your own country, italy refused. you can see what's happening in germany where the interior minister is threatening the government of angela merkel for her generous refugee policy. hungary has passed a law that could make it a criminal offense for anybody in that country to help a refugee. they could be imprisoned. the united states created a zero tolerance policy that takes it into a criminal zone, away from the civic zone it used to be. this is reminiscent to the kinds of things we saw during the world war ii, the worst of the worst of our modern historical experienc experiences. >> if you start to thrive politically on negativity, that's a slippery slope, i agree with you. so it's important to come out in force all those who think otherwise and talk differently and influence political dynamics in a different way. i entir

we're going to raise our voices. we're going to march.otest until there's real change. >> thank you so much. thank you so much. fred, come with me. we're going to kind of just walk through the crowd here. folks are holding signs. yes, it's a warm hot day. it's not deterring anyone. i can tell you, there's a lot of emotion out here. everything from you saw some people on the stage crying, to people downright angry with these policies. there's so much emotion in the crowd. what are you feeling as you hear these firsthand accounts of how these policies are affecting families on the -- >> oh, inspiration and sadness, fear for our country and what might come next but inspiration that we're all out here today and we're going to put this fight, start this fight and keep full-court press. >> that's the thing we've been hearing, you know. i've seen signs here today where it says it's not about other people's babies. this is not just about washington and bad policies. what it is -- it is about that but it's also about families and recognizing the i

their voice, according to the rule of law, those voices must be still simply because there is popularityty on everyone who has the privilege to speak for the voiceless — to so speak. and i think that is a possible role. whether you say that i am sounding like a politician or not, well i don't do much weight on that point, but what i know is that there is work that must be done to help the people. i don't for one second mean to belittle the very serious questions there are about president duterte‘s adherence to human rights law and to the basic norms of behaviour. i think that is a very important debate. i would say to you that duterte has been welcomed to the american white house. the philippines are still regarded as a partner by the european union, who offered economic assistance. if you look at the international reputation of the philippines today, yes, there are grave concerns about human rights, but still most countries believe that the philippines appears to be heading in the right direction. are you saying that the international community should somehow be isolating duterte and tr

in terms of voice, the mission does not feel like it has had much of a voice at the board of appeals. i see some smiles. not only can't i remember the mission groups winning at the board of appeals. i can't remember the groups getting a vote at the board of appeals. people are concerned about that as an avenue. they would like appointed representatives to weigh in on the projects. they would like that capped. wherever we go with this, i think that is what we would like to think about. how do we maintain the safe guards in place and not diminish them and maintain each avenue for a community voice and keep that very low income affordable housing number in place? >> next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, commissioners. commission neighborhood centers. i would like to say that on behalf of mission neighborhood centers we feel the proposed amendments diminish safeguards and take away the voice of the community in the process. we feel if terms of affordable percentages proposed. we have the same concerns for sba35 and 37. we shouldn't ignore complexities and pressures in vulnerable commun

voice than ever. is that a quid pro quo. i'm going to pardon you. you just go out there and continue to say nice things, say, about me. >> we'll read some of them to you coming up. like going after the victims of the school shooting. >> go out there and keep saying what you're saying, the president told dinesh d zhou swra. and martha stewart and rod blagojevich could be next. is this signaling something to those caught up in the investigation? roger stone, the president's political adviser said, yes, this is a clear signal. let's begin with kaitlan collins live at the white house. >> reporter: well, john, you're asking the question why is the president pardoning people like dinesh d'souza. the president told him he was a great voice for freedom. shy note d'souza has an inflammatory remarks about barack obama, adolf hitler and rosa parks. back to why he is pardoning these people. there is an underlying theme for everyone the president is considering pardoning. that is they were treated unfairly by the

again, fred, these are two voices. there are many people here. something that's interesting as i step out of the shot so you can see, there are many families here. many families have not been directly affected by this, but they say they're here representing the familiarities who are throughout the country still being held or in the process of being reunified with their families. they say those reunifications have not happened often enough and they're very confident the president is watching. fred? >> polo sanlds val, thank you so much, with the voices there in new york city at the brooklyn bridge. now let's check in with cnn's ryan young. he's live in chicago. ryan. >> reporter: we're about 45 minutes away from this protest. you see people starting to gather here. there's a lot of passion in terms of people on this subject. what are you hoping to get out as far as a message? >> look at this. the hotzest day of the year and they're out here voting, marching for the families. two-thirds of the country says the zero tolerance policy of president tru

it is time for new voices to rise up. it is time for some fresh faces. i am so proud that many of you here at cu are already making your voices heard. let me tell you about kathy. -- about gabby. she went to school as a third grader after her family relocated to the united states from mexico. college was not an option because of her immigration status. however, in 2012, the federal government launched daca, giving her a path to college and opportunity to move her childhood dream to become a doctor. >> [applause] it gets better. she applies to every single college in colorado, and she got accepted to each one. she chose cu. >> [applause] with the current administration and the push to end daca, gabby's newfound security is threatened. it felt what my whole world was coming down, she said. last december, gabby stood up and she pushed back. she went to washington dc to urge congress for a permanent solution for dreamers like her. last month, once again, another court has ruled against the administration, saying that daca can't be unilaterally rescinded. >>