afternoon. earlier this month, a former state legislator in maine was convicted of carrying out, what officials say, is one of the worst cases of elder financial abuse in the state's history. the man who is also a securities agent was found guilty of stealing more than $3 million from two elderly widows. while these women viewed the man as the protector of their accounts, in reality, he actually preyed on their trust and vulnerability after their husbands died. rather than protecting them, the man slowly drained their bank accounts over a period of seven years, according to the court. maine's office of securities found that the man used his position as a trusted financial professional and close family friend to groom his victims in order to commit his crimes. he ingratiated himself with these families, assuming power of attorney, and becoming the trustee of their accounts. he used the funds under his control as his personal piggy bank, covering everything from travel and fine dining in the united states and europe, to purchasing and renovating an expensive home in california wine coun

connections to the state of maine. he was a lifelong seasonal resident of the famous kennebunkport where he would spend time boating and golfing and a lot of quality time with his family. joining me now is the republican senator from the great state of maine, susan collins. senator, thank you so much for joining me now. let's just talk about his relationship to maine and how you experience that. i think we have some photos of the two of you on that iconic walker point with all the rocks behind you, there you go, with the compound behind them as well. talk to us about what maine meant to him. >> maine meant so much to president bush. i firmly believe that he was determined to get to maine this summer after barbara bush had passed away a few months earlier. and i know that his doctors were not real keen on his traveling. but he had to get back to his beloved state of maine. i believe that he's been to every summer of his life in maine except when he was serving our country in world war ii. that is indicative of how much the state and its people meant to him. >> and senator, as i hear you talk

that systemic risks are more likely. main street cannot afford for you to stand by watching wall street greed grow out of control. and any strategic plan for any agency guiding our economy needs to focus on the american workers who drive growth, not just wealthy investors. thank you. >> thank you, senator brown. again, chairman clayton we appreciate you being with us. you may proceed. >> chairman crapo, ranking member brown, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today about the work of the screws and exchange commission. on behalf of my fellow commissioners and the 4500 women and men of the sec i'd like to thank this committee for its support. congress is funding of the agency enables to improve our tools and expertise relating to our markets, capital formation of protecting main street investors. further, your interest in an engagement on our rulemaking and other initiatives have helped us refine and improve these initiatives often to the benefit of our long-term main street investors. thank you for your input. from the day-to-day manageme

hillside so the way up to the main temple leads ever upwards. it's like the stages and steps on the path to enlightenment first you pass through the three gates then cross the two plateaus with their squares and then mount even higher and finally reach the main temple. beyond lie the two long buildings that housed the korean trippy tucker buddhist scriptures that are the real treasure of this world heritage site. the stone could go to under stone lantern and the monastery to most ancient works of art. the main temple the whole of great stillness and brilliance. just. to. fifteen. feet. as you. watch. viral karna is the name of the great buddha justice and truth. the buddhist teaching has almost unlimited wisdom is preserved in these too long and too small buildings under the shelter of these roofs lies what is certainly one of humanity's greatest treasures the korean tribute taka. for asia this is a treasure as important as the library of alexandria long burnt to the ground or the pyramids of egypt or the few other genuine wonders of the world. more than eighty one thousand printing

main opposition leader has submitted a motion of no confidence in prime minister to resume a after she delayed exit all right today those are the latest headlines coming up next. is war. china could be facing a debt that's according to s. and p. trump ministration insisting towards the saudis and others that they want to have more production to cool down the price we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. the holiday inn devorah hotel was our hall those. people were shot dead on the entrance to the hotel. i do remember a time when hotel was a shelter and it started but. it is in your fellow your luck to be where the best your last. trip. was and turn to the coming remember should look the scared the hell out of you know. how this place continued to function during thirteen a half years of siege. on a day and was the best to tell the people of the world what was happening in syria . sorry a vote city of love art and music. but on the banks of the million outscore river the lifeline of bosnia herzegovina history has also

bush invited me to come to the family home in kennebunkport, maine. i got in a plane and flew up to maine. remember sitting on the plane wondering what to say or ask of him. i didn't know president bush or barbara. i remember the end of the day i wasn't going to ask for anything other than simply his advice to say mr. president you're an elder statesman who spent decades in public service. what advice would you give to someone running their very first campaign for public office? what advice or what path should i endeavor to follow? well, i assume the meeting would be a 10, 20 minute meeting, a per functry meeting and am pleased he took. when i sat down, i was amazed he knew everything about the race, all the potential players who might be running for that position and he knew a great deal about my background which had me utterly flabbergasts and didn't know each other but was obvious he had prepared before the meeting and put in that time. after about 20 minutes, he asked me, he said ted's when is your flight back? and i said well, it's in a couple hours, i'm flying out of boston. h

the one nine hundred ninety elections in bosnia herzegovina three main nationalist parties shared power the muslim s.d.a. led by alyea is a bag of it the serve s.d.s. under rather than carriage and a branch of from new to germans croatian h d z. the s d a n h d said wanted independence while the serb s.d.s. wanted to remain in the rump of yugoslavia along with serbia and montenegro. so the relationships between nice three parties soon deteriorated dramatically. on the twenty ninth of february nine hundred ninety two a bosnian independence referendum was held. the muslims known as bosniaks and the croatians took a full part but the bosnian serbs largely boycotted the vote and rejected the yes result on the first of march the same day a serb wedding party was sporting the serbian flag in downtown serie a when it was fired on by a bosnian muslim gangster killing the groom's father. the serb family made for the holiday inn where a number of rooms had become the temporary h.q. of the bosnian serb leader radovan carriage inch. the bloody wedding episode may have offered the bosnian serb

permits. italy has become the main entry point for migrants crossing the mediterranean to europe. caroline rigby reports. at times it seemed more like a carnival than a protest. thousands marched through rome to the soundtrack of bob marley, drawing on the scene's lyrics to make their point. they called for unity and an end to racism. translation: we cannot accept indifference. we remind the government that giving dignity and rights to the invisible people means building italy's future. italy has seen a building italy's future. italy has seen a surge building italy's future. italy has seen a surge in racist attacks since the far rightly, an antiestablishment five star movement took office in april. sergio mattarella's league party has increased in popularity. some argue his tough stand on immigration has also fuelled anti—migrant hostility. translation: these latest policy changes in italy generate more discrimination, distress, and difficulties. while we believe we can come exist with all those who wa nt can come exist with all those who want a better life, a better world, wha

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ninety three show the scale of the destruction inside the hotel where the main entrance and reception with the most dangerous areas. here was the first floor restaurant directly facing the front line. and here an exposed side entrance a virtual no go area. the basement garage itself was sheltered and so was packed with press cars unarmored vehicles but getting in and out every day was extremely dangerous so there was a sense of this being a concrete cocoon which was completely false because people were shot dead on the entrance of the hotel but you know they were kind of certain and and certain unwritten rules you didn't come in through the front entrance and that was what happened to the people who were shot they came in through the wrong and from space . i thought to myself i've got a better chance of surviving if i don't enter the hotels through the main door which was in the line of fire from the serbs opposite and i had a further superstition that i was always walk to my room in the clockwise direction i was a long it took rather than the anticlockwise direction and it sort of he

the north the open front of the main temple. beyond the main temple lies the ceremonial hole the interior walls contain thirteen knishes it's assumed that an oracle was consulted here to ask the council of the gods the voice of anyone speaking into one of the knishes is magnified and can be heard throughout the whole. the religious center of much you picchu is the mound where the people bowed to the sun known as into what diana. its main feature is a sacred stone which resembles a sundial the inca would indeed why tana means the place where the sun is fatter. astronomers priests and teachers use the sum dial to calculate the course of the sun throughout the year the months and the time of day although we don't know what astronomical methods were used. van the end of matthew picchu remains a mystery with the fall of the into empire the decline of the city was probably inevitable after that it didn't take long for the jungle to reclaim the houses temples and rules and then the inca city of much of picchu slept for three hundred years. the fast pace of life in the digital globe. has

discourage others and also to baffle people, can use people? creating chaos seemed to be an main point. —— confuse people. what is interesting from the data is operations that tried to put people on the streets and get this online activity to translate to flying events. in texas for instance, patrol farm organised to events on the same day and both sides of the streets trying to rally to different groups that had very competing and incompatible views and trying to encourage violence in the streets of america. and all kinds of american voters, as i understand, not only in the united states, of course. exactly. the other interesting part of this dataset shows that many other countries that were targeted. these were operations that first targeted domestic russian audiences, that then targeted eastern european audiences, but you also find activity targeting canada, france, the uk, targeting sweden. it is very wide in scope and a lot of this activity is still on analysed and it deserves to be looked at. the big question, do you think it made any big difference? that the poor littl

there are also problems on the main roads between palestinians and israeli settlers settlers have been throwing rocks at palestinian cars so the israeli army has been home alone for the past four nights conducting raids searching houses searching stores even taking camera footage from cameras throughout the area israel has put the blame on the palestinian authority and at the same time the palestinian authority is putting the blame on the israeli government my colleague and i dare to discuss the recent escalation with the head of the euro asian jewish congress our. starting with the situation in palestine area want israel do further avoid escalation of violence in ramallah israel tries to do its best to avoid this kind of escalation but israel's duty is first of all to protect our citizens it is totally unacceptable that israeli civilian woman pregnant woman can be attacked at the bus station do you think however you describe a terrible situation but do you think surrounding ramallah was a reasonable action on the part of the israeli forces considering the palestinians day of rage

hundred forty years ago and unfortunately the main motives the main reason for this kind of hatred that we suffer from is a unwillingness of the arab population to accept a jewish state in any borders so we first of all should try to learn to live together and we should accept each other ariel there are different perspectives to this obviously there's the israeli side and the palestinian side and i ask you again this action. the israelis would have known that it would cause an escalation and my first question was what can israel do to avoid escalation israel first world supplies all the humanitarian needs of the palestinian population and of fortunately we suffer from terror cells only reply of israeli population to terror to stalk. it's force. protection. and population. italy has sent a revised budget proposal to the european commission and their effort to avoid. the moves being seen as a major. stick to its high spending plans which were rejected by europe and the decision was announced when a prime minister at the european commission president in brussels. told reporters his ch

. they have a choice between three main candidates two from the opposition and a former interior minister favored by outgoing president joseph kabila. the election means to me the future of commune so i have voted for the candidates we will bring for us a bright future. is a promise to truth to fight the probity and to bring back to justice in the country illegally the city going so i feel liberated and happy we completed my civic duty and have just voted in a historic election for nor will be or what it used to is. historic indeed the democratic republic of congo has never experienced a peaceful transition of power since gaining independence from belgium in one nine hundred sixty many a hoping that today will be the day including presidential contender martine fi you live. there it's done it's the end for joseph kabila. but there are problems with the vote a lot of them. there are reports that many polling stations never even opened prompting frustration among voters. and the opposition is concerned that voting machines have been manipulated to help could be used as preferred su

in california's wine country. the state of maine plans to seek full financial restitution. the harm that this individual has caused to these women and their families is, however, irreparable. this abuse by a trusted advisor is a crime that no individual or family should ever have to face. while appalling stories such as these remind us of the fraud that can be perpetuated against vulnerable individuals, there are also many stories of guardians and conservatories who have protected seniors against such abuse, preserving both their dignity and their assets. when a pastor in the state of maine befriended an elderly woman under false pretenses at an assisted living facility earlier this year, it was her conservatory who stepped in and protected her from precisely this kind of exploitation. before the pastor could steal her money and outset's -- money and assets, the conservative chore notified -- in the conservator notified her and stopped the abuse. we must do more to make success stories like this one the norm. today, our committee is releasing a bipartisan report to help change the t

government to try and separate out the measures between the two main peaceful get the best rebels and the anik case who did so much damage over the course of that demonstration yesterday which i saw up close in the first time so we'll have to wait and see i think a state of emergency is something perhaps it will be too excessive because the real emergency is the fact that seventy five percent of people supporting the best rebellion and under thirty percent supporting president mocker on that was the main message apart from the violence that we saw all the main message was not from resign that's his emergency all right david thank you. now donald trump has agreed to delay increasing trade tariffs on chinese imports at least for the next ninety days the u.s. and chinese presidents met at the g. twenty summit on saturday and said they'll use the time to rest try to resolve their differences the u.s. was planning to boost tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods from next year china has agreed to buy what's the scribed is a very substantial amounts of american farm energy

any ran now maine was arrested at the vancouver airport but this happened at the behest of u.s. authorities on monday her bail hearing will resume in canada and the u.s. is working to extradite her for trial in new york that is unless china successfully intervenes and is able to convince canet canada against cooperating which it is forcefully trying to do now or show the what impact. might this have all the back and forth between the u.s. and china. well the timing is peculiar because the arrest of ming happened just as u.s. president donald trump was sitting down for dinner with china's president seizing pain in argentina last saturday trum claims he didn't know that this arrest was happening at the same time but china views it all as a national embarrassment particularly because maine is considered to be corporate royalty in china not only is she the chief financial officer of huawei which is the preeminent telecommunications company in china but she's also the daughter of that company's founder so she's widely respected among chinese business elites and their condemnation of

, tonight, from florida all the way up to maine. blinding rain for drivers. we have the new track and the timing for you tonight, and abc's victor oquendo with this. >> reporter: tonight, tornado sirens warning families to take cover, as millions hit the road for the holidays. in manatee county, florida, a confirmed ef-0 tornado. >> as it got lighter, we've seen the devastation. all i can say is, thank god that we were okay. >> reporter: and south of orlando, one person was injured after another confirmed tornado tore through this home, collapsing part of the roof. the system that spawned these tornadoes now moving up the east coast to raleigh, washington, d.c., new york city and boston. rain falling two inches an hour in spots, flooding roads in tampa and making driving treacherous. >> i've seen a couple of accidents already where cars appear to have hydroplaned off the roadway. >> reporter: winds gusting to 60 miles an hour in jacksonville, downing power lines in hillsborough county. and with nearly 3 million heading to an airport today, authorities warning there will be delays and canc

a temperature of thirty. my main mission every weekly news cycle brings a seemingly simple breaking stories and then of course there's donald trump town through the eyes of the outstanding east that's right out of a hamas script that calls for the annihilation of israel that is not what that phrase means. listening post as we turn the cameras on the media focus on how they were caught on the stories that matter the most in bad news a free palestine a listening heist on al-jazeera. and again you're watching al-jazeera reminder the top stories this hour and there have been delays reported in some parts of the democratic republic of congo where voters are choosing who will succeed president joseph kabila about one point three million people from three districts have been excluded from voting. polls have closed in bangladesh's general election least four people are confirmed to have been killed and there are reports of more deaths the election commission is reportedly investigating allegations of vote rigging. rescuers in india are stepping up efforts to find fifteen miners have been tr

their main fleet base. an area down here, right in here, it is just northeast of new guinea. it, it is theat proposeplace that could a threat to become a major naval base. the geography is suited for making airfields. the navy thinks when they are planning for the pacific war that we have to take this in order to protect truck. in 1942.ally occupy it for at least the first half of the pacific war and into the. i will be talking about, the main interest of the japanese maybe in the pacific war is the decisive fleet battle, but also the question for them is out to severe -- secure truck. in the army's case, you look at what their interests are in the pacific war. the army was a latecomer to the pacific war. you recall the army's traditional focus on the mainland. in the pacific war, the army is interested in the initial operations to take southeast asia. they called it the southern operation and it is to take over what they called the southern resources area. in the framework of the pacific war, the army is interested in great britain. great britain is their primary enemy in the pacific

north bay. today rain and wind and the main concern will be the afternoon and evening commute that looks wet today. we will talk about what you can expect with that second storms coming up. >>> a steep plunge on wall street this afternoon. the dow is down about 469 points . traders are worried about slow economic growth and the britain's plans to exit the european union. >>> a heads up for drivers. the traffic nightmare continues in union city as work crews are making water main repairs on a major roadway. >> reporter: if you thought this was an easy repair guess again. this is one of the most challenging repairs they have ever seen and you could call it a perfect storm of complications. >> it just happened to be in a very challenging location. >> that is putting it mildly. >> it is a challenging repair. >> it is a big water main, 14 inches in diameter and it is 8 feet underground and sits below the water table which means the whole they have dug around it fills up with water that has to be pumped out and it is steps away from an active railroad. the water district says this is their hig

years ago it was started one hundred forty years ago and unfortunately the main motives the main reason for this kind of hatred that we suffer from is a unwilling the best of the arab population to accept juice in any borders so we first of all should try to learn to live together and then we should accept each. ariel there are different perspectives to this obviously there's the israeli side and the palestinian side and i ask you again this action. the israelis would have known that it would cause an escalation and my first question was what can israel do to avoid escalation israel first world supplies all the humanitarian needs of the palestinian population in a fortunately we see. only reply of israeli population to terror to stop any perpetrator who wants to kill civilians and this kind of reply look ate some region that unfortunately terrorists are hiding in its force proper reply its purpose is to provide proper protection for israeli and arab civilian population. italy has sent a revised budget proposal to the european commission in an effort to avoid e.u. sanctions and the move

rebels say the main port city of data should be declared a neutral zone. speaking on the sidelines of talks in sweden aimed at ending the four year war the iran backed rebels also suggested that the united nations could play a role in the running of sun port. out of there are reports now from rimbaud north of the swedish capital stock. it's a stumbling block just of the time when hope so for old world growing. yemen's rival factions are entrenched warning if their demands are not met the talks will fail and as the negotiations continue the who things have controlled sun and the northern part of the country say they are willing to join a national unity government if president obama so hardy steps down so a lot of. the political solution from our point of view should be a new transitional period that has a time frame and must have consensual executive power including the presidency and the government and must work on certain pillars like security and military operations in sharing food control over the yemeni state and solving unsolved problems. the proposal was swiftly dismissed by

moving in right now but the main event still lurking here offshore. we'll give you the timeline of when the heaviest rain arrives coming up in 12 minutes. >>> rob, thank you very much. along the coast, surf starting to pick up, a national weather service has issued a high surf warning for sunday through monday. nbc bay area's christie smith live at ocean beach where the warning was put out to steer clear of the beach. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, and the city is certainly trying to make it clear with signs like this. dangerous strong surf expected as these big waves move in sunday into monday and that certainly has people curious, but they also seem to be listening to the warning. at ocean beach, these surfers were headed out today. nico has heard the warnings and knows when to call it quits. >> we'll make it out there on monday. it's going to be over 30 feet. >> reporter: the department of emergency management had this to say headed into the weekend with a high surf warning beginning sunday. >> avoid the area altogether. because the waves could hit the seawall and if anyone is

right now, first 4 traffic alert inow. that's because of a water main break. we'll have a live report coming up in a second. we're talking about annapolis road at enterprise road, single lane getting by in each direction. justin finch is out there for us. chopper 4 at the top of the beltway near 95 in maryland. inner loop, outer loop, no worries. outer loop there taillights as folks are headed around the beltway. tysons, leesburg pike at zbgalls road, crash reported. rest othe beltway looks okay. back to bowie, annapolis road and enterprise road. still have this wer main break hanging around. justin finch is live on the scene to show us what things are looking like. >> reporter: hey there, melissa. we're on the webb side of annapolis road watching traffic go by. you can see that slowdown opoi, th lane of traffic getting by. the splash of tt water underneath those wheels as cars are going by. we c take you to video from earlier, showing that water shing up as a result of that water main break overnight. this is happening closer to enterprise road, a major that are -- thoroughfare for l

maine, which he loved so much, he talked about how happy was to be there but returned in october to texas, where his spokesman said the president was looking forward to some "proper tex-mex," the day after his stomach the funeral of his wife, barbara bush, he checked into a hospital with and infection. he went home a couple of days later. he had a former parkinson's disease. doctors treated him for pneumonia and other infections in recent years. george herbert walker bush was born on june 12th, 1924. in milton, massachusetts, south of boston. he was a decorated u.s. pilot who flew torpedo bombers, and survived being shot down during world war ii. he met barbara pierce at a christmas dance when they were just teenagers. they got married in 1945 when he was home on leave from the war. he later graduated from yale university and then with bar but they moved to texas to work in the oil business and that is where he got into politics. he became a congressman and ran for congress in 1980. he lost the republican nomination to ronald reagan but became its vice president and finally, eight y

connected than ever and especially bs are more likely. main street can't afford to standby watching wall street greed again and every decade grow out of control and any strategic plan for agencies need to focus on american workers that drive growth not just wealthy investors. thank you . >> thank you, senator brown. and again, chairman clayton we appreciate you being with us. you may proceed. >> chairman and ranking member brown and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify before you today about the work of the securities and exchange commission. on behalf of my fellow commissioners and the 4500 women and men of the sec, i'd like to thank this committee for it is support. congress' funding of the agency enables us to improve our tools and expertise and protecting capital mainstream investors and you're interested in rule making and other initiatives helped us refine and improve the initiatives often to the benefit of our long term main street investors. protecting investors through forward looking policy and rule making and the securities law. two, monitori

. but the main opposition has called the election ‘farcical‘ and is demanding a fresh poll. time is running out for russia to hand over important anti—doping samples — a failure to meet the deadline could see new sanctions imposed. long delays, broken voting machines and bad weather dampen the democratic republic of congo's historical elections — but will it lead to the country's first peaceful transfer of power? ringing in the new year — how maintenance work on london's big ben means the famous bell will be ringing out a little differently to mark the start of 2019. hello and welcome to bbc news. in bangladesh the party of prime minister sheikh hasina has been declared the winner of the country's general election. but the main opposition parties have condemned the result and demanded a new vote, amid accusations of vote rigging. at least 18 people have been killed in violent clashes. our correspondent yogita laymaye is in the capital, dhaka. her report does contain some flashing images. clashes outside a polling centre in dhaka. they spot a reporter and try to stop him from

the liberal or main line protestant denominations. one of the interesting test cases and the religion scholar is the views of african-american property sfatandpoints baa they have many of the same commitments as evangelicals, but they are less likely to express a christian zionist view. this gets to eric's question about motive. but we are still talking about millions and millions of people in the united states. that leads to the last question or really the first that you asked about christian zionism elsewhere. and in answer, i would say that christian zionism is not dying out in the united states. but it's certainly ageing. and again, studies show that younger people are much more inclined to declare themselves nones, having no religious affiliation, than they are their parents and grandparents and along with that i think goes less interest in christian zionism. at the same time it's in africa and south america. particularly the efforts of pentecostal churches and communities who have in really interesting ways exported some of these christian zionist ideas from america to christian

family home in kenny bunk port, maine. i remember sitting on that plane wondering what to say to him, what to ask of him. i didn't know president bush, i didn't know barbara. and i remember at the end of the day resolving that i wasn't going to ask for anything other than simply his advice. to say, mr. president, you are an elder statesman who has spent decades in public service. what advice would you give to someone running their very first campaign for public office. what advice, what path should i endeavor to follow? well, i assumed that the meeting would be a 10, 20 meeting, a prefunctory meeting. it was kind of him to take it. when i sat down i was amazed how much he knew about the race, all the potential players who might be running for that position, and he knew a great deal about my background, which had me flabbergasted. he put in the time. after about 20 minutes, he asked me, he said, ted, when's your flight back? i said, well, it's in a couple of hours. i'm flying out of boston. he said, could you stay and maybe go out on the boat with barbara and me? i laughed. i said, mr

which. is going to go to light in just three abbey ation. and odd. types of industries and in main areas we have separate programs in place and for the next year which is the problem. we are going to allocate four hundred fifty billion rubles for this purpose this is then a year later four hundred seventy billion rubles the overall volume is one trillion three hundred seventy six million or above that billion dribbles. i'm sorry but i promised to enter a very nice cue from the first channel should mention that he would have an opportunity to ask the question which you know i saw your childhood mr president we were all afraid of the nuclear war we even had the songs about it so you're not afraid now. forty years have passed since then and now major publications across the pond are now more the publishing the scenarios the possible scenarios if you could there exchanges between the u.s. and russia and now we hear the world war more and more often can you as a president help to pacify my little son who just like me is afraid of the nuclear war what can you do to do that. with. you kno

walked around main streets across the country. good morning from beloit, wisconsin. >> to learn how small business owners helped to revitalize their communities. >> we answered calls for your business makeover. the son of the owners of a jewelry store in monterey, california, wrote to us to ask for help for his parents who were not earning enough to retire from the company they put their heart and soul into. >> you must be joe. >> hi. i'm jj ramberg from your business. it's so nice to meet you and finally see your store. >> we brought in our team of experts who revamped everything and rewrote their future. >> i'm overdone. i mean, really. >> you are the best. both of you. >> our elevator pitchers sold their products at sam's club and appeared on hsn. >> thank you so much. >> and to get the real story, we went diving in san diego. skateboarding with tony hawk. >> that's it. >> running through fire in new jersey. and what felt like the craziest one of all, swimming with sharks in hawaii. and from the beginning, we kept an eye on washington to see what it was doing to help business own

chief financial officer main one joe was arrested last week for evading u.s. sanctions against iran the canadian courts are deciding on whether to extradite her to the u.s. where she could face thirty years in prison heidegger castro is tracking those developments from washington d.c. . the canadian prosecutor laid out these charges in court on friday and he accuses me of tricking banks that have u.s. operations into doing business with iran against those u.s. sanctions as she's accused of doing this by telling those banks that everything was above board when they did business with her company while way when in fact huawei was operating an unofficial subsidiary out of hong kong that was indeed engaged with businesses any ran now maine was arrested at the vancouver airport but this happened at the behest of u.s. authorities on monday her bail hearing will resume in canada and the u.s. is working to extradite her for trial in new york that is unless china successfully intervenes it is able to convince canada against cooperating which it is forcefully trying to do now the timing is pec

wars which were the main reason for the influx of thousands and i think we have as you know been migrants inside africa i totally agree with you but i think we have made a lot of progress in that regard and i think we have seen the country is now accepting democracy as a we all of. changing leadership and making sure that people. able to exercise their right to choose people that are able to meet their aspirations in member states and we may have challenges in a few countries of course but i think it's our desire ok one make sure that they are continent is stable and then we can explore the potential that lays on the african continent we love i think account for a huge number of metal capital untapped reserves unprecedented definitely michel i mean this is a fast moving political landscape worldwide if you look at the map of europe there are many countries like germany spain. and many other countries where the farmer it will definitely use this particular card of the compact here in america to advance their political political agendas if they come to power they will automatically

main issues the u.n. says that yemen's war is killing or injuring nearly one hundred twenty three civilians every week. reports now from rimbaud a village north of stockholm where those talks have been taking place. yemen talks hang by a thread as the government delegation toughens its stance against who the rebels. president of the obama so hard is loyalists have told you and all boy martin griffiths they weren't allow reopening santa airport to international flights the government delegation insists all international flights must be strictly through airports and its control in aden and how to molt that if we have to move we came here in order to find a solution to open the airport of santa we cannot just prejudge everything what we are asking is is this in the interest of the people or not we are not here to reward the militias we are here for peace the son our airport was one of the first targets of the coalition in two thousand to fifteen the military alliance later closed the airport to stop what it said was a flow of weapons from iran to the who these. another sticking point

political turmoil in sri lanka there are signs one of the main players in the drama is backing down. deadlock at the u.n. climate summit as talks are extended for at least another day we'll look at the main sticking points. and in sports and james harden rockets into n.b.a. history as houston dominates the brown and the lakers san i will be here with you. the u.s. department of homeland security says a seven year old guatemalan girl who died in border police custody last week appeared healthy when agents found her they say she was mentally alert and had no visible trauma when she and her father were taken in at the southern border with mexico eight hours later she died at a texas hospital where she was found to have brain swelling and liver failure mike hanna has more many questions are being asked about the death of the seven year old from guatemala she was traveling with her father in a group of some one hundred sixty would be immigrants when they were arrested by border protection offices on the remote northwestern u.s. border she was then transported in the bus journey of some o

up from his own al-jazeera. well again this is out zero the main news this hour french police are using batons and tear gas and scuffles with protesters in paris hundreds of people to tell you this the so-called yellow vest anti-government movement tests for the fourth weekend. one of the latest sticking points to emerge from the third to have talks in sweden to end the war in yemen is of a transitional government who the rebels believe it would work if it includes all of yemen's political parties however government because he says resisting is. china's foreign ministry has described the arrest of an executive from the tech giant way as extremely nasty beijing as some of the canadian ambassador to protest against a decision to keep long long joe in custody over the weekend man was arrested in canada at the urging of the u.s. it claims that long breached iran sanctions kristen salumi reports. among china's business elite among ones who is considered royalty the daughter of the founder of telecom giant hallway the company's c.f.o. and possible heir to the throne but to the united st

who are going to be the next google in silicon valley or you are talking about a main street small business, somebody who has got a shop. they don't really want to grow. and each of the policies that we make in government, for each of these kinds of small businesses, needs to be tuned up to their needs. one of the mistakes that i think they make is that everybody thinks one-size-fits-all. not true in small business. host: we will talk about that this morning. i should note that in this segment, specialized for small business owners, (202) 748-8000 we would love to have you as part of the conversation. all others, (202) 748-8001. our guest, the former head of the small business administration. we've spent a lot of time in recent weeks talking about the ups and downs of the stock market. how much of the stock market is made up of small businesses? guest: none. small businesses related to the stock market because it's a barometer, but that's really the larger businesses and that's what of the reasons why economists sometimes forget about small businesses. the fed is too busy watching