In south africa is loosening. He will relinquish leadership of the anc at the end of year. And whether he will complete his term as south africas president is uncertain, as allegations of cronyism and corruption pile up around his government. My guest to day it is thuli madonsela, south africas Public Protector until late last year. She exposed a web of worrying connections between the state and big business interests. But are her concerns about to be buried . Thuli madonsela, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for being here stephen. It is such a honour. Well, i think we have to begin with that explosive report that you wrote and published before leaving the office of Public Protector at the end of last year. It was all about your concerns about State Capture. The idea was that certain big business interest, perhaps individuals, had undue influence on the government. You wanted a fully fledged Judicial Commission of inquiry to be set up within 30 days of your reports publication. Seven mo
employees to have a gender-neutral toy aisle. jeff paul the live in l.a. with more. the new law in california doesn t ban your traditional girls and boys sections in stores. it does require larger department stores to have a section that is gender neutral. this only applies to stores with at least 500 employees. clothes aren t included but it will impact toys and childcare items such as toothbrushes. stores like target have done away with some gender-specific product categories starting back in 2015. another new law that involves kids deals with the classroom. governor newsom is making ethnic studies a requirement for all public high school students in order to graduate. this will impact students graduating in the 2029, 2030 school year. one law that is catching some attention also deals with yard maintenance. the golden state will ban the sale of items like gas powered
stores but workers will have to have a general neutral section. boys and girl section won t be banning california are not included, but the low will impact things like toys, child care items such as toothbrushes. we should mention target already started doing this back in 2015. another new law that involves kids deals with the classroom. governor newsom is making ethic studies a requirement for his school graduation. this will impact students graduating in the 2029-2030 school year in public schools. now switching over to the environment, there is a new law to impact yardwork. california will eventually phase out the sale of items like new gas powered leaf blowers and new lawn mowers. supporters of the law say their aim is to curve commissions of small gas powered motors, which they say are to pollute more than cars. the governor did veto a few bills. he rejected a bill to decriminalize jaywalking and a
they have been putting millions of passengers into tsa precheck who are not precheck. you do not have an entire population in precheck that are not vetted. reporter: cnn put this to tsa administrator. he said the agency is not prioritizing wait times over security. i won t discuss any of our particular procedures, but we do provide the level of security that we think is appropriate based on the risk of the passenger. reporter: brainard said the issues he s raised is problematic for an agency with a 95% failure rate in detecting dangerous items at the check point. that s according to a government audit in 2015. another audit two years later found there were still v vulnerabilitie vulnerabilities. when you sit back and watch these things happen, it is the most frustrating thing you could imagine. reporter: going public is his last resort. he s filed an official whistle-blower complaint with the office of special counsel.
especially problematic for an agency with a 95% failure rate in detecting dangerous items at the checkpoint. that s according to a government audit in 2015. another audit two years later found there were still vulnerabilities. when you sit back and watch these things happen, it is the most us in traiting thing you can frustrating thing you can imagine. reporter: going public is his last resort. he s filed ed a complaint with office of special counsel and sent letters to congress, not just about the metal detectors but the x-ray machines. a polychange allowing policy change allowing some passengers are medical devices to do a self-pat-down and a new policy called blended lanes, where pre-check and standard passengers are mixed in one line. something that could confuse screeners. they have to mentally switch on and off about what s permitted, what s not permitted with every other passenger. you know, the last time i checked, our detection rates were not stellar. it doesn t make