Hello and welcome im peter w. Watching all to 0 live from our World Headquarters here in doha also ahead this half hour more rains expected in sudan where floods have already affected hundreds of thousands of people. And a prominent critic of the chinese president is sentenced to 18 years in prison for corruption. Also ahead increasing influence in sri lanka the president seeks to push through a bill that would remove limits on his powers. The u. S. To set the stage for a showdown at the u. N. General assembly this week slapping additional sanctions on iran to irans representative at the u. N. Dismissed the move as an act of desperation President Trump is expected to use his speech later on tuesday to send a strong message to iran is of ministration declared on its own that sanctions eased under the 2050 nuclear deal have been reimposed but nearly all u. N. Security Council Members reject this new sanctions mainly target those involved in irans defense sectors. Just imagine what iran w
Lot, lets get to the news this morning in the east bay, the Oakland City Council unanimously approved a ballot measure. To make sure that the Citizens Police commission is more independent in its decision making. The oakland Police Commission was established by voters back in 2016. Under measure l l earlier this year, the commission made headlines when it was involved in the firing of former Oakland Police chief Anne Kirkpatrick the lead author of the Measure Council member Rebecca Kaplan says this will protect the cities. Public of the public civil rights and also help increase Police Accountability and oversight. The residents of all clinton voters, the bulk and tired of this and we want to make sure than we have someone in there that can make sure that these reforms are man. Well if this measure passes in november civilian Inspector Generals Office will be established within the commission the office will research an audit the commission on the Police Departments effect in this at f
An asset made available. Right. So its not like somebody is spending 15 minutes every week trying to find this person for seven years, right . No, no, no. It will be typically we look for judgment cases, specific for small volumes, well have like nine active account. Once a month theyll touch it. And it depends if they are able to identify any leads to an asset. But the judgments we are good for ten years, and we renew them up to the full 30 years. So actually on that note for Chris Jackson whose referral date was six and a half years ago, i did spend not 15 minutes but ten minutes to make sure that thats actually on the agenda, though, his specific case. Can we anybody feel comfortable i would refrain from referring to specific cases. Somebody might want to talk with him about it after the meeting. Thats fine. Well, linkedin is a wonderful place, as is google search. I would encourage that your team do that, because it can be very fruitful. I appreciate that. Thank you. Anyway, im sor
Government employees. I am also the director of Public Relations for california for the grand jury for the San Francisco chapter. I have been coming to you at the commissions with other government employees, many times. In 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. The last time i was here was november 15, 2019, which is last month. I came before you demanding as a commission to investigate corruption within the commission department. Between april 2017 to july 2017, six Public Employees reported bribery, extortion and retaliation with the Ethics Commission department, but no record was found, and they never got back to us. I was one of the eight candidates for mayor, june 2018 election. I just finished my mayor run for the november election. I was one of the six mayor candidates for the last months election. I was bullied by democrats and Democratic Leaders from city hall and from different departments and different leaderships from different communities. Many of my billboards and posters were illega
Commissioners directed staff to move forward with the policy to reduce incertainty and time spent negotiating a settlement by providing a level of standardization and predictability to the commissions Enforcement Program. At the september 2019 meeting, staff delivered a process outline with eight steps and appear today to deliver step four by detailing the progress staff made on steps one through three. Commission staff reviewed the practices of other jurisdictions including the fair political practices commission, l. A. City Ethics Commission and san diego Ethics Commission as well as consulted internally with commission staff. These conversations were very helpful, and they developed the violations applicable to the goals of the new expanded program as well as the consideration for the inclusion or exclusion from the policy. In addition to a thresholds applicable to each specific violation type. As step two, staff hosted two interested persons meetings. After the november election an