With people who look like they might need a little help and chatting with merchants but now this time around they are unarmed sf police chief bill scott says the retired officers have undergone refresher courses in deescalation and crisis intervention. Training but when they hit the streets they will be armed only with their years of experience and hes a sfpd officers both command Staff Officers up and down the ranks. Who know the city like the back of their hands, they know the people they know the culture they know the flavor. Retired officer lee dahlberg used to walk this speech as part of his job on the force. Were going to be the eyes and ears up here and try to remedy problems. So we dont have to get off your and take take your time. Knowledge and background. Thats pretty much what we can do to help every day the ambassadors will first check in with the Central Police station then touch base with the Union Square Business Improvement District who are happy to have the extra help
Capital there. And turmoil in south africa as the president sacks this man, his finance minister. Now threats to the president s power. Anchor i am brent goff. It is good to have you with us. In washington dc, dealmaking the world has not seen for a long time. Tonight, the u. S. President has backed his former national, Michael Flynn, saying he is right to testify to congress about the jump trump campaigns alleged leaks to russia. He says he is not worried what he will reveal. He is offered to testify only in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Reporter for just over three weeks, he was in the front row at the white house. As National Security adviser, Michael Flynn was in trumps inner circle. The retired army general was a close advisor on Trump Election Campaign in 2016. Back then, concerns were already raised for his ties to russia. Like his attendance at a dinner with vladimir putin. Michael flynn maintained the relationship even after the election. When president obama imposed
Look at that bernie surge. In the three caucuses over the weekend, seven out of ten democrats voted for a socialist, but hes still not likely to be the nominee. Here we go, its a big new week, never a small week, is it . Varney company is about to begin. I wish we didnt have to start with this, but were going to. Terror, a Taliban Group carried out a Suicide Attack in the northeastern part of pakistan, killing more than 70 people, injuring 300 more. Officials say the attack targeted christians celebrating easter. Ash, the latest. Ashley at least 70 dead, over 300 injured. And as you said at the top of the show, this was deliberately picking on a park popular with christians during the easester celebration ironically, and i say ironically, most killed were muslims and 14 christians. And the Splinter Group who pledged support, says we want after as many christians as we could. Stuart it was a deliberate targeting of christians. Ashley without doubt. Stuart by the way, no mention of targe
Station. The ceasefire in yemen has only been in effect for two hours but already there are reports of violations and Houthi Rebels have apparently carried out attacks in the north of the province and also in thai, the weeklong truce has been arranged to coincide with peace talks between the warring sides in switzerland and we are there with the yemeni political analyst and spoke to us via skype and says the sevenday truce is not enough to deliver the desperately needed aid. Its meaningless in addition to the fact the ceasefire is only a temporary hold and does not fix anything on the ground, there is a lot of people suffering from not having food, electricity and drugs, that is the main point of concern on the ground and dont really care much about the ceasefire and its a temporary hold and no real resolution to the war and need basic necessities like water and food and drugs which even during the ceasefire there was though discussion of lifting the commercial gate housed by Coalition
We are here in london. Im guy johnson. Francine and im francine lacqua. We begin with Deutsche Bank dramatic rebound. The german lender plans to reduce cost and cut back its ownership of its consumer unit. Guy for more, lets go to hans nichols from frankfurt. Where is the bank trimming cutting, where is it looking to grow . Hans they are going to be cutting in retail units. It is not just postbank. Deutsche bank itself, their retail outlets will drop by about 200. There are currently about 730. They are trimming back the investment bank, but they are also redeploying some 50 billion to 70 billion in assets into relationships and clientbased services. They are looking to shed about 200 billion in assets. That is going to get their Capital Requirements to about 5 . Before, their goal was to have a return on equity of 12 . In 2015 they came in just north of 3 . A lot of that is litigation costs. They were hit by 1. 5 billion. We are heading into a press conference shortly. We want to find