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Britains elise is disqualified from the 1,000 metre speed skating heat ending her 0lympic dream. Good morning, it is tuesday the 20th of february. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. 0xfams chief executive has apologised to mps this morning over the way the charity handled claims of Sexual Misconduct by its staff in haiti. Mark goldring said he was sorry for comments in which he appeared to downplay the seriousness of the allegations. The International Development committee has called an urgent questi...

Hayward, the fourth accident involving drunk drivers in the past month. Another officer was pinned under a car after being hit on highway 4 on january 16 and a few days later, another officer was hit in san jose. In three of those crashes, drunk driving is believed to be the cause. This has prompted the chp to further step up dui enforcement. Reporter chp officer drew williams says he didnt remember a time this many local chp officers have been killed or injured so close together. Its been a pre...

Harder or easer. Evening, i am dan ashley. One solution b. A. R. T. Walled change the fee. Eric thomas is live at the walnut creek b. A. R. T. Station for me. Reporter we did crunching and even a modest increase saying 2 a day would mean 500 more a year if you parked here every day. It is impossible for b. A. R. T. To make more parking they dont have the land. Commuters have a love hate relationship with the fee. For me, it is okay. That is more than enough and raising it would be atrocious. Rep...

Men to whom he could look closest and hardest for solutions. Leading the contention was the chairman of the Federal Reserve board, followed by secretary of the treasury fowler, secretary of state, secretary of congress, the budget director charles schultz, chairman of the house ways and means committee, majority whip, who chairs the Economic Policy committee, and finally, senator long of louisiana, a member of many senate and joint committees central to the control of the nations fiscal policy. ...

Spouters. Thank you. Supporters. Thank you. Good morning, my name is ruth. Im here on behalf of stop slavery, a Northern California coalition. Catholic sisters against Human Trafficking. As opponents of coerced labor we are in support for good purchasing of a valued workforce and its goal of achieving healthy working conditions and fair compensation for all workers and producers in the Food Supply Chain. Among those working in the Food Supply Chain are Migrant Workers, including agricultural lab...

Im the seniorsy advocate youve heard a great deal with the work that the organization has done in evaluating the program in the Oakland School district, i dont need to repeat that here, but we want to emphasize that our organization sees this initiative important enough that i made it here today. This is not actually my normal realm of work, i tend to work in sacramento, but we really believe the city of San Francisco could do something here to help california to make sure it meets with the rhet...

Thank you so much. Good morning, supervisors. My name is lia im a staff attorney with the justice center. We provide Free Immigration Services to courageous women and children who have suffered genderbased violence. I was the director of the antitrafficking and i want to tell you a story about my client, well call him adam. He is from indonesia, grew up in poverty. He was recruited to work as a seaman. They promised him good wages. They arranged his transportation and documentation from indonesi...

On how they have been impacted by environmental regulations. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee heard from industry stakeholders, including representatives from the American Farm bureau, the National Farmers union and the National Pork producers council. This hearing is an hour and 45 minutes. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. Today, well hold a hearing on the impact of federal environmental regulations and policies on American Farming and ranching communities. The discu...

But there is also a long history of workers and unions coming together to address the injustices. This policy will make sure we use dollars to employ companies that treat workers humanely. Thats why teamsters are strong spouters. Thank you. Supporters. Thank you. Good morning, my name is ruth. Im here on behalf of stop slavery, a Northern California coalition. Catholic sisters against Human Trafficking. As opponents of coerced labor we are in support for good purchasing of a valued workforce and...

Backed Kurdish Militia in Northern Syria. Plus a moscow neighborhood is left stunned for model student kills his flatmate and post the grisly Details Online before committing suicide. Its six oclock here in moscow and youre watching all t. International live from our studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the Program President trump is in the swiss resort of doubles for the World Economic forum hes already spoken to british Prime Minister theresa may and we cannot cross the line. Right now...