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Donald Trump has taken a break from his holidays to say this. North | :00:00. | :00:24. | |
Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be | :00:25. | :00:25. | |
met with fire and fury. A no-confidence vote in South Africa | :00:26. | :00:43. | |
ended like this. The vote of no-confidence in the president is | :00:44. | :00:44. | |
accordingly negative. This is the eighth no-confidence | :00:45. | :00:45. | |
motion the president has survived. Google has fired an employee | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
who wrote a controversial memo suggesting fewer women work there, | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
because of their Dodgy greenhouse gas data | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
could threaten the Paris climate agreement, researchers have | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
told the BBC. Air monitoring stations like this | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
one have detected large quantities of gas that hasn't been recorded | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
in official inventories. And if you want to get in touch, | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
the hashtag is BBC OS. We are starting this addition in the | :01:09. | :01:51. | |
United States. Take a listen to the reaction of Donald Trump here. North | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
met with fire and fury, like the world has never seen. He has been | :02:02. | :02:11. | |
very threatening beyond a normal statement and, as I said, they will | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
be met with fire, fury and, frankly, fire power, the likes of which this | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
world has never seen before. Bissell begun in the last two years when a | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
number of news outlets including the Washington Post began reporting that | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
US intelligence officials believe that North Korea has successfully | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
miniaturised nuclear warhead to fit into one of its missiles. | :02:36. | :02:46. | |
We will go to Washington to speak to Jayne Bryant. This is a big story | :02:47. | :02:53. | |
and you can see why the president is exercised about it. | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
Yes, it is a big story and the speed at which North Korea has | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
miniaturised warhead to fit into one of these missiles which we know can | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
reach the United States. They had a successful test of an | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
intercontinental ballistic missile in the last few weeks and that many | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
experts say could reach Los Angeles, Denver and even Chicago, so it puts | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
the US in a far more precarious position far more quickly than was | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
expected. A lot of people thought this was inevitable but just not | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
yet. We have not had confirmation from the Pentagon or any other US | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
government agency that this report is true, but Donald Trump clearly | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
has decided that it is. The reaction of Mr Trump, his talk | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
of fire and fury is going to worry quite a few others, perhaps in the | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
defence establishment. Well, this administration has been | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
giving mixed messages on North Korea for quite a while. Rex Tillerson | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
last week even suggested that talks might be on the table but that was | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
then dismissed and Donald Trump has said that military action cannot be | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
ruled out and there have been talks of regime change, but they are not | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
united in what they think is the right way forward for dealing with | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
this very real threat and that is a problem when you have the President | :04:13. | :04:17. | |
then indulging in rhetoric like this, because nobody really knows | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
what it means. But it sounds pretty awful and pretty dire and nobody | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
knows what the response is going to be from North Korea and so this has | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
reached a very precarious position indeed. | :04:32. | :04:39. | |
I am curious about whether highly placed sources are really talking | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
about the possibility of talks from North Korea and recognising how it | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
has got to where it is. It is hard to take that course of action | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
without being called soft. Indeed. The fact of the matter is | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
that clearly the previous talks failed because North Korea has not | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
been deterred from its nuclear ambitions and we are where we are | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
now, so critics will say that the talks broke down ten years ago under | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
the Clinton and Bush administrations could have paved the way for the | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
situation that the US is now confronting. It is also very | :05:17. | :05:23. | |
difficult to see what way forward the US has because none of the | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
military options are good. North Korea could strike against South | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Korea and there are also some 28,000 US troops stationed in South Korea | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
and so the ability for this crisis to escalate into something far worse | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
is quite significant and a lot of Asian countries also prefer further | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
engagement rather than military options for obvious reasons so it is | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
very difficult at this point to see where this is going and how it will | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
end. Thank you for bringing us up to | :05:57. | :05:57. | |
date. Just two hours ago, he survived | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
a motion of no-confidence Here's the speaker of the parliament | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
announcing the result. The total votes are 384. The yes, | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
177. And there were nine ab stanchions | :06:14. | :06:58. | |
and therefore the vote of no-confidence in the President is | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
accordingly negative. ANC! So the President survived the vote. | :07:01. | :07:18. | |
You saw the jubilation inside the pros -- parliament but these are | :07:19. | :07:19. | |
some things from outside. The president later | :07:20. | :07:27. | |
addressed those crowds. I have just come to say | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
thank you to all of you. Those comrades who are in Parliament | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
who gave me their support from the membership | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
and the supporters. They came in their numbers | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
to demonstrate that the ANC is there, it is powerful, | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
it is big, it is difficult I am sure you know that | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
today the vote of no That may give the impression | :07:52. | :08:04. | |
of a nation celebrating. But this is the eighth time that | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
a no-confidence vote has been held This time the vote was held in | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
secret amidst fears of intimidation. Earlier, we were seeing | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
pictures like these. Here you can see a protest march in | :08:17. | :08:28. | |
Cape Town this morning that was being led by the opposition parties. | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
They were on their way to parliament here. Here they are gathered outside | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
Parliament and making their feelings very clear. Not just Cape Town | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
either, this is Pretoria. People were gathered and dancing in the | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
streets of the city of Pretoria. They were also tried to make their | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
point. They wanted him to go, but what happened is parliament, and | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
this is the parliament chamber itself and here for two hours | :08:53. | :09:01. | |
opposition parties in the ruling ANC traded barbs and insults and | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
political debate in two hours before casting their ballots. There has | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
been a whole team in South Africa watching this story and thinking | :09:07. | :09:07. | |
about its implications. Clearly President Jacob Zuma after | :09:08. | :09:22. | |
surviving this eighth no-confidence vote is now on his ninth life. There | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
was no way he could be compromising now. He feels victorious, he never | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
gives up. Remember, President Zuma stayed in prison for ten years on | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
Robben Island with Nelson Mandela while fighting against white | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
minority rule, so he does not give up easily. Most people see this as a | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
loss for him, given what has happened with ANC MPs who voted with | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
the opposition, but for himself he sees this as a victory. He is | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
buoyant and he hopes to get to December. There are some rumours | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
that he had offered in the caucus this morning, he had offered to | :10:01. | :10:05. | |
resign, but there is no confirmation whether that is true or not. There | :10:06. | :10:13. | |
will be a new attempt in Australia this week to revive a compulsory | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
vote on the issue of gay marriage. It will be the second time that the | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
ruling Conservative government has tried to push through the vote, | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
having already been rejected by the country's upper house. It has also | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
announced a back-up plan which is a non-compulsory postal vote. The | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
opposition is in support of gay marriage but doesn't like I | :10:33. | :10:33. | |
proposition. Weddings may be all about forming a | :10:34. | :10:48. | |
union, but in Australia there are few political issues as divisive as | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
same-sex marriage. Opinion polls suggest that public supports making | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
it legal but for many years the politicians have disagreed over if | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
and how that should happen. As I am sure you are aware, this ceremony is | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
taking place under UK law... In the meantime, only a few couples, like | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
an incitement, have been able to marry by exploiting loopholes in the | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
law for foreign passport holders. Campaigners for same-sex marriage | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
oppose a compulsory vote claiming it would give a voice to homophobia. | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
Facing parliamentary defeat today the government announced an | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
alternative, postal vote. Our preference is to have a compulsory | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
attendance and legislation to that effect will come back before the | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
Senate we hope this week. If that were to fail, the government | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
believes that we have a legal and constitutional way forward to give | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
the Australian people a say on whether or not the definition of | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
marriage should be changed through non-legislated voluntary postal | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
plebiscite. The results would not be binding and at a cost of 100 million | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
US dollars the opponents have caused it -- called it a waste of money. B | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
beauty really be problems with this. It is the weakest thing I have seen | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
in a long time. We are doing an opinion poll on what is a basic | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
human right. If you cannot show leadership there, you cannot lead | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
the nation. For those holding out for a change in law it is hard to | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
know what impact the vote will have. I am an eternal optimist and I like | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
to think that one day we were live on an equal society right marry my | :12:33. | :12:40. | |
partner FA wish. Government ministers say the vote could mean | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
saying I do to same-sex marriage before the year is out but for those | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
couple still waiting to exchange vows, the celebrations are muted. | :12:47. | :12:55. | |
Google has fired an employee who wrote a controversial memo | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
In it he said men had a higher drive for status than women did. | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
We'll talk to our technology reporter Zoe Kleinman. | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
I will chat about that our technology reporter. A man | :13:07. | :13:17. | |
discovered with a pipe bomb in his hand luggage at Manchester Airport | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
has been found guilty of having to explosives with intent of | :13:25. | :13:24. | |
endangering life. The jury heard that Nadeem Mohammed, | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
who's 43, wanted to board The device was made | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
from the tube of a marker pen. Our Correspondent Dan | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
Whitworth has the details. This case was all about | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
Nadeem Muhammad, 43, from Bury. He wept in the dock | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
at Manchester Crown Court when he was found guilty | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
of possession of explosives with intent to endanger life | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
when he tried to board a Ryanair jet He was found guilty of trying | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
to carry a pipe bomb That plane was a Boeing 737 800 | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
and can carry up to 200 passengers and crew, | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
so the impact of potentially exploding a device in the tight | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
confines of that cabin There are serious questions | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
over security here, This is Outside Source live | :14:08. | :14:25. | |
from the BBC newsroom. Our lead story: Jacob Zuma has | :14:26. | :14:27. | |
survived an eighth vote President Trump has said North | :14:28. | :14:37. | |
Korean missiles will be met with fire and fury and power, the likes | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
of which the world has not been seen. | :14:41. | :14:42. | |
An 6.5 magnitude earthquake has killed at least five people | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
and injured more than 60 in China's south-western province | :14:45. | :14:46. | |
There are fears the number of fatalities could rise | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
Iran, President Hassan Rahane has unveiled his new cabinet. It is all | :14:50. | :15:00. | |
male. This is one of the most watched | :15:01. | :15:01. | |
videos on our website. A woman has escaped serious injury | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
after appearing to be pushed This is CCTV of the incident, | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
which happened on Putney Internet giant Google has fired | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
a male employee after he suggested that men were better suited for tech | :15:12. | :15:23. | |
jobs than women. James Damore circulated an internal | :15:24. | :15:26. | |
memo at the weekend criticising Google for creating a politically | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
correct monoculture which prevented honest | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
discussion of diversity. Google hit back in all-staff email | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
saying Damore had crossed the line by advancing harmful gender | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
stereotypes in our workplace. The BBC's Zoe Kleinman has been | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
following the story. What happened was a guy called James | :15:52. | :16:05. | |
Damore published a memo over the weekend in which he set out reasons | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
why he felt the diversity policy that Google were perhaps not working | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
and he felt that they needed more debate. He was very clear to say | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
that he does not believe that diversity should be married but he | :16:19. | :16:20. | |
feels that things have gone too far the other way and he said that men | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
and women are biologically different and perhaps that makes men more, | :16:25. | :16:31. | |
sort of, prone to pursue jobs in technology and leadership, because | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
of the way they think and the way they operate, and he said that this | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
is a debate that needs to be had. The memo went viral. As you can | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
imagine, it caused a lot of outrage but he also got a lot of support | :16:43. | :16:43. | |
from people who said it is absolutely right and we | :16:44. | :17:00. | |
should be discussing this. How are we going about this, the wrong way? | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
What is the situation Barack Obama how do we address the diversity Gap? | :17:04. | :17:05. | |
He said the gender gap is not necessarily sexism and it is a | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
conversation that she really wanted to have but it hasn't gone so well | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
for him because he has lost his job over it and the Google chief | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
executive said that what he wrote goes against the rules of conduct of | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
the company so he is out and Google has a new vice president of | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
diversity who also sent a memo saying these views are unacceptable, | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
so it has cost him his job, but it has sort of once again highlighted | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
how much the tech sector is struggling with this diversity issue | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
in which the statistics of women working in Tech are poor, even in | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
the tech giants. If you look at these statistics of companies like | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
Google, Facebook, Amazon, and the Tech jobs, you are looking at ten or | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
20% women, it is very unbalanced and has been for a long time. Lots of | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
companies are throwing a lot of money at this with a lot of | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
initiatives and outreach programmes but it doesn't seem to shift things | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
as dramatically as people hoped. The fact that he has been sacked, | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
and perhaps it was inevitable given how viral the memo went, has that | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
become a political debate in itself because his whole issue was that we | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
are not allowed to have a healthy debate about diversity and this | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
shows that. Exactly that, a lot of people stood | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
up to him and said how can Google promised to promote free speech when | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
one of its own employees as a contented to ignite that debate and | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
been fired and that does not promote free speech at all, it just is | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
getting rid of the viewpoint that Google doesn't like. He says he has | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
heard from a lot of people and a lot of staff members who thank him for | :18:33. | :18:35. | |
saying this but they do not feel confident about voicing support | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
publicly because they are worried about repercussions. It is | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
interesting to note that he has had a couple of job offers, including | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
from Wikileaks. Julian Assange tweeted that he would be delighted | :18:50. | :18:50. | |
to have him as a member of staff. A BBC investigation has revealed | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
many countries around the world are under-reporting how much | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
greenhouse gases they're emitting One example highlighted | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
was the Jungfraujoch Swiss As you can see, the station sits | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
close to the Italian border. Between 2008 and 2010, | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
this station recorded levels of a gas called HFC-23 coming | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
from a location in northern Italy. The gas is nearly 15,000 times more | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
warming to the atmosphere than CO2. Scientists at the station estimated | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
60-80 tonnes of the gas was being emitted from the location | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
in Italy each year. Italy's official records submitted | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
to the UN were well below that The BBC's Matt Mcgrath carried out | :19:34. | :19:35. | |
the investigation and I spoke with him earlier about the sheer | :19:36. | :19:47. | |
difficulty of collecting reliable The big difficulty here is the | :19:48. | :20:01. | |
amount of data that is out there and how difficult a problem this is | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
today because there are huge amounts of gases come from all sorts of | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
sources, man-made and natural, and scientists struggle at times to | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
quantify those gases and this is an even bigger problem in the | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
developing countries than it is in the richer world where we have been | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
doing it for 20 years. So in countries like Russia and | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
China there is reluctance to allow international scientists to take | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
data? All of these countries have a | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
history of being very cautious about data and we saw in our story how | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
Russian scientists on the Russian government wants to see all the data | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
that the German scientist that are monitoring Siberia, they want to see | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
at first I may have to put it on a CD-ROM so they give it to the | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
government before they can take it out the country so this secrecy, | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
this question of keeping information quiet and private goes against the | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
spirit of the Paris Climate Accord and tan makes it a lot more | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
difficult to achieve those goals if everyone holds back the real story | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
in the real information. This is your investigation and you | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
have been digging into these data gaps, but isn't it about by a | :21:03. | :21:04. | |
political gift to those who don't this big effort to tackle | :21:05. | :21:27. | |
climate change? In some ways it does but in some | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
ways it will redouble the efforts of politicians to try and make sense of | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
this. The big difficulty here is that you have 150 new countries who | :21:34. | :21:35. | |
signed up under the Paris Climate Accord who need to do boring stuff | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
like accounting for all of their emissions and they don't have these | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
people the technology or the money and they were counted on big | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
countries like the United States and others to help with that in those | :21:44. | :21:45. | |
countries have massive uncertainties in their emissions and the big | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
problem in all of that is ultimately when we sit down and work out who | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
was doing what and how much stuff is being emitted, if we can't really | :21:52. | :21:53. | |
verify and know exactly what is coming out, we really don't know | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
where we are and how we are doing, and how much progress we're making, | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
and that is a real difficulty this erroneous accounting. | :22:00. | :22:00. | |
You mentioned America and Donald Trump wants to pull the US out of | :22:01. | :22:03. | |
the agreement but there was another development in the New York Times | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
today. Give us an idea of what it says about climate change and | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
America. This report is essentially a view | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
from the scientists of America, the leading federal scientists from | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
federal offices, they all say climate change is real and man-made | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
and having an effect in the United States right now and temperatures | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
are going up by more than they have in the last 1500 years so it is a | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
real challenge to the president who has expressed a lot of uncertainty | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
about this and basically said that the science is divided but the | :22:32. | :22:32. | |
scientists say that they are not. And you can find more on Matt's | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
investigation on the BBC website. Now for some business news. We have | :22:36. | :22:46. | |
heard that Jacob Zuma has survived another no-confidence vote but where | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
does that leave businesses and the economy in South Africa? Well, in | :22:51. | :22:55. | |
recession. With an unemployment rate of almost 28%. Here is an | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
entrepreneur and investor from the South African version of Dragon 's | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
Den. If there is a single failing from me that we have seen particular | :23:07. | :23:09. | |
this president it is that under his watch we have seen unemployment go | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
up and poverty levels rise and we have seen access to nutrition and | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
health care drop, said those have been very serious issues are not the | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
least of which two add onto that has in truth been that our education | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
system is in tatters and there was a lot that is going right but you | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
cannot argue that those kind of unemployment levels do not bode well | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
for social stability and as a result you are seeing some social | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
instability. Service delivery protests, etc, and that makes it | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
difficult to trade. Here is a funny story from San Francisco. Not far | :23:46. | :23:51. | |
from the golden Gate Bridge. What we have to show you is about one of the | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
most famous and exclusive and wealthy communities on the west | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
coast. I wanted to bring up this picture, it looks gorgeous and very | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
special and she she. Apparently the residents here did not pay their | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
taxes so someone bought the street from under them. I think we can now | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
go and talk to Samir Hussein. Tell us more about this. Well, just when | :24:15. | :24:21. | |
you thought real estate cannot get any more expensive in some of the | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
big American cities, the street that you are literally living on Camby | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
bought from right under your feet and that is what happened. | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
Apparently the business taxes were not paid for this particular street | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
and as a result, to try and recoup the lost costs San Francisco held an | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
auction and in that auction two real estate investors scooped up the | :24:46. | :24:50. | |
property sight unseen for $90,000. That actually happened about two | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
years ago and now fast forward to now when some of these real estate | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
representatives, who were representing them, had gone to talk | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
to some of the neighbours, that is when the neighbours really caught | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
wind of the fact that their street was actually sold. I guess that | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
means the new owners can rent it back to them and make a lot of | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
money. Exactly. Let us say, there are 120 parking spots on this | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
street, they can now charge for those parking spots and they can | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
charge for use of any of the parks or public areas around there. Of | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
course, the neighbourhood association is contesting this, and | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
they want the sale to be rescinded because they didn't know about it | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
and fundamentally about the taxes, and we wanted to know how much they | :25:39. | :25:47. | |
actually owed. $994. For that they lost their street. Thank you for | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
joining us bringing us that mini saga there. Thank you very much and | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
with us here. We have a lot more to come in the next edition. | :25:56. | :26:10. | |
Hello. Plenty happening across the globe in terms of weather but we | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
start off in Central America and Mexico where we are talking a | :26:16. | :26:17. | |
tropical | :26:18. | :26:18. |