china will remain committed to the cause of peace development corporation. here to the independent foreign policy of peace. the power of peaceful development. there we mean stratus an opening up. why russia and other countries. in china's development and benefit from the many. years long to the west. to penetrate. and we did not meant thank you. yes the chinese are present who jintao a talking tariff say you are giving a speech at the. international the economic forum before him at present gave his keynote speech where the theme was very much about modernization but that more on this let's cross to you and he saw no way he was following a forum for us so what do you make of what the two leaders have said so far. but you said it right down and focused on modernization this has been the trademark really up to his presidency he wants russia to modernize quickly and you start off by saying that you think it needs to also start happening at the lowest levels that society has to have the desire to modernize russia a lot of c.e.o.'s hear of innovative companies star

the city community development corporation went in there and bought two or three of the vacant condosnd turned it into affordable housing for the people who work in the hotels and the restaurants and the service business. we have 14.3 million vacant homes and condos. cities and suburbs can begin to try to help transfer them from bank ownership or foreclosures into more rentals. >> you're talking to me from one of my favorite cities in the entire continent. toronto is possibly one of the most ascendant big cities in north america. what's working there? >> toronto is the example, even more than d.c. cranes are everywhere. my street is filled with renovation projects. houses still in three days, two a week. housing values are up because the mortgage market was regulated here. you have to put 20% down. you have to turn your mortgage over in seven years. you can't refinance your darn loan, only if you have -- you have to hold that loan and the bank holds it. so supply and demand are matched. we don't have buyers that can't buy -- one other thing i wanted to say. believe it or not, i think

emphasize the point that democracy and transparency in the developing corporation to ensure the respect for human rights but also brings to the role and capacity of civil society organizations and those reorganized government systems with greater involvement of the european parliament. the e.u. must ensure that target populations received what specific measure is the european union planning to achieve? thank you. >> you have expressed my thoughts i couldn't agree more with her to do precisely this. >> our countries are delivered on. i can assure you that is the commission that service is and the representative who will monitor those we believe it has spun into this kind of dialogue we can afford by the participation of civil society. i was recently in tunisia and met the president but also representatives of the society and organizations and so forth and it was clear to me from the believe our commitment is important not just the commitment to the government but also to the society and i think the parliament involved and commitment would be a problem because of your relations with of th

to work together then slowly but surely will develop that corporation and the trust that is way to so i don't think that anyone in russia should feel threatened by the system on the contrary it provides a wonderful and to the practical opportunity to jointly work together against a common sort of. finally in our news block it's time to follow our close up team to the mysterious and beautiful russian republic of north a set yet to discover some of its best kept secrets. christian churches agricultural cultural prosperity and a magnificent ancient necropolis known as the city of the dead today we look into one of the most mysterious sights in southern russia the village of dark obs it's not the areas dark legacy that's driving away the locals though as our cities medina coaching over discovers. we continue our exploration of the north besides the republic and this time we're visit a unique historical area the village of dar govs or ask the locals call it here the city of town it's you know the cemetery has almost one hundred asian stone cripps where people that lived in this area buried

and visibility and better governance to emphasize fundamental points like transparency in developing corporations, ensuring respect for human rights, but also boosting the role and capacity of civil society organizations and also reorganized that aid system with greater involvement of the european parliament. the eu must ensure that the target populations receive this aid. what specific measures is the european union plan to achieve this? >> madam, you express my very thought. i could not agree with you more. we are going to do precisely this. we have a number of different instruments to ensure the commitments of our partner countries are delivered on. i can assure you that the european commission and a high representatives will appoint a special representative to monitor this. we believe it is by means of this kind of dialogue that we cannot afford real assistance, particularly by boosting the participation of civil society. i've recently in tunisia -- i was recently in tunisia and it was clear to me that they believe our commitment is important, not just a commitment to their government but als

. >> in the dda, the section relates to corporate guarantees for financial obligation of the developer. the guarantee would be $5 million, and it would increase to $10 million after the proceedings are done, and that would be when most of the financial obligations would begin. >> out is what i would like to offer. >> do we have a motion that includes the amendments by supervisor camkim? >> i have one more amendment. i would like to add to the document which establishes a process for the allocation of additional increments, which is what we are working on right now, and the language is also before my colleagues. >> have made changes as your amendment include -- how many changes as your amendment now include now? >> 3. >> we have a motion on who include the three changes outlined. we have a motion and a second. the you what to speak on this? >> i had a separate amendment i wanted to bad if we are considering these together. this would be an amendment to item number 10, and this has to do with ensuring the historic preservation commission for ensuring they advised. i would like to read in

today we're not expecting any substantial corporate or macro developments on the domestic front although we would expect a lot of our clients to be looking closely at the weekly one full of data to determine whether or not flows from russia dedicated points continue as has been the case over the past couple of weeks looking towards next week the corporate news flow is slowing down but we do expect numbers first quarter numbers for many of them kate and also team cave and i think the market although it's becoming less and less patient is somewhat optimistic about some possible names on the oil sector taxation front and also on the gas taxation front more business news in an hour's time and so you can catch out of all this is business stories on our website our two dot com slash business. that i kill innocent. allies if they supply some that's never and say. no i'm a song from the skull still i'm a guy i think are but every day. i steal the flyers fired from the memories. i assume i saw a long time serious crime. i was ashamed. i was ashamed that i didn't. i was ashamed that i hadn't been

inclusion of a global financial institution european bank for reconstruction and development and the international finance corporation are both potential partners the central bank is ready for talks but says it's premature to discuss except as etiology try to buy into the r.t.s. last summer but the loop was blocked by the regulator now analysts say a reputable international market could pull the both of the merger stock remote stock exchange. russia's becoming more attractive to foreign investors inspired by strong oil and gas revenues financial indicators show they're willing to lend to ross at a much cheaper rate then to other emerging countries a yield on russian dollar bonds is ninety six basis points below the average for developing markets that's the biggest gap in three months high energy prices fueling russia's hopes of ending the year with a budget deficit are just one percent instead of the previously predicted four percent. now castro bellows could finally be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel the country has won approval for three billion dollar loan from russia and its c.i.s. partners inflation ha

today we're not expecting any substantial corporate or macro developments on the domestic front although we would expect a lot of clients to be looking closely at the weekly done flow data to determine whether or not flows from russia dedicated funds continue as has been the case over the past couple of weeks looking towards next week the corporate news flow is slowing down but we do expect numbers first quarter numbers from anyone katie and also team katie and i think the market becoming less and less patient somewhat optimistic about some possible news on the world sector taxation front and also on the gas taxation front. but perhaps not the business bulletin more news and now it's time and you can catch up on all of his business stories and all that side archie dot com slash business. in one thousand nine hundred two dr ralph ben street university of pennsylvania said what if i can take the gene responsible for growth in human beings and put it into a mouse. on all the main risk issues was that there is a ninety five percent of all competent scientists in these fields are working for

today we're not expecting any substantial corporate or macro developments on the domestic front although we would expect a lot of clients to be looking closely at the weekly one flow data to determine whether or not flows from russia dedicated funds continue as has been the case over the past couple of weeks looking towards next week the corporate news flow is slowing down but we do expect numbers first quarter numbers from anyone k k and i think the market although it's becoming less and less patient is somewhat optimistic about some possible news on the world sector taxation front and also on the gas taxation front. that's not such a business boss in more business stories in an hour's time. the. russians would be so much brighter if you knew about some from feinstein pression some. heat from the stunts on t.v. dot com. they've been once around the sun.

inclusion of a global financial institution european bank for reconstruction and development and the international finance corporation of potential partners central bank is ready for talks but says it's premature to discuss the exact share it's easier to try to buy into the r.t.s. last summer but the move was blocked by the financial regulator now analysts say a refusal it's a national international partner could bolster the merged stock exchange. gas promise fired a warning shot to the e.u. over the hotly debated russian gas in the breeze to the block the company's c.e.o. alexei miller said the current price model does not suit its european customers that would be instead the liver and its gas to asia and it's a coconut oil still believes however that this statement is intended to spur china rather than the. i think is very much stating the obvious in the sense that everybody knows that sooner or later gas from will start supplying gas to china and that will be quite significant because less than half of what was now supplying to the e.u. . maybe even more see how it works out but. it's very much recreating your vie

saying that essentially housing is in a double dip so what what are corporations and the government doing in terms of the economic development at home are they helping or hurting in their policies right now do you think i mean we see g.e. paying no corporate tax rate i mean two thirds of u.s. corporations pay nothing in and federal income taxes i mean if you or i were to do that the government would be after us and so you know clearly the people in power in the government right now that are scooby representing us are representing the people you know the interest that got them elected which is generally these large corporations and i was a writer an activist ranya colic that is now when it comes to u.s. president barack obama's reelection campaign and foreign policy achievements he's likely to tout the reset of u.s. russia relations as one of the big wins but as two thousand and twelve approaches and we see disagreement over missile defense as just one of the roadblocks and relations between the countries will this kind of real transformation be possible well my guest came here to help me sort it out steven cohen author and p

inclusion of a global financial institution european bank for reconstruction and development and the international finance corporation of both potential partners the central bank is ready for talks but says it's premature to discuss except she has. tried to buy into the r.t.s. last summer but the move was blocked by the regulator now analysts say every pupil international partner could pull sort of much stock in the stock exchange. tell us take a look at the markets oil drops for a second day on signs of a slowdown in the us to monza not before this week's opec meeting but with a side production courts european stocks mostly lower on monday driven by weak economic data german investors losing at the moment led by a long point focusing full frame finian technologies the biros ultra successful drugs trial just talk and that is the strongest performer on the dax talking only two percent bank stocks were also lower cost much of the rest of europe glencore international is the biggest gainer on the footsie over twenty percent here in moscow equity markets are lower as crude slid below one hundred dollars a barrel the r.t.

supervisors passed a resolution authorizing the creation of a non-profit public benefit corporation as the treasure island developy to act as a single entity focused on the planning, we development, we construction, rehabilitation, we use, and conversion located on treasure and yerba buena island. for the welfare and common benefit of the residents of the city and county of san francisco. this was said to the budget and fiscal provisions of the city charter. the pellets also allege that fundamental changes to the project description and sponsor objectives that occurred after the eir were circulated means there needs to be further public comment. there was tax fund in using -- features which could in turn result in a full environmental impact. production from 30% to 20% affordable housing. production in height limits. changes have occurred. the planning department has read them all at it and determined that none would result in new significant physical and impacts. as described in detail in a response, none of these revisions are a fundamental change that would result in new significant physical and environmental

it was developed by san jose based anatomahe in corporation with the university. students can explore muscles, nerves and cells. students can also observe ct scans of patients. >>> this is the main ingredient for our bay area cooling it was a spare the air day. the first day of summer. the heat advisory but that is all coming to an end as fog move spwaos the avenue of san francisco -- moves into the avenue of san francisco. there you see the fog coming across, that's the south tower of the golden gate bridge. that's about 720 feet or so. you can see the fog just underneath that. fog is going to thicken up tonight and that is cooling that will begin for us. here are the highs from today. significant numbers, no records but big numbers. 100 in concord, 100 in fairfield, it was hot where you were. it wasn't hot across the bay. temperatures a little bit cooler than they have been along the coastal sections. so tonight the fog comes back in. and with that fog we will see the temperatures start to drop off overnight into the upper 50s and low 60s. not as warm as last ni

secretary of state under george bush which threatened most of the developing world and chevron oil corporation but which connally's rice was a member of the board. in fact there was the case her name the congolese. by chevron g. major the only secretary of state who've ever carried thirty five million gallons of oil in addition but the real kicker is that she's going to be co-chairing this committee with. general james jones who is head of the u.s. joint chiefs of staff our military our rifles what do you think this is really about here this is nothing to it probably reduction except that what it has to do with is chevron's projecting its political military might now i was down in ecuador meeting with the president of ecuador and then going to the jungle. to see the damage for myself i also spoke with chevron. and what happened there is that you see you see toys kids poison people in hospitals all over their arms. literally. i saw scores of people were just dying of well toxins it's dumped all over the place was there texaco corp which is bought by chevron a seventeen year trial took place. ch

mission economic development and agency, the san francisco housing development corp., the san francisco urban community housing corporation. these five together have provided collaborative homeownership education class is -- classes in culturally competent ways. with out as much direct assistance from the federal government, we focused on making sure people do not enter into dangerous mortgage situations. to pay for these important services, we have unlisted major banks including wachovia, bank of america, the j.p. morgan case, as well as the san francisco foundation and the walter and elyse fund. san francisco home buyers have taken advantage of these programs. sadly, most of the federal and state programs are struggling to achieve effective loan modifications that would enable existing homeowners to stay in their homes on a long-term basis. as far as our efforts locally, we will continue to provide support to our partners to help people navigate the difficult mortgage issues here. i think we can work together with additional ideas and i would be glad to work closely with you to focus even more attention on this as we le

after looking at how you develop leaders in the military, how you develop leaders in corporate america, and how you given incentives and push persons. the best leaders in the organization to the top. we had had problems with that in the past and after much discussion, the decision was made to enact this. it was one of the hardest decisions i probably had to make as a director of -- during this period of time. but it has in my mind had the beneficial effect, although we do lose some very, very good supervisors who decide either to step down or retire. i have over the years explained the thinking behind the decision . over the years sought out opportunities to discuss the import and impact of that decision. i will continue to do so. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. senator franken. >> thank you, mr. chairman. director mueller, i want to start off today by associating myself with senator durbin's remarks and commending you for your tremendous service to this nation. it is in large part because of your tenacity and leadership that we haven't seen another major terrorist attack on our

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every affordable housing development that happens in the city relies on private corporations that invest their money in exchange for tax credits. these investors put millions or tens of billions of dollars in every building. these investors jews how much they want to invest or if they want to invest based on how they want to invest. why did they invest in homeless people in san francisco? most of them do. the few that do do because we can show that there are civil services being provided. for every new supporter housing building, every potential investor asks how into the services will still be here next year or the year after. we say that we rely on the city's commitment to fund supported housing. if the city cuts back on its commitments, we lose those investors and cannot build new housing and cannot move people off the streets. san francisco's entire plan to end chronic homeless this is bound to the service funding proposed to be cut, so i urge you to restore funding to support of housing services to protect our ability to create new housing for homeless san franciscans. thank you. su

russian around me joins me develop energy prospects in resource rich bolivia says arounds petroleum industry the corporation could help significantly increase russia's presence in south america bolivia as the second largest gas reserves in the region russia's gazprom is already working in the country as part of a project to develop to vast newly discovered deposits a set. move to the markets and a drop in crude prices continues in deepens both the light sweet and brant blends are falling. two dollars and almost free respectively the correction comes after overnight gains followed by a u.s. government report which showed it to climb the country's crude supplies last week. european markets are also trading in the red line as a down the downturn glencore losing two percent banks are also a drag with noise down almost three percent a month. here in russia the markets started off on negative note there's still the l.d.s. down almost two percent my six half a percent this is mainly due to resource stocks let's take a look at them luke oil is one of the biggest losers down point eight percent actually shareholder

corporate car? >> we had a terrific program where we develop and administer the bulletin, which your help, elevator companies, involvement from the public, and you can tell us the outcome of that. >> what is amazing about the process is we had both government and private industry, as well as people with disabilities at the table for three years creating these accessibility standards. what we are doing here is being looked at by the department of justice access board and state architect's office. that is how good our standards are. would you like to see? i am going to push the access key which will activate the voice. i want to go to floor 24. ok, to the left. >> elevator j has arrived. >> that was smooth. >> i am getting a text message. it is amazing, these destination elevators. pretty soon, the signal that changes the system will be able to be routed through blue tooth and your phone, which is amazing. my iphone will be able to access the controls. in paris already, they are rounding the pedestrian signals through blue tooth and into people's phones. so the future is really exciting and technolog

russia and iran may jointly develop energy prospects in resource rich bolivia says iran's petroleum industry the corporation could help significantly increase russia's presence in south america bolivia has the second largest gas reserves in the region russia's gazprom is already working in the country as part of a project to develop to vast newly discovered deposits in the south. oil is still down light sweet and brant still shedding more than a dollar a barrel as you can see there more than one hardboiled correction comes after overnight gains so which was seen after a u.s. government report showing a decline in the country's crete supplies last week european markets are trading session in the red for the down point seven percent the dax will point nine percent miners are down the down ten glencore losing two percent banks are also a drag with lloyds down almost reclusive. here in russia negative picture also ten point eight six point four percent main losers here are energy stocks if you look at those lukoil is down half a percent banks have managed to recover some wants burbank is up just by a notch and

development. the event is designed for private sector leaders representing multinational corporations, sme's, academics, civil society, as well as senior government officials responsible for setting the international economic, trade, and sme policies together to put these recommendations together. secretary clinton will be the head of the high-level policy dialogue and she will also be delivering a keynote address to the entire community. she is, as we speak, reaching out to her counterparts in the economies around the asia- pacific community, as well as counterparts within the u.s. cabinet to attend the event. as an outstanding example of our public-private sector partnership, the private sector has been intricately involved in putting together the summit. so we really want to thank cal apec, the host committee put together, and especially the bay area council, under the leadership of jim, who will speak in a minute. they have been and it indelible partner in the planning -- they have been an invaluable part in the planning of this event. as the u.s. private sector brings together commitments to the e

russia and iran may jointly develop energy prospects in resource rich bolivia says the rounds petroleum industry he corporation could help significantly increase russia's presence in south america bolivia has the second largest gas reserves in the region russia's gas form is already working in the country as for a project to develop to vos newly discovered deposits in the south. where you have the markets now and while it is declining both light sweet crude and bread losing one in the hall dollars per barrel the correction comes after overnight gains which were followed which were followed by a u.s. government report which showed a decline in the country's crude supplies last week. european markets started thursday session on a negative note resources storks mainly losing that would see dragged down point six percent and point eight. zero russia the markets are also in the red though they have regained some of those losses that we saw in the early morning hours r.t.s. is down point six percent my six point two percent stake a look at the main movers on the my six most of the energy majors are losing new cool d

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