to 10 units. and that it was intended to cover the entirety of the city. there was an oversight in the drafting of that legislation. it failed to pick up a special use district within south of market area, the children youth and family zone. so, this legislation currently would just make explicit that adjustment from the children youth and family zone from five units to 10 units to be consistent with the policy throughout the city. it also makes a slight adjustment. there is additional trigger or threshold within the children youth and family zone for inclusion in the inclusionary program of a 40 foot height limit. in order not to provide incentives for developers to sort of squish or reduce the height of a ground floor and to be consistent with the city's policy around height bonuses throughout the city, we have recommended increasing that height limit from 40 feet to 45 feet. so, those two -- those corrective measures for the children youth and family zone and the 20% reduction for the on-site r

containment of iran now so china's next well i think there's little doubt about that because the united states secretary john kerry secretary of state says and others say that we the united states is sending sixty percent of a vast military armada to to the to the east asia the western pacific now they say the excuse given is there's more economic activity there so the u.s. needs to send troops. well down the street here this is salem a small that is a lot of economic activity do we need to send troops it is it is just an absurdity it's a nonsense as far as keeping the seas open there are no want to start and to close the seas china needs open seas for its development so that doesn't make sense i think that this is yet another attempt by the united states to maintain its. status in the world and i think there's a bit of panic going on here in the united states foreign policy establishment because if they cannot break china up then the united states is destined if china is to become a moderately prosperous country and bring wellbeing to its citizens then the united states will be set in

states win the war even during the armistice talks between the united nations this united states in the so-called united nations forces and the north koreans they were considering using nuclear weapons on that country so obviously if there's going to be any threat of nuclear war between north korea and the united states it's going to be on the part of the united states yes indeed the only country that someone dropped nuclear bombs that during a war time the media doesn't seem to be talking with the other side of this hostile situation u.s. and in stealth bombers live fire exercises between the u.s. and south korea or the u.n. imposing sanctions over and over again is north korea simply responding to the threats that have been happening for the last couple of years i think so without a doubt i mean not to mention there was a war between the united states the united states was extremely brutal but i mean you know in the past decade just the past decade we've seen the united states invade iraq afghanistan wage war in somalia all across the african continent all across asia recently did

cannot construct a peace in the region do you agree with this i mean is it that the united states is incapable of fostering peace or simply going willing to do so the united states showed when it felt major strategic interests were involved multiple times in the seventy's and the eighty's that it could impose or at least forcefully advocate for egyptian israeli peace for disengagement agreements between syria and israel or egypt and israel before that so it's not true that the united states cannot put its weight into the scales on this issue it has not in fact if it puts it some on any side of the scale in the palestine israel conflict it is done so on the israeli side so i think there are multiple myths and what. there is an ongoing peace process there is not and has not been for a long time and the other is that there are implicitly two equal parties in this there is a dominant israeli state which has been in existence for sixty four years which has nuclear weapons it's a regional superpower and which completely dominates the palestinians and there is a population under occupation

the inmates are on the move. >> we move inmates out of these units often so we can do unit repairs.y will be relocated to another unit while that is being done. >> put your stuff behind your back and your hands on the wall. >> the inmates carry their possessions inside sheets. before they're allowed off to enter the new unit. officers conduct a shakedown for contraband. >> the more contraband i find, the more i'm going to throw out. >> finally the inmates are taken to a unit, almost identical to the one they left. but one of them has decided his time in the unit is up. >> hey, you, just stand there for me. >> kyle beauchamp says he is straight but requested to be housed with homosexuals when he was first booked into the jail. older inmates told him with his green hair it would be safer than general population. >> a lot of times some of the convicts will mess with the young ones. they'll sit in the holding cell with the young cats. they will see how naive they are. tell them stuff like when you talk to the officer make sure you tell them you want this, this, this. messing with them.

palestinian ben fients in the united pageses. the palestinian national movement is in one of its lowest moments in the entire modern history of the people, and the fact there's divided leadership and ineffective leadership means that you're not seeing the kind of effective use of the tool that you could see, but in order to use something like u.n. membership or going to the international criminal court or any other diplomatic or any other tool at your disposal, you have to have a strategy. what are they doing? i see nothing in anything they say or do. i mean, if it were up to me, i would be trying to increase resistance on the ground to the gripping annexation and occupation process, trying to increase pressure externally, by, i don't know where you would go or what you do, but there's a million things you can do, and i would say that this is a process that was supposed to, according to the letter of ashurpses that you have right here, u.s. letter of assurances, right here, the tattered copies that i used back in 1991. this proce

three-unit building, two units had to be occupied for owner. for a four unit, three units need to be occupied by owners. i think it is important for decision makers to listen to all parties and ultimately make decisions that seek the best interest of everyone, and i think that this is what we are doing today. thank you. >> thank you. president chiu. >> thank you, mr. chair. and first let me start by thanking all the members of the audience for your patience and not just today, but over the last few months in getting us to where we are today. as supervisors yee and farrell alluded to, i will be introducing amendments to the proposed bypass legislation. and i want to take a moment first to thank the many tenant organizations that have worked with my office and our supervisors on this from the san francisco tenants union to the affordable housing alliance, ccdc, to the housing rights committee, the tenderloin housing clinic, just cause, and many other organizations that have been passionate on this topic and have really helped to shape i think man

well i would agree that in large part to the united states because the. sort of draw down in the middle east because the largely because of the impact of the israeli lobby has not been able to counter china in the way it would like but i'd like to i'd like to go to henry kissinger here for a second. henry kissinger and it's called crown china which is not a bad book actually talks about a fundamentally different culture in china from that of the west and i think we should listen to him on this point because for example if you look at the fifteenth century when china was the most powerful nation in the world it sent out ships bigger than anything columbus would dream of one hundred years later traded. it it traded it explored but unlike the west it did not conquer it did not in slaves that is the western tradition and if you think we've escaped that history of the second i mean the way there is little british empire is really i mean but the united states and i mean this was a neal go yes it's plain as the nose on your face i don't hate you know quite obvio

priority for the united states. it's a great job. it's a great department because it covers everything from sea to shining sea and out into the 1.7 billion acres of the shelf which we control at interior. >> some have called this the department of everything else. >> some v. and if you think back to the history of the department, it's one of the older departments in the united states and it was created to handle all matters related to the interior of the united states which and over time some function versus been moved to other departments and other functions added to this department. but it is a department with a very broad mission. so the way i'd like to think about it is that we are the custodian of america's natural resources and that's all the energy. our national parks and also our history. because in the statute of liberty to the historic monuments that we oversee around the country, that is all part of our mission at the department. >> every cabinet secretary has to make decisions and get pressure on differe

his unit isn't recorded. his unit could be condo-ized. last time we were here and all the tic owners came out, my unit is clean. how in the (bleep) do you know that? and i think for all of us who lived here a long time or have family members who live here who are vulnerable, and my dad's building was so old. it's like how long do you have to wait on the edge of your seat to see what happens? what does that possibly mean? i believe you all -- you're trying to make a decision about good housing in san francisco and sometimes the question is about like -- sometimes i wonder if the question really is about tic owners who, when they talk, it sounds like they should have known, but they were conned into believing they could quickly condo-ize their unit after buying them. or is this really about [speaker not understood]? >> thank you very much. >>> [speaker not understood]. >> next speaker. >>> good afternoon, supervisors. sue vaughan. [speaker not understood], i'm not speaking on behalf of the sierra club right now. i have a friend and in 2008

diplomats would opt for the united states the united states, was the most important thing. they wanted to give the u.n. a start and so they said let's leave decisions to the diplomats. so the diplomatic committees who came over have little familiarity with the united states and they were trusting the boosters to guide them along in the boosters are more than happy to do it. they did come a point where they revisited the last group of cities, or the united states government to become more involved and did step in the final days to say the east coast is better than the west coast, but there is still fighting the decision go with the u.n. wanted it to go. thank you. >> why did they abandon the desire to be no closer than 25 miles to the city? was at the financial help they got to purchase one? >> yes. part of it was a financial issue at the suburban land in the first place, which was hugely expensive and i think these are people who would come up in diplomacy and the aged peerless i'm period were used to going places and taking what they needed to take. landed fairfield and we

well i would agree that in large part to the united states because it. sort of bogged down in the middle east because the largely because of the impact of the israeli lobby has not been able to counter china in the way it would like but i'd like to i'd like to go to henry kissinger here for a second. henry kissinger in his book on china which is not a bad book actually talks about a fundamentally different culture in china from that of the west and i think we should listen to him on this point because for example if you look at the fifteenth century when china was the most powerful nation in the world it sent out ships bigger than anything columbus would dream of one hundred years later traded. it it traded it explored but unlike the west it did not conquer it did not in slaves that is the western tradition and if you think we've escaped that history. and i mean the way things look british empire is really i mean but the united states and hired i mean this was a neil going it's plain as the nose on your face. you know quite obvious wait a second. second

out of the united states.here are major drug trafficking arteries coming into the united states. the immigration has become a great concern because some illegal immigrants either use the drug trade or the drug trade uses them to get them into the united states. we found a direct correlation with that. initially when alabama passed this immigration law the law was very tough. it was going to place a lot of requirements on law enforcement and a lot of things we were going to have to procedural in order to enforce this law. ironically, most law enforcement officers disagreed passage of this law. the reason is, we recognize that citizenship goes to the united states of america, not necessarily to the united states of alabama. >> christians feel that we have a responsibility to help those in need. theertainly demonstrated needs to the needy and alabama is a state with a lot of poverty. the neediest, those at the bottom were immigrants. we had eight or so congregations, hispanic congregations. all of these were just

the united states, given 30 seconds of background, obviously, the united states has said if the syrians have used chemicals that would constitute cross ago red line so i think if we can ascertain with confidence the syrians have used chemicals chemical weapons it is important we respond, we don't want others think they can do such things with impunity on the other hand there ought to be a ceiling on our response and not sending ground troops. >> rose: nobody is talking about that, are they? >> well, if you are talking about -- >> rose: anybody in congress is recommending armed troops? anything anybody in the administration. >> not in in the administration, but if you follow the logic of the interventionist if your goal is to get rid of assad and a syria where you have civil strife or humanitarian suffering or a democratic outcome then the only way to have any confidence you would get there is not just with air power but with ground troops. >> rose: but even john mccain who i heard over the weekend say i am not talking about ground troops, on the other hand, and you would know more about

states united states in my view has not given you're not going to have any possibility of resolution i think it's risky when we when we discuss the peace process as as kind of just the subject i want to read something that you wrote in a recent new york times column you said that the american led process has alternately strengthened the israeli far right and made palestinian self-determination more unattainable than ever continuing with the orwellian grotesquery that is the peace process is contrary to any enlightened definition of american self interest which he would you say that through the conflict the united states has only served to exacerbate the problem. the palestinian israeli conflict absolutely absolutely the united states diplomatically supports israel when it resists united nations efforts to censure it for its gross violations of international law it says to the. when they try and take things the united nations no no go negotiate those of the israelis and then the israelis stone wall and so in effect the united states is the defender and the supporter of things like set

the uniform of the united states.back from russia after negotiating at the height of the cold war, president kennedy's secretary had a small slip of paper in which it said i know there is a god.i seor. if he s fore, i believe i am ready. no one can be completely ready for this office, but america needs a leader to take on problems head on so they can do what they believe is right. that is what leaders with whom i have shared this title have all done. that is what george w. bush chose to do. mr. president, for your service and courage and sense of humor and most of all for your love of country, thank you. from all the citizens of the u.s., god bless you and god bless the united states. [applause]

i think it would be best to say that the behavior of the united states and the allies is the greatest threat to the treaty because the united states and western powers have been treating iran only not only unfairly but also. in a very disturbing manner the sanctions that have been imposed upon ordinary iranians and the attempts to make ordinary iranians suffer in order for iran to put aside its nuclear program are really pathological if you look at it objectively the iranian nuclear program from the very beginning was supported by western powers billions of dollars were invested after the revolution the iranians felt that they cannot throw that investment out the window and to this date there's been no evidence whatsoever that iran's nuclear program has been anything but peaceful so iran is working within the framework of international law the n.p.t. and the united states and its allies are violating fundamental human rights of the iranian people by trying to wreck the iranian economy and by trying to make ordinary iranians suffer ok tom would you like to reply to that in washington.

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they're not threatening to attack the united states. -- not only completeenning to attack the united states, they also say they're going to restart their nuclear complex to produce plutonium for weapons. he said leaders of other countries should deal with the north koreans calmly. they think the chinese are worried any overreaction could provoke the north koreans and destabilize the situation. japan's prime minister told his staff to work more closely with partners in the united states and to collect more information on the north koreans. he reassured citizens his staff was on the job. >> translator: we at the defense ministry will gather intelligence so we will know how to respond appropriately. >> itsunori said they will be ready to respond to any contingency. >>> a people tested by politicking and history. innovators who spread around the world. these are the faces of south korea. nhk world updates you on what's happening across the peninsula. wednesday and thursday here on "newsline". >>> health officials in china are mobilizing to fight a new strain of bird flu. they reported th

in washington mark jacobson he's a senior transatlantic fellow at the german marshall fund of the united states so he's an editor at antiwar dot com fred gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it ok john i'd like to start with you you wrote in your blog why obama's chemical weapons redline in syria is bogus explain yourself. well the first thing is that he shifted his red line before used to be that if assad moved around chemical weapons that would be crossing a red line and obama would pursue some unspecified counteraction the second reason is that you know the there are no good military options in syria and the obama administration has said this a number of times. and a no fly zone more civilians at risk and you know safe zones don't work. moving in to secure the chemical weapons would need at least seventy five thousand troops on all of these options would end up embroiling the u.s. in a quagmire and change in nation building as we've seen in iraq and afghanistan go so arrive and plus there's no opposition in order to

the previous policy said the united states does not do that.this policy goes back to the long-standing principle with regards to space arms control for the united states. it says the united states will consider arms control proposals and concepts that are effectively verifiable, equitable, and in the interest of the united states and its allies. armshallenge with a space control is verifiability. how do you verify these capabilities, which is very difficult to do. the other issue has been the issue of how you define a weapon in outer space. that has been an issue that andle have been going back forth on for over 40 years. my general view, and there is a wonderful book called "politics of space security." one of the things he argues in this book is that when there have been major agreements and successes with regards to space security, it has occurred when there was an intersection between security and preserving the space environment. a wonderful book called "politics of space security." one of the things he argues in this book is that when the

well if you really all have to really look at the trying of yes because again the united states media is portraying this incident by its that it's not what he did in the context of what has been happening all the things that have been happening in the past let's say one year or so or recent stuff we have this case of n.g.o.s being shut down by the russian government which was very smart move because we know that the majority of these n.g.o.s they they have cia agendas and they are operating that managed by cia people and this is one way of infiltrating russia by the united states government the cia and then on the other hand from this side we have had that while individuals from russia and what the u.s. has then. buz in the for the contacts and also add the fact that russia has been the biggest obstacle for the united states get into it actually be directly attack syria then you start seeing a much bigger picture and that's what people should be paying attention to and as far as the perception up until recently you have to be you have individuals such as we still have them woolsey and

the united states makes a. gain influence and contacts and informants. we deem opposition movements in order to corrupt them partly you know order to have bets on both. the true leader also and the second in case there is a transition of power having said all that it's not all oppressed opposition figures that washington welcomes for example the us is not going out of its way to free opposition figures in bahrain who are sentenced to life in prison for taking part in protest against the government there are a host the u.s. fifth fleet in the persian gulf so washington has been quite selective as far as who's opposition it supports in washington i'm going to check out. after the break we'll be heading over to our washington studio for breaking the set. with oil pipes bursting in arkansas people across the usa start to realize that they are moving towards what the atlantic calls the infrastructure cliff in short america's infrastructure is starting to get a bit old and according to infrastructure port org the u.s. needs about three point six trillion dolla

but if say 5400 affordable housing units which would represent 3,000 prop c units plus another 2400 replacement units were built within 10 years, the lottery would resume within 10 years which would be the minimum. so, in other words, what we're trying to do is to encourage everyone involved in the housing and real estate community to really push for the development of more housing units because the faster we can do that the faster the lottery would resume. the third element of the proposal today would be adjustments to future lotteries. once the lottery resumes, the proposal that supervisors yee and i are putting forth would state that only buildings with four units or less would be eligible. in other words, larger buildings that are filled with tenants currently 5 or 6-unit buildings would not be eligible. the owner objecttion pan is requirements for those buildings would increase to two owner occupants for three-unit buildings and three owner occupants for four unit buildings. another element of the proposal would involve lifetime leases to require both written and recorded lifetime leases a

the brothers allowed in the united states., >> i am outside school number one. it is well -- this is where the whole family after they moved out of cure to stand -- kyrgystan were educated. i have been going around the school and talking to the director and to the teachers. they were saying very much that they did not stand out in any way and were not seen as particularly religious. there is nothing but more to them out in any way at all. the director said that only four months was a small window on their lives. he said if you need any answers, go to the united states where they spent more than a decade. they are very much passing the buck back to the united states. they say it has nothing to do with them and nothing to do with the small-scale war that is going on here between fighters in dagostan and the russian government. that is taking casualties every day. there are attacks and bombings and ied's, not something that is getting world attention but the fact that they spend four months in dagostan has put an uncomfortable fo

at least 26% of the units are set aside for seniors so that earmarked for seniors. you have to be a senior 55 or older to get in. in reality 58% of residents are seniors and we have subsidies for people with hiv and we had people earlier testify going that and 41% and 72% of those units -- actually of those vouchers, of the subsidies are used by people over 50. that's probably no surprise but i want to give you those numbers. in our medical resident sobering center 35% of clients are over 55, and i was not able on short notice to find out how many of the people that we serve in the primary care clinic how many are over 55, but since we serve people there in supportive housing it's similar to what i told you about the 58% earlier. so our housing approach with homeless people many of whom are seniors is that we invite homeless people inside and strive to non judgmental and improve well being. i have a slide on the different sites that we have and look at how many of the sites are for seniors so besides the 26 of the units set aside for seniors 25% of our buildings are

or transfer interest in that tenant occupied unit. what i had proposed was we would prohibit any contract or option to transfers until the recording of the map has happened. mr. malmud, would you like to add? >> john malmud from the city attorney's office. i think the intent is to create a condition that would be placed on the tentative parcel map approval or the tentative [speaker not understood] map approval that would be imposed upon the property owner that if they are obligated in a sense to honor the lifetime lease provisions if they are -- and if they are to enter into a contract to sell the unit in advance of the subdivision map being approved, that that requirement would be imposed on the new owner. so, it's finding some language to create that kind of protection which i think was the intent behind the language, but it's not -- there wouldn't be a outright prohibition on the sale. >> so, to follow-up on my question from earlier, is that something that you think may be approvable as to form? i understand that you have not writt

calls provocations it's actually been easier for the united states to pivot its military back and see something that the pentagon has said that it was wanting to do to rebalance back into east asia so because of this we've seen a larger increased presence of military expansion by the u.s. into east asia during these annual drills something that we haven't seen before we're seeing a lot of money spent despite the eighty five billion dollars budget cut that the u.s. is currently going through these threats from north korea or what people say are perceived threats have actually become common and landing to many people in south korea but this time around the rhetoric has actually gotten a lot harsher so many south koreans are actually getting more of an eerie feeling on what this might turn out to be i don't feel a direct threat but i'm getting a little anxious sense can't even the south korean government is taking a coup worse this time so it feels like it's getting closer when the u.s. is more forceful it has a less positive effect from the perspective of a south korean citizen i feel a

who this is going to have to be backed up by the united nations resolution u.n. peacekeeping forces and i also think a great component a great backer of this will have to be the arab league in fact just to step back i think that it's the arab league that is going to have to play a leading role in requesting u.n. assistance here this is going to be about the legitimacy of any transitional government in the eyes of the syrian people so whatever it takes to create that legitimacy that is going to be the number one imperative and you want to reply to that because i still don't understand it with assad goes the war goes on the war probably will go on just the way it went on after the power vacuum in iraq happened when we took saddam out you know this marks prescription although it's more moderate than a lot of the. advocates of intervention that you hear from washington it has mission creep all written all over it you know when when international interventions occur that have a broad. sweeping support from the international community it ends up being the united states

the united states. the agreement we signed with them is for peaceful nuclear proliferation, and under that agreement we have mutual obligations, including consultation on the issues. host: democrats line. please go ahead with your question or comment. about northuestion korea is one of stability. i understand as a new leader he will use propaganda to get political power, but the same thing happened with the soviet union during the cuban missile crisis. at one. -- what do you think will happen is the new leader does not know how to handle this situation? guest: that is a risk. that is the point in which this calculation becomes very high. the seeds of instability in north korea have been there for very long time. i remember my very first intelligence briefing in the pentagon back in 1993 predicted the potential collapse of north korea even back then. they have much of the population that is starving. they have virtually no economic development. huge inequality between the elite and the masses. no real po

but it is very important that the whole member state of the united nations united nations should fully cooperate in implementing this resolution. >> you just came from the oval office, where you met with the president of the united states. are you on the same page with president obama, as far as north korea is concerned? >> we are on the same page, and i was very much assured by president obama that we will take very firm, but measured response to that. i have asked him to take such measures in close coordination with the republic of korea government, the south korean, and also with the strong engagement of neighboring countries, particularly china. at this time, china can play a very important, crucial role. >> is it playing a crucial role right now? is it being helpful is this. >> is it helpful? when you heard that the president in south korea would not allow any such things to happen in the region, and when i spoke to foreign minister wan recently, he made quite sure that china does not want to -- any eruption of uncontrollable situation at their doorstep. >> you're from south korea

local law enforcement officials who say that in fact the foreign government that had requested the united states questioned the older brother. was according to them the russian government saying that this older brother should be looked into in terms of his any possible links with extremist groups and from what we know the f.b.i. did in fact question him they took him in for questioning they were in fact tracking his social networking sites for quite some time but as we found out and discovered obviously the f.b.i. did not deem necessary at the time to keep following this young man because they did not find anything suspicious in his behavior back in two thousand and eleven we certainly know that obviously the the arrest of the younger brother took place they're going to try to find out more about this exactly how soon and what exactly kind of connections the older and the younger brother might have had to extremist groups possibly outside the united states so we do know that the older brother twenty six year old to maryland did in fact traveled to the north caucuses back in january two th