he says that any gains are from agile. the u.s. court of human rights has delivered a landmark ruling, upholding the right of women in ireland to have an abortion to if their life is in danger. irish law currently bans abortions. >> during 30 years of referendums and political debates, ireland has been bitterly divided over abortion. attempts to liberalize irish laws have failed. some limited change may finally be coming. it follows a case that taken by a woman who left ireland to have an abortion in england. she had been suffering from cancer and wanted an abortion because of the threat to her own life. the european court of human rights ruled in her favor. they said that there should be an irish laws that allows a woman whose life is in danger to have an abortion in ireland. it used to be that people on the streets of dublin would be reluctant to show support for abortion. inot anymore. >> i certainly think the law needs to be changed. >> today's european court ruling does put pressure on ireland to take action. >> the irish gove

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the city attorney's office has also been working around the clock in order to really be as agile as possiblethat no other city in the country or abroad has had to do, and that is negotiate in a transparent environment such as ours. italy and spain do not have to go through this. leaders of their government can advance the deal in more of a unilateral fashion. there is no other city in the united states that is really a contender or has been identified yet, and yet, we have been negotiating in the most transparent public way to be able to advance this dialogue and advance incredible proposal within a really somewhat unorthodox, very restrictive kind of timeline. before us is that product that has come from an immense amount of contributions from a number of people and apartments that i identified. yesterday in the meeting that was continued, we agree that this should be advanced with recommendation, which is what is before us here. mr. president, thank you for helping with the orchestration from our end. i would then ask the city to come and speak to the newest deal before us. commissioner ch

strong, agile and fast, leopards are the smallest of the big cats.g hunters, they, do, are hunted. only one of every two baby leopards survives to adulthood. when the mother's out chasing food, the cubs make easy prey for larger animals or even for male leopards who often kill their rival's offspring. and there are other dangers as well. when she and two of her cubs develop a deadly form of mange, vardy does something controversial to people in his provision. he intervenes. knowing there's a simple life-saving treatment, he darts mannana and the babies. it gives mannana 14 more years of life. and it's not an easy life. there are hyenas to outwit. stronger, more powerful lions, gangs to her solitary prowl. and the difficulty to give birth to cubs who die more often than not. from eight litters, vardy says only four of mannana's offspring survive to adulthood. mannanna loses two litters to competing male leopards. then, to ensure the survival of her next litter, she endures two separate mating cycles. it is both painful and tedious. leopards mate every

questions here, so i think what we would like to have is the presentations, but the departments should be agile enough to be on their toes to start answering i think what have been well-known concerns, such as was supervisor campos has iterative in early amendments what we have signaled that we would like to advance in order to help, i think, protect the city's best interests. the department should continue to move forward in the presentations. we will try to keep this on a point and focused, but we also need to have the budget analyst, a controller, an economist cross over into the corporation or not of where we stand on this. let's keep moving forward if we could. we will do our best to take in the information and intercede as we see necessary. >> great, now i would like to introduce the chairman of the america's cup organizing committee, mark buell. >> thank you, supervisors. i have the honor of chairing the america's cup -- the san francisco america's cup organizing committee. it is a 501 (c)3, and is made up of a litany of distinguished san franciscans, californians, and people around the

forces apparently making headway against the taliban but things are for agile -- fragile and precarious. bamut in some places, it was reversed. >> welcome to "gmt." i'm jonathan charles with a world of news and opinion. also on the program, wikileaks founder julian assange fights for bail in a london court. no more hope of survivors, boat tragedy of australia raises fresh questions about the risk asylum seekers are prepared to take. it is midday in london, for 30 p.m. in kabul and 7:00 a.m. in washington where president obama will attempt a hard sell today trying to persuade americans a strategy in afghanistan and pakistan is on track. he is unveiling a review of military and civilian operations in the region. it says a responsible withdrawal of troops should be able to begin in july of next year. but in its that gains against the taliban are fragile and precarious. clinton somerville is in the afghan capital for us. >> president obama all the recalled president hamid karzai to give him a heads up on the review. has been agreement that military progress has been made fighting insurgents

metal is gaining thirty percent since the beginning of the year and it's heading towards ten straight agilent so it was trading at twenty nine point seven dollars an ounce up point seven percent. now taking a look at the markets asia has posted modest gains ahead of the u.s. central banks interest for. decision making is up just under a quarter of a percent hong kong was spurred by metal and energy shares up to commodity prices climbed overnight in the united states and europe stock markets are holding to a tight range in morning trading investors remains on the sidelines up to six consecutive winning sessions broke recommendations helped with few stocks including airlines air france k. lam and. britain's consumer inflation rate rose to three point three percent in november from three point two percent the month before driven by surging food clothing costs. in the us a market sank in the red an afternoon session demise it's losing half a percent weight by energy stocks most of the blue chips are in the red on the r.t.s. except for north dakota and the t.v. . is gaining just a notch on the r.t

the federal government was held today in the peninsula where participants were judged on sense and agility. 60 search dog teams from across the nation took part in today's fema sponsored search dog fest and training. -- test and training. it took place in east palo alto. the dogs searched through concrete and wood and rubble. once the victim was found, the dogs are trained to bark repeatedly. >> we don't know when the next earthquake is going to happen, but you need to be ready for it when it happened. you don't get two weeks to practice. >> once the team is certified. it can be sent to any distaste freeway moo responds to. -- disaster fema responds to. it was created after the earthquake in 1989. and hurricane hugo. >>> police hoping to find a bar game got a chance to bid on -- bargain got a chance to bid on 74 foreclosed homes this morning. auctioneers from auction.com took bids on the homes at the oakland marriott this morning. analysis say 40% of homes in california are foreclosures. the homes are selling on average close to 60% below their initial listing prices. foreclosed home aucti

a federal appeals court is hear agilely challenge to proposition 8. kraig debro is joining us live on more on today's arguments. good morning. >> reporter: people out here early in the morning. one is from reno another from philadelphia. they are both here to witness history could be in the making. these are the steps of the ninth circuit court of appeals. there is a number of people up there. if they are not the poster couple for this issue, they have been among the most available. if it is ejected, opponents of the ban say it will be another important step toward equality. >> america is not discriminating against a group of people. we are not asking for special rights. we are asking for equal rights. >> i'm not gay but i have a lot of gay friends. i think it's wrong we don't a low them to be married. >> reporter: both of them arrived here before 5:00 this morning. ranoso driven from reno driving all night through a blizzard. they say they want to be hear to witness oral arguments in the legal appeal of prop 8 provisions. prop 8 opponents stood in th

he's very intellectually agile. sparks just are coming off that little burr cut brain of his. he's extremely competitive. it pins him to the wall sometimes. his aide at that time, now a lieutenant colonel, was at our house in washington for dinner. he's commanding a battalion in afghanistan now. he's home on leave briefly, and at that time, 2003, he said he's the most competitive man on the planet. [laughter] and that's true. it's certainly true. and that's a good characteristic to have as somebody who doesn't like to lose. he's a pretty good listener. i noticed that from the beginning, and nothing that i've seen since then has changed my mind. he listens. he would listen to the captain give tactical advice about how to fight the 101st airborne, for example. he doesn't think he's got all the answers. there's no imperial dave. there's no king david as he sometimes derisively is called unfairly, i think. so, you know, i think what we're seeing now is the ultimate test, i think. he's got a fight in afghanistan that isn't like the fight in iraq. some of the same war-fighting appro

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strategic deterrent that is very agile and robust. it would be capable of defending the united states and american allies. bringing the new start treaty is going to strengthen the u.s. in terms of raising the -- the assault against abrasion. we have already seen over the last 15 months as -- you see a better relationship with moscow. russia has provided more access to provide supplies to american and nato forces in afghanistan. russia has taken a much tougher attitude toward iran and the nuclear question. that flows from the recent that has been driven by the new start treaty. i do believe that the new treaty is going to be ratified in the end. the arguments in its favor are compelling. it is difficult for me to see how serious republican senators can justify opposing the treaty that has been supported you guessed it -- unanimously by the joint chiefs of staff. by every senior serious republican statesman, every former secretary of defense, and national security advisers. i am optimistic regarding the ratification. i do not know wheth

saying, look, there is a better way to do this but congress you have to be able to respond and be agile on your feet. fortunately there is uniform agreement across the people have been working these projects that in fact secretary stackly-is right and this is what we have to do. hats off to the secretary and particularly chairman taylor for the good work that's been done. i'm obviously speaking in favor of the proposal before us here. and there was some sense of frustration early on in trying to get the numbers and to get through the details that we had to in order to make a decision here, but i'm very comfortable what we are doing is the right thing. the opportunity before us to pass this piece of legislation allows us to prove that it's wrong once in a while, that congress can't be agile and make wise decisions. we will look to the navy and to secretary stackly to help to continue to manage these programs, or this program, and make sure the bids come in as we expect and the navy gets a good buy and we work back to where we should be with enough ships to secure and give americans the s

strong, agile, and fast, leopards are the smallest of the big cats.gh they're prodigious hunters, they too are hunted. only one of two baby leopards survives to adulthood. when the mother's out chasing food the cubs make easy prey for larger animals. or even for male leopards who often kill their rivals' offspring. and there are other dangers as well. when manana and two of her cubs develop a deadly form of mange, varty does something controversial to people in his profession, he intervenes. knowing there's a simple life-saving treatment, he darts manana and the babies. it gives manana 14 more years of life. and it's not an easy life. there are hyenas to outwit. stronger, more powerful lions. and the difficulty to give birth to cubs who die more often than not. from eight litters, varty says only four of manana's offspring survive to adulthood. she loses two litters to competing male leopards. then, to ensure the survival of her next litter, she endures two separate mating cycles. it is both painful and tedious. leopards mate every 15 minutes for five

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they could talk to scores of people in this country that are agilent of a job. talk to them. they will know. -- that are out of a job. guest: i don't think i'd said that. there are things we can do about it. what i said before is this is a race. you win the race by running faster. we need to out-innovates and stimulate research and development and stimulate invention. we need to do a lot more with education. i have two sons and i'm worried about their future if from a lot of perspectives. i want to make sure they are educated to function in the economy that they grew up in, which is different from the one i did. there are a lot of things we can do. i would never want anyone to think that i believe there's nothing we can do about this. we have to be realistic about the situation we are in. host: the last call comes from kentucky. caller: i just want to ask you, you say there are a lot of things made in this country. when i go shopping, i cannot find anything made in this country. i go to the better stores. all of the clothing is made overseas. host: have you tried to buy ameri

you've beenag been agile, courts negotiator.you've kept us together on many tough votes, as least as much as it's possible to keep 40-something different independent minds all together, as i like to say, 40 frogs in a wheelbarrow. but i thank you, mitch. while i occasionally caused you heartburn, and i realize that, i've always appreciated your intelligence, your leadership, and your friendship. you and elaine are very close friends of linda and mine and we wish you both the very best for the future. well, two years ago, i announced my retirement from the united states senate and that time's come. i have to begin by thanking all my colleagues and my constituents for making this job one of the best a person could hold. there's no greater honor than being given the trust of the people at home to represent th them. and i've done my best to keep my faith with my constituents on every vote i've cast and on every issue on which i've worked. through more than two decades of membership in this world's greatest deliberative body -- somet

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. >> it's good for agility training. >>> this is a helicopter that hovers in the air and takes video you can put it over there with the lie detector. >> this absolutely does work. but maybe the charge did not go. i'm sorry. >> did we take pictures before? >> this is a fantastic toy because this hawkeye helicopter doesn't just fly by remote control, what it does is it actually takes pictures and video. >> we're seeing it, that's where the video it was taking when it was flying before. this is a 3d video game that does not require a whole gaming system. >> that's right. >> and abby is showing us how to do that. >> it's a plug and play, you can plug it right into your tv set, it comes with these infinity 3d glasses, it has 30 mini games, point and shift games, it's altidor-cespeda l lot, a lot of fun. we sent these toys -- >> so if we get the magazine, we'll see the whole list? >> kids, thank you very much. you want to play us out? anthony keep playing the guitar. we'll be back in a moment, this is "today" on nbc. >>> we are back now with the newest trend in real estate. "today's" jenna

a strong message, the necessity of north korean store exercise restraint is what is creating for agility. the dangers come from the fact there does not seem to be effective constraints on north korean, so we have to take steps to make it clear that the dangers come from provocative behavior, and rather than stepping back and tolerating it, we need to make clear there are consequences. i will share this with all our partners as we continue this dialogue. >> thank you, mr. secretary. i have a question. during your conversation, have you ever gotten a message that china will unify under south korean rule. now you say you wanted to see both sides making progress in economic and other issues. i wonder what other issues. can you shed light on the context of what you just mentioned? >> we were encouraged by china's decision to support taiwan's's participation as an observer. we think there are opportunities to work together in places where membership since not based on being a sovereign state. we discussed some of the particular organizations. for example on climate change it would be of intere

at gm, we're building a culture that values speed, agility, and competitiveness. it will continually adapt its business model to the rapidly changing world. it puts the customer first. this may not seem revolutionary you, but trust me, it is. [laughter] what does this mean? it means that we are working hard to set the pace with a new car is like -- it was recently named 2001 urban part of the year by decisive media. it is a segment leader. it features things that we will start to differentiate on. we have on star. we intend to make on start in every car on the road. you will see dramatic changes in the internet application to automotive and automotive safety. it means we are bringing customers the newest design and technology like a bolt. -- volt. it is like no other car on the road today. there will be four of them of stairs for you all to see. it is only $25 for a trip around the block. we are trying to raise more revenue every opportunity. [laughter] this car will go 50 miles on a single charge. then it converts to a generator, at 86 horsepower engine and it wi

at gm, we're building a culture that values speed, agility, and competitiveness. it will continually adapt its business model to the rapidly changing world. it puts the customer first. this may not seem revolutionary you, but trust me, it is. [laughter] what does this mean? it means that we are working hard to set the pace with a new car is like -- it was recently named 2001 urban part of the year by decisive media. it is a segment leader. it features things that we will starto differentiate on. we have on star. we intend to make on start in every car on the road. you will see dramatic changes in the internet application to automotive and automotive safety. it means we are bringing customers the newest design and technology like a bolt. -- volt. it is like no other car on the road today. there will be four of them of stairs for you all to see. it is only $25 for a trip around the block. we are trying to raise more revenue every opportunity. [laughter] this car will go 50 miles on a single charge. then it converts to a generator, at 86orsepower engine and it will g

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