if you have read the amnesty international report or any of the reports coming out, there is a strong consensus that what is happening in syria deserves to have the attention of the icc. there might be a possibility of actually getting back into play. >> can we just talk about syrian governmentç strategy. we have seenw3 them take over hs and idlib. is there anyxdç reason to think thatç president assad is not winning? >> well, he is winning the military struggle. on that terrain he is likely to succeed. ifç you lookç at the bigger picture, his economy is w3collapsing. he has no ability to keep the peopleç downç or to reassure people. çthere are all kinds of signs that people are losingqç faithn his role. ççyes, heç is winning the miy battle. çbut he is doing to the peoples horrific. foundations are rapidly çcrumbling. ì(lc@&c+ opposition. mainçççççw3ççç politicad there are no words to describe the pain, that was the message from the belgian prime minister after a horrific bus crashed. most of those killed were children traveling home from a holiday when their coac

at the amnesty discussion, we are human rights advocates in our job is to bring the human rights blood to whatever the debate may be. at the interagency table, where you have the state department human rights bureau and you might have the pentagon and the treasury department, you know, there are many different voices at the table and the facilitator of that conversation has to kind of pull it all together. human rights is only one piece. but i guess my question is, do you really see it has the responsibility of the human rights advocate to do that way not, or is it that they dare john to be the human rights voice in the debate and let the rest of the political process in the other rack or so to balance out those equities? >> guest: this is a great question. let me clarify something. in my mind that's an example of the success stories because what they have done there and i talked to some of the women involved in this advocacy so i don't want anyone to think i'm critical of that effort. quite the opposite. i want to say that was an example of a cooperative relationship of the city. and

the people were getting the amnesty, some of the fees are still too high. we still do not want to move. neither side seems to be happy. i still think there is an opportunity to talk to more people and get a little bit more in tput. supervisor cohen: are there any other questions for public comment? >> thank you for attacking this issue. i am a member of the eastern neighborhood cac. we were making a recommendation for there to be some delay. in talking with most of the members, six months is ok, too. we did not have deliberations to say it should only be three months. working in our sector, as you probably know, we only work to support manufacturers in the city. the good news is since we have been working and sense the eastern neighborhoods legislation was passed, we placed about 23 different manufacturers in space in the eastern neighborhoods. on the one hand, in reaction to this morning's article, i would take issue that there is no demand for pdr. i've also seen were certain buildings are up much more effective for industrial uses than others. during thi

the people were getting the amnesty, some of the fees are still too high. we still do not want to move. neither side seems to be happy. i still think there is an opportunity to talk to more people and get a little bit m

amnesty would like the human rights council to act. syrians involved in torture should be left in no doubt, the organization says, that they will one day face justice. >> for more on the current crisis in syria, one year after the first protest erupted, we are joined by the author of "the arab uprising, the unfinished revolution that the new middle east." let's talk about this idea of the call for sirte officials to be taken to the international criminal court. -- for syrian officials to be taken to the international criminal court. what are the chances of this happening and what impact would this have? >> it is true that you probably need to go through the security council the right now you have russia are really holding the line on stopping international military intervention which the u.s. does not want and which would be a terrible idea. they might be able to trade that off for something like a referral to the icc. if you have read the reports coming out, it is clear that there is a strong consensus in the international community t

so instead, amnesty wants the u.n. human rights council to act, to gather evidence that will lead to eventual prosecutions. syrians should be left in no doubt, the organization says, that they will one day face justice. alan little, bbc news. >> you can get more on that story on our website. that's bbc.com/news. there's plenty more indeed also on our main story at the moment, the bus crash in switzerland. 52 people on board, most of them children, crashed in a swiss tunnel. 28 people have been killed. most of them just 12 years old. we've got the details for you and, of course, the response from belgium, as well as switzerland on the website, bbc.com/news. >> you're watching "bbc world news" with me, david eades. the headlines this hour -- 28 people, 22 of them children, have been killed in a bus crash in switzerland as they're headed home to belgium from a skiing holiday. an anxious wait for parents for parents for news of their children. the international criminal court has begun delivering its first verdict on an af

amnesty international or any organization comes themselves. is comingnow where it from. >> let's talk about the politics for a second door to. this demand that the arrangement within the country be changed so that there be some sort of federal system in which it left a much more to its own devices, doesn't that indicate a profound lack of faith in the current arrangements? >> it is not something for me or any member of libya and out to talk about. it is too early for the libyans to define, [unintelligible] we are waiting for the constitution and the 6 million libyans decide where to go. it is too early. it is only a few hundred, they are not representing eastern powers. that is where the uprising starts, and the former administration -- [unintelligible] >> that is all we have time for this week, from all of us, goodbye. >> make sense of international moves -- news at bbc.com/news. >> funding for this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, and union bank. >> at

included in the eastern neighborhoods plan was a three- year amnesty program to allow buildings with office use is not permitted under the plan to legitimize and pay the applicable feet. at the request of an eastern neighborhoods citizens advisory committee, i introduced this ordinance to provide for an additional extension on the program to allow for additional notification of the legitimists -- legitimization deadline. after meeting with interested parties at a hearing, i am requesting that the fall in three amendments be made to this ordinance. to provide for a full six month extension of the program from the effective date of this ordinance. the amendment before you extends the program through october 31 of the share. however, i recently learned that we will not be having a land use committee meeting on march 19. because these amendments are substantive, this will need to sit an additional two weeks. i would like to extend the deadline to november 12, 2012, to give potential applicants a full six months from when this ordinance is likely to be operative. at the request of the pla

. >> human rights group amnesty international has released a report saying prisoners in syrian jails are being systematically tortured. meanwhile in what now threatens to become an all-out civil war, violence is continuing in several parts of syria. >> fighting in the north syrian town on the turkish border has left a trail of carnage. when the troops on both sides and scores of innocent victims all around. syria if's army has gained control of the city after intense fighting with rebels, but amnesty international says president assad's forces used appalling brutality. >> the use of torture in syrian prisons has increased dramatically over the past few months. we have seen this continual increase ourselves. since april 2011, we have compiled a list of 275 people whose torture in syrian government prisons was so grave that they later died from their injuries. >> should foreign troops intervene? tunisia's prime minister says foreign military action would be pure madness here for her part, angela merkel wants to coordinate with the arab league and the united nations security council to

out of strikes with the utmost care and pursued and arduous polls leader has more from television amnesty international says that nato knives are properly investigated nor provided compensation for the civilian casualties that it could during its seven month operation and in a statement amnesty international said that nato has made a lot of noise around protecting civilians and as such it could not merely brush aside its responsibility with vague statements of of great over civilian deaths from the beginning of the nato operation russia was very critical and it's clear that nato when went beyond its mandate of merely protecting civilians and hearing from amnesty international they know of the fifty five civilian cases that include sixteen children and fourteen women not survivors and victims' relatives say that they have never been contacted by nato for base part of the story or for any kind of compensation nato has responded by saying that they deeply regret this but that the mission and the mandate in libya is over. there where i could as david swanson says bombing campaigns for humanit

amnesty international is accusing the u.s. of systematic immigration against -- systemic immigration against hispanics and native americans along the u.s.-mexico border. in a new report, amnesty says federal immigration programs operated with state and local police put communities of color along the border at risk of discriminatory profiling. the report also find indigenous communities along the border are often intimidated and harassed by border officials for speaking little english or spanish and holding only tribal identification documents. amnesty says harsh policing is indirectly jeopardize in migrants' right to life, forcing them to track their treacherous terrain that led to more than 5200 deaths from 1998 to 2008. amnesty is calling on u.s. to suspend immigration enforcement programs pending a review. a jetblue airplane has been forced to make an emergency landing in texas tuesday after its captain, the pilot, a police suffered a mental breakdown and accosted passengers on board. the pilot emerged from the cockpit rant

it is something that amnesty international says drives many into insanity. to confirmed -- she went to witness the execution itself. an unprecedented move. she opened up the execution chamber to the media. opinion polls suggest that most people do still supports the death penalty. >> can we expect to hear from officials in japan about this? >> the local media is quoting justice ministry sources. we're likely to get more details and the names of those who have been executed later on today. >> prosecutors in chile city will seek murder charge against four accused of brutally attacking and killing a young gay man. he was brutally beaten and had swastika's carved into his body by his attackers. he died on tuesday. the case has prompted a national debate about hate crimes. >> daniel sold clothes for a living, but dreamed of studying theater. the attack on him lasted an hour. he was beaten and burned with cigarettes. outside the hospital, hundreds kept a vigil as daniel late in a,. chileans are shocked that it was a homophobic attack. there is anger here, too. the

. >> it is, according to amnesty international. prisoners spend almost all of their time sitting down in their cells. they have few visits and little exercise and they are also not told about the date of their execution in advance so they spend much of every day fearing that it might be their last. amnesty says that sends many prisoners into madness. most people here, about 86% of people, though, do support the death penalty despite the last justice minister who signed the death warrants in 2010, trite to prompt a public debate on the death penalty. she was a firm o pound of the death penalty and went to witness the executions. even so, the majority of the japanese support the death penalty. >> an american airline pilot whose plane had to make a landing tuesday, is charged with interfereing with the flight crew. he was yelling about a bomb and urging people to pray. at least 70 people have been killed in several days of tribal fighting in southern part of libya. 1,500 government troops have been sent to the region. pope benedict ha

and its civic nature when went beyond its mandate of merely protecting civilians and hearing from amnesty international they know of fifty five civilian cases that include sixteen children and fourteen women nasa viber and victims' relatives say that they have never been contacted by nato for the side of the story or for any kind of compensation nato has responded by saying that they deeply regret this but they're a mission and their mandate in libya is over policy r.t.e. television and how we're activists david swanson things bombing campaigns for humanitarian reasons don't pay our. a war launched on the basis of a un resolution that did not authorize machine change but it was used for regime change so that we now have a humanitarian warriors pushing her war in syria and elsewhere arguing that the un got nato into libya for regime change when it did no such thing we have new b.s. held up now along with kosovo and the first gulf war as a good war as a humanitarian war and no explanation of the number of lives sealed by nato and by the us in the process the lawlessness of the war the lawle

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death penalty are capital punishment has been on the kleine since one thousand seventy seven when amnesty international first started working on polishing the death penalty and what we're finding is that regimes and the united states are still in prominent use of death penalty and that the capital punishment system as a means of punishment do you think that the uptick in the middle east it was most i mean that's where the take was most profound i guess do you think that had something to do with. the arab spring going on in the taters trying to keep i mean control their power and can we expect as nations become more democratic they become more humane not including the united states like us well it's interesting because what the data showed in the middle east was that before usual suspects iraq iran saudi arabia and yemen which is responsible for ninety nine percent of all executions in the middle east were the countries where you saw the uptick so to speak and because of that data it also revealed that it wasn't really connected to the uprising so in places like tunisia and in other plate

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back door amnesty. >> bill: not really amnesty because they earn it.certain in the military for four or five years. >> no, no. this is the interesting thing about it, bill. is that you don't earn it unless you go to community college for two years or with equivalent dream act. >> yes, but then they create eequivalencey with serving in the military, which is, i think, preposterous to equate going to college with the united states military. anyone serving in the military in my opinion should be given citizenship. >> bill: okay. all right. you don't think community college is enough? >> you have got to be kidding me. the country wants educated people to provide certain services. >> absolutely. >> they are retooling this dream act. retooling it now. and who knows. >> specifically, senator rubio is work, he says, with his colleagues in the united states senate to come up with what he thinks will be a better approach, which will be legalization, a path to legalization but not to citizenship. >> bill: so you would be legally able to work here but not an ameri

back door amnesty. >> bill: not really amnesty because they earn it. military for four or five years. >> no, no. this is the interesting thing about it, bill. is that you don't earn it unless you go to community college for two years or with equivalent dream act. >> yes, but then they create eequivalencey with serving in the military, which is, i think, preposterous to equate going to college with the united states military. anyone serving in the military in my opinion should be given citizenship. >> bill: okay. all right. you don't think community college is enough? >> you have got to be kidding me. the country wants educated people to provide certain services. >> absolutely. >> they are retooling this dream act. retooling it now. and who knows. >> specifically, senator rubio is work, he says, with his colleagues in the united states senate to come up with what he thinks will be a better approach, which will be legalization, a path to legalization but not to citizenship. >> bill: so you would be legally able to work here but not an american citizen. >

so what can we take away from this new study joining me now is jamal wakim campaigns director with amnesty international and all work on the show thank you sam great great to have you on so i mentioned a few of the findings already what are some other stuff in this report well what the report shows as you said is that countries that have utilized the death penalty are capital punishment has been on the klein since one nine hundred seventy seven when amnesty international first started working on abolishing the death penalty and what we're finding is that regimes and the united states are still in prominent use of death penalty and that the capital punishment system as a means of punishment do you think that the uptick in the middle east it was most i mean that's where the take was most profound do you think that had something to do with. the arab spring going on in dictators trying to keep i mean control their power and can we expect as nations become more democratic they become more humane not including the united states i guess well it's interesting because what the data showed in the mi

amnesty international has revealed the number of executions carried out around the world jumped lastyear, largely due to a surge in use of death penalty in the middle east. at least 676 people were executed in 20 countries, only four carried out more than the united states. salil shetty is secretary general of amnesty international. >> the problem is with a handful of countries who have consistently or have had the largest number of executions. some of them have increased at alarming rates. china and iran are simply off the charts. there are the two biggest. then you have saudi arabia and the united states in that group. >> you can hear our full interview with salil shetty of amnesty international on democracynow.org. activists in new mexico are increasing calls for justice department investigation after albuquerque police shot and killed two men last week, bringing the total number of people killed by police there to 18 in just over two years. the city of 550,000 saw nine fatal shootings by police in 2010 -- compared to eight that year in new york city. an investigation by the los a

taking photographs of the missile parts and then sending them to media outlets and ultimately to amnesty international the world learned that in fact it was that u.s. bombing because they were tomahawk cruise missiles and cluster bombs neither of which ever has in its arsenal and of course after revealed that. the wiki leaks cables that general david petraeus who have the time was the cent com commander had conspired with president ali abdullah saleh of yemen to cover up the u.s. role in those strikes in fact i guess any official said if sala himself perpetrators will continue to lie and say the bombs are ours and not yours so i think that was the first incident that really put this independent journalist washington's radar into their target sites ok but at the same time you know this isn't the case of some pentagon bureaucrat sort of reaching out there and trying to suppress information this is the president of the united states himself intervening in endless case i mean for someone who's not familiar necessarily with the story that would it lead people to think that this kind of have d

out pander the democrats now and who are now many republican party leaders championing things like amnesty for illegal alien, i just find that totally mind boggling. brian: are there votes in all this? michelle: of course there are. you am necessary ties millions of illegal aliens who then find their way on to american citizenship. brian: any evidence that this has happened in the past, that people are voting for up with of these pears because of these deals? michelle: that's a funny thing. all the evidence shows is that it almost invariably benefits democrats. and so it's incredibly stupid for the republicans to think that they're going to benefit in any way from this. in fact, my contention that eventually they will be a huge backlash. it is not only native-born americans and conservatives in republican party who are getting fed up with this kind of sell out of citizenship, but naturalized americans and their families as well. since the book has come out, i've heard from so many of them and say they don't understand, for example, why president bush, even after september 11, joins dick ge

especially in light of the fact that the committee to protect journalists and amnesty international major groups have spoken out about this why isn't the media covering it here i think part of it has to do with the sort of institutional racism that is really come to the fore if his name was you know william kennedy and he was a light bad and good but arrested these charges instead of being a girl either a muslim journalist i think part of it is just the fact working with nature of his that you identity but yet he had he from or from the board of the i think that a lot of journalists are afraid to speak out in behalf of someone. being profiled haida or being al qaida or person you know i've talked with numerous people journalists former state department officials people who do below the hider i think this is complete nonsense that his journalism if anything was that was the number one reason why we have anything at all about either me arabian peninsula and so i think it's a combination of racism and the fact that people are too. right now of speaking out of defense of anyone accused of the

now if you look at libya i mean there's been regime change but it's still a complete mess you have amnesty international right now saying that nato really messed up when it came to not investigating not looking into the civilian casualties from nato air strikes that they should actually go in and they should they should pay for that would you also say well first of all beginning point is correct the president ran an unconstitutional war our united states constitution says nothing about the authorization for war by the security council or by the general assembly or by the arab league and the president just sneered at the constitution secondly what was the purpose humanitarian war it's almost a contradiction in terms like an oxymoron but moreover we now have a country that's totally shattered it is the the the east is already seceding if you will from the transitional national council amnesty international is in florida numerous instances of torture wrongdoing towards prisoners who are at the detained we still don't have an accounting for what happened to cut off himself whether it was just

i'm saying they should use the amnesty they think is granted to comedians and reframe their policiescomedy. the material is there, okay. trust me. they just need to work on their delivery. >> jon: so you're... oh, you're going to leave? >> here we go. republicans, watch and learn. >> jon: what are you... where are you.... >> hey! how is everyone doing tonight? ( cheers and applause ) let's get this mother (beep) giggle coaster rolling. so i just flew in from virginia and boy does my vagina tired. from the involuntary ultrasound, am i right, ladies? by the way, why do they call it a wand? where are we, hog warts, right? the only thing magically disappearing was my sense of dignity and privacy. boom! thank you. ( applause ) thank you. thank you. see, jon, you say boom that means the punch line has landed. watch and learn, buddy. here's a good one. anybody here from oklahoma? anyone? no. okay. no fans from oklahoma on the daily show. what's the difference between a fertilized egg, a corporation, and a woman? one of them is not considered a person in oklahoma. boom! thank you. ( applause

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letter this year determining the square footage on the ground floor and mezzanine is eligible for the amnesty program and can be committed as office space. the underlying the zoning allows the basement and second floor to include office space. the zoning administrator grant that exception for the 395 square feet of open space required for the project and therefore is ascribed in the planning code. we received no public comment and recommend approval based on the fact the office space is permitted under the legitimization program and the underlying that the zoning. project represents an allocation of less than 4% of the small-cap office space currently available in the city. that may increase the numbers of employees in the building and increase economic activity in the neighborhood. the project is consistent with the planning coach and general plan. i am available for any questions you may have. >> project sponsor? >> it good afternoon. i am representing the project sponsor and we are presenting this building in the showplace square district. i want to thank our planner for his efficiency at