treasure of the balkan delta fish come here to spoon. fish attract migrating birds. million beds of three hundred species come here the spring and autumn it's the centuries people from all over the russia south that come here to fish and hunt unfortunately that many species perished as a result. more of the at that time women like to dress up they had ants with feathers hair and thought this was very much invoke the heron only has five fed there is on its head so it thousands of parents were killed in the name of fashion while pelicans were opposed by the million to make ornaments. in the early twentieth century the volga delta was a desolate place a special expedition that came here from moscow in one nine hundred twelve found no trace of the the swans or pelicans. urgent measures were needed to save the deltas natural environment to his nine hundred seventeen socialist revolution the government decided to create a nature reserve here. at the ball and there was a civil war at the time of the country's coffers were empty and the future was unclear that's what the sit

america is dealing with balkans. america is dealing with terror and energy transportation. diversification of energy source s. we have the same agenda. we have been dealing, also, with these issues. it's good that we are being coordinating it. we have the same views, you see. so i don't think there are many companies in the world that they have the same agenda. >> rose: you also have a good relationship with iran. >> iran is our neighbor. and they have different regimes. we are democrat and we are trying to be member of the european union so this is different, of course. but if you have a neighbor definitely you are... you want to be friendly and you want cooperation with them. we've had a very stable border with iran since 1659. so there's no border problem. there's no conflict. >> rose: you don't support sanctions against iran. >> u.n. sanctions is binding us also. >> rose: right. >> so therefore we are are applying this. we are arguing our reports to the u.n. committee. but since we are neighbors, if there is something not pulling in factions that is creating it, that is

. >> absolutely, in terms of looking at their design, the balkan mess, the number and location of them, is all on the table. that discussion lends itself to not only improve in the urban design of the streetscape, but also fitting in other mobil facility that we may want to try to accommodate. supervisor dufty: i do not know if i missed this, but holiday plaza. i know there are problems with it being so concave. >> i do believe there is some work happening. holiday plaza and others along the corridor are all in this scope. supervisor dufty: does anybody here have anything specific as it relates to holiday plaza? >> i know there are some ideas that have been put out there by puc. i know that there were suggestions of how raising the plaza, utilizing id as it is. i do not know if there is funding for that, the timing on that. we would roll back into our study as well. supervisor dufty: i do appreciate there is a natural break at market and octavia but there are some challenging intersections the west in district 8. i have asked the ta to facilitate an updated meeting so that we can hear

when it was still being used by the communist east german army, the vehicle was based here near the balkan coast. this garrison was one of the east german army's biggest. 6000 soldiers were stationed here back then. now, two decades later, most of it has fallen into decay. nature is reclaiming the place. hundreds are four rooms here are empty. many of the buildings have been looted and windows smashed. only a few of the base's 50 buildings are still in use. the rest are slowly decaying. a road once built to carry tanks now looks dilapidated. the military does not need the barracks, and no one else is interested in the facility, at least not right now. these people spent many years here serving the communist east german army. for them and many others, german unification was a major challenge. >> i was preoccupied with this whole change in attitude. some were quicker about it. for me, it took a long time. even four, five years after the wall fell. in the meantime, i got used to it and i know that you can get quite well. i know that you get quite -- along quite well with people we called the

weekend, looking at lots of thunderstorms, heavy rain falling on friday, along the west coast of the balkanss well as southern italy. meanwhile this high pressure system expanding from the iberian peninsula is going to help bring dry conditions to central europe, so the weekend is looking good for you here, but the northwest, the british isles looking at wet and windy weather once again. it's going to be moving into southern scandinavia next as well by friday morning. 16 degrees in stockholm today, 20 degrees in london, coming in at 27 in madrid, teens, 18 degrees in berlin today. that's what's going on just now. here is your extended forecast. >>> and that wraps up this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks very much for joining us.

was unclear that's what the situation was like when they started to create a nature reserve in the balkan doubt. it's hard to reach the reset for master it's a hundred kilometers through flooded fields and the ferry to the other bank of the volga. is a fifteen kilometer stretch of dirt road once you've reached the end of it you don't need the car anymore you have to take a boat because there's not much ground from that all the way to the caspian sea. if you. reach the boundary of the nature reserve everywhere there are signs prohibiting entry and the person found trespassing can be punished by the rules. in all fairness such strict measures produced posted results soon after the nature reserve was founded. here with news that we begin with the first one nes were found here and the first terran colonies were discovered in the reserve as well as a lawyer but that's core retains the harry detrick code of subsequent generations the quick witted ski book. auntie fishel islands are the only spots of drawing down . the house ranges and dogs with their families. scientists doing research they hit

however, we do have a new system that develops further across the balkans as it heads in toward the blackea. you can see some heavy rain spots showing up so it could turn quite wet for those of you here. out west, a new rain band is moving out of the british isles and heading in toward western europe now, so low countries, france, will see those showers move in on wednesday. 18 degrees for london and the same also for paris. rather cool for you. a lot cooler here toward the north, as well, 9 only for your high in moscow and remaining at 12 degrees for stockholm. that's a look at your weather for now. here is your three-day outlook. >>> taking a look at our top stories this hour, again, north korea's state run media say that kim jong-il's third son kim jung u.n. has been named vice chairman of the central military commission of the korean workers party. the announcement suggests that kim jong un has been officially chosen as kim jong-il's successor. the wednesday morning report ys t decisionas made at the conference of the workers party and general meeting of the central commission the lea

still got that line of showers working its way across western russia and the balkan regions but generallyooking at plenty of sunshine across central and western europe. berlin coming in at 19 degrees, 21 in vienna, moderate temperature here but it will be much, much milder towards the west for places like paris, 28 degrees with sunshine. here's your extended forecast now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks very much for joining us.

windy across germany and lots of thunderstorms expected to move across the alpine region into the balkans next. over towards the north, high pressure system really continues to dominate the region, so here it stays sunny and generally settled. a couple of showers working their way through the british isles, looking quite calm right now but there is that new rain band coming in from the atlantic and that's going to be soaking the region once again, starting tonight, bringing windy weather with it as well. 21 degrees in london today, and 21 in paris. here is the extended forecast. >>> just taking a look at our top stories again. >>> energy giant bp has concluded that the catastrophic gulf oil spill was caused by a linked sies mechanicaand human failur involving multiple companies. its report has immediately been met by a backlash. the investigation was conducted by a team of bp and outside experts, and disclosed on wednesday. the report blames eight interlinked findings for the accident, including the poor quality of cement used to contain hydrocarbons at the sea bottom and the rig crew's d

good news is they're going to start to weaken and head out towards the southern portion of the balkans. ireland, you could be seeing fairly strong wind and heavy rain in the next couple of days. but it should weaken off. this is actually -- used to be hurricane danielle, if you remember that one. this the remnants and it's going to spill over ireland but weakening as it goes. temperatu temperaturewise, things on the cool side. 14 in staockholstockholm. better in paris. warmer in the south. 30s for athens, madrid and lisbon. here's your extended forecast. >>> twin giant pandas have been thrown to the media for the first time since they were born at a zoo in western japan. the adventure world zoo introduced the male and female cubs on friday. they were born at the zoo on august 11th. the male has now grown from 158 grams to 725 and the female from 123 grams to 655. according to the zoo, the babiey are already covered with downey black and white fur. during the media debut, the cubs played in an incubator and on a breeder's hand. they later started dozing off. the pandas will make the fir

with lots of showers, isolated heavy rain, and thunderstorms really affecting the alps and also the balkans as we head into your thursday. still looking quite windy across germany and poland as well. the british isles getting a bit of a break in the wet weather. as you can see, a new system is going to be pulling in from the atlantic. again, it will be drenching the area, bringing strong winds as well. 21 degrees in london today. sunny spells for you. 21 in paris. then looking at sunshine in stockholm. 16 degrees. and 16 in moscow as well with plenty of sunshine. that's what's going on just now. here is your extended forecast. >>> japanese researchers say permafrost around mt. fuji is shrinking rapidly, possibly due to global warming. a professor and his colleagues at the national institute of polar research recently released the results of their year-round survey of the iconic mountain. the group found that a 300-meter strip of permafrost has been lost over the past ten years. the report says in 1998, frozen earth on the mountain's south slope extended down from the summit at 3,776 meters

you know other countries as well and for instance we are opening intense classes in serbia for all balkan states i can mention a driving school in rwanda even though it was in the heart of africa on september the first if there was a long line of young men who wanted to lay down their guns and learn to do it peaceful job of rescuers. training is a mutual proceso sometimes we were in and take tests and sometimes we teach others more to firefighters for instance which. most far fighters sold the see another nearby countries such as the polled experience an eastern europe had to learn far fighting tactics in the soviet union and today they were saying that those step ticks are really worth of. foreign colleagues receive any practical training and the emergency ministry teams in russia. can one just come home and find it in the music farm and extinguishing a fire place. well first of all it's not that scary i have to say companies that actually i know it isn't but people may get surprised. and secondly you learn and take born in exercises together moreover we participate to gether in search a

ossetia pays its last respects to the seventeen killed by a says day's terrorist bombing of a base in balkans. not the celebrations on the splendid firewood smaller than the negatives of the russian city of daraa slava bush this week posted world's leading politicians for a forum on global policy. in the business x. of a sokolsky taken to the trees to protest over extensive surveillance they claimed that governments and corporations are collecting information on the public without fully disclosing how it will be thieves. richard one point is up next with all the latest from the world of sport. good to have you with us almost as always with the headlines. to reach for us open finals ended as he was beaten by rafael nadal in the semi's. zanies have a healthy lead of the top of the russian premier league for victory over tom. reilly is under way in russia forty three cars and sixteen trucks have left some petersburg on their almost five thousand kilometer journey to sochi. with tennis and usually is out of the u.s. open after he lost in straight sets to rafael nadal the russian struggled to cope

they come from the from the balkan countries and they live in the villages and towns or more were done so follow the homefront really in my country been any tension or conflicts us you have seen for example in denmark or in sweden as you refer to it so we have so far so good to have a harmonious relationship between those who have recently arrived in iceland from all the countries and those who live there for a long time there is a number of. optimists the advocates of joining the e.u. in your country who say that if or when i aslan joins the european union it will no longer have any need of remaining in the nato do you agree do you think that that iceland this prize will it's the choice of either or or you may stay in the way to being a member of the european union always a all due respect i mean i've never heard this argument in my own country so i don't think this is a strong opinion there is no linkage in the debate tonight on between the european union discussion and the nato discussion. was of fronting member off nato but we have never had any military forces off or own so we hav

delivery will get things done but missed out to iran last winter and the decision was not at all balkans in iran so it is unlikely that would be welcomed at this time but she was asleep on the trade here do you feel you did you listen to the bill together the nuclear plant the first nuclear plant in iran in the physical carriage the oakley it doesn't look like there's some moderation between the two countries and that we're so we still have to keep our hear from hearing in other words igor hawk north from the moscow based institute of world economy at international relations says the roughest decision to stop selling its missiles to iran is also likely to have serious long term consequences i guess that will third for the relations with current us where they enjoy the regime but you know russia iran has been neighbors for centrists so i think. the situation will change to sort the way maybe the sanctions are lifted maybe anything else changes that are thinking of the longer it will not affect. russian iranian relations but i think the iranian. have to understand the message the message f

you're watching r t coming to you live from the russian capital balkans in the program and also our top story the arctic's on tap natural wealth is a source of great temptation for the countries surrounding the icecap billions of barrels of oil lie beneath the sea and the arctic nations are keen to secure their sure now some of the finest scientific minds of gathered in moscow to make sure a different kind of cold war doesn't break out of a has more. all of the countries that have an interest in the stake in the arctic namely russia the united states canada and two scandinavian states all of them have a very big interest and of course all want a bigger piece of the pie that is the untapped seabed full of natural resources oil gas various minerals so the arctic is a very tempting piece but so far all of the sides that have a stake and have a potential claim to all of their resources have agreed to work out their issues and differences calmly peacefully they have put forward their claims they're trying to work together to make sure that all. unpleasantries are avoided and that the matters

resolution that called kosovo secession unacceptable the moves being seen as a way of boosting the balkan nations hopes of joining the he and to discard the implication was when i joined live by an abortion knowledge a columnist for antiwar dot com was in our washington studio is so mr maddox thank you very much for joining us there has revised its original resolution to have the government yielded to pressure from the. most in serbia to revise the resolution it was the e.u. there are solution was completely rewritten by brussels and all the key components of the original resolution which was a very strong to begin with were completely removed it wasn't so much a compromise as a capitulation as many other commentators have already termed it yes but what does it have asked stand to gain from from from that heat. in practice it stands to gain absolutely nothing it stands to lose everything. the resolution was changed so that the e.u. would be less angry would serbia but what brussels is still demanding is pretty much an unconditional surrender a full abdication of state sovereignty or any s

follow up on the balkans and go see what we're covering the global policy for the taking place i'm kevin o. and on my knees and now my let's take a look now at our team's main news stories time for action and his keynote speech here in europe follow president medvedev outlines his stance on global security we called on the u.s. to step up efforts to form a new international defense structures. did see a day of mourning in russia's republic of mosul set to offer a car bomb tolls through a crowded market in the capital killing seventy eight injuring more than one hundred. and on the eve of the anniversary of nine eleven our t. investigates why so many americans are converting to islam. despite the extreme reaction by some people against him. it is now three pm here in the russian city of bringing a full coverage of the global policy forum and it is that forum that russian president dmitri medvedev made a keynote speech today with leading political analysts from all over the world well on the second and final day of the forum to meet the rich range of talk to global security different syste

delivery will get things done but miss out to iran last winter and to the decision was not at all the balkans in iran so it is unlikely that it will get this time but you know she was much much greater here these nuclear energy recently they built together a nuclear plant the first nuclear plant in iran in the physical care so it doesn't look like there's no such ration between the two countries and that fear so we still have to cut our hear from the iranian authorities to go home know from the moscow base institute of world economy and international relations says the russians the session to stop selling missiles to iran will be a serious blow to iran's to fence capabilities. iran is totally dependent on a contract on its contract with most call if it wants to provide security for its airspace and there is no other way to get similar missiles but to purchase them from russia russian as three hundred complex it's not only missiles launch pads it also read our facilities and so on is the state of the art equipment and international experts all agreed with their i guess it will be the relations

could argue that there was ethnic cleansing going on on the doorstep of europe, but as we had in the balkans a few years earlier, stay out of it. we did. hundreds of thousands of people died. we stayed out of rwanda. >> rose: to the regret of now kofi annan and bill clinton. >> yeah. which is why... you know, the important thing is to realize these aren't easy decisions. if you don't intervene... look, how can we know what would have happened if you'd left saddam there or left the taliban there. you don't know. >> rose: well, you have a very different point on this. some people believe he would have been an antidote to iran as he had been and you believe somehow he would have been a co-terrorist! right? >> yes. i think in the way this develops i think the policy of using saddam as a break on iran was the policy. that's what we used to have as the policy in the '80s. we had the iran/iraq war and a million casualties. a million. we never saw them on our t.v. screen but they're still real people and real people who died. and then he invaded kuwait and then he developed w.m.d., we know that beca

provisions of having to do with the so-called balkan rule. having to do with exposures onion depository institutions and their affiliates. we will also be making the ruling on our lending authority. all of those, i think, will be of prime interest going forward. >> excuse me. mr. steel was commenting that when you're at the treasury in 2007 that you became concerned there were warning signals. did i hear that correct? what were some warning signals before 2007? in 2006, the rate of acceleration of home prices started to slow, and by the end of 2006, they were declining home prices, foreclosures started to go up in 2006. several of the a subprime originators went bankrupt in 2006. those would all seem to be early warning signals that some steps needed to be taken of where we were going to be in the emergency room pretty soon. and the fact that they were not taken, i think, got us to the emergency room in 2008. why rhythms' indicators not enough to get the treasury activated? >> you need to wrap up. >> certainly, especially in hindsight, there

another example would be the western balkans. i spent a lot of diplomatic time on those issues where we are trying to ensure that serbia and kosovo are able to speak together. i have tried with colleagues in france and germany to make sure there is an agreed eu approach to the whole. i don't you do think that we're not playing our role in that year. but that cannot be the entirety of our requirements around the web. the european union does not agree on every subject of foreign policy. european nations all have their own commercial and economic priorities. it is important for britain to retain our own capabilities. it may be that the european union can work together collectively on strengthening our relationships with china, india, brazil, and so on. it is vital that britain is able to make those bilateral links. we are in the networked world, as i argued in a speech in july. you must have good relations with countries that are not in any particular block. they are not just government to government relations. they deal with cultur

peace to their countries from northern ireland, where senator mitchell was so deeply involved, to the balkans, to africa, asia, to those who forged peace between israel and egypt and israel and jordan. this path is open to israelis and palestinians it all sides persevered in good faith with a sense of purpose and possibility. we can build a just, lasting, and comprehensive peace in the middle east. they give very much. -- bank you very much. -- thank you very much. >> formal middle east peace talks begin tomorrow with a dissipation from israelis, palestinians, jordanians, and egyptian leaders. hillary clinton will host a ceremony to open the talks. we will have live coverage from the state department beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern time on c- span. coming up next on c-span, white house economic adviser christina romer discusses economic stimulus. then live coverage of the california senate's election debate between barbara boxer and carly fiorina. and later, the hearing of today's financial crisis inquiry commission. >> white house economic adviser christina rummer defended stimulus spending

un resolution the cold kosovo secession unacceptable the moves being seen as a way of boosting the balkan nations hopes of joining the e.u. now to discuss the implications of this compromise when i was joined by author diana johnstone live from paris diana hello so serbia has removed the harshest language from its resolution but what did they leave in. well first of all i don't think the original language was all that harsh it's simply. stated something a principle that ought to be of interest to the general assembly that one sided secession is not an acceptable way for resolving territorial issues. and what the present text that i have seen and i have here is not really a compromise i would call it an unconditional surrender to the european union which i read it instead of talking about kosovo it talks thanks thanks to the european union for wanting to facilitate dialogue going this sounds like the middle east peace process you can have dialogue forever and never have anything happen and then. it what it's doing is in fact a slap in the face to those of the general assembly who would hav