it is because of that money assets between the players, we certainly opened the door. this door opens something remarkable for our future in terms of our relationship between u.s. and china. this afternoon, players come together to celebrate this remarkable moment. i feel very honored and very pleased and just feel a kind of family bond. thank you. [applause] >> [speaking chinese] >> let me say something about our delegation. this delegation is consisting of three generations. you might notice that we have the first generation to participate in ping-pong diplomacy 40 years ago. also, we have the leader generation, who are also our national players. she studied at the university of wisconsin, madison, right now, and also a player just finished his study in the u.s., now in china. a third-generation of the delegation is two young ladies representing the future of the friendship and the relationship, so this is a very good combination of our delegation, and it symbolizes the deep relationship and tradition of friendship between the two countries, especially in a circle of

wars that will begin between the ethnic groups. thank you very much whether or not washington decides to leave behind a contingent of u.s. troops in iraq the kurds have a historic opportunity in their trials towards some determination and nothing in their history suggests that they will be deterred from pursuing a bid for statehood. for crosstalk. ok pace wasn't in washington if i can go to you first here as we discerned that report given the circumstances of the withdrawal of the american withdrawal from iraq and what we call the arab spring here what is stopping the kurds from really going for an independent state something that they have strived for for a very long time now and the circumstances to do that are probably better now than ever before what's stopping them. thank you for giving the opportunity to be under show i think there are a of the reasons that stops the kurds from declaring an independent states economic and political geopolitical and and there's not there's not one single reason that says this is that they're w

to leave iraq its tutorial integrity and fragile democracy are threatened by the brewing animosity between arabs and kurds a factor that has made questionable the plan of a complete pullout i believe that we should take whatever steps are necessary to make sure that we protect whatever progress we have made their. clergy marginalized by iraqi arabs the kurdish minority has long since been vying for a form of independence which given the sweep of the arab spring could now be more possible than ever and if established a kurdish state could potentially entailed the breakup of iraq as well as changing the border of neighboring syria turkey and iran all home to significant kurdish minorities and no other place in iraq symbolizes the tension separating baghdad and kurdish leaders more than the province of cricket source of some twenty percent of iraq's oil reserves who has no official legal status iraqi arabs turkmens and kurds have only claims to it under article one of the iraqi constitution the dispute over who is supposed to be resolved with a referendum we saw no reason why there should be

we very much like to use this mechanism to strengthen our established relationship between the sports circle and also people in general, and we want to make good use of the experience and resources of both sides to further develop the areas of the sports industry. while this is a very good moment for us to strengthen our cooperation for the means of the mechanism for people to people exchange, and i would like to emphasize especially the importance of the cooperation in a circle for sports and also the necessity of broadening the cooperation between the two countries. >> [speaking chinese] >> to honor our visit this afternoon to san francisco, we made a very special gift that we would like to present to the mayor of san francisco. [applause] >> thank you very much. i would like to introduce the council general, who has been very much help to us during this visit. welcome. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. first of all, i wish to express my heartfelt thanks to mayor edwin lee. i know you are very busy. you are the busiest man in the city, in the bay area. you just passed a budget

there are differences between the countries. when hillary clinton discusses this issue with her indian counterpart, there will certainly be differences that will need to be sorted out. >> very briefly, tell us how america's approach to india changed with the rise of china. this is something you've written about. >> china is an important factor, but not one that is publicly discussed. but it is a subtext in the u.s.- india relationship. china becomes more and more assertive as it picks territorial fights with india and its other neighbors, and also begins to exert its influence in the south china sea, claiming the south china sea to be part of its historical borders and thereby infringing on u.s. interests in that seat. there is great room for u.s. and indian collaboration in insuring peace, stability, and more in asia. >> we will leave it there. in other news, the un's highest court ordered thailand and cambodia to withdraw troops from a disputed border region. cambodia asked the international court for a ruling about the area a

>> can you -- having a foil in between? >> with a foil? between? >> yeah. when you have two glass plates, you put the foil in between so it wouldn't fall down. >> yes, you're right. so a lot of times, we do tempered glass on both sides, and plastic lamination, or whatever, in between. actually, what we prefer to do is -- i put heat strengthened glass, which we haven't really talked about, and tempered on the other side. heat strengthened glass is glass that is kind of tempered. you know, it's tempered, but not fully tempered. it's got kind of a half measure. stronger than eneeled glass and will take more impact. but where we saw the big piece of glass broken into shards the heat strengthened glass will break into shards maybe this size. the tempered glass, as you see, broke into teeny pieces. so if both sides were tempered and it broke, you know, this whole thing would peel -- you know, would fall over, you know, with this plastic in between, if it didn't have the century guard that -- the new depont stuff which is going to keep it rigid. but if we used hea

between now and november 2012 between the parties. whoever the republican nominee is, we are going to have a big, serious debate about what we believe is the right way to guide america forward and when the future --win the future. i am confident i and i am confident that we will win the debate because we have the better approach. but in the meantime, for everyone's a while we can sit down and do something that actually helps the american people right now. >> you consider raising the debt ceiling fairly routine, but at this point is economic, garden. how can you get any agreement with congress? >> -- it is economic armageddon. how can you get any agreements with congress? >> i will keep working hard on it and i hope that this debate has focused the american people's attention a bit more and will subject congress to scrutiny. i think increasingly, the american people will say to themselves, you know what, if a party or politician is constantly taking the position constantly taking the position of, "my way or the highway ," constantly be

next all these things you should not say discusses the prospects of economic cooperation between paris and moscow the french president's special representative to russia. after the last special representative of the french president on cooperation on russian and french business relations thank you very much for being with us today so you come to russia every fifteen days what is your primary mission but when you're in hue or golf you my first mission given by president sarkozy in line with president medvedev is to report and scale back the establishment of your russian economic zone and the second part of this mission is to strengthen economic cooperation in all possible areas between our countries. now you have responsibility are developing that trade between french france and russia which sectors of the russian economy do you think are most attractive for business leaders and friends. of course said yes you're you make your own year today for france it is of course raw materials in trade we have gas is essential but there is much more. alstom is doing with trans march holding buildin

for the w.b. a boxing clash between russia and heavyweight. few who are. preparing for the next world series. that will get some of those stories in the moments that will start in china where russia. has to find yet more room. in her hand luggage after claiming goal number three at the world aquatic championships the russian has been a force of nature in shanghai repping up her third synchronized swimming title on wednesday in the free solo routine earlier in the week he could secure some spots in the solo technical and technical events at the oriental sports center this result the smolensk native's thirteenth world championship gold era record spain. and china is. taking the other podium spots. now the other medal for russia bronze the silence of the coffin the kilometer open water swim speedo yes he's won gold for greece while it's almost lurch of germany won the silver medal. so football now where a year ago i have booked their place in the final of the cup america following a zero win over peru in the opening last four clash of this year's tournaments

between art and mta while they worked on the issue. -- march and mta. we will be renegotiating with bart back to july 2010 for the fiscal year agreement. it is -- the other reason the mta is getting approval is we are holding that receivable. bart has not repaid as. for those -- that is the reason we're bringing fiscal year 10 in today. >> supervisor campos: an agreement has not been made until if the board of supervisors votes on -- until the board of supervisors votes on it. >> the agreement has not come back before the board. i do not know when. when we looked at the agreements and started negotiating, we had discovered that these had not been before the board. this is an oral agreement to continue the fiscal year 2010 methodology. it was taken to the mta board which approved the agreement with the condition the agreement would have new methodology. >> supervisor campos: this is an oral agreement between home? >> the heads of the two agencies. >> supervisor campos: the agency had to play an important role but i do not know that legally they have the

a lot about with the recap our top stories right out of the business things into between. banks and it's the shadow of death now extends from washington to tokyo and covers the capital of europe the markets are not panicking but the steady drip of bad news is taking its toll politicians are playing a part says e.u. leaders crawl over greece and the democrats and republicans are in stalemate over the u.s. debt ceiling to get some perspective on all this we can now cross live to the board of trade and job to job and standing by c.e.o. of index futures group jack good to see you so there's that political stalemate in washington prospect of the fed printing more money in q e three can you give us an idea of just how confused is this making the market. but you know obviously it's confused that's one of the reasons the market has gone basically sideways here now for the past few months every time it feels as if the market's going to go up and break out of this little malays of course we start to see the obstacles and in the black clouds hanging over the market and then whenever

on twitter actually uses of the social networking sites are drawing attention to the old resonance between the death of sean hoare which his body was found yesterday he was the first news of the world journalist to allege that he is the editor and he calls and later the director of communications for the government knew that phone hacking was taking place all along he was found dead yesterday the eighteenth of july two thousand two thousand and eleven on the eighteenth of july two thousand and three the very same date david kelly was found dead also presume to be suicide he was of course the u.n. weapons inspector who first cast doubt on the government's claim that iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within forty five minutes and moreover said that the government knew that iraq couldn't deploy those weapons of mass destruction to people all over twitter during attention to the old resonance between those deaths the fact that their bodies were discovered in the very same date and saying that the eighteenth of july looks like a bad day for whistleblowers three top police officers t

relations between locals and the u.s. military went downhill after a tragic incident between private sector rehab field and a few servicemen truck driver. alexander even off was shot and killed by the private. on that day his colleagues came to me and said alexander was shot dead by an american soldier what shot that how come we don't know. it is still unclear why the private behave the way he did according to how field he fired in self-defense because he claimed you know attacked him with a knife however several pieces of evidence do not cooperate but theory. it's normal since given that alexander was one hundred eighty centimeters tall and had filled one hundred sixty four and this metal chair had a bullet hole in the back. we were told that the bullets went from top to bottom which simply proves that alexander was something he'll. bishkek appeared to if he did public demands that the u.s. base be closed but menace is a crucial strategic hub for supplying coalition troops in afghanistan. the issue of the american presen

in very close contact between our presidents and prime ministers and also between ministers of foreign affairs. i have indicated to several of would like to see him as often as possible to exchange information and to warble the building relation between our country. between our countries is excellent article economic relations have been going forward. in the past ten years we have seen the crippling economic changes between our two countries. and. many areas such as transportation and aeronautics not site all of them we have decided to continue to go forward. grades the project. the development of tourism in russia france. has confirmed its participation and its support we also discussed european issues relations between the european union and russia i assured mr lawlor of. the willingness of friends. to resolve a soon as possible the question of reeses. to have a free travel while so far as the short term travel is concerned we have discussed this for some time but we think that before the end of the year this will be resolved we also discussed the relations between europe and russia

this is in oakland between -- on 36 between market and west not too far from the 580. we have chopper 5 headed out to the scene to get us more visual information there. they should be there within the next couple of minutes. we'll get you updated here shortly. south bay north 101 at bailey a trouble spot in the right lane. jackknifed big rig getting cleared out of the road. >> thank you. >>> what is next for casey anthony? the text message sent to her parents. plus a new twist for "news of the world." why the former ceo has now been arrested in the phone hacking scandal. >>> and it was more like karma heaven in southern california. the surprise for the 405 freeway and the bridge closure that we can expect here in the bay area. ,,,, [ female announcer ] this is the story of sam, who made an unexpected arrival. [ woman ] he was 4 months early, weighing 1 pound, 12 ounces. [ female announcer ] fortunately, sam was born at sutter health's alta bates summit medical center. [ woman ] the staff was remarkable. they made me feel safe, trusting, cared for. [ giggles ] they save

and a meeting between the leaders of russia and germany how is the album made in the growing anga and it jihad is ready that's to deep instanced. says he's cautiously optimistic about the future of the euro as he meets in germany. a very warm welcome to you this is our see live from moscow now today's also new television in britain is a must see for most of the country is rupert murdoch his son and busies former u.k. c.e.o. face angry will make his ally the trio's of parliament to question so old so roll the questions on the phone hacking and police bribery claims at the now axed news of the world walters or emmett's following the hearing for us in london i love life now i look for those huge interests in all this was rupert murdoch himself appearing in attendance what have we heard so far from that hearing. well there is huge interest in it and we are seeing reports and jamison murdoch being interviewed by m.p.'s together we should remember that they were invited to appear at this hearing and they essentially said no thank you very much an initially and then in the end they had to be

. >> discovering the truth could take months and going into the deep history of relationship between this fought and that newspaper. today, britain's military families became the latest group to erupt in ainger over the latest phone hacking. it is claimed in the press that those recently bereaved have had their boys mills intercepted. unusual, and a family has -- their voice mails have been intercepted. unusually, not a single family has come forward yet. >> we ought to suspend working with news international. these allegations are resolved. >> according to one soldier's father, e-mail messages that he received after his death had been read, he suspect by hackers. >> they need to be caught to account for what they have done and to suffer whatever punishment is appropriate. i am sure that will happen. it will take time. >> he is likely to be right. criminal investigations, public inquiries, the scrutiny of what went on at this newspaper could go on for years. >> for more on this, i am joined by someone who worked at a news international for 30 years, as "ll as chief editor @ at intern

boards and then starts to rot in between there. so you have to keep that clean. once again that's a simple homeowner thing. you get a little saw blade or a pressure washer or just a saw blade is what i use. get down on your hands and knees and spend an hour and you get it all cleaned out. it's not a big deal. and if you fail to do that, you will be replacing your deck. >> one thing about stairs and really you have to -- if you're rebuilding a set of stairs, exterior stairs, what we try to do now is, if it doesn't have to be a usable space underneath, in other words, if it could just be an exterior storage, you can build the stairs and shim them off a finish siding on the inside. so you're not like the situation that -- i don't know if you've shown them the stairs, but you can build exterior stairs so you allow water to pass through. you can have it drain out. obviously if you have stairs over a living space you have to water proof the stairs -- waterproof the stairs but a lot of energy is being spent trying to get exterior stairs w

increase is a benefit, the corporate market, the labor market would react to essentially share the cost between employers and employees. essentially, if an employer offers a benefit, and in this case, this would be enhanced hra that does not expire each year, employees -- workers would rather work there then at alternative businesses that do not offer that. it is important to keep in mind, for example, that businesses with less than 20 employees are not required to offer this benefit, and we can assume that many of them did not. some of the impact in industries like restaurant -- for example, the vast majority are not impacted by the legislation, and only the largest art. because of that reason, the businesses that do apply to offer the benefit or are required to offer the benefit, and could expect greater demand for workers. in a perfect labor market, workers would accept lower wages in exchange for the greater benefit. in our analysis, we do not project that much of the cost of the benefit will be borne by workers. the main reason is the city's minimum wage ordinance, which limits the amount

people think that's like boundaries between the kurdish it was a large and we let me finish with you that we let me finish please people think wrongly that there's a large kurdish population in baghdad there used to be the fairly kurds were expelled from baghdad by saddam's regime if we look at the votes now kurdish parties in and in federal elections it is a minuscule vote it's a crime and i'm afraid i'm going to interrupt you will let you finish and we come back from the break in this after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the kurds here with r.t. . if you can. and in the year in iraq is not a true journalist i saw some of the waste go in the u.s. contractors there's kind of wasting their time trying to get killed. i thought all along the length of the leave it out of my father my. huge leave on twenty seven days in new orleans and publicising the people invited the insights into who leads the people started the base of the dialogue the city's. chanting the slogan or raising the slums in the states. or led. plead the fifth. look plenty plenty plenty. plenty taken a

this is one of the two major agreements between the two agencies. you heard the fast as agreement a couple of months ago. as you remember, you table it, and now, it needs to go back and renegotiate. we are here with a second agreement appeared about a year- and-a-half ago -- after almost two years ago now, mta and bart began discussions. the agreement initiations were put aside pending resolution of the fast as agreement. bart is fully aware that until it intentionally negotiates the agreement going forward, once the fast pass agreement is approved, which we expect to have before you soon. given the delay in resolving the agreementresolvingbart -- in resolving the agreement, bart has not paid in a while. we intend to be before you with a new methodology next time we speak. we asked the board of supervisors to take any action. just a brief background on the agreement -- barred pays mta a lump sum each year for the provision of bus and rail service to bart stations. currently, the payment is based on sales tax revenue methodology. unfortunately, we ha

that keeps water out of that space between the buildings. water gets down there between the buildings and it's extremely difficult to repair dry rot inside that space. you have to take the inside wall out to get to it. we also see a couple of other things happening here. we see a down spout from a drain and those need to just be checked to make sure they're secure. they usually have lightweight connecters so you have to make sure they stay connected. here's a gutter at the top. people let their gutters fill up with debris. you need to clean a gutter out. how often? >> if you're near a pine tree, there's a lot of pines in san francisco, the needles can fill up, you -- probably twice, at least twice a year. it depends on where -- how many trees are near your house and what kind of leaves they have. >> so if the gutter fills up or even just enough to block that little down spout there, that's enough to have the water overflow into some location where you don't want it to be. either underneath in the front or under in the back or something. and

sides is going to put one flashpoint between the rebels and gadhafi forces it's a very important. case it's in a firm hand on this town would mean taking control over the country's economy all facilities seem to be a rare target the nato bombs never learned. while it looks like the civilian population can hardly. they were like my family not just going to the shop to buy some foods and this happened six of them died i couldn't believe it. this used to be a restaurant or all company staff with friends gathered after work. we were eating with my colleagues then there was a blast we knew what it was we tried to help those who were trapped but then the helicopters came and started to shoot at us. from one story to another the stories are repeated brigham said by our problem i learned. in the letter not to every man in every be able to do them being a big killed or civilians but there has been nothing this country this is from libya well those voices become more and more frequent is the sound of exploding bombs and warplanes the drowns them out. r t tripoli bragger. the african union i

religious people and people who are suspect it is secure it has a division between. different countries a very gentle and many more divisions also of course that division between. jewish my. majority and minority so it is very difficult very difficult to organize such a huge campaign that will find. the hearts of so many people and the second part of a. worsening of the situation of economic situation that every single person feels in his own pocket. daily on the day he and his daily life is only happens through the last two and a half years years that prime minister. has been in power so strands to this protest and many describing them is the biggest challenge for prime minister netanyahu so far all that he's faced during his term in office is a situation really that serious. i think so i think so because because they wrote this that started to hear in the center of tel aviv and it really should be raised many doubts and the president also amongst the people whether it's jenny and whether it is people in the rich is basically there. and rich city in israel there to

will be one significant difference between the people who take to the streets between greece and italy and greece at least thank goodness the taxi drivers don't go on strike where is nuclei expect almost everybody is going to end up on strike and it's going to be absolutely chaotic the only way they can slip this through is perhaps because we do have this long lead in time until the cuts really start to make an impact in two thousand and thirteen but i think the problem is in the meantime a large amount of the sort of the leftist opposition in italy for see the fact that silvio berlusconi due to many of the reasons most of which are outside of the direct school reason are well i mean he's a wounded animal at this point in time and in some ways i think that he's going to be finding it very difficult to hold his government it's a big problems in western europe behave them to be more definitely to the east everyone fortunately expect further to the prizes because the epidemic can change and seems to be spreading and we have no political leadership seeming to do with it . take a look at so

got between the buildings, and that is when the problem showed up. it would have showed up every way -- showed up anyway because the membrane -- both parties agree to water-proofed between the two buildings when the building at 1138 page street is complete. that will resolve that issue. i would say this. as far as the roof collapsing, it is an insurance issue. they are working to resolve this, and that will get solved as it goes along, so i think the key here is that all of the proper permits are in place tonight, and i would ask you to uphold the permits of the construction could be complete, and agree to water-proofed between the buildings, and insurance will resolve the other issues -- and agreed to water- proofe between the buildings -- and agree. director goldstein: next speaker. >> the builders association. i would like to summarize. unless a demolition has occurred -- that was both signed off on the neighbor, the council, and approved by the department. less demolition has occurred and what was approved. the roof was always slated to be part o