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

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

>> 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

both wars will begin between the ethnic groups so. 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 term 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 on 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 wondering is

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

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

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

leave iraq as soon tauriel 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. marching marginalized 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 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 kirk a source of some twenty percent of iraq's oil reserves has no official legal status iraqi arabs turkmens and kurds who will lead claims to it under article one forty of the iraqi constitution the dispute over who is supposed to be resolved with a referendum we saw no reason why there should b

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

now you have responsibility also developing the trade between french france and russia which sectors of the russian economy do you think are most attractive for business leaders and friends. said yes you're here. today for france it is of course more materials and trade. essential deal together but there is much more. alstom is doing with france much holding our exports the world. is doing the pharmaceutical area. technological areas these areas are multiplying because we are in the car garages modernization plan and french companies can offer quality technology for us at the point of interest on. materials which is really an essential. sector at which we can operate more. broadly. well it talking about. the good good sides of the modernization and presently grabs of has criticized the investment climate in russia do you see improvement. i see huge progress myself i've been working with russia for many years and i believe we are wrong when seeking to teach lessons to russia already. today russia is twenty the progress to date has been huge and president negated in belgium in britain

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

are present for example vinci quick who are doing the motorway link between moscow and st petersburg board today we are developing cooperation on power generation on the side of the st petersburg summit that we signed with the a.d.f. need to equip and i would say to provide electricity to the city of thomasville any joy we build cars or a.t.'s for arab siberia so there are multiple areas of cooperation the cooperation between france and russia does work. but i still want to ask you if someone like you doesn't come to russia every fifteen days just the business community in general outside of russia do they still have the old stereotypes of russia. if you speak with the presidents of big french groups present in russia they are very happy to be here and they want to develop their business those who are not here yet often has a priore and we have i have to say that in western europe there not only in france will be a problem with our media who do not know russia well and russia should communicate more also there are old stereotypes of the progress and she just not reflected in media. w

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

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

relation between our country. atmosphere 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. will really areas such as transportation any or not. all of them we have decided to continue to go forward. a great project. the development of tourism. russia france. has confirmed that for this patient and it's important we also discussed european issues a relationship between for european union to russia i assured mr lawlor of. the willingness of friends. to resolve a soon as possible the question of visas she could. have these are 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. europe and russia in the energy area and i indicated friends attached to the respective long term contracts we also discussed the security problems of relations between. russia.

of course, it's important that there's a good relationship between the media and police. police often uses newspaper and other media to hunt down unwanted criminals. however, allegations have been made some corrupt police officers may have taken payments from newspaper. and there are wider concerns that the relationship between the police and the press can also be too close. mr. president, when i spoke to sir paul stephenson yesterday, he made clear he's as determined as i am that all aspects of the police relationship with the media should be on approach. in the relation to the payment to police police officers, they referred the case to the police complaint commission. since then, the ipcc has been identifying who was given payments. once they are identified, the commission said they will move to a full independent investigation on all of the available expertise so that the public is reassured. my right honorable friend, home secretary, has been assured by the commission they have the power and resources needed to see this through. they will go wherever the evidence lea

the expos between the u.s. and israel earlier this year when president obama back to return to the six seven borders now are we seeing a shift of u.s. support away from israel. don't remember when president obama said was in fact a longstanding u.s. policy in the longstanding expectation of the international community that the ninety seven borders would be the not the final outcome but the baseline of negotiations between israel and the palestinians the is really reaction was to president obama saying what everybody has long understood but tuesday. means what the u.s. is doing in opposing a perilous new move of the usa trying to keep the palestinians in the u.s.c. and box even though the u.s. then bought the peace process is not only leading never be conceded it's not leading towards the palestinian aspirations for an independent state not only the same policy because the policy but the us has pursued for years. and it's the new to us in both even though us in boxes and leading to. ok well thank you very much f

relations between locals and the us military went downhill after a tragic incident between private sector rehab fields and a fuel servicing truck driver. alexander even north 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 dead 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 he didn't know if it attacked him with a knife however several pieces of evidence do not corroborate that theory. it's nonsense 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 presence became a bare faced bargaining chip in talks between