we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we w

welcome my name is bill harvey and you're watching r.t. international. we start with our breaking news former n.s.a. worker turned whistleblower edward snowden has asked for his asylum in russia to be extended let's get more now and we're joined live by our ts marina. a marina thanks for joining me what exactly is happening there with snowden's legal status. well up until now of course as we know he had some asylum which he got in august two thousand and thirteen he got the one year and he could actually bring new that it expires today july the thirty first and up until now we heard from his lawyer not only to confirm that he would be extending that temporary asylum but today we heard something completely different from his lawyer and that was that his client would now be sick seeking political asylum which of course changes everything because this would make edward snowden stay here permanent and it would also get him rise than sperm and of course this doesn't happen very often in russia in fact over the last five years only fourteen people seek politic

recommendation to the full board and recognize the harvey milk democratic club and the l s b democratic club that endorsed this resolution >> support this to the phone bill with positive recommendation i want to acknowledge president chiu. >> i want to thank everyone and happy to make myself as a co-sponsor. >> so on the motion with recommendations without objection that will be the order. thank you, everyone madam clerk call item 2 >> it's the organization to implement the urban films act. >> president chiu is the lead author. >> thank you, mr. chair and members of the public i'm happy to move forward legislation to make us the urban incentive zones act. and which was carried and responded by assemblyman and supervisor kim for her co-chairship this is the 3 piece of urban agriculture and in 2011, we updated our zoning to allow the sale of produce by our san francisco residents a year later the urban architectural

that are with us include that bills for a housing authority opportunity program, essential city sro collaborative, ccdc, coalition of community housing organizations, the harvey milk democratic club, hospitality house, san francisco tenant's you know you know. i wanted to thank nick from my staff for working closely with others for crafting this and thanks so much to scott from the city attorney's office and douglas lake from recorders office as well for helping us craft this. we look forward to november as we hope voters will vote to prevefsh the character of their neighborhoods and our city. >> supervisor tang. >> thank you. thank you to everyone that came out. i think in terms of supervisor mar and your goals, i think we share the system concern, we want housing stability, we want people to be able to mane tan their homes, but i think that i can't sit here and in good conscience and say we can't ignore the concerns that have been raised with this particular measure. i think we cannot just push off to the side and say oh, those issues are not real. they are very real. people who own two, three, four, five unit buildings are going to be caught up in this pot

the bill goes to greece's parliament thursday in their statement prisoners say they're fighting to remain human instead of becoming forgotten shadows and you farmer discuss the points with harvey's worry kosar just back from a sign to denounce it. it all started on the eighteenth of june and then every day after that more and more prisoners across the country joined in the hunger strike in total there were around four and a half hours of prisoners across the country who were starving themselves and they couldn't take it any longer which is why they stopped and i said that i will continue fighting for what they believe in and otherwise what are they fighting for they are against this bill which is an inversion a tightening in restructure of the country's penal code and also the creation of type c. cs across the country they claim that this will be like montana mowbray so in general they're saying that the condition in prison is already wrong plus they don't want to see the creation of a new one which potentially could be worse so what's been the government's response to those arguments presumably you believe that these things should go ahead yes and also we know that the country'