how do we want a residential alteration that is so deep that it is going to potentially impact the bloc space. a visa the things that we factor as we evaluate a project. president olague: because of the size, even of the rear yards, that is why we value, also, the open space. commissioner antonini: a few observations on this. there are quite a few addresses in the vicinity that are listed, the pictures are there. i count about eight different instances of forty third had to on forty second of the third floor. i am not saying they are done very well, but they do have third floors. but we run into the same areas, and now we're getting it in the sun said. years ago, these homes were built, usually right after the war. they were built modest homes, at a significantly lower price than you would pay anywhere else in san francisco. this is what i can afford, it is cramped, but it is a house. it is not like being in a flat. i have a garage, a backyard, it is significantly less. the differential between these houses and at some of the others have diminished, and people are paying a lot of money

if we were going to do the low level further extension in the middle of the bloc, it is my belief that we would have nixed it immediately. absolutely. with that consideration, iw ould would tend to go up rather than out. commissioner sugaya: i just think that going up is ridiculous. as you get older, i don't like going upstairs anymore. i understand mamma's on the lower level, she has to come upstairs i think to eat. we are already talking about her inability issue. i don't know. i dunno if i had a second on my motion. i guess is not a continuance, a d.r key.to take the d.r. secondy scheme, give it to staff. but they can go back to the legal rear yard line, or whatever you want to call it. commissioner antonini: herainarg to second, i'll move to approve the project. -- no second, i'll move to approve the project. >> on that motion. commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner borden: aye. commissioner fong: aye. commissioner moorsugaya: no. commissioner miguel: reluctant aye. president olague: i'm with miguel, aye. >> that motion passes 5-1 with commissioner sugaya voting against. thank yo

eu leaders needed to come up with a concrete plan to restore confidence in them bloc and -- the bloc and calm investors' fears. they are hoping they have accomplished that with this plan to implement stricter budget rules and punishment for those who fail. britain has refused to go along. >> the leaders may look to be united for the cameras. behind-the-scenes, there are deep divisions over the continent's future. one of the major players is going its own way after refusing to go along with a closer as a union. british prime minister david cameron failed to convince his eu partners that london deserve the not-out -- deserved an opt- out. he said the planned financial tax would hurt london's vital banking industry. >> i said before coming to brussels that if i could not get adequate safeguards for britain in a new european treaty, that i would not agree to it. what is on offer is not in britain's interest, so i did not agree to it. let me explain why this matter is. of course, we want -- this matters. of course, we want the eurozone countries to come to gather and solve their problems,

summit which the majority of the bloc commit themselves to tighter fiscal rules to save the euro but here in russia the markets are sharply down and declining by the minute that's because of unique factors affecting domestic confidence in particular the prospect of anti-government demonstrations on saturday and this is making investors more risk averse so to those figures the sell off of the r.t.s. appears to be speeding up by the end of the sessions one hour twenty minutes still to go and we're seeing the r.t.s. down four percent my sex not far behind look at the individual share movers on the my six oil majors are down in the cheaper crude the ross nafta and luke oil both declining more than four percent financials are also under pressure the most liquid stock of the russian markets burbank is down four and a half percent is their profit almost doubled during the first eleven months of the year reaching nine and a half billion dollars according to russian accounting standards that's not really providing any support. europe our did see a massive upswing initially twenty three member

the strong bloc the hard currency bloc and that there are immediately would have to take a haircut on their exports because then that currency would trade like the swiss franc before anyway before it was. marked down by the swiss banks central bank remember it was galloping along and trading quite high so they would take a haircut on their exports but they are you're betting are your thoughts are that this is preferable to simply engorging the eurozone with multi-trillion dollar fear out there and see unable debt players because that would be a guarantee a repeat of the hyperinflation days well exactly i don't think they could promote it other hyperinflation similar to the twenty's the the mechanisms are in place to did that but it could it could come about in another way you know already that i've been kind of a hard core deflation is still over the years but at this point i except the argument that at some point we would have a hyper inflationary spike ok so if the euro is not as bad as people are making it out then i would say the flip side of that the dollar is probably not a stro

if it were in the middle of the bloc, if the property were in between other houses, i would not have so much of a problem with it. given the location, there is an opportunity for a horizontal addition to work without bringing it 5 feet from both sides. commissioner antonini: and it has less impact than it was even a horizontal. commissioner sugaya: for those reasons, i will lead to make a motion to continue and have the project sponsor and a staff looked at a two-story horizontal position. president olague: project sponsor -- commissioner sugaya: i'm thinking from what commissioner borden saidm, it would not have to come back to the commission, so there would be -- there would not be another hearing. reheat neighbors have to realize the extension will come pretty far back. >> a thing of the original design did encroach into the required rear yard. >> it was within the maximum allowance to your guidelines. >> i think it was 20 feet deeper. i believe 20 feet deeper than the current location. >> it has been over a year. coming up on two years. when we went to the third level, it was sub

cleric, muqtada al sadr, leads the bloc. he joined the ruling coalition a year ago. before that he led shia militants against u.s. and iraqi forces. the latest conflict between shia and sunnis started this month after judicial authorities issued an arrest warrant for tareq al hashemi, who was accused of terrorism. baghdad has been hit by a series of bombings in the past week. sunni militants are believed to be behind the attacks. >>> the people in charge of tokyo electric power company say the utility needs more money. they've asked for an additional $8.8 billion from a government-backed fund. the request follows the government's decision to offer compensation to people who voluntarily left their homes because of the crisis at tepco's fukushima daiichi nuclear plant. the utility has received $11.5 billion in public money. the government will review tepco's restructuring efforts before deciding on whether to give additional funds. >>> one of the joys of winter is playing in the snow. but in fukushima prefecture this year, worries about radiation are keeping many kids

a moscow says only the eurozone could solve its own problems but it will try to help deal with the blocs debt crisis russia and the e.u. also pledged closer energy and economic cooperation as president medvedev meets top technocrats in brussels. amid this year's turbulence in the arab world algeria has remained relatively quiet but recent decades of still being tough on the country and its neighbors ruptures are a big concern too is the algerian foreign minister explains to us next. minister the arab countries have been swept by what has been called the arab spring what is european or russia's position in relation to dance in syria in the arab world as a whole. our opinion is based on mutual trust between our two countries on common vision concerning events in the world and on mutual respect for the principles of each of the sides first of all i'm talking about the principles of non interference in the internal affairs of third countries the principle of long term cooperation and the right of states to change the order within their own territories but not within the territory of other co

summit which saw a majority of the bloc commit themselves to types of fiscal rules to save the europe but here in russia the markets nosedive that also seems to be for political reasons we'll look at them in just a second first let's look at the numbers europe is up twenty three members of the e.u. agreed to form a new fiscal compact to rein in their deficits and there's also been the offer of more support for most and that the nations would seize up twenty percent of the clothes. and there was a sell off on the odd c.s. and the my sex that out of more than four percent at the cause if we look at the main movers on the my six you'll see that oil majors would out amid cheaper crude both gross net than luke or losing four and a half percent the most liquid stock this burbank was also down four percent. net profit almost doubled during the first eleven months of the year reaching nine and a half billion dollars to russian accounting standards here's michael stein from a bank. the week was characterized by heavy volatility which culminated in the market selling off sharply today despite t

led bloc isn't prepared to cooperate on the shield nato is deploying an antiballistic system near the borders with russia which it regards as a threat the alliance has rebuffed kremlin requests to guarantee it poses no danger washington claims the shield aimed at rogue states like iran and we have been all t's been hearing from our lives we strongly doubt. there is no threat right now neither country has missiles that could carry nuclear weapons and only one of those countries has a nuclear weapon in the first place and also you what it would be very difficult to imagine a country of that size aiming a ballistic missile the united states because it would be like marking the country for a while later with a big x. as a ballistic missile is ballistic that means you know where it came from we're using a defense that doesn't exist against an aggressor that this point doesn't exist the worst thing to look like is that you're weak on defense so if people say we could build a shield that some people said that why not do it that sort i think the idea is that political pressures at home if the

summit which saw a majority of the bloc commit themselves to tighter fiscal rules to save the euro but here russia sharply down that also seems to be for political reasons what we hearing more about that in a moment but first let's have a look at those numbers the sell off of both the all ts and the my sex appears to be speeding up in the mid session but the bulls are down more than four percent let's have a look at some individual moves on the my sex all mages are down and made cheaper crude with both ross laughed and luke all around five percent in the write up are not jews are also under pressure was spared by down four and a half the sat is that profit almost doubled in the first eleven months of the get reaching a nine and a half billion dollars to russian accounting standards. europe is. twenty three members of the e.u. have agreed to form a new fiscal compact to rein in the deficit as those have been the offer of more support for the most indebted nations oil prices are likely light sweet is trading under ninety eight dollars a barrel i'm grant is that over one hundred seven dol

lead but there afterwards for both internally and externally to put pressure on cyprus there is a bloc of opposites. parties for example the leader of the sooner you know this pressuring the government to join the void which of these programs. so if there were. western. states not military intervention and so it's mr rosen we have to leave a valid phrase a rose of international affairs commentator and manager of the stop nato from asian campaign many thanks indeed and says around the sound the program beason by the clock. bungles its own terms deadline as the bloc struggles to convince member states to chip in for the common good of the euro. the voting survivors from a song or reagan russia's far east have been brought ashore for treatment in hospital eleven others have been confirmed dead by this search for forty two still missing in icy waters goes on being hunted by weather conditions with winds gusts up to seventy kilometers per hour take aggrieved that some of the survivors were told him how the tragedy unfolded dry land and the end of a nightmare for the weary few on board the s

point four million voters flocking to the polls over the period of two days the two main islamist blocs made significant gains in this historic vote with some estimates as high as seventy percent but the final numbers are still being counted artie's policy slayer is in cairo and gave us a look into the incoming results. the latest we've heard from the electoral commission is that both of us are not good at sixty two percent this means that some of the half million egyptians turned out across the ballot and while the figure is high it is still short of the expected seventy percent voter turnout that was earlier predicted not each voter cost three ballots who were for individual candidates and one was for political party as far as the individual candidates vote here no candidate had an outright majority which means that many of them will have a runoff next week when it came time for the head of the electoral commission to announce how the political parties have done he simply said to close him he said he had run out of gas and he called a press conference and immediately at this stage we

britain vetoes a new treaty tightening fiscal rules for bloc members in a move that many believe is a first step for the u.k. towards the exit door most other e.u. members of agreed to brussels oversight of the budget. liberated but desperate for money leaving authorities plead to the un to release billions of the country's assets still frozen months after the end of the military conflict that has the country's cash strapped government struggles with paying salaries and providing subsidies. with more on those stories in less than half an hour from now in the meantime coming up next a story of profits put before hundreds of lives a special report on the all companies destroying the indigenous population and the nature of the. i. led. the clinic . live. live . live . live. live. live live live. live . it'll lead i. think of the place. it. was. six eight. lead. to. thank. you i. thought. it's. thirty. so. what. is the goal of the twelve sons of a crowd when he wishes to rest he turns into a stone. he rules over the wild beasts of the jungle and when the shamans drink the way they come in

vetoes a new treaty tightening fiscal rules for bloc members in a move that many believe is a first step for the u.k. towards the exit most of the e.u. members have agreed to hand brussels oversight of their budgets. liberated to but desperate for money libyan authorities are pleading to the u.n. to release billions of the country's assets still frozen months off the ministry that about the country's government struggles with paying salaries and providing subsidies. to stay with us if you can hear a nazi coming up next it's a story of profits put before the lives of hundreds of special report on the oil companies destroying the indigenous population and the nature of the amazon you watching. why do you believe the locals were affected by cancer when it's letters. hygiene conditions are terrible actually all the drinking water in eastern ecuador is. we have analysis results that show the water contains excrement residues meaning that it comes from the native steph occasions that is what causes cancer and all other illnesses if you constantly drink water with feces that it since you were a

meanwhile we also had the bloc suspending its membership from parliament.ember, when he this government was initially formed, it was mostly an agreement between the irra kia blk headed by the former prime minister, a mostly sunni bloc although viewed as being secular and the bloc of iraqi prime minister the state of law coalition. this was supposed to be a power-showering agreement but members of iraquiia will tell you that it is anything but. they are accusing the prime minister of consolidating power. he maintains full control over the national security portfolio, in other words the ministries of defense and interior. in fact, his deputy went so far as to directly call him a dictator who is refusing to relinquish power and he had a warning for the united states especially at this the point in time. he said that al malaki was playing iran and the u.s. that one day the u.s. wos realize this and growths to regret their decision to back the prime minister, hala. >> hala, you have a unique perspective here on what arwa was talking about. arwa is there now and

. >> that's true, governor rendell, if take that bloc that is against mr.omney, it's like 34%, i was just reading. if you addç the santorum, bachmann, the whole far extreme right vote, that's actually 50%. so if that 50% coalesces around one candidate, if people start falling out after iowa, you could in south carolina have a very singular formidable anti-willard candidate and take some big south carolina victory into florida, and it could upset the whole thing, even if willard pulls out of iowa and new hampshire. >> it's possible, but remember number one he will get a bounce in south carolina. that's the way this thing always works. number two, if he wins iowa and new hampshire, he's going to have money -- a plethora of money, no one else will raise a dime. he'll be able to dominate the air waves in south carolina. you saw what happened when the air waves were dominated in anti-newt gingrich rhetoric. he plummeted like a stone, so don't underestimate the power of money. erin, correct me if i'm wrong, i don't see anybody who has the ability to hang in ther

for israel and region not have a lot of palestinian voters in the u.s., at least not as a big voting bloci do not see that it does a lot of harm for a candidate to show support for israel. >> thank you. still to come on the program, flying high. we get a bird's-eye view of what it takes to keep up. >> british prime minister david cameron has been meeting came hama -- meeting king hamad of bahrain. he told the bbc that he was looking to britain to help reform police and the country's judiciary. >> a controversial visit by the a country wracked with violence. david cameron has urged him to move swiftly to end abuses. it is time for real change. >> we're looking to move forward from a pine minister who search for four years to a prime minister who is elected for four years. we would like the prime minister of the united kingdom to discuss this issue. >> in bahrain, the protests and the clashes with police in villages continue. many protesters from the shia but many do not. king hamad has told the bbc that he plans to invite personal advisers from all of the political parties, including the o

islamic bloc won 6% but the others won 20%. >> it underscores how well the muslim brotherhood is. this is only the first round of many elections but already it appears the ideas of freedom that hundreds of thousands risk their lives for in tahrir square might be lost. islamics said they played things smart, lying low when the revolution begin and only mobilizing their political base as the world lost interest in egypt over the summer. they have made it unclear they are unhappy with the results that include voting in parts of cairo. it's parts of what ruled egypt the islamic group will win. power comes with responsibility and they will now have to run a country of more than 85 million. that is lot of hungry mouths, notoriously poor and without oil resources. brotherhood have held a few rallies that gives an insight into political agenda it's anti-american and anti-israel. one ended with the torching of an embassy. >> a solid western ally suddenly in play. it is certainly a prized friend. right now the u.s. gives them more than $2 billion in aid but with an islamic regime in cairo i

this bloc, large evidence in parliament, headed by former prime minister allawi announced on saturday it would be suspending its membership from parliament because the bloc says the occupied prime minister has absolutely no intention of every implementing the power sharing agreement established between them. the lawmakers have been accusing the prime minister of consolidating power. he does still maintain full control over the security portfolio which includes the ministries of defense and interior. now, iraq's deputy prime minister who is also a member of iraqiya had harsh criticism during an interview with cnn that took place a few days ago simply calls al maliki a dictator saying he was playing the u.s. and iran and one day america would grow to realize this, and regret its decision to back al maliki. meanwhile, there have been other concerning signs when it comes to the so-called democracy in iraq, which is why so many iraqis are concerned about their future. when we talk about freedom of speech, one of the main cornerstones of democracy, most certainly seems as if this iraq gover

i formed a bloc group that has turned into one of the greatest blocks in the mission i think. that year we had zero people show up after we formed our group. we had about three or 400 kids show up for halloween. it was a profound change and i became more active in the community. community policing is this -- a significant issue. i witnessed various levels of incredible policing by police and community members in my neighborhood. i have also witnessed a fair amount of mistrust between community and police. so that cause to promote trust between police and community is important. this is significant and a step in that direction. and support guidelines. the knicks steps are important to me. while there are guidelines, i am interested to see how that changes the behavior in the community and changes the behavior in the police force. rynex questions in that direction are, how will the implementation of the dgo manifest in changes in officers? what are the goals? what are the goals that this can provide tomatoes? when your team is charged with implementing those goals? what to indiv

their determination to take all of the necessary measures to secured stability of the single currency bloc. their leaders agreed earlier to draft a proposal for a new european union treaty with tougher budgetary rules. french finance minister criticized s&p. he says the agency did not consider the new proposal. negotiators at the u.n.'s climate change conference are back at it today discussing how >>> next we go to our bureau in bangkok. patchari raksawong joins us. >>> we start with two deadly bombings in afghanistan, both explosions targeted shi'ite steve lyons more than 60 people have died. most of the victims were celebrating a muslim festival. one suicide bomb detonated in the heart of kabul around noon. officials say at least 60 people were killed and more than 100 people injured. shortly after a bicycle bomb exploded near another shi'ite shrine. this one in the northern city of masari sharif. president karzai expressed his condolences to the families of the victims. he said was the first time a terrorist attack had taken place in afghanistan on such an important religious day. >>> e

josh used as comes up with the bloc and the cardinals beat the bruins 60-59.he heisman winner ari g3 and baylor taking on the alamo bowl. i need more than an minute to show you the scoring but the combined record of 17 touchdowns and appears to the huskies 67-56 and the two teams combined for close to 1500 yards. in florida state's prayers were answered in the second half against notre dame. many while with his touchdown, the seminoles beat the irish 18- 14 in the champs sports bowl and hopefully the raiders will have all the offense on sunday when they play the chargers. that way they can get into the playoffs. >> that's right. what is to cheek season. >> yes, but it's just nice that they are there right now and sunday will be so much fun. >> absolutely. >> game of the year. >> finally tonight, twin polar bear cubs making the public debut in china. >> both of the cubs were born about to go and one has developed the keen sense of curiosity especially around cameras. the mother gave birth to another set of twins at the beginning of the year, and that's about th

moscow says over the eurozone can solve its own problems but it will try to help with the blocs debt crisis for russia and the e.u. also pledged closer energy and economic cooperation as president of meet top technocrats impossibles. midnight thirty one moscow time as ninety five percent of research into genetic engineering is paid for by industry interests we explore if science is in danger of losing its objectivity in the face of pressure from the commercial sector that's our special report on air right now. we're here in central mexico in a place where traditionally for many thousands of years corn has been planted in these lands over the years corn has changed and more recently it has been changing because of the introgression of industrial varieties of corn and most importantly because of the information of transgenic we know that they are stretching the corn here we don't know how much and we want to be able to tell over the years over time whether there is more or less what kind of transgenic materials are here because the transgenic manipulation is invisible people around her

a south american trading bloc that includes brazil and uruguay has agreed to stop flying the flag of the falkland islands. the dispute has heated up again as british companies have begun exploring for oil in waters around the island. for much of the past two decades, the kashmir valley has been in the insurgency, but details mean that is about to change. >> it looks like that is changing. thousands have been killed or have disappeared in separatist violence, though the violence in the moslem-dominated territories has declined, and kashmir you have to turn to music to express anger and desire for peace. >> this has long been a favorite hangout spot. these days, they also make music. what they are singing is not traditional or folk songs. increasingly, is western songs to do with protest. cashmere now has its non rated cashmere now has its own star. -- kashmir now has its own star. he dedicates his music to those caught up in violence. >> i have seen people get shot. i have seen people disappear. i have seen funerals, and rap gives you a freedom other genres do not give you. praxair da

the success of the trans- atlantic trading bloc is crucial in america. on new york's fifth avenue, retailers are doing their best to boost holiday shopping spirits. there are so many cable department stores here, all of them shining a bit brighter at this time of year. and but the european financial crisis could turn out to be the grinch that stole christmas. meet these women have run their own cosmetic company. -- meet these women who have run their own cosmetics company that exports to europe. nail polish is still a big hit, but kim is worried. >> it is difficult at this time to be a small business. this would be shattering, i think. >> amy, whose sales to japan dried up after the recent earthquake, has cut her inventory, just in case. >> i am being conservative, to be honest. i do not want to have an overstock of things. byproducts are certified organic. the shelf life is about two years. i do not want to sit on it for too long. >> even general motors is counting the costs. profits -- profits fell 13%, based mostly on slower sales in europe. economist

the elections for just a few days away and the conservatives were presented themselves as the only bloc against the terrorist groups. if eta blew up the trains, which they hope that spain would elect the conservatives and not the socialists that they painted as lackadaisical and uninspired. but then the police arrested several moroccans and a video appeared in which islamists claim responsibility for the attacks. it was clear that the murders were not members of the eta. asner and the conservatives played -- paid a political price. he lost the elections. long after his defeat, he insisted eta was behind the attacks. >> i cannot seriously believe that the masterminds behind these attacks lived in for a way deserts'. >> pilar thought it was cynical to try to score political points by blaming the attacks on eta while they were morning. >> ladies and gentlemen, we ask of you, don't use the pain of the victims for your partisan purposes, not in the case -- not in this case nor ever again. give us instead a signal of unity. >> but her appeal fell on deaf ears. the people's party staged angry

which is a triangular form and even though it is not a closed space, it is a built structure in a mid bloc situation. i want to walk through it did -- want to walk through the design quickly. 25% setback line is very close to where the neighbors of viewing deck is. we have set back approximately seven or 8 feet from that line and you can see how the extension works here. this is the current house as it exists today with the current back on the second level. as mentioned, the living areas are on the second floor. the ground floor contains a garage with a bedroom and covered deck. with this extension, the upper area, we would be keeping the deck at the same height and below the deck creating an extension out in order to create a master bedroom that is back and they play area ahead of that. the very bottom would be the extension that would go one more level down. essentially a basement level. these are the before and after shots to try to get an idea of how the extension works. this was before, after, before, and after again. the concern of windows she had raised, we looked at that and but th

the bloc is alive, and you have this sitting here, nothing being done with it. >> she walked past the pair of vacant buildings every day and a surprise to no new businesses have moved in. >> you think it is the opportunity for a different kind of business? >> a business to come to the neighborhood, yes. >> it would be a prohibitively expensive considering the space is renting for less. some that were pulling for a new venue that will boost to business for everyone. >> something that catches the eye, it will get a lot more business down here. pretty girls down here, nobody wants to come out at sea of the girls, you know what i mean? or an ugly establishment. >> there is still at $5,000 reward when that can offer a tip that leads to an arrest and conviction in this case. >> less than 12 hours after the block fire, another five-alarm fire broke out in mount vernon. the early morning fire in north charles also damaged several offices and restaurants forcing the department to stretch already reduced resources. we attended the meeting tonight and we are joined with city fire department head