san francisco is on a delivered pass to becoming a seismically brazilian city. the mayor's resilience san francisco initiative is working to establish and implement programs that will assure quick recovery. they involve emergency preparedness and neighborhood based response programs, earthquake safety improvement programs, programs to improve the city-owned building, a lifeline council, and much more. sentences go need to its hospitals to be operational. -- san francisco needed hospitals to be operational. some will collapse and kill their opulence -- occupants. we need to serve the injured. this will change that picture but they must be completed. the time has come to honor that years of work that has brought these projects to an accessible level. rebuilding must start as soon as possible. for the next major earthquake, san franciscans want and deserve to have modern earthquake safe facilities they can turn to for help. i urge you to approve this plan and the benefits it will bring to our city. thank you. >> good afternoon. thank you, president fong and commiss

effects than many people are illiterate, would not be able to read written warning and in the brazilian city reveals dixie seven children had been born to women and they were distinctly traced to a man who'd been given thalidomide. it's also a question about whether thalidomide might be excreted in the midterm which means nine might take percussion stew. women are told to take contraceptives. they can't go to the drugstore and buy them spirit contraceptives are beyond their reach and also there are cultural reasons why they can obtain contraceptives. some of them countries are contraceptives are illegal or forbid their use. so these are people who are not able to protect themselves and yet this is where the research is being carried out. one might wonder why. the west to be a more logical place because he released women can protect themselves. but why is the research carried out in developing world? the developing world is not a developing company. not the problem, but the decision has been a financial one. the article show the pharmaceutical companies can get one in every three trials in de

brazilian pianist is reaching new heights with his music. he has had himself and his piano hoisted into the air. it was part of a musical stunts during an annual festival in the city of sao paulo. he gave two recycle suspended above the ground. not surprisingly, the title is the flying piano. >> you have been watching news day. >> a reminder of the main news. counterterrorism officials in the united states say they foiled the plot in yemen who blow up an airplane using an underwear on. this was meant to coincide with the first anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden last week. more on that. stay with us. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by -- the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers use their expertise in global finance to guide you through the business strategies and opportunities of international commerce. we put our extended, global network to work for a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major corporations. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet los angeles

city clerk says there is no limit to the number of speakers. >> facebook co-founder is breaking his silence about the fractured relationship with mark zuckerberg. he told a brazilian news magazine there are no hard feelings towards the former college roommate. he was contractally barred from speaking about zuckerberg and facebook. the relationship between the two was a key part of the movie "the social network" especially the efforts to dilute ownership of the company. also in the article addressing a decision to renounce his u.s. citizenship, reiterated plans to play whatever taxes he ows while he was a citizenship. >> police and federal agents have taken nearly 100 guns off the streets and arrested dozens of people part of a four-month long operation. and there is laura anthony live with more on the story. >> there is an operation, police and atf say they took violent offenders off of the streets. >> this is just some of the guns seized. there is a collaboration between federal atf ask police, one top official believe is already made the city safer. >> this is operation giddeon that resulted in a removeal of over 90 firearms from the streets. >> this group has g

city have visited park 51, an interesting islamic cultural center. and there he saw the different programs they have available. they teach error back, calligraphy. they have a course on capillary, a brazilian martial art. it was a fascinating, it occurs to me, you might not know what i'm talking about because you might not recognize part 51, the action name part 51 because you might be more familiar with the name that was used in the media to describe park 51, which is of course the ground zero mosque. it was two years ago that this islamic cultural center, not a mosque in knoxville is located at ground zero, but several blocks away became the focus of the great controversy. i don't know if you remember that two years ago, but there were huge protests in new york city and counter protests and perhaps he remembers some of the signs that appeared on the streets of new york, protesters against the ground zero mosque, some of the signs said stop islam. islam kills. to make shall inherit islam and islam is a lie. when i visited park 51, the official name of course there were no protests. there were no protesters outside, no ugly sign. it was just a place where different people from different fa