of -- force hold a buffer zone near the capital of bangui. >> if the rebels decide to approach, they know they will encounter a force that will react. we are no longer uniquely in the area of persuasion. we are now in the area of an intervention. >> people living in this former french colony have enjoyed -- many have had enough. >> we are really tired of all these problems. everybody here has gone into the bush, even our wives. our children are in the bush. our hospitals are not working. nothing. there is nothing, just suffering. the other rebels accused president francois bozize of reneging on that peace deal. he has also offered significant concessions. immediate talks, the formation of a government of national unity with the rebels included, and a promise not to stand for reelection in 2016. news of a possible peace deal has encourage refugees to head back to the capital -- has encouraged refugees to head back to the capital. talks could determine whether they can stay. >> you are watching "bbc world news." these are our top stories. lawyers are demanding action to protect women a

as you know, in spring this year, we implemented a parking buffered bike kl track and we've been doingata collection for the past year or so, we have some to conduct but we looked at vehicle speeds and bicycle seeds and perception of safety and perception of understanding and appreciation through an intercept survey and we still have some data to collect and we'll have our final report out in the spring of 2013 so we can be back with that final report then, but i just wanted to let you know of our findings so far, the goals of this project are to make golden gate park and jfk drive safe and accessible for all users which includes bicyclists of all about, it is a safe and comfortable space, if you are less comfortable or a new bicyclist and not interested in sharing the lane with vehicle traffic. >> we can't hear you. >> try and speak into the microphone, we can hear you but it's not -- >> yeah, okay. is this better? >> that's much better. . >> sorry about that. so, the goals of the project were to make jfk more safe and successful, the bicycle track accomplishes some of that, we wanted

japan in 2011 are shaking up the buffer zone theory. the creeping zones there were active t. >> some of the parts where the rupture was the strongest. strongest offset were actually places that were thought to be creeping. >> cal tech and japanese researchers just published their findings giving emergency responders in california something new to kiconsider. the question how does that apply to california. >> where the beg oig one may be bigger than expected. seismologists in california will take a close look at research and the creeping zone on the fault. reporting live, treasure island. bay area news. >> a good chance the super bowl will soon be coming to santa clara. here's the rub. santa clara must decide if it wants the super bowl or if it can afford the super bowl? in exchange for awarding the super bowl to an city, the national football league requires many financial concessions. eventually santa clara would have to give up revenue from taxes on tickets. hotels and venues. the city must formalize its bid by may. santa clara a fina

changes are not minor alterations because onstreet parking will be removed, concrete plantares and buffers added and a commute lane added -- during commute hours. in order to rely on a categorical exemption agency must provide substantial echedz thaevidence that the project is within the exempt category. they have not conducted a transit analysis that cover the second area and cumulative impacts only rhetoric. the city has a duty to investigate the impacts a project will have. categorical exemptions are not absolute. an exemption must be denied if there is reasonable possibility of a significant effect on the environment due to unusual circumstances. or if, quote, significant cumulative impacts from projects of the same type will result. this plan will cause significant direct secondary and cumulative impacts, increase delays on oak, fell, and intersecting streets due to direct and secondary parking impacts, signal timing changes amounted cumulative impact on traffic and public safety due to removal of parking, embedments to turning, access to and from the 31 curb cuts that will be affecte

removing the commuter lane, adding raised plantares throughout the buffer strip and removing over 90 parking spaces constitutes an unusual circumstance of the project. proposed parking mitigation peat adequate. this is a highly dense touristy area and a main east-west corridor. there's no one else -- impact on neighboring streets such as hayes paige and haight street. part six -- is a priority street. finally, because the fell and oak project is obviously part of the greater plan to create bike lanes ceqa analysis should be done in connection with the eir for the san francisco bicycle plan project not piecemealed from the larger project that is ceqa rule. determination -- the determination made no effort to address the fell oak project in the larger context of the citywide bicycle projects. >> president chiu: thank you very much. colleagues, any final questions to the appellants, project sponsor or any other parties in this hearing? okay. seeing none, this hearing's been held and closed. colleagues, this item is in the hands of the board. supervisor olague. >> supervisor olague: i ju

group bearing the brunt of the restriction are farmers many of whom had to leave their land in the buffer zones to grow food on rooftops but as policy or now reports with the recent assault on gaza still fresh in the memory some fear they may not see their or next harvest. there's not a lot of greenery in gaza at least not in the places you'd expect to find it like her thumbs farm which since the israel gaza war four years ago has laid barren and deserted again and emerged the year again or had a very nice plantation a lot of visitors came to see it also students from the farming school used to come and study at my place. but rockets from israel raining down on one of the most densely populated spots on earth meant i will have needed to find another place where he could grow his crops and so he looked towards his own home and upwards that. i needed no alternative so i made this plantation on the roof and started working again. creates a lot of things if he has time and energy i can make fifty thousand suppling from these meters on the roof. it's an idea that's taken root in farms along th

repeatedly destroyed by the israeli army many farmers i'm able to access the land because of the buffer zone that's one of at least two of gaza's farmland. today there is no space to have a forum in gaza it is very crowded everybody is building new houses. used to be a plantation for oranges and lemons and if you look at it now you just see buildings. fall out of five people in gaza are dependent on food aid homegrown food projects like rooftop gardens can help combat malnutrition and severe poverty by allowing farmers to sell their produce marry anyone can do it i work with my husband and my daughters till midnight is that half a lot of farming should be on the ground but we heard that we can plant in volcanic rock on our roofs so i tried it. farmers grow wheat barley and a variety of fruits and nuts on these rooftops they also raise rabbits and chickens showing how the little ingenuity can go a long way ask anyone in israel or gaza whether they think the situation is stable and i'll tell you it's only a matter of time before the next israel gaza showdown they might be a ceasefire in p

my house now used to have cars parked out there, they were a nice buffer, now there's a ricochet of a wall blasting on my window. i think i'll stick with the environmental issues because there's a better plan -- i mean the other plans were drawn up to benefit cyclists. i'm a cyclist -- cycling first. this is a four lane freeway, cars going faster, they're using ann and scott on fell cars flip-flop immediately. we have 10 cars -- it's probably the craziest design i've ever seen and by far not safer than the way it was previously. i please hope you give some environmental review. thank you. >> president chiu: thanks. next speaker. >> thank you. my name is wendy cook and i'm a resident in the neighborhood. this is my first civic project. i've never been involved in anything that involves local city government before. and i went started going to the meetings, because i was interested. i'm not a renter, i'm not an owner, i have nothing to lose except looking at this project as somebody who might be impacted because there might be more cars in the neighborhood, circling for parking. but i d

. >> i hate that little circle, buffering, buffering, buffering and you are just about to get to the most exciting part of the story. thank you, nancy. >>> be sure to check out the article in februaryish you've gq on stands next tuesday which is january 29th. brian? >> let's round out our tech tri. microsoft, reporting after the bell tonight. what can we expect about a company whose stock is back to where it's been the last decade. let's bring in senior analyst, ed, what do you want to see from microsoft tonight? >> well, this is a quarter where expectations have been set fairly low on the pc side. i think what we're looking for and what investors are looking for is validation that long-term strategy is showing progress. windows 8 has been off to a start that's equivalent to the pace of windows 7. but the lack of available touch screen laptops seems to have crimped some of the uptake. we've seen some concerns in the pc supply chain. weighing on sentiment in the stock. but what we like to focus on is what microsoft is doing around the enterprise. the growth and enterprise licensing ag

experiencing a buffer, pushing your bowels out your rear. different. a lot of noise.on't play clubs with a cleaning schedule, a guy coming in the morning emptying the beer bottles. you play the warehouse. if you travel around you will see the exact same kind of weirdos doing their own thing. it is like in the bay area it's even more absurd. there seems to be more people that in a place like new york or tokyo. we did a show in new york, i didn't think that anyone was at hardly, and people come up and said i saw the show. i wish they had some kind of breakfast noise going on over there. i think a lot of people were being, walking out of the shows. that was incredible. i can't believe it's over already, after two hours. if you are reluctant to enjoy something like this it will probably take a mass of peers to sell you on it. it's fine if you stay away. most of the people that come to the shows are pretty happy to be here. you may not be one of them. which is fine. >> i love teaching. it is such an exhilarating experience when people began to feel their own creativity. >>

i would add more buffer for the reason that eats such a high component of the gdp, but you need the buffer. and this buffer is filled with hybrids. so basically, anything which is above equities, but in case, let's say, you know, things could get converted into equity, but remains best as time goes on. >> you're analyzing banks across the place. who is in the strongest position right now from an investment point of view, do you think? >> investments being as a shareholder or -- >> investing as a shareholder. >> i have this theme globally which is today the national champion in each of the key large markets is winning. so in mir view in the u.s., the citi, jpmorgans are we knowing. who is we knowing in asia and the barclay's, the santander. so i have this view that overall as business is not growing, what is going to happen is the way the cake has been redistributed is changing. >> and you want to capital the little guys because they find it harder and harder. you're not going to get into a little unknown bank. people decided to give money. and guess what? that wasn't a bright idea. so you

. >> reporter: that fender acts as a buffer. >> the frienders protected the bridge five years ago when a ship slammed into another tower spinning more than 53,000- gallons -- spilling more than 53,000-gallons of oil into the bay. the pilot went to prison for allowing the tanker to leave in such extreme fog the bow could not be seen approximate the bridge. >> today's bar pilot is one who is experienced with no incidents in the seven years he has worked here in the bay. he did pass his alcohol test they are awaiting results from drug testing. >> what will happen to the tanker? >> reporter: well, that tanker, over my shoulder is still sitting in the waters anchored off treasure island the coast guard needs to do its final inspection they want to make sure the hull is safe and tanker sea worthy and of course make sure it isn't leaking any oil. >> all right thank you. >> we just learned that san francisco man accused of setting his girlfriend on fire has been arrested at an oakland hotel. he will be charged with attempted murder and arson for yesterday's attack in the bay view the victim, 2

. -- i really mean the whole region including maryland and virginia, got a little bit t of a buffer by the federal spending.g. even though you saw unemployment go up in t district, there hundreds of biions of dollars the federal government. we d did abobout $15 of every -- cents of every procument dollar.. there has been such growth and securirity conontacting, that has led to the region attracting more businesses. >> she i quoting dr. stephen fuller from george mason. that is a huge amount coming to the washington area a for every federaral dollar spent. there is a flip side to that. we are seeing a possle downside. didd you notice any concern from the governor o'malley about the fact that federal spending may be decreasing? >> the is no question that the size of the federal governmenent makes us as close as you can n be to being recession-proof. we are buffeted, we are protected in tererms of this regigion whehen the economy goes south. there is some concern that whetr it is the sequeststered that we will see a cut in feral spending this year and ththat will disproportitionately affe

it provides a very useful and beneficial buffer between moving vehicles and pedestrians on the sidewalk. and if successful, this space will allow us in the future to construct corner intersection [speaker not understood] or bicycle parking and [speaker not understood] and other amenities in that space. we've also made concurrently other improvements on the east-west street intersecting sixth street and those include lowering the speed limits on howard, folsom, harrison and bryant within the same time frame from 30 to 25 miles an hour. so, it's been a year. we did the evaluation and we found that the change is working with minimal impacts. we not only looked at sixth street, but also fifth and seventh as a corridor and the traffic did not shift significantly or change significantly on those streets. so, based on that, we recommend that it be approved and made permanent and we presented the results to city planning and they gave it a categorical exemption now for this particular proposal. >> what is the board's mesh you? er >> motion to approve. >> second. >> any discussion? all in favor

it was buffering. >> it was buffering the moment she was set to come out.ons. i think it's really important to always really think about the client and to me, i just had mrs. obama in mind. you couldn't really think about everything else that comes with it or else you would be so nervous or start second guessing yourself. my first image was red. i felt it was so confident. it's commanding and it's beautiful. >> yeah, i think ashleigh what people forget, here is a man who started designing for dolls, barbies? >> you're kidding. >> now he's designing for the first lady. >> tell me a little bit about the first lady. this happens to be a big conversation every time the lead story, apart from the wonderful inaugural festivities, is what does the first lady wear. the inaugural gowns, they are really spectacular pieces. >> they are, most certainly. >> can we see some of snem we put some historical ones together. >> there was the most famous one from four years ago, the jason wu gown, which as i mentioned goes into the smithsonian. is there right now. there you see

way that they can provide assistance to them unless there is a sense of security or at least a no bufferone so the on voice can reach them. so envoys cane fo reach them. >> a small pro-women rally is planned. a report from hong kong. >> the new year, but the same old problem for hong kong's embattled leader. he has been embroiled in scandal ever since he became chief executive here six months ago. problems stemming to changes made to his luxury home which were technically against the law and have the subsequently explained those things. many people believe he has been economical with the truth. some people, legislators have been accused him of downright lying. which averages, he has a real credibility problem. many do not believe them and they're demanding his resignation. they are expecting tens of thousands to take part in this demonstration alone. there are also competing demonstrations. there are some demonstrations in support of them who want him to stay on and that he should be given another chance. what seems to be behind all of this is hong kong's relationship with china itself.