water you hearing, dorian? -- what are you hearing, dorian? >> we do know the plane went down at midmorning in the maturing in c.. from then, reports are conflicting. -- which in the the plane went down at midmorning in the mediterranean sea. there are reports saying indeed the syrians did shoot the plane down. but the prime minister, who was returning back from brazil when all this was going on, when he did speak to the press, he said we simply do not know what happened. he had now gone into at a security meeting with the chief of military intelligence and senior government -- senior government millet -- ministers. >> does this incident have the potential to blow out into something bigger? >> that is the question everyone is asking. earlier this year, when there was a shooting incident, the turkish prime minister was furious and even tried to get his nato partners to intervene and protect the borders. that rhetoric was reduced after word, but the prime minister does of our record of extremely fiery rhetoric against the syrian president. he is

back with me are anthea butler and raul reyes, and dorian lord and rick newman.king about how it was the post war era and after the great world war ii and the great sacrifices of that war that we became the best most exceptional selves, and yet here we are at this moment facing what feels like a similar human rights horrors and is that the way we re-establish the exceptionalism is to step in at a a moment like this? >> this has been a thorny problem. the united states has not always stepped in when there have been genocides even. in the '90s we did not intervene in row wan dashgs and in the genocide there, and we watched slaughter happen in the former yugoslavia for two to three years before backing into that one, and syria is another case. on a moral sense, yes, we clearly should be doing more. this is obviously complicated involving iran and believe it or not involves the price of gas here in the united states, and if you are thinking about this like in a geostrategic sense, you are thinking that if that regime falls, it is much better for that regime to be pus

and dorian warren, assistant professor of political science at columbia university and fellow at the roosevelt institute in new york. rachel, the exit polls indicated this was going to be close. we were being warned we were going to be up very late tonight counting the votes. the decision came in sooner than we expected. what does it mean in national terms and also, what does it mean in terms of the future of wisconsin? >> i think it means more in terms of policy than it does in electoral outcomes. everybody is wondering whether or not wisconsin is going to be a swing state in november. i think a lot of other things are going to affect that in wisconsin, more than this governor's race. but i think it's important in terms of policy and what drove this recall in the first place. and the reason that this all happened in wisconsin, the reason wisconsin became a totally unrecognizable place when compared with its previous politics is because republicans decided to strip union rights in that state. this is absolutely, i think, going to be seen as an undergirding for further policy developm

buses will replace trains between the franconia, springfield and van dorian stations. expect single tracking on the blue, orange, red and yellow lines and that's tonight's fox 5 top five. >> if you have not been outside, you are missing out on a beautiful night tonight. >> it's going to be hard to go to bed it's just that nice. we need to stay up and enjoy it, windows open for sure. so much of the summer we spend with windows down trying to keep heat and humidity at bay. let that fresh air in tonight. we'll keep this going a little longer. next week a little different story. i think we'll be talking about getting those windows shut. we'll take advantage of free air conditioning while we can tonight. let's start with a look at the temperature trend the next several days. tomorrow will be like today, especially even in the temperature department. notice the average temperature now is 84 degrees. so for the next three or four days we'll either be below or just touching that average. a couple 81s in the forecast the next couple days, a little warmer father's day sunday and

. >> dorian sanchez, the final witness in the preliminary hearing to determine if there's enough evidence against the two men to proceed to trial. she testified for two hours today and is expected to continue tomorrow. >>> candid answers tonight inside the mind of an american icon. >> how does the secretary of state talk to the u.n. and be misled? >> i don't like the word misled. we didn't think we were being misled. >> we sit down with general colin powell, as he talks about one of the big mistakes in his life. >>> and eight lives forever linked. an emotional reunion today that came with the surprising twist. >>> and it's officially open for business. facebook rolling out something new for its users. >>> good evening. i'm jeff raineri in the weather center. warmest day of the week so far. now, we're tracking showers to the north what are your chances of this?ng af this? plus, when 90-degree heat returns. >>> former secretary of state, colin powell, is in the bay area fairly often. he usually slips into town without fanfare. but today's visit was different. in many ways, general powell is

join the signs will stay put and they could dorian embassy in london until a decision on his asylum request the client comply with a demand from british police to surrender works for addition to sweden. and german chancellor angela merkel the fans of home the e.u. deal to help struggling banks but there is skepticism the measure will solve the walks for problems and debt crisis. up next the latest installment of technology update exploring how russia is getting its rail network up today to hash out of the twenty fourteen winter olympics games in sochi. hello and welcome to technology update for geographically massive countries like russia their advantages in efficiency the braille based transit for as big as the states themselves ever since man first tires the power of the locomotive engine has been a prime mover of both people and goods and that's something still very true today railway system is currently the second largest in the world each year nearly one billion passengers combined are shipped to and fro on the country's long distance trains there more than eighty five thousand kilomet

dorian's to come to a decision on what's going to happen to you then as far as whether they'll agree to his asylum request or not. certainly to some analysts that ecuador is currently you're taking phone calls and possibly e-mails are from washington with all sorts of influence suggesting why it would or should not grant asylum to julian. smith live in london thank you for joining us today. with ecuador taking his time to decide on a songes plea for asylum as i was saying some are suggesting it might well be coming under pressure from capitol hill sibel edmonds founder of the national security will supply was coalition has this to say mostly what's happening right now is the political side and you have to realize that they may be and this is the ecuador to me getting all sorts of letters that petitions from activists around the world but on the other hand they are also getting a list of all to made them send troops probably the united states so the rest assured they right now as we speak the state department is in the door plenty to think about by showing what kind of consequences th

you need to know this week at least founder julian assange is now spending his third night dorian embassy in london out of the reach of british police who are trying to extradite him to sweden in sweden a son has been accused of sexual assault though he has not been formally charged with that crime and songe fears if he's extradited to sweden he'll then be handed over to authorities in the united states who are apparently building a case against him alleging that he's guilty of espionage and treason crimes punishable by death fearing for his life a son who's waiting a decision from ecuador as to whether or not they will. grant him political asylum and then give him safe passage out of the u.k. and into ecuador so far as far as we know no decision has been made yet by the ecuadorian government that julian assad were to leave the ecuadorian embassy he'd be arrested immediately by british authorities clearly the ongoing trials and tribulations of the wiki leaks founder have entered a new phase joining me now to discuss what exactly is going on in london and the role the united states plays i

there could dorian ambassador to the u.k. is to hold talks with president rafael correa on the fate of julian assange who's also for political asylum in the latin american country the whistleblower took refuge in the country's embassy in london on tuesday after the u.k. supreme court rejected an appeal against his extradition to sweden as knowledge of fears he will be immediately extradited to the u.s. where he could face the death penalty there for it has the story. held under house arrest and oppressed by the government in an effort to silence a pro-democracy message to the public but we're not talking about famous political dissident song suchi she's now free and being warmly welcomed by the british government we're talking about a western exponents of freedom of speech the charges of ever being bought against julian assange yet he still spent more than five hundred days under house arrest fighting extradition to sweden and possibly the u.s. now he's desperately hoping ecuador in the safe haven he seeks the latest from i t

say yes more than ten thousand e-mails of support for the whistleblower have been sam's today for dorian embassies in the u.k. and u.s. and a separate show of support thousands have signed a petition a move initiated by a u.s. based civil liberty group just foreign policy r.t. talk to robert nyman policy director for the organization who initiated the campaign. my sense sense of the people i've talked to is that ecuadorian government officials are sympathetic to their requests they understand the situation the same way we do understand the threat to join the songs from the united states with the threat that sweden once they got custody of assad would hand them over to the united states which would then prosecute him under the very controversial espionage act we don't know everything about what the u.s. government has done a night or might do but we know that a grand jury was impaneled in the united states to investigation of wiki leaks and bring charges we know that bradley manning's attorney believes his harsh treatment in u.s. custody was an attempt to get him to. testify against julia

most famous of lower julian assange joe awaits a decision on his asylum claim in london's i could dorian embassy or the diplomatic mission is snowed under by emails and letters supporting the wiki leaks. now with growth in europe having been stomped out by austerity the union leaders are gathering today in an attempt to condole a new spark but just how is proving rather divisive the weaker nations one euro bonds effectively a piggy back ride on germany's cheap interest rates are. silly as she has the latest from the side. to be frank there's not a lot of optimists here in brussels the leaders are coming here today to meet at a very crucial time there are already five euro zone nations that have needed a bailout cyprus being the latest and there is no disagreement really that they need growth in the euro zone area where the way to go forward is the big issue here there are two points of view one is germany's and the others share the other point of view germany does not want to share debt of neutralize debt in the form of your bonds until all the others agree to surrender their budgetary c

very pleased dorian's are taking a much more sensible stance on this than we are and you know we offer asylum to so many people who don't get me and yet when it comes to a clear cut case like this where someone is even in threat of their lives you know we've got other outstanding cases with with the americans on extradition and i feel that it was the whole thing with gary mckinnon that made the americans used to try and get a soldier to continue to have a computer suffers from the syndrome whereby he's liable if if a tradition goes ahead to take his own life because you know he doesn't have the mental tools to deal with the whole process now are obviously a much stronger character and he is he has attempted to study and live with the judicial process as long as he could but that there comes a point where any rational person has to see that the cause that he's being dealt a stacked against him left right center and say listen not from this poker table i'm not playing this game and thank you very much that's probably been from the you can't pendants party will be following this as it dev

on the stand was dorian sanchez, the sister of louie sanchez and the fiancee of the other defendant,vin norwood. she said that bryan stow yelled at the fans that day and tensions escalated in the parking lot. she said the two men disappeared and came rushing back ordering her to quickly drive them away. >> no, not until i had seen blood on marvin's hands when we were exiting the stadium. >>> another witness testified seeing stow's head hitting the pavement, knocking him unconscious. we have complete coverage of this online at ktvu.com. >>> the city of san francisco will not help pay the legal bills of suspended bill ross mirkarimi. now, mirkarimi reportedly argued he's entitled to legal help from the city as an elected official. but the city attorney disagreeses. mayor ed lee suspended him without pay. today, both sides will hand in a list of witnesses that they want the commission to subpoena. >>> family members and friends of a teenager shot and killed by police in south san francisco are holding vigils at the gas station where he was shot. the family of 15-year-old derrick gaines