german property prices has officials ringing the alarm bells is it a bubble or is city living just becoming too expensive for many of us. and this weekend box a quarter century since the first text message but the gold mine days are over for telecoms. and been physical and let's do business who does the city belong to the citizens well for many living in this city has become an affordable. property prices have been rising for years in many metropolises and many a driven out of their homes we took a look at the situation in berlin. every kind in berlin every tenant if you're paying rent you are at risk. if you pan there's no right that guarantees everyone can live in the city centers. and of course the city must be there for those who live and work in otherwise it'll stop being a city that's was i. who does a city belong to and who can afford to live in it a common topic among berliners in the working class quite spec district many residents live on modest incomes so they're upset about the current push towards modernization which could end up doubling their rents but that's the plan for real estate firms

city has opened. and that new airport famously is more than five years behind schedule whatever happened to janet fissions stassen expensive living space is only one problem that city dwellers face these days another one is traffic after years of jammed streets and badly organized public transport the city of hamburg has now made a remarkable recovery smart technology is helping to avoid gridlock. as our cities become increasingly congested with more and more people on the move governments have to come up with new solutions to improve traffic flows and these days their digital this brand new software is helping hamburg to improve the coordination of its construction sites. we're very pleased we've had some astonishing results the program is very intuitive it's very similar to a smartphone or tablet anyone can use it it's very own problematic and i was seeing a big improvement in coordination. this software shows where a construction site is planned. if it looks like the plans will cause traffic snarl ups building what can be postponed. with other projects. it's a lesson. in how traffic lights and signals are already coordi

that because they believe that the most economically successful city in the world is the most expensive city in the wild which is london and the cost of housing part of the actual economic success until they get out of that mindset and so they can win that's what matters is how well people are. living out happy that living actually say why are you not addressing the things that we you know a bunch of good out the next tory m.p. on this show will. disagree with your president only thank you and that's it for the show will be back on saturday it was journalist for this a b the following the recent protests in syria it's razor maze government will ever stop funding groups which supported the destruction of new york's twin towers on nine eleven till then people top five social media with you on saturday thirty years to the day of the beginning of the first intifada against the illegal u.k. backed israeli occupation of palestine including the disputed city of jerusalem where in the past twenty four hours donald trump has signaled his intention to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv. but politicia

population in my district so i was look forgeron a commissioner that of those aging and based expensive city and living with disabilitys and living in active and an fran and so i wanted to i thank you mr. pappas and i am pleased to have met you and you will be in excellent commission err on this body. >> great, thank you. >> i entertain a motion. >> sure. >> supervisor. >> i also want to say that you were very thorough in your presentation and i want to catch up and it's fies to see you schools and issues effecting seniors is something that's been important to all three of us and in fact if you are happen to have time tomorrow and i'm having a hearing on residential care facilitys and impact up and down whether it's acute care and so fourth and someone already has more focus hearing last week and this week and but what i'm looking is to see what is the city can do to reinforce that trend of loosing on these bids in the city fur interested and you are more than welcome and i'd like to make a motion forward with for a positive recommendation to the board. >> i second that. you need to amend th

are incomes in the more expensive cities a re really incomes in the more expensive cities areisis and what happened then and the money that was spent on that occasion, you think of the refugee crisis, you think of crisis and you think money was spent, that doesn‘t happen with homelessness. is it fundamentally that we don‘t care enough? i do think we care about it but i think the solution is quite difficult because what we‘re saying is we need to build a lot of social housing in places like london and chichester so we have the right and affordable accommodation for those people on lower incomes. that‘s much easier said than done and i know the government obviously has been focused on increasing housebuilding, andi focused on increasing housebuilding, and i think we have had a record yearin and i think we have had a record year in the last year, but still not meeting the needs as we move forward. so our record of housebuilding over successive governments for many years has not kept up with the pace of demand, and we have had quite a big increase in our population since 2005 and

over to our correspondent daniel cole who's in the financial capital frankfurt one of the most expensive cities in germany daniel how do you see the situation. well with bricks banned prices are really most likely even going to go up as we are seeing them right now eighteen meter square that's what you're paying one thousand euros i'm sorry per me just grit that's what you're paying right now and sometimes even three hundred people applied little bit earlier i talked to told by other he's one of the talks top experts here in germany when it comes to housing prices let's listen in. well it's always a question of supply and demand hopefully but on the other hand i think specially in the case of germany we will be facing a structural shift and into a new price level which is for the most of the chairman's coming from their good old days obviously shocking but to be fair i don't see any negative impact mainly due to the press shift of course somewhere like beyond but in the general view i'm still happy from analysts and others than point that direction well the one prices are too high we had the bo

. >> reporter: in this increasingly expensive city, affordable housing would suffer if tax credits disappear on capitol hill. >> the conference committee may decide that they have a heart, that they are going to be compassionate. but you and i doubt that. >> reporter: since 2010, the district has used federal tax credits to spend nearly $2 billion on more than 9,000 housing units of low income, work force families, and seniors. >> we need the 179 units that are going to be built right here on this site. [ applause ] >> yeah. >> reporter: in the district, tom sherwood, news4. >> a father's fight for teenager were killed on the eve of their graduation. >> the evidence found at the scene that led to a new arrest six months later. >> also, the governor of virginia reflecting on his best and worst days in office. and the lasting impact he hopes to have on your commute. >> and speaking of the commute, on storm team4 radar right now, not looking all that impressive but i'm tracking this area of rain that will bring showers to our region tomorrow. i'll have ♪ ♪ it feels good to be back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ what

. >> i have to have a caregiver with me to the most expensive city in the world and stay there for two. while they, um, wait to tell me that i'm -- i'm healthy enough to go home. >> gofundme page has been set up to cover those costs. it's the final blessing richie needs to save robert's life. a single dad of five who does dialysis three times a week.& >> it's funny when i told my kids they were just screaming. i'm surprised you didn't hear them in orlando. >> when it's all said and done, the three hope to meet where it all started. >> once, you know, everybody gets the corresponding body parts, we're going to hang out at disney. >> what a story. surgery scheduled by the way to take las january 18th. >>> a 31-year-old has died three days after being injured in a bad car accident in mantua. police say dukes drove over the yellow line into on-comcoming traffic on 34th street this was on wednesday night. she hit a another car resulting in her ultimately fatal injuries. paramedic rushed her to the hospital along with another person who was still in critical condition. officials say five oth

we're the most expensive city in the country and we must be more responsible about how we build. in the hub alone there are about six projects in the pipeline. imagine if every single one of those asked for 136 spaces. imagine what kind of impact that would have on traffic, which we all know in that particular corridor on market and van ness, it is constantly backed up. this iss a matter -- a major transit-rich corridor t. traffic is crazy as is and the van ness v.r.s., all the delivery trucks and ubers and lyfts and you get a big mess when you put all those things together on a consistent basis. with planning amendments -- what planning plans to do, we can't afford to have new projects movinging forward in the interim with parking options that are counter to what is the ultimate goal of the hub and the market octavia plan. this legislation puts interim controls in place for the next 18 months until the hub project is complete. specifically it removes the conditional use option for conditional parking for new developments within the hub area. those already in the pipeline will be

we all know that san francisco has become one of most expensive cities in the world, yet even as policymakers we don'ts have a clear data on how much it costs to buy or rents a unit in a given neighborhood at any given time. in order to fully understand the significance of our housing balance report we should also know how costs change in our districts as we lose and gain affordable units. when we are told that building more units with a market rate or affordable will bring housing rates down, this [inaudible]. when rent control units are lost, we lose not only the often long-term tenants who live in those units but affordability because we do not have the ability to place price controls on rent-controlled units the. and when a massive number of wealthy residents are po*efing to a neighborhood where high end housing has been built, we assume that sale prices will increase with those units that exist around these new developments. however, we cannot know unless we have regularly updated information. today we will hear from the planning department about how rental and sales prices for housing h

the district malto a city of peace and hope the people of earth unless a still striving to resolve their differences amicably with the syrian neighbors. rubbish collection and expensive business for cities and often inefficient but what if there was a way for the trash container itself to signal whether it was full or not this report from the hague. among rears a rude doesn't know where his job will take him today for years he and his colleagues had set routes now they change every day he sees on his tablet which containers to empty the information comes from sensors installed inside around fourteen hundred underground garbage containers in the hague around five hundred tons of household waste are thrown away in the city every day but only some containers get so full that they need to be emptied it took him some getting used to but he understands the advantages. for both of them it's better because you only empty the bins that are actually full so it saves a lot of time you can do more and only do what's necessary. two years ago the waste disposal service haganah your services into. use the sensor system made by the finnish startup and yvo. they won't say how much it

now because you took the massive pay cut, because you live in one of the most expensive cities -- >> and because you chose to work for a non-profit, you're paying an extra tax. >> and other small business organizations, if you own an insurance business, real estate business, used car dealer, you are going to get better tax treatment. just put it in perspective for a moment. >> joining us is the editorharw. we saw a clip at the beginning of the show, talking about bob corker of tennessee becoming a yes vote after he was a no vote. a last-minute change involving pass through businesses that put more money in some people's pockets. >> his pocket. >> corker kickback. >> he's got a real estate business. >> right. now, the question is, whether bob corker had anything to do with the provision. we do not know that. he has been embarrassed by the revelation or the allegation that he engineered this in order to get his vote. he's asked oren hatch to clarify in a letter where this came from. he said i wasn't on the tax writing committee or the conference committee and had nothing to do with thi

california hundreds of firefighters in los angeles are battling flames that of reach some of the city's most expensive neighborhoods the largest and most destructive is ranging in the foothills is raging rather in the foothills above the city of ventura north of las vegas los angeles rather. and we're bringing you more pictures coming in from that wildfire there. next it's the coming war on china stay with us here on al-jazeera. with yahoo. with the. with. with. the with. with. the but. with i pity a country that would come up against us. the synergy with their land and sea forces and in our ability to control the battle space and seize the high ground is devastating all countries respect the power of the united states in that respect how dominant we are in this region and we get better and better better and . tonight a ten a reg limps of china's on bishops expansion in one of the world's most contested regions we report from the south china sea by the chinese a warning off anyone who comes too close to that building program we continue our look this morning and what china does not want you to see the

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expensive. take new york city's famous grand central station.ere retail space can cost nearly 99% more than the space in this holiday market. that is because pop—up shops only have to pay rent temporarily. fro craft and jewellery maker like the blue count, best all in this market is critical to their bottom line. this holiday market, six weeks, it probably represents 50— 60% of our yearly. 0ne weeks, it probably represents 50— 60% of our yearly. one of the main reasons is that the location. we could never afford a store in midtown manhattan. shopping in america is in a state of flux. with consumer habits changing, all retailers are thinking their approach to the holidays. —— rethinking. there is a buying mentality when it comes to the stock markets in asia. they are up, up and away. a record close friday. at asian markets following the trend injapan at the moment. up over 1%. we will see how long the spending spree lasts four. i will be back very soon. —— we will see how long the spending spree lasts for. tens of thousands of people may be putti

west side of los angeles, not far from the getty center art museum , threatening some of the city's most expensive homes. authorities shut down one of a lay's busiest freeways. north west, a fire in the oftura area is still out control and has forced about 30,000 people to flee their homes. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am mark crumpton, this is bloomberg. julie: coming up, we take a look at the markets as that tax overhaul and pressure is facing the tech sector. this is bloomberg. ♪ julie: this is bloomberg markets, i am julie hyman. vonnie: and i am vonnie quinn. abigail doolittle is with us now. the trading day is interesting and make it more interesting. abigail: we are looking at very small moves for the major averages. we are looking at the major averages moving between small gains and small losses, throughout the day. this is fitting to what we have been seeing more often. the s&p 500 has reversed lower toward the end of the day. take a look at this injured a volatility. lots of tiny swings. investors are trying

the gap in income is growing wider today i don't know if it's news to any of you our city is more and more expensive to live in it's causing struggle and instability that's when we were excited to have the analytically to work with wour friends here at earn in san francisco if we would support to boost the savings read for everyone in san francisco that's why we're excited to be promoting and launch the saver life effort all of the work we do in our office for financial empowerment we have a lot of folks as i said left behind we have been shocked to learn nearly half of everybody in our city couldn't put their hands on $400 to cover an unexpected expense if they had to. imagine that. if a car broke down, if something happened medically or otherwise, they wouldn't have as much as 4 or $500 to address that. what are they supposeded to do? the reality is that's the struggle a lot of our families in this city deal with every day. and the pain that causes the instability, the consequences of them going to a payday lender, getting ripped off other the way and losing all sorts of stability in their lives a

city has opened. and that new airport famously is more than five years behind schedule whatever happened to germany's. scarce and expensive living space is only one problem that city dwellers face these days another one is traffic after years of jammed streets and badly organized public transport the city of hamburg has now made a remarkable recovery smart technology is helping to avoid gridlock. as our cities become increasingly congested with more and more people on the government's have to come up with new solutions to improve traffic flows and these days they're digital this brand new software is helping hamburg to improve the coordination of its construction sites. we're very pleased we've had some astonishing results. the programmers very intuitive it's very similar to a smartphone or tablet anyone can use it it's very own problematic and i'm assuming a big improvement in coordination. this software shows where a construction site is planned. if it looks like the plans will cause traffic snarl ups building what can be postponed. with other projects. it's a lesson. in how traffic lights and signals are already coordi

. >>> new york city is an expensive place to live, so when you come across a sign that says "free," you about a free newspaper? you bet. open that door, "new york post," you bet! >> whoa! >> hey, especially considering all those videos that just came out, you know, government been investigating ufos. turns out they are hiding in new york. >> they can come out now. the truth is out there. >> whoa! >> new york spices. >> person after person is startled by this thing. i love it, that alien arm reaching out to grab you, as soon as they open the door. but if that worked so well, imagine how well this would work. >> oh! >> oh, no. going to get punched. >> punching up into first contact. >> oh, hell no! >> that guy right now, knew they were coming! >> for the most part, after the screams of fear come the giggles of laughter. but they take it a step further. >> can you back up? no! >> have you noticed an absence of two special agents? the two special agents that desperately need to be here today are back. >> the truth still lies in the x files, mulder. >> okay. >> the group big moto created thi

also coming up a surge in german property prices is a bubble three city living just becoming too expensive for many of us. and germany's favorite fast food under threat as the e.u. ponders a ban on phosphates in meat. this is your business update on how an arm free in berlin thanks for joining me the bit coin volatility continues the cryptocurrency rebounding to ten and a half thousand dollars off the u.s. negotiators approved the listing of bitcoin futures the price had hit a record high of almost eleven and a half thousand dollars this week but it since plunged and shot back up again the volatility is from the warnings of a crash from prominent investors but others say the price still could go way higher . when our financial correspondent so fishman's he joins us now from new york sophie u.s. regulators approving the listing a bit according to futures what does this mean for the cryptocurrency trading game . it means more potential investors and more money helena you could say that now even watchdogs have decided to open bitcoin from main street and this could not only increase the price

living in their own houses, they don't need to go to a nursing home that is going to be more expensive for the city and the county. >> [speaking spanish] >> and i hope that you're going to pass this and thank you very much. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much and just for clarification, the agenda item that we're discussing today is a $9 billion supplemental and not the m.c.o. is not calendared but we're working to get this calendared as soon as possible and thank you for your testimony. any other members of the public to speak, come on and do so. this is for item 22. please come on up. you can speak from any microphone. welcome. >> hi, so my name is crystal wa and i'm the staff board at the local 2015 for san francisco county and i'm here for helping her to translate. >> hello. [speaking spanish] [speaking foreign language]. >> hi, everyone, good afternoon, i am anita lau and i'm coming here to ask the mayor and the board of supervisors to continue to support the san francisco living wage bill which is also called m.c.o. >> [speaking foreign language language]. >> so the current hour that we

does nothing to ensure that the same flawed process won't continue to be exploited at the expense of the city's historic resources were the planning code and building code have different demolition, different requirements. such inconsistencies are not only confusing to the public, but enable speculators and contractors to evade public scrutiny and destroy public resources without consequence. the fine assessed after the illegal demolition is not effective deterrent. there is nothing that the board can do now to bring back 841 chestnut, but it can take immediate steps to ensure that the historic cottage that remains is press conferenotecte. thank you. >> supervisor breed: are there any other members of the public who would like to specifically speak in support of the appeal, please line up to the right and if not, this will be the last speaker. >> good afternoon, my name is nan nancy your fell, i support the appeal because it allows work out a permit. i wish to point out a trick that the developers use to get around planning reviews that have doomed other buildings, including this one which repr

california hundreds of firefighters in los angeles a battling flames that reach some of the city's most expensive neighborhoods. time magazine has named the social movement silence bright as its person of the year the women of the online hash tag made to campaign that triggered an international outcry over sexual assault that's it for now. documentaries. at this time around. twenty first century africa a continent undergoing great change and finally seizing control of it. but it's been a long but it won't be as i go for dog i feel was a colonial to going to have to write about afraid. i'm not true.

we all spend a lot of time looking at city expenses and talking about other ways to cut costs so we can meet the needs of all of our communities. we would really love to figure out how do we have a renewed and shared focus on preserving revenue. to do that, we propose creating a revenue committee to consider, discuss, and analyze new revenue proposals for the city and county. that could include all the different kind of revenue proposals that come up from supervisors, from community groups from all over. whether they go to the ballot. whether they're considered by the supervisors to really bring those together and talk about them. and the revenue committee could outline a ten-year plan for what revenues will be needed and how we would raise that to support all of the capital and program goals. it could also be a venue to have a regular analysis of cost saving and expenditure savings so we could move forward together. thank you for listening. >> supervisor cohen: thank you for speaking. >> hi. jennifer -- on homelessness. it feels awkward to start speaking without acknowledging the passa

it's the most expensive rail project in the city's history.ne is now expected to come in at hk$16.5 billion above its original budget. and chinese president, xijinping, has been named the straits times' asian of the year. it's the first time the award has been picked up twice by the same person. now, what stories are sparking discussions online? many people talking about the ukraine. mikhail saakashvili, the former president of georgia, has been involved in a tense standoff with ukrainian police. he was detained at his flat in kiev early on tuesday, during which he threatened to jump off the roof. it drew a crowd of vocal supporters, who tried to prevent police from taking him away. his arrest came two days after he led a march calling for ukraine's president, petro poroshenko, to be impeached. japanese kamikaze pilots are infamous across the world for the fanatical suicide missions they carried out during world war ii. today, the word "kamikaze" is often used to describe terrorists on a suicide mission, but is it a fair comparison? mariko oi

expensive. >>> holiday tradition in the city's mayfair section tonight.he blessed trinity catholic school held its fourth annual life nativity. it was complete with a camel arc baby yack arc donkey, sheep and goats. school students depicted the scene of mary, joseph and baby jesus. ♪ no matter how you holiday, where you holiday, or who you holiday with... stay bright with dunkin's holiday coffee flavors like brown sugar cinnamon, and peppermint mocha. grab your favorite and make your holidays happen. the holidays run on dunkin'. $1that's like a big yummy hug.? so hug it up! hug more. hug large. hug medium? hug that. live it a hug life with $1.99 medium or larger hot chocolate. america runs on dunkin'. ♪ >>> welcome back a check this out. wow. snow is really coming down in ocean city, new jersey. blanketing the boardwalk sticking to the trees. quite a site. i'm sorry that's rehoboth beach. we will have more in scott' forecast coming up in just a second. skyfox over the pennsylvania turnpike earlier today that's where one person was killed in a car crash as

looking ahead to what is billed as the premier league's most watched and most expensive game as manchester united play manchester city on sunday. 1 billion people potentially tuning in to watch the first and second in the league, with the field of players worth about 100 £660 million. we will be talking to ryan sidebottom about what he thinks rugby union need to do. now though, it's time for the film review. hello, and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode. so, mark, what do we have this week? we have bill, which is a film about the boston bombing survivorjeff bowman —— stronger. human flow, and effective documentary by ai weiwei. and the dinner. we can discuss that. stronger, this is about the aftermath of the boston bombing. jake gyllenhaal as jeff aftermath of the boston bombing. jake gyllenhaal asjeff bowman, a young bostonian who was at the finishing line and was involved in the blast and lost both his legs. and then having survived the bombing then had to rebuild his life both physically and indeed mentally, and deal with the fact that he had sudd