director of the security and international relations program at the university of westminster and in geneva we cross the steven heine's he is an international lawyer and a professor at the geneva center for security policy all right gentlemen crosstalk grows in effect that means you can jump any time you want a to find out who you are to pee right to protect our right to penetrate nation states what is it because we saw libya and we have syria on the agenda ok and i think we all would agree that syria and libya are not great powers. yes well it is usually used to refer to the responsibility to protect the right to protect but possibly the right to protect as it is a better way of understanding this principle because. what or two people sensually stands for is a discretionary entitlement the security council may intervene if it determines that a particular situation constitutes a threat to international peace and security but the problem with or to is that it's under no obligation to do anything and essentially what ought to be has done is very very little it's created a slogan and certainly

before i went to the break you want to jump in there respond to something that stephen said in geneva go right ahead. yeah i don't i mean it may not have been in the black letter of the security council debates or in the legal justifications given for the anglo american invasion of iraq but the idea that humanitarian intervention the responsibility to protect had no role to play in iraq i think is deeply disingenuous it systematically lowered the barriers there political barriers to man interventions of that kind and both george bush and tony blair repeatedly invoked the idea of overthrowing saddam's tyranny a very strong humanitarian argument that has been made in many other cases where military intervention has been launched and in tony blair's memoirs he very made very clearly makes the case that he saw the intervention in iraq along the lines of the responsibility to protect so i'm not sure that the strict legal criteria in relation to what happened in iraq are as important as the political question and the fact that it was politically legitimated on the grounds on largely humanit

representatives last met in october in geneva. the u.s. department spokesperson said the u.s. side wants to see if north korea is ready to take concrete steps toward denuclearization. the u.s. envoy will visit seoul and tokyo in the days following the talks. glenn davies will report on what he learns. >>> trade in china and north korea hit a record high last year. a 62% jump from the previous year reflects the north increasing dependence on china. there was $5.6 billion worth of trade between the countries. north korea leaders have been inviting foreign investment. they are aiming to boost the country's infrastructure and agriculture sectors. north korea has become isolated and seen little economic progress. the country has been forced to rely on china, a long-time ally. >>> a ratings agency has downgraded countries under scoring the financial crisis. the business team has the latest. ai. >> s&p has done the same thing and now moody's has downgraded italy and spain. it dropped italy, portugal and slovakia and malta and slashed spain by two notches. countries with the highest w

we know that europe is in the middle of a severe freeze and this is in lake geneva.rything is literally frozen over. >> those icicles look dangerous if they broke they could stab you. >> this makes you cold just looking at it. they need to consider some of those indoor boat storage places. >> geneva does have northern winds which helps this ice form because it's very cold and very dry. look at how people are being so careful, trying to walk across the ice. >> they look like they're trying to make the best of it. that woman was ice skating down the sidewalk. >> that's the cool thing about the fact that this entire city is covered in ice. everyone is experiencing it. it brings people together, because they're all having to deal with it at once.>>> foxes . ♪ ♪ >>> in case you guys didn't already know, formula 1 is my favorite motor sport out there. this is jane rexal and she is participating in the formula 1 experience. typically f 1 cars are just a single seat. she's able to ride behind the driver in this experience. this is in abu dhabi at the circuit. now, f 1 cars c

the tax arrangement force hedge fund in geneva are that basically you pay a rate of 8.8%. so you know f you are superrich. >> -- and frankenstein, which is another motivation. >> rose: what is franken stein's impact on this. >> well, you know, the trouble with financial novels is wall street in the city of london, as backdrops, i don't think they are good for readers. there is something offputting about them. but when the hedge fund were helping they said they were relocated to geneva not just for the mountain scenery but to avoid the tax rates in britain, then that unlocked the book for me after more than a decade of thinking about it because i realized that geneva being the home of frankenstein and the gothic novel, the way i could approach this story was to write a modern gothic novel. a gothic novel being about, really, the hinterland between the human and the other. >> rose: so enter frankenstein. >> exactly. and there are lots of nods in the novel to the whole frankenstein myth. >> rose: back to the intruder, so hoffman can't figure out how any intruder could have go

and north korea last met in october in geneva. u.s. state department spokesperson victoria nuland said the u.s. wants to see if north korea is ready to take concrete steps towards denuclearization. talks have been stalled more than three years. the u.s. envoy will visit seoul and tokyo in the days following the talks. davies will report on what he learns. that wraps up this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. tokyo. thanks for joining us. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

the line is winding down geneva. thousands expected each day of this four-day event.ca brings all major lenders together it has contracts to lower monthly payments. one man told us his story. >> living the american dream that we hoped to have had. six years ago when i bought the home, now houses -- the market has gone down so far, i owe $500,000 on a home that is worth $158,000. >> reporter: that is the kind of story wex are hearing from a number of people completely underwater looking for hope, help. you see them getting ready. theç entireç event is free to the public. they would like to you please bring all mortgage documents. there are people coming from sacramento to see if they can get help. don't make it a long trip for nothing. bring all your documents it is a four-day event it goes through monday. for more information go to abc7news.com click on see it on tv. find out more about this naca event. terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >>> developing news along the san mateo county coast. the coast guard is searching for a missing boater. officials say a 64-year-old left

as far as the people who are opposing this location, my daughter moved to the geneva area which is already there is graffiti everywhere. if any of these neighbors cared, they would do something right now before the pot club or dispensary gives them a bad name. if they cared about them, there would look at the liquor store where all kinds of busy -- ççcheesy business goes on in e back room. them and do whatever. most of my --iÑ we go home and have a glass of wine. we never see a pot person being violated or drive a hundred miles an hour. a couple of glass of wine could do that to the human, give the wrong judgment and it has been proven. i am here to talk on their behalf. since they have been a model citizen as a dispensary, you should give them a chance and i hope all these people who are worried about their children, they teach their children from the house where they should be taught. but there is good or bad or drug or is not. for blaming society for the children is wrong. >> 120 years ago or so, the good people of many neighborhoods like this one would come to keep chinese-americans

where i was attending the world rating conference in geneva that the worldwide telecommunications union has and the 93 countries represented there and came back early, because they got a new draft on the lifeline link up order tuesday night, so i came back early to work on that and read through it. and we are in the sunshine period and for those who don't know what that means, it actually is the name reversed. it is really a blackout period where we are not supposed to be talking about it, and the details of it with folks from the outside. so usually a week before every monthly meeting at the stc, the curtain comes down where we are not supposed to have outside contact regarding what is on the meeting agenda for that upcoming meeting a week later, but i am happy to talk in principle. congress codified the program in 19966 with the 1996 telecommunications act and it is a program that it dad back to the 1980s through the fcc, but congress thought it was a good idea that the 1986 telecommunications act passed overwhelmingly on a bipartisan basis and very few members of congress voted again

can now talk to curtis doebbler he's activist and international human rights lawyer joining me in geneva while the free syrian army is split over whether it wants to claim responsibility for those latest attacks in the syrian city of aleppo what does it turn us about the lack of unity in the the ranks of the opposition. well as you know the opposition is made up of many different people most of them in fact outside the country and many of them have been outside the country for some time and i think that it's unfortunate to him since whenever anybody is killed in an armed conflict and when such a killing like this happens i do think that we need to investigate to get to the bottom of it the syrian government has said that they are willing to investigate i hope that any other parties to the conflict would also be willing to investigate but i think what is important is in any country people have a right to participate in their government but that right does not extend to the use of violence against their own people and we see that in fact when that happens and when it's complemented by fore

the freezing temperatures have created a bizarre landscape around the geneva in switzerland. if a layer of ice has created a unique winter wonderland. >> that is beautiful. we will be back in one hour with more here on dw. >> thanks for watching. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org--

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and geneva following. >>> the talker of the day. what happened involving a child with a puppy. >> the video is incredible. she ended up and what rescuers had to do. >>> police think what may have happened that led this driver. you see it coming, going through a gas station. not yet. >> a live picture this morning. gorgeous out there. >> >>> how did dead birds end up on i-95. >>> and responsibility for a crash admitted. >>> and the maryland casino is moving closer to reality.

tokyo was second on the list with geneva, switzerland falling close behind. >> this is the one that youill be talking about. getting a 2-year-old out of a toy vending machine. >> .josh powell may have to rest in peace somewhere else. >>> when we dry out and temperatures drop off details coming up. >>> weekend is in store for the morning commute after the closing of the interstate. and what you can expect for travelers on crane highway. >>> cars are getting more dependable. the jd powers said that lexus, cadillac are the most reliable. >>> get ready for the increase in domestic airfares southwest added $10 when southwest raises fares others follow. american airlines did. the government is cracking down on those robo calls. the members that come during dinner. telemarketers will need your permission to call. >>> and and oscars may not be handed out at the kodak theater. the company has the permission to end the naming rights. >>> and that's america's money. >>> new developments after a tractor-trailer shut down 95. information you need to know for the commute. >>> and in a few hours the s

geneva and mission was an awful place to get off or on a bus. people that are here to speak. i think -- i hope you'll take into consideration the over- saturation is going to get this. thank you. [applause] çpresident miguel: that is not allowed. >> i am a if the community is g out as they have byok voice and putting pen to paper, i hope that we do the right thing. thank you. president miguel: next speakers. >> good evening. i came to speak in opposition of 4218. çfrom a planning perspective, u will heart( never heard opposition from an emotional standpoint and family standpoints. from a planning perspective that the housing authority -- as a housing authority commissioner, this location is 1,100 feet from the ymca, serving a number of youth and 1150 square feet from the boys and girls club. predominately the mission and silver bust out which is in the middle of these locations, well within 1,000 feet of this okproposed medical kamen -- canada's club is a major stop for a number of youth to access these facilities. from a planning perspective

nighttime temperatures in geneva around negative 30 degrees. >>> sculptures in wisconsin are busyworking for the winterfest sale operation that take place this saturday. they're preparing and carving out the centerpiece. they'll be hard at work for that. and they have them caged up so no one would want to vanned doggize them -- vandalize them. >>> those are beautiful. we will not get anything like that today. we're going to have the winter coming and will get some snow. it will start out as rain in some spots. but it's a quick move. >> it's like saturday. we'll get accumulations as we go into the grassy surfaces and also on the car tops and that sort of thing. but sticking on the roads, i don't think so. some spots yesterday around 70 degrees. we'll not deal with that today. temperatures coming in at 31 degrees in frederick and the big story today is the temperature. centerville right now 34 degrees and bel air 35 degrees. the satellite and radar, we finally have the clouds moving n you can see that in the west there and the snow moving into ohio. you look at the view, and this is the bi

transportation and equipment as well for geneva avenue and bicycle open for the tunnel. support for the bicycle fleet program and market street bike lanes, among other projects. we continued two program funds for the lifeline transportation program, established to improve the ability of low income communities. that is also administered by the authority. $10 million went to nine projects, including the balboa park station, other stations where we worked closely with commissioner abel lovalos' depa. hunters point revitalization, randolph transit access, improvements to route 29, 08 to treasure island, as well as other transit services. the livable communities and teammate block grant saw an amount of activity as well. $20 million in programmed projects including pedestrian transit improvements on market and haight, soma, streetscape improvements on second street, broadway avenue, bike trail projects, and safe routes to school education program, projects at sunset elementary. commissioner campos: before you move forward, we have a question from commissioner carmen chu. comm

while reducing access to mission bay and impacts to geneva avenue.the intention of the group was to bring together multiple things for the city and so the city could speak with one voice. here you have a list of the members of the working group. the transportation authority, and then it city agencies. the economic and work force development, mta, the port, and the planning department. in the 1.5 years, almost two years that a working group has been established, they established because the agents it. -- established the agencies. a san francisco terminus. we identified options for maintenance facility for the high-speed rail. and we looked at another approach. in addition to that, we have obtained agreement to include city options in the environmental documents. these graphics are a little bit engineer-y. been involved tunneling under 16th straight -- street. it is just a matter of the length. this envisions the possibility of substituting a portion of the freeway with the surface boulevard, and then having the high-speed rail. the business plan. the

she went to geneva and met with the french and the british. -- she went to tunisia and met with the french and the british. some of them don't want intervention, and she met with the syrian opposition. she feels that they don't represent the opposition inside cirio well enough. at the end of the day, she feels frustrated that this isn't coming together. ,he doesn't see a way forward had a scenario looks like a long civil war. >> the white house is basically giving up on the syrian violence? >> american officials have made very clear that this and her administration's goal remains the ousting of president assad. it sounds like they have gone back to the drawing board to define how you move forward. either you decide you are ok with a long growing conflict in syria and try to manage it, or you decide you're going to go all in with a unilateral military position. he at the moment, they will try to figure out if there is something in the middle. trying to peel off officers away from the inner circle and see if they can try to put together some kind of mini intervention of some sort with a buff

this location is right at the center of mission and geneva.e in their teenage years. while everything may be done completely well at the dispensaries, anyone patient but felt they might want to sell -- any one patient that might want toq i think it is more possible for that to happen and further north on mission street, which is a little more isolated from secondary and middle schools, i think, even though they are technically beyond 1,000 feet. that is my problem with these two. zvçñr>> i will move to -- i wie to take d.r. and çdisapprove both. çpresident miguel: is there a second? xdcommissionerçç sugaya: the difficulty i have with the nile is coming up with findings. -- denainial is coming up with findings. if the night, i am sure there will immediately appeal to the board of appeals. having sat on the board of appeals, mr. reed came before us manyç years ago. the board charge is to lookxd at the people and the code and try to apply what is in the code. from that standpoint, i think commissioner wut( is right. thereç is a set of stan

. >> as we have heard, an international meeting will take place tomorrow in geneva to address the growingolence in syria. for more on what can be accomplished, i am joined by a former u.s. state department adviser who is a fellow at the woodrow wilson center. it is a really grim image of what is happening and yet we have hillary clinton saying that she thinks that the opposition forces will be increasingly capable of defending themselves. is that realistic? >> i sympathize with the fact that the options here are very grim. the administration has three objectives. they are to establish safe havens. they need to help what -- to help what is not a population without the capacity to fight the instruments of state power. this could endure for quite some time, the killing, the shelling. worse if they decide to retake arms and put it into one of the main centers of opposition. the west will look increasingly bad in the weeks to come. >> the u.n. announced that they have this list of senior syrian officials. they are accused of crimes against humanity, they have appointed an envoy, does that make

. >> foreign ministers from 50 countries, mostly arab and western nations, that in geneva on friday for the friends of ca meeting. they open the borders. -- the syrian council told ministers did that weapons are being smuggled in to syria to help the rebels. we have this report from tunis. >> defense of syria conference was hoping to put more pressure on the syrian president, but it produced little agreement on how to do it. the syrian opposition says it needs weapons. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton favors an embargo on syrian oil. the conference was not set up to discuss the possibility of military intervention, but at the end of the meeting, france's foreign minister refused to dodge the issue. >> some people have raised the hypothesis. we continue to think about what concerns us in the security council. in the and, if the situation does not improve quickly, of course, all possibilities could be taken into consideration. >> in syria itself, that suffering continues. this video of homs uploaded to the internet appears to confirm reports that the city is under constant bombardm

this is in anyone geneva, switzerland. so things here not so bad. >>> you got that right. think it will be a little messy this evening. you know how mutes are even if we -- how commutes are even if we just get plain rain. so we could get black ice out there overnight. i'm thinking maybe up to an inch around the city and points northward maybe two inches and maybe a little more the further west you go. we usually get more snow in those areas anyway. but we're talking about the roadways. but we will not see that much snow on the roads. the ground has been too warm. but we'll get the accumulations on the grassy surfaces. you can see this on the cars as well. and all this is going to come from this storm system right now. this is to the south of ohio. you can see snow, lots of snow and heavier snow into ohio right now. this is advancing towards the east as we go through the day. it will start into western maryland as snow. and then it will move into our area starting out as rain and we'll move it over to snow as we go into the afternoon. so the time frame, about 2:00 or 3:00,

[tone] >> my name is geneva. i have been homeless for two years. have been on the waiting list for that long. my number was high. are around the 3000, 4000, i got there at 302. i have not had a letter or anything. and i have been at the shelters for almost three months. since i have been in the shelters, my kids have been sick. back and forth to the hospitals and doctors' appointments, i cannot do much to get a job while in this process. having more units available then you are supposed to, i give out more than are needed now -- the winter, when it is cold. it makes sense. i feel like if more people knew about the situation, and more people had turned care about the homeless, anyone could be in this situation. you ain't got to be low income or a pedestrian to make you homeless. any situation could make you that way. you could come from the richpoor being rich to poor in a minute. it could happen to anyone. you do not have to have a specific reason to be on the streets. it do not take much to end up in my position. people laugh at the homeless and i

this is lake geneva sunday. >> cars, boats, trees, streets, all encased in ice as a cold spell continues to cover europe with temperatures far below zero. not a good looking picture there. lynette, see the pictures, you are like thank goodness i live in maryland. >> they are pretty. i like that. thank goodness i live in maryland and it's been mild. i know a lot of the people there want the snow, i'm going to detail it in a second. not picking up on anything this morning. looks like yesterday. we are not as cold as we were yesterday. the temperatures coming in the 30s instead of the 20s. pull out and we are looking at the moisture here, we can see the clouds south. by tomorrow, we will have a system, a little disturbance coming out of the mississippi valley, across the tennessee valley, bringing us a wintery mix as we head in to the day on wednesday. i think that most of the moisture will get in to through the afternoon. slight chance tomorrow morning i will walk you through it. things will happen through the afternoon. in more depth coming up. now a check of our traffic with angela. good

when she was there, i spent four years around trade as seminal and getting gas of on the corner at genevas always been a particularly rough neighborhood. i can see that only improving with the green cross. this is the type of organization, i have had my card u or 11 years now. somebody else mentioned they keep coming back to the green cross. i do, too. thank you. commissioner antonini: i there additional speakers in favor of the project sponsor? iÑ>> hello and good evening. i am coming to you today as a third-generation san franciscan and also someone who was raised in the neighborhood. i went to balboa. i know all about the area in the neighborhood. i want to tell you that the green cross being there would be a good thing for. my grandmother lives in the neighborhood. i go there all the time. i recently became a certified massage therapist. they're still hiring and giving opportunities to people who are looking for work. i recommend that you approve what it does best. thank you. >>commissioner antoéini: i there additional speakers in favor? d.r. requestor, you have two minutes for rebu