if we are looking to offer bus service on geneva avenue, are there synergy and can we perhaps run the light rail and can there be buses in that right of way and i think there is some additional thinking that can be done there. >> sorry, to jump in again. the ideas in the near term and in the long-term to look at the rail over lay. >> then, this is a bicounty transportation study. is there any approval that san mateo county is providing there? >> our agreement is that this study is essentially being co-led by the two management agencies, the authority here in san francisco and the agency called the city county association of government of san mateo county. >> okay. thank you. >> i just had a question about a potentially controversial issue on the bay shore cal trans station on the san mateo county side and different efforts to look into moving it into san francisco side north and can you talk about that issue? >> sure. so the topic you are talking about is the idea to move that bay short cal trans station north from where it is now into san francisco? and we understand that that is an

if we are looking to offer bus service on geneva avenue, are there synergy and can we perhaps run the light rail and can there be buses in that right of way and i think there is some additional thinking that can be done there. >> sorry, to jump in again. the ideas in the near term and in the long-term to look at the rail over lay. >> then, this is

with that, chester fung will discuss the geneva. >> thank you. chester fung planning with the authority. this is the study that was referenced in the previous item you just heard. the geneva visibility study. the boundaries are to balboa park station. for the eastern water front and southern part of the city. while the far eastern around western end had been previously studied there are some middle portions that had not been studied and settled so there is a neat effort to look at the remaining gaps and making sure the segments are compatible with each other and create a comprehensive design for the full corridor. the advising committee to help shape the project, additional outreach committees for that and development interim and permanent solution where we are mentioning previously as well as transit system benefits finally a plan related to the work for the bicounty study. the cost is $550,000. the partners in san mateo county are expected to contribute $250,000. that's -- is there any -- that's the end of our presentation. >> thank you. collea

steps we know that we want to advance some individual projects on our priority list including that geneva transit line. the next item on your agenda today actually includes the question for prop k funds to serve as a local match for a graph that we recently received from the transportation of cal trans to do a study to look at a new east west bus line. we also know that the city of bris bane is looking to move forward with additional design work with the geneva avenue exchange. as you want to monitor the project as it arrives, we may need to refine and revisit some of the by county projects as it continues to evolve and land use decisions are made. that concludes my presentation. an item we are looking for the final improvement. i'm happy to answer questions. >> thank you, i think this really highlights the transportation authority and bringing together private and public and the community participation is very strong in seeing this process. commissioner campos. >> thank you mr. chairman, i know we are joined by the authority as well. thank you for an excellent presentation. i just had a

steve is there is geneva. >> yeah, thanks, ross.it was a mixed performance from renault in january. it did outperform the wider market declines. still a decline of 6.1%. let's speak to the man in charge of renault and renault nissan more broadly. carlos, very nice to see you today, sir. >> thank you. >> of all the estimates for 201 i'm reading at the moment, you're up until now the most optimistic i've seen. opal is in the region of 3% decline for 2013. are you sticking with that for europe? >> yeah. it is true that we have been a little bit surprised, negatively surprised by the fact that january and february the market has been very disappointing with the minus 9%. we don't think that it's going to continue at this level. we still see the overall year 2013 as tough and in decline, but we don't think that the magnitude is going to continue throughout the years. but, you know -- >> tell us, what is it that you're seeing that a lot of the pundits can't see about the optimism. it's the worst last year last year in 17 years. it was the

. >> one of the world's most important, show's opening in geneva with vw introducing its new concept car. >> and in world soccer, the champions league finals. the chinese premier has made his final address to the national people's congress as the country prepares for a transition of power. >> he listed what had been achieved for the past 10 years and set ambitious targets for the next decade including boosting economic growth, tackling corruption and addressing economic inequalities. >> the change in leadership in china's communist party takes place once every 10 years. president hu jintao will also step down. >> for the last time, the chinese president opened a session of the national peepers -- peoples conference. xi jinping is set to take over as president. it is also outgoing leader wen jiabao's last conference. >> this year's economic growth target of around 7.5% is necessary and appropriate, and we need to work hard to achieve it. >> sustaining strong growth of the last decade is becoming harder for china. beijing need to pay for its ambitious projects, which range from better

the oh bag application was really focused on the north and south side of again geneva. the north side can me is working with bart where people access the station of the north side of geneva. so battery bart would be moving forward on the south side and they would like to wait on canopy and in lieu of that put a bus shelter on the south side. what this would do in terms of moving the project forward because of the timing of the area funds, this would advance the project about 9 months. looking at the schedules but in terms of funding availability to bring the project forward a little bit. the final two projects the -- commissioner avls. yes, very quickly. the blue project, this will be coordinated with $3.6 million project. this is not a lot of planning and design. we understand they are trying to move forward and start some of those discussion. we'll be looking at our prop k program to see if we can provide some of the paving funds. finally the 24th street bart station the northeast, southwest plaza, the construction is upgrading the plaza area. the project didn't score

there have two cluster, basically north to silver and just south of geneva where they are allowed. so supervisor avalos is supportive of medical cannabis dispensaries, but after hearing the concerns in the neighborhood about not wanting to see a dozen of them go in on one block, he thought this was a good compromise to allow them, but not basically more than one a block. >> thank you. >> this seems to me as though the general consensus is the desire to be able to form this new neighborhood commercial district. >> i think the excelsior deserves it, you know? . >> yes >> so is this one you need a motion on? >> we need a motion. >> i will move to approve. >> i will second. >> did you want to explain about the hours by any chance? >> requiring a cu for businesses that operate between 2:00 and 6:00 a.m. >> to make it consistent? >> to make it consistent with the other ncds, the other named ncds. >> are you okay with that, luke? >> absolutely. >> i'm sorry, i had the motion by commissioner o'brien and who was it seconded by? >> yee riley. >> thank you, mr. president. on that motion -- >>

bit on either side around the triangle around where ocean avenue and then either side of mission on geneva, including the naples green over here. and then where you see a couple of red circles is where planning staff identified a couple of parcels that we mistakenly left out that we're planning to amend in to make the area contiguous. and so we're in the process of meeting with a bunch of the neighborhood groups to discuss this. we had a positive reaction from the excelsior improvement association and next couple of weeks we'll meet with the outer mission association and a couple other groups we're planning to reach out to. our plan is go to the planning commission april 18th for this ordinance. i think that is the overall. i would be glad to answer any questions that you have about it. >> commissioner dooley. >> most nc districts have some limitations that require a cu for businesses to operate after 2:00 a.m., like 2-6. are you planning on incorporating that into yours? >> i was unaware of that until mr. schulman brought that up preparing for this meeting and it's something that i passed

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the geneva agreement, these countries want to push syria into foote bloodshed, and one of the flaws -- >> i'm sorry. let me get into syria. >> is a major power from funding non-government groups. >> is it a mere coincidence that two countries iran and syria that happen to be political allies were the two countries that blocked this draft and two countries that have an arms trade agreement together? >> no. if you look carefully, you will see that india objected. they had strong reservations, pakistan. >> they objected but it's iran and syria and north korea that has blocked -- >> if you would allow me to speak, i would continue and say iran has a lot of history with international law. the u.s. security council with he iran-iraq war blocked saddam hussein as even being named as those in the west. but they provided him with chemical weapons to slaughter iranians. and while iran is abiding by international law, the pressure is on iran from the international atomic agency because the countries there are duns of power and in the west so the iranians are saying anything international has to

the oh bag application was really focused on the north and south side of again geneva. the north side can me is working with bart where people access the station of the north side of geneva. so

this is actually just a fight among two companies one guest geneva based spamhaus which is a nonprofit but has bases all over the world they actually provide security services to keep bad things from going through the internet than the other side we have cyber bunker a company a dutch company who is very open about being able to do whatever they want on the internet they can hold us lots of material and they don't like being told what they can and can't do on line and what has erupted is a battle on the web that has in some instances actually crippled internet traffic internationally i think we're seeing something that's a little childish it's between two groups who just don't don't quite get along what's happening as a result of this is the whole internet is slowing down and so it could have some pretty dangerous repercussions of that happening for an entire week now and is you know under investigation and as we saw earlier when we were talking to cyber bunker it seems like that that group isn't exactly ready to just sit back and go ahead and throw in the towel here and our new video

well indefinite detention is itself against the geneva conventions so yes i would have to say that it is against international law and it is binding on the united states. stephen interest thank you very much indeed for joining us live that from washington steven introduce a lawyer representing to guantanamo bay detainees thank you very much. bahrain has been engulfed by clashes between protesters and police on the second anniversary of a saudi intervention which crushed a pro democracy uprising security forces fought stun grenades and tear gas at thousands of angry much as it burned time and held stones at police side howdy he's a former m.p. from bahrain's largest opposition party says the people are outraged by the government's reluctance to admit there is a crisis. the collective punishment is a. kind of policy of the. security forces also on. the security forces this makes a problem and worth the thirteen don't want to admit it's a political problem no political for human rights situation which makes the people . the people insist the state and wrote this for me and to show intent

this is actually just a fight among two companies one geneva based spamhaus which is a nonprofit buthas bases all over the world they actually provide security services to keep bad things from going through the internet they actually protect one point four billion e-mail accounts across the entire world than the other side we have cyber bunker a company a dutch company who is very open about being able to do whatever they want on the internet they can host lots of material and they don't like being told what they can and can't do online and what has erupted is a battle on the web that has in some instances actually crippled internet traffic internationally i know earlier you guys actually spoke to someone from from cyber bunker who you know didn't go ahead and actually credit himself with that with this attack but kind of defended it and said it was a stance that was existing so that they can go up against this big international nonprofit who so they claim can actually control what goes on the web. and to be. effective. we're going to say which were the job into the bush issue and wh

of progress here though john kerry and russian foreign minister lavrov found common ground on the geneva declaration recent and kerry's response to have a personal relationship with our side it seems that fighting is continuing the ground violence and is intensifying as well as claims and size i mean ready to talk actually are continuing to blame each other and are still warring sides. most of which pretty sure. clarke has written extensively about syria told us it's no accident. spent a large part of his life in the u.s. before being voted in those opposition prime minister let's take a listen. the americans want to make sure that when president assad falls they got their man in damascus and they cherry picked and he voted by thirty five people that it's quite ludicrous to argument if this guy has the right to rule syria where is present the south whether we support him or not does have sizable support in the country which is why still in power and so i think the answer your question the us wants this man as an ideal sort of leader opposed to south to take power and obviously to do the

two and a half years in geneva. in and out all the time. but we're packing up the office and all the campaigners are going down to this pub, pickwick pub in geneva, they went all the time, i didn't go, i didn't like the smoke and the people that much. not the people themselves but i'm a loner so i tend to go to my room and lay down and read that night i decided to go. and we were at the pub and i usually sneak out because i hate good-bye so i was sneaking out to go to the hotel, i had a very early plane the next day back to vermont and all of a sudden steve fwoose was beside me and we were walking back to the hotel, campaigners tended to stay in the same hotel. we get to the frovent door and we hear a voice above us and it's our friend susan, who had been working on the campaign for years with handicap international out of france. she is holding a bottle of wine. you know, being ridiculous, we went upstairs and had more wine. susan, sorry, susan, susan fell over on the bed -- laid down gently on the bed and the next thing we knew she was sn

. >> you know there are geneva conventions against what you're doing. a typical night for the family goes something like this -- they put mia down at 7:30, which can quickly become 8:30. >> we have to sit there and hold her hand then. it's a whole procesprocess. >> once mia finally does fall asleep, she doesn't stay that way long. >> between midnight and 2:00 a.m., 1:00 or 2:00 a.m., she's screaming so loud that a, i'm afraid she's going to wake emmy up. and b, i'm afraid she's going to hurt herself. so at that point, the only thing we've done in the past was give her a bottle and bring her into bed with us. >> reporter: meanwhile, emmy isn't sleeping well either. both parents work full time and they're both at their breaking point. how much would you pay to get your life back is the question? >> i was just telling -- >> a whole lot. >> i would give up my life savings at this point. >> reporter: so they're giving in and paying up. by turning to an increasing trend among exhausted parents. a paid sleep consultant. enter dream team baby. connor herman and

these military tribunals are a little unconventional-- in that they may not be covered under the genevaconventions-- but it's paranoid to imagine that the government is eavesdropping on you at the defense table. they're eavesdropping on your attorney-client meeting rooms. [laughter] hey, they say justice is blind, but they never said she's deaf. [laughter] [cheers and applause] okay, so the whole thing's being spied on and controlled by unseen forces. big deal. it's just like "survivor," except in this case, no one gets voted off the island. but folks, i can understand that for many this trial has lost its legitimacy. so i say we do the ethical thing and let the detainees go free. then hunt them down with flying death bots. [laughter] here to shed light on what's going on at gitmo until his mic is cut by unseen forces is former acting solicitor general of the united states and lead counsel for the gitmo detainees in hamdan v. rumsfeld neal katyal. neal good to see you again. thanks for coming on. [cheers and applause] all right. first of all, watch what you say, i have a feeling that th

you were saying, wait a minute, war in theood experience in howo geneva convention. that voice was not being heard as stridently as it needed to be within the policy-making apparatus that was considering the changes after 9/11. as a three-star in the pentagon, you have a voice. we have never changed the law of war manual. the law of the land was published in october of 1956. rules have not changed much. the geneva conventions has been around for awhile. we understand how to apply those. i do not think there was ever a tacit approval by the military establishment of those techniques. it affected us so fundamentally in terms of perception, credibility with the international community. i look at the ongoing challenges we had in guantanamo, we will never be able to get beyond the taint. it is a fundamental problem. the leader general, a wonderful officer, the chief prosecutor. he is doing everything he can to show these are legitimate proceedings, transparent, and follow the rule of law. the commentary we get from anyone who has been involved with the issue, you cannot f

also another problem 2 hundred people try to cross geneva avenue everyday. the cars leon on both sides of the street 2 thousand people r. and someone's going to get killed. it's a low priority. in the meantime, you're studying 70 millions and 60 millions for student traffic. it might cost 3 hundred thousands to serve traffic across the avenue. in the meantime someone's going to get killed there. i want you to reexam your priority. people have just as right as much to safety >> david. >> david again two items on general public comment. regarding shelters i have spoken about the new shelters and those locations don't have muni signs. again, i would ask if i could follow-up what the new contradiction is for the new shelters and including high volume park station on 19th and the other street don't have muni shelters. and i understand there's a special spring break transit schedule for march 25th. i think this is another bad idea we have not in the past had special schedules for the end of the year or during school break. we've operated a non-day reconcile schedu

the geneva conventions has been around for awhile. we understand how to apply those. i do not think there was ever a tacit approval by the military establishment of those techniques. it affected us so fundamentally in terms of perception, credibility with the international community. i look at the ongoing challenges we had in guantanamo, we will never be able to get beyond the taint. it is a fundamental problem. the leader general, a wonderful officer, the chief prosecutor. he is doing everything he can to show these are legitimate proceedings, transparent, and follow the rule of law. the commentary we get from anyone who has been involved with the issue, you cannot fix it. it is not guantanamo, then where is it? new york city? there has got to be something. >> i would like to ask you a question about your professional identity. the american military has always deployed people professional in other senses. you have ordained clerics, doctors, and lawyers. i am wondering to what extent you have seen your identity as a lawyer with your identity as an army officer. to wha