as we're adding in these other changes where we're closing down an on ramp going north from geneva geneva, that's going to move traffic to ocean avenue as well. i think we should be being lewing at in this -- looking at this in the ways we're changing to getting on and getting off of the 280. is that something that's being proposed? >> when the circulation study was done, we assumed that the changes to the routing proposed by the tep was in place. the analysis done already included those. we will continue to include those and coordinate with mta on which elements are moving forward versus which have changed since the tep was written to ensure we're including the changes correctly in the traffic analysis. this would be more detailed and we will include those improvements to make sure it's holistically evaluated. >> great, i'm concerned that we're diverting more congestion into ocean avenue that will lead to huge impacts to the speed which we're trying to address with our changes to on ramp -- >> it's a valid concern. it's the first thing we will do to make sure these projects can continue

avenue and this will be a alternative while the geneva extension that is the long term. and the other one is on red on the slide and going south, and going through, what is now, betty avenue and this option is less certain given the plans to expand the campus and the release for the nop for the eir and so we are really just weighing the pros and cons for these two alternatives. and the concerns with circulation and the parking lots and it provides us a more direct connection to cal train and so it is just a question of looking at these two options. the request that they are bringing for you today is to complete the study and look at this new alternative in addition to carrying out additional rounds of out reach. we will be having the translation and it is the opportunity for them to voice the concerns or the opinions on the project before it moves to the next phase, with the sfmta which is the preenvironmental work and we are happy to take any questions. >> thank you very much. >> any questions? >> i do have a request on the presentation if general, i do see that in term

this is not a geneva dream. this is a series of consultations one to one between myself my team and one each delegation from each country but also each delegation from the syrian environment. all of them. >> so a series of new proposals on syria but humanitarian coordinator valerie amos' ideas would most surely be vetoed if they were to be put to security council. stefan de mastura admits he has nearly an impossible task. >>> miernlg bastion of the syrian regime. abdullah al-shami reports. >> using it as an attack position against ols fighters. >> translator: this area was one of the first to revolt against the regime and was badly damaged. now it is time to launch ocounterattack. >> reporter: captured three main government checkpoints around the city to cut the last government supply road. >> translator: our main objective is to destroy checkpoints. if we succeed in that we will cut all supply roads from opposition forces. >> reporter: launched with the aim of controlling the following the idlib city march 28th

recalled lincoln in his military staff declined to sign even the geneva convention of 1864 which did not cover prisoners but did guarantee neutrality for civilians like barton who were caring for the wounded. what barton wanted to see was a real and lasting policy, not a series of disjointed reactions to incidents as they' rose. this he wanted to see a set of towards the most vulnerable people in wartime, which included prisoners. quite simply, she wanted to retreat from barbarity. but barton's proposal for the fair treatment of prisoners also languished through indifference, delay, and a failure of vision. barton was a visionary and she kept her sights on the future. she had devised in 18 sisi five for the treatment of captives. instead, she continued to refine it and lobby for its acceptance. ultimately, the farsighted and far-reaching plan, scribbled on little scraps of paper from andersonville, which you can still see ultimately, this proposal was incorporated into the international laws of order. ultimately, this proposal was incorporated into the international laws of war. she

i say let's make sure iran holds up to at least the geneva convention. it's not going to prove anything. what it's going to do is give our country the dignity to know that we don't leave a soldier behind. period. >> montel, thank you. and i hope the american people, you know i hope they join with you. thank you, montel. >> yes. thank you. >> this is a fox news alert. tonight three terrorist suspects all-american citizens, two men, one woman are all under arrest in the united states. arrests come in two separate cases of terror plots. targeting americans both here in the united states and abroad. fox news correspondent david lee miller is live at the federal courthouse in brooklyn. david lee? >> greta, two women from queens, new york, former roommates, allegedly inspired by al qaeda and isis wanted to set off a bomb in their quest for jihad. a homemade bomb here in the united states. the women were in court today, the building behind me, federal court in brooklyn. the defendants 28-year-old noel and 31-year-old asia. they are charged with conspiracy to us

this is not a geneva dream. this is a series of consultations one to one between myself my team and one each delegation from each country but also each delegation from the city and environment all of them. >> reporter: so a series of new proposals on syria but humanitarian coordinator valerie amos's ideas will most certainly be vetoed by russia if they were put to the security council. and de mastura admits he has a nearly impossible task. james bays, al jazeera, new york. >>> last major bastion of the regime, abdullah al-shami reports. >> this vast area of the village to the north and south once a peaceful country side it is now become a battlefield. government forces have been using it as an attack position against opposition fighters. >> translator: this area was one of the first to revolt against the regime and badly bombed and targeted. now it's time to counter-attack. >> reporter: opposition fighters launched the attacks by firing artillery. they captured three main government checkpoints around the city,

recalled lincoln in his military staff declined to sign even the geneva convention of 1864, i zwi not cover prisoners but did guarantee neutrality for civilians like barton who were caring for the wounded. what barton wanted to see was a real and lasting policy, not a series of discount jointed reactions to incidents as they' rose. this he wanted to see a set of expectations a code for civilized behavior toward the most vulnerable people in wartime, which included prisoners. quite simply, she want a retreat from pausch barity, barton's proposal for the fair treatment of prisoners also languish ted war department through indifference, delay and a failure of vision. clara barton however, was a visionary and she kept her sights on the future. she did not drop the she had devised in 1865 for the treatment of captives in wartime. instead, she continued to refine it and lobby for its accept dance. ultimately, this farsighted and far reaching plan scribbled on little scraps of paper from her tempt in andersonville which you can still see among her documents. ultimately, this proposal was inc

we are also working on the geary and geneva best rapid transit project focusing on the high injury corridor and transit project through the len of safety and safety for bikes and peds that go together with all of the modes for the improvements oon the street. we are also doing china down neighborhood transportation planning. this is under the planning side. i vd have gave my qualification. this focuses on spot recommend for safety improvement on kearny and broadway including traffic [inaudible] strategies and other pedestrian improvement. then we have inneighborhood transportation improvement program, which was nish taiate nishiated last fall. we have several projects which are funded. one is the almany project and this is for a potential project in district 9 to focus improving the [inaudible] on nob the funding side, when the board adopted the 5 year plan for prop k last summer, the process was really created to give the highest priority to safety of all across of the prop k categories and this is also transened to ininother programs. there is vehicle registration fee that sets aside proi

a year after i saw the coptic codex in geneva, the egyptian owner took it to new york city and triedo sell it there without any success. >> the owner then deposits the codex in a bank vault. it stays there for nearly two decades until another buyer finally persuades him to sell. >> here i am, opening again that safe. all the pages were glued together. and fragments of the pages were floating around. >> still uncertain what the manuscript is, tchacos takes it to yale. >> i say, do you know what you have here? this is something that's only been hinted at in antiquity. for the first time ever we're laying eyes on the actual gospel of judas. >> but there's bad news. restoration will cost a fortune. tchacos needs someone with very wealthy contacts. enter manuscript dealer bruce ferrini. >> i was told that bruce ferrini was a very reputable manuscript dealer and that he had bill gates as a client. that sounded good. >> seeing the chance to make a quick profit, ferrini decides to buy the manuscript himself and sell it on. >> ferrini writes two checks totaling $2.5 million for the gospel of

a year after i saw the coptic codex in geneva, the egyptian owner took it to new york city and triedt there without any success. >> the owner then deposits the codex in a bank vault. it stays there for nearly two decades until another buyer finally persuades him to sell. >> here i am, opening again that safe. all the pages were glued together. and fragments of the pages were floating around. >> still uncertain what the manuscript is, tchacos takes it to yale. >> i say, do you know what you have here? this is something that's only been hinted at in antiquity. for the first time ever we're laying eyes on the actual gospel of judas. >> but there's bad news. restoration will cost a fortune. tchacos needs someone with very wealthy contacts. enter manuscript dealer bruce ferrini. >> i was told that bruce ferrini was a very reputable manuscript dealer and that he had bill gates as a client. that sounded good. >> seeing the chance to make a quick profit, ferrini decides to buy the manuscript himself and sell it on. >> ferrini writes two checks totaling $2.5 million for the gospel of judas, a

it violates the fourth geneva convention. israel says administrative detention is a tool it uses sparingly and insists palestinians have a right to appeal their detention. >> we prefer not to use this tool but no choice. >> arrest increase in times of heightened tensions between palestinians and strailys. strailys. israelis. >> in the last year the number of palestinians held in administrative detention alone has almost tripled. prisoners say more inmates are being held in solitary confinement and deprived of palestinian prisoners have little hope that things will get any better. al jazeera rah ramalla. >> thank you for having me. >> is that because the of the war in gaza and the events that led to it? >> the day of commemoration is not just the 6,000 individuals. >> i thought the numbers were much lower. >> the numbers were lower but according to united nations we are actually at the highest number in the past five years. it commemorates the 800,000 individuals who have historically been held in administrative detention sinc

between washington and geneva, there was a relatively narrow definition of things that country could be held accountable for during a belligerent time of war and this was exactly what grant was looking for. grant believed down the road when wars were going on, the united states would probably not get involved, generally speaking , and as a neutral, we would want to be able to do as many things as possible, particularly in the area of trade. the geneva arbitration gave a relatively narrow definition of the restrictions on neutrals during the time of war, was to work precisely to the united states' advantage, grant believed. another effort, the effort to annex what is today the dominican republic. this was an island nation in the caribbean. it had unstable government. revolving governments. revolutions every other week practically. it's beleaguered president asked the united states to annex it. grant did not invent this idea of annexing santo domingo, as is sometimes alleged. when he became president, they renewed the offer and grant investigated it. it brought to bear a consideration

on the ta lead projects and development we are currentsly working on bal bowa park i 280, geneva ocean avenue project and this enhances bike and ped safety by reducing conflicts at the ramps. for the 19th avenue projects, we are helping to shepherd this project through cal tran approval process for the 19th avenue [inaudible] and also assisted with planning efforts for m line. on the ta project deliverry support, this helps sceer project funding and working with cal trans mtc and pral for high way to make sure funds are available and used in a timely way. that is my presentation and here to answer questions. >> just want to thank ta for being able to present in how they can support the budget as well. it is also good to hear that one of the assumptions in mta's budget for prop k dollars for follow the paving may be more of a minimum and i look forward as we talk about how to contribute to the funding gap that we are able to work with transportation authority and help toog identify potential funding that can be used to fill in the gaps with for of the priorities that thit xhisy would li

. >> reporter: i am phil lavelle in geneva where hundreds of world's inventors got together in one place their creations. what have we got here in find out later in the program. ♪ ♪ >>> hello again. let's have a look at the top stories here at al jazerra. the u.n. says the conflict in yep sen worsening the plight of it's people it says more than 10.6 million yep own hes don't have enough food. more than 730 people killed in the air and ground attacks which have bon continuing for three weeks. south korea's president says steps to salvage of the wreckage of the ferry that sank last year will begin soon. there have been frosts from mourners who gathered to mark the first anniversary of the daze as ter to killed 304 people. >>> the colombian president has soaredded the mail mail military toy resume bombing the farc rebel. the two sides have been in peace talks to try to end the long-running civil war. >>> now, the number of african my grand trying to cross the mediterranean in in to our autopsy has reached unprecedented levels according to the italian coast guard. thousands rescued since fr

on the ta lead projects and development we are currentsly working on bal bowa park i 280, geneva ocean avenue project and this enhances bike and ped safety by reducing conflicts at the ramps. for the 19th avenue projects, we are helping to shepherd this project through cal tran approval process for the 19th avenue [inaudible] and

aleppo and that failed completely and now he has a new plan, a plan to have a series of meetings in genevastart the peace process and after he had a meetings with lots of different syrian and regular actors to try and get peace talks going again. >> humanitarian crisis with the political solution james thanks for joining us. the u.n. has invited the syrian government and opposition groups to separate peace talks to separate peace talks in geneva the bid to end civil war comes as they launch attack against regime checkpoints today and al jazeera has more. >> reporter: it's a great view from a plane in northwest hama the vast area overlooks village to the north and south. once a peaceful countryside it's now become a battlefield. government forces have been using it as an attack position against opposition fighters. >> translator: this area is one of the first to revolt against the regime and was badly bombed and targeted now it's time to counter attack. >> reporter: opposition fighters launched the attacks by firing artillery, and targets where three checkpoints and the objective was to iso

has invited ther is queen government and opposition groups to talks to geneva next but. diplomatic editor james bays has more. >> reporter: the u.n. security council is briefed about the humanitarian situation in syria every month. and every month things get worse. it was told that more than 220,000 people are dead. 7.6 million forced from their homes. this was the last briefing buyout going humanitarian chief valerie amos. and she used it to criticize the divisions within the council itself. >> the failure to stop the violence has undermined the credibility of this council and eroded confidence in the international community to take its responsibility seriously. >> reporter: she called for an arms embargo targeted sanks and a referral of the situation in syria to the international criminal court. invited to the meeting the u.n. refugees agency's special envoy the actress angelina jolie. >> i wish that some of the syrians i have met could be here today. >> reporter: officials hoped presence would force the vice us back in to the international limelight. she and all of th

jonathan: odile rundquist, thank you for joining us from geneva.to look at the markets before we head to the break. disappointing numbers out of not just france but germany as well. the two big economies in the eurozone. the dax now off by 110 points. euro-dollar, 0.4% weaker. so much to talk about. not just economic data, but greece as well. not so happy anniversary for that country. five years since the former prime minister officially requested a bailout. did he think we would be where we are five years forward? ♪ jonathan: good morning and welcome back. let's get trait to this top stories. petrobras released financial results since the scandal that cost the ceo her job. the firm reported a net loss of $7.2 billion last year. these and mastercard shares surged on wednesday after the chinese government ended the monopoly of union pay. visa was the biggest gainer on the dow yesterday rising by more than 4%. the european central doubled emergency funding for greek banks. they raised the cap by about 1.5 billion euros according to someone familiar w

looked for the new frontier we finally spotted it last week when the negotiatators forgathered in geneva to seal the fate, laos 500 miles closer than the old frontiers these put downs baffled the liberal keeples and we young turks giggled at thir disaramt -- at their disarray. "national review" has of course received the attention it deserves for its major accomplishments. in providing the intellectual scaffolding for the modern american conservative movement that broad ronald reagan to the white house and with him the collapse of the soviet union and the end of the cold war. george gnash wrote a book its early years and senior editor jeffrey hart has just published the maker of the american conservative mind "national review" and its times. isi has also in recent years brought out two biographies of two of the most influlgs of its -- a two of the most influentials -- two of its most influential editors, james burnham and franks. meyer all of which is good and proper and a well deserved earning tribute to "national review"'s success but i'm mused on it seemed to me that something very im

hun -- geneva hundreds marching to pay tribute to migrants that died. they are pleading to an end to the tragedy, calling on european nations to do more saying it's too much >>> more than 6,000 have been evacuated from the area surrounding economie's calbuco follow -- volcano. the ash has spread into the air and nearby argentina. people are watching for scenes of anotherer understandings. -- eruption. >>> like a sleeping goinged, the calbuco reminded chile lying dormant is a cat nap. the more than 10 million-year-old volcano erupted sunday. now many of the residents forced to evacuate were allowed to return to the red zone to check on their homes, and clear roads and roofs as best they could. >> translation: i came to remove the ash from the roof so it will not collapse. we are nervous and do not know when we'll be able to return home. >> a state of emergency is in effect in towns and cities near calbuco. >> translation: the volcano is unstable and could erupt again. it's an eruption but it could be larger larvea flows, mudslides and explosions that cou

has invited the syrian government and opposition groups to separate peace talks in geneva next monthpposition fighters lawn frp frped launched attack west of the city and we have the latest. >> reporter: a great view from a plane in northwest hama, this vast area overlooks village to the north and south. once a peaceful countryside, it's now become a battlefield. government forces have been using it as an attack position against opposition fighters. >> translator: this area was one of the first to revolt against the regime and badly bombed and targeted now it's time to counter attack. >> reporter: opposition fighters launched the attacks by firing artillery, captured three main government checkpoints around the city aiming to isolate the city by cutting the large government supply road. >> translator: our main objective is to destroy checkpoints leading to the city if we succeed in that we will cut supply lines from forces. >> reporter: offensive led by coalition of opposition groups launched with the aim of controlling the districts riyadh and the latest push follows the capture of

james bayes, al jazeera, in geneva >>> spokesman for ban ki-moon joins us from the united nations.you still have confidence the special envoy, the strategy that he proposed for the freeze in aleppo did not work. there is criticism in the way it was executed. and so do you have confidence in him? >> of course we have great confidence in him and the team and the great team that he has put together. he is over 30 years of front-line experience in the u.n.'s political humanitarian work in the most dangerous places, and we of course have full -- full confidence in his work and the way he has been -- he has been doing his work. >> so -- >> and i would add -- >> go ahead. >> i would add if i may, i think the characterization of how the freeze was put together in the piece i think is -- is incorrect. i think he started, you know, presented this idea of -- of a freeze to the security council then to the press, but prior to that he had been in damascus. and had extensive consultations and discussions with the government. he and his team had also had discussions with various opposition groups

we have supplies ready in jordan and geneva here and we have some in djibouti, as well. at the same time, we have a four member surgical team that is now in djibouti and we plan to bring them by boat to where this team will work in the local hospital and provide the urgent treatment people need. so far the security situation and on going fighting has been so intense and we do not have the permission from the parties in yemen and coalition to say bring in this boat. that is another priority for the red cross. >> can you tell us do you have a plan to get around the problem of a lack of water a lock of electricity, and even if you're able to get teams in to aden, how will they function in hospitals with little water or electricity? >> the red cross international committee of the red cross has already called for a 24 hour humanitarian pause. this is very important because will unable our teams which are already present in four locations in yemen to go around and assess the needs and see what we can provide immediately. if the conflict continues as it is at the moment, our te

diswrr the possibilities >> reporter: the possibilities of more negotiations in moscow or geneva was disappointing. ends of january, middle east is currently going through tush lents changes changesturbulent changes. the detenente in northern syria and iraq means syria's unyielding president is no longer the west answer milk enemy number 1. it is all playing very well for bashar al-assad and very badly for syria's opposition. >> iran could help syrian forces who are loyal to bashar al-assad government to fight off this islamic mill tans. militants. one thing is sure that bashar al-assad is quite stable and he is actually the president who can -- who is ready to my mind to deal with opposition. >> reporter: the man who mediated four days of talks here thinks it's positive that the delegates didn't get into a fist fight. but in syria the real fighting drags on while all around governments are reevaluating who they consider their friends and who they consider their enemies. rory challands, al jazeera moscow. >> at least three people have been killed by a car bomb acknowledge the taliban

. >> nick louis, a professor of science at williams smith colleges in geneva, new york. >> i tell my students to imagine a bald top of the mountain. just a little push and that ball goes all the way the mountain. just a little push rices vigorously in the atmosphere and produces intense snow. >> it feels like weather is becoming extreme. >> a lot of research has shown that, as it will become the norm. >> does science suggest this is going to happen more and more. >> i think that's the reasonable inference from what we're seeing. >> when is extreme weather like buffalo's due to climate change, and when is it just plain wild weather. there is a new field called attribution science that tries to assess whether climate change played a role in these extreme weather events. take the extreme heat that caused wildfires in 2013. was it climate change? according to research published in the bulletin of the meteorological society, probably yes. and what about the winter of 2014, climate change or just wild weather? a study out of oxford university said that that event was probably climate chang

unfortunately they don't follow the good geneva convention. one other thing we need to keep in mind human intelligence is very important in these operations. i fly intelligence surveillance reconnaissance. i did that in the air force and still do. you can only get so much information by looking at a facility. people are a blur. you can't identify specific targets necessarily. it's that human intelligence on the ground which we let kind of go away. capturing people instead of killing them. taking them back and getting information from them and unraveling like we did in the surge in iraq which was so effective. >> why don't we have human intelligence. with isis and use it more with isis? >> because it's high risk. i think this is a risk adverse president. i give him credit for taking out bad guys when he can find them in some cases. he is he risk averse, he doesn't like to put special forces on the ground for smash and grab missions. it's much easier to to have a drone in an area and drop a missile that way. again, i support using them at the sa

it is all that refusal diplomats looking at the beautiful alps in geneva pretending your conversationeans something. amy: when did the treaty get signed? >> it was in 1997 amy:. amy:a few months before you won the prize. >> yes. amy: did you feel like you had accomplished a tremendous amount and you could move on? >> no. just like she was talking about earlier, that was just the beginning. words on paper, terrific. especially few are a writer. but a treaty, a law, a u.n. resolution not implemented is fundamentally irrelevant. and i think the governments were cheering the negotiations were done, we of the treaty, they thought we would go home. instead, we had part of our campaign ramming out a strategy -- planning out a strategy for the next year sang, ok, this is what this -- ok, this requirement of the treaty requires you to do this and this and this. and we wrote out a strategy for what this campaign was committed to doing to make sure this thing was implemented. and we handed out as the negotiations were ending. so they had no doubt that we were in it for the long haul. i think tha

. >> one thing i do -- >> you didn't invite even about syria, you one time, united nations had in geneva meeting and ban ki moon invited iran after that because of the pressure of the united states, they cancelled the invitation. so what is behind us is you have other cooperation recently about isis, iran already cooperated about this, but you didn't have coordination or officially saying that iran is at least one stake holder in the region and invite them and respect them talk to them like now, you are talking with iran almost two years about just nuclear. you didn't have the opportunity we didn't have the opportunity to invite and recognize iran as a partner not as an enemy. i think you should answer this question. >> quick copy, and then i'll answer. >> coming back to something howard mentioned which is very important, and that is that i know that our sunni allies are fearful, and they see it as them losing influence, iran gaining influence influence, and i think israel has similar concerns, and you're spot on in the need for us to make sure that our sunni allies and israel understand

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