tiger population has caught the attention of the international community and russia's been at the helm leading the efforts to try and protect these endangered species russia is heavily invested in preserving its tiger population decline minister vladimir putin personally endorsing international protection campaigns alongside celebrities such as leonardo dicaprio spike this is now estimated that less than five hundred of these cats remain in the wild and a recent report revealed worrying statistics that these animals come from a limited gene pool increasing the potential for genetic diseases and other real misses amongst the population they were once a familiar sight across eastern russia northern china and the korean peninsula now they deforestation has eva taken poaching is their biggest threat stripped of their natural habitat and numbers continue to do until it's made the continued efforts to save that much more important. we found out about judy we started raising money right away the dangers facing there are more trying to our national problem and we have to solve this problem tog

population is called the attention of the international community rush has been at the helm leading the effort to try and protect these endangered species. and update on a nationwide effort from schoolchildren up to the prime minister to keep the amazing on life. russia's republic of chechnya once an arena for military conflict is now a stage more prestigious world class sport after some ambitious rebuilding the capital grozny is hosting a friendly football match between brazilian superstars and a team formed by the republics have parties some barton is in the stadium where the game will start in a few hours. there's an air of excitement over across to the chechen capital today excitement about a football match due to take place on this pitch later today and that football matches between chechnya and brazil yes brazil details about the arrival of the brazilian team made today are being kept very quiet it's not quite known which players it will include but it's expected it will include players that helped was ill when the two thousand and two world cup and they're expected to play agains

at the helm of the county, she had represented some of the most notable of bay area artists, and continueso look for new talent. >> the artists that i represent, what do i choose them, if asked to do with a background of what the gallery is about. i love the idea of finding new guys and watching them grow. it is the old fashioned way of having a nunnery, which is having a stable. what you have is loyalty to them, artists are loyal to you. the philosophy behind that, my philosophy, has not changed since i started 49 years ago. i take care of you and you take care of me. it has been that way ever since. >> ruth represents the estate of the world renowned sculptor peter focused. in 1971, he created and the love the untitled public work cited at seventh and bryant. like many other public works of art, this is in need of repair. ruth began conversations with the director of cultural affairs, a andart care was born. >> we look at all of the local pieces and decided which one needed the most repair, to bring it back to where it was before. that is what i am after. if you drive by right now, you c

i was involved campaign against senator jesse helms when i was in college. when i cannot hear, and was not initially involved politically. -- when i came out here, i was not initially involved politically. i helped to build the lgbt community center. i started doing campaigns. i gradually got involved in democratic party politics. i got involved in the alice b. toklas democratic club. i ran for the democratic central committee in 2004. i ended up sharing the committee. it was a gradual process for me. by the time i started thinking about running for supervisor, it made sense because of my involvement in the community and in politics. >> what did you learn from campaigning for supervisor? >> i learned a lot. i knocked on about $15,000. -- i knocked about 15,000 doors. i met a huge number of people. that is the best way to learn about the neighborhood, the city, and what people want and what their concerns are. i feel i can do so much more than before and started campaigning. -- i feel like i know so much more than before i started campaigning. we're all part

later he was at the helm of the austin, texas, version. this year's event opens march 10th. here with details we welcome the director. welcome back to san francisco. you have taken over. >> he was the director for over ten years. he did such an amazing job. >> what's your biggest challenge taking this over? >> i was in austin, texas, for the past few years where the festival was much smaller. this one is more exciting. >> you have people who are in place doing things a certain way. is it difficult when you come in new to a job to say i want to put my stamp on this? >> i think there's a little bit of that. for the most part, our staff is all new. it's exciting for us. we're figuring things out together. we really have been trying to put in our stamp of what we really like. our personal interests. but also we have a legacy within the bay area of having quality films and amazing shows. we want to stick to that and make sure we put an event together that's exciting and new but also has the the legacy there. >> we're going to show a few clips here. this is a place where people ca

he was at the helm of the coast guard ship that crashed into a boat in san diego dilling the 8- year-old boy back in 2009. prosecutors say raw motion was driving the boat too fast during a christmas parade. >>> prosecutors dropped the murder charge against a woman arrested in connection with the shooting death of a san francisco jewelry store own he. the woman was arrested last week after his body was found at his north bay business tuesday night. prosecutors are not saying why they dropped the charge -- dropped the charge but they say the case is still being investigated. >>> the color of the jacket is now play -- is now playing a part of a corruption investigation into police officers. david stevenson has been on this story right from the beginning and has been there since this latest -- latest videotape was released. >> reporter: the man coordinating the legal department under investigation saying surveillance tapes don't tell the whole story. this as new surveillance tapes and new allegations surfaced today. december2nd surveillance video from san francisco's henry hotel show an unna

you have me here at the helm. we are ready. march 25 is coming. we will implement this in every project -- i think it is over $400,000, but we will catch the smaller ones, as well. we are doing the right thing. i want to thank everybody for not only listening to my long speech, but also understand in the spirit and the law that we now have in the city. thank you very much. [applause] >> next, i would like to introduce supervisor avalos. he led the way to foster this ground-breaking legislation to strengthen local hiring, addressing high unemployment, and boosting our local economy. thank you, supervisor avalos. supervisor avalos: good morning. good afternoon. it's great to be here. mayor lee, you are speaking my language. it's wonderful to hear. i'm excited about where we are right now. we passed legislation late december. became law. that was only the first guard. we had to move all of our state departments to work together to make sure that we had an implementation for local hire that was going to work and trickled down to the community level. b

. >> you are standing right here at the helm, which indicates the speed of the ship. have your throttle control, which is this. that makes the ship go either faster or backwards. >> reporter: wait a minute. did he say backwards? i guess that would make it easier to park. can you tell us a little about the ship's crest? >> the ship's crest is extremely symbolic of the event from 9/11. you'll see on the crest, it has the phoenix rising from the ashes, which symbolizes the first step towards kind of rebuilding and something positive coming from the 9/11 event. it also has the world trade center towers and two silver bars that stand out. and that's, of course, really special. >> reporter: before this ship was built, there was another "uss new york." it was a battleship that saw combat in world war ii. it has three stars representing the battle stars earned by the battleship for okinawa, north africa and iwo jima. why can americans be proud of this ship? >> the symbology that's clearly part of this ship. there's something that was so tragic and so horrible, and we've trans

texaco's ceo is taking the helm. >> at current conditions there are no options other than decommissioningeactors one through four. >> try to keep those reactors " continues to be a struggle. it's the most recent readings in a nearby ocean water 3000 times the normal level. it's not clear if that's the result of a leak or airborne radiation. while officials in japan were to stave off disaster in state fears in the u.s. officials are proactively reviewing nuclear safety protocol. >> taking into account site specific factors and included detailed evaluation for natural events such as earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods and tsunamis. >> the situation in japan does not pose a threat to in the u.s.. president barack obama said today that despite the crisis in japan, nuclear power will remain a priority in his push for american energy independence. >> american gives one-fifth of our electricity from nuclear energy. we can't simply take it off the table. >> the obama administration has proposed building more than 20 new nuclear power plants in the u.s., the president said it they can help

refused to endorse harvey gant an african-american democrat when he ran against republican senator jesse helms an outspoken opponent of civil rights and a former segregationist some social observers say it was michael jordan he set the example for star athletes on being a political in one thousand nine hundred the famous lead a kind of back up democratic african-american senate candidate in his home state of north carolina and by responding republicans by sneakers to the bottom line requires offending as few people as possible so if you want to make money you had better keep your mouth shut. in many ways these two great athletes represent the twin poles of the story of politics in american sports ali on the one side showing how greatness in the ring doesn't require sacrificing greatness outside of it not of a great little jordan on the other ushering in a new age of corporate rule that loves to glorify the image of rebellion while stripping it of its substance so it doesn't get in the way of its bottom line interests. and it says something i think very damning about this country that ali has b

have a way belle helder spoke at a loss he was holding in key of the helm here on taking the punch or two from the kids who turned out for the clinic which corey is one of a few possible opponents for haye while his younger brother is also on the shortlist hey he's planning to retire on his thirty first birthday on the thirteenth of october and the w.b. champion wants to fight on july the second both klitschko brothers have bowed scale before that but the tally is still raring to go against hate. david haye has a few cell phone to call him and he will not escape with his lame excuses. to have a circle time to. police doesn't happen he is acknowledged. to in the sports snowboarding world cup will take to the slopes here in moscow on saturday constantin of talk to one of russia's hottest prospects for the social. ahead of the tournament. joining me now is one of the rising star snowboarding i don't know as i wasn't in the peril at world championships in spain. but i have to start with a question about. the next glorious victory what's the latest news tell us a little bit about your abil

atlanta hawks secured a playoff spot in the eastern conference by baiting new jersey nets at helm the hawks two controlled with a nineteen zero run early in the game josh smith receives a bounce back from al horford for a two handed dunk which makes it nineteen to harford would finish with twenty three y. and center rebounds for the house and. joe johns. shot from behind the arc and of the first water at thirty two fifteen the hawks increase their advantage to twenty six by help times very slow down a bit after the break bob believe was enough to seal the ninety eight eighty seven victory and join chicago boston miami and orlando in the postseason the offer. finally sambo could become an olympic sport by the year twenty twenty russia's wrestling federation certainly thinks so anyway while i.o.c. officials linger over adding the call back to the olympic family russian athletes continue bringing home gold as the rest of the tournaments world super cup which took place here in moscow at the weekend was no exception more than two hundred fifty athletes from twenty six countries took part

quayle, senator helms, your policy is wrong. dead wrong. and you know it. >> couric: friends say elizabeth taylor often reached out to kindred spirits like michael jackson. she stood by him as his own personal demons became headlines. >> we're both show business children, had no childhood to speak of, and went through the loneliness of that. >> couric: today violet flowers, the color of her eyes, cover that star on the hollywood walk of fame. in january, she tweeted to her fans: elizabeth taylor was 79. in addition to her children, elizabeth taylor is survived by ten grandchildren and four great grandchildren. and of course many, many friends, including bill and hillary clinton who said: we'll take another look at elizabeth taylor's work in the fight against aids later in this broadcast. now turning to libya where moammar qaddafi's hold on power may in face be slipping. allied air strikes tonight reportedly targeted his compound. coalition planes also bombed qaddafi forces today in mizurata to stop them from firing artillery at civilians. d

have a weight belt holder spoke at a mosque last was holding key of the helm hero taking a punch or two from the kids of all the clinic which go as one of a few possible opponents for haye while his younger brother is also on the shortlist hayes planning to retire on these thirty first birthday on the thirteenth and the w.b. wants to fight on july the second both klitschko brothers have bowed scheduled before then but the tally is still raring to go against hate. david haye has a few cell phone to call in and he will not escape with his lame excuses to have a single time you can see someone should take least deal with this doesn't happen to be acknowledged. now the moscow of all the snowboarding world cup will take to the slopes on saturday artie's constantin talk to one of us as hard as prospects for the social impacts i don't know ahead of the tournaments. joining me now is one of the rising star so fresh from snowboarding i don't as i want isn't that who triumphed in the peril giant slalom at world championships and spain hello ella nice to meet here but i have to start with a questi

and i think that will have to grind through, because frankly, we shouldn't build as many helms as we at this time because we didn't have the population growth. housing is stable. it may go up or down from here. but it's had the big fallout. now we've got to work our way through this. >> let me ask you about the regulatory environment. a lot of questions here. people are feeling like the rules are still to be written. the durbin amendment is obviously debatable, and the banking sector says it's going to take $12 trillion in revenue out of their business 23 you're not able to charge for debit cards. what kind of changes are you expecting as a result of dodd-frank and any other changes that come out of this? >> well, if you think about the business from a consumer business and then say the capital markets business, which would be the two big areas impacted, and there has been more impact on the consumer business, not only from dodd-frank, but from the card act and overdraft legislation, and then the durbin. >> the consumer protection agency. >> all of that is really baked into our fourt

are involved the united states britain france canada and it's to be the united states remains at the helm it's the focus at the moment is to completely destroy all surface to air missile defense systems belonging to the gadhafi regime and at that stage it will hand over the reins of power to the coalition forces we are hearing reports that on the ground i'll behave the clashes intense shelling in the city of misrata which is some two hundred kilometers to the east of the capital tripoli this fighting has been ongoing for at least three days now now it's impossible for us to independently verify this we've been trying to reach the city for move in two weeks but it isn't clamped down government forces have prevented any kind of movement in and out but i would this is on the ground are saying one thing that a massacre was on the boat that government tanks are in the same two of the town and that they completely demolishing it we are also hearing from state television that the number of civilians who have been killed in these waste and is strikes has not increased from forty nine to sixty fou

the america's present position at the helm of the campaign has already led to a spike in and he will sentiment on home soil the highest recorded surge in decades that's according to a new gallup poll. he's a guy nature can reports the title of the operation could spell a long and painful conflict for the u.s. coalition is calling this operation odyssey dawn odyssey dawn odyssey dawn what's in a name the names that the u.s. previously gave to his campaign is kind of make more sense like desert storm in the gulf war or operation enduring freedom ring of gametes then or iraqi freedom but obviously dawn on top of making no sense as a combination of words in itself if you interpret it it actually means something really lengthy in time or the word don could it possibly imply that what we have now is just the beginning we talked to the u.s. command in africa that was tasked to come up with two words and they say the title does not mean anything what happened is there is a group of planning officers led by lieutenant colonel the sit down in the early days of planning it came up and looked at

get to spite all this has moved to the helm of this international intervention but can the country of port getting involved again and united states clearly doesn't have money for this we will end up taking money from other important programs to mystically and other lawmakers locked in that constant debate over u.s. money problems are going public it's a strange time and we're almost all of our congressional days are spent talking about budget deficit. problems and yet at the same time all of this passes which is a very expensive operation this mission was led by the united nations but quickly the united states has emerged as a force right so you have to wonder with so many cars at stake what does justify this role for the u.s. despite claims from the top of the humanitarian intervention people from the streets. to the pundits don't buy it the u.s. . sure is to keep from having any influence on the world peak oil expert michael rupert says the real reason for the bloodshed all boils down to the one point five million barrels of oil a day coming from libya which the west simply cannot a