especially for an island.o just again, i think it's a great plan, it's moving forward in a very positive and inclusive way. especially inclusive if we get people of color. anyway, thank you so much. >> director lai: thank you. i also echo that i think this looks overall like a really good well thought out comprehensive plan. i particularly like the separate designation of uses along the commons park. i think that's a really cool concept. i also second president fei tsen's comments about the promenade paying attention to allowing mid block crossing and more blocks that are extra large, some of the blocks that are really big. i have walked around mission bay quite a bit, and i have to say it's not particularly walkable. so that's not something we want to replicate here. i'm not sure if public seating is part of the design program, but if it is, it's important to focus on designing places for people to pause and enjoy the promenade and views of the cove, that perhaps we can design a mixed type of seating or resti

and natural areas of the island. even the open space plan calls for potential campground out in the wild area in the future. so a great variety and a great volume of open space, you know, totalling 290 acres in aggregate. in addition, we have the habitat management plan for ybi. which really sets out bana island as a natural area program. you've heard a number of locally rare and unique vegetation. the first park is scheduled for completion in 2021. we need to be prepared to accept and maintain that park as part of the fiscal year 20-21 budget. two years from now, the budget that we'll be adopting will have the maintenance budget for that new park. and under the dda during the early years of the program, there is a fund that is supposed to come from ticd to hope fund the parks and open space maintenance while the community facility district is still growing in capacity, which ultimately will fund our maintenance of the parks. but you know, it raises a number of questions for us that we need to plan for in advance of

and the yemeni government forces on the island it did seem told us that. governments soldiers salaries are being topped up by the u.a.e. on top of what they are from the government and. but as we've seen in the last couple of days it looks like any of the soldiers stationed there who are from the yemeni mainland who think kicks out and sent home or at least that appears to be the plan of quite a few sources who are there at the moment have told me so like i say it's not just hard power there there are no heat these two fights there was no indication that the island could become the front for anything violence but it's most definitely an extension of what they're doing in southern yemen and like i say the build up of the military and the fact that the commanders do walk around the town quite freely has been a presence for some time now shows that little by little the emirates really have taken control of this place politically as well as militarily mohamad the head of government has called as an act of hostility and i'm just wondering where this leaves the

also from one area of treasure island to another area of treasure island. through that process, a number of people have elected to stay on the island or -- a few dozen others have elected to take an in-lieu payment and move off the island. the transition unit option, the units, as i discussed earlier are located in buildings tida will be developing that are dedicated to our affordable housing construction. initially in partnership with one treasure island membership and other operators. the rent at the time of transition is tied to the 2011 rent board, as we discussed -- sorry. the 2011 rent for the unit. the household occupied adjusted by an amount equivalent to what is allowed by the san francisco rent board. that's not to mean that these units fall underneath the board or if they're rent-controlled per ordinance, but just that this is the mechanism that has been elected to use to adjust rents over time. and potentially income-qualifying households would be offered our below-market rent based on their rent. the unit size, again, the size of the offered tr

we speak... >> maria's massi size dwarfing the island... >> oh, my god! >> no part of it spared. >> prayers are needed. >> laura sullivan: hurricane i maria barrelnto puerto rico last september, the worst stormh it the island in 90 years. >> the region was still tobounding from the last srm, irma, when maria rolled in. >> this storm was a tropical storm that all of a sudden in a8 span of 36ours, became a category-five hurricane. >> the winds are ferocious right now. >> 155 miles an hour.. ak ripping buildings apart. (man and woman sg spanish) >> i w worried about flooding.e- >> nin to 11-foot storm surge, upwards of twoeet of rainfall. >> and ias worried about overall damage inuc infrasre and the capability we're going to have to communicate after the sto. >> sullivan: thousands sought refuge in local shelters. the largest was the roberto clemente coliseum in san juan. >> i remember looking at people, and i knew that there was gonna be nothing when they went outside. no electricityno water. and i knew then that there were people that we weren't gonna be a

itself, which is treasure island and yerba buena. so this is the approval of the plan that approved the land and the office and the -- by the way, we spent a lot of time studying this issue. i don't want to go back on my word or the board of supervisor before my time. part of the reason why this has taken so long to weave its way through -- i want to make sure that this is something that even within our discretion to put forward. it's one thing for the members of the public to advocate or for me to say, this is a better plan. now we do have an opportunity to weigh in in terms of what we think is the best proposal to move forward. it's true that there's been a discussion of a larger marina, 200- 300- 400-slip marina, but at no point did the board of supervisors come to a final approval, regardless of what the treasure island sailing center may have said two years ago. >> supervisor tang: okay. a lot of questions and answers. sorry. supervisor safai. >> supervisor safai: one point of clarification, and thank you, supervisor kim, for cl

but this disaster still required the whole island to pull together. bodies in kilchoman church to know that this was a real, real tragedy involving real human beings on a small island where the size of the tragedy, you know, would seep into the soul. growing up on islay, i neverfully appreciated how significant this year of double disaster was. i think when certain generations died off... ..it was forgotten. this has been revived now. i really don't know what effect it'll have on some people, because there were so many families touched by the whole thing. people, even in my home, rarely talked about it. there is one very visible memorial, built by the american red cross just after the war on the mull of 0a. the red cross felt like, since this area was away from what was considered the theatre of warfor world war i, that there needed to be something there to remember the fallen soldiers. this was a little different, this was unique. these were large events in the grand scheme of casualties for the united states in world war i. for hundreds of the ameri

island hopping revisit for all the canary islands. or when it comes to leather most people think of cows or lambs leather right if you wanted a bit more exotic maybe snake a crocodile about have you ever heard of fish leather surprisingly it is just as strong as normal leather and it has another advantage it's sustainable because the waste from the fishing industry can be used sounds weird doesn't it but in fact more and more young designers like to use fish leather for their collections let's find out more. fish now that may look exotic but it's made from the skin of familiar kinds of fish like salmon colored and touch. a label. on a company that makes products from fish. she produces them and i studio ninety six i designed it discovered the benefits of fish skin as a material in iceland she lived there for a year very close to a fish and a factory. you to fish how you know every fish skin is unique even within its own breed. because i was on the us. this is often and the other thing i like about it is the feel you get the feeling yo

billions of dollars of wealth on the island had been wiped out.d after years of rampant borrowing, the government' financial viability was being wiped out, too. the island was spiraling toward default. >> seven years of recession, chronic deficits, lots of borrowin now puerto rico owes more than $70 billion. >> the government's story was always, "we're going to reduce the spending this year," right?' going to raise more money," you know? "we're going to get this under control."we , they never did. >> unfortunately, the government of puerto rico was run as a big ponzi scheme. and what you had was essentially a black x of a government running that had no clarity as to what was being borred and what was being spent. >> sullivan: by early 2014, serto rico's bonds had been downgraded to junktus, but the government, desperate once again, turned to muniland. h >> we'ed plenty of good financial advisers. >> sullivan: and despite the island's economic wo, bankers raised $3.5 billion, mostly from hedge funds.ge it was the l bond offering of its kind in u.s.

the island was far from the western front, but it wasn't removed from the war.n at the mouth of the north channel between mainland britain and ireland was on the front line in the battle at sea. the united states entered the war in 1917 and sent many ships packed with soldiers and supplies across the atlantic. these convoys were protected by the navy. so i asked a modern day commander how the system worked. they would zig zag across the atlantic, so they wouldn't just go from a to b. they were defended by destroyers leaving america and entering the uk. however, the majority of the atlantic crossing was undefended, with the exception of a few arms and munitions on the armed merchant ships. the greatest threat to the convoys lurked beneath the waves. german u—boats with crews trained to hunt and sink ships. on 6th february 1918, a convoy from new york turned into the north channel, and was spotted by submarine ub—77. and the ub—77 followed that convoy for ages. sometimes in front of it, terrified of being run over by british destroyers or being found by british de

i puerto rico, guam, the virgin islands. we shouldn't have one set of rules for some territories and for the rest of the states. barbaric, s is a inhumane practice. the animals are drugged to make them more ferocious. cockfighting, they are equipped with metal spurs to slash each other. fighting to the death. i'm sorry, this congress has rejected the notion this is culturally specific. animal cruelty has no place in any territory, in any state, in any venue by any race or ethnic group or cultural tradition. we have gone past that. we heard those arguments in some states when we were fighting to achieve these protections. i strongly urge that we continue this 20-year fight to protect animals and protect people from being involved with this horrific activity and close what is, in fact, a loophole. we should have no separate rules for states, territories, anywhere under our jurisdiction. the roskam amendment, the roskam-blumenauer amendment will fix this and finish a journey that we started 20 years ago. but sadly because some

fiji's second largest island is blessed with fertile soil. but paradise if not people here are being moved from their homes. one of the evacuees takes us for a nostalgic ride. coming here gives village chiefs a low ceiled i'm up to a melancholy feeling we've driven three kilometers down the road and if yet to see a soul. he's leaving the nice memories he's brought. by pavel. this is my favorite he's we've. had to say. to says they will soon be moving the graves of those ancestors as well. the ocean has left the no choice. in twenty fourteen the village of only don't go lower was forced to relocate once you could see the stilt houses on the other side of the water from here but not now the sea spread water levels rose and exodus became inevitable. where there were these were the whole good many of. you know serbs that we really do feel for you. but just because so few rights floody this. case force us. but every crisis also harbors a new beginning. this is the new. moving inland was the strategy for survival. thirty two prefab homes now house

beefing up its presence in the island of so called for. right there are a variety of different reasons i think we first of all have to kind of disconnect this current incident from what happened in the g.c.c. this is not part of the g.c.c. crisis per se although the iraqis of tried to frame it in that way i think this is part of an ongoing development that we've seen by the united arab emirates ongoing since of over the last decade really they've tried to expand their reach both militarily and commercially into the horn of africa which has become absolutely and has always been for a very long time commercially a very interesting and important part and the control of that area control of the bubble munda straight as well as both sides of the horn of africa in east africa as well as in yemen and along the red sea coast is absolutely detrimental and important for the delivery of goods from east to west some talk about east asia towards two words europe but also it's very important for the region itself for ethiopia eritrea these countries and

on treasure island, people live on treasure island, and the roads are dug up. the island is being teraformed as we speak, so we need to talk about what's going on next. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> my name's darca morgan, and i'm a concerned parent of a couple of first graders that go to san francisco public charter school, and i want to thank you all for pushing for retesting of parcel a. i'm very concerned about the coverup throughout the shipyard and i'm glad that you're pursuing retesting through all the parcels. i think also citizens oversight committee is crucial to regain public trust. i'm a biologist, and i have a master's degree. i review government -- i review forest service documents about grazing and mining and timber sales. the level of public community oversight for a timber sale or a grazing andrews and andrews foundation, and i live in bayview. i want to bring to mind that to me, the bayview is the most toxic neighborhood in the city, and it's poison. and the government, meaning the -- the shipyard and supervisors, they bear a certain

virgin islands electric sector. thank you, i look forward to your questions. >> thank you, assistant secretary. mr. alexander welcome. >> chairman murkowski and distinguished members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to provide an update on the status of puerto rico's electric power grid. the core conducting emergency response activities under two authorities, the stafford act and public law 8499. in response to hurricanes irma and maria, we received assignments at $144 million and 44 maria related assignments to execute our traditional public works missions. over 15 million in flood control coastal emergency funds were expended you should our authority. i will limit my remarks solely to the restoration of puerto rico's grid. on september 30, as a sign by fema, we soon led efforts to repair the power grid. to date we have received $2.15 billion for that mission alone. our task was to scope, coordinate and execute interim repairs to grid segments until a comprehensive restoration of the overall system c

virgin islands electric sector. thank you and i look forward to your questions. >> thank you, assistant secretary. welcome. >> chairman murkowski, distinguished members of the committee, thank you for an update on the electric power grid. the stafford act in public law 8499. they have the mission assignment with $81 million in related militiamen assignment to execute our traditional public works missions. i will now limit my remarks solely for the restoration of puerto rico's grid. on 30 september 17 as the lead for federal efforts to repair the power grid. today we received to .15 really in for that mission alone. our task was to scope, coordinate and execute interim repairs to grid segment until a comprehensive restoration of the overall system could be implemented to the great consists of 2400 miles of transmission lines and a 30 miles of distribution lines, 300 substations, 16 power generation plants in an estimated 80%. part of the unified command group comprised of theme, proper and the island's restoration. t

an archaic type of human inhabited these islands. who were they, actually? because we haven't found any fossils yet of a toolmaker in this zone, but the age, 700,000 excludes that the tools were made by modern humans. the oldest evidence we have for modern humans is dated at 300,000 year in africa. so, it is quite amazing and generates a lot of questions. how did they get to these islands? dr gerrit van den bergh from the university of wollongong. what a discovery! my ancestors from 700,000 years ago! you have been watching newsday. stay with us. we will be hearing more about that general election in malaysia. may 9. with just one day until malaysians go to the polls, we'll see who is cashing in on major chinese investment in the country. bid is a fascinating discovery, isn't it, rico hizon? —— it is. and we'll leave you with some images of people in the uk enjoying the recent very warm weather here, with some lawnmower racing. i kid you not. yes the lawnmower racing season has got underway. looks fun, if a little dangerous. for obvi

the ss tuscania sinking was a massive disaster for a small island to manage. and then there we re and medical care. and then there were the dead. eventually almost 200 bodies were washed ashore. and the man in charge of relief and recovery was gaelic —— was islay's malcolm mcneil. his grandson is a well—known public figure. he was in the building that is now a bank, and he could have had no experience of anything on a major scale. hisjob would have been largely administrative in an island without any real crime. the island with just four police officers had to identify and bury nearly 200 men. this is like lockerbie, or 7—7, and bury nearly 200 men. this is like lockerbie, or7—7, or even and bury nearly 200 men. this is like lockerbie, or 7—7, or even 911. for a small community, the huge events taking place with deaths, bodies, survivors and the calamity that was involved, certainly in the early stages before any of the emergency services could be mobilised to come. it was probably one of the worst things they had ever seen one of the worst things they had eve

congress appointed a special board to oversee the island's finances. the controversial board has undermined local leaders pushing cuts at a time when more spending is needed we know where not equal we don't go for pressing we cannot file for bankruptcy the united states has a responsibility responding for any kind of the faster on the island but not just for a while because anything that happens on the island is part of the responsibility because a lot now is. across puerto rico houses the blue tarps are visual reminder of all the repairs still needed recovery will take time and long term federal funding and support. it able to make really the. most well let me tell you that the one your house i will look at i mean you might marry. that girl you got. to get out there be right here it's not one of them we'll just i knew this is you know i mean we're in the opinion of because of what a bill that they need will not be indicted well. the federal government has pledged eighteen point four billion dollars for future housing reconstruction i do not know much

it is an archaic type of human that inhabited these islands. the big question is who we re islands.und any fault —— fossils yet. we have found tools and it looks like they we re found tools and it looks like they were made by modern humans, but that was 300,000 years ago. it is quite amazing and generates a lot of questions. how did they get to these islands? i cannot believe my ancestors are from 700,000 years ago. you have been watching newsday on the bbc. i am rico hizon. we will be hearing about the general election in malaysia. it is just one day until the election. with just one day until malaysians go to the polls, we'll see who is cashing in on major chinese investment in the country. and before we go, it's been a sunny national holiday here in london, rare enough for us brits to get up to some pretty strange things. take lawnmower racing for example. yes, that's right, people were racing each other driving lawnmowers. looks fun, if a little dangerous. for obvious safety reasons all the blades are removed. who needs formula one? what is a bank holiday weekend without this? a

know otherfamilies surrounding islands and they know other families may end surrounding islands andg help. had our boys out there are helping to relocate people and we have guys standing outside ready with their trucks, their trailers, ready to go in and out to help everyone, the whole community as a whole. they raise a deep uncertainty here. kilauea is anything but predictable. each night when the skies could read, there is an obvious fear of what will be seen when the colour of the lather dies down and a new day reveals the damage that has been done. this is the whole reason people come here. islanders know a volcano which normally attracts visitors is now threatening tourism there. the message that is getting out there nationally and worldwide is that the whole island is inundated with lather, and it is not. in reality, it is just the zone on a very small sliver on the corner of the east side of the big island. but in this neighbourhood, they are living in the shadow of lather. and having to ta ke the shadow of lather. and having to take risks. on the cracked ground thatis take r

the government of south korea declared it an island of world peace. but on this island of peace has been built one of the most provocative military bases in the world less than four hundred miles from shanghai. like and the marshall islands this is america's front line in it so cold pivot to asia. hair in one sun spoiled again john village the south korean navy has built a base for american aircraft carriers nuclear submarines and destroyers equipped with the aegis ballistic missile. and aimed at china's defenses . china's lifelines to the world in oil trade resources depend on shipping that comes through checkpoints like this. the u.s. pivot and the asia pacific is really intended to create the ability to put a loaded gun to the head of china and say you know you will do as we say otherwise we will be able to restrict or we'll be able to shut down choke off your importation of oil and other resources. are. for nine use every day often twice a day these catholic priests have staged a mass the blocks the gates of the new military base on juries you whi

virgin islands energy sector. thank you and i look forward to your questions. >> distinguish members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to provide an update on the status of puerto rico's electric power grid. the emergency response activities are done under the stafford act. in response to hurricanes, they received 47 mission assignments at $181,000,000.44 maria related assignments at 3.4 billion to execute our public works missions. over 15 million in coastal emergency funds were expended under the authority. i now limit m remarks solely to the restoration of puerto rico's grid. in september 17 as assigned by fema they assumed leads for federal effort to repair the power grid. to date we have received 2.15 billion for that mission alone. our task was to scope, coordinate and execute an arm repairs to grid segments until comprehensive restoration of the overall system could be implemented. the grid consists of 2400 miles of transmission lines, 30,000 miles of distributional lines, over 300 substations

the government of puerto rico offers tax incentives to attract companies and investors to the island last month the department of economic development and commerce announced plans to form an advisory council that will support block same businesses many puerto rican since some one still unsure about the idea of their island becoming a paradise for crypto investors. billy we deploy our food people and where you deal with the bio ball or food people what they want to do it seems like they want to change everything and kind of take over. the part that kind of freaks me out a little bit the investors don't seem to care too much about their critics all they see is potential. puerto rico is a blank slate and we can utilize block chain for government for community many different ways in puerto rico could be a unique place in the world by utilizing watching first in the meantime when the crime is preparing for the next power outage he's never even heard of the word blocked hopefully one day the two worlds will be able to converge on the islands they share. now british theme park company merli

for this island. for this island.iscal oversight board, we can't borrow. a real financial disaster that came before the natural one. he gave me the full picture, the damage from maria. i just want to give you a perspective, right, when we say that the hurricane comes over this way, the width of the hurricane was 35 miles. puerto rico is 30 miles. so once it's touching over here, it's touching over here. 100% of the island got hit by sustained category 4 hurricane winds. the mountainous region of puerto rico had vulnerable housing. vulnerable housing is a nice way of saying housing that was built a long time ago that wasn't built with concrete... that's right. ...and any code. that's right. sticks and stones. but vulnerable doesn't even begin to cover the next place i visited. the coastal town of toa baja is just six miles from san juan. but after the hurricane, it might as well be on another planet. when is this garbage going to get picked up, if ever? no bien. no bien. a month and a half after maria, folks here are s

usual island the marshall islands china the united states by speaking out they deliver a warning to all of us can we really afford to be silent. maybe on al-jazeera. marking world press freedom day al-jazeera shines a light on this important issue and examine the state of freedom of the price around the world the people in power ross the top u.s. general in afghanistan about his plans for defeating by the taliban and an isis insurgency. struggling with security issues and economic uncertainty iraq is finally said to hold elections as an unseen global battle rages for results is beneath our oceans we all skip the seabed is a territory still to be claimed commemorating seventy years from now al-jazeera examines what has changed in the past seven decades on both sides of this conflict may go on al-jazeera. how i once again will still get a few shall a sketch of around the middle east but nothing too much to speak of little bit space is a cloud just around the caspian sea pushing over towards afghanistan going up into is because that had a little bit of clout that just around the eastern si