many grammy award-winning artists such as carlos santana, john santos, arts commissioner john calaway and john santos and internationally renowned artists like paul simon, bonnie wait and herb hancock support this. many local artists in san francisco are potentially impacted financially by the loss of the opportunity to have their music nationally recognized so i urge colleagues to support the rest. and lastly, i'd like us to close the meeting in honor of china town born civil rights and human rights activist franklin fung cho o.i.a. was born on may 29, 1936, and passed away a few weeks ago in november. he lost his life to leukemia and was a nate a native of china town but attended san francisco state university where he was active in the san francisco state third world strike and fighting for ethnic studies classes in our schools and worked for 30 years as a federal employee in washington, d.c. for the eeoc and civil rights commission. he was a long-time supporter of small businesses and promightor of the golden gate caterers and editor of china line and teacher of chinese cooking. h

santos in london. >>> from cnn hong kong, i'm pauline choiu. >>> i'm john deaf tar yoes in switzerland, the top stories on january 27th. >>> nearly a quarter of spain's workforce is now out of a job. >>> record results for samsung as smart phone sales soar. it's planning to sink $42 billion into its business. >>> the key to change is evolution and not revolution. that's according to one of the richest oligarts in russia vrnlths we knew it was bad, but not quite this bad. spain released its latest jobless figures showing nearly 23% of its workforce is unemployed over the course of the last three months up until december. that's roughly equivalent to about 5.3 million people across this country, nearly half a million more than previously thought. it's certainly not good news for the new prime minister and its entire cabinet. the new prime minister has been pledging to get spain's economy back on track, only been in the job for a few months. let's get perspective and go to cnn madrid where we can join al goodman, al? >> reporter: nearly 5.3 unemployed. but the prime minister said in recent days it would b

. >> i'm nina dos santos at cnn london. >> i'm john at the world economic forum in davos, switzerland. >>> on the markets today they take the rough with the smooth as america's central bank holds steady on interest rates. this signals a long road towards recovery. >> in europe angelo merkel says there's only so much germany can do to save the single currency. >> and online sharing isn't always caring for the google users upset about that company's courtesy policies. >>> start on tuesday barack obama pro krams that america it seemed was on amend but on wednesday, the federal reserve, the company's central bank, claimed that it was all but not on amend. the u.s. central bank vowed to keep the interest rates the same through 2014. for the first time it set a cause for the inflation market at 2%. that's good news poor borrowers. the feds long-term plan is unusual but chairman ben bernanke says that it's a move designed to avoid destabilizing surprises. he says that while unemployment should continue to fall, wide economic growth will be slower than expected. >> stronger economic recovery,

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