and that is fantastic news for london, obviously. because i think the smithsonians -- i used to go there as a kid. i think it is the most wonderful, wonderful place. the people of east london will have -- it will be part of a complex of incredible institutions on the stratford side where we held the olympics. in an area of postindustrial -- an area that's been derelict for a long time but now going gangbusters. if this thing comes off, we'll put the smithsonian in with a new victoria and albert museum east, v and a east will have a new ucl, big london university big new u.c.l. campus there. the smithsonian will be an anchor tenant in a new cultural hub. what i am calling an olympiccropolis in a word nobody else uses. we are very, very excited by it. i think from america's point of view this is a no american taxpayers money deal. very important point to get across to you sharp minded political journalists here. no american taxpayers' moneys is going to be compromised by this. i hope it will give america a window on the world in the wo

>>supervisor london breed: okay. our next question, i would like to introduce supervisor john avalos. >>supervisor john avalos: thank you. i would like to that can you for participating with sf and making that a reality. it seems we all agree that the current environment offers many new advantages to launch cleanpowersf this year. unfortunately for many residents the only thing they will remember is misinformation campaign from 2015. can we work together to promote cleanpowersf and will you put money in your budget to promote public awareness as part of the city's efforts on climate change and will you work with the public utilities commission to expand their project learning grants program to get youth summer jobs to get culturally targeted outreach on cleanpowersf ? >>mayor edwin m. lee: supervisor avalos thank you for joining me in truly meeting san francisco's climate goal and renewable energy alternative. as i mentioned earlier, we are -- aggressive in meeting our climate goals and we need to ensure the programs

>>supervisor london breed: thank you. next speaker, please. >> public speaker: my name is harris and i volunteer. for teacher security. i received much of my training after i was released on prole in north carolina after more than 20 years in prison. i was an active member of the u.s. army second air born division serving as infantry squad leader. i have taken notes of multiple attempts to establish programs for youth to teach skills that would show them an alternative way of life other than that of the streets and crime. none of these programs came to light because of lack of funding from either private or government sources. when this board and the future looks to ways to prevent mass murders like those that recently occurred in the hayes valley neighborhood it should consider allocations to places like the watc which planned out radio -- outreach the hard to reach gang members. >> public speaker: president breed and other victims. i rise to review my previous remarks on your on going validation and support for nicotine

>>supervisor london breed: thank you. >> public speaker: my name is willie rat cliff. i publish san francisco newspaper and i own rising son investment and rising sun developers. it's about time that we moved on this issue. i'm so proud that we've been out stepped. that's been the problem. but even right now, the oil companies would like to take over what we are doing about solar too. but what they want to do is do it out in the valley where it don't benefit us and ship it to us. we want to do it right here. and as a matter of fact, we've been talking to some people in china with hanson lee about a plant. we can get that done. i'm just happy that we need to move around because we are a long time with this issue and now we have enough people behind it. one thing we want to look at is what's going on in the streets and we have to look at inequality to look at the position we are in. but we need to also fix it where move all the obstacles out of the way of the puc to be able to negotiate contracts. that should be for the who

london currently spends only 7%, london government, local and city, spend only 7% of the taxes londongenerates. new york spends about 50%. i think that would go, if we had the taxes, i think that that is the answer. not the entire answer but one of the answers. i do think british politics is in need of a serious galvanizing change like that. i think devolution, giving local communities more say making people feel actively engaged in what their cities are doing, i think that would be a help. that's not a complete answer but it would be a help. >> tim shipman of the "sunday times" has a question. >> we're all looking forward to the great american press corps taking on your jokes. not everybody here probably knows you are born in new york. unlike arnold schwarzenegger you could run for president of the united states. i'd like to ask who your running mates would be. >> did everyone hear that question? tim shipman was referring to the fact that i was born in the united states. i was born in new york. 50 years ago. and obviously very expensive decision it turned out to be. i had no idea. th

>>supervisor london breed: okay. seeing no names on the roster. i will open this item up to public comment. are there any other members of the public who would like to provide public comment on item no. 7. please lineup to my left. mr. brooks. >> public speaker: yes, eric brooks again. first of all speaking strongly in favor of this motion. there is still a budget left crucial. i know the history of this that the relation between the sf puc and the lack of moving this is crucial. this mou needs to continue. now i want to get to the specific work that needs to be covered by one or both agencies. either one or both agencies and that is the enernex report is great. the plan that it lays out or the framework that it lays out is excellent and itd would be great if we passed that. however, i was quoted in the examiner today and other people were spoken to about that examiner about cleanpowersf and we need to make sure that we not only make this program great but spectacular and make it serve local workers and local union workers and local communities of

>>supervisor london breed: thank you. next speaker. >> public speaker: good afternoon, my name is carole flemming and board of governors in the common wealth club. i wish to put in the record a letter today. the appellants approach san francisco beautiful asking for their support in their cause. and i want to read the letter that san francisco beautiful wrote as a result of that meeting. dear supervisors, i'm writing to you in support of the common wealth club. their new headquarters at 110 embarcadero. san francisco beautiful supports the club's proposal to renovate the building that has long been neglected. with the design proposal sensitive to community needs and to preservation. the club has appropriately honored the historic events associated with this building by preserving and restoring the historic stuart street facade. their careful attention to the historic prominence of the building is show cased by their effort to educate visitors about the history of the building and the water front area, particularly of the

do you have a place in london?> no, it is too expensive. >> mike bloomberg -- >> he could help subsidize it. you are going to be meeting with hillary clinton later. >> we are. >> americans love you. >> i don't know about that. i was having my photograph taken just yesterday in new york and a young woman walked by and said g, is that trump? >> was at the hair? people look at you here as almost a statesman. there is all the speculation that you have your eyes on the prime minister spot. >> i see what you are saying. it is untrue because i'm working hard to be mayor of london. deliver my mandate, which is more than a year -- in the end, that runs out, my time as mayor i have to be useful in other ways and i want to serve the people which i have been doing anyway for the last six years. >> we will talk more about this. i know you are a football fan the american kind. we will talk about that in a moment. ♪ >> you are watching "in the loop ." good morning. i am betty liu. samsung will unveil two new versions of its galax

>>supervisor london breed: thank you. are there any other members of the public who would like to provide public comment. is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed.. mr. clerk, before we call the adoption without committee reference, supervisors mar can we have a motion to excuse supervisor mar. motion by supervisor farrell and tang approved. motion to continue item 35 motioned by supervisor wiener and seconded by supervisor tang. without objection item 35 will be continued. mr. clerk can you please call the remaining items in the adoption without committee reference to agenda. city clerk: items 34-36 are being considered for immediate adoption without reference. a single roll call vote. as such matters can be removed and discussed separately. item 35 is being removed until the february 21st meeting. >>supervisor london breed: would you like to approve items. city clerk: campos, crist stan stop sign, >>supervisor london breed: cohen, aye, farrell, aye, kim aye, supervisor kim, wiener ay

london currently spends only 7%, london government, local and city, spend only 7% of the taxes london generates. new york spends about 50%. i think that would go, if we had the taxes, i think that that is the answer. not the entire answer but one of the answers. i do think british politics is in need of a serious galvanizing change like that. i think devolution, giving local communities more say, making people feel actively engaged in what their cities are doing, i think that would be a help. that's not a complete answer, but it would be a help. >> tim shipman of the "sunday times" has a question. >> we're all looking forward to the great american press corps taking on your jokes. not everybody here probably knows you are born in new york. unlike arnold schwarzenegger you could run for president of the united states. i'd like to ask who your running mates would be. >> did everyone hear that question? tim shipman was referring to the fact that i was born in the united states. i was born in new york. 50 years ago. and obviously very expensive decision it turned out to be. i had no idea.

>>supervisor london breed: thank you. i going to call more cards. >> can you please lineup. >> public speaker: hi, my name is ramsey springel. student at u c berkeley. i can't imagine an issue bigger than this one. even as education, i graduate this year and the skyrocketing cost that is going to be a burden onto my students. i don't see that as an important issue as when we look at the environment when we say 50 percent of the local population lives on the coastal regions. i don't see anything nearly as important as you protecting our environment many obviously all of these things are completely mixed things together. >> i want to applaud the board of supervisors and thank you very much for going over this. i think cleanpowersf is important now. i'm a little ashamed that we are not first. we should be first because we are leaders and we should lead now. thank you very much. breed thank breed thank you >> public speaker: i'm a resident of san francisco and having worked with the community in san francisco both to shutdown

bloomberg's francine lacqua is in london. brendan brown joins us of mitsubishi with skepticism on the euro experience. for a guy a ski is here to pick up the debris in the markets as well, joining us. francine, what have you learned in the last hour about all of the players moving around? what is the immediate news? francine: tom the immediate news as it does not like we will have an agreement in brussels. you are looking at the bond yields -- look, if you are a greek person right now, you say i gave a demand to my government for less austerity, i want them to negotiate, but the germans will not budge. is that fair? of all the noise coming from the groups they have a 10 point plan, which they are presenting today, but it is very unclear how much reforms will be put through and how much tax they are collecting, tom. that is the crux point. they want an agreement to extend but they also need to deliver in terms of reforms. at this point, it is not clear whether they will do it or not. tom: here's the morning must-read. brendan

what is going on in london? there, how would it look different from what i have seen ever you are or five years ago? >> the economy has completely transformed. the government recognized there were green shoots in the economic trouble, and looking at how we can help these companies grow and give them the incentives we need, and now i am happy to report that we are the world's largest digital economy in terms of percentage of gdp. we will be at 12.4 percent of gdp next year. >> at is london? >> yes, london, the u.k. >> and that is more than any other country. >> yes. >> really? >> yes, the highest of any g-20 country, so it is really a thriving sector. we are the largest e-commerce participants in the economy. we spend more in e-commerce than any other country in europe, and we are leading the way with other metrics. >> what others are leading in the u.k.? >> there were customers across the country and what we found is that each has strengths. and many other great ones and there was language processing. and they w

york portland and other cities in america according to the report and in places like bristol and london and paris that are taking boulder and faster actions than we are in our city and we can really learn from these practices from other cities and apply them to our unique conditions here in san francisco i'd like to acknowledge with us today are fred ro u.s. seo and from the mta we have a director of sustainable streets mr. tom maguire from the department of transportation in new york where he worked for years improving safer streets in new york and our sustainable streets division and from the department of public health we have our co-chair of our san francisco vision zero task force and commander ann mannox working hard on the vision zero processes in our city and the audience nicole snider and tyler frisbee and many others. with that colleagues i'd like to ask if you have any opening comments supervisor christensen . >> supervisor campos. >> i just want to thank you and thank supervisor yee and kim i look forward to the presentations and suggestions and thank you to the budget analy

for instance, to travel in central london or london at all is three times more expensive and traveling. three times. there are areas which you can start to eat away at. if you are able to get the funds. and other great things you could do in london. let's say you couldn't address the issue of housing which is the thing that comes up all of the time. i ask people what is your big idea? every week we send out a newsletter to support. every time comes back housing. [laughter] that is all they want to talk about. and addressing that, probably too much for this program. what's coming back to me, if people had a better if they felt that they owned the london. in barcelona, they have a night where the galleries comes they open to 11 -- 11:00 or 12:00 the galleries belong to the people work. we close facilities for tourists and we sort a gain ownership. something just a little bit more cultural. little things we could do if we had the money to change the quality of our existence in london. and there are ways of raising bunny that doesn't require taking more money from the treasury. you could h

or slow zones and again these are the different approaches of all of the cities we looked at the london experience has been the most interesting because it's the most extensive there's more than 400 areas in greater london that have slow zones established on the residential streets and no higher than 30 on some some of the main streets. in terms of results, they are is shown here again because the london efforts have been so extensive they have also done the most exhaustive research so of the studies we looked at that was probably the most interesting it covered 385 of the 400 zones and excuse me -- here we go. and found that they had an average reduction in speed in those zones of 9 miles per hour and going back to the formulas i mentioned earlier it it can have a dramatic impact on fatalities and accidents and on the collision rate in general and over the the 20-year period they had a 40 percent reduction and just a foot note on that on that the trend over all of the reduction in speed and collisions in the city of london during that same period however the rate in in the slow zones w

he's a british man thought to be from west london. more on this story, of course on the bbc's website, and we will bring you more on this story as we continue to get it here at bbc world news. >>> now let's return to ukraine. and in the face of the worsening crisis in the east of the country, a new report has accused nato countries of failing to live up to a pledge to increase their military budgets. nato had already set a target that member states should each spend a minimum of 2% of their national wealth or gdp on defense. but the think tank group, the european leadership network, shows that in 2014 the uk and the u.s. were the only two countries to beat that target. and so this year it found that six countries, including canada and big defense spenders such as germany and the uk will cut their spending. france is on course to freeze its defense spending. in contrast russia's increasing its defense spending this year to 4.2% and stepping up its military activity. the united states has already expressed concern about the scale of def

>>supervisor london breed: thank you. there is a motion to approve item no. 28 and table item no. 29 and 30. mr. clerk, i think it was already seconded by supervisor avalos. thank you for your eagerness, supervisor farrell. with that, >>clerk, please call the roll. >> supervisors breed, campos, aye, crist stan son, aye, cohen aye, farrell, aye, kim aye, mar aye, supervisor tang aye, wiener aye, supervisor yee, aye, supervisor avalos. eleven ayes. >>supervisor london breed: okay. the plans for negative mitigation is approved. [ applause ] . if you can take your business outside quietly thank you very much. mr. clerk call item 22. city clerk: item 22 has already been called. >>supervisor john avalos: we have before us the administrative code establishing the children's youth oversight and advisory committee working group. this would replace the citizens advisory committee. the charter amendment approved by the voters in november replaced the advisory committee with this body. this legislation is clarifying going deeper to w

reporting from london, i'm katty kay. -- katty kay. british extremist in the islamic state video has been identified as mohammed emwazi. and these days, the book has given way to the tablet, but when photographer is putting the focus back on those printed pages. ♪ welcome to our viewers on public television in america and elsewhere around the globe. tonight, we are broadcasting from london where the news broke today that the british man known as jihadi john has been identified. bbc news has learned that the man seen in except extremist islamic state videos showing the beheading of several hostages is mohammed emwazi. the former computer programmer from west london is not to have traveled to syria in 2013. he was known to british security forces. crack's the only thing visible his eyes, dubbed jihadi john his identity hidden. knife in hand, hostages at his mercy as he taunted the west. now he has been unmasked. the bbc has revealed he is mohammed emwazi, a 26-year-old from west london. at the family home of mohammed emwazi this morning,

kelly morgan, cnn, london. >>> cnn's kelly morgan joins me now from london with more. so what are analysts saying is likely to happen with this u.s. extradition request for polanski? >> reporter: yes, well there's really nothing certain. there has been some legal argument in poland about whether or not this crime actually comes within a statute of limitations in poland. as a result last month the polish prosecutors referred the matter to the courts to make a decision on the legality of the u.s. request. so that's the hearing that we're expecting that will start today and which we are expecting polanski himself to attend. now even if that court decides that that u.s. request is legal, it doesn't end there. it is actually ultimately under polish law up to the justice minister to ultimately decide whether or not he's going to sign off on that extradition. >> we'll see what happens with that. as we saw in your report polanski has evaded the u.s. justice system for nearly 40 years. the young girl he took advantage of has since forgiven him. and he's a man in his early 80s.

it maybe the mix of london and american politicians. a few weeks ago, the american tv channel fox news became a laughing stock all over britain when they put somebody on the air who insisted there were parts of england where only muslims were allowed, including he said the entire major city of birmingham. that led 0 a response where british people tried to explain the birmingham allegation from the fox news perspective. the hashtag on that was fox news facts. the city is called birming because ham is not allowed. fox news facts. birling ham has a chain of fast food restaurants called birmig king. >> jam jars are radicalized. see jam jars in tiny burr kas. i choked on my pore age enthought it must be april fool's day. this guy is an idiot. fox news within a couple of days to a lot of people's surprise they apologized on multiple shows using multiple fox news hosts. they said they were sorry for having made this allegation and would never book that guy again. what he said was not true and soifr for prop pull gating those games for being n

midrom new's olympics gaffe overshadows visit to london. mitt romney visits london while stumbling on almost every front. mitt romney's olympic stumbles in london. the trip of shambles, it started a hashal. hey, americans, this mitt person is some sort of american borat, right? it was just a terrible trip. it might have been his fault. you may remember just a few weeks ago, fox news became a real laughing stock when an expert came on and said there were special areas in london. the hashtag on that was fox news facts. the city is now being calling berming because ham is not lalal. they have a chain of fast food restaurants, burka king. jam jars across clinton are being radicalized. the british prime minister had to run in again saying that the fox news expert frankly i choked on my porage, this guy is clearly an idiot. fox news profusely apologized on multiple fox news shows with numerous hosts. what he said was not true. they said there was false claims about no-go zones for non-muss limbs in britain. i think it was bigger news when fox too