. >> john paul scott here, deputy director for the mayor's office on disability. i participate in a number of national standards making groups that operate by roberts rules of order. one of the things that we do in the accessibility committee that drafts the national building code is vote on excused absences. there could be conditions, health conditions or special conditions where a member might not be able to attend and they petition that body to have an excused absence. i think it would behoove those with a disability acknowledge that we might have a condition where we need a reasonable accommodation. also under roberts rules of orders there can be an amendment to a motion. the motion can still proceed on at the meeting with an amendment. someone just writes down that section and bring it bake later in the meeting so the cochair assigns someone to draft that language if it needs to be that precise and they can bring the item back or write it now and make it a friendly amendment. >> councilmembers? would you like to comment to his suggestion? derek? >> i just wan

the limelight this day but with little enthusiasm at home rouhani may be facing a tough sell as paul scott reports. this. republic of iran is ready to engage immediately in time bound orientated talks to build mutual confidence and the removal of mutual uncertainties hassen rouhani as recent speech at the u.n. general assembly was said by many to represent a flooring in relations between tehran and washington a sign that the iranian leadership is king to initiate warmer ties with the global community but not everyone is king for this to happen. hard line conservative protesters threw eggs at the president upon his return to tehran a malveaux was uncomfortable with the idea of increased diplomacy with washington have launched the first ever down with the usa contest the idea is to find the most creative and to us propaganda contestants are invited to submit photographs posters caricature poems hymns and blogs all relating to the slogan down with the usa over three thousand dollars up for grabs for the winner there will be a prize for the best idea to mark death of america which will renew t

and banners appearing all over tehran in recent weeks with rouhani demanding many be taken down paul scott's r.t. . and on the way here on our c a rest were keep aeration island indefinite detention. i love it it's a lot of people think there's not much to do but there's definitely an abundance to do smiles and sunshine feel the shotgun time of day with no end in sight for the u.s. military base where hunger striking detainees are being force fed behind bars. and other diplomatic scandal laid out in the faces of european officials this week after a british newspaper reported the u.k. is operating a secret listening station in berlin to spy on bad german allies they quickly housed on the u.k. embassy ruby is believed. to be able to intercept communications in berlin german officials are investigating the claims that's while their hands are already full with reports the german chancellor follows been timed by american intelligence european parliament member paul murphy admits there will be a diplomatic fallout but says political interests will outweigh any public criticism. germany and britain

paul scott your item is coming up during staff report, would you like to speak that then? thank you in the meantime any any public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. yep. yes >> it probably would be best for paul scioto speak at this time because it was not an agenda item it's only an informational report back to the commissioners so - >> pardon me mr. scott. >> thank you, commissioner. as many of you may know there's a fire at the case he will there was a torch on the roof. but there's a story about it in the paper i don't know how many details argue interested in are i want to let u.s. you know we're open it and we've had numerous people on the site to inspect it to try to maintain the materials to have a complete picture how to rebuild and but i knew this would be of concern to you folks. i wanted to check in with you. we've provided some pictures to the planning staff i assume it will show you the condition of the roof and we'll be taking spepz steps to put that back together. we've got enough information from the materials we have to rebuild it exactly as

west now earlier my colleague bill dodd discussed moscow's role in the diplomatic process artie's paul scott. paul what's russia's role in this latest round of talks on iran what russia's role in this process bill really is to bridge the gap between some in the west and iran russia has been opposed to iran acquiring a nuclear bomb but acknowledges that iran does have a right to peaceful nuclear program which iran says was really a precondition to these talks they were saying that no deal was going to be struck unless this precondition was met and russia has really tried to ease the tensions because that precondition led to some in the west being quite suspicious about iran and their motives and russia really has tried to ease those tensions and suspicions in order to try and get all parties around the table which they as they've obviously done and it's also something that's proven slightly easier of course since the election of his son rouhani who's a comparative moderate in comparison with his predecessor mahmoud ahmadinejad and what does moscow make of the potential of slapping more sancti

. >> hello councilmembers i'm john paul scott. i'm making the presentation today for counsel person wong to help him save his voice. we have two meetings that we want to report on and get into the record. we had a meeting on friday october 11th of this year at 1: 30 to 3: 30 p.m. old business was a presentation by me on the status of our ada transition plan what projects had been completed in construction this recent year what ones under construction and which ones are under designed. i won't go through that list i do that once a year for you all. i have to say we're doing pretty good but having challenges getting staff we have good funding everybody is pressing on the bureau of architecture right now. we had a presentation by the better market street focus group in the focus group workshop to make a presentation on the preliminary final report and what were some of the good findings and of course that group then came to the counsel on the subsequent meeting and made a presentation on the whole process. i've talked to the team the

commissioners i'm paul scott. i live in the neighborhood of julius castle and have for longer than i care to remember 15 years or so. i just wanted to speak to a couple of items. in terms of my involvement with this building i care about my building i'm the former president of t hd and was the president of save our neighborhoods where we have the america's cup facilities today. i'm a lawyer will i profession but i've done property work on the filner's steps - i'm not sure how to operate this. that's not the after but the before picture. and we did some work on that place which isn't coming across well. we restored that building to the pen of the neighborhood and also to the satisfaction of the folks who were concerned in a historically done fashion. we're coming from the prospective of trying to do the right thing. we want to restore to the historic use. when i bought the people i was told about their prom night or first job interview and the vast vast number of people wanted it to be returned to that use. the rea

who came over those two weekends and got drenched that day and i want to thank especially john paul scott for all the work he put into planning and organizing this event. thank you. >> thank you guys very much for your presentation. >> thank you. >> we are cutting time here. okay. we are going to move team 13. public comment. not on today's agenda. is there any public comment? seeing that there is no public comment, oh. i'm sorry. excuse me. >> i will be quick. i didn't get to this earlier. i want to congratulate once again chip on your election to cochair and also welcome derek to the council and i want to say a few words. derek is an outstanding person who has a lot of expert knowledge on local and state and national policies and a lot of wisdom. he is also one of the people that helps me keep stay technologically connected. computers, cell phones, well, derek did a lot of work to set that up. i want to welcome him and also welcome even though she's not here council member i bar a. >> okay, seeing that we have no more public comment. oh, public comment? just period. this is to end our p

. >> hello councilmembers i'm john paul scott. i'm making the presentation today for counsel person wong to help him save his voice. we have two meetings that we want to report on and get into the record. we had a meeting on friday october 11th of th year at 1: 30 to 3: 30 p.m. old business was a presentation by me on the status of our ada transition plan what projects had been completed in construction this recent year what ones under construction and which ones are under designed. i won't go through that list i do that once a year for you all. i have to say we're doing pretty good but

i would like to say too i thank the public for their comment and thank you john paul scott for your comments too. those were things we didn't hear when we discussed this and we have discussed it lengthy. i would like to go with joanna, maybe go back and finish what she said. finish a little bit of the writing of this and maybe bring it back to the next executive meeting. or did we vote on it and it's gone or put amendment to it. excuse me chip. >> i would respectfully remove the motion and that would allow us to do whatever we want. i just want to also say to john paul that we did discuss with people on the council that had disabilities and might need extra time off and while we didn't make it explicit language there was no intention to force someone off the council to take each meeting to take the case on an individual basis. at the point that someone has three absences within a year, we would have discussion with that person about why and the language does not say to be removed from the council or anything, just at that point we might want to have a discussion with their health considerati

tensions over illegal income is in moscow following the recent murder of a russian man artie's paul scott takes a look at why anger on this issue is bubbling to the surface. migration in moscow is a sensitive subject right now following last month's murder of russian the back of allegedly at the hands of an azerbaijani migrant and the nationalistic riots that followed the issue is firmly in the spotlight and an r.t. camera crew has found out just how sensitive the topic is we went to a market on the outskirts of moscow to try and film an interview with mohamed magick the president of the russian federation of migrants despite getting private mission to film it soon became clear a presence was not welcome. you russian do i have to repeat myself the site ends with the fence we eventually set up our interview away from the market. yes i think they may have suspected some illegal activities of course and when you have thousands of migrant some of them may not have work permits or residence permits. the exact number of migrants in moscow is hard to calculate but best estimates put the figure a

string of insane instead allegedly distinct cooling in relations between the two countries artie's paul scott has details. well a further unsavory incident putting further pressure on already strained relations between the two countries now the dutch king and his wife were attending a music concerts in moscow when two men through what appeared to be tomatoes at them they were unharmed and did carry on with their official engagements now the two men who were arrested were members of the national bolshevik party which is actually banned here in russia and they could be heard saying if they carried out the assault the couple had the blood of alexander domata of on their hands now don't matter of was a former member of the party who committed suicide was in dutch custody after being denied political asylum in the country and as i say the incident comes with relations already strained between the two countries the netherlands are actually suing russia at the moment for the detention of thirty greenpeace activists who were on board the arctic sunrise vessel now following that incident a russian dip

correspondent paul scott is right now. ukraine's stalling of signing an e.u. association agreement here in vilnius threatens to turn this summit into somewhat of a damp squid kiev cozying up to the eight was meant to be the highlight of the two days here. has been keen to stress that the deal can be signed any time and that the latest development is just a postponement and not a council ation a move seen by some as a winner for all concerned buying them vital breathing space they're very uncomfortable with the idea of ukraine coming into the e.u. the e.u. right now is used with the crisis in the pigs countries portugal italy and greece and so far they don't have money to do anything ask if you're crying the only thing they can do is try to take advantage of the weakness of ukraine so i don't i don't like the e.u. as a whole is. the financial implications of such an agreement may have even been misjudged by the e.u. with the president of the european parliament martin schulz saying the e.u. may have underestimated the drama of the domestic political situation i

program meanwhile russia's president has voiced his optimism that a deal would be reached soon paul scott reports. on monday at the initiative of russian president vladimir putin he and his iranian counterpart hassen rouhani had a phone conversation after which the russian president was quoted as saying that he believes there is now a real chance that iran and the international community can come to an agreement over the country's nuclear program an agreement that would eventually seeing the easing of sanctions on the country now the storm just opposition to that move is coming from israel who has strong support from france france of course are in the negotiating group in fact french president francois hollande has been in israel prior to those talks in geneva on wednesday but despite the documented differences after the first round of talks. optimism is shed by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov your residual speculations of the positive shift we now see in negotiations over iran's nuclear program has only become possible because of pressure coming from sanctions against it i sugges

country at least two hundred illegals were repaired from russia following that single incident but as paul scott explains it's only the tip of the iceberg. migration in moscow is a sensitive subject right now following last month's murder of russian manye gaucher back over allegedly at the hands of an azerbaijani migrant and the nationalistic riots that followed the issue is firmly in the spotlight and an r.t. camera crew has found out just how sensitive the topic is we went to a market on the outskirts of moscow to try and film an interview with mohammad mage i'm the president of the russian federation of migrants despite getting prive commission to film it soon became clear a presence was not welcome. to russian so i have to repeat myself the site ends with the fence we eventually set up our interview away from the market. i think they may have suspected some illegal activities of course and when you have thousands of migrant some of them may not have work permits or residence permits. the exact number of migrants in moscow is hard to calculate the best estimates put the figure out around one

economy people still want to end as key of the exterior of these of the agreements next year also has paul scott has been finding out what went wrong this time. it's. a moment of on power allowed access to the ukrainian president viktor young a cold which comes face to face with e.u. leaders for the first time since stalling on historic trade deal the whole thing caught on camera i think it was i i i i. i i i think it's clear that kiev decision to hold for seedings has run cold e.u. leaders following years of negotiations the e.u. senses outside influence we have to set aside short term political calculations. and we may not give in to external pressure not the least from russia. to cause which is the financial deal all thought isn't large enough to prevent damage to ukraine's flailing economy of course neither ukrainian businesses nor the government have this amount of money or will have any time soon that's why ukraine is not ready to take responsibilities is not capable of fulfilling yet oh so where does this leave the situation ukraine's proposals for trilateral talks with russia were reject

nuclear agreement many of the country are outraged by their government's dealings with the west ati's paul scott investigates why. there's argile more years than mick republic of iran is ready to engage immediately in time bound orientated talks to build mutual confidence and the removal of mutual uncertainties hassen rouhani as recent speech at the u.n. general assembly was said by many to represent a thorin in relations between tehran and washington a sign that the iranian leadership is king to initiate warmer ties with the global community but not everyone is king for this to happen. hard line conservative protesters threw eggs at the president upon his return to tehran and now those uncomfortable with the idea of increased diplomacy with washington have launched the first ever down with the usa contest the idea is to find the most creative anti us propaganda contestants are invited to submit photographs posters caricature poems hymns and blogs all relating to the slogan down with the usa over three thousand dollars are up for grabs for the winner there will be a prize for the best idea to ma

roller coaster ride you can never expect anything for sure the deal may still be signed my colleague paul scott is now into this went on capitol hill this change the summit that was meant to see the formalities completed and ukraine assigned to join the e.u. last week's decision from kiev to postpone preparations on signing that association agreement cause shock amongst many years of negotiations just to get to this point the ukrainian president viktor yanukovych says that the terms of the deal were simply not agreeable for his country they smile meant in time now he said the financial package being offered by the european union on the international monetary fund left feeling humiliated those are his words and he said that any deal would only be signed on what he described as normal terms and he says that the six hundred million euros on offer to ukraine to modernize was simply in. adequate now another large stumbling block of course was the future of former prime minister and jailed opposition leader leader yulia tymoshenko now she is in prison at the moment needs medical treatment on a barbar

large later this week it's not just the international community president rouhani has to convince paul scott's r.t. . this is coming up later in the program latest report online from dawn time of day. i love it's a lot of people think there's not much to do but there's definitely an abundance to do. there's no end in sight for those how did the u.s. military base where detainees continuing their hunger strike are being force fed behind. britain is operating a listening post in the heart of the german capital allegedly targeting the parliament and the chancellor's office there revelations based on leaked documents hit a raw nerve in berlin which is already trying to get proper explanations from the u.s. greats tapping of angela merkel's phone as we're now it's believed the eavesdropping equipment is installed right here on the roof of the u.k. embassy with its stars throw the bundestag it's already capable of intercepting phone calls on long distance communications all across the city germany demanded explanations from london pointing out that intercepting days into collapsing buildings is a vi

the clock protest to try and push the government into cozying up to europe and earlier i spoke to paul scott and. then following the events for as expected in vilnius has concluded without ukraine assigning that association agreement however on friday the president of the european council herman van rompuy he's hopeful that the deal can be revisited at a later date. remains clear. of signing the most ambitious agreement the european union has ever offered to a nonmember state is still on the table so the e.u. insists that the offer is still on the table however it is a deal that low house already rejected president. maintaining that the deal of the financial deal on offer from brussels was not adequate for his country right now saying he left his country feeling many ated now congress called the moment he came face to face with. heads of state for the very first time since tooling decision now the lithuanian president was present you can just about make him out on tape saying but if he signs the agreement he says to me on a car i'm going to merkel says we expected more we being the european