iran knew greatness in the days when it was known as persia.n this vast throne room, king darius ruled over the first great empire in history. the hundred columns, the room for the many royal lives and a sculptured stairway were among the marvles here. darius himself is seated on his throne receiving tribute. from europe, africa, and asia came men bearing gifts. bracelets shaped like horseshoes and small horses from what is today arabia. this was taxed a 25 centuries ago. there were sheep from what is today turkey, there were vessels with exotic shapes, precious liquids. all of these part of the persian empire in its days of greatest glory. there was a chariot like those of the pharaohs, even egypt was ruled by this persian king and there was a camel from what is today afghanistan. the tax collector was a man of his mighty army, and on these golden tablets, darius and scribed, i am darius, the king of kings. the great god has given me rulership over all the races. this is my kingdom. here in gold is outlined the empire which was handed over to

>> a little over a year. >> including 5 persia? >> correct. >> do you know how many individuals that is? how many individuals were effected by those orders? >> well, i don't have it committed to memory the last one it's about 30 as well and we had one that was only three or four people but yeah, the most has been persia and it's the most recent one about 30. >> where is the one that was also 30 people. >> on 24th street. >> oh, ok. if you have any questions? >> just first of all i want to clarify one point that i made in the beginning that it was you the fire marshal and your agency that required for the first time in the city's history that the landlord would have to pay those relocation money to the individual tenants so that was really helpful in this situation over $4,000 per individual that was living in these situations and the order basically said that in many ways it was about taking advantage of those individuals and putting them in harm's way so that was something that had not been done and it was an order that your depar

that is from bbc persia. one of the most that is from bbc persia.the most read stories on the bbc website and individualist is a marine biologist who says a humpback whale protected her from a 15 foot tiger shark during a recent dive. the ethiopian government has decided to ban adoptions by all foreigners. the best known case of this is angelina jolie, whose adopted daughter zahara is originally from ethiopia. and ethiopia is one of the main countries where americans adopt children from. in the last five years, nearly 3800 ethiopian children have been adopted by american families. —— in the last 15 years. and it‘s expensive. it takes a long time. the most recent figures we could find are for 2013 — when the average cost to adopt was nearly $46,000. very relevant to this week‘s decision is the conviction of this woman. she‘s carri williams, of washington state, and in 2013 she was convicted along with her husband of starving and beating her adopted daughter from ethiopia to death. that sparked a broader discussion in ethiopia about the number and nat

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and they see him as a cyrus, which is a biblical leader of persia who was favorable to the jewish peopleuraged the rebuilding of the wall, and basically gave them a large degree of religious freedom. so they trump as someone coming into power that is going to make a difference with regard to the diminishing religious freedoms that christians feel even in this but there are those who also see trump as a saul, someone who was given to leadership over a nation as a concession because the people did not want divine presence and divine guidance. what saul ended up doing was exposing the moral and spiritual conditions of the nation, and how divided it was. so i think that depending upon what lens we look at the presidency, and the one who is in office, i think he is a combination of both of those things. but it didn't begin with him, i mean, the spiritual and moral condition of our nation began decades ago. you know, everything begins in seed form, and then grows into an experience. and these seeds were sewn in the '60s, and the revolution. associated with the '60s, i was there. i grew up in i

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exactly how many total number of displaced tenants in the five orders, but we do know in the five persia case, at least 27 people. and another case on 24th street i believe there was an estimated 30 people. and those were two of the five. so, yeah, it's clear it could affect multiple displacements at a time when housing is -- everybody knows, impossible to find. so -- >> anyway, moving on beyond that, i will say we are also still pursuing our legislation for third party peer review experts in a qualified pool. we have reissued that r.f.q. we expect responses in by january 5th and to actually certify a pool by the middle of february. and that is underway and we have asked the supervisors to try and move that off of the 30-day calendar so that this payment mechanism for cost recovery to the department is also ready to go at the same time. so, that continues to move ahead. on a.d.u.s, you know, the chronicle recently did a little update story there. definitely a growing number of these accessory dwelling units in the pipeline. we have now, as of last week, had 590 screening forms and we hav

this involves places like what happened on 5 persia, a year ago, a number of people were living in terrible conditions under a laundry and we are, when we have these emergency orders to vacate that are issued either by the fire department or ourselves, we are trying to, the supervisors are trying to establish a fund that would be able to provide ongoing tenant assistance for up to a two-year period. as this did pass through committee, it had the first unanimous, before the last meeting on december 12th, it will probably pass when the board resumes business in january. and then it will move into the budget phase in terms of how exactly it's going to get funded. but those funds would be in addition to, as you know, according to the city attorney where there is this relocation assistance formula that does often come into play where the property owner is responsible to provide a certain amount of payout that may help people for obviously a shorter period of time other than that, and this is the fill in a gap for this much longer situation as we know given the current housing market. >> vice cha

gunshots in the city of persia on monday night. demonstrators defying a government social media blackout posting these pictures from cities across a row. on of damaged cars frightened crowds and burning buildings. just hours earlier in the capital tehran there was little sign of the turmoil which is engulfed parts of the country but the issues which have sparked the protests such as iran stuttering economy after years of sanctions and the fear of unemployment are serious concerns for people here i mean john the car i'm working but in this society i'm always stressed about the possibility of getting fired the next day always being worried about my job my family the security of my family the main problems people are grappling with are their security the economy and their livelihood. and there are some who are poor and cannot make ends meet what should they do life is really difficult i have a daughter in. the high prices it really put me under pressure at home iran's leaders say some protesters may have been provoked by foreign count

know i actually made it very clear that i'm willing it's nothing personal about me it's not about persia per se it's about the only go to my feet. absolutely behold the whole clique feet but it doesn't mean that all that apart from that it's not the only thing i made clear we would talk about about the terms of transition because this country needs the countries in the trouble trouble ukraine might as integrate just fall apart if this whole thing continues and i'm very worried about parading through the streets wearing a flag and carrying. what is it how come only one of you think and you know that wasn't of my choice that and when you say put it on me and you seem to revel in. selfies i'm the one who gets most of the selfies you told a reporter well that's part of the job some of you like being in the public eye you're enjoying this in the house leadership but we doubt public support i can know that you much the only thing that can keep me moving here do the only thing we can achieve something here in this situation or legal system is failing the situations don't work ukraine basically

people in the bible were not perfect at all, but yet god used them in for persia to send his people back to jerusalem. >> so many reasons republican leaders, presidentsre and otherwise make clean the outside of the father and i keep going back to that passage. >> you're absolutely right. >> they seem like a good family people, but when it comes down, look how they act when trump won. they've been trying to sabotage him ever since and they just don't act anything but. >> the amazing thing is he is championing the values you and i and most of the students would believe him better than people that have better credentials of george w. bush who was a good man. he just didn't come through on a lattice of. coming through again and again and i believe they gradually the people who don't like him are going to come over. >> jesus separated. he said i always say that. but you can't judge somebody according to how good they are and who are you going to vote for based on non-because if you ever after a man in your heart, you are just as guilty as the guy of adultery. you vote for the one who'll vote

eight, nine months ago, i think you might remember that there was the horrible situation at five persia where we discovered 27 individuals living in dungeon-like conditions. one way in, no way out. this was a former garage that the owner had subdivided into cubicles. they were living underground through no fault of their own because of the hazardous situations, the fire marshal and the department of building inspection and the department of homelessness intervened, identified the situation and gave orders to vacate. given the situation and the horrible situation in oakland with the fire, there was a higher group and a working group on homeless housing, but this evolved into a situation where people were living in hazardous housing situations, so hence the name of this fund. we modelled a transitional housing fund based on the fire victims' assistance fund. this fund will allow individuals again, at no fault of their own to be relocated into temporary housing, pay the old rent that they were paying, and then, the city would subsidize the balance. this was an appropriate situation. we kne

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of gunshots in the city of persia on monday night. demonstrators defy a government social media blackout posting these pictures from cities across iran of damaged cars frightened crowds and burning buildings. just hours earlier in the capital tehran there was little sign of the turmoil which is engulfed parts of the country but the issues which have sparked the protests such as iran stuttering economy after years of sanctions and the fear of unemployment are serious concerns for people here i mean john the car i'm working but in this society i'm always stressed about the possibility of getting fired the next day always being worried about my job my family the security of my family the main problems people are grappling with are their security the economy and their livelihood. and there are some who are poor and cannot make ends meet what should they do life is really difficult i have a daughter in. the high prices that really put me under pressure at home iran's leaders say some protesters may have been provoked by foreign countries b

people in the bible were not perfect at all, but yet god used them, and he used a pagan king from persia to send his people back to jerusalem. >> and so many recent republican leaders, presidents and otherwise, have made, like jesus said, may clean the outside of the platter but inside are ravenous wolves. [laughter] i keep going back to that passage -- >> you're absolutely right. >> -- and they seem like they're good, decent people, good family people, but when it comes down to look how they acted when trump won. i mean, they've been trying to sabotage him ever since, and they just don't act anything but christian. >> you know, the amazing thing is he has championed the values that you and i would and most of these students would believe in better than people that had better credentials like george w. bush, who is a good man, but he just didn't come through on a lot of stuff. trump is coming through again and again and again, and i believe that gradually people who don't like him are going to come over -- >> that's why i think when it comes to politics, jesus separated. he said render u

gunshots in the city of persia on monday night. demonstrators defy a government social media blackout posting these pictures from cities across iran of damaged cars frightened crowds and burning buildings. just hours earlier in the capital tehran there was little sign of the turmoil which is engulfed parts of the country but the issues which have sparked the protests such as iran stuttering economy after years of sanctions and the fear of unemployment are serious concerns for people here may change on the part i'm working but in this society i'm always stressed about the possibility of getting fired the next day always being worried about my job my family. the security of my family the main problems people are grappling with are their security the economy and their livelihoods. and there are some who are poor and cannot make ends meet what should they do life is really difficult i have a daughter and son both at school the high prices really put me under pressure at home iran's leaders say some protesters may have been provoked by

after his copilot was injured when their vehicle hit a crater in the sand dunes lopes persia teammate stefan petter hansell won the fifth stage to extend his overall and. now one of the world's most well known athletes will start a new chapter in his career on friday mohamed formerly mo far is in cats are for his first road running events and stepping away from the track so how malik reports . he's not about to become a professional footballer but most far is in the process of changing careers after winning six world titles and four olympic gold medals on the track he's in qatar to run the doha half marathon but first it towards his new goal of the olympic marathon gold in my name is to go to tokyo twenty twenty three how it depends on my body just work i've got to look after stay injury free stay focused stay hungry and keep doing doing and i am enjoying it i go just as most most far as the center of attention here and he's won so many championships and gold medals worldwide he's going to go down as a legend of the track the question is now whether he can achieve the same success as

it all sink trying the saudis are on the brink egyptians are on the brink all scared to death of persia yemen sinai libya the thing is that he then goes on to say that's why russia is so key is russia that bad question mark. but the world is full of bad guys really interesting statements to make if they are true. they are very interesting and it shows from very early on particularly through steve bannon the importance of russia and we've known this from some other some other sources that russia has seen that steve madden has seen russia as this important christian country that could partner with the united states to magically bring this christian oriented christian centered stability to this unruly middle east that's been a perspective that's been rumored in washington about steve bannon giving that kind of advice to trump for some time but to have it documented here is important and it shows that the desire to get close to russia is not just one of trying to regen election here in the united states though that may be or one that's even financially based but one that's deeply ideologica

despotism, he read quite a lot of russian history, imperial russian history, roman history and ancient persia history which shows his caucus influence, for example. the ancient persian dynasties for the medieval persian dynasties in the various [inaudible] he knew quite a lot about them and spend time with them. he read the classics as we would call them his favorite writer and in terms of the old writers because he portrayed billings as real people and stalin like that a lot not just the heroes but also the villains were believable. he read the literature in translation quite a bit so we think he read about 200 pages a day, most of that was military and intelligence of civilian files and there was a worldview suspicious worldview about enemies internal and external, reflected in these files and they had instructions or his reactions to the files made them more like what he was looking for and became a kind of echo chamber in a way where he spent a lot of time with interrogation protocol, he read these people were tortured to confess and stalin read through hundreds of pages of this so this w

and actually we do i watch i watch social media and i watch and i know you hear me see persia we are not here to talk about what the british government did or did not do with social media in the context of the u.k. but to take you right back to point number one you basically seem to be saying that these protests are diffusing on their own and they are becoming less can i put it to you that that is demonstrably not the case from the caspian sea from the caspian sea in the north to is a in the south these demonstrations are real they are ongoing and they are current and for the government to say nothing here move on we don't have a problem is precisely the wrong interpretation because of a different agenda that it looks someone who said that and by the way i'm not the government and don't attribute by word the government to me i teach at the university of tehran and un bided me on this show if you want a government official going in by a government official i talked to as an academic i know what's going on in this country i'm more fluent in persian than you are and since you worked in

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here in america and around the world the that iran isn't just in area in the middle east known as persia. they have elements like hezbollah that are operating globally. iran has said they want to wipe the big state and the little state, israel and the united states, off the map. they don't have our best interests at heart. but as a free people here in the united states of america i can tell you we have the best interests of the iranian people at heart. when we stand on this floor and we talk about the uprising, the protests that are going on in iran now that we have the best interest of the iranian people at heart, because we don't stand to benefit in any way from standing for us, standing up for freedom. folks that want self-government. folks that want less oppression. that want some say-so in their livelihood and how their government operates. that's what the iranian people are talking about in these protests. so unfortunately, the obama administration and the state department did not take account of iran and the western hemisphere very seriously. but iran is here. they've opened cultu

some of it is back to the movies where we are silly about persia or the shah. most out of tune with the reality of tehran? is very diversified economy, more so than any other country in the region. it's got an extremely young and educated population. i guess that would be kind of misunderstanding. that is feeding into these protests that we saw. they started with a spark about living conditions and job prospects. they have morphed into something bigger. theow seems to repeating route could you have a young population that's hungry and looking for opportunities and they're not finding them. francine: it's tough to think of what som thomas thinking of best -- it'smas thinking of tough to think of what som thomas thinking of. update onve us and saudi arabia? andrew: everyone's kind of swept up into the conflicts and last year we had talks between the two sides. that mediation disappeared. new year's eve we had this great big party and the burj khalifa is all lit up. the six countries that make up the gcc, and they only put five flags up on the burj khalifa. it was