the greek port of paraders is china's gateway to europe it's the 1st deep sea port that container ships from asia reach after passing through the suez canal china wants to make it the final destination on its new maritime silk road its spending billions to expand the port for greece in its economic desperation selling parathas represents lots of much needed cash investments and jobs and china gets the property and infrastructure at a strategically vital location for an unbeatable price. in 2016 chinese shipping giant costco acquired a majority stake in the port for 370000000 euros since then container shipments have increased more than 10 fold to 4900000 containers since july parade as has been the largest container transfer shipment in the mediterranean now cosco plans to put a further 800000000 euros into expanding the entire port not just the container terminal a huge harbor for cruise ships will be built there complete with 5 star hotels many greeks hope that with china's help the old port of parathas can be returned to its former glory. and not to some of the of a global business s

in 2016 chinese shipping giant costco acquired a majority stake in the port for 370000000 euros since then container shipments have increased more than 10 fold to 4900000 containers since july parade this has been the largest container transfer shipment in the mediterranean now cosco plans to put a further 800000000 euros into expanding the entire port not just the container terminal a huge harbor for cruise ships will be built there complete with 5 star hotels many greeks hope that with china's help the old port of parathas can be returned to its former glory the opec group of oil exporting countries says rising demand for energy especially in developing countries means global demand for oil will continue to increase of it will cost a 12 percent rise in oil demand by 2046 share of that will fold over the next 5 years as output of u.s. shale and other rivals is expanding rising climate activism and widening use of alternative fuels and putting the strength of long term oil demand on the most for . stocks around the world have made gains signs the united states and china may be inching

to stop its program the poorest of concreteness began at the facility in the southern port of british iran insists it is not developing nuclear weapons and that power generated by the plant will save millions of barrels of oil each year tehran has ramped up enrichment of uranium in the last week for the skiving back its commitments under the 25th day nuclear deal which the us pulled out of last year monday marks the 50th anniversary of the death of palestinian leader yasser arafat the nobel peace laureate died in suspicious circumstances after years of work to try to win the conflict between israel and palestine the arafat foundation will hold its annual meeting on sunday to granting the warden his name and encouraging achievements in national work and abraham has more from ramallah. the main thing people talk about here when you bring about a father is his movement to the people they say he was a person will displayed there and he carries about his people's day to day issues we've heard from people who says that he came to their funeral to the son's funerals to pay condolences after

regarding the port in particular, do we audit the ports aspects of this bond? >> i'm from the controllers office. yes we do. we have the same authority on the ports project as anything else. i am looking at the schedule for audits to see when this may come up. february 2021, this group of park 2012 park bond will be in our audit sample. so, it's not planned for our construction audit until then. >> okay. >> the authority is the same. >> okay. >> so, i'm telling you guys because you're here that i'm disappointed that the port didn't show up for this, especially as we're heading towards the sea wall bond. i would like to calendar the port specifically for our next meeting and ask them to come in and actually present in more detail about what they have said here. there are no numbers on here. again, you guys are not responsible for them, but they need to understand that if they're going to be part of these bonds, by something you said earlier, around the 2020 bond, i assume they're going to have projects on that one too? >> actually, the port is not going to have

i think the port commission is looking at resilience as a port-wide responsibility. >> thank you. >> okay. public comment. any members of the public to comment on item 4? seeing none, public comment is now closed. i think we collectively when we hear about the sea wall, it puts the fear of god into everybody. mother nay turhas the last -- nature has the last word on this. i would make a motion to move to the board with positive recommendation if we can take that without objection. thank you very much. madam clerk please call item 5. resolution approving modification number one much the use and agreement between alaska airlines and the city to interpret the space into the lease agreement with an estimated rent of $20.8 million for the remainder of the lease terms to commence upon approval. president item 6 is between very genamerica with earlies due to the merger to commence on the first day of the month following board approval. >> today we have . >> first off i would like to say happy birthday to super visor stefani. the airport is here requesting approval of modifications to two le

has protesters continue to try to try to disrupt the services of at port . a spokesman for the libyan more literally for have to says a no fly zone is emplace over the capital tripoli except for around mitiga airport after us forces have been fighting to take the capital from the internationally recognized government the tripoli administration says any threat to civil aviation is a crime under national and international law. voting has begun in guinea bissau presidential election for years political infighting and crimes of corruption of paralyzed politics incumbent president jess a vase is seeking reelection and a small plane has crashed in the democratic republic of congo it went down just after taking off from goma in the east of the country this 18 people have been killed rescue efforts are underway in northwestern kenya after flooding and landslides at least 36 people have been killed but the full scale of the disaster is still unclear rescue efforts have been delayed because of flooding because of roads and bridges but those are the latest headlines co

operations at the gulf port of. painted a complete standstill since wednesday after demonstrators set up concrete blocks and burnt tires iraq relies heavily on imported food and the port receives the vast bulk of the country's grain vegetable oils and sugar joshua name in baghdad has more protests. now in the city of basra it looks like their protests are blocking operations of critical utilities local sources are telling us that protesters and security forces in basra have been fighting in front of the you the hostler port since last evening there was the sit in there and. we understand protesters had been blocking the entrance and halting operations for it to the port for about 6 days security forces came in cleared the sit in and that's when local sources told us about 100 people were injured some of them seriously protesters remain there carrying signs that say iran out of iraq you affairs another one a sign being seen is. the iraqi government made by iran protesters are upset they say that the ports revenue is

project, so that's in the amount of 3.1 million for that final port project. right now, we're just starting to do our work on vetting projects for both the public health and transportation bond to determine what size we will be bringing forward for issuance in the spring and we're evaluating some refinancing opportunities, given the low interest rate environments for our g.o. bonds. >> is the market looking favorably op our bonds? >> most definitely. we still have 2 of our 3 credit ratings are aaa and the next is aa-plus. that's a good thing. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> can i ask something. >> sure, please. >> on the 22b road improvement bond, do we have a scope for that yet, a description? >> i know rochelle is here in the audience. >> he's shaking his head. >> it's something that we're just now selling the bonds last week for the affordable housing and parks. this is our next area of focus and we'll be determining that soon. >> yeah. we're just getting started. we haven't put a financing team together yet. i've been in contact with project managers

unless you have any immediate questions, i would like to call up our colleague from the port, but also we're happy to take immediate questions. >> thank you, lisa. i don't see any questions, but i do want to acknowledge supervisor mandalman has joined us. >> i'm here to convey the port's enthusiastic support for the biodiversity work that has been initiated in the last year and a half. on march 26 of this year, the port commission unanimously adopted its own biodiversity resolution that reflects the goals set forth in the city-wide resolution, but also tailored towards the particular ways that the port can implement biodiversity on our property. that is both on land, open space that the port owns, and also in working with our private development partners to see that biodiversity is incorporated into the really extensive, new urban development that we're undertaking to the greatest extent possible. the port has worked to cultivate partnerships with the golden gate society and the department of recreation and parks and lots of local organizations in our southern waterfront area where the

that is both on land, open space that the port owns, and also in working with our private development partners to see that biodiversity is incorporated into the really extensive, new urban development that we're undertaking to the greatest extent possible. the port has worked to cultivate partnerships with the golden gate society and the department of recreation and parks and lots of local organizations in our southern waterfront area where the primary open spaces are. the natural areas are small and unique in the opportunity they provide to promote public engagement and equitable access to nature, and that's something that our port commissions are really committed to and enthusiastic about working on as we implement the biodiversity resolution at the port thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> i am here on behalf of the recreation and parks department. we too would like to voice our support for this resolution and to thank the board and the department of the environment and the planning department for passing and implementing city-wide biodiversity vision which aligns very

so it's trying to drum up support from other european ports .we can't make this decision alone so we're trying to take it to a european level the world has to work together on this. and there's no end in sight for the supersize me plenty there are too many benefits more convenience more financial gain and more cost effective production which is often what it takes to survive amid the current global competition. now do you also have a colleague at work who just thinks he is the greatest god's gift to mankind well. is such a colleague a man with the egos so big as actually visible from space and that is sometimes difficult to bear for us is colleagues and he knows that because all of is also a man with intellectual capacity to fight his own super sized ego. being. on the wall who's the fairest off them all. big screen is oh i'm so sick paschal so desirable i just nuff myself. i'm the best the best of all. and if so handsome with me i'm not myself mind it's a great if so. that's yes such marvelous photos i'm so photogenic to have to post them every

well you're absolutely right ben and not just this port project this over 4 all this these ties over all between greece and china are being viewed with a critical eye and it is a difficult balancing act for the government here on the one hand it has to heed concerns being surrounded by washington which is concerned about growing strong growing influence of china into the western markets there is concern also among the e.u. of which greece is as a member of. the e.u. is calling for stringent screening of chinese enterprises and is critical about greece. bringing in and providing access to china to the western markets at the same time though greece has to look at its own very interest and it's coming out of a decade of a very brutal financial crisis and the new prime minister here to get this meet that guy is business minded his his legacy is pinned on literally reviving the fortunes of this country jumpstarting the economy getting jobs going so china plays a very very important part in this so and also for example cosco which is china's giant shipping operator has has played an import

of pyrrus today that port is china's to the european single market. if the fanfare of the breach of the chinese president was supposed to herald anything it was a deepening of already solid economic ties. over the past decade beijing has been steadily increasing its investment in greece. the country located at the crossroads of europe africa and asia is a strategically important location for china's massive global infrastructure projects known as the belt road initiatives. nowhere is this more apparent than at the ports of perforating us it's already majority owned by costco a chinese state owned shipping company. having just announced a further 600000000 euro cash injection chinese president xi jinping received a warm welcome there. the investment is part of a total of 16 business deals in qt in areas as diverse as agriculture energy and aviation. we're willing to link up to the belt and road initiative with greece's national strategy. will implement cooperation in major aspects by strengthening the port of purveyors as a shipping hub and building up

that is iraq's main port for oil and food and at least 6 protesters dead in the capital baghdad today. using live ammunition demonstrators are angry at the lack of public services and want a political natasha good name has. her square. this very day. is really.

port which is critical to the u.s.my, let's bring in the executive director gene seroca who joins us exclusively now from washington. the president is going to be speaking at noon today in new york. at the economic club of new york. he's going to talk about trade. what would you like to hear him say? >> that we've rescinded all tariffs in the transpacific theater with china and we're moving ahead in the business community to give them certainty. guy: do you think he's going to say that and if he doesn't say that, kind of walk out of a 2020 anticipating, what do you think the current situation is going to look like going forward from here? do you think it's going to get worse or better? gene: three questions there, i don't think he'll say that today. never in our history have we been in a 360-degree negotiating posture. we've not heard much in our deliberation with the e.u. since last august. we continue to batter along with respect to the usmca with our greatest trading partners canada and mexico. and in the news every

as down from the port to knows, this goes back to 2003 when the community gathered with the port and started a community plan. some years later, the planning department stepped in even before the days of john ram and graham and that led to phase i. let's be real, there was a little concern. rodney will remember, back in the days when he had the wax museum, widening of the sidewalks was going to inhibit vehicular transportation here even though we all knew it was going to actually make fisherman 's worth -- wharf keep up. years ago they brought the f. line in here and that was a boom to fisherman's wharf and it is beloved around san francisco and around the world. after that, we expanded the sidewalks. fisherman's worth is the goose that lays the golden egg for san francisco. year in and year out. it is high time that san francisco city government reinvest so that fisherman's wharf will continue to be the envy of the world. $600 million in retail sales, $250 million related to hotels, millions and millions, 16 million people come here every year. thirty-nine is the number one tourist

through the ports in the port of aden it shows the port of aden which is under control of the saudi led coalition within yemen they control this port and the video shows u.s. made military vehicles being unloaded there now so far we have heard from the pentagon which has not confirmed and will not confirm the accuracy of this video this is what we've heard we cannot comment on any potential ongoing investigations of claims of and to use violations. now it's important to note that u.s. law does require end to use monitoring of weapons that are exported by the united states and does not permit for weapons to be used to carry out human rights violations now to be fair saudi arabia has said they do not engage in the killing of civilians in yemen that they are only targeting who the forces who they are at war with however there have been much criticism made of saudi arabia by international bodies many alleging that this man to death mass deaths and civilian casualties have taken place let's review what has taken place in yemen. now there is widespread disapproval of saudi arabia's activi

the world's largest cruise ships and turn the ports empty warehouses into 4 and 5 star hotels costco has increased piracy contain a business sevenfold during the decade that it's been managing it there's no arguing with the numbers costco has invested $2000000000.00 here over the past decade and created 2000 direct new jobs and it plans to invest almost another $1000000000.00 in the next 5 years to create another 2000 jobs such growth would be unimaginable under greek state control the question is what are the political ramifications of such as to teach chinese state investment in greece the 3 month old conservative government here has reaffirmed the country's ties to the e.u. and us but greece and china commercially important to each other the institute for international and economic studies estimates that paris is now the entry point for 10 percent of china's exports to europe that's worth as much as 50000000000 dollars to the chinese economy but many say greece isn't reaping the full benefits i think that the greek side may not be gaining more than one percent of the overall benef

that was at the port and the airport and of course the planning department. you'll hear from lisa fisher later. another key part of the resolution was us, the department of environment, me, drafting bachl a way to accumulate data and information from all the different departments. so we sent out basically a form, if you will, to all 15 departments and they sent it back to us. we created a compendium of information about what departments are doing now, what they've done in the past, and what they might propose to do in the future in terms of implementing our biodiversity vision. so i'm going to talk about a few of kind of our current collaborative efforts, and then lisa is going to talk about some of the proposed new initiatives. so this is a list of four among many things that obviously many of our departments do, but we're calling this out specifically because we wanted to highlight these things as collaborations among the departments. so the planning department and the department of environment created this plant finder. it's a way to give the public as wel

president xi jinping arrives in athens as chinese investment revives greece's biggest ports. hello hong kong's chief executive says escalating violence will not make the governments yield to pressure hours after a protester was shot by police an anti-government protesters set a man on fire the most shocking incident some bright just cold frame of electric onto a person and set him on fire. demanded me to hospital in critical condition and the case is under investigation by regional crime unit of new territory so. one demonstrator is in critical condition after being shot by police during protesters attempts to stop traffic traffic entering the city center and the footage was broadcast live on facebook and shows an officer drawing a gun while attempting to detain a masked man demonstrators have been stopping vehicles rail traffic and blocking roads they say police are using excessive force against them and the violence follows the death of a student on friday he died of his injuries after falling from a building during an earlier protests and several opposition legislators wer

access to the port through its agents.evidence frorom kenya suggggests the local and regional poachers used that access. we'd seen evidence from ports in marca and kismayo of ivory, large stocks of it, and had collected evidence from individuals that testified to having profited frfrom thahat te with al shabaab b agents. knights:s: al shabaab did contnl various ports in somalia where the ivory is being shipped out of, and they would basasically charge a tax for anything being shipped out. narrator: al shabaab levies s a% to 7% tatax on ivoryry that pass through areas they control, makingng about $25250,000 a yeyr from ivoryry. insurgenent groups and armed forces units are not the only poachers. local villagers, who know the terrain, are also involved, and they are increasingly recruited by well-financed, organized criminal groups. roberts: when you kill an elephant and you sell that ivory tusksk in the bush, it's only going to be maybe $25 or $10100. there might be a 500% markup by the time it gets to the consolidating poi

of this or you could a me and the black sea port they've been transferred or released to ukrainians by the russians in the neutral waters of the black sea today some 30 kilometers off the coast it has been a year since russia arrested after opening fire and wounding several of sailors are arrested this 3 ships nearby the crimean peninsula territory russia actually alex from ukraine in 2014 now the un maritime tribune as a provisional measure ordered russia to release both the ship and the sailors say lives have been released as a part of an exchange of prisoners a deal in september and now comes the ships the russian says they're not doing this because of this order but because they finished their investigations and russia says that ukrainian ships actually violated state authority waters of russia this step comes ahead of the 4 way summits on east ukraine and that is a summit between the presidents of ukraine or russia france and chancellor of germany to discuss how to solve the conflict in the east ukraine that has been lasting for 5 years this is the last in the line of positive

aldrin we all on top of a that open top of buses in the port elizabeth just behind the springboks who are continuing to speak to prate around south africa and here in port elizabeth it's been quite extraordinary to see the people come out and their response to the springboks and just the joy they've expressed around that victory are we going to give you an idea of what it looks like the it is raining now it's done little kids here people from coming out but people here are very excited about this win what it means for south africans and especially that the captain of the team see a policeman is from port elizabeth actually heading to the townships read a where he grew up where he started his rugby career as a 7 year old people there we've already spoken to say that this is a monumental achievement for someone from their hometown and they also just very excited about what it means for south africans across the board in terms of what they can achieve to remain here so how is inclusive it's ian sport improving across the board in south africa. well there is great hope that this would be

the 2nd time in a matter of days he will also visit her rights the mediterranean sea port controlled by china's state and shipping company cosco it's estimated that 10 percent of china's exports to europe go through courageous. less has more. stomach these blackouts has no doubts about the benefits of china's presence and greece's largest port his crew 3 paints ships but during greece's economic crisis they lost most of their work now that's changed now. the work has increased 5 fold the chinese reported because they came as a large entity with money and customers trust large companies. like us and his crew are going to repaint this 50000 ton tanker the paris port authorities shipyard couldn't normally have handled such a large ship but 3 years ago the state owned china ocean shipping company cosco bought a controlling stake in the port and last year it brought 2 floating docks to expand its ship repair business costco has big plans it's going to build berths for the world's largest cruise ships and turn the ports empty warehouses into 4 and 5 star hotels costco has increased piracy

these ports are used heavily by the u.s. midelfort to support our commitment to the europe to european security. we must also focus on the cybersecurity of ports which increasing rely on mechanicenized process and digital infrastructure, understanding how china's access to european ports could threaten trans-atlantic security, should be a top priority of nato. finally, there is a vast potential for greater collaboration between the united states and europe in both africa and the indo-pacific. both regions access to foreign ports allow chinese military to preposition logistics, support to regularize and sustain diplomats in the far seas according to the defense department. these ports are used heavily by the u.s. midelfort to support our commitment to the european security. we must also focus on the cybersecurity of ports which increasing rely on mechanicenized process and digital infrastructure, understanding how china's access to european ports could threaten trans-atlantic security, should be a top priority of nato. finall

to stop its program the pouring of concrete has begun to the facility in the cell in port of but shia iran insists it isn't developing nuclear weapons on the power generated the plant will save millions of barrels of oil every year to iran has ramped up enrichment of uranium in the last week for the scaling back its commitments under the 2050 nuclear deal which the u.s. pulled out last. turkey's defense ministry says at least 8 people have been killed in a car bomb attack in the northeast of syria took place in some local village along . syria northern border and problems the kurdish y p g for the attack turkish forces took control of last month from kurdish forces after u.s. troops pulled out. and the u.s. has condemned airstrikes on syrian medical facilities in the province where 7 civilians were killed in explosions his thoughts are being carried out by the syrian military or the russian allies. violence and mistrust contributing to the spread of ebola in the democratic republic of congo however health workers say despite the challenges fewer people are getting sick and many are be

libyan ward cleaver afters says a no fly zone is in place over the capital tripoli except for mitiga port after his forces have been fighting to take capital from the internationally recognized government of national accord the tripoli administration's as a threat to civilian aviation is a crime and a national and international law will. the sumatran rhinoceros is now extinct in malaysia after the last known member of its species died so all of his say the 25 year old female died from cancer the species is now critically endangered it's believed there are now only 18 left in the world those are the headlines i'm back with more news in half an hour we continue with al-jazeera world. week. i was having an experience which i'll never ever forget i was 19 years old at the time. and it was quite a surprise to find myself in russia in the middle of a war the front seat literally. numbers were tight but don't parents i worried and i. know there's a worry in times really it was a wire in time for us. not knowing. if when when we're going to get out and it was very worrying for the parents as well

to infrastructure and one of beijing's key purchases in greece was a majority stake in the historic port of pereira's today china's gateway to europe . this is a carefully choreographed business the aim to showcase existing economic ties and to foster new ones. among the deals the 2 sides have already signed off on is a 600000000 euro investment by chinese company cosco in greece's largest port of parade yes it's set to play a key role in china's math of infrastructure development plan known as the belt and road initiative. today will have the chance to visit the cost close facilities in prayers to see and examine up close the further development of this very important investment following the approval of the master plan by the greek government but our target is mutual for parades to come not just the largest ports in the mediterranean but why not the largest in europe after all it is already becoming the most vital transit hub between europe and the recent because of. the investment in parades as one of 16 business deals in curing the visitors and a reminder of just how close these 2 co