port russia's second largest city st petersburg is actually where most of the action happens in fact the founder of the northern capital is also considered to be the father of the country's modern naval fleet after studying the craft in holland peter the great brought the necessary technology and know how back to russia where he set about transforming an uninhabited swamp into the heart of his empire and the russian ruler brought back a little more of the dutch as well with the likes of new holland island forming an integral part of st petersburg shipbuilding base. industry has been important from the very start just about everywhere you turn there are reminders of its historic link to the sea for example the admiralty with that shining spire was supposedly the third building constructed and that's a tradition that's continued to this very day one out of every four vessels of russia's fleet can point to st petersburg as its birthplace and huge number of the country's biggest vessels like ice breakers and floating power stations. here more than fifty thousand workers are employed in t

though moscow is located some seven hundred kilometers away from the nearest city it's still a major port city in fact those in the know sometimes refer to it as a five seaport as a result the moscow river and the inventions it's inspired have played a central role in the everyday life of the capital when the river is free of ice there's a nearly in this parade of ships chugging up and down moscow's watery boulevard their purpose is very much of the activity in this city was enabled by the moscow canal which link the capital's river with the mighty volga with the help of the longest river in europe captains and barking from moscow can take their vessels to any of five possible outlets the white and baltic seas to the north as well as to the as a black and caspian seas to the south. but if one staying within the capital itself there's no more enjoyable way to take in the sights than from aboard one of the many ships cruising the river way and the pilgrim boat with a retractable glass roof is the latest addition to the capital's pleasure fleet. but the shore stalking boats are far from a new ide

here more than fifty thousand workers are employed in the port city ship industry and any given moment there's a major project preparing to hit the water or is just got underway. at the moment the eyes of the boat building world are all fixed here at the admiralty shipyards at their sprawling docks the final touches are being applied to what will become one of the globe's most advanced all purpose research vehicles. when all is said and done. will be the latest addition to russia's pulled it going fleet it has the ability to transport eighty scientists to the most far flung research sites on the globe. can start doing that and has to pass all requisite checks and tests but only recently returned from its first trial there were a few kinks here and there to work out but that's what these tests are for anyways but getting this far has been a long time in the making the very first work on this antarctic workhorse takes us back nearly a decade where it all began with a series of tenders. the design bureau affiliated with st petersburg screen shipbuilding research institute was responsible

. >> in this sprawling port city, there is an estimated half a million heroin addicts. that is one in 40. this state has very little public health provisions, so it is up to charities to close the gap. this foundation it was once thought to be the world's largest drug rehabilitation center. without the resources to offer conventional treatment like methadone, 4000 patients are given only paris see small -- paracetemol to help with the pain. every day, the foundation is called by the families of the addicts so desperate for help they are willing to have their loved ones locked up. >> what are you doing? >> [speaking foreign language] [siren] >> [unintelligible] >> they have factions. >> [unintelligible] >> [speaking foreign language] >> because he was forced into rehab by his mom, under the center rules, only she can decide when he is ready to leave. unlike him, is brothers check themselves in. they can leave whenever they want. >> [speaking foreign language] >> it is now a weak sense of brothers usain and yusef checked themselves into rehab. the decide they are ready to

it was once a thriving port city. om here, ships carry goods along trade routes that formed a network. >> in fact, they were more like expressway's than roads. very busy highways. trade with cities in germany flourish, and ships sailed in and out of the port all day long. >> the waves are choppy as we continue our voyage along one of the old highways. we passed by the cranes in the city's decayed shipyard, past drydocks for supertankers, and out on to the open waters of the baltic. today, only one ship sails this route each week. trucks are a more flexible means of transport in the 21st century. a truck takes a few hours. a ship takes a whole day. >> during the height of the league, there were no roads to speak of, but nearly every city had a harbor. today, we are much more flexible with trucks, airplanes, trains. ships do not offer much of an advantage anymore. that is the main reason the league as it was then is now defunct. >> 24 hours later, the water is calm as we approach the delgado river. the tv tower tells us

. >> the games industry is increasingly important in germany's port city of hamburg. three years ago around 25,000 people. >> online games is the fastest growing part of the market. >> they're hoping for a share of that market. looking for international success. a specialist from mumbai is working on an indian version of "lords and knights." they have created a version especially for china. >> team germany has returned from london and they've been traveling in style on board to the cruise liner. >> you can say that. after one and a half days of partying as they cross the north sea germany's olympic squad arrived in hamburg to a heroes' welcome. >> thousands crowded into hamburg's port to welcome the olympic squad home. their journal back from the river thames took 11.5 hours. the mood was relaxed, although it was perhaps a little early for some. many of the athletes hadn't slept much since leaving london on monday evening. after months of hard training the journey appears to have been one long party. and there was some nifty dance moves and acrobatic in the pool. toda

they will discuss projects in a border area in northeastern china and in the port city of rasan. china has been in charge of north korea economic reform and investment. he is seeking assistance from china and hopes to rebuild the economy by moving forward with joint economic projects. >>> about 48 south koreans are swimming to a disputed group of islands in the sea of japan. they are trying to show support for their country's claim to the territory. both country claim sovereignty over the islands. swimmers set out monday morning on south korea's eastern coast. south korean singer is one of those taking part. he is being joined by student from the korean national sport university. they will take turns swimming legs of the 220 kilometer trip. they aim to arrive wednesday on the anniversary of korea's liberation from japan's colonial rule. the swimmers will stream footage of their attempt on the internet. relations between the two countries have soured since south korean president visited the islands last week. he is facing calls to strengthen south korea's territorial claim. the ja

. >> the gaming industry is increasingly important in germany's port city of hamburg. three years ago, around 2500 people were employed by computer companies -- computer gaming companies. that number has now risen to over 4000. >> within the gaming industry, hamburg is the german city with the most companies working on online games. online is the fastest-growing part of the markets. >> they're hoping for a share of the market. they are looking for international success. a specialist from mumbai is working on an indian version of the game. the company has created a version especially for china. >> one of the world's biggest private equity investors, the carlyle group, has announced it is buying a controlling stake in getty images. the deal is worth some 2.7 billion euros. it is one of the largest distributors of photos, videos, and multimedia projects. holdings include 70 million pictures and 30,000 hours worth of film archives. last year, the seattle-based agency did about -- worth of business. >> team germany has returned from london. they have been traveling in style

military dropped the atomic bomb on the port city. thousands of people went to peace park. the bomb detonated 500 meters above the area. representatives of victims' families and survivors placed a list of the names of more than 158,000 victims. officials have added more than 3,000 names since last year's ceremony. participants observed a moment of silence was observed at 11:02. that is when the plane boxcar dropped the bomb code named "fatman." [ bell tolls ] then the mayor of nagasaki spoke. he mentioned last year's accident at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant and he weighed in on the current debate over japan's future energy policy. >> translator: we call on the japanese government to set new energy policy goals to build a society free of the fear of radioactivity and to implement measures. >> prime minister noda spoke about what he hopes the energy policy will achieve. >> translator: under the principle of less dependence of nuclear power, we will aim to establish a policy that ensures people's sense of safety over the long term. >> representatives from more than 40 c

they'll discuss projects at a border area in northeastern china and in the port city. he has been in charge of north korea'sic nomi in korea's economic reforms and investment. he hopes to rebuild north korea's economy by moving forward with joint economic projects. >>> doctors, medical students and health care workers from 63 countries have joined a campaign. international physicians for prevention of nuclear war won the nobel peace prize in 1985. the parents of one member of the group survived the atomic bombing of hiroshima. >> reporter: he is deputy director of a hiroshima hospital and international physicians for prevention of nuclear war. ippnw has 100,000 members. they meet every two years. they pressure the nuclear powers and the united nations for the abolition of nuclear weapons. >> translator: i believe doctors know more about the dangers of radiation and people in other professions. so it is important for us to speak out about the inhumanity of nuclear arms. >> reporter: in a special possession to talk about radiation. both of his parent were hiroshimaa-bomb

they'll discuss projects in a border area in northeastern china and in the port city of roson. china has been in charge of north korea's economic reforms and foreign investment. kim planned his uncle's trip in an apparent attempt to seek assistance from china. he hopes to rebuild north korea's economy by moving forward with joint economic projects. >>> about 40 south koreans are swimming to a group of islands in the sea of japan. they are trying to show support for their country's claim to the territory. the islands are called takeshima in japan and dokdo in south korea. both countries claim sovereignty over them. the swimmers set out monday morning from gyeonsangbuk-do on south korea's eastern coast. singer kim jang-hoon is one of those taking part, along with those from the korea national sport university. they'll take turns swimming legs of the 220-kilometer trip. they aim to arrive on wednesday on the anniversary of korea's liberation from japan's colonial rule. the swimmers will stream video of their attempt on the internet. relations between the two countries have soured

region in which they going which is a had a region where it's going to room is one of the main port cities there actually historically this was stolen from syria in one hundred thirty nine by the turks in a in a dirty game with the french against syria just a bit of historical context of that but this spillover into turkey has create all kinds of problems for tokyo and it really if we see the way turkey has employed is diplomacy and foreign policy in the region in the last a year year and a half two years we can see that nothing has come to the benefit of turkey it's very disconcerting white so he is taking this call this course because there's no benefits twitt whatsoever and the only benefit of turkey's action that we can see is for is for nato and its and its and its western allies so the question really has that we are asked is really where is the dignity and self-respect of the turkish state currently another point just coming back to turkey has to be made in turkey and the financial times reported this today that there was a poll conducted on thursday in turkey two thirds of the turk

military dropped an atomic bomb on the port city. they also looked back on a more recent event, the nuclear accident at the fukushima daiichi plant. the city's mayor called on the central government to design a new energy policy so japan will never again face the threat of radiation. nhk world's keikichi hanada reports from nagasaki. ♪ >> reporter: survivors of the bombing of nagasaki sing a song. and ask whether people remember their stories. this man was a boy of 15. his mother, two brothers, and two sisters were killed. and he saw countless others suffer. >> translator: i saw a slumped over mother holding her dead child and children sobbing nearby dead bodies. >> reporter: at 11:02 that morning the u.s. bomber boxcar dropped a bomb code named fat man. the bomb detonated 500 meters above nagasaki. it killed almost everyone within one kilometer instantly. more than 70,000 people died by the end of that year. over 5,000 people gathered for the ceremony in peace park. they came to reflect on the past but also to look to the future. re

region in which they going which is a had a region where it's going the route is one of the main port cities there actually historically this was stolen from syria in one hundred thirty nine by the turks in a in a dirty game with the french against syria just a historical context of that but this spillover into turkey has create all kinds of problems for tokyo and it really if we see the way turkey has employed its diplomacy and foreign policy in the region in the last year year and a half two years we can see that nothing has come to the benefit of turkey or to turkey was developing good relations trade economic etc with iran with iraq with syria with libya and will now in hindsight we can see what kind of dirty game we don't know to what extent what how deep the conspiracy has been only a few years ago missed out of the ground was literally hugging president assad and mama gadhafi of libya and now we know what the hug was all about without the chit to check out into the office back to stab it so really we can it's very disconcerting why tookie is taking this. course because there's no bene

this is a strategic port city near vital shipping routes at the entrance of the red sea. >> returning to aden is not returning to a safe zone, to your own safety. aden is a city gripped by chaos. >> narrator: people here know the por of protesting. demonstrations across the country last year drove yemen's long time president ali abdullah saleh from power. they're still marching here, this time to win back the independence south yemen lost two decades ago. but along the way, lives have been lost. ghaith joined the funeral of the latest victim, a 15-year-old girl, nada shawqi. >> we are following a funeral. the girl was killed by army fire a few days ago. and it's part of the security chaos that is in aden at the moment. surrounding the cemetery, you see all these military positions. what do the soldiers do? they open fire into the crowd. they fire bullets. live bullets. army soldiers on top of the hill. they're pointing at people. >> narrator: in aden, there are more than 100,000 refugees from the fighting between al qaeda and the government. in this former school, hundreds of refugees

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city and county became the successor agency to the redevelopment agency. the assets of the agency were transferred to the mayor's office of housing, port, and city a minister's office. you will recall also each successor agency is required to have an oversight board. our oversight board oversees the fighting to management of certain real development agency assets. at the highest level, the three major approved development projects and the house and work that was done by the former agency will continue. the oversight board has adopted what is called a recognized obligation payment schedule. that details all of the eligible, enforceable obligations. you may have also heard that there was a piece of budget legislation that may affect redevelopment agency, and we are looking at the potential impact of that on the city. i think this line gives you a healthy overview of what has happened with staffing at the redevelopment agency, and also gives a helpful said the were the bulk of the work that remains continues. the redevelopment agency in fiscal 11-12 had 112 budgeted full-time positions. 58 of those positions were eliminated as a result of the dissolution of red

the newshour sent a video journalist to the port city over the weekend. she found residents there fearing for their lives. this 63-year-old grandmother showed us where bullets have penetrated her apartment on syria's street. >> we can't sleep at night. we stay in the kitchen. sometimes we hide in the bathtub. my grandchild, we had to move him out because he was terrified. >> warner: other residents who dare to venture out use crawl spaces rather than their front doors. sectarian tensions have broiled in this part of lebanon for the decade between the imagine yort sunni and the sect of assad. the sunnies resent syria's long-time dominance of lebanon even after withdrawing its troops in 2005. as well as its support for shiite hezbollah leader, head of the most powerful faction in lebanese government. so when the syrian uprising, with its sectarian overtones, broke out 17 months ago, sporadic fighting broke out in this part of lebanon too. editor of the web sight sit "now lebanon" in beirut, says the damage has already been enormous >> it's not like we're af

they have always stretch, sort of a 100 year history of telegraph cables and often between classic port cities from new york to lisbon, to hong kong to singapore, thomas a. it's always tracing the same path. the historic trade routes. so i wanted to see one of these cables being built, which was sort of a rare historical moment. there hasn't been a new transatlantic cable built in tenuous. there will be one this summer, but this is my friend simon cooper whom i've never actually met. we've only sort of communicate by telephone and through his view conferencing link, and he works, you just switch jobs but he worked until easily for the communications wing of the big address or conglomerate which is based in, big indian and that's a complex based in singapore. the undersea cable industry is dominant almost entirely by englishmen and they're all 42, because they all started with the beginning of the poem about 20 years ago. and he has this incredibly expansive geographic imagination. he says things like this. and they had been born when i bought a network out of bankruptcy, a link across the atla

off then between classic port cities from new york to lisbon to hong kong, to singapore, to mombasa. it is always tracing the same path, the historic trade routes. i wanted to see one of these cables being built. which was, would serve a rare historical moment. there hasn't been a new transatlantic kabl built in 10 years. there will be one next summer. but, this is my friend simon cooper, who i have never actually met. we only sort of communicated by telephone and through his videoconferencing link. he works, he switched jobs, he worked until recently for top deck communications, which is the communications wing of tata the big industrial conglomerate based, big indian industrial conglomerate which is based in singapore. the undersea cable industry is dominated almost entirely by englishmen and they're all 42 because they all started with the beginning of the boom about 20 years ago. and he has this incredibly expansive geographic imagination. he says things like this. and tata was born out of when they bought a network out of bankruptcy, a link across the atlantic and a link across

and then participate in the cpuc and other regulatory process is to make sure the port and the city arewell-represented. that concludes our presentation. thank you. we are available to answer questions. >> thank you. any public comment? comments? >> when do you plan on coming back to the commission? >> i think that might be driven by the cpuc application process. i think we would think it only appropriate that if pg&e submits an application contemplating this project, that we come back seeking your authorization to enter a term sheet negotiation and some sort of companion cost reimbursement agreement to cover the city costs associated with negotiating an agreement like that. they could be as early as in september. >> and it does pg&e have a preferred alternative? >> the summary right now looks like the preferred alternative for us, yeah. for the reasons he discussed, the impact. we have done most of the ceqa analysis right now. to us, it looks like it will have the least amount of impact. seismically, it seems like a good route as well. it is looking like our preferred route. >> thank y

. >> san francisco port officials will give an update on their response to the fire that badly damaged the historic pier 29 back in june. the city's port commission will also provide an update on the fire damage. investigators say welders were attaching a ladder to a wall when a spark ignited that fire. it caused more than $2 million damage to the two-story building along the embarcadero. crews had been preparing the building for next year's america's cup. >> a bill that would ban agencies from disrupting cell phone service without a courted so awaiting the governor's approval. the practice prompted a protest in oakland. dozens marching from the b.a.r.t. station to b.a.r.t. headquarters were marking the first anniversary of a b.a.r.t. order to shut down cell service at stations in san francisco. b.a.r.t.'s goal was to disrupt a planned protest over the death of charles hill who was shot by b.a.r.t. police. >> new details in a major earthquake that struck near russian island overnight. the quake has been upgraded to 7.7 magnitude from an original 7.3. the epicenter was 400 miles deep off russia's coast line felt as far as northern

port for 33 years, but she had never hard of anything like this before. >> that's very scary. that's very scary to hear. >> reporter: police said a 28-year-old woman and her child stepped off a city bus in front of the east port shopping center monday night when a man riding the same bus followed her hand attempted to kidnap her at gun point. >> he grabbed her by the arm, made a few comments about having a boyiend and that she was going to be his girlfriend now and took her bag from her. she was able to scream, get the attention of some other people and he started walking away quickly oar are based upon the woman's description, police began looking for 33-year-old william ranaldo brown, jr. he was taken into custody a few hours later. >> he is known to police. he was recently released from federal custody two months ago for handgun violations. we recently had a run-in with him where he was the victim of a cutting and we were afraid of retaliation in that case. >> reporter: a long cut along the length of his arm made brown easy to identify. it came after he struck a young child a few weeks ago while high on p.d cp. people are applauding less for their quick capture. >> i hope he d

joining me now issue ian lee who is live in the port city where egypt's air strikes happened. military build up. it's a heavy rens. i've never seen this kind of security presence. we saw small attack vehicles. hundreds of soldiers ready to impose to security that's been lacking in the sinai since last year's revolution. we're seeing a heavy military build up to continue the ongoing operation against the militants. the militants struck just 24 hours ago. the military is building up to push them back. >> how much of a test has this been for egypt's new president who just took office in july? >> this is a big test. it's the first crisis to come up during his residency and it's a test to see how he will handle it and work with the army to bring sinai back under control. now is the time to see if they can work together to help secure the sinai. this isn't going to be just an operation of tanks and guns. they'll need a political solution. they'll have to work with them to help secure the peninsula because it has been marginized by the central government. there's going to be a politi

. >>> well, san francisco port officials will give an update today on their response to a fire that badly damaged a historic pier 29 back in june. the city's port commission will also provide an update on all the fire damage. investigators say we recalleds were attaching a ladder to a wall when a spark flared up and ignited the fire, causing more than $2 million worth of damage to that two-story waterfront building along the embarcardero. crews had been preparing the building for next year's america's cup. >>> brace yourselves, time to get ready for another scorcher out there. we can tell you a flex alert is in place today. >> nfor the second time in the past week, you're being asked to conserve power. to meteorologist christina loren. how hot is it going to be? >> it is going to be hot. and something else we're dealing with is the tropical feel. kind of muggy out there. i know you've been busy covering the breaking news here, but once you step outdoors after you're finished with this program, you will see what i'm talking about. it feels tropical in san jose. let's start in san francisco. as you can see here, look at what's happening out

the port does not share a budget with the city. they cannot collect any tax revenue. they do not have any taxing authority. the port lives and dies by the revenue it generates on the port property. >> how is the ferry building doing in terms of creating revenue? >> it has been phenomenally successful. we are fully leased. the active merchants are incredibly happy to be part of the vibrant community. >> this is one of the most see places in san francisco. anybody who comes here from out of town, you have to walk through the ferry building. >> there are a lot of visitors here. definitely a lot of locals, too, who feel strongly about the connection to the marketplace. >> you were mentioning that this is pierre -- pier 14. >> first, it was a brick water for the downtown ferry terminal, constructed in 2001. after that, we added public access on top of it and connected it to the land side. now is eight 637-foot-long public access pier to enjoy the day, watched the very activity. there is a little bit of art on top of it. there are swivel chairs on a it and there are little s