in rotterdam, they have the same situation. there, they put bicycle boxes on the street.the people who do not have space to park their by -- park their bike in the house, they can put their plight on the lockable shelters on the streets. in the netherlands, they provide for this problem. >> the amount of space that a bicycle and needs versus the amount of space that a car needs. at the very least, we would require parking. if you think about bicycles being the mode of travel, you should require bicycle parking be more convenient. next question. >> going off the bicycle parking to all the mobile parking, i am with the san francisco bicycle coalition. we were talking last night in oakland about various cities and the congestion issues and congestion pricing versus perhaps parking pricing. i was wondering if he could tell us the politics of pricing automobile parking versus congestion parking. in at san francisco, one of the biggest challenges is car is going past you at 40 m.p.h. and getting cars to go slower and not be in the city as we were looking at on market street. a

i have 80,000 people and it rotterdam, population of 700,000. more than 10% are seriously affected by traffic. if i drive a car, i have to realize that i caused this problem with serious consequences. also, the climate effects. in the netherlands, people who come to work by bike are more regarded them by car. the people who use the car have to find excuses why they still use the car. they just come and say, i just want to go by car. and the fact is, more and more people -- for instance, in amsterdam, by having this past and so on, 9000 people per day choose not to have their car because there was no more accessibility by car but choose the alternatives. 15% of them stay with the alternatives. they had a car. when they experienced it, it was not so bad commuting by bike or public transport, then there were convinced also. -- then it they were convinced also. if you tell people who drive by cars, and i think american politicians are so afraid they might lose voters, but if you keep telling them the detriment of the effects of using their car every

is in the netherlands and battling a massive blaze in a chemical plant in the city of rotterdam a state of emergency has been declared and people who live near the area are being want to keep their windows and doors closed dutch media say four hundred thousand liters of toxic chemicals are inside the building is not yet known what caused the farm. but questions surrounding the effects of a mission to mars on humans may soon be answered as russian scientists turn to the original space explorers for help they've been they said animals to aid humanity's quest for more distant from tears and as ati's tom bought reports the rodents a set to break records. it's fifty years since the first human went to space it's counted as one of our greatest achievements but as some scientists point out we shouldn't forget the role of first space pine for work not just for the trip or the animals leave shorter lives than humans their metabolism is different so we can extrapolate data from animal experience to the conditions of mansplaining into outer space. here with the institute of biomedical problems mos

firefighters in the netherlands are battling a massive blaze at a chemical plant near the city of rotterdam a state of emergency has been declared and people who live near the area are being warned to stay indoors some four hundred thousand liters of toxic chemicals are stored at the plant the cause of the fire is not yet. need to know more about space ask rodents russian scientists have turned to the original space explorers to solve the puzzle surrounding the effects of a mission to mars they've enlisted the animals to float around earth and help humans understand what the distant borders might hold down bottom of reports. it's fifty years since the first human going to space it's counted as one of our greatest achievements but as some scientists point out we shouldn't forget the role of the first space. for work in the city of which the animals live shorter lives than humans their metabolism is different so we can extrapolate data from animal experience to the conditions of man's flight into outer space. here are the into tutored biomedical problems moscow these rodents are helping solve

is in the netherlands are battling a massive blaze at a chemical plant near the city of rotterdam a state of emergency has been declared and people who live near the area big want to keep their windows and doors closed for media say four hundred thousand liters of toxic chemicals are inside the building it's not yet know what caused the fire. we'll be back with headlines for in about ten minutes from now but first though the u.s. says washington will pull all of its troops out of afghanistan by twenty forty quote come hell or high water he sat down with the afghan foreign minister to find out if the country will be ready to stand on its own two feet by them that's our interview next on r.t. . afghan foreign minister thank you very much for being with us today my pleasure this is foreign minister when soviet forces withdrew from afghanistan you have been publishing air resistance journal for eighteen years what did you and your compatriots expect for your country's future back then as usual afghanistan wanted to be free independent and sovereign country to be put in the woods as neighbors

. >> a large fire has broken out at a chemical plant near the dutch city of rotterdam. officials have warned residents to stay indoors to avoid inhaling dangerous fumes. 50 people working at the plant were brought to safety, but police warned that the chemicals inside are poisonous and corrosive. the high alert level has been issued across much of the south holland province, which includes the hague. 400,000 liters of carcinogenic materials are stored at the plant. the new u.s. congress has officially convened in washington two months after midterm elections that saw barack obama's democratic party suffered heavy losses at the hands of the republicans. the incoming house speaker accepted the devil from nancy pelosi. the republicans now control the house of representatives after four years in the minority. obama's democrats still retain control of the senate. they have a reduced majority. for the first time in six years, germany is due to take part in a plenary meeting of the u.n. security council later today in new york. germany became one of 10 non- permanent members o