we were very hesitant about samoa.hly. >> reporter: it was expensive. paradise cove charged $25,000 a year. but -- >> we just had enough. what else could be do? >> reporter: the suttons knew there was no way christopher would agree to go on his own. attorney sutton did what attorneys do best -- and got a court order to have christopher forcibly sent to samoa. >> he was kidnapped in the middle of the night. 17 years old. >> reporter: they kidnapped him. put him on a plane. he was sent to samoa. >> reporter: but christopher could not break so easily. and paradise cove was no paradise. in fact, there were many reports of physical abuse and restraints used on those who were uncooperative. something christopher learned when he first arrived. >> we knew that christopher sutton had complained that he had been hogtied, beaten. >> reporter: when his family was allowed to visit him a year later they did seem to beep a distinct change. a huge improvement. they found the buff, cleaned up young man who excelled at sports. it was, a

she is with the sand francisco friends of samoa. that is her heritage. her family came from samoa. gives her time and voice to a lot of community groups across the bay area. thank you for that beautiful and thumb. thank you. here we are at the sixth annual asia-pacific heritage -- american heritage month and celebration. this year, we have a special title. i think you see it in your program books. we celebrate the heritage fostering unity. that is especially meaningful today to celebrate. specifically, it is important to know, here in san francisco, the city and county, one-third of the population is asian american and pacific islander. that is why if you look at all of us who were able to be here tonight to celebrate this particular month in this particular fashion -- clearly, one-third of us living in the city of san francisco are asian- americans and pacific islanders. that is why it is so important to know that our voices count, and our boys in a celebration like this counts as we lead the nation in a great celebration. right now, i would like to call upon the san francisco ass

samoa. >> good evening commissioner. i'm the vice president for paraphernaliaaprofessionals and a special ed parent at paul revere. i have worked in the school administration for over 20 years. i have been in a lot of different classifications. regular ed, special ed and elementary adviser. i have been laid off from this district seven years and i'm back. one of the issues i'm going to talk about tonight is one of the most important issues i have stood before you and talked about. it is the p and r and pension and terrible injustices that is being done to p and r and professionals who are women of color. this is an issue i talked to you about. did you know they have worked in this district for over 30 years. some of them will retire with a pension of 250 a month. a lot of our paras are 65 and over. we have 165 paras, which is 10% of the population is over 65. for the par astrg, they have found out what has happened. they are very angry. which you can see here tonight, there are a lot of paras that are here. [applause] >>

benefits such as property tax exemption low land rental prices and other preferences but it is the samoa region government is open to mutually beneficial cooperation we invite investors to participate in existing projects and we are ready to give a hand of fulfilling your projects and growing your business in this small region. to ask a combat soldier serving the occupied territories where he is palestinians as human shields like to ask you to drink coffee and more kids on the front line into israeli soldiers may face up to three years in prison for using a nine year old palestinian boy as a human shield during the gaza war almost two years ago. iraq's prime minister is under pressure following the massive leak of secret american files revealing torture and massive million deaths in the country with critics asking if he's fit to be in power and. talking trash. in a moscow warned the city may soon find itself suffocating under its own rubbish unless a proper strategy to deal with its own garbage is found. broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is our t.v. an israeli cou

and you heard from vice president samoa that we have par as leaving the district. that is a shame. this is the city of st. francis. san francisco, st. francis. from the most mighty to the most humble, this city takes care of its own, all working together to do the right thing. this cannot stand any longer. it's beyond legal questions. it's beyond mere financial questions. this has to be atorded and give the educators a decent retirement. act now. don't delay any longer. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> good evening, i'm one of yourly aceon assigned to 11 schools. i was helping build capacity in all aspects. i assist families. i help with prevention and intervention with these families and doing home visits, walking in the communities and doing some investigation work to locate june accounted for students. i am training key personnel at the schools to use technology used for tru and n crmp y. i hard every day. i'm here to speak to you as a young paraphernaliaa affected by this fraud of a pension plan. this district should be ashamed of itself for the treatment of the hard working

benefits such as property tax exemption low land rental prices and other preferences but it is the samoa region government is open to mutually beneficial cooperation we invite investors to. payton existing projects and we are ready to give a hand of fulfilling your projects and growing your business in this small region. five thirty pm in the russian capital this is to your headlines now and time runs out for politicians to win hearts and minds before sunday's election the president of the polls will go ahead i mean tight security in case of. polls protest the construction of a new mosque fearing it could be used to treat those in the country but the muslim minority say the victims. and cost are ways by choice fifteen russians and bach on a year long journey of complete isolation. tranquil arctic ice. all right ahead for you as we are going to be taking a trip to one of the most mysterious prices here in russia and that of the urals u.f.o. hunters and scientists gather there to examine the power of normal activity in the region. the urals a russian region of the crossroads of europe and

american samoa building manager, i have heard from many residents on several occasions throughout this project. they are on the whole very supportive of the project and look forward to welcoming more permanent residents to the hill and to nob hill in general. they look forward to the new services the fairmont and this project will bring and i urge you to support the project and accept the eir. president miguel: thank you. are there additional public comments? if so, please come up. >> greetings, commissioners. my name is christopher pike, a representative of sos tonga. the fairmont management has signed an agreement to reopen the tonga room of sight. it is to be relocated in its entirety and will include all its distinctive features. it will continue to operate as a nightclub, bar, and restaurant. to wrap this process, we have consistently maintained that it should remain on site in the belmont hotel. this is still our official steps. we are on record for endorsing alternatives b1 and b2, which would retain it on site in the party structure. i still think that with some imagination it

american samoa building manager, i have heard from many residents on several occasions throughout this project. they are on the whole very supportive of the project and look forward to welcoming more permanent residents to the hill and to nob hill in general. they look forward to the new services the fairmont and this project will bring and i urge you to support the project and accept the eir. president miguel: thank you. are there additional public comments? if so, please come up. >> greetings, commissioners. my name is christopher pike, a representative of sos tonga. the fairmont management has signed an agreement to reopen the tonga room of sight. it is to be relocated in its entirety and will include all its distinctive features.

be given benefits such as property tax exemption lower rental prices and other preferences of the samoa region government is open to mutually beneficial cooperation we invite investors to participate in existing projects and we are ready to give a hand of fulfilling your projects and growing your business in this small region. this is our to you live from moscow word five thirty pm our top stories the venezuelan leader is in moscow to thrash out plans for closer ties with russia president chavez and mcveigh did have signed deals to energise military and nuclear cooperation. first ever post war exit adolf hitler's life opens in berlin exploring how the dictator mass support for his regime comes as a new poll reveals one in ten germans want to see a return to a strong ruling cure. and the u.s. has right lowest on the list of developed countries for providing civilians with access to legal protection a study suggests americans with smaller incomes stand to suffer. up next part undertakes you want to tour of some real classics on wheels in moscow out after a short break. seventy years of th

forty hundreds are still missing after the tsunami triggered by a massive quake struck off western samoa over twenty thousand people have been forced to seek refuge in shelters rescue workers could reach victims for two days due to bad weather. the law has threatened france over the recent data veals in its support of the u.s. in afghanistan the comments were made in an audiotape which has aired on al-jazeera the banner of the burka justifies violence against french people and this is the first time france has been specifically targeted by al qaida. in haiti international aid workers and the u.n. are trying to put a stop to the spread of cholera samples are being taken from a river near a nepalese peacekeeping base over fears waves from the side caused the deadly outbreak at least three hundred people have died so far and over four and a half thousand have been hospitalized. british prime minister david cameron has been yours of other nations urging them to reject a planned six percent rise in next year's budget it's believed the rise will cost you an additional nine hundred million poun

benefits such as property tax exemption low land rental prices and other preferences but it is the samoa region government is open to mutually beneficial cooperation we invite investors to participate in existing projects and we are ready to give a hand of fulfilling your projects and growing your business in this small region. the thai court rejects a us for a quest to drop press truck fresh charges against alleged russian arms smuggler victor boot. brazil faces a second round of voting in its presidential elections after the front runners failed to secure fifty percent of the both. president bush and his interests not only go beyond diplomatic since the downlink indecent. audience video blog present anything that benefic uses his fellow russian counterpart alexander lukashenko of anti russian rhetoric despite this he claims positive new remains positive that close ties between the countries will prevent. also this hour the u.k. becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the news influence that's according to the freedom zone. the largest event on the fringe of the conservative party confe

well, dean than american samoa, which is true. dean is in every state and political territory. what they didn't say was he would've postponed his trip to be there when he announced mccain. the white house are decided they weren't giving dean a job, so they didn't want to hug him have a job or not. one step led to another. that personified in some way a broader exclusion of the grassroots base because they know someone with a lot of credibility among party rank and file for could've been a useful ambassador. and instead, they kind of said some of those people are linked heavily more people like rahm, which diluted obama's brand. and then what they did try to do, which was interesting, if they put some of the obama organization inside the party of the democratic national committee and that would be the grassroots force. there were two problems with that. one is right after the election was the key times when you had to mobilize people. so many people a new one to get involved, wanted to know how to help. essentially what they were told of by them up. come to the evacuation. that

five territories, some of them not even on the land known as the united states, for instance american samoacanada is rebuild neurons which is supported by research. host: i think we lost the caller. talk to me about the enforcement of the federal ozone, mr. hutchinson. guest: 5 former administrator of the dea. i am in the private sector. -- i am a former administrator. they're doing a great job over and the dea. and is a great agency. i am in the private sector now. in terms of the territories, we have a d.a. in many of those territories working locally with law enforcement. i really did not get the gist of that question. i appreciate the caller reminding us that this is a republic. with the propositions we have out there, this is as close to a pure democracy that you can get at least when the people are voting directly on these legislative proposals. host: while we're talking about the legality of proposition 19, we want to address some of the economic. there was a report put out on the budgetary applications of drugs. there's a long-running debate. and did little to address -- to impress

. >> the american samoa cannot statutes themselves -- >> i did not mean to confine it to the espionage statutes. start there, but talk about the regulatory scheme in general. is it working fine? should it be changed? >> i think it is not working so well, but changing it can be dangerous. does senator shelby want to have a law that punishes all disclosures of classified information? i think it would be difficult and dangerous given the amount of over classification. i would not go in that direction. the morison case, the one that was first convicted, and the aipac case when a great distance to clarify some of the difficulties in the espionage statute, so we understand that that makes them more workable. the one area that i would try to strengthen the integrity of the secrecy system is to have a more fluid it whistleblower protection act. so that leakers would have no excuse to go to the press. that would have a thorough process for their internal grievances or evidence of government illegality. >> so there would be a place that they could take those inside the government that would be a