yang of the shanghai cultural association. i want to say that the shanghai team and others finalized the paperwork, obtained the customs cleernls, not with a moment to spare. we had already missed two boats. this was the last boat in order for us to make this dedication. with that, with the mayor's future and schedule, who knew if we would ever get this gathering together. we are really pleased that it all worked out. i had a terrific professional team of staff at the arts commission. smart problem solvers with a good sense of humor. i would like to single out alison cummings, wherever you are. [applause] >> alison, our senior registrar for our outstanding work in helping coordinate this project and her ability to stay cool and calm all of the time, as well as kate patterson, our communication expert extraordinarya. >> and gene -- jean, who took care of several things. and last, but not least, our city attorneys, who worked on the details of the loan agreement and procurement to make sure all sides were protected, and that is

terry mccarthy will shanghai us to shanghai. >> reporter: shanghai, business by day.ght. stylish, always. >> every time i step out on to the street, i'm energized because it's such a stimulating place visually. ♪ shanghai >> reporter: in its heyday in the jazz age of the 1930s, shanghai was called paris of the east today patrick koranly, a business consultant and part- time tour guide says shanghai's concentration of money and opportunity reminds him of another famous city. >> sounds a lot like new york city. a lot like new york. people come from new york to shanghai, feel it immediately when they get off the plane. the energy feels very natural. >> reporter: new york has always loved the news. but in the last 20 years, a newly rich shanghai has experienced a spectacular revival, akin to its golden age. west of the river old buildings have been restored. while on the east, former wetlands have been turned into a sky scraper metropolis. and the fastest train in the world links the airport to the city at speeds of up to 270 miles an hour. nowhere is this revival more gl

the shanghai and san francisco. this is a 30 relationship that stretches back to win dianne feinstein was the mayor of san francisco. we premiered a new work of art here in san francisco called the three heads, six arms. welcome to san francisco. thank you for bringing your extraordinary sculpture. can you tell me about what inspired you to create this sculpture? >> this started with some trips that i took years ago. i went to to bed and i saw a lot of statues and i started to really feel the spiritual life of people in tibet. it really inspires me and i went back to shanghai and i started the creation of this. >> we see that one of the heads of the bullet it is your face. can you talk about the significance of that? -- we see that one of the heads of the buddha is your face. >> i started doing public art almost 10 years ago. what i want to express this as an extension of my our practice. this is an accumulation of my own experience as a performance artist. >> we see that the scale is very important. we have seen ot

this is a san francisco-based company with offices anin shanghai and around the world. this project and the impact on the city appealed to them. thank you for your great gift. they went to work and quickly brought in victor. victor flew in from hawaii. provided the shipping free from shanghai along with a lot of the management and paperwork. stand up, victor. they did an excellent job. [sirens] the torso was too big to fit in the container. they put it at the top of the ship. it was wrapped in red. i like to think of the buddha guarding the journey of this ship across the pacific. thank you so much, victor. [applause] i also want to thank the hus for giving us the expertise of their staff. scott. they didn't say ok, we will do this for you for free, but they actually had their staff work with us on a daly basis and help us really project manage the details and logistics and the complications of exporting a work of this scale and complexity. would you please stand as well diana, leslie and scott? i couldn't have done it without your expertise and guidance. we are total n

. >> the bank of the gong, agricultural china made its debut in shanghai. but the bank failed to make a big splash in early trading, gaining 0.8%. the banks ipo comes after the worst quarter shanghai has seen it in two years. >> there is a lot of uncertainty on the stock market because of difficult marketonditions. th publi listing is just as important, even if the market prices fall. >> the debut was this most ain't among lenders and shanghai markets -- the baby was the smallest among lenders on the shanghai market's in four years. the bank already has 350 million customers. more the entire u.s. population. -- more than it the entire u.s. population. they also eloy 4,000 people and they bring in big profits, totaling 7.5 billion euros last year alone. experts are waiting with bated breath to see what tomorrow brings when ag bank makes its trading debut in hong kong. >>> german chancellor angela merkel was in beijing on the latest leg of her tore through asia. she was talking with the chinese prime minister and his president. chancellor merkel arrived in be

the shanghai world expo. but businesses here are probably not reliant -- not aware of how reliant they are on foreign oil suppliers like iran. half the crude oil used inlg:xyñ china camp from overseas -- comes from overseas. >> the message to chinese government -- a message the chinese government knows only too well. oil is a national priority. iran is one of the most important sources. by the middle of this decade, more than half of china's population will live in cities. that will create huge opposition all demands for power, and that will mean countries like iran are more and more important to the future. bbc news, shanghai. >> in the u.s. state of arizona, key parts of the new immigration law have been blocked. there will be a relief for many, not least in mexico. many families and towns rely on money sent back from relatives in the u.s. our correspondent has been doing area and central mexico where tensions have been running high. >> it seems bound to become a ghost town. an estimated 60% of the town's o

cinderella echen is the owner of the shanghai 1930 restaurant. and the san francisco icon and door man of the francis drake hotel fore the last 800 years. it's only been really 32. pillar from the newspaper, david from uncle vito's pizza, maggie baxter from abc channel 7. i must turn the page. deputy chief antonio para, san francisco police department, lynn bruney, director of consumer marketting for the san francisco convention and visitors bureau and wes tyler, general manager, chancellor hotel on union square and president of the union square association. let's hear it for all those judges, ladies and gentlemen. now, these judges have a very, very difficult job. they have to rate the competitors. each bell ringer will be judged on rhythm, originality, and style. today we're going to find out who has the it factor and before the amateur competition stuff starts, i'd like to bring up a former bell-ringing champion, mr. carl payne, ladies and gentlemen. not one, not two, not three, 10-time bell-ringing champion. the only bell-ringing champion who

. >> we may be in beijing or shanghai. >> charlie: we may be?yeah. >> charlie: i'll bet you in your mind that is a done deal -- in your mind, that is a done deal, not "we may be." >> it being a done deal in my mind is different from my being able to announce it on "the charlie rose show." >> charlie: well said. but there is also -- i'm interested in this because first of all, people at the crudest would say, "he went over there in search of the richest partner he could find." and "he made a deal." and without casting aspersions on any particular person and the leadership of the united arab emirates, especially abu dhabi has a reputation for a lot of very positive things, but he went over there to get the money, make the deal, and it became a kind of codependence on each other. you had a reputation. they had moneyment that's the crudest way to look at it. >> it is a very crude way of looking at it and it's not -- it's not unfair that that would occur to people as an initial matter. any investigation about the nature of n.y.u. or its history, my h

the shanghai index for major blue chips, however-s down 0.1%. and in shenzhen the sse composite is down half a percent. we'll be back with more biz news later in the hour. back to the main news with catherine. >> thanks very much, ines. >>> the international court of justice says kosovo's unilateral declaration of independence from serbia in february 2008 did not violate international law. the court bases in the hague announced the judgment on thursday. the united nations had asked the court to rule on the issue. the icj said it considered that international law contains no applicable prohibition of a declaration of independence. nearly 70 countries, including the united states and japan, have recognized kosovo's independence, but serbia and other nations have not. the icj's judgment is not legally binding, but it could pave the way for more countries to recognize kosovo's independence. serbian president boris tadic dismissed the court's verdict, saying his country would never recognize the unilaterally proclaimed independence of kosovo. ethnic

. >> the iranian president went to shanghai himself last month and saw how relations are cooling off period and none of the country's leaders came to meet him. chinese scholars said that the country's ties have been tested. but it won't be broken. >> we are not holding them close like a friend, but we are friendly. we hope that they can deal with the pressure from the un sanctions and we will do what we can to bring them back into the international system. >> there is perhaps one overwhelming reason why china continues to support iran. the country's huge and growing thirst for oil. this film celebrates the chinese oil industry. to the visitors here, they're probably not aware of how reliant their country is on foreign suppliers. half of the crude oil used in china today comes from overseas. >> these exhibits are designed to remind chinese people how important oil is to their country. searching for a stable and long term sources of crude oil has long been a national priority. iran is one of the most important sources. by the middle of this decade more than half of the chinese populati

temperatures are going to be quite high across east asia. 35 degrees in taipei, 34 for shanghai. 36 degrees in chongqing. meanwhile, tokyo coming in at 35 again. and the heat's just been ongoing, very, very hot conditions have proven deadly. we're hearing of some heat-related deaths occurring in the past couple of days. once again on thursday tokyo's going to come in at 35. 36 in fukushima. 36 also in kyoto. and 38 degrees for gifu. very hot conditions. and they'll likely last for another couple of days. now, for europe today a new system is moving into the british isles. so wet weather for you here. also we've got this frontal boundary producing showers from scandinavia in toward western europe. the rain, however, for continental europe should be nice, a welcome break, breaking down the heat a little bit more. however, berlin still going to be pretty hot on thursday. 32 for your high. and then 34 degrees still in vienna. paris still looking nice and much cooler. much, much hotter picture toward the east, meanwhile. 35 in kiev, and 33 degrees for moscow. so heating up yet again.

the artwork was presented as part of the shanghai-san francisco sisr city 30th anniversary. >> we wantething bold. we were looking for something that wod be impactful. we knew size would be important. but fndamentally, weant to do identify an artist that had a powerful idea. >> reporr: then transporting it was an exerci in logistics. >> getting something thi monumental in size across the ocean on timefor this event was a feat. >> reporter: because it recreates fragments of stue on a grand scale, it's a work that the mayor hopes will cree controversy, especiay about its size. in a city known for its difficulty in getting projects approved, the mayor says he, quo, broke the rules because it's just temrary. >> when you can do it temporarily, you can g them up. it's when it's permanent that is more difficult. >> reporter: it is impresssive in scope and size. the sculpture wille here through the end of 2011. don sanchez, abc 7 news. >> a high school senior who is already a stand out among her peers is reachingew heights. abc 7's money scope reporter david intduces to us a youn lady launchin

and coming in at 35 in shanghai.ally, taking a look at europe, well, central europe and southern europe, i should say, are going to be in for some heavy rain today. you can see that frontal system. eastern portions of the continent. that will hopefully help to cool things down in western parts of russia. there you can see that entry in moscow. let's take a look at the temperatures, then. still very hot, though, for your thursday. 38 degrees. but considerable cooling is expected on friday. on wednesday, though, it is -- thursday, i should say, it is still going to be very, very foggy in the city with sweltering heat and bad air quality. down in the southwest still contending with heat wave as well. 39 degrees in madrid and 34 in lisbon. here's your extended forecast now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> taking a look at our top stories once again, japan is set to impose new sanctions on iran following similar moves by the united states and the european union. iran has failed to comply with international demands to shauha its nuclear develop

san francisco is a site of a huge sculpture celebrating the city's sister city relationship with shanghaientertainment reporter don sanchez reports. >> reporter: it is massive, it stands three stories high, and weighs 15-tons. yes, 35,000 p yes, 35,000 pounds of copper and brass. the sculpture is called three heads, six arms. this man was inspired by broken fragments of buddhist statues that he found in tibet. >> and gave him lots of inspiration and then he start to understand the cultural and the people's spiritual life in tibet. he said the mass the sculpture has, he like to create supernatural power and bring good wish to san francisco. >> reporter: he's considered one of the most influential and provocative contemporary artists working today. the artwork was presented as part of the shanghai-san francisco sister city 30th anniversary. >> we wanted to do something bold. we were looking for something that would be impactful. we knew size would be important. but fundamentally, we want to do identify an artist that had a powerful idea. >> reporter: then transporting it was an exercise in

two shanghai flights. a number of people i think there is a pool of first-hand knowledge about china in the american midwest for the business deals. you see young american students all over china what worries me is the political elite of each country is ignorant of the other. they have a lot of connections but the political elite is working on both in my experience. >> i would like to open the floor for question. but in the interest of fairness, for the first ten minutes or so, could you di your questions please to our panel that just presented? and then we'll have 15 minutes when we can open it up more j n johnrjoh generally. let's begin. >> all right. [ inaudible ] >> i have enjoyed the impressions very, very much and i agree the media in china is beco becoming dynamic and open and better informed and all that. but i have a question, it is our understanding with respect to domestic coverage of media in china, that there is still a big role for the party and for their to be instructions on what can be rep

the shanghai key index for major blue chips is down .25%. and in shenzhen the sse composite is down just a fraction. >>> japan's unemployment rate in june rose from the previous month for a fourth month in a row. the internal affairs ministry reported on friday that the seasonally adjusted jobless rate for the month stood at 5.3%. that's up 0.1 percentage point from may. the number of people with jobs stood at just under 63 million, which was down 200,000 from the same month a year ago. meanwhile, the number of unemployed improved at 3.4 million, compared with a year ago. in a separate report, the ratio of job offers to seekers in june improved from the previous month. the labor ministry said there are 52 positions for every 100 job seekers. those figures confirm that jobs are still hard to come by in japan. and that's also true for new college graduates across the nation. japanese college students typically start looking for jobs in their junior year. as there are fewer opportunities for a mid-career job switch, students take their initial

chris hawk, bbc news, shanghai. >> a gel under test in south africa has har of the the risk of h.i.v. infection among volunteers who routinely used it before having sex. it's the first to show a gel might be able to protect women from the deadly virus. the findings of the study are to be made public at an international conference on aids in vienna on tuesday. the results have been welcomed as groundbreaking by the world health organization and u.n. aids. sewer nam's former dictator has been elected president of the south american country, the 64-year-old was voted in my parliament after he failed to win sufficient majority votes this the elections in may. the former army leader is accused of drug trafficking and human rights violations and still faces trial over the execution of 15 opponents in 198 during his military rule. syria has banned the face covering veil from the country's public and private universities and an official at the ministry of education says the decision aims to protect the country's secular identity. however the ban does not affect the head scarf which many syria

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and friends of the cable car music, union square association, trophy masters shanghai restaurant, ghirardellie american automobile association and the $250 cash prize, deluxe sightseeing. let's bring up gilberto gad oy with the hand-crafted bell. and the winner is -- >> mr. leonard oates. congratulations. >> leonard oates. he retains the crown. [applause] that concludes the 47th annual cable car bell ringing contest. thank you, everybody, for coming. don't forget next year the 48th annual cable car ringing contest. stay tuned for details. >> welco" today we are visiting southern exposure in san francisco alison prepares to launch a fantastic new project called beautiful possibilities. we will send them on a two-year adventure crisscrossing the united states to investigate american history and contemporary culture. it is using a traveling road show as inspiration. she will sit down and talk with residents in search of stories and experiences that reveals exactly what makes us americans. >> beautiful possibility is a traveling research project that i will take on a five-month journey across the

we have 35 in beijing and from shanghai down to manila and bangkok, we have low to mid-30s here. into north america, let's go straight to the tropical storm in the caribbean and see what's going on. bonnie is head sbug the southern tip of florida right now. it looks like it may just miss that southern tip. it's heading further into the gulf of mexico and into southern louisiana. now, it's currently moving at 31 kilometers at hour, which is fairly swift. it's going to be bringing all of that heavy rain down as well as the damaging winds and over the caribbean islands and also the lower half of the florida peninsula as well. you need to be prepared for stormy conditions into the next 24 hours, and we'll give you all the updates on the developments here. severe weather for the north plains. the dakotas will see tough storms, i think. from nebraska into eastern canada is where the heavy rain and possibly hail and damaging winds, with you from friday into saturday. a few scattered thunderstorms moving through the four corners area. stays hot to the south below that front, particularly

made their of are sustained they now join more than a dozen cities including sydney australia and shanghaihina. the sister city program off the screen in the 1950's to build relationships between the u.s. and other countries. there newsome is pushing for san francisco goes for the world's biggest sporting events. he was san francisco to hold the 34th america's world cup race. it suggested a race would bring in $1.4 billion it would also create nearly 9000 jobs. the 34th annual america's cup will be held in 2013 or 14 at the city of oracle ceo as see the golden gate yacht club holding america. when bay area city made travel and leisure dock, list of the city's for single people live. our web producer kimberly tells us where. >> just barely making it and that san francisco and the no. 9 spot trouble leisure uses what makes a good single scene sometimes it strumming locals are just a whole lot of bars. they put together a list of one of time to go for both. san francisco said locals are stylish and averse and not hard on the icy their pub crawling is easy and san francisco rank fourth in the

here is an example of them busting down the headquarters in shanghai. women do not want toxic bad metals. in their $100 skin cream. unfortunately, the government and procter and gamble was freaked out about this. then it was announceable, just a little bit of toxic metals, don't worry. they put the products back on the shelf and back on the market. china is the no. 1 growth market for procter and gamble. have quotes where she says china is no. 2 mark and going for no. 1 and do it by marketing our products to millions of villages across china. that is the mentality of the company, all about growth and convincing us that we need more products. these are also in the most toxic categories and increasingly marketed to younger and younger girls. this is an example of a 5 or 7 year old on the cover of a skin, hair relaxer. these are ratings, that is the most toxic hair relaxers and no. 1 is a kid's product. then for hair dye, younger and younger girls are getting hair dye. "new york times", girls 10 and 11 are getting their hair dyed into the salon. it used to

very, very hot conditions in parts of china. 37 degrees in chongqing. 34 in shanghai. reaching 36 in beijing. but tokyo's going to be 34. slightly cooler than yesterday. but many areas are going to be exceeding 30 degrees today. let's head to europe. we have a new system that's moving into the british isles. it's going to be the case of occasional rain for scotland. quite breezy near the center of the storm, as well. but much calmer with brighter spells down in england. that system is going to take a similar path as the last system. so bringing rain to southern norway and into central areas of europe as well, into france, too. we are concerned about eastern europe. we have a low pressure system that's going to be gaining a bit more energy today and bringing heavy bouts of rain to southern poland as well as hungary. flooding is not out of the question here. the ground is quite saturated. and also the system continues to bring in a lot of hot air from the eastern mediterranean. so even though there is rain on the cards it's going to be hot again in kiev. 28 degrees. and

here's what we expect in tokyo on saturday, 32 degrees, 35 in shanghai and 31 in hong kong. we have incredible heat across central and eastern europe, but there is relief in the way of this system right here actually. we have a very strong, windy system. that frontal line comes across norway into france, and as this system passes central europe, you start to get relief from all the high heat. until then it will be pretty unbearable. let me show you where that heat is headed. jet stream allows it up north as far as places in finland and sweden. let me show you the temperatures we expect on saturday. berlin is 28, so it's cooler than all week. good news for you. 33 in vienna and clearly hot across eastern europe 36 in kiev and in the 30s for moscow. be careful outside, keep well hydrated and in the shade. here's your extended forecast. >>> and that's it for this hour on "newsline." the torrential rain since wednesday in japan, eight people are confirmed dead and five are missing. three women in their 70s died in hiroshima. one was swept away by floodwaters while the other two

whether it's shanghai or seoul, jakarta or kuala lumpur.ngs are always cheesy. ♪ >> reporter: the dance moves dodgy. the outfits skimpy. ♪ >> reporter: and the performers almost always are filipino. >> where are you from? >> philippines! >> reporter: 27-year-old anna lisa in western beijing has been singing her way across asia for years. >> india, malaysia, and then china, shanghai, here. taiwan. >> reporter: the philippines, it seems, is the world's leading supplier of lounge singers. and it's not exactly a surprise when you consider that singing is practically a national sport here. this is the homeland of the new lead singer of journey, discovered on youtube. ♪ i'm forever yours faithfully ♪ >> reporter: it can be soul or rock or pop. good or bad or just plain ugly. ♪ >> reporter: but someone here is always singing. ♪ >> i think that's because filipinos really, really love to sing. >> reporter: for many aspiring stars it all starts here. we've arrived at the center for pop here, which claims it can bring out the star in you. i'm seriousl

last month, we were in shanghai. ibm convened a forum with 100 civic business leaders in 40 countries from around the world. a large ccentration of our guests were from china. all the mayors of china were told to attend. our conference was also the shanghai expo. we have also held 100 conferences around the world, berlin, chancellor merkel was with us. we did it new york city, boston, across the u.s. when youook at the ambion, division, the innovation that is driving china -- the vision, the innovation that is driving china and the other emerging markets, it is breathtaking. the investments built out of the infrastructure, the modernization of society and economy, expanding like to quote grids, wireless technology, transportation and more, is attracting people. businesses and capital flows is a formal force in the world. it is no longer a low-cost manufacturing capita of the world. if you assume it is, that is a mistake. i know this is not news to you, but i would like you to ink about it from a personal stanoint. in

we have more from shanghai. >> village elections began in the late 1980's. most villages hold an election every three years. in china, you cannot get to vote for anyone more senior than a village leader. reports of problems, bribery, corruption crop up quite regularly in the official media. that helps to convey the impression that the concept of democracy is somehow flawed. certainly, the chinese people i have spoken to say they do not want to see these elections produce more widely at other levels of society, because they said the examples of these poorer, in rural areas is that it does not work out well. >> archbishop desmond tutu has announced he is withdrawing from public life. he was a major campaigner against the parts -- the apartheid regime in south africa. we have this report. great of the world's personalities, desmond tutu announced his retirement in his own irrepressible style. >> the time has now come to slowdown, slowdown,roobois tea with my beloved -- to slow down to take roobois tea with my beloved wife in the afternoon, to watch soccer, to v

the shanghai for major blue chips, up 1.1%. and in the sse composite is above the 1,000 level, up 1.2%. >>> in japan, the ruling coalition led by democratic party lost its majority in the recent elections. looking ahead, what can we expect on japan's political and economic horizon? we spoke with the former vice minister and professor at a local university. >> taxation reform, including a consumption tax hike was one of the biggest issues in the latest upper house election. so how much of an impact did these discussions actually have on the results? >> i think it was quite significant. kan has made a strategic mistake. he probably shouldn't have talked about the consumption tax hike. you know, because he's not going to raise the consumption tax until after the next lower house election. he doesn't have to talk about that at this moment. one of the most powerful persons in the party, has resisted that. he said, you know, dpj should not talk about the consumption tax at this moment. i think heap turned out to be right. and mr. kan

we have more from shanghai. >> it began in the late 1980's.ost villagers told an election every three years. in the chinese system, you cannot get to vote for anyone more senior than a village leader. there are reports of bribery, corruption in book collections. they crop up quite regularly in the official media. -- there are reports of bribery, corruption in vote collections. certainly the chinese people i've spoken to that said they do not want to see these elections produced more widely at different levels of society, because they say the example from the sport, rural areas is that they do not work out well -- poore , rural -- poorer, rural areas is that they do not work out well. bbc news. >> desmond tutu is set to retire. we have more. >> he announced his retirement in his own irrepressible style. >> the time has now come to slowdown. to. tea -- to have tea with my beloved wife in the afternoons, to watch cricket, rugby, soccer, tennis, to visit my children and grandchildren, conventions and university campuses. >> the archbishop turns 79

this is shanghai in 1973, mostly forest and farmland. here it is in 2005. the cities covered in blue have exploded in population. here is a patch of rain forest in brazil back in 1975. here is that same 80-mile stretch 28 years later, most of it now farmland. to outsiders all this development is alarming. >> you could say it's alarming or you could say it's a wonderful thing ifier a farmer in that area and suddenly you have 20,000 hectares that you can planned in soybeans. and raise cattle and develop a career. >> from high above the satellite's offer sobering views of disasters. this is the gulf oil spill in early may. the white portion is oil. here is the same picture from wednesday. >>> here is what fargo looked like, this is last year, this is the flooding 4 miles wide and 20 miles long. >> we have before and after so we can compare conditions before and after. that's a useful tool to resource managers. >> reporter: perhaps the most dramatic view is the aral sea in china, it has dried up over the last 30 years causing lung problems for those living near

i had the pleasure of being in shanghai, china, and took a tour of their crude ship port of call, and it was absolute state of the art. it is a beautiful building, a landmark building for that city, and it functioned very well for an event space as well as different use. this is a non-action item, but i look forward to the next steps, and remind everyone that there is a workshop on july 21, correct? a public workshop. thank you. >> item 9c, informational presentation on the department of the city planning's nebraska embarcadero study -- nebraska -- northeast embarcadero study. commissioner fong: we're going to take a two-minute break and let the clout -- crowd clear the room. if you want to have conversations, kind of move them away from the front door here. two minutes. commissioner fong: ok, seeing that our next item has a lot of public comment, we will go ahead and get started. would you please read the next item? >> he wants you to read the item. >> i'm sorry. informational presentation on the department of city planning's northeast embarcadero study. >> good afternoon, commission

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