san francisco is not london, not stockholm, as the previous speaker said. we do not suffer the same congestion levels of those cities that inspired them to implement congestion pricing. the streets are not overcrowded or congested, not burdened beyond capacity. the congestion we experience is largely one that comes to us from the bay bridge and leaves us at the bay bridge. san francisco as a world-class favorite destination. we should be creating incentives for people to come here. not establishing barriers to entry. as one person from the peninsula said, let's not establish a moat around the city. that sentiment expresses our greatest fear. what you will gain in fees, we will lose in revenue. we urge you to treat this as [a regional as [tone -- regional problem. [tone] supervisor mirkarimi: thank you. >> the san francisco republican party has not taken a position on this, frankly because we did not see it coming. i would like to salute the supervisor of her service and for her coach and suggestions on prop 26. as a supporter of prop 13 i do not believe tha

>>stockholm is one of several swedish cities planning to introduce pod cars. the pods travel magnetically on rails and are seen as the transport of the future, using next to no energy and yet still boasting the convenience of taxis. but do the futuristic pods have the potential profitability to take off globally? >>reporter: at this track close to stockholm, a new method of transport is being tested. these futuristic, driverless pods are known as prt or personal rapid transit vehicles. travelling magnetically on rails and powered by electricity they release no emissions at the point of use. and unlike most forms of public transport are always available when you need them ... >>gustafson: no waiting time, direct travel, it's available around the clock. it's also an advantage for those not travelling with increased safety that you are usually elevated, you don't have the risk of being run over by vehicles. >>reporter: the idea is that you simply turn up at your nearest pod car station. swipe your fare card. programme your destination and a pod turns up soon afte

this is also from evidence in stockholm where sales have actually gone up in the quarter and areas rather than down, and that is because they have been facilitated and more people are able to access the downtown areas. i'd also point out that at least in the feasibility study, and nobody knows how the final proposal might be, the price times r 6:00 to 9:00 a.m., which is when shops are not even open, and then 3:00 to 6:00 p.m., so people have the ability to miss both the access and the exit fee by simply working around those three hours. as far as the privacy concerns, there are technology solutions for that. commissioner alioto-pier: -- >> we would be looking at solutions like london which expunge is any records of the travel once there is evidence the fee has been paid. we would have no interest in keeping it beyond once the motors trip has been paid for. using either electronic or traditional payment methods. we would have no need to maintain a record of that trip, and that could be deleted from the system. the database. commissioner alioto-pier: ok. thank you. thank you, commissioner.

>>stockholm is one of several swedish cities planning to introduce pod cars. the pods travel magnetically on rails and are seen as the transport of the future, using next to no energy and yet still boasting the convenience of taxis. but do the futuristic pods have the potential profitability to take off globally? >>reporter: at this track close to stockholm, a new method of transport is being tested. these futuristic, driverless pods are known as prt or personal rapid transit vehicles. travelling magnetically on rails and powered by electricity they release no emissions at the point of use. and unlike most forms of public transport are always available when you need them ... >>gustafson: no waiting time, direct travel, it's available around the clock. it's also an advantage for those not travelling with increased safety that you are usually elevated, you don't have the risk of being run over by vehicles. >>reporter: the idea is that you simply turn up at your nearest pod car station. swipe your fare card. programme your destination and a pod turns up soon afte

in stockholm, they ran a trial. they had a demonstration project after seven months. after seven months, they held a referendum. at the end of the referendum, the vote was to bring it back and make it permanent. they implement every single case according to the local conditions and the program we analyzed here is not the same as any of those because we also wanted to look at the local conditions. commissioner o'brien: thank you. president yee riley: commissioner clyde. vice president clyde: thank you for the presentation. >> thank you for having me back. vice president clyde: i admire your work in this. it's a big project. just i guess i'll talk about the small business concern because there are several discreet neighborhoods within the northeast cordon which seems to be the preferred option at this moment for further study for different reasons. >> can i clarify one thing there? although it is the best performer, we would recommend all of the scenarios move forward for additional analysis. vice president clyde: that's what you're looking at different analysis of this

minus 1 in stockholm today. minus 9 in moscow. minus 3 in warsaw 3 degrees for berlin.is up to 12 degrees for your high on thursday. that's a look at your weather for now. and i will leave you with your three-day outlook. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> once again, the headlines this hour, u.s. president barack obama is going to have a tougher time working with congress now that republicans have a majority in the house of representatives. as the 112th congress started on wednesday, republican john boehner took over as house speaker for democrat nancy pelosi. >> our spending has caught up with us, and our debt soon will eclipse the entire size of our national economy. >> the republicans plan to everytuever overturn obamas health care legislation which he managed to push through congress last year. president obama hopes to put the country's economic recovery on a solid footing by swiftly passing a new economic stimulus bill. but the republicans in the house of representatives adopting a confrontational approach. he faces an uphill battle. obama is reshuffling his staff. and white house press

minus 6 in stockholm. 0 for berlin. as well as vienna. minus 2 in warsaw and minus 4 in kiev. lots of temperatures here well below zero. it is going to be quite chilly again on thursday. that's a look at your weather for now. here is your three-day outlook. >>> we'll be back with more news in 30 minutes. i'm gene otani. x

pair of 3s in london and paris, minus 2 in vienna, 1 in berlin, just zero at stockholm and barelyn eoue digits in athe athens. here's your extended forect. ♪ >>> visited a buddhist temple on friday to pay respects to the nation's statue shown to the public only once a year. the statue of fudo myo, a buddhist deity dates back centuries and is an important national asset. it's enshrined on a cave on a cliff on the back of the temple. the stone statue is displayed once a year on january 28th. the date of the festival. >> i prayed to the statue and lit a candle. i hope to live safely over the coming years. >>> that's all we have for this addition of "newsline." i'm hideshi hara in tokyo. we'll be back in 30 minutes. thanks for joining us on nhk world.

minus 1 in stockholm. 2 degrees in berlin. 0 in vienna. sunny skies for you, 15 athens. showers on and off. 5 degrees in madrid, that's your high there. getting very chilly all the way down into the southwest. here's your extended forecast. ♪ >>> and finally, we have this story from kyoto, which has more to offer here at week's end than just a stroll around japan's asian capital. visitors can receive a blessing at a temple that's a world heritage site for the shopping they will be doing this year. toji temple holds a fair on the 21st day of every month to mark the date when the buddhist priest kobo daishi died in 835. the first fair of the year is especially popular. an estimated 100,000 people visited the temple on friday. most of them began with a prayer in front of a statue of kobo daishi before they got busy with shopping. more than 1,000 stores line the streets, selling clothes, and traditional souvenirs. rabbit dolls made of silk cloth sold well because 2011 is the year of the rabbit in the chinese zodiac. >>> that's it for this edition of "newsline." i'm hideshi h

the house outside stockholm comes with triple-layered walls, massive installation, and it is supposedprovide all the power needs. the roby energy left over, too, for complementary electric car. that does not mean sacrifices will not need to be made. >> the project is about a normal family learning how to live for the climate and reducing their carbon footprints. today, they are normally near seven per year. that is the challenge we're taking on. >> the food the family eats, the clothes they wear, and the furniture they buy will all be taken into account in calculating the total carbon usage. some say that gizmos may have to go, too, if they want to meet their targets. >> they're prepared to do what it takes. it is all or nothing. i did not even know what kind of sacrifices it will be. maybe we will stop eating meat indeed vegetables instead. that sort of thing. >> it may leave the family with little options. it might mean putting up with their rendition of an old classic. >> harvey ashworth is only 3 years old. but when his mother collapsed in the kitchen, he knew what to do. he fell

still staying cool to the north, 0 in stockholm and minus 6 for you in moscow. here's your extended forecast. >>> izumo shrine is undergoing a first face-lift in nearly 60 years. it is one of japan's oldest and a famous pilgrimage site for singles hoping to meet a life-long partner. on thursday, four specialists began work on the 600 square meter roof of the hall, a designated national treasure. they attached thin sheets made from japanese cypress trees using bamboo pegs. the sheets were soaked in water to soften them. some are 1.2 meters long, four times the length of the material used at other shrines. >> translator: it is the first time i do this job, so there is quite a bit of trial and error but i'm really enjoying it. >> work on the roof itself will take one year. the full renovation of the izumo shrine began three years ago and is expected to end in 2013. >>> that concludes this edition of "newsline." i'm hideshi hara in tokyo. we'll be back in 30 minutes. thanks for joining us on nhk world.

some snow flurries popping up in stockholm and moscow and could be a wet day in madrid and rome. looking at north america, clear picture in vancouver, but quite chilly. some storms could be moving their way through chicago, but it will be a nice day in new york city. that's all for me. happy new year. here's your extended forecast. >>> here on "newsline," our top stories once again. japanese foreign minister seiji maehara says he's considering visiting china in the spring as part of efforts to fix frayed bilateral relations. in an interview with nhk, maehara said his trip will come before or after his trilateral meeting in japan with the chinese and south korean foreign ministers. japan-china relations soured in september after a chinese trawler collided with a japan coast guard ships off the senkaku islands in the east china sea. he reiterated japan's position on this matter. >> translator: there is no territorial problem between japan and china. japan will continue to exert its control over the senkaku islands. >> he also referred to economic relations between the two countries

ladies and gentlemen in the heart of the oslo process speaking in stockholm to a group of ambassadors we plan to eliminate the state of israel and establish a purely palestinian state. we now need all the help we can get from you and you are battle for united palestine under total arab muslim nomination. and his fatah cofounder the plo ideologist mahmoud abbas. it's not for palestiniian fatah to recognize israel. no wonder abbas' authority in which it has increased aid to the point of having funded it $1.3 billion in the last 12 months. no wonder that this palestinian authority inculcates jew-hatred through its mosques, through its schools, through its media. earlier this year the pa television broadcast a short termon from the mosque in which the cleric declared the jew juice the enemies and the memory of human at a in general. prophet says you should fight the jews. this june sheik mohammed hussein another palestinian salaried cleric said in his short termon that the mosque is threatened by the plans of the enemies of allah, the jews. and in a particularly horrific sentiment a few y

zero in stockholm. we're looking sat 5 in berlin. 6 degrees in paris so getting a little bit cooler again today. then 11 degrees for madrid. so that is a look at your weather for now. and here is your three-day outlook. ♪ >>> once again, the headlines this hour. chinese president hu jintao has arrived in washington and will meet with u.s. president barack obama on wednesday. the focus of the meeting will be on whether the two nations can narrow their differences in areas such as appreciation of the chinese yuan and security issues. he was welcomed by vice president joe biden at an airport outside washington on tuesday afternoon. this is the chinese president's first official visit to the u.s. in five years. the two presidents are expected to discuss the value of the chinese currency and ways to handle tensions on the korean peninsula. the united states is calling for the appreciation of the yuan against other currencies. hu has said it is time to change the international financial order centered on the

at stockholm now and the cage shall words in a moscow cell for the town's defeat in a row losing this time to say to rival spartak constantin but of reports. to friends of sport i can you know i didn't have to wait for another course he did battle just days before the written words beat their rivals wife this marriage was the real thing known to the season in general we're still one would up in the opening period both teams were thinking of the fans for. until stephan mukesh this is way past and i was defensemen to send the blockbuster netminder and four minutes later spawn a double billy drama just to believe there's own for a minute and finally you're right make wish was the quick assume the rebound after the nice bugger off spouse will select i do nothing by the end of the first. do not mar still short of players because of injury and signed the stanley cup winner and world champion slot shot them how even the thirty six year old forwards couldn't help his new team this night spartak seem to be a little overconfident in the second wasting scoring opportunities and then you come out

." ♪ there's a few moments in your life-- say, when you're called up on the stage in stockholm to getbel prize-- you feel like, "i think i did right!", you know? but you're immediately saying, "now what am i going to do?" now you can launch frogs, or you can become an astrophysicist if you want to. and it took me about five or ten years to find something else that i thought was worthy of putting a lot of effort into. and that's what i am doing now, which is curing diseases. (aaron) i mean, didn't it bother you at all? i've noticed throughout what you said that you've never felt like you've consciously made a choice. and you seem so comfortable with that too, with not having a plan. and that, for me, just boggles my mind because i feel like i really have to know what the next step is. you have to have a little bit of confidence that the right thing will come along, and you'll see it when it does. it might not be the same thing every time either. i've really changed my profession to something totally different, something that i actually hated. i mean, the idea of working on diseases...

. >> in a recent speech in stockholm you leave out fight serious using the spectrum management should look at. number one, you said we should promote the creation of the interoperable dynamic spectrum databases. could you expand on that old? >> i think that well, so, we had been regulating the retial technology sort of the same from when it just began 1934 communications act when the radio was an analog signal it was precious. you had to protect both sides of it. what we have now are these fabulous digital technologies that are inherently accepting to packet dropping, so we kind of can look at how we can share spectrum in a new way than we ever have before. these are smart technologies that can tell 90 present of the spectrum at any time is on you stand these technologies if we can encourage them and use them and share than they can make more efficient use of the spectrum that we have. >> another area that you lay out is me to look at service rules to ensure that the enable and encourage spectrum users to take it advantage of the new information technology. >> no doubt about it but i

is between russian companies because i think they are almost perfect but really good thing about stockholm is that the resources are there you know so it's a it's a big resource base that works great for risk at the state but it's a new area it's an area of adult industrial infrastructure you need to embark on a massive investments or course but there's a critical component to be given the order prices are high also the costs are increasing so this is the key focus for the partners to make sure that the sanction a project that is profitable for their shop and for the partners. let's have a look at how the markets are faring that sol european shares are trading mostly lower at swedish national chain h. and m. and swiss drug company in the vastness of both falling off a disappointing results financial stocks to try to downgrade sovereign ratings. and in russia the indices opened slightly higher but quickly it slipped into red bringing hopes of a steady recovery after mondays and tuesdays losses some of my six obs mixed those sa you can see that they're crossing and recrossing the line the ar

immigrant groups all right magnus ranstorp from the swedish national defense college life for us in stockholm thank you very much. all right now sarah ferguson caught up with two british passengers who found themselves at the center of a scene of bloody devastation just minutes after landing in moscow. let's cross. over to you now. now by key people he witnessed that explain the data that will yesterday markings even jack thank you very much for joining us now on the stage just yesterday this happened still a viable memory i'd imagine can you tell us what you do remember about that situation. here. we passed through the immigration and customs we were passing through the area where we left off by where a driver where they're letting our bags into the back of the vehicle just waiting for certain there was a huge noise to happen then we looked at each other about what it was and steven said the car bomb or something on. which point it which part of the snow came off of the terminal building sort of his biggest worry. much about forty five seconds after people came running out of the building of

in some parts of the stockholm area, 50% goes to independent schools. one of five swedish schools is an independent school, and 60% of independent schools are for-profit companies. all political parties except the communists except profits. i told that to my conservative friends in the u.k. they also haven't understood profits. the independent schools are outperforming public schools in results. and this is very important. if you see, you can have in all grading system 320 max and all the public schools have an average of 209 and all the independent schools 229. it's substantially better. and if you bring out ten chain schools that are building up efficient back offices, our results are even higher. we are providing better educational result. and that's, of course, important to getting acceptance in sweden. and the recent study of a few weeks ago from the public authorities in sweden show that the cost is about 20 cents lower cost for merit grade rating point in independent schools compared to public schools. we are getting much more education for each

. >> host: commissioner, in a recent speech in stockholm you laid out five areas that you think spectrum management should look at. number one, you said that we should promote the creation of interoperable, dynamic spectrum databases. could you expand on that a little bit? >> guest: sure. i really think that, well, okay. so we have been regulating radio technology sort of the same from when it just began. 1934 communications act when radio was an analog signal, it was of precious. you put it in this a lain, and you -- lane, and you had to protect both sides of it. what we have now are these fabulous digital ip technologies that are, they are inherently accepting to packet dropping. and so we kind of can look at how we can share spectrum in the new way than we ever have before. these are smart technologies that can tell 90% of our spectrum at any time is unused, and these technologies if we can encourage them and use them and share, then they can actually make more efficient use of the spectrum that we have. >> host: another area you laid out was we need to look at service rules to insure

the research was done in stockholm. >>> obesity may be linked to a family history of alcoholism.esearchers at washington university in st. louis found alcohol and junk food stimulate the same part of the brown which means people predisposed to alcoholism may replace lick were junk food. the link seems to be stronger for women than men. this report is available in general sigh kei tree this month. >>> a hollywood actress who rose to cult status in the film forbidden planet has died. ann francis appeared in dozens of movies but is best known for her role in forbidden planet. she died yesterday at the age of 80 at a nursing home in santa barbara. her daughters say she died from complications of pancreatic cancer after a battle with lung cancer. >> that would be fantastic if i could find out about something like that. >>> some call ate break through. a step towards cancer detection and better treatment. >>> and we're track the fog. have some throughout right now and i'll let you know how widespread it will be tomorrow morning when you head to work. >> a group of farm wok advocate and

after studying at both stockholm university and harvard business school, he founded an international communications company. and a public opinion research firm and ten years ago, a chain of private schools kunskapsskolan. and it's different than most u.s. private schools in that it is run as a business. it is a for-profit enterprise. and given how crazy that idea that sounds in the united states, presumed bastian of capitalism, imagine the reception that peje he received when he through that in sweden. our next speaker is humberto santos who is a researcher in the public policy institute and diego portales is a research assisted at the same university. he previously worked in the studies department of the chilean ministry of planning. and his current research focuses on the analysis of local education markets, regulations, and accountability in educational systems, which is perfect for the subject matter that we have today. putting these first two presentations in an american perspective and asking some challenging questions will be sarah sparks, who covers education research trends

to me, it said -- if i look at the global world, it is exciting that all our students are in stockholm or london, or do york and can be in the same kind of network. that is a revolution i believe will happen in education over the next 25 years. >> this is a question for both of you. are there any incentives or procedures in place in either of your countries to support successful models and help them expand faster? >> no. if we are successful, we get more students. it is very much market oriented. >> [speaking spanish] there is no public policy whatsoever in chile to subdivide -- subdivide the schools. [speaking spanish] there are several proposals to make it easier for schools to open ought and have the backing of the chains. that will make it easier to have the development of chains eventually. [speaking spanish] we do not have enough information to find out white schools form chains. it is difficult to see how you can set devised them to do so. -- how you can send devictivizeo do so. >> we had the voucher system that is giving someone money to go to whatever school they want and that

know that there have been a number of attempts and, obviously, overseas some successful such as in stockholm recently, but there have been attempts particularly by al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula. going back over the attempt last year, the northwest airliner coming into detroit coming out of yemen, and we saw another attempt here on 10/29 from yemen, the cargo plot. the two words that come to mind when i think about the current threat environment are persistent and evolving. we have seen these determined attempts, we see that particularly al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, aqap, is consistent. they are determined, they are innovative, they are creative, they are bold. all you have to do is look at "inspire" magazine. i'm not one usually to promote people to look at jihadist literature, but in this instance i think when people look at that and how they take credit for the cargo plot, i think it's instructive for everybody who is, has any interest in what transportation security looks like is the credit that aqap takes and the description of how they constructed those devices. the fact that

obviously we know that there have been a number of attempts and stockholm recently but there have been attempts particularly by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula going back, the one-year anniversary of the 12-25 attempts for much of the northwest airliner coming into detroit. coming out of yemen and we saw another attempt here on 10/20 -- 25. the two words that come in mind are persistent and evolving. we have seen the attempts. it seemed particularly al qaeda and qap is persistent. they are determined. they are innovative, they are creative. they are bold. all you have to do is look at inspire magazine. if you have not seen that -- i'm not one usually to promote people to look at jihad is literature but in those instances i think when people look at that and how they take credit for the cargo plot i think it is instructive for everybody who has any interest in what transportation security looks like is the credit that they take and a description of how they constructed those devices. the fact that they would be in the toner cartridge of the printers that even if opened up, somebody wo

. >> you have seen london, moscow, stockholm, paris.ave been in new york so far. i have been caught by the incoming tide in storm drains here. i have fallen in an underground river and got an infection that landed me in the hospital for a couple of weeks. so all frightening, but good learning experiences i would say. >> this has become a hit online, andrew. hundreds of thousands of views. what do you think it is about this video that fascinates people? >> i think just we as a society have so many ideas about what the underunderground means. people project their fear, excitement on top of it. and seeing places you have never seen that you walk by every day, something so attractive about different people get sucked in. >> it's a 27-minute video and when you look at the views most people finish it. >> i watched the whole thing last night. it's fascinating, harrowing at times but a good watch. steve duncan and andrew wonder, thank you very much for being here. >> thanks for having us. >> up next, the secret to making delicious home made pas

there have been attempts -- such as stockholm recently. there of penitence and such as the ones coming out of yemen, -- there have been attempts, such as the one out of yemen, the one on the flight to detroit. the two words that come to mind when i think about the current threat environment are persistent and evolving. they are persistent, determined, innovative, creative, bold, all of which is inspiring a magazine. i am not one to encourage people to look at jihad this literature, but if you look at the way they take credit for it things, the description of how they have created destructive devices, the fact that they would be in the cargo, to honor cartage printers -- toner cartridge printers, the fact that they could not be detected even if somebody opened up, that they cleansed the outside container so that a bomb sniffing dog could not detect them, that that would not alert. the fact that they actually took photographs and put of but in a container -- a book in a container just to show they did this, and it only cost them $4,200 and a