stockholm does not have the same robust rail system. they did increase their bus system and transportation i made a large investment before instituting the pricing. bringing everyone to the table is important. number three, determining your data needs and start collecting your data immediately. number four, use pilots to allow the results to speak for themselves. they did do a pilot in stockholm in 2,006 from january until july. number five, design your own system with the number one goal to advance equity. this is something we decided, as a group, because i think a lot of us in those cities felt that there was no true equity loans with a congestion pricing in both cities. we know we are going to need to consider that as a priority here in san francisco. number six, fearless political leadership is key. prepare for political moment with grassroots support. number seven, build a big tent for discussion of business, environmental, political and other communities. number eight, congestion pricing is a powerful, dexterous tool. build your o

eugene: stockholm time, which is early in the morning here.ct to get because a lot of people could qualify to get it. there were newspaper people at my door not 10 minutes later after the call. they wanted to come in my house. i said, no way. [laughter] i had a class that morning. barry: you don't get a special did sensation? -- dispensation? eugene: you could, but i had never missed a class and i was not going to start now. and i wasn't letting anyone in. the kids in class were paying a lot of money to take that course. no way i wanted people disturbing us. barry: david, you ended up going to stockholm. what was that experience like? course, being chicago-trained, i had been to the ceremony before. you are kind of used to this. [laughter] barry: third time is the charm? i said to gene, give me a night to organize something special. abba has a museum in stockholm and i talked them into renting me out of the museum for the evening. gene has four kids, eight grandkids, they are all big music fans. has a lot of things you can do to have fun. with

eugene: it was stockholm time, which is early in the morning here.er expect to get it because a lot of people could qualify to get it. the people here somehow had a guess or whatever. i don't know, because there were newspaper people at my door not 10 minutes later after the call. they wanted to come in my house. i said, no way. [laughter] i had a class that morning. barry: you don't get a special dispensation? eugene: you could, but i had never missed a class and i was not going to start now. and i wasn't letting anyone in. the kids in class were paying a lot of money to take that course. no way i wanted people disturbing us. barry: david, you ended up going to stockholm. what was that experience like? david: of course, being chicago-trained, i had been to the ceremony before. you are kind of used to this. [laughter] barry: third time is the charm? david: i said to gene, give me a night to organize something special. abba has a museum in stockholm and i talked them into renting me out of the museum for the evening. gene has four kids, eight grandkid

his swedish lawyer when he visited him a couple of months back from stockholm flying in from stockholm had a 2 hour slot reportedly to see him and unison was brought to him with one hour and 45 minutes to lay so he had 15 minutes to explain to him a swedish legal document of 300 pages but could not leave it with him and no translation that so. how is that rule of law well of course in court he said it was driven sure what was going on but if your report raised eyebrows europol will have raised eyebrows especially through an extent in the way that you talked about the british media scene you appeared to be saying the part of the psychological torture of julius has been committed by. newspapers like the guardian of course the newspaper that we're getting supplied information to they recently had an editorial in support of julian assad but they said you don't need to like him why do you think that newspapers that received information resides continue to emphasize the fact that you may not have to like his character it's very difficult for me to understand how the mainstream media has such

brian orser as horn the wildlife photographer is collecting fingernail clippings from donors and stockholm to crush up and make it into medicine human fingernails and rhino horn are both made of keratin which many asians believe can cure illnesses and serve as an aphrodisiac there's no scientific evidence of this and no indication yet customers will switch from born to male. paris the apartment store pantano has unveiled its christmas window displays and let's just say there's a lot to look at it features that motorized animals and they need scenes they have everything from turkey is making music and dancing in the kitchen to a giant hand that's spraying herself with perfume and a trying to escape from the problem tom storm it took a 650 hours to create the decorations 10000000 people are set to see the christmas displays at owner francois paino a luxury tycoon hopes it'll lure lots of people into the store. and that's it from us thank you for watching. repeated beginning continue to be in the old west and east germany 30 years after the. cancun federative for the 2 economic region. about

. >> 17-year-old shawn is on his way to school half an hour north of stockholm, but his school is unique kids can play games here at 8:00 in the morning, and i is part of the timetable. >> this totally motivatates me. you wake up before academic classes start. yourur brain switches into gear and you get to do what you like. >> sean is learning to play league of legends, currently one of the most popular computer games.s. more than 100 million people play it worldwide. his teacher sees himself more as a coach. >> the gamee is pretty tight. right now his team is behind and under pressure. they havave to be proactive. >> he actually wanted to become a professisional soccer player, but he tore a ligament and while in rehab, started to playy cocomputer games. >> the pupils here mainly learn how w to solve problems, which e plentiful in this game. for example, my opponent is stronger than i am and looks unbeatable, so i have to work out a way of winning. >> more than 40 schools in sweden offeree sport courses as well as playing on the computer, physical fitness and proper nutrition are part of

speaking to us frorom stockholm, sweden, where we will be broadcasting next week. when we come back, more than 340 people interact have been killed in's nationwide antigovernment protests began in october. we will speak with the iraqi poet, novelist, scholar sinan antoon. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, i'm m amy goodman with juan gonzalez. juan: we turn now to iraq where more than 340 people have died since anti-governmenent protests began in early october. more than 15,000 iraqis have been injured. on monday, tires were set on fire and main roads and bridges were blocked in the cities of basra and nassiriya. over the weekend, security forces opened fire on civilians in baghdad and other cities. the demonstrators are protesting corruption and lack of jobs and basic seservices, including clen water and electricity. falah hassan took part in the protests in basra. >> our protests are peaceful. we are taking our rights back. we will never surrender, neither today, and tomorrow, nor even after one year. the authorities make themselves tired.

in europe, places like stockholm, berlin. beyond housing and office, we also look at global travel.think there is a real push for people to spend more on experiences rather than just things. that has given us more conviction to invest in high quality hospitality assets, particularly in supply constrained coastal markets. makes sense that you would be chasing these innovation cities, experience-based opportunities that you describe. what about the stuff that is being thrown out with the bathwater while that takes place? some of the secondary and tertiary cities for example in the u.s., are they getting cheap enough that if it becomes interest to blackstone on evaluation basis? cities arethose interesting places for yield orienting investments. you see good supply demand fundamentals but not the rate of value appreciation that you might find in the biggest cities. those are the kinds of places we look to find a yield oriented thesis. >> blackstone believed that interest rates were going to go up, with the accelerating economy. the economy accelerated but interest rates instead went do

german railways can get you to copenhagen, and swedish railways will go from the danish capital to stockholm book, and the more flexible you can be, the lower the cost. wherever you are heading, i am here to help. sending your questions andi here to help. sending your questions and i will do my best to find you an answer. rwanda has just top 2020 african destination list and i am here in the capital, kigali. the city as a hub for start—ups. it has a buzzing heart seen and great local entertainment. but while most travellers with three to get straight to the wildlife, i have come to see what the capital has to offer. the city is impressively spotless, there is wi—fi everywhere and perhaps, most importantly, there isa and perhaps, most importantly, there is a real sense of pride bursting from every single person i talked to. this is thanks, in no small part, to the national initiative. a movement to support and inspire local business and the maiden rwanda label is now a badge of honour. this all reflects the new rwandan identity, no longer divided along ethnic or tribal lines. i am at this hou

those hearings are due to begin in february. 0ur correspondent maddy savage is in stockholm.case againstjulian assange? prosecutors have said they reopen the files, oncejulian assange was ta ken reopen the files, oncejulian assange was taken out of the ecuadorian assembly, embassy, they reinterviewed five witnesses and spoke to two others but what they have concluded is that there was not enough evidence for them to take this case further, to travel to london to interviewjulian assange, they say they do feel the evidence given by the woman who has accused him is credible and reliable but as for the others, the passage of time they say as well as the global media coverage may have effective people's memories of event in that is the key reason why they consider this as evidence to not give be satisfactory. that is a huge blow to the woman at the centre of the case, her lawyer has issued a statement in the past couple of hours which was texted to us at the bbc saying her client was very sad and very disappointed about the decision, she feels julian assange disappointed about the

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great to see to see you thanks so much we come to stockholm to do a story about fashion why everyone for it is so there's $115000000.00 trees that disappear every year into the clothing that we all wear and slated to double within the next decade i have never heard of that connection between between fashion and an a for street. it's not an intuitive flick that something that soft and soaking extra skin and actually starts off as a treat many of these trees come from endangered forests thousands of years old known as primary forests around the world 50 percent are already being lost due to human impacts such as logging. nicole brown's canopy an organization dedicated to protecting those still remains it's a complete breakdown of the ecological functions of the area and is a massive release of carbon into the atmosphere and disrupts species have attacks even though trees can grow back ancient and in danger of farce or clay simple. after the forest to clear the wood is poked and processed into fabrics called rail and viscous but it's shockingly wasteful. as much as 70 percent of the har

of course this is only a deal concerning the south of yemen and if you go back a year ago to the stockholm agreement things were not as serious in the south as they have been since that deal so it solving part of the problem but not many of the other problems in yemen and the central dispute between the 2 thieves in the government of yemen of course is not part of this deal we have one other statement in the last few minutes and that's from an important person this was very much a saudi deal that is being done also the u.a.e. which was part of the coalition in this pulling back its forces clearly was involved the u.n. i think more of an observer but the u.n. special envoy has put out a statement in the last few moments martin griffiths welcoming this deal congratulating the government yemen on the southern transitional council he goes on in the statement the signing of this agreement is an important step for a collective efforts to advance a peaceful settlement on the conflict in yemen listening to see. southern stakeholders is important to the political efforts to achieve peace in the cou

they went to stockholm for a year and then mexico city. iny came to the only country the world were they could rebuild their shattered lives. i now -- know how important the idea of america is for people struggling to be free all over the world. it's not that we are perfect, far from it. we are a beacon to the rest of the world. i believe that reestablishing our place in the world will be one of the things the next president will have to do. >> let's talk strategy. how do you get back on the debate stage? how do you break through? >> the debate stage is just a discouraging place for the american people. i won't pretend that i wouldn't like to be on there. i wish i were on there. it is not doing a good job of elucidating the issues. it's not doing a good job of equipping our candidates, putting them in a position to be to donald trump. going forward, i hope we find a way to free ourselves from this. i've often said that i think that roasts should be done away with. it's an art form that has outlived its usefulness. i feel the same way about

action dition to sweden in 2010 a woman accused him of raping her during the week leaks conference in stockholm. us is professor of law at the university of oslo an institute of legal studies he's followed the case closely and joins us from florence in italy welcome to d.w. why do you think it's taken the swedish prosecutors 9 years to work out there is insufficient evidence to charge mr sawyer. that's a very good question. it's clear that they could have interviewed miss in london in their code or an embassy where they had sort. they did not do so and the prosecutors were criticized by the supreme court in its review where it did not tun the decision is made from this we just saw it in this exhibition. context but criticised very strong in the decisions and the procedures followed and that it was disproportionate to continue to pursue a sausage in the way which to prosecutors were doing so they had a very high threshold to continue this procedure and now what we have seen is a new round also in. swedish court of the instance where they applied for pretrial detention on mistress on and and the

trend they are even offering lessons. 17 year old sean is on his way to school half an hour north of stockholm but his school is unique here kids can play games at 8 o'clock in the morning and it's part of the timetable so the shows will of course totally motivates me you wake up before academic classes start your brain switches into gear and you get to do what you like. shown as learning to play league of legends currently one of the most popular computer games more than 100000000 people play it worldwide and this is a teacher york him he sees himself more as a coach. and the game is pretty tight right now his team is behind and is under pressure they have to be proactive hard york in bergstrom actually want to become a professional soccer player but he tore a ligament and while in rehab he started to play computer games next he trained a professional team and now he heads the eastport apartment at the school. but the people here mainly learn how to solve problems which are plentiful in this game for example my opponent is stronger than i am and he looks unbeatable so i've got to work out a w

for much of the cold war but it's worth noting that the last time a yemen peace deal was signed in stockholm almost a year ago the south was relatively quiet. the most recent clashes there only broke out this summer and in part this was linked to the u.a.e. which had the main international force in the south pulling most of its troops from the saudi led coalition the latest developments are important but they don't mean an end to the wider war and in particular the conflict between saudi arabia and the who thiis who still control a large portion of the country including the capital sanaa james pays out jazeera of the united nations. still ahead of al jazeera china faces more into. national condemnation for its detention of course 1000000 we. we find out why the united states is wading into a dispute over a controversial dam on the bridge phenomenal. header their famous of trashing up all the satellite for the last year as across much of the middle east in ages this stream of clouds here that is taking with it some rain and some snow to those higher elevations it will continue to work its way

for much of the cold war but it's worth noting that the last time a yemen peace deal was signed in stockholm almost a year ago the south was relatively quiet. the most recent clashes there only broke out this summer and in part this was linked to the u.a.e. which had the main international force in the south pulling most of its troops from the saudi led coalition the latest developments are important but they don't mean an end to the wider war and in particular the conflict between saudi arabia and the who thieves who still control a large portion of the country including the capital sanaa james pays out 0 of the united nations. take a parliament has to be formally suspended. in the coming hours ahead of a snap general election that means campaigning can officially began opposition leader germy corben is given a preview of what people can expect from his labor party this is the 2nd general election since the 2016 referendum there secretary state has condemned the chinese government for its treatment of muslim leaders peo says he's deeply troubled by reports china has harassed jailed and deta

yemeni government together for fresh talks the last time that happened was almost a year ago in stockholm when they came up with an agreement on the port of the data it's an agreement that still hasn't been fully implemented james burrows' al-jazeera at the united nations turkey's government is offering a $700000.00 reward for the capture of an exiled palestinian leader it says was involved in an attempted coup back in 2016 ankara has placed mohamed that lying on its most wanted list it accuses him of having links with the u.s. spy network and channeling funds to the outlawed cologne this movement that's the group turkey says was behind the attempted coup well here's what we know about mohammed dahlan he was a former security chief for the palestinian authority before being exiled in 2011 over claims he poisoned yasser arafat that owns a media network that spans the u.a.e. egypt and jordan and korea says he also meant tains ties with several news media outlets in turkey turkish intelligence alleges that plan helped the u.a.e. and israel than a plot to destabilize turkey iran and qatar the

for much of the cold war but it's worth noting that the last time a yemen peace deal was signed in stockholm almost a year ago the south was relatively quiet. the most recent clashes there only broke out this summer and in part this was linked to the u.a.e. which had the main international force in the south pulling most of its troops from the saudi led coalition the latest developments are important but they don't mean an end to the wider war and in particular the conflict between saudi arabia and the who thiis who still control a large portion of the country including the capital sanaa james pays out 0 of the united nations. u.s. president donald trump has offered to hell. mexico wipe out the drug cartels blamed for an attack which killed 9 americans 3 women and 6 children were killed near the town of this play off the members of a cartel allegedly opened fire on their cars security officials believe the government may have mistaken them for a rival gang hohmann has more from mexico city. this burnt up car a mule witness to a tragedy this is for the record need and for my grandchildren are

it's really quite mild now tempers are really shocked out for eastern europe with the exception of stockholm with the cold front lies for the other system north of this is still proper winter cold but most places it's a windy and mom. the thing be the the best description by the time we get to wednesday this is still the wet patch move to be fair the south still mild and east take a focus for example in bucharest at 24 degrees the next couple of days is just one billy one degree below its november record and 14 about normal quite a surprise obviously some of the spills over into north africa and the stuff that's coming through spy in the west and that train doesn't show much tendency to change your weather on tuesday 21 now jeers and breezy 18 robots full time to get to wednesday the rain is falling properly. watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now states has impose new sanctions on iran targeting the financial assets of 9 people close to the supreme leader came the same day that iran announced it was taking another step away from the 2050 nuclear deal doubling its number o

earlier we heard from our correspondent, maddy savage in stockholm...an assange was taken out of the ecuadorian embassy... the ecuadorian embassy. they looked at the evidence they had then. then they then reinterviewed five witnesses and they spoke to two others. but what they've concluded is that there wasn't enough evidence for them to take this case further, to travel to london to interviewjulian assange. they say that they do feel that the evidence given by the woman who has accused him of rape is credible and reliable. but ask the others at the passage of time, they say, as well as the global media coverage may have affected people's memories of events. and that's a key reason why they consider this this evidence to not be satisfactory. and that is a huge blow to the woman at the centre of this case. her lawyer has issued a statement in the past couple of hours, which was texted to us here at the bbc, saying that her client was very sad and very disappointed about the decision. she feels thatjulian assange has never had to explain himself properly

yemeni government together for fresh talks the last time that happened was almost a year ago in stockholm when they came up with an agreement on the port of the data it's an agreement that still hasn't been fully implemented jamesburg al-jazeera at the united nations. still ahead on al-jazeera it's almost boxing day guinea purcel as the president goes up against a number of challenges including projects prime ministers you've become rival. and we look at what's stopping the u.s. president from going ahead with his plan to battle the tronic cigarettes. however going to released west blitz in the weather across europe at the moment to try weather over towards the east but i was towards the west loss of cloud and the rain are rolling in piling in from the atlantic a series of weather fronts bringing some really quite nasty weather and as we go on through the next few days this will take us well into next week pitch and not a pretty picture fabulous no over the alps wet and windy weather there across that western side of the mediterranean parting down through those western areas a france that

yemeni government together for fresh talks the last time that happened was almost a year ago in stockholm when they came up with an agreement on the port of the data it's an agreement that still hasn't been fully implemented jamesburg zira at the united nations a spanish judge has recommended that former syrian vice president the fattal assad go on trial on charges of criminal organization and money laundering they fobbed to is the exiled uncle of syrian president bashar assad the judge also recommend that that certain other people including 8 of his sons face trial charged with the same offenses it's alleged they have laundered money taken out of syria in several european countries since the 1980 s. . but that's government has won its attempt to overturn a court ruling demanding that the children of eisel fighters are repatriated to the netherlands a course in the hague has ruled that more than 50 children in the al whole camp in kurdish controlled northern syria be brought back some potentially with their mothers for humanitarian reasons but a higher court has now decided that any the s

for much of the cold war but it's worth noting that the last time a yemen peace deal was signed in stockholm almost a year ago the south was relatively quiet. the most recent clashes there only broke out this summer and in part this was linked to the u.a.e. which had the main international force in the south pulling most of its troops from the saudi led coalition the latest developments are important but they don't mean an end to the wider war and in particular the conflict between saudi arabia and the who thieves who still control a large portion of the country including the capital sanaa james pays out 0 of the united nations. the u.s. says iran's expansion off your aenima. richmond's is a big step in the wrong direction and amounts to nuclear extortion saucing weapon say iran plans to begin injection uranium gas into centrifuges it's an underground facility near the city of qum but that activity is banned under the 2015 nuclear agreement dorsetshire pari reports. president hassan rouhani arrived at this factory in teheran for an inauguration ceremony but he used the turnarounds iran's 4th

this it's really quite mild now tempers are really short for eastern europe with the exception of stockholm where the cold front lies for the other system north of this is still proper winter cold but most places it's a windy and mild thing be the the best description but some get to wednesday this is still the wet patch move to be fair the south still mild in east take a focus for example in bucharest at $24.00 degrees the next couple of days is just one billy one degree below its november record and 14 above normal course surprise obviously some of this spills over into north africa and this stuff is coming through space in the west and that train doesn't show much tendency to change your weather on tuesday 21 years and breezy 18 revengeful tommy get to wednesday the rain is falling probably. story 1400 years in the make. the story of succession and leadership. tells the story of foundation and the emergence of an empire. the caliph episode one. i remind her now of the top stories on al-jazeera iran has taken another step away from the 2015 nuclear deal announcing that it's developed a ne

for much of the cold war but it's worth noting that the last time a yemen peace deal was signed in stockholm almost a year ago the south was relatively quiet. the most recent clashes there only broke out this summer and in part this was linked to the u.a.e. which had the main international force in the south pulling most of its troops from the saudi led coalition the latest developments are important but they don't mean an end to the wider war and in particular the conflict between saudi arabia and the who thiis who still control a large portion of the country including the capital sanaa james pays out 0 at the united nations or meanwhile the head of the who these a so-called interim revolution. the committee mohammad out who's the has responded to the agreement in a tweet he said the agreement doesn't mean anything to the yemeni people because it is between 2 treacherous agents representing the aggressors and it clearly confirms the illegality of the aggression against yemen. us president donald trump's acting chief of staff make a move any has been summoned to testify in the impeachment in