that is the beginning of the answer to the question. [applause] and ceo of the national constitution center. this week justice john paul stevens and his latest book six amendments how and why we should change the constitution. the supreme court justice targets gun violence, the death penalty, gerrymandering and campaign finance an amendment he believes would better protect and empower citizens. the program is about one hour here at the constitution center by visiting the constitution center as you know is the only institution in america that has a congressional charter for information about the constitution on a nonpartisan basis to discuss with that then your wonderful new book six amendments how and why we should change the constitution. the supreme court ruled differently and you dissented many of these cases. tell me why you decided to write the book and proposed the six constitutional amendment. >> guest: it's about the fact that the anti, during rule praises an obstacle in the way that governments fitting to do with information on

the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 4587, a bill to impose targeted sanctions on individuals responsible for carrying out or ordering human rights abuses against the citizens of venezuela and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from florida, ms. ros-lehtinen, and the gentleman from texas, mr. castro, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from florida. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and to include extraneous material on this bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. ros-lehtinen: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to place into the record letters between the chairman of the committees of referral on this bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. ros-l

but there is no museum in the country that shows the full scope of the history of the amazing, brilliant, courageous, innovative and sometimes defiant women who have helped shape our history and make this country what it is. even though women make up 50% the population, a survey of textbooks found that only 10% of the individuals identified in the text were women. less than 5% of the 2,400 national historic landmarks chronicle the achievements of women, and of the 210 statues in the united states capitol, only nine are of female leaders. . as an example while nearly high school student learns about the midnight ride of paul revere, how many of them learn about sara luddington? she's a 16-year-old whose midnight ride to send word to her father's troops that the british were coming was longer than paul revere's, just as important, and in many ways even more he remarkable. but her right -- even more remarkable, but they are right has been long forgotten. as was once described on the statue in the capitol rotunda for the three women who fought so hard for women to gain the right to vote, it

the speaker pro tempore: the chair of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has had under consideration the bill h.r. 4660 and reports the bill back to the house with sunry amendments adopted in the committee of the whole with a recommendation that the amendments be adopted and that the bill as amended do pass. under house resolution 585, the previous question is ordered. is a separate vote demanded on any amendment reported from the committee of the whole? if not, the chair will put them engross. the question is on the adoption of the amendments. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the amendments are adopted. the question is on engrossment and third reading of the bill. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. third reading. the clerk: a bill making appropriations for the departments of commerce and justice, science, and related agencies for fiscal year ending september 30, 2015, and for ther purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the house will come to order. for what purpose does

ch the new. the enemy the show daily. the us. eye. i know the cheese wine and cake and i intend kal. russian activists in eastern ukraine are standing firm against them manage the operation launched by the interim government the cruelty operating in eastern city of pullman tallest one today from russian man attends from pumping buildings that use to control the local tv station and ten points. that's the sense that six people were killed and fifteen others injured in the uk operation. and the suspect to the southern city of augusta forty two people were killed and clashes between s

the good, the bad, and the ugly truth. justice demands it and justice is what we do in this country. and that's just the way it is. the speaker pro tempore: without objection the gentlelady from new york will control the remaining time for the minority. the gentlelady is recognize. ms. slaughter: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from vermont, a member of the committee for government and oversight reform, mr. welch. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. welch: 30 years ago, america suffered an incredible tragedy. 241 marines in beirut lost their lives when terrorists bombed the barracks in which they were living. at that time we had a president whose name was ronald reagan, we had a speaker of the house named tip o'neill. different parties. that was an enormous tragedy. an investigation needed to be done and it was dobe of. it was done on a bipartisan basis. one investigation was done. and there was a presumption that no matter how tragic this was and no matter

the consequences be for the rest of the region. how vital is everything going on? >> it is an unstable area that is if pakistan changed its policy supporting the tablet and i think that we would suddenly have peace in afghanistan. i think that it is as important as that. the telegram is more popular. the uprisings show that they are sick and tired of the town of van and they want to prosper as normal democratic life. so they really would reject is and that's why they all told you why aren't you going to the source of the problem because i think that it's the finance, the money stopped and the support. they would just collapse. now then of course you still got young men who were unemployed and the post-conflict work and i think they saw the huge problems it can't support itself, it's got corruption. but i think they could start to work on that, so i think it's huge. and i also think that for pakistan, if they stopped supporting and running these proxy wars they could start to get a grip on their own proble problems. it's time to end

the speaker pro tempore: the chair of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the committee has had under consideration the bill h.r. 4435 and pursuant to house resolution 590 reports the bill as amended by the russ resolution 585 back to the house with sundry further amendments adopted in the committee of the whole. under the rule, the previous question is ordered. is a separate vote demanded on any amendment reported from the committee of the whole? hearing none, the chair will put them in gross. the question is on adoption of the amendment. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair the ayes have it. the amendments are agreed to. the question is on engrossment and third reading of the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the yes have it. the third reading. the clerk: a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2015 for military activities of the department of defense and for military construction, to describe military personnel strength for such fiscal year, nd for other purpose

the chair: the house is in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration.r. 4681 which the clerk will report by the title. the clerk: a bill to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2014 and 2015 for intelligence and intelligence related activities of the united states government, the community management account, and the central intelligence agency retirement and disability system, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered as read the first time. the gentleman from michigan, mr. rogers, and the gentleman from maryland, mr. ruppersberger, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from michigan. mr. rogers: mr. chairman, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he wishes to use. mr. rogers: the intelligence authorization act is the annual blueprint for the work of the intelligence community and americans military and intelligence efforts. the bill sets the priorities for our critical intelligence efforts and the legal f

the yard in the back or on top of the roof where's the impact on the light the adjacent properties. >> on the two at the 92 circular ms. occurring religious house has windows so the windows are not on the property line her building is at the time set back she's not required to cover the windows not on the property line. and please a chang on the west >> that's the light issue. >> he didn't have appropriate line window and we explained over noon he'll get plenty of light the front of the building face south he's west of our building there will be a minimal impact of light in the morning but. >> that the part you've done the light no such. >> would you like for me to show you. >> yes. i don't understand all the light implementations. >> this is an exhibit in our brief; right? and so i can see it. >> i can

the brighter the red, the more extreme the drought areas.ve had similar conditions from kansas into parts of texas and that's where our risk is shifting now. behind the front, definitely some improving conditions, ahead of this, though, now getting winds out of the south into the central plains into the southwest. that is heating things up, which dries things out, and then the winds also fuel potential fire. we have a risk anywhere from parts of arizona all the way up into portions of kansas for today. temperatures have already gone up in some cases 20 degrees from yesterday, so definitely a steamy one today with that risk. >> nicole, thank you very much. >> moscow is once again ordering its troops away from the ukrainian border. russian president vladimir putin declared military training completed. nato officials have not seen any significant withdrawal of the soldiers. putin will discuss thation tomorrow at a united nations meeting with ban ki-moon. president putin has said he would withdraw those troops before. is there a sign that this i

the news of the day plus so much more. answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what. >> chris died because of crank, irresponsible politicians and the n.r.a. they talk about gun rights. what about chris's right to live? >> heartbreak from the father of one of the victims in that california killing spree, the focus turning to the briar encounters with police. >> a billionaire businessman wins the landmark election in ukraine, some questioning results because millions in the east didn't vote. >> the time has come to put an end to this situation which has become increasingly unacceptable. >> pope francis winding down his trip to the holy land. some believe he's trying to break downs wall between palestinians and israelis. >> paying tribute to the men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in washington, d.c. >> welcome to aljazeera america. new daylights are emerging about that deadly killing tree in santa barbara, california. in a video posted on

the republican leader of the senate on the senate floor and decrying the proposals that the president is putting forth. first and foremost is regulations on the coal. they tout the oil and gas production, a result of fracking and it is controversial and again, the base of the democratic party against that very unhappy with the president's record thus far. so there is a lot of election year politicking going on here and firing up the base in each of the parties. unlikely major legislation is moving forward, del. >> mike, thank you very much. >> well, one of the consequences of climate change coastlines that seem to be disappearing. rising sea levels are putting a damper on the sunshine state and there are concerns that the officials in florida just aren't ready. >> more than 1200 miles of coastline lure the people to live and visit the sunshine state but the paradise of south florida may one day be washed away. >> we are living on borrowed time and we are going to enjoy it, but i can't appreciate the building right now. it has to be almost misleading the public. >> he's referring to th

the speaker pro tempore: the -- the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. the journal stands approve the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from south carolina, mr. wilson. mr. wilson: everyone, including the guests in the gallery, please join in. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker: without objection, the gentlelady from north carolina, ms. foxx is recognized for one minute. ms. foxx: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, pastor charlie martin has preached the gospel for 45 years. charlie martin attended trinh dity college of florida and continues to serve as vice president -- trinity college of florida and continues to serve as vice president of that institution. after college he began working with youth in his home church in arkansas. in 1971, he was called to pastor first baptist church of indian rocks in largow, florida. the lord blessed the

the most of the. rule in current events in ukraine is really significant the build up of the national guard the training of special forces which recruit nationalists and fighters these are the people who are battling islam these were the people cracking down on demonstrations in harker's in south russia we have also information that national guard fighters in series took part in what happened to not just. ukraine's defense ministry has confirmed that two russian journalists have been detained by security forces near the eastern city of kramatorsk the first image of them has now emerged online both of the men who work for the live news t.v. network appears to be hanker after in the pictures life news a says they're being held in an unknown location and cannot be contacted the last message from them was a text message saying things were looking ugly isn't ukraine is far from safe right now for the media a crew working for a huge news agency ruptly had a warning shots are fired at them on thursday from t

the speaker pro tempore: the chair of the committee of the whole house on the state of the union reports that the has had under consideration h.r. 4435 and has come to no resolution thereon. the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: leave of absence requested for mr. hults camp of kansas for today, ms. slaughter for today and the balance of the week. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the request ares granted. -- the requests are granted. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? ms. foxx: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that when the house adjourns today it adjourn to meet at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the chair will now entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from nebraska seek recognition? the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. fortenberry: thank you, mr. speaker. we just heard an extensive debate about the future of america's defense policy. and i want to commend the chairman for including an important amen

here we are at the end of the day, take a look, the green indicating the 60s, 70s, the yellow and 80s orange, take a look at we get closer to central valley, oakley, brentwood, upper 80s and low 90s for tomorrow. it's 56 in san francisco, upper 50s in oakland, 63 in concord and san jose checking in at 59. 86 for fairfield and 87 in lever more. 86 in napa. into the south bay 81 for san jose and along the coast 62. summer like pattern, might be row climates, you're going to see the giants play, 64 degrees and the onshore breeze is 10 to 15 miles per hour, it could be breezier than that at times. with your holiday weekend in view, temperatures climbing for the second half. if we do get sunshine for the coast, tomorrow will be our best bet. by monday, temperatures begin to pull back just a little bit. we're going to be warm in most areas, upper 70s around the bay. er 60s at the coast with a cooling trend to follow tuesday and wednesday. >> the embattled owner of the los angeles clippers is planning to sell the team to a family friend. the report comes after sterling agreed to let his estr

the garage is spray exhaust is in the middle of the neighborhood and the paints comes into the neighbors homes so the permitting fire systems is very, very important. i respect what they say by she is incorrect. i'm going to turn it over to mario the fire captain who was in charge of the fire planning review and ask him to talk about the details >> commissioner president lazarus and members mario balanced arrested as mr. patterson states that's a simple matter a permit was put in but the system was permit process was never completed and not reported as being complete the permit expired my so again in essence any additional work to a system that was not signed off is illegal. unfortunately, the permit process the fire department that approved to permit the permit hadn't expired they'll ask the building department will tell them to reinstitute the permit. and lastly in rectifying the fire department records there is no permit but the process was never completed and to date there is no legal permit for the spray booth at that address. >> i'm sorry, i think i miss our authority what's our ba

in the return leg of the chat the semifinals to meet their local rivals rio madrid in the finals. sarah morris and spain as the trees dominate europe. ukrainian authorities are gradually losing control of the east of the country about a dozen towns are no partly controlled by pro russian troops on wednesday the armed separatists these government buildings that were lifted and assessed the government has put the army on maximum alert was unclear what if anything that might change that was her riches and in its key reports on the gradual takeover of strategic sites. you're witnessing be a gradual slipping away at the control of the of the end of the situation here at least two major regions of the east of ukraine and god's creature and i were i was yesterday and said that and yet speech where i am right now effectively what we see is the same scenario repeated itself in town after town as they fall into the hands except that it's a separate issue of ours taking control of strategic building sites local administration buildings tv tower is a police station is the right to the scene.

led first by the british and then by the germans after nato became the head of the organizer of the international mission, the international mission. can you describe how each of them related to the international military how they used it politically because dealing with the rifles of the central government have that relationship with us was an important. >> for sure that relationship with the americans is absolutely central to understanding his story. a lot of people said to me over the years he was really not a major player until the american plans call something in him and connected with him and first afforded him an opportunity to take power in kandahar or sort of enable that, but that also allowethen alsoallowed him to mn extraordinary amount of money. i think that he and a number of others have estimated just in kandahar before he even moved he had already made several hundred million dollars through contracts. >> when you say contracts but st are those contracts with two? >> contact us for example i think grappling -- >> for the u.s. military. >> that's right to be a contract

al qaeda in the south, a separatist movement also in the south and the rebellion in the north of the country. >>> in syria government war planes continue to attack towns outside of damascus. the attacks happen in the town about 8 kilometers from the capital. the activists say 26 people have been killed by government shelling. these pictures show the aftermath of a missile attack in the rebel-held town of marra. >>> activists accused the government of another poison gas attack in ham ma north of holmes. this shows people suffocating in the rebel-held town north of there. they say there's strong evidence here the government has used chlorine gas on at least three towns since april. if verified, the assad government would be in violation of the chemical weapons treaty it signed back in october. >>> al jazeera continues to demand the immediate release of its journalists held in prison in egypt for 143 days. the trial is to resume in two days' time. they're accused of con siring with the outlawed muslim brotherho brotherhood. al jazeera rejects all of the charges against them. the fourth

lawn space but the appeal of that particular plan was the adjacentcy of the people on the lawn with the playground that they were right next to each other. and we have a third scheme which is essentially the it is basketball court and the playground and so this was kind of seen as no change and the that scheme didn't receive many votes at the meeting. so then we posted option 3 that got the most votes. and looked at it providing more information and refine time we looked the treatment of the designs and so forth. and at this meeting we received a lot of comments in support for it. and it is seemed like the plan that was shown checked off a lot of the boxes that people were asking for to capitol hill the park but at the same time, we received comments asking for the removal of tennis court. they were a lot of painters and the concern resolving around the tennis courts regarded the number of tennis court win the neighborhood people said there are insufficient tennis courts in the neighborhood and there were comments on the usage it ranged from the tennis courts not being used or used all

it's not there, the scream of the tortured prisoners or the companies in the prison, it's the fear of being forgotten. i remember the days i was taken to court you were exhausted from the new impressions, but to see the colleagues there, people protesting, writing, tweeting, that boosts your moral. and to have, to see people carrying on, journalism is more important than food and water when you are locked up. it's crucial. it gives your mystery and meaning it gives a meaning to the suffering. they can't look up journal. >>. so keeping on with the campaign, and i started saying that there's a hunting season and it's a bad time for journalists. the positive thing is the support that the al jazeera staff are getting and the support that the bloggers in ethiopia are getting from around the world. that is something that is impressive. they need to keep on that. they do the fight inside, and we'll do it from the outside. >>> thank you for joining us. >> thank you very much. >>> african leaders and diplomats are converging on the capital of south sudan hoping an end to the crisis may be reas

there was one woman she was walking along the ledge by the window when the. crowd yelled glory to you cream while some members of the crowd were keeping the bodies on the ground. one of the. see this is on top of. the fiercest fighting in the past month has broken out in eastern ukraine as the army's fresh person to a restive city leaves up to thirty people dead. campaigners in the u.s. strike back against the fact cats of fracking pushing to get drilling sites off their land we bring you stories of their success. you're watching international coming to you live from moscow one pm now here in the russian capital. ukraine southern city of odessa has declared the second of may a day of remembrance scorching to its memory by vicious street clashes and a raging inferno on friday more than forty people were burned beaten or shot to death when radical nationalist a trade union building and. reports people are living in fear of further violence and persecution you may find some of the following footage disturbing. it's not just a building that was set on fire people

we believe the girls are reciting the first of the ka ran.over 200 girls were abducted almost four weeks ago from the school. the leader of the group also speaks in the video. these are apparently some of the girls. about half the girls that were taken. i didn't know whether you could see the output there. families are very keen to see these pictures. i don't know if it's aired yet on television in nigeria or if there's been any family reaction. >> i think it has not yet been aired in nigeria. i think this is the first time it's been aired. i could not see but i could hear the sound. these girls are taught how to site the holy ka ran. i think that's what they've been trying to learn from just the sound you've just played now. i'm sure the families of these girls now will be trying. it's hopeful that at least the girls are alive and the families will be waiting and hoping they can be rescued. >> do we have anymore information as to where they are? we're showing the video. >> at the moment we don't have the information of where the girls are be

the in the middle. the ones tied to named waldo whistleblowers and rivals we can make some new shoes a twitter campaign against its former ally and glenn greenwald coming out find out why three of the big players are looking for holmes over how much information should reveal. we think about why we think there are good. beaches. going to gently swaying in the ocean breeze. and frank. why he has the deep dark little secret the secret the u.s. government would like you can go. through all right. well i did the early church to get all we're going to do is. i. hear washing all seem to national welcome back the un stop official has called for probably into the killing of unarmed palestinian teenagers video footage appeared online showing them on when they were shot and this media was taken during a protest which israeli security forces described as violent local human rights groups report that eyewitnesses saw the troops using live ammunition but israel denies that saying the video was doctored is rated journ

the u.n. says dear of me have violated international agreements using military helicopters with the organizations insignia during the crackdown on anti-government protesters in the latest deadly fighting. the united states considers lifting a decades old ban on exporting oil as its chief competitors contend with the western sanctions crisis and still work. and giving food for the group to european shoppers are left empty handed as the e.u.'s slaps a ban on indian magers. a very warm welcome to you if you've just joined us here on our to international you with me tongue say. the united nations us says it is concerned over the interim ukrainian government's use of military helicopters bearing its signature in military operations they were used during the operation in done yet the region which is defined gives authority and proclaimed independence following a referendum at least six paratroopers were killed in the fighting in the city of comma tosk with casualties also reported among the self def

about the deconditioning of the one boat for the reasons i've stated we recommend you approve the $706 million federal grant and we recommend you approve the contract workplace the city and the companies vigor fab to purchase the fire boat not to exceed the $11 million plus. >> thank you mr. rose. >> supervisor breed comments. >> i have a question for clarification. so since the port is technically responsible for maintaining the boat is that why operating through won't be additional operating expenditures for this new boat. i'm trying to understand why there won't be >> you're correct the port is responsible for the maintenance of the vessel. >> so they're responsible for the additional operating he expenses in in addition they'll be responsible for any necessary matching grant funds in other words, to pay for building the boat in the first place or will that be from the general fund. >> i'll let mr. co-sponsor so speak about that one. >> just for clarification on your first question with regards to the increasing costs there's not an increase in those costs there could be potentially

the city lacks the coordinations of the plans. each the individual programs will provide a stem tisk approach mriment overlapping city efforts. the program aims to have the stewart's involved as well as the pavement to parks program. while san francisco partnership has the greening of sidewalks and transformation of the parklets the city has yet to develop the systemic plaza outside the jurisdiction. for the plaza program the the appealable the potential at the words warts obey robust proposals to carry out the community support goals and include a scope of work and project letters of support. the plazas program is a program framework it didn't include specific plazas plazas will be adapted on a plaza a i plaza basis and also the program will design robust escalation robust programs to benefit everyone. directing the revenue this is a fundamental part of the program approach the program directs the monies back into the plaza and in addition when possible the revenues generated by the stewards could be directed back to the other pl

the power that the constitution gave this body to get to the truth and be the representatives of the people. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. cummings: we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is ecognized. the gentleman from california has 5 1/2. the gentleman from maryland has 2 1/2 minutes. the gentleman from california is recognized. is is i yield a minute to the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert, who is, in fact, a constitution -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. gohmert: i was struck by the comments by the minority whip instructing us to check the constitution. that really struck me, because i believe i recall him standing up and applauding in this chamber when the president said if congress doesn't do its job, i'll basically do it for them. so someone that would do that doesn't need to be giving lectures on the constitution. we have powers under the constituti

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the dr requesters look at the scale in particular the masking on the north side property line the project sponsor submitted a revised set of plans those included did third floor the top floor light well, from a 20 feet of inches in length the light well will remain at the 27 feet in lethal and have a 5 foot length and the second is the light well will remain the same as according to the project sponsor that will accommodate ann a boomer with a cheer yourself ride bathtub. new things like the speciality guy. and the lighted well remains the same and an additional sheet was provided that's the last package in the set as identified and has a cross section of the proposed light well, i find useful to look at. again, the department recommends that the commission not to take dr and approve the project as originally proposed that concludes my presentation. if you have any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> thank you project sponsor. >> commissioner president wu and commissioner fong and commissioners i'm the project sponsor for the proposed edition at the 1110 ashbury i want to provide

the nypd vs occupy wall street the battleships from the streets to the courts to the sensory mcmillan alleges to have been sexually assaulted by an nypd officer on the sixth month anniversary of occupying twenty twelve the route and the traffic it along. only then do the last four to twenty fourteen after two years of reading the trial a manhattan jury finds mcmillan guilty of second degree assault in a police officer for what she and supporters say was a real response doesn't want to know the jury watched him we need version of the incident the prosecution said the elmo it was intentional to prevent the officer from doing his job as he tried to walk the protester out of the altercation seen mcmillan right now with beads and seven years in prison with something that i sold my eventual perth lawyer she cannot do but the accused him of a sudden it's all my endeavors and to make any sense that it basically is that it was again sentenced to seven years old and is insane. mcclellan says she also suffered a seizure that night and claims to have received multiple cuts and bruises. witnesses

to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable jack reed, a senator from the state of rhode island, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 12:00 stands adjourned until 12:00 legislative work picking up again the week of june 2. more coverage when they have all comes down on c-span2. we will go live to the heritage foundation a panel discussion scheduled on the upcoming presidential elections in ukraine set for this sunday may 25. citizens will vote for the successor to a place be ousted president that fled to russia back in february. topic expected to be discussed include involvement in ukraine, security concerns during the election and policy implications with the u.s.. let's go to the coverage under way right now on c-span2. >>> [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good morning ladies and gentlemen. welcome to the heritage foundation and

development the resolution before you is to authorize the transfer of ownership and the loan for the mayor's office of housing. this property as you may remember it was acquired on november 12th through eminent domain. in may needing an rfp was issued for the property a proposal for the messing mercy heirs was selected as he's winner and plans for 66 unit of housing with one managerial housing. on november 16th, needing we got a loan of $3.2 million to move the project towards construction since is predevelopment loan was accepted we got additional funding from the development program. and we'll apply for the low income multiply housing revenue bonds this summer and secured other permits and about commence in september of this year. 0 originally ocii envisioned gap financing and included this in roster 4b with the property tax fund or otherwise known as rb t f f and that will counted towards the ocii traversing the loans to the successor agency to the mayor's office of housing upon completion on september 17th the california department of finance denied to utilize the fund for this p

and the british decided to join the u.s. led war against the tyrant to help iraqis out. the. the. the. effort it's was taken at the dawn of the iraq war all of it happened at a secret prison which is now being dumped as the u.k.'s. well finally the international criminal court says it's willing to investigate war crime accusations against british troops and will look into around sixty cases of murder and almost two hundred cases of mistreatment of iraqis by the invaders we caught up with a man who saw this with his own eyes well i mean i was the first to stumble upon this abuse of prisoners. as early as march in two thousand and three of the war was just days old and i went into the war camp to deal with another issue and looked into an interrogation facility where i saw approximately forty prisoners and in stress positions and use the use of generators which in my view was being used to literally you're a prisoner you just freshly captured and you're about to be interrogated and someone's got a generator running outside the interrogation facility and you've got a hold on your hea

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china to supply the land of the dragon the with the russian natural gas. could be signed any moment moreover it has been said that the war on signing the contract will be continued during today and tomorrow and shanghai so there's still plenty of time for the signature to be added on this agreement for russia this is a diversification off its energy markets especially in the times when europe was talking about possible sanctions against moscow for china this is a good chance to jump ball from this huge dependency on coal in the industry the dependency which is taking human lives every year is giving severe environmental threat and also some of the biggest cities in china are losing money because of air pollution so clearly this is a win win situation and this is not even the only contract which is which is on the agenda here in shanghai many other deals in all spheres from a response industry to cultural and humanitarian exchanges have been signed as well that is before the presidents of russia and china went to open the traditional military exercise betwe

. >> on the next washington journal the head of the center for politics of the university of virginia talks about political tv ads. he wrote a recent article in political about the more than two and a half billion dollars expected to be spent on ads this year. we will talk about the effectiveness of sanctions as a foreign policy tool. so jennifer de pauley with civic enterprises take your questions about u.s. high-school regelation rates. washington journal is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern peaking join the conversation at facebook and twitter. >> almost 5,000 students and did this year's c-span student can video competition on the most important issue congress should consider in 2014. we talked to the top five winners about the documentary's. >> the mullen where we decided that this was going to be a topic was an article in a local newspaper, the press telegram about how fracking was happening to miles from our house said. it's a national problem. and so we're passionate about the subject. >> food is essential to life, transcends everything. everyone requires it to liv

the headlines from around the globe, the difficult pill to swallow. astrazeneca rejects pfizer's fourth offer. >>> and deutsch shares are down after they take a major stake. >>> and at&t seals its $48.5 meal deal with directv though they face a very long regulatory road. >>> and an optimistic look for ryanair with shares following suit. >> you're watching "worldwide exchange." bringing you business news from around the globe. >>> hello and a warm welcome to the first worldwide exchange of a fresh week here on cnbc. and it's a lot of company news this morning. a lot of it is surrounding the activity of capital heights. we kickoff with astrazeneca who sped up their bid to pfizer. a fourth bid from pfizer rejected this morning. astra said they would take 58 pounds per share. pfizer's offer was 55 pounds a share. astrazeneca's stock was off 14%. there you can see it down 48 pounds. 38 pounds was where we were before we got pfizer on the table. katherine is here to cover this story. so this was their final bid. we went to 55 over the weekend. a stra suppor

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the real cake that is in the german corporate world the likes of basf the yen the chemicals giant siemens the engineering group volkswagen audi best butcher but they told police that concerns over the potential as functions for the sanctions against russia which the statements from some of real big cases in the gym and cole proof lol to all of the saying that the people must agree that it must be the only route to take him to try and find a solution to what's going on in ukraine and its head and that the business will she be allowed to vocal about its own business and then also for the homes of this when you look at the numbers you can see why they have come since the six thousand german companies have involvement in russia over three hundred thousand killed the engine to low light directly form of trades and launch a partnership with russia that would be a lot of jokes to be put at risk should further sanctions be and be put into play. so what kind of echo of a difficult position when she goes to school to brock obama and buttercup functions in the past but they olive now looking like th

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and the reason is because of the size of the area, the terrain and the sheer complexity of the culturend ethnicity, religion and all of that will make it more difficult and more complex. and it's important to put in context that this these under lying factors makes it deal with insurgency and dealing with terrorism and the drive of terrorism is religious beliefs. >> a difficult mission you say but nigeria's military has been essential for peace keeping in africa and sarah leon and why have they struggled to maintain security with its own borders? >> i think it's important to clarify that. the mandate and the mission in a peace keeper scenario is totally different from that that you have in the case of the conflic conflicts raging in nigeria and it was peace keeping, it was a different kind. and i think the reason people are able to appreciate what the military is doing right now is because the group of media particularly social media has made citizens across the world more aware of what is going on. in liberia and syria they were able to bring a resolution to those scenarios at huge co

the last in the past week the word and in the jars what color out of the last one is because they have similar colors to st george at ravens worn by many anti government activists in ukraine and in six has since become a derogatory term for those calling the interim government a jaunt up and is being used widely by the frailty of crowds. most go on. i've yet found one here. he uses it for the colorado fields. i find any new screenshots winds taiwan has been turned to chris. it's even more repugnant eventually get things like this target it appeared on the line. this page or on the russian ukraine quill into facebook referring to the data has shown tree. it means barbecued meat that sparked a widespread outbreak in poultry science. perhaps the most horrifying example is this whether post purely featuring a pregnant woman strangled with a power cord george if i needed and some spontaneous her body. is a phrase glory to the ukraine political signs in history scholar needed to be honorable means it's all part of an effort to humanize the opposition. i never saw such high numbers of dreamy

it's the wrong policy to pass on the debts to the future generations. for, i would have this amendment to offer is accepted by repealing the provisions of the 199 to pay for this come and i think everybody agrees that it's an important bill and it should be paid for, and this is a small cost of making sure that it's done, not only the right policy, but the right fiscal policy as well and i would ask for the committees support of this investment. >> does the gentle men insist on the point of order? spinet i would make a point of order on the amendment because it is not germane. the amendment violates the 16 and 17 because of the domestic manufacturing deductions featured in the great oil companies is not of the same subject matter as the substitute. >> does the gentleman from california which to speak on the germane? spinet ibb that is germane and if it is the issue that is not, i would ask for a vote on that. >> the amendment is not germane in the nature of a substitute because it violates 16 and 17 by including the subject matter it isn't the same as t

i think one of the keys of the solution is to take the russian minority in the east of the ukraine take them seriously european union to date should take two steps back and also russia should do the same and i hope that will be peaceful outcome that way you're talking about discoloration and staying out of ukraine's affairs say do you think that you shouldn't help ukraine right now in its current mass. well you know the european union is responsible for the mess like i said when they said last november they promised the ukraine some kind of pre exception treaty is kind of membership this was very irresponsible and i believe you are of a small thinking about itself and expanding its its territory really was thinking about the whole of the ukraine let alone the stability in that region and the stability in that region is not served by russia on the one hand and the european union all nato on the other hand i mean it's only getting more attention so it's very irresponsible what europe did what i would hope once again is that it would deescalate that russia would they could do steps back th

the u.s. is emphasizing that the nigerians are taking the lead, the u.s. providing commercial satellite imagery. a team of 30 americans was assigned to work on this and they include state department officials, pentagon planners and the state department says they are combing over that video to look for clues for the girls'. >> turning to ukraine now, what has been the u.s. response to the referendum vote in those cities over the weekend? >> the white house is not recognizing the election results, calling it an illegal wrench did you mean, saying it's illegal under ukrainian law. the white house said it's an attempt to further create division and disorder. they are also disappointed that russia didn't play a bigger role in trying to stop that vote from happening. >> secretary of state john kerry meeting with palestinian president abas in london. >> while palestinian officials told the news agency a.s.p. that abas would like to address the failed peace talks and drill down into that conversation, the u.s. is down playing the significance of this meeting. they

the details subsequent to the design with approval the planning department and the public works and the municipal transportation agency will be involved it will be located on the public right-of-way you outreach was extensive and the plan begin in 2001 and was lead by the western transmission planners they conducted and also involves a robust public outreach and public comment process they consulted the task force on a regular basis and the transportation authority and can speak open the extensive outreach of the plan. the eastern neighborhood advisory committee the cac revised 3 different meetings different information and it was approved supporting the improvements a waiver important $8.1 million it was held. improvements will be maintained by a combination of the project sponsor and the city. the proposed improvements will consist of public works materials such road pavements materials. the project sponsor will maintain the non city schaip my street lighting from the version of the puc. as stated before wiggle alley and the transportation plan that was heaving - had input from the co