with twenty four hours a day so russia has been finally granted access to the world trade organization after almost twenty years of thorny negotiations a commission in geneva has finalized overall terms for the long awaited membership which will happen in december artie's laura smith was there. there's a document in circulation which is the all the terms and conditions it weighs three and a half kilos and it amounts to some seven hundred pages now i haven't had time to read the whole thing and i doubt that i'm in the minority there but i can only imagine that it's full chockablock of painstakingly negotiated compromises which have taken place over that all that amount of time but in fact what the significance is is a question that the chief russian negotiator says that he has been asked repeatedly over the last eighteen years what just what is the point of this and he pointed out during a media conference that took place after the gathering of the documents as they call it here he said that it is true that russia first deployed for membership back in one nine hundred ninety three when

signs sealed and still it crosses access into the world trade organization is finally agreed after eighteen years in the making for me in geneva in just a moment. also this hour an r.t. athens announces the veteran voice president of the european central bank as its new premier sparking indignation on greek streets over the perceived loss of yet more sovereignty to the e.u. . israel may strike iran by the end of december that's according to reports citing british intelligence sources after the findings of the un's atomic watchdog sparked fresh concern over to iran's nuclear program our top stories this hour. international news uncomment live from moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day so russia has been finally granted accession to the world trade organization after almost twenty years of thorny negotiations the commission in geneva has finalized over all terms for the long awaited membership which will happen in december or to your smith was there. there's a document in circulation which is all the terms and conditions it weighs three and a half kilos and it amounts to some seven

the organization reported $7.8 million in expenses. more than half was for fund- raising. how was it that that got -- the fund-raising expenses got so large? >> great question. >> brenda is the president of the board. >> there were a lot of things that went on. >> including, payments to a company owned by the son of the woman who founded the organization. the new ceo is now on board. the organization is committed to a new business plan to fulfill its mission of helping an inch with breast cancer patients. >> it has changed the ocean -- helping uninsured breast cancer patients. >> it has changed the function of this organization. >> they hope to turn around the foundation's most recent trading. charity medical care about you its nonprofits -- navigator of all its nonprofit. the american press cantor foundation earned just one start. >> -- breast cancer foundation earned in jusonejust one star. walter was also tied with a 1 star rating. we saw no sign of anyone. i am jane miller. >> if you have a charity he would like to check on. we have the link on our web site wbaltv.com.

the organized crime requires more than effective law enforcement. to that end, in july the administration announced a cutting edge strategy that for the first time brings all of the resources and tools of the federal government to bear in a coordinated way against transnational criminal groups. one of the centerpieces of the new strategy is a package of the essentials legislative updates designed to ensure that we have the tools we need to confront these evolving threats to read this package includes changes to the money laundering and forfeiture of these to improve the ability to break the financial backbone of criminal organizations. we also seek to modernize our racketeering law yes. and we propose other amendments aimed at addressing the increasing global reach of the organizations. we believe that these legislative proposals will enhance our ability to attack the transnational criminal groups wherever they are to protect the american people from this global threat. thank you for the opportunity to discuss this important issue with you and i am p

they got into the world trade organization. we're always eager to know your view on the story and today we're asking who will benefit most now that russia has to become a member of the world trade organization so let's see how the numbers are stacking up at the moment on screen where the majority still think they'll be no winners as the organization only adds to the big financial mess the world's already in. membership is actually good for russia as little boost its role in the global economy almost the same amount believe moscow succession will play and to be w t o's hands on the remainder think that russia will suffer because it will be unable to cope with the competition party voted ulti dot com good to hear from. greece's announces next prime minister lucas papademos the former vice president of the european central bank will now take over the reins of the embattled country it follows four days of hectic talks between the outgoing pm george papandreou and the main opposition leaders on a new unity government incoming premier

organization and sources here in washington who work with the organization, piers. >> okay. jonathan martin, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> so is herman cain playing the race card or not? joining me is larry elder author of "what's race got to do with it" and ronald kennedy. welcome to both of you. randall kennedy, is herman cain playing the race card or is the race card being played against him here? >> well, to the extent that he has said that one of the reasons that this is coming up is because of race, it seems to me he's using race as a propaganda weapon here. after all, there's no evidence that racism is behind these allegations and typically speaking he seems to be pretty exacting in requiring some evidence before he's willing usually to say that there's racism. two weeks ago he said that race doesn't have much to do in the lives of black americans yet now without any basis for saying so he seems to be claiming that racism is behind these allegations in an attempt it seems to me to, you know, get the attention off of the allegations and on to something else. >>

labour in the 21st century. when organized labor right now is at one at its lowest numerical points of the last 60 years it's about 16 million union of writers in america about 11% of the population we're after world war ii about one-third of all american workers were unionized and as the country becomes more racially and ethnically multi-cultural that when a first century questions about leiber and organized labor relationships with racial and ethnic minorities and the complicated history of the labor unions support for both civil rights and some labor unions restrictions against black workers it's important to think that we talk about complicated and complex history. so my forthcoming book which is entitled a movement grows in brooklyn for racial equality and the civil rights movement in brooklyn new york it married to the efforts of the interracial group of activists who fought against racial discrimination in housing employment, public schools and municipal services. during campaigns the open jobs for the black and puerto

the organization -- the pier safe committee meets every month. they have pulled people for a lot of reasons but especially with disaster preparedness and that's been helping us out as part of it. communication was key. we started a fishnet radio program every tuesday when you hear the sirens go off at noon, 20 of our properties across the wharf do a radio check with our organization to make sure that they're checking in and we report on that monthly to find out who is and who isn't checking in. it serves as a great reminder. things obviously change and people switch within organizations so if we see that an organization is not checking in we double back with them to find out what's going on and make sure we can have them as part of it. the emergency preparedness group also works on a drill every year, and we just had our drill this last friday in partnership with the san francisco fire department, the department of emergency management, first 72 hours. we had a drill so the community members that live near the wharf as well as the businesses and

they got into the world trade organization. lucas papademos has been announced as the new greek prime minister a well known technocrat the former vice president of the european central bank will now take the reins of his embattled country this follows four days of hectic talks between the outgoing prime minister george papandreou when the main opposition leaders on a new unity government the incoming premier a staunch e.u. backer and his new administration are set to be sworn in friday with the immediate and tricky task of introducing more austerity in return for continued ballots political analyst peter iyer believes the. nature of the crisis though is being hidden from public view. we have to turn the clock back to the original collapse of the world economy because this was no accident it was a very well planned exercise and as we know ireland became a victim portugal and now greece and apparently spain and italy are likely to follow it really doesn't matter who's in power there are people there to control in this situation an

organization in many very interesting things. one of which was to intentionally refrained from engaging in major planning for the future of the organization. rosemary and i stepped in on october 4 with no plan in place for the future. and that was intentional in order to allow the new leadership to take a lead role in designing the plan for the future the organization. we're getting under way in network map. the initial part will involve members of the board and me connecting individual and every is with each of you together your input around the ideal partnership between recreation and parks department and commission and the san francisco parks alliance. we look forward to meeting with you individually over the next several weeks to gather input and map out our plan for the future. commissioner buell: great. i should also knowledge that the organization, i thought, did the right thing and keeping the advocacy role a prominent place, and we have the head of the advocacy part here which is so important to that effort. nice to see you continue in that. that concludes my report. >> is there any public comment on the president's report? in be

the operational costs that is what it costs to organize the games for a period of a month he said two billion us dollars this is the same sum as vancouver this is the same service to the notion of the operational cost do not or member. of your original cost are funded by local sponsorship by picket sales but also by support of the international olympic committee the organizing committee. makes a difference is the fact that in some countries you need to build from scratch everything this is the case in sochi be first this is a new sport resort in vancouver we had just to upgrade the existing winter sports is old but that makes a difference but you cannot count this cost as being done for during the games and the weeks of competition this is going to leave a great legacy to the country you will have in sochi the russian federation a state of the winter sports resort region something that did not exist before it will have an average rate of the of the airport that would benefit for the population we would have new roads a new pros history a new sewage system so it's not just a game it is

we both joined the organization and as far as part of the activities. i have gone to three meetings. gosh his commitment to patients. and i am also looking forward to -- not the way i can be part of that. and along with the rest of the patient advocates of the committee. >> by name is michael goldman, i have had the privilege to serve for the last year. they have been very active participants in that committee and have been very constructive. i very strongly recommend both of them to be appointed. as far as the qualifications for the other individuals, i don't think i have seen either of them attending any patient advocacy committee meeting as a member of the public. and i like you to encourage those people that have been very constructive. >> i would like to thank you for letting me speak, first of all. second of all, why think he is very well qualified in taking this position on the medical taskforce. he has put many long hours in different projects and the medical cannabis issue. as far as he goes, he is very well qualified. basically, how they survi

the organizing committee is set up to ratify or men committee recommendations. so each of the committees, when they have a recommendation, but the organizing committee seeking their ratification of that or modification. when it came to planning staff technical assistance, i do not know what it is about me or the department -- i know the department has a very high standing in the minds of many young people going through school, studying these programs. but i seem particularly blessed with the sort of interns that my projects seem to attract. for doing things like updating retail sales information since 2008, which 2007 was the last date in which the japantown neighborhoods plan, was fortunate enough to have an intern that was finishing up her master's at pratt, come in and update the sales information at the request of the community. i was also fortunate enough to find and in turn by the name of jonathan yee. this was through a round of golf was playing monday. i met his father, and he said his son was interested in an internship. and jonathan, who graduated from

by local people the games are not organized by the international olympic committee we supervise we advise how we should both financially but the whole the whole identity is made by the local organizing committee look at. the summer games in athens this was the identity of coming back to the civilian piece of the recessing friend after friend to get into the game. beijing identity was the most populous country in the world. will be the city that has invented modern sport because football and many other sports were invented in england so the identity will be something very local always as sochi would have its own identity if you think about in your own words what makes sochi so special for ireland thanks. a lot of special things definitely it will represent the winter aspect of your climate and your country of course in the summer it's not the case that russia has been invented fight with snow and ice and winter i mean. the even you history with spade a major role in conflicts and wars so too will definitely be also the unique combination of beautiful see the black sea and the mou

the world trade organization. overcome that moscow is almost certain to get an official next month after almost two decades of. happy with rising tuition fees riot squads. police. hundreds of students. push for fresh sanctions against iran following the latest report on its alleged nuclear ambitions russia has rejected.

is that proportion also reflected in the executive organization? >> it actually is, although it is more because we are the fiscal agent that we tend to have more employees in the executive organization. the general manager is a san francisco employee. we hired him in august. for a long time, he was a senior employee at the assessors office, and he has great expertise in executive management, financial management, and personal management. we insisted on that because we are the fiscal agent. we want one of our city employees to be the fiscal manager since our city manager is legally responsible for these funds. we think that has been for the good of san francisco. i would say at least half of the employees on staff over there are from san francisco. there are others from other cities as well. supervisor mirkarimi: what can we look forward to? a lot of this is about preparation, being ready, being alert. what i emergency preparedness for man-made or natural disasters, what have you, can we look forward to in the next year? i know there's always drills.

backer style deal with the difficult task of organize. and you covered and preventing a greek default with a dawning realisation in the e.u. that greece may have already gone too far but let iran artie's it max keiser and stacy herbert for their own uncensored take on the situation we're playing the kaiser report all day here on out. here the fifty euro brawl sort of the currency all of your fifty euro toilet paper currency will soon be about as valuable as this toilet paper so this is all available nightly printed up in this beautiful display case that you can show in your house and tell your kids all about what happened in europe. right about the life from moscow desk but get back to one of our top stories here that of the soon to be accession of russia to the world trade organization to discuss that we are joined by dr alexander lipman a frankfurt based on the press or political international economics thank you for coming on the program today we've been asking our viewers for the past few hours about who will benefit most once russia g

breaking news on the commission in geneva fully clears the way for russia to finally enter the world trade organization it comes after almost two decades of trying also. student protesters in california unhappy with rising tuition fees i met with the riot police brutally wielding their batons. western powers push for fresh sanctions against iran following the latest report on his alleged nuclear ambitions but russia rejects the idea as counterproductive. and are to use a close up team travels to the black sea coast to discover how the local products are being made and why getting them onto the dinner table is proving so difficult. global news live from moscow city center this is r.t. with me. first to our breaking news for you this hour the commission in geneva has now cleared all the remaining hurdles for moscow's long awaited membership to the world trade organization laura smith has been following developments for us in geneva we will be crossing a life shortly here but. all right while i while some businesses are celebrating the accession others are preparing for a tough period of transition. has m

to the world trade organization after nearly twenty years of thorny negotiations a commission in geneva has finally finalized overall terms for the long awaited membership which should happen now in december r.t. said laura smith now reports from switzerland. today's really been historic moment we've seen this big working group we walked into the room earlier on today to watch these final negotiations taking place there representatives from all hundred fifty three current members of the world trade organization and it resulted in them bringing down the gavel quite literally on the documents that were approved russia's accession to the world trade organization then chief russia's chief negotiator maxime made was actually quite entertaining speech about what's a long process this is being he talked about the ups and downs the dramas and even the comedies of this process and he said at the end actually russia is not fully satisfied with this deal but his main geneva lesson that he's learnt is that it's no one's really happy with a deal that it means that deal is fair as far as what happens

dot com the majority think there will be no winner this is the organization only adds to the big financial mess the world are ready and almost a quarter say that w t o membership is actually good for russia as it will boost its role in the global economy finally have its equal between those who believe that moscow's accession will play into the w t o's hands the russia will suffer because it will be unable to cope with the competition i do take a moment i cast your vote at our team dot com. there'll be more news and opinion on this topic throughout the day right here on r.t. plus our business team is also keeping a close eye on the story. yes story the business team is following this story closely we managed to talk to some of the acts first and most of them agree that russia's membership in the w t o will open new markets for russian goods it will also boost the despite foreign investment into the country well joining the student about fifteen minutes time to find out which western western business is. he with r.t. live from moscow now the italian government is approaching on panic after

do you not keep track of the veterans' organizations that help the veterans? host: the list i was showing you was from a called the christian science monitor" so it was not our list, but ahead. caller: i'd done it to several different veterans' organizations and i get -- i am donates to a lot of different veterans' organizations, and i get things to the mail, and ultimately my name and address and get sold to other organizations. some of them i tried to discourage them by sending back their request with a note to take my name off of their list. host: let's take that point. is that legal? guest: as soon as you say you do not want to be on the list the charity has to take you off. most nonprofits do not want to waste their money sending you things you do not want. one successful way that nonprofits raise money is through direct mail donations, even though on mind giving has become popular. -- of mind giving has become popular. host: modesto, california. i rain. caller: my concern is the churches. they have gotten so big. do you check on the churches and the way

the central union mission. they get food from 40 organizations. go to our website. ick on the link of your choice and let's just help folks out before we get in the  crunch time. that's it from northwest at the mission. we'll send it back to the studio. lesli. >> topper, obviously need knows no season. you spend every other friday in that very kitchen. >> food server. >> giving back. >> giving back, doing what we have to do as topper said, doing some great work. they do great work down there. >> absolutely. let's talk a little sports. >> they need to do some great work and get it together. >> redskins have to do some work. they are another team struggling and the coach has some explaning to do. where has all the winning gone? sports is next. >>> about a week ago, some dumbny sat here and pondered, what if the caps go undefeated? it was really me. the caps did look good last week. they since returned from the canadian west where they lost with too many penalties. 8 minutes more of playing with a man disadvantage. in hockey, that means you lose, and they did. >> we ha

the local power in the grassroots organizers about the test order for the part of the work. grassroots organizers, you can just cut a little bit on where that is at, because there is a commitment very much for that. the task order will give us the full scope of work. and i want to reiterate the full scope of work. we don't need a little of the work for the task order. we need to make sure that local power -- of the work that is being done will be commissioned by the end of this month. if you can touch on that, thank you. once you have stepped in to this process, that is when it started working. i don't want to make it seem like i am on you, i just want an update. >> next item will be communications. if any commissioner has any matters related, now would be the time to look up. we have a speaker card related to the item. there is some public comment. >> can we hear from item 5c2? >> assistant general manager for power. following up on questions we have received from commissioner vietor, a memo on the project. the partnership project with the ports. in the development of the am

to the world trade organization after almost twenty years of thorny negotiations a commission in geneva has finalized overall terms for the long awaited membership which will happen in december laura smith now joining us live from geneva let's get more details from her good to see you laura so joining the dots you know it's been a long and tough task for russia just how significant is today's news for the country. well i mean it is significant even if we only look at the huge amount of time that it's taken for this to happen eighteen years as you say there's a document in circulation which is the all the terms and conditions it weighs three and a half kilos and it amounts to some seven hundred pages now i haven't had time to read the whole thing and i doubt that i'm in the minority there but one can only imagine that it's full chockablock of painstakingly negotiated compromises which have taken place over that all that amount of time but in fact what the significance is is a question that the chief russian negotiator says that he has been asked repeatedly over the last eighteen years wh