it is akin to attitude of the p.w. -- the can-do attitude of dpw. in everything that we're doing, there's a positive result if we all work together. that is the message here. if i can add to this, two things. i want to continue thinking our san francisco general hospital foundation. as this building goes up, there'll have to be a lot of expensive equipment that goes in there. judy has a wonderful team and all the board members are here, to fill it with the most modern, lifesaving equipment, the greenest technology there is to make the best hospital so we take pride in that. why? because it is for these kids. they are going to be the future doctors, the future nurses, the future hospitals administrators. is all for you that we are doing this. because it with this team effort the promise was made, the promise with our board of supervisors was made a couple years back. we promised to create the best hospital. hopefully, for all of our future kids so they can work get it, they can be there to be part of a wonderful community that is san francisco. that

but due to successive years of budget cuts, the p.w. is not able to perform the maintenance required on these trees. the industry standard is three to five years so unfortunately, the department has been failing in our responsibility to maintain the streets. two-thirds of property owners have maintenance responsibility for their trees. for those property owners, they have basically been getting the benefit of this city performing that work for them. already two-thirds of property owners have that maintenance responsibility. dtw is actively looking for alternatives to this program and with the planning department, we have a study looking at financing strategy and it would be our preference to be responsible for maintaining all of the trees in the city and identifying new locations and have a robust tree maintenance program. but unless and until we have long-term financing in place, the department cannot continue to do it. >> here we are, going to be approving green tree planting, $1.1 million with the funds requested. we are planting tree

because everyone is this cousin how it could impact russia's reform agenda and earlier we spoke to the point p.w. see partner david gray and he told us this is a not the case. and it seems that we are having some technical difficulties will have that sound for you later on but now let's take a look at the markets also very important to gauge what the situation is like if we can start with europe of course all eyes are there right now we see it's a mixed picture and that's because what we're seeing is investors reacting to weak manufacturing data coming out from china and also of course the u.s. federal reserve gave some disappointment to ours and i came on a wednesday because basically everyone was expecting to hear about quantitative easing which it did not happen what they're doing they are expanding operation twist the government's current bond buying program and they're extending that by two hundred sixty seven billion u.s. dollars or if we move on to russia a similar picture here also the markets are max the r.t.s. is dropping almost half a percent there and the my sex is adding around the

get up to the it's a million percent which we have the potential to treat all right very optimistic view there from david gray managing partner with p.w. c. russia thank you very much for that all right well join me of course in the coming hours we'll be keeping you up to date with with the latest analysis with the a look ahead into letting a person ski address out of course we'll have that key speech live on sea as it happens absolutely thanks very much indeed for bringing us the mood from the vibrant agenda of the economic forum there is mr medvedev reporting and in just a few moments i'll be back with had lines followed by the latest edition of our kaiser report. wealthy british style but. it's no time to write something. like that. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy. max kaiser for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on our.

apparently sitting at a bar that was notorious at the time called p.w.' got this from a co-owner of the bar, neighbor of mine, bill lacey, vietnam war vet and hero was in the dmz for a number of years and leading a platoon there and bill was with his brother and another fellow rick stewart, owned p.w.'s restaurant right there on the same street as the palm here in washington. and he told me the story years ago, but he didn't want me to write it until a couple months ago. i said look, the 40th anniversary of watergate is coming up, let me write the story and he finally agreed to let me write the story about how the cop that was assigned to that squad car 80, assigned to that patrol area which included the watergate hotel, was getting drunk at a bar at about 2:00 in the morning. he couldn't respond. so he called the dispatcher back and said look, i can't -- look i'm low on gas is what he said and so then they called the backups who were the three undercover cops, they show up at the watergate plain clothes in 1972 ford sedan, and the spotter across the stre

because how they see is affecting the russian economy and many fear that the could why are russia's were form agenda so we spoke to p.w. c's managing partner david gray he told business also that it's not the case. troubles in europe and the uncertainty that that generates does give you pause for thought in terms of exactly when you toil the process of reducing the role of the state privatizing some of the businesses reducing the role of the state more generally in terms of its share of the g.d.p. but i don't think that should distract us i think it's very important that we see a government that's committed to that as a process because that will send a very positive signal to the markets about reform in general in russia and about their for the long term economic prospects of the country. we're going to be out before i'm old a law you can check out the details on the website business all t. in the meantime let's have a look at the markets we start with the last two months and see that the still the corning in a bit of a disappointing day as you can see the r.t.s. there one point three percent down of the my things aro

eurozone debt crisis could have on the russian economy many analysts have said that this could actually weigh quite heavily on russia's reform agenda but we spoke to p.w. c. managing partner david gray and he said that's definitely not the case troubles in europe and the uncertainty that that generates does give you pause for thought in terms of exactly when you toil the process of reducing the role of the state privatizing some of the businesses reducing the role of the state more generally in terms of its share of the g.d.p. but i don't think that should distract us i think it's very important that we see a government that's committed to that as a process because i will send a very positive signal to the markets of arab reform in general in russia and about their for the long term economic prospects of the country. and staying with the euro zone issues were of course know that spain recently asked for one hundred billion euro bailout to secure and help support its banking system well would be talking to k p m g international represents their michael andrew and he said while some say it's way too much he said it's not enough actually. what's not well

analysts are talking about and how it could affect the russian economy and what many fear that it will be a burden on russia's reform agenda we've been talking to p.w. c. managing partner david gray and he said that's not the case. troubles in europe and the uncertainty that generates does give you pause for thought in terms of exactly when you talk the process of reducing the role of the state privatizing some of the businesses reducing the role of the state more generally in terms of. the g.d.p. but i don't think that should distract us i think it's very important that we see a government that's committed to the process because that will serve a very positive signal to the markets of reform in general in russia and about the for the long term economic prospects of recovery. let's take a look at some international markets we'll start with a yes which is the only one trader right now and it's plunging into red territory we can see down losing almost two percent and already heading towards two and a half percent in the red and that's after disappointing comments made by the u.s. federal reserve to look at how europe performed earlier in the day it's