did the union kill the herald tribune? 40 years, united auto worker presidents walter reuther, leonard woodcock, and douglas fraser won higher pay for their members. why in 1979 would fraser agree to take less? employers and labor unions, like buyers and sellers, try to make the best deal for themselves. labor and management: how do they come to terms? with economic analyst richard gill, we'll examine that question on this edition of economics usa. i'm david schoumacher. fewer than 1/3 of american workers are covered by union contract. but organized labor's strength at the economy's pressure points-- the big smokestack industries, the arteries of transportation and communication-- make them a force to be reckoned with. for more than 75 years, labor unions have been a fact of american economic le. how d they get power? we are childn of immignts. the largest number came here around the turn of the century. millions, most of them jewish or italian, unskilled and uneducated, settled in new york city's crowded tenements. what ki

he wants the union to take chattanooga. and you know, from our perspective, this doesn't seem necessarily that critical, but when you think about it in the context of the civil war, particularly in 1862, it is a big deal. look at a map of the confederacy, and if you think about the rail net for the confederacy, there is one east-west rail connection at this time in the confederacy. it runs through chattanooga. also, if you want to get into the deep south, into georgia, into the carolinas, where you can gut the confederate logistics and hammer confederate morale, you've got to go through chattanooga, because you've got to have that route into the deep south so you can keep your own army supplied, at least to a point. so, mcclellan is thinking about the big picture here. he's thinking about what it takes to win the war. and at this point in what becomes very soon april of 1862, the union has troops two days' march from chattanooga, within striking distance of this city. now, again, mcclellan in march of 1862 he's implementing

from vice joining the customs union john it what you know can you tell our viewers what the european union was actually offering ukraine if i remember correctly one point six billion euros over a seven year period only if the i.m.f. agrees to previous agreements with ukraine i mean if i think again you don't have to be a eunuch overture you shanker or even mickey mouse in kiev to say hey that's a great deal because it's not. that's right and the fact is the european union doesn't have money to hand out ukraine needs an awful lot of money and everyone knows that the european union and its member states are broke they have debt up to their eyeballs and they can't afford to pay their own bills let alone other peoples but you ask me what is the european union offering it's a very good question and a very important one because people as you say in the media have presented ukraine's choice as between east and west as if ukraine was a donkey between two equal bales of hay the fact is that the agreement that the european union is proposing and that's why i called it geo political earlier is

i don't even think that that is what the european union wants out of the ukraine the euro korean the european union has plenty of cheap unskilled uneducated labor flooding its markets and countries which are bringing nationalist backlash in europe and other countries and it doesn't the ukraine doesn't present that big of a market for its goods as john mentioned earlier the only reason the european union is interested in this deal with the ukrainians is not because of integrating ukraine it's not because of out of concern for the ukrainian people or any shared values which are vastly different between the two but it's about denying russia a geopolitical piece that would see russia's customs union and eurasian union right folks i have to jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on ukraine stay with our team. a. very. happy that. we are here. please. please. please keep the peace. and. i would rather ask questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find my show larry ki

i don't even think that that is what the european union wants out of the ukraine the euro korean the european union has plenty of cheap unskilled uneducated labor flooding its markets and countries which are bringing nationalist backlash to in europe and other countries and it doesn't the ukraine doesn't present that big of a market for its goods as john mentioned earlier the only reason the european union is interested in this deal with the ukrainians is not because of integrating ukraine it's not because of out of concern for the ukrainian people or any shared values which are vastly different between the two but it's about denying russia a geopolitical piece that would see russia's customs union and eurasian union right folks i have to jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on ukraine state authority. in iraq and afghanistan war it was much easier to do so well and you always work with a ground crew i might be following a convoy came under attack i would work directly with the ground controller he would tell us where

i don't even think that that is what the european union wants out of the ukraine the euro korean the european union has plenty of cheap unskilled uneducated labor flooding its markets and countries which are bringing nationalist backlash in europe and other countries and it doesn't the ukraine doesn't present that big of a market for its goods as john mentioned earlier the only reason the european union is interested in this deal with the ukraine is is not because of integrating ukraine it's not because of out of concern for the ukrainian people or any shared values which are vastly different between the two but it's about denying russia a geopolitical piece that would see russia's customs union and eurasian union right folks i have to jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on ukraine stay with r.t. . this is one thing that i still can't understand it and i don't want to good. but i have this one question with doing this all for you that you had everything they respect and so that you give them all up in the senate to g

is very very keen to try and make sure that everybody realizes that the european union has been bending over backwards but at the same time frankly the deal wasn't that great i mean the president of ukraine mr geller coverture arrived last night and described it as being little more than something in a sweet wrapper there was only a few hundred million euros potentially on offer at a time when it's well known that for the past year ukraine has been negotiating for a line of credit to the tune of fifteen billion euros with the international monetary fund so therefore this really was an aspirin to cure an appendicitis and it's interesting because the president of the euro commission touched on russia's proposal of joining talks on the deal and let's listen together to what he had to say. for a bilateral agreement between dupion union and crane there should be no trilateral format the times of limited sovereignty are over in europe so patrick what do you make of that. well i think it's an absolutely remarkable statement i mean mr barroso is telling us that the times of limited sove

politician and obviously we seek withdrawal from the european union if the ukraine join the european union obviously they would have free movement within the european union and here in britain we say that is just wrong we would like to see a points based system in terms of migrants people who are who skills we require your skills we need please come here and work but in terms of free movement the european citizens we say that is wrong we are an island nation we haven't got the infrastructure to support that so as far as we're concerned we would like to say no to the ukraine and no to turkey who i'm sure david cameron and mr gross i would love to say next in line is a member of the european union just briefly the european commission president is blamed moscow for sinking this deal and it's all about politics as it rather economics this whole situation and indeed the idea that the e.u. has ambitions to expand eastwards what's the matter with. you know how dare he actually impugn anything against russia in my opinion we have heard david cameron state that he would like to see european un

the founders believed in a perpetual union. e capacity of citizen soldiers represent a democracy to the conscripts and dukes of an autocratic society. the downfall of the confederacy on bird in the south slavery, and institution imports while civilized people not brought up under it as graham put it. now the way was open for the unions eat those of moral and material progress and the white southerners to the distant brought from serb serbians slaveholding class how great saw it. grievously the surrender terms what he said the political conversion of the defeated confederate to a creed of democratic self-government of freedom. great did not believe lee and his men to be blameless. he describes the session is a sin in a crime, but he believed for everything there must be achieved atonement and his mercy again was designed to affect that atonement. grant made no concession to the confederates are copperhead fitness terms. his generosity was the generosity of a conqueror whose the jury was total. grimsby of the surrenders in triumph

the union victory in glee's eyes was one of might overwrite. and grants you the surrender was in essence a negotiation. he could be merciful precisely because was rendered utterly powerless and discredited. grant's terms were designed to affect the federal submission and atonement. for grant the union victory was one of right over wrong in the piece was contention on on the south good behavior. these competing visions would exert a profound influence over post-war politics eniac grant and lee did not craft the surrender terms in isolation for is the appomattox drama unfolded their countrymen and women invested the surrender with their own agendas and aspirations and dreams and the streams dreams included the dream of freedom itself or in the eyes of african-american soldiers and former slaves more than the union had been vindicated that april day. lee's surrender was for them a freedom day the promise of emancipation was finally fulfilled. i will propose three distinct understandings of the surrender as a moment of frustration. this is the confe

is this about workers interests or about the unions interests? >> it's about union survival. the average worker hasn't really seen their wages or benefits go up. for several decades adjusting for inflation. they don't really feel for the worker that's in a union that has good benefits and relatively high wages. they're not gaining support from the public and therefore not from politicians as much as they want. the lower workers is an area where it looks like they're working crazy hours, low pay, low benefits, you might get some public support. but the problem they're going to run into -- it's not like some evil head of a company that's profiting from people. consumers want to shop this way and they want these stores open around the clock and they like low prices at walmart. that's what workers have to get paid and how hard they have to work to deliver that to the consumer so the union might not getting the backing from the public they think they're going to get on this. >> why do you think when walmart opens up and wants to hire 100 people there's 1,000 people waiting in line?

and member of the european union or at least associated member of the european union as associated member of the race i think the commission's enormous political scientists well the technical staff to be done should work on this kind of model and i think the chief and after all the view was i think that russia and ukraine they both want to be european countries the problem is that the european union has norms and standards which still it allows countries to become part of europe soon but maybe in us in the next ten years or the station will change inside the european union the european union will always understand that it needs russia it needs a new bill russia needs by the way also kazakhstan the european eurasian union to challenge. the real dangers of the future alexander for a final quick twenty thirty seconds answer from you she think she will sweeten the deal a tall craigs prime minister said the reason i didn't sign was because they want to know if incentives do you think there will be more incentives forthcoming it's difficult to imagine that the european union will pay for

trophies to the union army as he put it. many of these white officers and comrades share the conviction that the role in the last battle had indecisive. the cauvery recounted the scene for his mother and sisters in a letter. the morning of the night came to the cauvery was being pushed back rapidly towards the station. the boys were fine, scores of them. over the hill a dark column was spied coming down the road to quicktime. what a relief from the office spent. the colored race of those men so long as they brought relief to espey saw courage and determination in the polls like faces. moreover, african-american troops understood themselves to be an army of liberation whose defeat of flavors that nailed the coffin the coffin of slavery itself. abundant evidence exists that slaves sought appomattox is a freedom day. it was the very moment of emancipation, the moment the fact to the lincoln's proclamation had long since been passed. virginia saves for the first year the tidings of the surrender of thought on this against a defen

the european union. at the center in the philly on their part in all of these issues the things they did they lose track of something to be overestimate their chances i'm thinking now is they see this play at. it's the only sane than any city or peanuts it was always the kind of a political move to sydney and tracy's kind she said this is studying in the middle the middle somewhere. an ac say that by not answering some of the christmas it's to be honest i still dun understand some of the things that not the same way interesting i don't know is that in the recent incident in an analysis they came back and since these fears that the many uses and i can do with it. don and i think that would've been a bad year steadied see in the face of russian goalie much non existant i made it into an argument that saying we had known and unknown in the midst of a crier. oh yes it's that adding whatever that could've been. you can keep your ration market and it's not this is germany doesn't read this fashion science is sc

will the union go for it? the bart board district is asking union negotiators to come back to renegotiate a provision they approved. it could send bart and rueters back into -- riders back into chaos. >> i encourage you not to take the bay area hostage again as was done prior, i encourage you to do your duty to the members that work here. >> the board of directors got an earful from union members concerned the board is considering rejecting the agreement that they reached a month ago. all you got is buyers remorse, you bought it and now you don't want to keep it. there's no returning over here. you must stand by what you have done. >> at issue is a provision in the tenthive agreement allowing members to take six weeks of paid medical leave if someone is severely ill. they signed off on the provision during negotiations. >> it's signed by three agents for the district. >> now the bart district said signing off on the paid family leave provision was done in error. >> this was prepared in mid- july, signed in augu

he spoke of the space race evolving into joint exploration with the soviet union. >>> mr. president, as one who has taken some interest in the election of presidents i want to congratulation you on your election to this high office. mr. secretary general, delegates, ladies and gentlemen we meet again in the quest for peace. 24 whos ago when i last had the honor of addressing this body the shadow of fear lay darkly across the world. the freedom of west berlin, wars in mediate peril, agreement seemed remote, the mandate of the units in the congo was under fire. hold back the darkness today the clouds have lifted a little. so that new rays of hope can break through. the pressures on west berlin appear to be eased. unity in the congo has largely been restored. the integrity of the united nations secretariat has been reaffirmed. a decade of development is underway and for the first time in 17 years of effort, a specific step has been taken to limit the nuclear arms race. i refer of course to the treaty to ban nuclear tests in the atmosphere, outer space and under water. conclude

the question is whether the european union is capable of accepting a member is a having such a potential but having having such a financial needs as ukraine and secondly with the population of a creator has a clear preference for the european union because without paying tribute to self-determination we cannot solve that problem and for the time being this is a process which is going on it's a process within ukraine and we are observers to all that russia is part of you look to create is part of europe sherman is part of it so let us take the time to build a robot but in theory if if some sort of deal emerged before friday for instance could the e.u. afford to forge closer ties with ukraine it would cost a heck of a lot of money could they afford it. well again my answer is crystal clear the question of how much an entry of ukraine will cost so the fiscal impact is not at all on the agenda and nobody can quantify that for the time being because before such an entry becomes effective you have the years of negotiations and years of an adaptation and adjustment process. take a loo

why do the unions get the tax break the rest of the american people don't get?obody is covering this story. >> exactly. they call these cadillac plans during the debate about obama care. the plans provide for hair plugs, free viagra, just about anything you want. the only thing they don't provide for is being picked up from your house in a cadillac and driven to your doctor. they are so expensive every employer is looking at the union saying the plans will put us out of business. where are you then? they have to dump their employees into the exchanges. it's hard to explain how angry they were at the administration. we have never seen the unions come out so hard against president obama until they had what went from a cold war to a hot war. now he's buying their silence with a $600 million payback. we had the corn husker pay theback, the louisiana purchase, the i will call this the big labor bailout. >> the unions made a raw political argument that they helped president obama pass the law and they deserve to be taken care of. apparently their argument prevailed. q

we believe the soviet union also has these especial responsibilities. and those require our two nations to concentrate lesson our differences and more on the means of resolving them peacefully. for too long both of us have increased our military budgets, nuclear stockpiles and our capacity to destroy all life on this hemisphere. human, animal, vegetable, without corresponding increase in our security. our conflicts to be sure are real. our concepts of the world are different. no service is performed by failing to make clear our disagreements. the central difference is the self determination for all people. we believe that the people of germany and berlin must be free to reunite and free to secure the fruits of the revolution that have been betrayed from within and exploited from out. section of freedom. our determination to safeguard that freedom will measure up to any threat or challenge. but i would say to the leaders of the soviet union and to their people if either of our countries is to be fully secure, we need a much better weapon than the h bomb,

. >>> the bart board today approved most but not all of that new contract with its unions. they are attempting to dodge a generous family leave section they don't want to pay for. our da lin is live in oakland with how the tactic is going over with the unions. da. >> reporter: well, liz, after six months of negotiations and two strikes, there is still no contract. what's worse, those two unions are even more worked up and fired up after the vote that was given by the board today. instead of voting on the contract, the unions had ratified -- >> i will support it. >> reporter: the bart board of directors voted to accept a contract that leaves out the paid family leave provisions. >> this is a fair and equitable contract for our employees in my opinion. it's affordable and sustainable for our riders. >> reporter: the unions are furious calling it unfair labor practice because bart management previously signed off on the tentative agreement that includes six weeks of paid leave for union workers. bart management says it's a mistake. the provision never should have been in the co

and yet it's not the position that other credit unions are in this kind of position the central bank wanted another credit union to organize a merger with new bridge. the result its problems. nice credit union little tart but backed off ten days ago. permanent tsb has stepped into the breach in phuket fifty three million euro of taxpayers' money to fill in the holy new bridge accounts. the move secures the money of the depositors of you which credit union without any interruption of business how to prevent some liquidity crisis of institutions which the frail irish financial system really doesn't need to wean them archie news. the joyous out from newbridge that reaction there to the decision is our reporter joe mcgrady joe this fine thank you and it's well known here in the town sometimes the questions over the financial position of the credit union. especially since the appointment of the station manager who died in two thousand and twelve total surprise i suppose that the song changed to its status overnight. however the reaction to the news that has most definitely been mixed. it's

the end that we seek. we want to create a more perfect union and a more peaceful union, the just union and the waves must be more peaceful and just and fair. we cannot use the methods and techniques of another group. we are all in this thing together and we must look out for each other and we must care for each other to be able to move towards the beloved community at peace with itself. >> host: e-mail i've never had the privilege of meeting you someone that i expect to beat respect and admire but i am a school mate of the associate justice clarence thomas and am deeply disappointed in his judicial philosophy. do you have any comments? >> guest: as a member of congress i had been invited to testify when he was being considered to become a member of the supreme court. i was one of the people that testified. i just didn't think he had the temperament and i didn't share his political philosophy to be a member of the united states supreme court. i just think as a nation and as a people we can do much better. >> host: have you gotten to know justice thomas? >> guest: over the years i met him long before he becam

the european union's position remains clear. of signing the most ambitious agreement the european union has ever offered to a nonmember state is still on the table so the year insists that the author is still on the table however it is a deal that has already rejected president. maintaining the deal of the financial deal on offer from brussels was not adequate for his country right now saying it left his country feeling now can recall the moment he came face to face with e.u. leaders and heads of state for the very first time since that decision now that. you can just about make him out on tape saying but if you signed the agreement he says to ghana i'm going to merkel says we expected more we being the european union in this case now going to cove it justifies his decision to markell by saying the economic situation in ukraine is very difficult we are facing serious threats and of course the e.u. precondition opposition leader yulia tymoshenko be released to go to germany for medical medical treatment on her back was never likel

the service employees national union sent employees to the philippines. they pledged $100,000 for the relief effort and plan to send medical workers from the bay area to help. >>> and in the philippines, more than 3600 people are confirmed dead. it will be weeks if not months before power is fully restored. >> we hope to be able to store at least partial electrical power to certain portions of the city by december 9. >> kpix5 and our radio partners joined to raise money thursday. and thanks to you, our telethon brought in $410,000. if you missed the phone lines, go to kpix.com/donate. >>> a collision brought down a power line in petaluma at around 4:15. at least one of the drivers had to be taken to the hospital. the road was closed several hours while crews dealt with a fire and part of the roadway is sill blocked for repairs for the downed power line. >>> it is deja vu for bay area commuters. we may see negotiators try to hammer out a deal between bart and the union under threat of a strike. it is because of a clerical error in a contract that represent

pressure not the least from russia the only thing the european union can try to do is keep blame storming anybody who cares meanwhile brussels points the finger at moscow for disrupting the deal despite kiev statements it was only being pragmatic when making the choice. the enemy within reports claim the cia recruited guantanamo bay prisoners as double agents using their most spies after their release. the workings of the practice which turns into law in their own countries. no. job to keep the country's most famous human rights activist behind bars despite him now being eligible for release. everyone here with the international welcome to the program. the world headlines for this hour police have dispersed in antigovernment protests and the very heart of ukraine's capital using tear gas and batons the local media say that forty people have been taken to hospital more than thirty at this point have now been arrested and here come the latest pictures from the scene more than a week in people have been calling for the president to resign. over the decision to back out of a landmark trade de

it's likely that the unions will have plenty to say after that vote. in oakland, dan kerman, kron 4 news. >> just into the news room minutes ago, the two largest bart unions released a statement urging management to ratify the contract as it stands. the unions reiterate they will discuss the family leave provision as long as a mediator is present and only if the contract is approved by bart. stay with kron 4 for more on the latest bart contract troubles. you can always log on to our website, kron 4 to get an update or check our facebook and twitter pages. you can also download the kron 4 mobile app. >>> a developing story out of santa rosa. a teacher stabbed a number of times with a pencil. that's what police say happened at mid rose hospital today. >> reporter: yellow tape and a police officer mark the spot where a student went after an instructor in a classroom during lunch. >> the teacher was injured today by a student. >> reporter: in fact, police tell us it 16-year-old male who stabbed the teacher multiple times in the head, neck and arm. and get t

and the unions have said they don't want to pay it. and the administration came out on october 30 with a regulation basically laying out this plan to exempt the unions from that tax. >> why? >> the amazing thing about it is when that happen, everybody else has to pay more. because the tax is scheduled to raise a certain amount of revenue. it gets distributed among everyone else. >> if you're paying 63% everybody will be paying more. what's the justification for giving this special deal to the unions? >> they've been big political supporters of the president. they were big supporters of obama care, and i think what you're seeing in obama care and a lot of other policies coming out of the administration is that if you're a friend or ally or donor, you get special treatment. >> if jay carney is asked, he's got to have some sort of legitimate explanation. there's got to be more than like, we did it because they're our political friends and without it we're not going to get reelected. >> i don't know how you explain unless you try to draw so

the unions say it's closer to 5 million and insist it was no mistake. >> to represent it this way is totally disingenuous and speaks again in the bad faith bargaining they have been doing from the onset. >> some miscommunications and misunderstandings between the staff and contracted parties resulted in this inat verdict tenthly being typed in. >> the bart board has the option of accepting the extra cost or offering the union something else in exchange. after today's talks the board will meet thursday to decide its next move. no word whether the unions are considering another possible strike. >>> meanwhile, there's no word on any movement regarding ac transit's labor situation. unions and management are about halfway through their 60-day cooling-off period ordered by governor brown. ac transit mainly serves alameda and contra costa counties. >> did the weekend go fast. flew by. >> i almost slept through the whole thing. >> we all did. >> hey, guys. big changes coming in weather. finally looks like the rain getting ready to return to the bay area. looks like now some partly cloudy skie

the unions, a lot of these big unions they don't go to an insurance company for their insurance they do it themselves. and they don't want to pay the $63 per person fee. and they have asked the white house for relief. it appears that the white house is preparing a rule that will specifically exempt these unions. these self-administered plans which will apply only to the unions, basically. and they will get out of it. >> you know, it is stunning. i mean, this is absolutely stunning. here are the unions are the ones who are pushing this so much. and now they're asking for a special deal which will just add more money to the american people because if they're not paying $63, you know, a head. then we have got to pick up the -- here is the other thing which slays me. get out aer year. money we are collecting it's 12 billion in 2014, 8 billion in 2015. 5 billion in 102016. big bulk. if they get out the first year. makes it even worse. >> that's right. look, the unions you said in your intro, i mean, they did a lot to help pass obamacare. they did a lot to help elect president obama in 2008

will not want the ukraine to join the european union ok we have to leave it there thank you very much paul nuttall the deputy leader of the u.k. independence party and thank you. but ukraine's dire economic conditions are being cited is the main reason lawmakers backed away from the e.u. deal are berlin correspondent has been hearing reaction in europe with some believing it can't afford to accommodate here. ukraine's decision not to push for closer association with the e.u. could turn out to be a blessing for those european countries there was going to have to be some two hundred thousand pieces of regulation that would have had to be changed to allow ukraine to fit into this new partnership all of which will have to are being paid for by the european countries now these pieces of regulation range from quite big issues right down to things like the type of screws used on road signs and the gauge of railway tracks and those are things that really european countries can't afford to be paying for right now we're seeing eighty four million people on the brink of poverty across the europe

massive run down employment throughout the course of the union we've got things like fifty percent plus of youth on employment in several mediterranean countries they have a euro currency project which is a fiasco built on sand by the sort of deluded technocrats who believe that they know the best thing for all people and therefore realistically the only thing the european union can try to do is keep billions storming anybody russia who cares because ultimately the european union that started and has rendered wonderful supranational trevor project is ultimately falling apart at the seams because it has become itself a crumbling soviet style empire which in many cases replicates some of the more ridiculous facets of the old soviet union. the holiday shopping season has kicked off in america with some retailers breaking tradition by pushing their opening hours into planks giving light instead of waiting for the official start of what has become known as black friday and it's been exactly five years since the u.s. federal reserve began its own unprecedented shopping spree back in two

the battle between bart management and its unions isn't over yet. no, i'm not kidding! t chapter involves a new provision in the new contract that bart management says should have been dropped. >>> and i'm anne makovec live in san francisco or gotham city u

the union. by the way, it's revealing that lincoln had a portrait of jackson, a good democrat, on the walls of his office. >> are you suggesting that lincoln would have asked, what would jackson do? >> i am. >> i want everybody to weigh in on this. craig, would you mind responding to that? would you agree with richard this is a hyperbole? >> i think what's happened in the middle of the 19th century and in our own time as well, is an attempt by individuals who believe our country is frighteningly on the wrong track and using what amounts to a form of blackmail to make that happen. lincoln confronted that, of course. it didn't begin with secession. i'm -- i anticipated this question would have come up. what he said, and i actually wrote it down because i wanted to say it right, in referring to those southerners who wanted to create this situation. this is lincoln. you will destroy the government unless you construe the constitution as you please. you will rule or ruin. you will destroy the union a

now they want to go back to the unions to fix the mistake. but the unions say this deal is done. >> we signed an agreement. >> reporter: the chance of a strike is slim. and the plan for now is for members of the unions to meet with the management on monday. that's when we learn how the latest twist in 24 negotiation will be handled. >> riders say they are concerned about the new twist but mixed about who is to blame. >> if there is a clause in the contract that says they are allowed to go back and look at it, then yes. i'm not a legal expert but otherwise no. >> you can't just cancel that you already signed. if you signed it, then that shows it went into effect. they should have had someone overlooking it before someone signed the contract. >> all the people we talked to agree that a strike is the worst possible outcome. >>> happening now, part of highway 116 will be closed overnight after an injury accident in sonoma county at 4:15 this afternoon at adobe road west of petaluma. a driver crashed into a power pole causing several spot fires. t

what the union is saying. six. weather talent appears at wx center with generic pinpoint filling monitor then we take special >> pelley: steve hartman's "on the road" on assignment this week, so we decided to end with something you don't see very often. that have is a cougar in griffith park in los angeles beneath the hollywood sign. an image that will appear in next month's "national geographic." cougars are nocturnal and seldom seen so how did they get that picture? chip reid introduces us to the man behind the lens. >> reporter: national geographic photographer steve winter has spent most of his adult life shooting just about every kind of wild cat on the planet. >> just so incredibly cute. >> reporter: yet he maintains a child like enthusiasm, even at new york's central park zoo watching the baby snow leopards. >> they like playing on these rocks. they're learning how to hunt. >> reporter: snow leopards were winter's ticket to fame. plenty of photographers used remotely triggered cameras. >> okay, put the

and employers in the negotiations over union contracts and where this comes into play and unite here local three three five persons in the hall is in florida although i'm just certain things of value i mean the reason the reason that those things of value part was put in in forty's was the the belief in the reality in some cases the some unions have become corrupt you have unions that were basically were broader you know that kind of thing and so what they wanted to do was probe prevent the union leader from giving you know new cadillacs to the c.e.o. or the or the trade negotiators of a company that they were negotiating contracts right exactly but what's interesting here in the mohawk case is the unite here union that was negotiating with with mardi gras again in a florida casino company when they negotiated neutrality agreement which is essentially a union negotiation where and stead of going through the normal national labor relations board election process they just agreed that they won't you know they won't strike the hope support they actually help supp

in the european union. so from the european union has been strengthened into a large one and lives in policy as being one of the most. one of the most successful policies european union has ever had so it has increased the influence it has increased the size has increased the population and the school's rules though and it is the balkans and the kids opening of being a band that plays a very important role in the region it is the only one. nato member states can see in the region. the creation of joint tube since two thousand pitino said. and to the eighties suit is has a baby the significant geographical position because it has an access to healing and ended at ten sixteen he's also did it again for balkans for him entering an area and also for european union because other countries are in and look to the exceptional company that has the tiny particle flow food. filthy do because line so in this respect the right thing to do new key union would gain as well from from the accession process with qantas on the

russia who cares because the european union is ultimately falling apart at the same. a you depart vilnius contemplating what might have been despite coaching president on the coach they simply seemed unable to offer him a deal that was tempting enough scots vilnius lithuania. not just ukraine's government that wasn't sold on prospects for the e.u. more young people within the bloc are joining far right movements which are often seen as offering an alternative to brussels policies on saturday many of them take part took part in a quote we are the youth conference in the capital activist ruben rossi a participated in a gathering in the says what he thinks is behind the rise of the far right within the union. it's only greece spain and portugal finding a job is not so that easy these days so of course people go looking especially young people go looking and searching for solutions and i think that there are some movements that can give these solutions to the problems today that the capitalist and liberal system isc have cost the governments over the european union that's

russia the only thing the european union can try to do is keep. anybody who cares meanwhile brussels points the. deal. it was only being pragmatic when making the choice. the enemy within reports claim the cia recruited to guantanamo prisoners. after their. practice which turned. their own country. the country's most famous human rights activist behind bars despite him being eligible for release. the world. everybody here welcome to the program police have dispersed an anti-government protest in the very heart of ukraine's capital using tear gas and batons the local media say forty people have been taken to hospital more than thirty been arrested so far and here we have the latest pictures from the scene more than a week people have been calling for the president to resign over the decision to back out of a trade deal with the e.u. . make room and was shunned by the ukrainian leader during a key summit in vilnius this week why e.u. officials had hoped that kiev would strengthen its ties with the union the president's lack of movement on the issue h

russia who cares because the european union is ultimately falling apart at the seams so the e.u. departs vilnius contemplating what might have been despite courting president they simply seemed unable to offer him a deal that was tempting enough pull scots r.t. vilnius lithuania. for more on whether ukraine was right to pass on a deal with the e.u.'s top two political commentator alexander nick ross of joining us from our london studios there is clearly huge support among the ukrainian people for this deal despite the apparent economic dangers why is there so much support for it then. well i don't think there's much support i think there's a lot of consequent fusion a lot of people don't really understand what's going on and i think the most important thing for the ukrainians to know is that no one be a free area they won't be able to travel to the west they will encounter a lot of opposition from the west they will be seen by many people like it's happening in britain where by the way up to seventy percent want to leave the u. but unfortunately the government doesn't give them w

for old russia the only thing the european union can try to do is keep blame stormin anybody russia who cares. meanwhile brussels points the finger at mosco for disrupting the deal despite kiev statesman's it was only being pragmatic one making the choice. the enemy with a and reports claim the cia workers had gone tunnel bay prisoners as double agents using them as spies after their release assesses the workings of the practice which sounds x. calls into al qaeda was in their own country. a phone that they were job bahrain keeps the country's most famous human rights activists behind bars despite him being eligible for release it's. very welcome to international my name is you know let's now turn to our main story . and police have despair a stone antigovernment protests in the very heart of ukraine's capital using tear gas and batons local media say forty people have been taken to hospital more than thirty others were arrested but they've since been released molten awake and people have been calling for the president to resign over the decision to back out of a landmark trade deal wit

three quarters of ukraine's exports go out side of the european union don't go to war you go to other countries and you've got far more or trade links with the post soviet states that's where the best interest of ukraine's exports lie and of course the issue of the costs of the european union will place upon ukraine it really is not in ukraine's interests to be subservient towards the european union it does find itself doesn't it in the center of iraq at the moment between russia and the e.u. . why is this country seeing a such an important partner for both those sides. well ukrainian exports have a great deal of money involved in going towards russia but of course less towards the opinion of the european union it is very keen to expand to spread its regulations to new countries and to make sure that was made in brussels a piece by not only in the european union but also outside of the european union but that's not often in a calm best interest is certainly not in the interest of ukraine but the european union is looking to expand its elations southwards taking in countries from

the union showed us the six week family medical leave provision. today union and b.a.r.t. attorneys met to figure out what it could cost. it is unclear how b.a.r.t. management could have signed the deal without knowing about the provision. >> it is not cool to not read the contract for one thing. but, again, if there is something really bad in it it should be renegotiated. >> reporter: for now the union will take its time to work through this dispute. there is no indication the trains will stop running. >> i learned not to worry till it happened. if it does that will get a lot of people upset. including myself. >> the union said it wasn't negotiating today because it feels like it already has a deal in hand. the b.a.r.t. board is expected to vote thursday night on whether to ratify the agreement. ken pritchett, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> google and microsoft are joining forces to block online child pornography. they have rolled out new software. the restrictions are in place englacial speaking countries with -- english speaking counties with plans to expand. bing will also bl

the union disagrees. >> for the next three days, we are talking, looking at our options legally and with sciu so we will be meeting to confer with our entire negotiating team to see where we go from here. >> reporter: at this point it looks like a standoff with the union saying we've got our deal and bart management saying it doesn't count because there's a clerical error. >> if negotiations do resume, bart will have a new chief negotiator. the board revealed last night that thomas hawk is no longer with the district. >>> better chance for news. this is a live look at how traffic is flowing just outside the new bore of the caldecott tunnel that opened just before dawn this morning. traffic is moving right along and has been all day. kpix 5's mark kelly tells us most drivers like what they see. >> reporter: with two brand new lanes through the caldecott tunnel, there's a lot more room on the road. lunchtime saturday, not a single bottleneck. smooth sailing for regular tunnel goers like joseph campton. >> morning, smooth ride in, you know, going through the city and smooth ride on the way

trophies to the union army as he put it. many of these white officers and comrades share the conviction that the role in the last battle had indecisive. the cauvery recounted the scene for his mother and sisters in a letter. the morning of the night came to the cauvery was being pushed back rapidly towards the station. the boys were fine, scores of them. over the hill a dark column was spied coming down the road to quicktime. what a relief from the office spent. the colored race of those men so long as they brought relief to espey saw courage and determination in the polls like faces. moreover, african-american troops understood themselves to be an army of liberation whose defeat of flavors that nailed the coffin the coffin of slavery itself. abundant evidence exists that slaves sought appomattox is a freedom day. it was the very moment of emancipation, the moment the fact to the lincoln's proclamation had long since been passed. virginia saves for the first year the tidings of the surrender of thought on this against a defen

officials had hoped it would strengthen his ties with the union and the president's lack of movement on the issue has only infuriated the protesting crowds even more. he has the latest. italy greece spain portugal ukraine similar picture looks are deceiving well a number of european countries has been protesting against brussels policy ukraine is probably the only one where people are taking to the streets in tens of thousands to support the idea of your integration. to be in europe but this was not about being in the e.u. joining the union was not even on the table and brussels was offering no compensation for any potential economic losses the country already has a hundred thirty six billion dollars foreign debt and just modernizing factories to e.u. standards would have cost a staggering two hundred billion or more. the deal would have allowed us to get better education in europe but the two hundred page blueprint of the agreement never said anything about a visa free regime where he isn't about that my wife can go to poland and buy a lot of food for just ten her even though which