>> also, the both units gain access from the garage level unit. so the elevator goes to the garage. so either unit can come up to the public foyer to the second floor and go into either one of the units. the elevator extends to the second floor. >> right. i understand that. the other question i had because and you raised the -- not the issue but the functionality of the elevator is that the rental unit only has access to the garage via the elevator without having to go outside? >> that's correct. >> thank you. >> commissioner antonini? >> the idea of having the foyer on the inside allowing access to the 2 units even though it makes the studio smaller is really a nice feature. the first flat in san francisco when we were first married was in the upper floor of a 2-unit building and instead of having the stairways all exterior, you came up the first stairway and you had an interior area the way you access the two 2 units and it was much more pleasant. it seemed a lot safer, even the stairway didn't count as your square footage, it counted because it was used for going up there. i'm in

in the rental unit on the plan. but i'm open to hearing what the discussion is. commissioner antonini? >> i just think there is a need for this type of thing. there are many families in san francisco who have similar circumstances where they have multiple children, more anticipated and people should be able to work within the stock of what they already own because as we know there has been a huge appreciation in prices and so. if this couple were to give up on this idea and try to buy a home that met their needs, it would be much more expensive than it had been when it was purchased in 2007. it might be the kind of thing that drives families out of san francisco. i feel fortunate to have been lucky enough to 30 years ago buy a fairly large house on the west side of town which i couldn't afford today, but the difference in having the space when you have multiple floors with children on one floor and in laws on another floor, makes life more pleasant and more functional especially when you are trying to do so

as you point out the united states you know professes to be neutral it is kind of secured its position in the asia pacific region as a so-called honest broker and so it has tried to do this at the same time of course it has allies so it's very difficult for the united states to actually be an honest broker when it supplies south korea with a tremendous amount of military so. court as i said surpass supported japan for some time provides taiwan with a great deal of military support so the honest broker position is actually rather difficult and yet at the same time we have seen china and japan as well as china and some of the countries bordering the south china sea come to some agreements for instance over oil and gas exploration under sea and these agreements i think could be the kind of core of some agreement in the future one of those agreements was just back in two thousand and eight around the. island and we've seen some additional movement toward agreement in south china say ok martin but if i could put china's policy in a nutshell it doesn't want to have to have to ask for someone

sectarian divide divide ultimately you weaken the country but the last thing that the israel or the united states wants is a strong master type leader an arab nationalist who will seriously ensure that the resources of that country or are taken and protected and used for the benefit of the people that's the last thing that the empire wants and that israel wants so while you have these religious fundamentalist nutcases who are running around bombing and doing all sorts of stuff like that you have a weakened fractured country in iraq and that is the prerequisite for ultimately expanding israel into the fantasy of the greater israel project it doesn't seem sane and it's not sane because those who are trying to carry out these agendas are pure and simple psychopaths and so you think that american administrations one of turning out there have been following this plan for thirty years. if you ask me how the world functions then you have to understand one thing plain and simple the head of the snake the system of power is headed by the financial system the bankers rule the earth through the priva

between europe and the united states. without getting too detailed and too involved in the role of the law. i can say from an economic perspective and a relationship a business perspective it's clearly an inincredibly important tool. and allows far huge amount of trade and important relationships that consumers benefit from and that businesses benefit from. and it became a target in the conversation. i started to say in september and i said just last week if it was an easy target but wasn't the right target. if we want to focus on government surveillance issues we should. or happening through rules or adequacy determination or any other mechanisms for cross-border transfers. that is where the conversation should have happen around the appropriate scope of government surveillance. what i've noticed and frankly the e.u. commission issued report on first step in the report on safe harbor. and i think that this conversation i've been engaged in as well as others. i don't want to say i'm the only one. it seems to have gained re

force unless it's authorized by the congress of the united states unless the vital interest of the united states are imperiled in some way or other and unless the american people are united over this intervention as you may know i was against the iraq war when president george w. bush took us to the iraq war while i favored the intervention in afghanistan after the massacre of nine eleven i did not believe the united states should stay in afghanistan and try to reform and remake that country according to our ideas and our ideals i thought that was a bridge too far for the united states i've opposed intervention in syria because i'm not an admirer of the regime there but no vital interest of the united states was threatened in that civil war so in each of those cases and frankly since the cold war ended i have been against a most of the american interventions because i didn't see them as directly related to the vital interest of my country nothing in my country was threatened our people were not threatened and so i did in i don't think we ought to be out trying to remake the world in our i

is the massive infusion of money since two thousand and one the united states has spent i think over a five hundred billion dollars on intelligence during that period and american officials have long claimed that you know the main outcome of that exorbitant spending was the lack of any. additional catastrophic terrorist attack but of course many other countries achieve the same result for much much less i wonder if these. you know all that spending has really led to any increase in efficiency of operations or rather what they've had possibly an opposite effect because we all know that when money is not an issue efficiency is usually not the first concern well i would disagree with you i don't think it's exorbitant spending at all when you look at what happened in the united states on september eleventh to have two of our biggest buildings in new york knocked down the pentagon attacked and another plane that was heading for washington d.c. that was very appropriate spending and i think we've seen the results of it you mentioned other countries other countries are not the target that th

nations so this is and if you want to look at the united nations from the prism of the u.n. security council then we have here five powers russia china united states france and germany which. the five members which are actually the the ones that have the veto power with china that they want to have the veto power in order to really enforce some executive powers. but again from the for instance from the perspective or from other countries some other countries or you can say from the syrian perspective the international community is is not the u.n. security council the international david they believe that it is system. that they really inclusive it's actually exclusive they believe that the international community in other words in the more i think academic or professional awards it's more the general assembly or member game i think that's fair and i would agree with you on that ok because every september there's a vote in the general assembly for recognition of a palestinian state and i'll have to check the numbers but it's one hundred eighty something against two or three

as the united states has adjusted to the fiscal realities that we have in the united states but i think it's been money very well spent i don't think it's been exorbitant whatsoever we are a big country like russia where we have a global intelligence service because we have interests all over the world we have more threats you know i think it's interesting it might be interesting for your viewers you know the way the united states sees intelligence is different than when we saw it in the cold war while the soviet union and the united states were sort of pitted against each other in a sense it was an easier intelligence mission because russia is a very large of the soviet union was a very large nation state within embassies and armaments and the rest whereas today's threats are stateless international terrorists they are political writers of weapons of mass destruction so the intelligence job is a little bit harder here today in the post cold war era than arguably it might have been in the cold war absolutely mr allen this is a good point but you just mentioned russia and russia is also

the integrity of the united states senate matters. and i can only hope that there is time for those two concepts to still prevail. mr. president, what the democrats have done here is not on the extremely -- not only extremely dangerous, it's outrageous. they've taken one of the things that really makes the united states senate the great body that it is and have desecrated it. and they've done it because a number of the democrats over here have never been in the minority. they don't realize how awful that rule is. they don't realize that the filibuster is a rule of freedom. it protects the minority. it makes the senate debate on these matters. it's what makes the united states senate different from the house of representatives. the house of representatives is a people's body. they can do anything once they get a rule and get 51% of the votes. anything. it was structured that way. the senate was structured another way. and our young new senators on the other side don't seem to understand that. i've chatted with a number of more senior se

now the united states is promising a new package of military aid to the philippines, $40 million, as geopolitical tensions in the region rise after provocative decisions made by china. we'll get the latest on storm recovery and face off of the south china sea on this edition of "inside story." but first some background. >> secretary of state john kerry traveled to the philippines tuesday. he met with senior filipino officials to discuss trade, security and disaster relief. it is part of the u.s. strategy to pivot towards asia and become closer to its pacific partners. >> the united states will stand with our friends in this region. >> the tour comes during rising tensions in the region. china declared a new air defense zone above the east china sea. with disputes still boiling in the south china sea, the restriction has concerned it's neighbors, including vietnam, japan and the philippines. >> the united states does not recognize that zone and does not accept it. the zone should not implemented, and china should refrain from taking similar unilateral actions i in the region particula

you can expand the units that are legal nonconforming. basically in a four unit building you can expand two of the units but not the other two. this would allow you to expand the legal nonconforming units provided that you don't expand the building's envelope. unless there had been a no fault eviction in that building. does that help? >> yes. my other question is you said merger in two units. what exactly -- >> so, that would occur -- say you're dealing with the same four-unit building and an owner comes in and has purchased two of the units and decides to combine the two units into a larger space. perhaps -- in that case either the unit would need to be empty to do that or there would need to be some sort of eviction process so that the two units were empty and could be merged. this would not allow you to merge the units if there had been a no-fault eviction in order to have the two units available to merge into a larger unit. >> okay. so, to make your legislation, connect the dots for me. how does this save rentals? or affordable -- what

states the president of the united states also took that oath and has breached it so badly that he but he arrested and charged with treason right now and ultimately all of the sycophants of the u.s. congress who passed things like the patriot act and the national defense authorization act again completely contrary to the u.s. constitution which is supposed to be the suturing call law of the land these people need to be arrested and a government needs to be put in place that actually honors the us constitution and our i honestly believe that's going to happen one way or the other it's going to happen but you just started your answer by saying that the revolution is already happening and then you won by citing everything that's going wrong in america like for example the n.s.a. leaks right you kind of touched upon that nothing's really changing within american society i don't see people coming out in a straight and protesting even though they know that they've being listened to even hear a plug at give up yeah there they expressed their outrage at the fact that they have been listening t

so i think the united states citizens have gotten what they've paid for when they because we've been able to for you all and prevent numerous attacks on the continental united states and in europe with some of our allies because we're spending so much more money on intelligence and because we're able to have a more capable intelligence service going after threats to our country well you just mentioned nine eleven and that was of course twelve years ago but if we consider the. funding that the cia has requested of the intelligence community or rather has requested for the fiscal year of two thousand and thirteen it is still pretty high for fifty two billion dollars and it is expected to stay at that level at least until two thousand and seventeen and just to our viewers to make it clear it is pretty much the same or similar to what the united states was standing on their own intelligence at the height all of the cold war and. i'm sure you know that these and zorbas and spending on the part of the soviet union was one of the main reasons for its own collapse these very huge spending dis

as you point out the united states you know professes to be neutral it is kind of secured its position in the asia pacific region as a so-called honest broker and so it has tried to do this at the same time of course it has allies so it's very difficult for the united states to actually be an honest broker when it supplies south korea with tremendous amount of military so. court as i said surpass supported japan for some time provides taiwan with a great deal of military support so the honest broker position is actually rather difficult and yet at the same time we have seen china and japan as well as china and some of the countries bordering the south china sea come to some agreements for instance over oil and gas exploration under sea and these agreements i think could be the kind of core of some agreement in the future one of those agreements was just back in two thousand and eight around that. and we've seen some additional movement toward agreement in south china say ok martin but if i could put china's policy in a nutshell it doesn't want to have to have to ask for someone's permi

not just from the united states, but from elsewhere. ne of the things we hope to be able to do overtime with the science without borders program is use what is really a student exchange program to build relationships between and solutions, between universities and to use that to facilitate the movement of faculty and the movement of services and to break down the closed shop nature of universities, especially when it comes to things like credits and degrees so that they can be shared easily. it is our hope over time to take a program, which is about exchanging students, and use it to build relationships between our educational systems and our laboratories and research institutes that are going to provide a much more vigorous and productive relationship for both countries. in terms of disclosure problems, challenges, crises, outrage, i choose my words carefully. we could call it something else. you could call it treason. >> that focuses on snowden. >> i agree. what i want to be able to do here is recognize the seriousness of the issue, re

. , including the vice president of the united states. everalve been conversations and meetings between president rousseff and president obama as they try to sketch out a pathway forward out in thes challenged larger relationship. thewhite house released results of the presidential review group that was investigating the impact of technology on information intelligence gathering. that is the first step towards a larger review of how the united does use intelligence and will form the basis to reengage with the brazilians and make our own suggestions on the best way forward in that relationship. the brazilians have waited with a certain expectation to what we are going to be able to offer them and how we are going to be able to move forward in the aftermath of the disclosures. we do not have a clear pathway yet, but we will. we will look at the recommendations that have been issued by the review group at this point. i don't have a whole lot more to say in that regard because this is a workin in progress. states and brazil have worked in inte

new that the united states of america was his land. ral was just a boy, a high school student, when he enlisted. native americans, like the corporal, were so eager to serve that many lied about their age to enlist. these brave soldiers, these code talkers had a special gift, their special -- sacred languages, and they selflessly shared that gift with our country, their country. their gifts saved countless lives and helped win the war, and their willingness to share it made them american heroes -- share it made them american heroes. we honor our american heroes today. [applause] >> ladies and the speaker of the united states house of representatives, the honorable john boehner. [applause] >> thank you. i want to say thank you to my colleagues for their testimonials, and of course all of those in mid-december the possible. we are now going to present the medals -- made this ceremony possible. we are going to present the medals, and i am asking you to hold your applause until the end so that we can give all of our honorees their proper due

you can expand the units that are legal nonconforming. basically in a four unit building you can expand two of the units but not the other two. this would allow you to expand the legal nonconforming units provided that you don't expand the building's envelope. unless there had been a no fault eviction in that building. does that help? >> yes. my other question is you said merger in two units. what exactly -- >> so, that would occur -- say you're dealing with the same four-unit building and an owner comes in and has purchased two of the units and decides to combine the two units into a larger space. perhaps -- in that case either

against attempts to seize power through force, saying doing so would cost the country the support of the united states and other occasions. they continue to evacuate americans. >> there's renewed violence in the central african republic, 30 were gild, including a peace-keeping soldier. memorials were held at lockerbie scotland, and the arlington national cemetery. they were remembering pan am flight 103. 273 people died op board the plane. >> india is transferring a diplomat involved in a dispute. she was serving at the indian son suate, three now over at the u.n. >> astronauts spent five hours working on a cooling pux. those are the headlines this saturday. "inside story" is next. for updates all day long go to aljazeera.com. a major storm. recovery and the pivot towards asia are the "inside story." >> welcome to "inside story." i'm ray suarez. for more than a months the specific island nation of the philippines have struggled to recover from the worst national disaster that it's ever known. typhoon haiyan. there are still people missing as the storm scoured towns and villages from the land. a

we have a map i have it here that shouz shows the units are they're all in the core of the city but throughout san francisco. again 14 percent of overall housing stock a 3 unit building in an rh unit the owners because designate two he thought units at the conforming and one as non-conforming and the building owners are still allowed to pick the non conforming unit their usual the most undesirable ones in the believe. they have the urban affordable housing and the planning code doesn't allow those unless the work will eliminate the housing unit. this ordinance will allow four africans to those non-conforming it is to preserve those for rent controlled housing. currently because the aefls are prohibited but the removal is loud the current code could incentivize those with the non conforming unit to create a less affordable unit taking the control residentials off the bacon book. this ordinance includes safeguards to allow the units that will reduce the for a fact or discourage the displacement of resident. this is a vital government interests therefore any aefgsz can't be expanded beyond the en

knew that the united states of america was his land. ral was just a boy, a high school student, when he enlisted. native americans, like the corporal, were so eager to serve that many lied about their age to enlist. these brave soldiers, these code talkers had a special gift, their sacred languages, and they selflessly shared that gift with our country, their country. their gifts saved countless lives and helped win the war, and their willingness to share it made them american heroes -- share it made them american heroes. we honor our american heroes today. [applause] >> ladies and the speaker of the united states house of representatives, the honorable john boehner. [applause] >> thank you. i want to say thank you to my colleagues for their testimonials, and of course all of those in mid-december the possible. we are now going to present the medals -- made this ceremony possible. we are going to present the medals, and i am asking you to hold your applause until the end so that we can give all of our honorees their proper due. >> ladies

the fbi had rounded up almost all agents operating with the united states. however, hitler was very unhappy with the job being done by his intelligence service, the abwehr, and pressured admiral kanaris, his intelligence chief, do something more dramatic. the result was an operation called pastorius in which eight germans who had lived in the united states, two of whom had been us citizens, and--men who had gone back to germany, were recruited to form this team. they were put ashore in the united states via submarine in the summer of 1942 to carry out espionage. one of them decided to rat on his other comrades, thinking this would make him a hero. this--and--and--and so they were all quickly rounded up. this story is--is fairly well-known. what is far less known was roosevelt's attitude towards these saboteurs. he immediately directs his attorney general, francis biddle, to organize the trial outside of the civilian courts through a military tribunal. and he said to biddle, in effect, 'these are agents of the enemy. they've come ashore in wartime th--in civil

disagree with you i don't think it's exorbitant spending at all when you look at what happened in the united states on september eleventh to have two of our biggest buildings in new york knocked down the pentagon attacked and another plane that was heading for washington d.c. that was very appropriate spending and i think we've seen the results of it you mentioned other countries other countries are not the target that the united states is for islamic extremists and so i think the united states citizens have gotten what they've paid for when they because we've been able to for you all and prevent numerous attacks on the continental united states and in europe with some of our allies because we're spending so much more money on intelligence and because we're able to have a more capable intelligence service going after threats to our country well you just mentioned nine eleven and that was of course twelve years ago but if we consider the. funding that the cia has requested of the intelligence community or rather has requested for the fiscal year of two thousand and thirteen it is still pretty

has anything to stake as a nation there are certain right wing interests in the united states clearly the cuban community in miami although the younger generation of cuban americans is going a very very different direction than the older generation but with united states is concerned about is the rise of the left wing governments in latin america and those governments are very friendly toward cuba so there's much more of an effort in the oas and other bodies to isolate the united states now safety united states doesn't change its policies toward cuba and these countries are just not going to go along with the united states has put it's symptomatic as part of a broader international lessening of u.s. influence we see what's happening in the middle east crisis can really. influence these situations are war making we've got this powerful military the most powerful military in the history of humanity and it doesn't work since world war two you look at korea you look at vietnam you look at afghanistan you look at iraq i mean we can we can invade grenada and we can defeat a couple dozen cub

>> who is in the united states you mean? yes, it is the pharmaceutical industry because the prices go high prices first towards the first, for the first distributors, but for the wholesalers. they have increase prices to wholesalers so that the wholesalers failed it higher but in the beginning for our expensive. yes, and that is -- that is the way in which the system is here, unfortunately. >> stomach how is a really a cultural problem? the people on top are not the ones messing themselves a. for instance, you have one of the politicians trying to keep a hospital open,. [inaudible] five hospitals have been closed. they served the poor. that they are close. so people don't have access to the kid. the homeless and more homeless coming. they don't have access to anything. i once lived in france where you had one of the best medical system for everything, but they teach you how to eat. that's education. they have people make fun of the food but they teach be blood appreciate food, canno how not t so much, how to eat well. that's

in the rental unit on the plan. but i'm open to hearing what the discussion is. commissioner antonini? >> i just think there is a need for this type of thing. there are many families in san francisco who have similar circumstances where they have multiple children, more anticipated and people should be able to work within the stock of what they already own because as we know there has been a huge appreciation in prices and so. if this couple were to give up on this idea an

it takes a lot of dedicated people to keep the united states senate functioning. on behalf of leader reid, i would like to acknowledge and thank the senate parliamentarians and clerical staff and doorkeepers. i also want to thank the cloakroom staff, the members of our floor staff who put in longer-than-usual hours these past few weeks and all of the senate staffers, democrat and republican. i want to thank the capitol police officers for keeping us safe. we have to remember, they risk their lives every day for us and all the people who work and visit this great capitol. a special thanks to our senate pages. we ask a lot of them. long hours for a lot of young people. we know that their -- we want them to know that their work is greatly appreciated. we wish them the best of luck. they will a be coming in january to finish up their current assignment as paifnls i hope they have a great time at home with their families and maybe someday they'll return here, maybe as senators themselves. part of the magic of this holiday season is that it enables many of you even just

the e.u. incidentally united states and the e.u. think there is a historic opportunity to resolve the conflict. in such a way that the palestinians are left with virtually nothing ok so ryan so what type of agreement is that how can you have an agreement like that with no justice. i honestly don't believe this top side going anywhere and i don't think they're into . tended to go anywhere is just lip service if you look out to mr obama's speech in two thousand and eleven the word he actually mentioned the nine hundred sixty seven borders with some swaps it was intended for the palestinians not to ask for recognition at the united nations and after that mr netanyahu came to the united states and i'm sure you viewers would know that congress has far more powers or is the most powerful branch of the u.s. government he came and here dressed the united states congress in forty minutes he got twenty nine standing ovations in which he categorically refuse to recognize those boundaries and i think it's very important to understand there's lo

and we, the united states, will provide the capacity to destroy those weapons. we are working with the russians to contain them and move them and ship them to take them out of syria itself, proving that diplomacy can be so powerful it world's worste weapons. that brings us to iran. we are using diplomacy to fully identify and address the threat brought to us by iran's nuclear program. it is a real threat. we have always taken it as such. we have no illusions. let me restate something that president obama has made clear since day one and reiterated again this afternoon -- we will not allow iran to acquire a nuclear weapon, period, not now, not ever. now, believe me, the united states fully understands that israel perceives a nuclear iran as an existential threat. why? because it is. and we understand that. while we may sometimes favor a , therent tactical choice u.s. and israel have always shared the same fundamental goal. as we move forward in this negotiation, we will continue to consult very closely with israel, as with our other friends and allies in the regi

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the ball game but they have good reason to fear the united states during that time because we had about overwhelming if you talk about the missile gap kennedy deployed mcnamara patrick right from the beginning his administration to find out what the reality was in the missile gap they found out that there was a missile gap but the united states was far ahead of the soviet union by the time of the cuban missile crisis we had about a ten to one advantage of every capability more on cuba right when we get back with oliver stone in paris next thing. and i play this street cleaner. love with a waitress i go on stage and imagine that there's an audience i used to take drugs and drink like a fish the police told me about the circus but i was such a punk i was like what circus. circus absolutely stunning. we break down stereotypes about kids from disadvantaged backgrounds. we speak your language. programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you. but will tune in to this story. the spanish. visit. jason depravity as shocked australia in a remote valley police discovered a family that h

the p5 plus 1 remains united. on the table is what we consider to be a very reasonable and well crafted first step initiative. that first step would be for a six-month period to buy time and space for comprehensive negotiation that could resolve iran's nuclear problem. the reason to buy that time and space is because without this interim agreement, there would be no rate on iran -- no break on iran continuing with its nuclear program while it talks and perhaps drags out talks. this interim step would halt all progress in iran's nuclear row graham and roll back its program in some key respects. centrifuges, enrichment, and it will give the international community unprecedented transparency into all aspects of the iranian nuclear program. now, whether it comes to pass remains to be seen. that would be a good first step but if it werethat would be a good first step two, for the united states because it would enable us to test the prospects of a peaceful solution. -- peaceful resolution, which is what we sought to the