lavelle ukraine a country divided its government's decision not to pursue integration with the european union and opt for russia instead as western politicians and media in an uproar brussels feel snubbed while moscow has a wait and see approach as ukrainian politics is anything but stable the so-called struggle for ukraine is far from over. to cross-talk ukraine i'm joined by my guest live would give or give in london she is a senior economist at i.h.s. global insight in paris we have john laughlin he is the director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation and in moscow we cross to mark sloboda he is a senior lecturer and researcher at moscow state university all right folks cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want john if i can go to you first all of this media coverage of this for the past week it's the tussle between the european union and russia for control of ukraine it's put very much in cold war terms here but very few people want to focus on the real deep deep troubles that are occurring in ukraine and how ukraine is trying to get itself

to you first all this media coverage of this for the past week it's the tussle between the european union and russia for control of ukraine it's put very much in cold war terms here but very few people want to focus on the real deep deep troubles that are occurring in ukraine and how ukraine is trying to get itself out of a really nasty fix i want to point out to our viewers here that the i.m.f. is knocking on the door if they don't do certain things are not going to get any more money there's hardly any money left in the bank and they have a lot of foreign reserves debts to pay in the first quarter of next year it's dire straits in ukraine and in brussels is blaming moscow go ahead john i think you've put the question peter in exactly the right way. this whole issue is being talked about in cold water but in fact ukraine's real interests have been completely neglected i've had occasion to say this now on several other interviews people have asked me whether ukraine has an interest in joining the e.u. and my reply has always been that from the u.s. point of view the only interest is in th

what would the union do? printers' union chief bertram powers.se of computerized typesetting and film, a complete revolution in composury. we understood we'd have to handle it and work with them. we wanted to. we got into a dispute with the publishers about the introduction and about job protection. there never was a refusal to automate, but there was an inability to agree on how to handle the impact that would result from automation. but a.h. raskin, the new york times' labor reporter, saw it differently. the new york newspapers didn't join the automation trend because the unions wouldn't let them. and in 1965, after many efforts to break through, the publishers, for reasons that remain incomprehensible, gave bert powers of big 6, the typographical union here in new york, an absolute veto power, which he wanted. so that he then had the whip over automation in the composing. you could not move toward improved technology except with a green light from the union. this new contract aimed at preserving jobs by making automation possible, but difficul

to you first all this media coverage of this for the past week it's the tussle between the european union and russia for control of ukraine it's put very much in cold war terms here but very few people want to focus on the real deep deep troubles that are occurring in ukraine and how ukraine is trying to get itself out of a really nasty fix i want to point out to our viewers here that the i.m.f. is knocking on the door if they don't do certain things are not going to get any more money there's hardly any money left in the bank and they have a lot of foreign reserve debts to pay in the first quarter of next year it's dire straits in ukraine and in brussels is blaming moscow go ahead john i think you put the question peter in exactly the right way. this whole issue is being talked about in cold water but in fact ukraine's real interests have been completely neglected i've had occasion to say this now on several other interviews people have asked me whether ukraine has an interest in joining the e.u. and my reply has always been that from the u.s. point of view the only interest is in the po

to you first all this media coverage of this for the past week it's the tussle between the european union and russia. for control of ukraine it's put very much in cold war terms here but very few people want to focus on the real deep deep troubles that are occurring in ukraine and how ukraine is trying to get itself out of a really nasty fix i want to point out to our viewers here that the i.m.f. is knocking on the door if they don't do certain things are not going to get any more money there's hardly any money left in the bank and they have a lot of foreign reserve debts to pay in the first quarter of next year it's dire straits in ukraine and in brussels as blaming moscow go ahead john i think you put the question peter in exactly the right way. this whole issue is being talked about in cold water but in fact ukraine's real interests are being completely neglected i've had occasion to say this now in several other interviews people have asked me whether ukraine has an interest in joining the e.u. and my reply has always been that from the u.s. point of view the only interest is in the p

why does the union get its political objective of keeping the union together? why does the south not get its independence? now, using that as kind of my baseline and then looking at what the people were actually doing, what they were saying at the time, i came up with a number of conclusions that are somewhat controversial to those that are very familiar with the civil war. so, what i decided to do tonight was talk about very briefly three things that some are more controversial conclusions, and among civil war buffs, this will stir some problems here usually. one said george mcclellan was the civil war's greatest strategic thinker. that usually raises hackles on some people right there. and the same for braxton bragg, that he was the only confederate general to author a coherent, strategic plan for the confederacy. no one else does it. and thirdly, that the campaign for vicksburg is fought at the wrong place, the wrong time for the wrong objective. the union should have been finding someplace else. well, first one then, on mcclellan. conventional wisdom on mcc

the heart of historic russia ukraine is not the interests of ukrainians are not what the european union is interested in this and that is why of course the ukrainian government hasn't signed because quite simply they've seen the writing on the wall they know that they're running out of money they know that as president and the coach said all they get from europe is nice words and they realize that if they had signed association agreement it would have been to paraphrase a british politician the sort the longest suicide note in history a little bit i mean if we look at what the european union was after the russians supposedly are offering with customs ok because ukraine is being given a choice here and both russia and the european union like integration with ukraine but unocal over to the end of the day just said it's not a good enough deal i mean irrespective of the euro one's opinion of you know coverts he didn't like the deal because he's thinking about his political future. well i agree with you that he has he had a number of reasons behind his decision and one of them his political

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 from tsb has arrived in to manage customer deposits and films. at nine fifty pm the doors opened as usual you which credit union it wasn't long befo

because what do unions want? unions want to charge, if you will, walmart higher than what the market will bear. and that's fine. if they want to go on strike and they somehow cripple walmart and they can't pay, that's their right to do it. if they can extract higher wages, good for them. it's kind of the workers versus the walmart corporation. but let's not confuse it, that this is any bigger issue than the unions lining their coffers and looking out solely for their union members. they're not -- that's all they're looking out for. they're not looking out for the worker at large. if they were, they were say, forget about it, minimum wage or any kind of contract. let's just let walmart pay what the market will bear and if there's 1,000 people waiting to get a job, so be it. if walmart can only get zero people waiting for a job, than they have to raise their wages in order to entice people to work there. >> gary, walmart workers aren't unionized. >> brenda, why is it up to walmart to raise the standard of living? i

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 this k

of signing the most ambitious agreement the european union has ever offered to a nonmember state is still on the table so the e.u. insists that the author is still on the table however it is a deal that has already rejected president. maintaining that the deal of the financial deal on offer from brussels was not adequate for his country right now saying it left his country feeling in a mini ated now can recall the moment he came face to face with e.u. leaders and heads of state for the very first time since tooling decision now the lithuanian president was also present you can just about make him out on tape saying but if you signed the agreement he says to me on a 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 precondition that jailed opposition leader yulia tymoshenko be released to go to germany for medical medical treatment on her back was never likely to be agreed in the ukrainian parli

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 union stretching all the way to the urals we have heard barroso compared the european union to an empire

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 conf

the plumbing and pipe fitting industry local 28, local 39, operating union of international union of engineers. supervisor probation officers, the multiunit, the transport union and the union of >> colleagues would anyone like to sever the items? call the roll. >> the clerk: roll call vote taken there are 11 ayes. >> these ordinances are finally passed. item 27. item 27. >> same house same call. this ordinance is passed. next item. >> the clerk: item 28. local firearm laws establish a item 29.[park code - harding park golf course temporary reduced greens fees] ordinance amending the park code to set temporary reduced greens fees for the harding park golf course from december 2, 2013, through no later than may 31, 2014, to accommodate the renovation of the greens; and making environmental findings. (recreation and park department) 1234 >> next item. 30. item 30: 130882: [park code - harding park golf course temporary reduced greens fees] ordinance amending the park code to set temporary reduced greens fees for the harding park golf course from december 2, 2013, through no later than m

he voted for civil unions and lost his seat.ions' opponents say they reacted the only way they could. that was the only option we were given in the process that we have, because vermont does not have a referendum or a popular-vote way of coming at issues. poussaint: so while public opinion may not have tipped the scales in the legislative debate over civil unions, in the general election, it was the only thing that mattered. no democratic government can afford to simply ignore public opinion, and political leaders in a democracy who disregard it do so at their peril. the term for those who too often ignore public opinion might be "former leaders." we know what we want the government to do. what's the problem? why doesn't it simply follow the public will? the problem is, there isn't one public, there are many. people seldom think alike or even about the same things. in this vast and varied nation, differences in religion, education, region, class, gender, race, and ethnicity produce a broad spectrum of views about the political w

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 s

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 support the companies casino

the reason he could not join the electrician union because they did not allow blacks in the union at that time. and that was one of the reasons i was in support of local hiring, and explained the situation to the supervisor about what happened to my husband. because i had to live that. in fact, when he was going to become the general manager up there, at hetch -hetchy, we went up there to look around because you get free rent and everything. i went up there and saw nothing, but trees, snakes and bears and they wanted to demote him and i said no, we're going back to san francisco. so that is the reason why. and he retired and when he retired and your people can look it up, the fact how long he was the only black worker at hetch hetchy. james rich. it's not jackson. so i don't want to get it twisted. when i was talking about e, i wanted to know whether or not -- he told me not to use his name, because nobody knew rich. that was why i was able to keep my name, because i have gone under jackson for so long. so he allowed me not to use his name. my concern when i saw about the electrician

in germany no completely agreed this is a this is a union. this is a union worker a board of directors thing but we talk about crony capitalism we talk about you focused on republicans there's also german labor groups that are coming in today very interfering as well no. to be completely introvert and looking inside but unfortunate is not happening but you know we focus on republicans and beat up republicans but at the same time this is this is a continual problem where talks about a proxy fight between democrats republicans i think this is what's going on it's i mean it's an ongoing problem to also labor forces from from the other countries well it's a regional problem for us that the united automobile workers look at there's nobody at this table who knows more about the. president's one of my bed clothes. variants you all are at risk to kill and no one else knows about it better than you will leave you with the last word there neil munro here when you said workers in america ought to be treated thank you all elder joys of measurement coming

union members are losing patience. >> it wasn't as much as the unions had asked for and may not be enough to satisfy them. the president barack obama administration revealed we intend to impose future rule making to prevent self-administered plans from the requirement to make contributions to the 2015-16 benefit years. it escaped the white house press secretary. >> i haven't seen that article. >> the insurances paid for jointly by unions and usually small businesses that employ them. for administration critics, it is a political payback. >> are you kidding? first of all they haven't granted it yet. if they do, it will be a political pay back to the union at the expense of everybody else involved. >> union leaders wantsed next year's fees waived as well. $632014, 45 fwl 2015 and 16 in 2016. experts say administration officials feel next year's pool of insurance subscribers will need the additional money. >> off record they say we expect the population on obama care exchanges will be poor, sicker, older than average. the that's important to watch with enrollment statistics. >> organizeers c

for russia to demonstrate the european union the whole eastern partnership policy was a fake. here and the european union. >> thank you very much for that analysis from a russian perspective. where thelatvia supermarket chain -- an official at the supermarket chain has been fired after comments. he said he felt no responsibility for the collapse of the story and riga that killed over 50 people. the disaster has already brought down latvia's government. saying he could no longer lead the country. syria by the civil war and further proof of the disastrous and the causes of civilian life. the un's refugee agency really sing in the week for friday highlighting the plight of syria's children. over one million children are thought to be living as refugees in neighboring countries. half the total number of those who fled syria. the new report handing a voice to the traumatize young people as they described the violence and death they left behind. iscr says the syrian crisis -- since the rwanda genocide two decades ago. we need more psycho- social support to the children. 250,000 coun

i don't think our union shops should be treated any more different than our safeway union shops or our walgreen's union shops so i am here to support the workers at mission organics and the future workers at lucky dragon. thank you. >> thank you very much. i'm excited there are unionized medical cannabis workers in the district and actually there's a place that could really use union support and that is the manila oriental market street. it's a great place to organize new workers as well. probably about 25 workers there as well and the neighborhood has a great deal of difficulty with this store because there are deliveries that come all hours of the day, all kind of debris in the parking lot and in the corridor and we know if there was union standards in this place we would have a much better experience in the neighborhood. that'd be a great thing to see your union helping out with workers there and bringing up standards of the neighborhood. >> my name is kevin johnson. i think there should be more expansions on the cannabis clubs opening up in the city. the people talking about the yo

they wanted to be a part of it so they cheered at union square and danced on cue. it was all part of the plan to warn batkid that penguin kidnapped giants mascot and sped off to at&t park. batkid and batman spoiled the plan, saved lucille and was rewarded with a key to the city and also more practical chocolate key to the city. right now it's about noon. the bat mobile -- the batkid is having lunch at the burger bar, and thousands of people have gathered to cheer him on. this man came dressed up as robin and brought his son about the same age as miles. >> i wanted to come support miles and witness this great thing that's going on right now. this is awesome. this is epic. >> an east bay preschoolteacher took a vacation day to be here. >> it's fun, and it's also -- it's good for the soul. >> veteran police officers told us what a truly great fun day this was in the city. >> he fought through cancer. he beat that. i think it goes hand in hand that he is a fan of not only batman but superheroes in general, so here's to our fighter. >> the family also gave san francisco

the founders believed in a perpetual union.he 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 triump

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 morocco to turkey and then of course from bellaver in the east too to azerbaijan but really is it in the those countries best interests to have excessive regulation put on their industries even when. the e.u. doesn't give them a fair trade deal and it seems that ukraine has looked at the situation and it's decided that no we're best of not being with the european union. you say it's decided out but it's still on hold as the moment is still yet to make a decision do you think anything might happen in between to sweeten ukraine. well it doesn't really make any any sense because the opinions had a long time to give ukraine a good trade deal they haven't done so they per act quotas are agricultural products and all this time. ukrainian exports outside of the e.u. have been expanding since two thousand and two that's been the case so really why would you want to look agai

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 aug

union the european union is not a financial club which gives you take it to be bailed out at any time but it's a club of the member countries it hearing to certain principles. of free trade so the quality of the country changes one once it enters into the european union for the time being although i love the crane it. has in the form doesn't have the performance to and to tomorrow or even after tomorrow into the european union but as a matter of culture and i repeat this russia and ukraine are part of europe how can we think of you without thinking of the wonderful gift or desert culture has given to your doctor thank you for your thoughts suppression of the programs are going to leave it there dr marcus kerber founder of the time thank you. police arrested fifteen members of al qaeda linked terrorists here in moscow the suspects reportedly caught red handed with a cache of guns and explosives artie's near concha never as the latest. that comes after russian security forces detained and the other member of the same group at the beginning of november now the man who was allegedly invol

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 defe

the battle between bart management and its unions isn't over yet. no, i'm not kidding! the latest 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 you may want to call it today where a 5-year-old leukemia patient's dream is about to come true. >>> and we have a couple of transit alerts. we are just getting word of major delays on several muni lines, specifically the k, the l and the n. the k ingleside, l taraval and m oceanview running shuttle bus service from west portal to church and market. also delays due to some overhead wire issues on one vta line, the santa teresa to alum rock. we'll watch the problems. in the meantime, outside hitting the roads we'll show you what it looks like over at the bay bridge toll plaza. they just switched on the metering lights shortly before 6:00. so delays are building now in all the lanes. the cash and the fastrak towards that first overcrossing. you can see there in the distance the far end of the parking lot and you

can try to do is keep blame storming anybody russia who cares because ultimately the european union that started and has rendered wonderful supranational tred 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. staying with the u.s. the holiday shopping season has kicked off in america with some retailers breaking tradition by pushing their opening hours into thanksgiving night 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 but back in two thousand and eight it unveiled the largest stimulus package in u.s. history let's just see how it all panned out where banks were handing out just too many mortgages and as financial troubles plagued borrowers people simply couldn't repay the debt the u.s. federal reserve launched a massive program of bond purchases printing more cash and buying bad loans well

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

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. conclud

i also spoke with a represent i from the other major union.hey will also vote today from the same time slot but they are not disclosing the location of that vote. if the two unions approve the agreement, the next step is bart's board of directors and they will either vote at a regularly scheduled meeting on the 21st or call a special session. again union workers with sciu are set to arrive here in oakland within about an hour or so. there is also a third union that is still in talks with bart if. they have a tentative agreement. i will tell you more about when their vote is scheduled coming up in my next live report. katie utehs ktvu channel 2 news. >>> meantime orinda county city councilman steve glazer has been -- to make it illegal for public transit workers to walk off the job. glazer says new york city, chicago, and washington, d.c. have all banned transit strike. by the way the orinda city councilman is running for a seat in the state assembly. >>> starting today the bike path on the eastern span of the bay bridge will have new hours. th

union. section 4.8 giving up to six weeks paid family leave. bart voted in november to prove the $67 million deal only if the clause was taken out. now, the unions are preparing to file suit against the district not to get the clause put back in, but challenge unprecedented move by the board. union sources say the calls the removal of the item an tack on collective bargain proing is hes. sources say they want to work with bart on a solution to the family leave clause. bargaining and a strike are options on the table. riders are beside themselves with the saga. >> bart management not bothering to read a financial contract. if i were to do that, boy be fired instantly. >> when you get this back and forth it's hard to understand who is at fault. there doesn't seem to be a spirit of trust. >> with that in mind, living under a cloud of uncertainty, bart riders are now prepared if another strike were to happen. >> let's say i work in a nonprofit awill youing -- that allows us to shuffle things aro

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,

unions have left organizations. once again, targeting wal-mart for just developing the worst employer of all time. and right through black friday, they plan to let folks know that all the changers are occurring in the mainstream media likes weed ut the other side of the story, so we thought that we would show it to you. it turns out that the big nions were huffing and puffing and many of them were promoting and advancing. hoping to promote 25,000 workers, 350 associates with that news just today. that brings to mind the more than 150,000, advancing in pay and title this year. unions will likely associated to those having to work on thanksgiving day, but they will likely leave out associates a volunteer to do so. doubling their normal pay, but a 25% discount on hot thanksgiving meals to boost. and the media responded and we thought,responded and we thought, again, fair and balanced, might be nice to hear from the company's that are next. wal-mart u.s. is here. i'm only here. thank you for coming, it's great to have y

nothing to do with the union other than that we were forced into them. and this was like another situation yet again where the district is doing the pushing. >> reporter: the unions are meeting with their members and legal team for the next two days to decide what to do. what this all means is a lot of uncertainty for bart riders. >> i hope they don't strike because it's going to impact a lot of people's lives. >> very tired, you know, it's upsetting with all of us. i'm pretty sure i can speak with a lot of people. it's heartbreaking. it is. >> reporter: the unions say they may announce what they plan to do tomorrow and if that is the case, we'll be sure to update you. live in oakland, i'm da lin, kpix 5. >> the bart directors say taking out the paid family leave provision doesn't mean workers don't have family leave. it just means workers would have to first use up their vacation and sick days first. >>> new at 5:00 a silicon valley jury says samsung electronics will have to pay apple a hefty price for copying certain technologies. apple will get $290 m

a currency union with the u.k. but westminster has been out of it that this is not guaranteed and in fact is highly unlikely and some critics are saying that most of the white paper is based on the premise that indeed there will be a currency union to begin with another issue is that of taxes today alex salmond had insisted that there won't be a need to raise taxes and that first of all scotland would be a better fiscal position as the u.k. but this is against one of the new studies that have come out there saying that there will be a long term fiscal difficulty for scotland if it becomes independent and there's also the question of who's going to be controlling the oil reserves are definitely down to the dispute between westminster and scotland if it does become independent again alex salmond insisting that it doesn't want he doesn't want any of the nuclear weapons programs in the country they will maintain some of the more conventional defenses and now the list goes on but i think the main crux of the matter here

and congress inserted democracy into the workplace they did it by creating the right to unionize. that right created a genuine democracy in the workplace a major evolutionary leap forward both for business and for workers and most importantly. for our democratic republic. to work marvelously wages of workers increased a middle class emerged c.e.o.'s had wealth and power but it was not unlimited i mean they lived well but not like kings the average c.e.o. only made thirty times as much as the average worker but then came the reagan revolution against democracy in the workplace in the feudal lords rose up again anti-democratic and pro feudalism forces have been pushing back against democracy in the workplace since reagan declared war against organized labor in one thousand nine hundred one and it has not only hurt our workplace it's also hurt democracy in our nation a democracy that once existed both in government and in the workplace the reagan revolution pitted worker against worker tore communities apart and rich the kings and lord at the top of these corporate feudal dynasties w

well here we have of course the peccadilloes of the european union remember the european union is an organization that seems to have almost as many presidents as it has stormtroopers at the moment the national presidency that's the presidency that's held for every six months by a country is lithuania what is lithuania interested in clearly they're deeply concerned about what's going to go on in the general political basis from the baltics and their of their bikes they never russia in kaliningrad they're obviously incredibly close a neighbor to ukraine at the same point in time therefore they are deeply concerned about their sphere of influence this has been frankly a valid t. project of the lithuanian presidency which was never going to carry through because that january of next year we're going to see the presidency being taken over by greece greece with all its economic woes how they even heard of the ukrainian economy probably not despite the problems going on in the european economy many ukrainians really do see it as an attraction to eventually join the e.u. otherwise they would

workforce made it the envy of the world that time is long gone tonight still a take the explain why unions are the key to restoring real american democracy. best of the rest of the news washington state washington d.c. is preparing for a nuclear showdown but not in the way you might think on monday republicans in the senate blocked the nomination of or. robert wilkins is pictured right here to serve on the all important d.c. circuit court of appeals this is the third republican filibuster of one of obama's d.c. circuit court nominees in just the past few weeks and democrats are pretty furious and they might have every right to be the d.c. circuit is the second most important court in the country after the supreme court has jurisdiction over most cases involving federal regulation cases that involve the e.p.a.'s power to control greenhouse gases for example right now the court has an even four four split between republican and democratic appointees so make no mistake about it republican filibusters of president obama's nominees have one aim in one aim only and that aim is preventing democra

they heard from union members this morning inside bart's two largest union to prove a prove this november. bart says it contains an error that could add anywhere from $6 million to $44 million a year on top of the $67 million job package. now, bart's union saying that's not true. that everyone looked at this. this should not come as a surprise. they say that they're willing to go ahead and talk about this. they do want this contract approved. my colleague is inside right now, and she'll have more tonight at 5:00 and 6:00. reporting live in oakland, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. >>> still to come at 11:00, i guess we should wekd say this is like the spca for musical instruments. hang around. this is next. to those who've waited... worried... poked and prodded... taken risks... and lived in a state of "what if?"... welcome to a new state... of health. welcome to covered california. the place to find quality, affordable coverage. financial help for those in need. and nobody can be denied because of a pre-existing condition. enroll now at coveredca.com or call 1-800-752-663

anne makovec live with us with batkid at union square. we are going to check in with you a little later. if you would like more information about the day for miles or information on how to donate to make-a-wish foundation, go to kpix.com. >>> birds are to blame for an emergency landing at san jose's airport early this morning. the dallas-bound american airlines flight had to power down an engine after an apparent bird strike shortly after take-off. the plane returned to the airport about 20 minutes later. the md-80 aircraft was carrying 139 passengers and five crew. nobody was injured. >>> later today, bart's board of directors is holding a special meeting to discuss a mistake in the union contract which ended the strike. buried in the tentative agreement is a provision giving workers six weeks of paid family leave. management says that should have been left out. >> is there any possibility that worst-case scenario we could be looking at another bart strike? >> uhm, i -- i don't think that's has much potential, but, of course, anything is

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 th

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

throughout the course of the entire union we've got things like fifty percent plus use on employment in several mediterranean countries they have a year old currency project which is a fiasco of course what we have is a petulant president barroso who's extremely upset because the eastern word expansion of the european union has for the first time in twenty years been checked and it's been checked because when you korean read the small print of the deal they realise that actually they couldn't possibly manage to make the thing work it was going to render short term huge economic difficulties for ukraine and this is a country for whom actually most of their trade is to the east twenty percent with the likes of russia six or seven percent with turkey in fact the only european union country really on the radar would have been its neighbor poland. on our website or gather x. percent pinion on the e.u. ukrainian association deal so to find out more what's behind. head on line to r.t. dot com. the holiday shopping season has kicked off in the last with some retailers breaking tradition by p

the union declined our offer to comment on air but said in a statement.the union perserved its pension. a group on behalf of a mcdonald's employee calls it a case of "mc-verify your eligibility for work or else." as our cover story explains, a letter that asked an employee to reconcile her name with her social security number has led to allegations of illegal employment verification. "se vey, se siente....presente." 42-year-old maria sonia acuna avila worked in the kitchen of the same mcdonalds at chicago's union station for more than ten years. but a month ago, she received a letter from the franchise owner's payroll manager saying that the company just now discovered "your name and social security number do not match" those at social security administration. and to "provide this information within 30-days to continue to be allowed to work" there. "no se proque ahora...las papellas." "i don't know why they're checking my documents," she told reporters. her attorney says his client is active in labor demonstrations to raise wages and that the mcdonald's franchise owner has not produced