the ground floor is a unit. the main and the top floors a unit. you would be gutting this quite intact historical -- that has not been used as a four unit building. i don't know if ever. based on what you look at in the home. given all that, i think what tips it to me is, the city gave bad information. it says four units on the 3r report. there was a notice of violation on the issue. it was determined it was not a violation. these folks blocked the property with the understanding that this was a single family -- two unit building. i think after all this and seeing the uncomfortable approving of the merger, i don't think we are losing anything. this is what it has been for decades. we would be forcing them to convert this to something it is not. i am disapproving the motion -- i disapprove. gives me a right to approve... >> i support what the commissioner hill said and it may be stretching things a bit with some notice of special restriction that the interior will not be altered. there is a prohibition on that. it is the issue. if it becomes a stuc

no two nations enjoy a stronger bond than that of the united states and the united kingdom. ours is truly a special relationship. when our friends in great britain face a challenge, the united states will always be there for them. always. alone, russia's crime is worthy of this council's action, but this is not an isolated incident. at assassination attempt in salisbury is part of an alarming increase in the use of chemical weapons. last year the north korean regime used the nerve agent vx to publicly assassinate kim jong-un's brother in a malaysian airport. in syria, the assad regime continues to kill its own people with chemical weapons years after this council passed resolution 2118 to remove the threat from syria's chemical weapons program. when the security council created a mechanism so investigate the attacks, that mechanism was targeted when they began to shine a spotlight in arc sad's role in killing his own people. a growing concern in all of this dangerous and destabilizing activity is russia. russia failed to ensure syria destroyed its chemical weapons program. r

it was said after the civil war, the united states were, and after the united states is. churchill declared the united states stand at the summit of the world. i'd like you to hold that single declarative sentence in your mind as we go through this morning's lecture. there are certain premises that undermine my remarks, one that world war ii was transformational. secondly, that the transformations the united states was responsible for or participated in did not just happen, but the result of shrewdly strategic decisions about how to fight the war. thirdly, the consequences of america's t standing at the su mmit have been shaped ever since. let's go back to that remark quickly, the united states stands at the summit of the world. just improbable how that statement would have been from the point of view of 1940, just five years earlier. 1940 was the 11th year of the great depression. extrapolating backwards, the standards of poverty developed in the 1960's -- historians constructed a poverty line -- 40% of white ofseholds and 90% african-american households were below the p

but what is interesting for the united states is to do something similar. we also have nuclear weapons in the early 1990s and then to have the debate in south korea and some say the united states needs to return. >> and with the national war college so with nuclear superiority leads in only eight seconds but it is that status quo power not the revisionist power. so with 8000 so what are the implications of your theory? >> that is a great question book talks about those strategies and the united states has a first-rate capability. but but they use that even further tactical nuclear advantage during the crisis. so i think it is important for the united states to maintain but for the peak in 196,731,255 career warheads sir comes down to the new start treaty but with the new start treaty in the new agreements to roughly expand those capabilities i think that at ever structurally wasn't shut down but then we saw putin's announcement last week so why worry about that and i do think united states needs to be prepared to help me have to be prepared. >> i will close

the united states is one of the largest investors in sweden, and the swedish investments in the united states support over 200,000 american jobs. earlier this afternoon, i heard from several swedish business executives, some of the greatest in the world. where are you, folks, please, some of the greatest executives in the world, people i have known for a long time and know of, and they are investing tremendous amounts of money in the united states and supporting vocational training for american workers. we are grateful for those investments and are committed to working with sweden for even greater economic cooperation. we are also continuing to pursue bilateral agreements to advance mutual prosperity. i am pleased that sweden intends to procure the patriot air and missile defense system in a deal worth over $3 billion. the system will increase stability in the baltic sea region. pm lofven: thank you. thank you mr. president for a warm and generous welcome. it is a true pleasure to be here at the white house. this year, sweden and the united states celebrate 200 years of diplomatic rela

top of each other. >> this is one unit, one huge unit with 20 windows. they're saying we're blocking this window and this window, which are in a kitchen, which if -- you know, if i was remodelling this house -- i'm an architect, it's like i would provide a light well or do something, but we're talking about these two windows. i don't -- i don't know how to do this. >> commissioner moore: could you zoom out a little bit, please. >> okay. >> commissioner moore: more, more, more. >> it's one room here, these two windows, right? those are the two out of 20. so, you know, it's a big apartment. they chose to remodel it this way: three bedrooms, 20 windows. that's all i was going to say. okay? thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. >> if i may add one comment. >> president hillis: no, i think that was the question. commissioner richards, or commissioner moore, do you have any other comments. >> commissioner moore: no. i was going to ask, this is not part of the d.r. on the roof, there's a built in barbecue on the property line. i think it doesn't work. it's

the housing units are inclusionary units. one of the projects that we heard a lot about from the community is a new senior housing project that we are proposing. we feel very good about this. this is a project that took 105 inclusionary units and wrapped them into a project that's now going to be available for those that have 60% or less of the area median income, and it's exclusively for seniors. that is what we think is important. we think we need more projects like this in the area. the area that's providing the senior housing is wrapped by retail development and market rate housing, so it is currently proposed in an area called oh, for lack of a better word, perhaps the infield. it's the infield of the candlestick point -- infield of the candlestick point retail center and development. and we purposely wanted it cited there because this allows access to retail services and other access to transit. it's right there. it also includes market rate housing so there's no isolation but rather a nice integration of development, o

in the united states, people did not realize it until recently. in my view, chinese fellows associations got some extra dollars, i think that the chinese united front activity in american, australian and taiwan and japanese universities are much bigger than they were a few years ago and much bigger than we thought but not as dramatic as what we were saying, in the united states we have to be careful because of civil liberties but we need to be aware. my view is that universities should be aware of it and police themselves. the united states, the university of gorgetown, there is very little japanese press out there but the same thing is happening in japan, there have been problems with chinese professors in japanese universities had gone home for break and had their families had pressure. there is a lot of pressure on japanese universities. i think that its one of those issues where we should be comparing notes, i do not think that we should overreact. i like to have students from chiern, they are dynamic and interested -- china, they are dynamic

a common space with access to both units, couldn't you, so both units accessed it off the garage. >> family room? >> no. could you get access from both units to the garage, but separately, but have kind of a common area that -- >> you could not come out of the unit there and go into the garage, no. the unit has to be completely separate. you would have to come either through the side door out of the breezeway there -- >> well, it does. it does do that. >> at this moment, the two units would come off the same landing. one goes into the unit, one goes into the garage. it's a lower part of the a-2 drawing, and the wall to the garage would just indicate it's a 20 weighted door would have to be closed. >> commissioner moore, both units are accessed separately. both units are accessed from the bottom right there down the hallway into the unit, and then, and then both have access through that one stairwell into the garage. >> yeah, but that would have to be closed. that is where the tipping unit is that the two units are still ekt canned, so t secretarie connected. >> all right. so would yo

and 2500 unit. we are in between. but any ways, the garage doesn't work. the angle of the garage is to steep that the second car actually has to park on the incline ramp, and that is -- and on this, that is a conscious decision that really doesn't work. that is not a workable garage. the -- when you look at the section drawing and look at the dimensions, there is a little problem there, but the biggest one is really the fact that the opening has to be a shaft all the way open to the sky in order to allow access to light and air and exiting for the lowest unit. are you aware of that? mr. washington, do you see that in drawing a-103, the right hand drawing indicates that there is a 48-inch railing and a sky light on top? what needs to be, basically, a fully enclosed shaft? that may, indeed, cause the architect to reconsider it where the stair is, where the light well is, or how to bring light and air to the lower unit. i'm pointing that out because it makes a plan as it stands not a workable plan. >>

intention of the united states government is. bellatrix still there are some that we are ahead about. less than one are igor. soldo his means that some. yes a lot of good sense as it is what it was done the drama that ministration it's up saluted it clear though that right now i think it did its remarks differ and as sutton changes in american educated dogs american paul and foreign policy in syria and the name in the middle is ice in caracas we'll react these style am different in different way it was reacted in during the shah of iran. they are azhar why because and you know using arguments. for chemical weapons using and so on it doesn't work today and your time. position will go will be on the. depression pressing syria and i mean we hear about violation of international law by demick a lot their actions so on now it doesn't work i think that different situation we are facing today and i think all sides should calm and this situation from. a current events not that that was previously the way you talk about it in good current

the united states had particularly pushed for but we had to do said a a very quick rearrangement. which was an easy it took a lot of political will. because. not only did we have to change the implementation agreement because implementation agreement required that. more than eighty five percent of the g.d.p. of the other countries would ratify before you would enter into force now it's only six out of the eleven and not only change that will change all this elements relative to gender with strength and the aspects related to labor rights and environment and all of that i think made it up a better agreement not because the united states left because of the reality that we wanted to continue on. and you know it to continue we had to make it a more attractive agreement and i think when that up with a better agreement but not because the west left by because of the reality that we did not want to waste the years of negotiation of a high standard agreement. new zealand's trade minister says the deal isn't perfect you'll have given this trade agreement seven out of ten. as the rating wh

the united nations. and even the federal energy regulatory commission. that is the agency that regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil. that agency has the details of some of this country's most sensitive infrastructure. we believe that online defendants are currently in iran. i have a message for them and for others who attempt to harm our country through cyber assault. we have worked tirelessly to -- identify you and you cannot hide behind a keyboard halfway around the world and expect not to be held to account. together with our law enforcement partners, we will work with -- relentlessly and creative lee -- creatively to apply legal tools to find and charging. will do -- to find and charge you. these men are now fugitives from the american judicial system. these defendants are no longer free to travel outside of iran without the fear of being arrested in accidents in the united dates. they cannot leave iran to conduct business. the only way they can see the rest of the world is through their computer screen. but now

the united states has leverage right now and i want the amferings to use it.ran must understand that the united states and our partners will not tolerate a nuclear armed iran, not now, not ever. [applause] we haven't forgotten iran's nuclear history. the regime has lied about its nuclear ambitions before. that's why we must remain vigilant. we must be prepared and we must make our expectations abundantly clear. now, i know many of you share my concerns about what comes after the jcpoa. our european partners and the other parties to the deal have said they agreed there needs to be a successor agreement. and i welcome the administration initiating these talks in a diplomatic track. this challenge reminds us fighting for israel starts long before the battlefield. it means fighting in the halls of the united nations and in the capitals of europe and sometimes within one's own party to do what is right if we want to hold iran accountable each time it violates u.n. security resolutions like testing missiles or delivering weapons to hezbollah. we need a fully funded,

so, what, would you say -- 5 units, 10 units, 15? pat: what's the price point on this unit today?,000. it does have a couple upgrades. pat: you're ordering multiple units, then what does that do to the discount? steve: when you're buying half a million dollars, you've got your discount. when we get over $750,000, if we get an order past that, we will increase the discount. and then, if we get past $1.5 million, we'll increase the discount even a little bit more. lemonis: retroactive. steve: retroactive, right. lemonis: and so, does that seem like an arrangement that we can move forward on? pat: absolutely. lemonis: awesome. pat: yeah. the relationship has evolved. lemonis: thank you very much. jeff: thank you very much. lemonis: impressing an industry leader like els is no small task, and the fact that there's a real potential for big orders is a big accomplishment. what's changed with steve, guys? tracy: i feel like he's actually reaching out to a lot of our employees, and they're recognizing it and they're seeing it. austin: i've heard from the floor they use your name now. you

welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle fifteen years ago this month the united states and its so-called coalition of the willing to illegally invaded in occupied iraq american troops remain there to this day and iraq continues to grapple with that fateful decision many call the invasion of iraq a blunder shouldn't we call it what it really is a crime. cross talking about fifteen years on i'm joined by my guest ken o'keefe in calgary he is a political analyst and an ex u.s. marine who renounced us citizenship in washington we have chris turney why he is a former army military police sergeant iraq war veteran and contributor to the hill and into iran we have mohammad marandi he's an associate professor at the university of toronto right jim across the rules in effect that means he can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate before we get started here i'd like to refresh everybody's memory of what happened fifteen years ago preceding the war and also because the mainstream media is largely ignoring this fifteen year. because it's certainly not an anniversary h

to the united. to united and ranks of western powers but i would like to ask a question to my from from from from my colleague zyad just small question what do you think how russia will be dealing with the western countries in the future it is a fight all these sanctions this bite all this pressure and everything mr banta you have thirty seconds to respond to that question i hope that mr putin's government will decide to deal with the west in a responsible and co-operative menno eventually as i said it's not in the west's interest to have a confrontation with russia nobody gains from from that in the in the west the russian regime right now is a major nuisance but it's not a competitive economics threat and we hope that we come back to a relationship that is responsible and operative but that presupposes corporative and responsible behavior on the part of the kremlin mr baer thank you very much for that is thorsten bennett joining us from berlin then that a masonic hall at moscow and a grand band of

the only two no votes were the united states and israel. [applause] say,sador haley: i always quality is more than quantity. election,ter the 2016 president-elect donald trump talk to me about serving in his administration. we had good discussions about a variety of issues. long story short, his team called me later and said he would like me to serve as ambassador to the united nations. [applause] ambassador haley: i said, i'm a governor, i don't know anything about united nations. we went back and forth on a few things. the clincher was when i told the president, i will not be a wall flower. i have to be able to say what i think. [applause] ambassador haley: without any hesitation, president trump said, that's exactly why i want you to do this. [applause] ambassador haley: president trump has been true to his word, and i think i have, too. [applause] some of youaley: might have seen that the top palestinian negotiator recently had some advice for me. [laughter] ambassador haley: he told me to shut up. will always be respectful, but i will

the united states congress abdicated its responsible at that point in 1964. and 15 years ago oddly enough today, on this day, it was a war in iraq and a republican administration, and the administration lied to the american people again. and where was the congress getting out the facts? what the vice s president of the united states, saddam hussein is building weapons of mass destruction. there's a connection between saddam hussein and iraq and the 9/11. it was a lie. a it was a lie. and congress voted to approve of war based on false information. so what i say, mr. president, today, it is time for the congress to accept its constitutional responsibility or i don't know how well we will do. maybe we will screw it up as well, very possible. that's what the founding fathers suggested, and i think that they were right. we are closer to the people. the house and the senate, that is the white house. this white house or any of the white house. so the two issues today, do we accept our constitutional responsibility to vote on matters of war? i have suggested every m

talk of the united nations the u.s. joins britain in blaming russia for poisoning a former spy in his daughter in britain. the united states believes that russia is responsible for the attack on two people and the united kingdom using a military grade nerve agent today british prime minister theresa may announce that she will be expelling twenty three russian diplomats who were also suspected of being spotted also coming up students across the united states walk out of class calling for tougher gun laws remembering the seventeen people killed at a florida high school four weeks ago today and a new german government finally takes office nearly six months after the election. warning in for a fourth term. it's good to have you with us tonight the united states is getting tough talking tough with russia at the united nations at a special meeting of the u.n. security council u.s. ambassador nikki haley is condemning russia for what she calls the crime of using a nerve agent against a former spy and his daughter in a quiet en

do you currently live in this unit? >> yes. i live in this unit. this is a picture. >> supervisor kim: will you say on the record that you've lived in the unit the entire 20 years? >> it will be 20 years in a couple of months. >> supervisor kim: have you lived in the unit? >> yes, me. >> supervisor kim: i understand you have a sub tenant? >> no. it's me and a roommate. >> supervisor kim: okay. thank you very much. hi, ms. morgan. >> hello, supervisors. i'm here on behalf of the van ness neighborhood corridor coalition. and several months ago we wrote a letter in support. i will not speak to the tenants' issues, because there are some things that are going on there that you will want to deal with, but we feel it has incredible value for the corridor. we support enhancing the performance arts district and bringing students -- having student housing there. we would like to see more student housing around universities. that's a great thing. we're excited about a performance arts high school going in there. it's a nexus for students to find work and int

people from the eastern united states, southern united states, from mexico, from chile, from europe,rom the british isles. it includes the chinese. they're not alone in coming and they're coming for the same reasons everybody else is. they're trying to see if they can get their lucky strike. >> what kinds of numbers are we talking about over the last couple of decades of the 19th century? >> well, in the 1850s there's upwards of 20,000 chinese who come. it's not a huge number compared to the overall population. but chinese comprise about 20% of the mining population. so -- and by the mid-1850s they're the largest non-white group in the mining districts. >> what other kinds of work did they do, would they find? >> well, you know, chinese were received, i think, in the gold fields with some ambivalence. you know, not -- there wasn't racial conflict everywhere. people worked side by side and got along. but there was also conflict that is borne out of competition. and the easiest way to compete with somebody else is to hurl some kind of racial slur at them, that they don't belong there,

the united fa ns were minutes against sevilla. the united fans were so frustrated.ing "attack, attack, attack." it was really negative. pot but came on to but not change things. —— paul pogba came on. now it isjust on to but not change things. —— paul pogba came on. now it is just the on to but not change things. —— paul pogba came on. now it isjust the fa cup. not good enough forjose mourinho's standards. yes, and i'm sure we'll be healing the liem —— hearing more of fallout. roma, shakhtar donetsk, 1—0. roma is through for the first time since 2008. the hero... look at this finish. no respect whatsoeverfrom edenjacko. finish. no respect whatsoeverfrom eden jacko. underestimate finish. no respect whatsoeverfrom edenjacko. underestimate them at your peril because roma have some very talented players. brilliant, thank you so much. john bennett there was an update. now, should england be boycotting the world cup this summer in russia? that's a question being asked by some if vladimir putin and the russian state are found to be involved in the poisoning of a former rus

commissioner koppel your idea to flip it say good one but it leads to units on the ground unit that will never work. and it's daunting to the next door building. one question i want to ask is to the architect, can you come up for a minute and put up -- if you give me a level 7 or 6 floor plan if there's one on the overhead. >> commissioner: so the two-bedroom unit in the middle, just kind of a simple question which you'll tell me why it's wrong probably but say you took three of those units out from the top three floors and had a notch in this building that allowed some light and air to get through. it's a significant amount for the courtyard at bay crest, why isn't that feasible? >> that will essentially at the moment you can see a staircase on this side and this side and one elevator bank so national nationally -- essentially one vertical core. as soon as you take a piece out unless the core connects you'd be forcing an addition staircase and potentially an addition elevator. you're creating a two-tower scheme but on the top floor. >> commissioner: so might as well put an elevator on t

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the united states' interest -- and i think some do -- if you think that the united states right now for our own interest should be involved in the civil war in yemen being led by saudi arabia, then members of the united states senate should have the courage to vote for u.s. participation in that war. nothing more complicated than that. you want to come to the floor of the senate, make the case why you think it is good public policy for us to be involved in that civil war in yemen, come to the floor and oppose our resolution. but what i hope very much that we will not see today is the tabling of this motion and the refusal by members of the senate to vote up or down as to whether or not we wish to continue aiding saudi arabia in this humanitarian disaster. if you believe, as i do, that we should not get sucked into this civil war, which has already caused so much human suffering, please vote against tabling the motion to discharge and vote with us on final passage. if you believe that the united states should continue to assist saudi arabia in this war, i urge you to have the courage to

he was disappointed in the balboa units because it was only going to have 1,000 units, not 1500 units. when i said there was community input, he said that amounted to segregation, so this is the kind of ideology that is behind some of the yimby chatter. but let me just make a few points. i think wiener's legislation took a lot of vicious antidemocratic people to create it. i think wiener's 827 legislation is so eager to kill local planning and license widespread displacement of both apartment house dwellers as well as apartment owners in rh-1 and rh-2 zones that it sets transit rich as much as possible, namely, four bus stops an hour during major commute time, which there's nothing lower or lesser than that. and 827 doesn't mandate housing in with large employers where there's sparse transit. finally, it will dramatically increase profitablity of land and following approval increase land use speculations, so i urge you to do everything you can to change this and reject it. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. misse miss hester. >> sue hester. i will go back to 1979 to 19 # wi# -

states isn't do that i thought you know the united states is trying to give sovereignty to iraq and it doesn't even listen to its own i mean the only the political system that it actually imposed you know shouldn't isn't it time for the u.s. to stop quote unquote helping the iraqis go ahead chris well i think that i mean president bush campaign we were going to have nation building then we had nation building on steroids i mean i think you'd be fair to look back at that but i think the biggest issues with the post with iraq was not so much the initial invasion but it was all of the post-war activities whether it was the disagreement between the pentagon and the ministration over troop levels decommissioning the iraqi military and all and frankly just the post-war governance i think that's where the problems head if iraq was a flourishing democracy today i think maybe we'd be looking at it differently but i think it's more the way that it turned out that's causing this issues but i do want to say it's a very long complex history i don't disagree at all with the the contradictory fore

we have to work at getting 60 votes in the united states senate. look at the budget that we have submitted to show where we would be making cuts. the president has taken seriously his commitment to making sure the $20 trillion in debt that has been added by the last several administrations is overturned. we put forth a is fully responsible budget. we need congress to partner with us on that. >> looks like we have to go. the president is getting ready to speak on tariffs. >> president trump site in them around imposes up to $60 billion in new tariffs on china. at the white house signing ceremony, he cited unfair trade practices with china. vice president pence and u.s. trade representative robert lighthizer and commerce secretary wilbur ross were also at the signing. this is 10 minutes. president trump: well, thank you very much, everybody. this has been long in the making. you have heard many, many speeches by me and talks by me and interviews where i talk about unfair trade practices. we've lost over a fairly short period of time 60,000 factories

there's saying that they would have built 51 units. and now it's 177 units. i'm not sure how they came to that calculation, but at least it's a starting point. and i feel like -- i also felt like this study was done in secrecy. we kept asking where it was, if we could get a copy. we were told, by the end of january. and then we kept asking for it. i think on friday, we were expecting it. it was supposed to be part of the agenda packet and didn't get to us until monday afternoon. i'm sorry that president hillis isn't here. on monday night, affordable divis hosted with -- sorry, the neighborhood association hosted a meeting at the independent for the community to hear about the 400 divisadero proposal and commissioner hillis came to that presentation and he found me afterwards and found me afterwards and asked me what i thought about the feasibility study that had come out 6 hours before. i was at work and i had this meeting to run that i organized, so i had no time to look at it, except to see that fillmore was lacking feasibility, miraculously, which doesn't

and what is a configuration of these units? are they family units? bedroom units? what are you looking at? >> so what we know now is what is required in the development principles and parameters. at least 50% of the units have at least two bedrooms. the proposal is for primarily multi-family housing, like up to six-story apartment buildings, but there will also be some t n townhous townhouses. >> so have we done assessments if there are elementary school nearby that can accommodate the people. >> they're about to start another study regarding capacity that will take place over the course of this year. we'll get the results of that and factor it in. >> so the result is, no, you do not know. so it's correct to say you do not know if there are enough public elementary school nearby to accommodate the new students? >> that's correct. >> and i'm concerned about the timing, that it -- that the construction may interfere with the performing arts center. would it interfere or wouldn't it? >> i can't speak to the schedule of the performing arts center. i know that it's a pr

the united states is one of the largest investors in sweden and the swedish investments in the united200,000 american jobs. earlier this afternoon, i heard from several swedish business executives, some of the greatest in the world, where are you folks? please, some of the great executives in the world. people i've known for a long time and certainly know of. they're investing tremendous amounts of money in the united states in supporting also vocational training for american workers. we're grateful for those investments and committed to working with sweden to pursue greater economic cooperation. we're also continuing to pursue bilateral agreements to advance mutual prosperity. i'm pleased sweden intends to procure the patriot air and missile defense system, finest in the world, in a deal worth over $3 billion. the system will increase stability and security in the baltic sea region. a strong and balanced economic relationship strengthens security and prosperity in both of our countries. and this is just the beginning. we have a lot of things that we're working on and we're working on

torucial moment of decision the united states.t was that inevitable, but that was the choice we made. so in 1893, at the behest of sugar growers in hawaii, the united states promoted the overthrow of the hawaiian monarchy. the idea was hawaii would admittedly become part of the united states. they did not happen because there was a change of presidency in washington and the new president, grover cleveland, hated that intervention and did not want to take hawaii in. five years later in 1898 when grover cleveland was gone, the spanish-american war broke out. the united states became interested in the pacific because we destroyed the spanish fleet in the philippines that we decided we should take the philippines for ourselves. we became interested in the china market. --s was a real, fantastic for american business. american press was full of stories about how many nails we could sell in china for bigger the chinese to use nails. how much cotton we could sell. how much beef we could sell if we could get the chinese to eat beef. so we

and it's caused large numbers of civilian casualties sparking criticism from rights groups and the united nations for a president is on his way to court on to being detained in a german prison was arrested on sunday after traveling through finland and denmark he faces charges of rebellion and sedition in spain stemming from last year's succession vote in catalonia the court will decide if to remain in custody with pending execution proceedings and the high court in sierra leone has ruled that a presidential election runoff cannot be held on tuesday an interim injunction to delay the vote was granted on saturday after request by the ruling all people's congress it wants allegations of voting irregularities investigated the opposition has criticized the move as a delaying tactic could provoke large scale violence opposition. by or won the first round by around fifteen thousand votes. those are your headlines do stay with us more news continues after talk to alex is there. there were seven candidates vying for egypt's presidency. with president abdul fattah el-sisi. international rights grou

i mean, libya, what's the difference between libya and the united states? libya is a multiethnic country too. 140 different peoples. it's a failed state. it's disintegrated. why? because they don't have the overarching strong libyan identity, strong enough to hold the country together. it was really a colonial construction. but we do. this is what makes us special. >> "q&a" sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >> the house today approved a $1.3 trillion spending bill that funds the government through september 30. it increases pentagon spending by $80 billion and increases democracy spending by $63 -- domestic spending by $63 billion and includes $1.6 billion for border security and it makes changes to the gun background check system. the vote was 256-167. the measure now heads to the u.s. senate. current government funding expires tomorrow at midnight, so the senate must pass and the president must sign this bill by tomorrow night to avoid a government shutdown. . the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. sessions: mr. speaker, last night at a lat

with the united kingdom. it is it permissible to use of the chemical in accordance with existing international law. on the basis of the convention we hope that to parties will be able to resolve all of the contradictions. thank you mister president. on the fourth of march. is unjustifiable. this is a serious threat to international peace insecurity and we hope and an investigation will be carried out in a logical and complete comprehensive way through the competent bodies. i think the representative of bolivia for the statements. we express our sympathy with the families of the victims we had noted the letter by the prime minister of the uk on the incident of yesterday. the briefing that we have received. we strongly condemn any use of chemical weapons by any state the use of chemical weapons and it constitutes a serious validation. we hope it will be conducted. including undertaking presentation for the chemical weapons to bring in those we believe cooperation between russia and the uk in good faith to ensur