it is a four unit illegal building with a fifth illegal units. commissioner hillis: why not legalize it? >> it is not possible because of the zoning, as far as i know. in fact, it would be a windfall to us if we could. then we have an extra unit. but we do not know it would be possible. >> thank you. scott sanchez, planning department. just to confirm, the property is located in an rh-2 zoning district. we have the authorized use as a for family dwelling. a fifth unit would not be allowed under the density requirements in the code. there is no way to legalize the unit of this property. it is already over density for the zone. >> mr. duffy? >> joe duffy, dbi. it started back in 2009. we got a complaint. actually, housing went up on a routine inspection, and noticed there was an illegal units. we sent a notice of violation. there was a subsequent permit obtained. that building permit never got signed off. there is no history after that time of an electric problem being taken out, which would have been required as well. in 2012, the enforcement acti

-- in an illegal unit. i am not feeling confident about the safety of this unit. from what i read, there is one exit to this unit, which could be a fire hazard. i do not know. i have not heard anything to the contrary. that would be my concern. it is the safety issues for the appellant. president garcia: may be what we could accomplish, then -- commissioner hillis wanted to continue this. that would give someone from dbi an opportunity to go out there and check on life safety issues. i am sure mr. duffy would see that it happens in a timely -- si would support a continuation for the reason raised by commissioner hurtado. and i would so move. do you want to go to june? >> the board is currently calendar ring -- calendaring cases for june. president garcia: the appeal could be withdrawn if the client is ready to move. the board will not be generous about allowing her to remain past the graduation date. can you tell us the time when you think it is going to be? either one of you. i do not mean the day she will

these are broken down into family units, a senior units, and supportive housing units. those are the target populations we serve. with in 2013, another almost 500 units will be completed. by 2014, over 5000. in 2015, some projects have yet to be entitled. we're only projecting 500. that number will likely increase. after 2015, when we take into account housing parcells the mayor's office has taken over, we will be developing almost 9000 within the foreseeable future of affordable housing units. related to rhna, you can see the units completed and the pipeline. it says about 9800. we have about 1900 units that have committed funding. another 3400 have un committed funds. we do have funding sources identified. i will turn it back to olson for the conclusion. >> in conclusion, we agree with a budget analyst's report on reporting, tracking, the exclusionary program, as well as funding. i would like to leave the supervisors with one last conclusion. we have had a very robust affordable housing program. i think the slides have shown the importance of the redevelopment tax inc

over the last five years, units were built. about 500 of these units were affordable. this is 37% of the units that are affordable compared to what the -- what we are mandated to produce, which is 60%. this is a breakdown of the targets by affordability. 59% of the total production targets have been achieved. 36% of affordable targets have been achieved. you will see the darker column is the actual production. light blue is what the targets should be. you will see that we are doing fairly well with market traits and not so well with low and moderate income. this report is based on the most recent support the report rates submitted to the state -- this report is based on the most recent report we submitted to the state. we were on time. >> not so well is an understatement given the lack of affordable housing. that is an understatement. we need to do much better. >> hell are we to meet the shortfall? -- ;how are we to meet the shortfall? this is a breakdown of where these units are in terms of development. just under 3500 are under construction. the units in the pipeline

sometimes we in the united states it darvin be criticized united nations for restrict teen the united states ability of the nato countries. for example of the united nations is a useful forum for the combat is fun if it doesn't try to bias or is steered in a certain way, sometimes overreact us that with regard to the palestinian israeli problem. when it serves or countries can come together and debate and try to be diplomatic solution is a powerful function. when the united nations perform some of the specialized function but she mentioned earlier in discrete areas that can perform an important focus of countries for a specific issues. so one should not, for example, understate the u.n. achievement in the area of international health and food security and relief, education and so on. on the question is whether all that needs to be done by the same institution you does there need to be one united nation that tries to be an umbrella that supervises all these other functions or as some have it suggested whether it might be better for the u.n. to sort of decentralized into more discrete i

it is a four unit illegal building with a fifth illegal units. commissioner hillis: why not legalize it? >> it is not possible because of the zoning, as far as i know. in fact, it would be a windfall to us if we could. then we have an extra unit. but we do not know it would be possible.

it looks like a small unit. i imagine the unit would not be that high. possibly a couple of thousand dollars, which to me is not to that time. based on my experience of seeing those penalties. we have the permit in place, which was taken out by the owner. thinking ahead they were going to get a notice of violation. with the the permits there, the penalties could be waived because there is a permit in place. i am not saying there will be penalties. there may not be. they handle their own notices of violation. if the owner has a permit in place, i would say that the penalties would be a non-issue. i would imagine you would be sympathetic. i am available for any questions. >> i have a question. in granting the permit to remove this unit, given we do not know if it is illegal or not, was there any consideration to the fact that someone reside there? i do not understand why a permit would issue for demolishing someone's home. >> that is a good point. the applicant must have provided our department with something that there was no third unit. when you look at

12,326 units have been built since 2007. about 4500 or 30% of the units were affordable. this is below the 60% mandated by the rhna process. the 11,000 units represent an achievement of just under 60% of production targets to date. this slide shows the breakdown of targets by affordability. 36% of the affordable housing targets were achieved. this can be a bit confusing. when i mentioned that 37% of the production was affordable, but actually, only 36% of the targets have been achieved. clearly, the city has trailed dramatically in terms of meeting targets for low and moderate income housing. we are doing slightly better with the units affordable to very low-income households, and we are also just keeping pace with the market rate units, 90% of the target. this is new to the overall, very low production count in 2011. so how are we going to meet the 64% shortfall? there are about 49,000 units in the pipeline. about 3500 are under construction. over 3/4 of the pipeline have just been in title. this includes the very large development projects in treasure island, hunters po

states as hosni mubarak to be to step aside i don't think so united states should. every every arab country who faced uprising united states should immediately as the head of that seems to be a step aside i think this is would be simplistic unrealistic and doesn't reflect the reality on the ground i think and doesn't reflect the complexity of the social politics of the different countries in the middle east. strategic geopolitical elements are very important but i think we have really a new phenomenon year if you see like what i notice is that you seen united states or european countries are not taking in regard with syria or egypt or other libya or yemen they're not taking a unilateral actions if you see their. mind come on then they will when you when the united states as well hillary clinton says this leader must go ok that's pretty unilateral sounding to me and sounds very definite as well what right does the united states have a say in the leadership and what they should go if if i might come in here jump in jumping if i might come in here years you know i thin

it is a mistake to assume the united states can only have influence in the country if the united states has 100,000 troops on the ground. the regional government said the same thing last week. the united states remains today the critical interlock among political parties in iraq. given regional tensions the united states is in fact playing an integral role as an honest broker in iraq. i tell you from my own experience that the words honest broker are not used by iraqis to describe iran. it is also wrong to assume that because our troops have departed that our security, our defense relationship with iraq has ended. iraq has purchased a billions of dollars in training and military education. and lead to long-term defense ties. it is based on a sense of partnership, shared interest, and respect each other as sovereign nations. iraq and the united states share an elemental bowl. and the prosperous iraq, the government is tenable to and serve the needs of the iraqi people. and work together at the most senior levels of government on governance and the rule of law, to energy and the environme

i have legalized dozens of dwelling units, illegal units, for people in san francisco. in the last 10 years, there has been a sea change within the bureaucracy, the building and planning departments, where the attitude has been very proactive in trying to help property owners bring things up to code and to save these old, illegal units, rather than force them to be abandoned. the attitude of the city has really changed a lot and people are more likely to get help from their building inspector rather than enforcement. >> what i had hoped we could do is look at this little hand out for further discussion. starting on page one, it is from a website, home remodeling magazine, there is a long list of things supposedly san francisco-based, adjusted for local conditions, and how much of the cost you can expect to recoup for the work you're doing in the building. if you're doing work because you want to live there and you want to appreciate the improvement, that is different. if you're doing work with a clear eye to how much you can get back, i am shocked to see under the colum

their missile what would the united states attitude be in the u.n. you mentioned -- i just want to clarify that. you would not be recommending, if they do move forward on that launch for the u.s., us, our position, to backtrack on our position regarding north korea, right? >> no. i mean, let's be clear. he asked about the security council and what our posture would be. such a launch would be a clear cut violation of resolutions 1874 and 1718. there's no difference of view among members of the council on that assessment of that being a violation. we would seek a strong council response. >> again, so the attitude would not be the same as unesco, it would be to continue our position on north korea. >> we do not agree on how you characterize our position on unesco, so i'm not going to buy into that. >> i understand that, but i think it's pretty clear. now, again, another area that i think we may be able to agree is the following. some nations, such as china and russia, have been pushing to reverse this consensus -- the internet, which basically has not b

in response to the horrors in syria, the united states and our partners at the united nations have supported an immediate halt to the vie leps and negotiated peaceful transition and a responsible democratic process. despite russia and china twice vetoing security council action, the united nations general assembly and human rights council have repeatedly and overwhelmingly condemned the carnage and the united nations has played an important role in supporting arab league efforts to end the crisis including through the joint appointment of special envoy co-fee annan. in line ya the u.n. led gadhafi from massacring his own people. to end nuclear weapons programs, the united states pushed the security council to impose the toughest sachss ever on iran and north korea. as the president has made clear, we will prevent iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. and as long as iran fails to meet its international obligations, the pressure will build. the united nations played a critical role in supporting the creation of a newly independent south sudan. the u.n. ensured a democratically elected presiden

it is not a good unit. this is the property resource database which still shows as a single-family dwelling. they get their information from the assessor's office and i will show you that in a moment. this is the map which shows just one address, 138 fifth ave. i went through the directories going back into the 1950's, 1960's an 1970's. it was 138 fifth avenue. if i could go to the overhead. 138 fifth avenue is the only address that the assessor's office has and this is the assessors building record which very clearly is indicating it has a single family dwelling. it was never a permit issued to change the use. which is what is required for the planning department to act, to create a new dwelling unit. the point at which the second unit first shows up in the record is sometime in the 70's. -- 1970's. the polk directory never shows an entry until the 1982 poll, where -- polk. it shows as a new address in the directory system. the building department has reviewed all these materials. the only problem i have i

the united states did in libya. primarily with our force, the air force and supplying arms. the secretary panetta said that the united states legally could not intervene in syria because the u.n. security council had not authorize the operation as it did in libya. as a member, the obama administration waited three weeks to get the un security council before intervening. we have a debate. we can always talk about whether mr. panetta is also correct when he said we don't need congress's permission, but the u.s. permission. there you have the secretary of defense publicly saying that we need the permission of one of these neutral independent international organizations to give its approval before the united states can do something. another one is in the alien tort statute litigation that has been going forward against american corporations, the supreme court has a case right now called the coble case where the question is , of foreign governments violates international law and the treatment of its own citizens and alle

. -- third unit. what's that application got to city planning, city planning said, the zoning will not permit a third unit. that was rh2 at the time. it would have required a variants going back into the 1950's to legalize the second unit. in order for city planning to have acted to include a second unit, it would have taken an action of the a master at the time and it would have taken an application to planning that did that. the record shows there was never an application that showed an actual change of this building for one to two. someone did overtime by gaining -- gaming record. reading history, you see the thumbprint of this property owner and the contractor watching how he did what he did at the time. it is an interesting forensic expiration. >> thank you. mr. duffy. >> commissioners, when i read this, i thought it was a little unusual. i started reading it. i need to see this building. if -- you can read all you want. when you go to a building you can see what happened. i did go to the house.

services and units with different rotation policies. we didn't have continuity, to put it mildly. building an army from scratch required gaining the trust of the iraqis and then mentoring and coaching them on how to conduct actual operations. the reservists' skill in training others combined with the uninterrupted opportunity to form personal connections made a considerable difference. now, for many of our reservists, it was the first time they had been activated. for most, their first overseas assignme assignment, but they quickly drew on their experience training american soldiers and rose to the challenge of working with soldiers from different cultures, different religious sects and varying degrees of literacy. the members of the 98th adapted quickly to the job and steadily improved the training and equipping programs on which subsequent reserve divisions and active component units would build. they can be justly proud of their accomplishments, as can those who followed them. just out of curiosity, are there any from the 98th or the follow-on units who helped with the train an

that is about 60% of the unit. despite the changes at the regional level, san francisco is pretty much the same. i think that is what we need to remember. before i move on, there is something i want to add. one thing mentioned by the audit was the first implementation measure that you helped us adopt last year. it was that we provide more information on how we're doing with the permits of projects. i am happy to share with you that we have developed a methodology wiur

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the united nation conference on environment and development in 1992 where i headed the united states delegation, the expectations for it were much greater than for rio +20. one cannot but feel the sense of meeting fatigue, of resignation, of lowered expectations going into rio +20. i think it's probably a good idea to lower expectations for a conference, frankly. there are some very specific things, however, and i just went through them i thought in a compelling way that can be achieved there. and it will advance the cause. perhaps not as dramatically as what was achieved and agreed 20 years ago, but nevertheless, effectively to continue the country, the world, the environment moving in a better direction. now what rio did, i have a number of really indelible memories of rio. i think one of my most compelling is of flying back from a meeting that i had had with president calor and three of his minute stores and laid out the terms under which i would support president bush attending the conference. president calor said heads of state were waiting to see if president bush was coming an

>> hinojosa: has the first latino president of the united states already been born? some say, "yes." as the youngest mayor of a top 50 u.s. city, my guest today symbolizes the emergence of a new generation of latinos in american political life-- the mayor of san antonio, texas, julian castro. i'm maria hinojosa, this is one on one. mayor julian castro, welcome to our program. >> tnk y vermuch f having me. >> hinojosa: so your mom was a big time political activist in the 1960s and 1970s-- chicana activist. your brother is in state government in texas. you're the youngest mayor... or one of the youngest mayors in the country, san antonio, and people are saying, "this family has got a political future." so is that kind of the way you had it all planned out? >> oh, it's... well, that's the way that it's working right now, it seems, but not the way that we planned out. >> hinojosa: so you didn't even think, like, when you were a kid you were like, "i'm going to become a politician like my mom." >> no. you know what's interesting was that because my mother was so involved

i think this is really a signal to the united states that if the united states or israel attacks iran and iran's nuclear facilities then iran can increase the support to the taliban. so far we haven't seen very sophisticated weapons go to the taliban including advanced surfa surface-to-air missiles that could target u.s. helicopters or explicitly foreign projectiles that do so much damage to the u.s. forces and cost so many u.s. casualties in iraq. but there is the possibility that iran could step up its support to the taliban in case of an attack and this fits iran's overall national security doctrine of letting others do the fighting for it. there have also been reports of iran having significant ties to al qaeda. iran is known to host senior al qaeda members within its territory. it's not clear how active iranian support of al qaeda is currently. a lot of al qaeda members are known or reported to have been actually under house arrest in iran and iraq could be using al qaeda members as a negotiating -- as leverage against the united states. again, if the united states attacks iran,

most of our work is for multi in a housing project eric -- anywhere from two units to 106 units. thething that is -- the thing that is so poor and to me is my experience in san francisco, most projects of any size, anything more than six or eight units that has to go through environmental review can take up to four years to six years from inception to actual sales. and so proud six that are in an section now probably will not see the light of day and tell twice 16. the economic times right now are not very good. there is a little more activity. i did also attend a couple of presentations by ted egan, who predicts things will not come back to the level they were at the truck -- top of the mark in 2007 until 2016. and so in my opinion, i believe this deferral should go on for another three years until june or july of 26 teen. because again, there will be projects that will be anchoring themselves all the way up to 2016 in a lesser economy than we're used to. the other part of this is the eastern neighborhood and the other fees are new. and on top of the fact that the economy is not

never have an international united nations conference during a presidential election year in the united states. well, we're doing it again, but somehow rio plus 19 or rio plus 21 doesn't quite do it. well, i started to talk about the compelling memory i have. it was flying back on prince charles' plane. i had met collor on "the brittan brittania" where i met prince charles and princess diana in the middle of the night leaning over to me and asking me if i would like to go back and watch "sleeping with the enemy" with her in the back of the plane, which i then did. that kind of blotted out a lot of the other less pleasant of the united states declining to commitment to timetables or having declined the biodiversity convention. who came out of -- what came out of rio 20 years ago was agenda 21, which i'm happy to say is now getting some salient, some prominence because the tea party has noticed it. they don't like it. they think it involves a secession of sovereignty in the united states. well, it basically is a litany of positive interventions, policies which have guided countless minist

united states at the detriment of everyone else in the world everyone. yes well you have to remember that immediately after world war two we did develop an instrumental a that was called special drawing rights as the r.'s and the reason we don't have as the us today is because nobody wanted to use them the dollar has become gold central gravitated good is we've all been a little busy to figure out your figure of speech ok ok josh one of your last one of those is going to change my point go ahead joshua yeah i think he's make an important point that bretton woods taught us that you can't make an artificial currency and at the end of the day people trade what they have and and this economy people have dollars people trillion dollars and that means good news for the u.s. in the short term ok we'll see if the chinese can get rid of them one way or another you guys go way over another time a think so my guess a day in our land and in chicago and banks are viewers are watching is here already see you next time a member rostock. can still. from. there hasn't be

chamber's agenda here in the united states. and after a tenure as president maybe tom donohue will invite you back to the chamber to talk about how we can work together. i thought that was a terrific comprehensive speech, not only because you also plugged the u.s. chamber's mexico leadership initiative, and we thank you for your strong support, but because it gave you a true sense of what has happened in mexico under president calderon's leadership. i'd like to open up the floor for a few questions. go ahead. ahead. even though you are known to all of us, please introduce yourself. i want to congratulate the president for his great speech today. mainly because of the numbers you have presented to us today the i am sure i am speaking on behalf american chamber of commerce to mexico to congratulate you during the five years. you have really supported free trade. you have really supported foreign investment in mexico. and that is something that is helping the country and the numbers are showing it today. congratulations, mr. presi

move many see as an attempt to undermine china's growing clout now this comes on the heels of the united states building up its own military presence in the region. syria says government troops will stop all military operations on thursday morning in accordance with the u.n. brokered deadline for a ceasefire with opposition fighters despite some western countries again lashing out of the assad regime for its alleged failure to stick to commit acts. and a powerful earthquake and subsequent aftershocks triggered tsunami warnings in indonesia and several other countries in the indian ocean there were no immediate reports of deaths or damage following the eight point six magnitude quake. china is poised to become the next global economic power player but just how soon will it happen and to find out right now are crossed. and you can. start. to. build. a low a welcome across the uk i.q. level rising and surpassing this is one way to describe china's truly amazing ascent on the international stage but with success comes challenges is the u.s. ready to be second best in china and as china becom

over the last five years, units were built. about 500 of these units were affordable. this is 37% of the units that are affordable compared to what the -- what we are mandated to produce, which is 60%. this is a breakdown of the targets by affordability. 59% of the total production targets have been achieved. 36% of affordable targets have been achieved. you will see the darker column is the actual production. light blue is what the targets should be. you will see that we are doing fairly well

attack mode draw the united states into that war probably prematurely it would force the united states to get into a war because an iranian counterattack would almost undoubtedly be targeted against the united states is against israel so you know that would be drawn this from course i think such an action without an american consent. course agree permits to israeli relations strategic relations with the united states for an extended period of time do you think that the past sanctions recently declared against iran are enough to satisfy the israeli government and not able to strike the might satisfy for time being i think the general. attitude in the insert is that the sanctions are not enough and they're not going to convince iran even if they would be much healthier would not convince iran not to continue nuclear weapon project how do you measure iran's capability to launch a counterattack iran has a cup ability of launching a missile attack on israel direct or attack on israel. with a few hundred thousand. what would be the effectiveness of such an award is there accuracy of these mi

basically, i am the unit, along with one other person. we are tasked to receive and organize information from various city agencies, economic development fees that are owed or development impacts. we receive all the information, accumulating debt, working with project sponsors and other agencies resolving disputes and questions often raised by the project sponsor when they get their first report. we published an updated, city- wide development fee register located on the website. we are responsible to ensure that the first construction document that either the full impact fee is paid or the project sponsor decides to defer the impact fee. we will talk a little bit more about that as i talk about the deferral program. any outstanding impact fee requirements are satisfied prior to issuance of certificate of occupancy. the first certificate of occupancy. we generate project development fee reports for each of the projects that clarify what was owed and required available for the public so that they can offer to the sponsors that we know exac

will it help him move voters in the united states this fall and the presidential election?> i don't think the summit there will. if he took a trip to mexico it would help him. but this is just a bunch of fellow who talk, it's a publicity meeting. you've got 33 people there, and they silt around and discuss one issue, it's a big problem is the drug issue i which is real problem for those folks down there [overlapping speakers] >> first stop that obama made before going to columbia. it was in florida. and he told people there, when i'm at the summit, you're the people i'll be thinking of. that means it's political and he wants to reach out to hispanics and latinos and he wants them to know even though i'm spending a couple days outside of country, you're on my mind. >> it's good marketing and it's good politics. and obama's always look to be up the u.s. export market, and latin america has actually weatherrered the global slowdown better than most. they're prospering, and the markets over there -- are very good and çobama is popular. this is a terrific forum. i doesn't see a

opposing countries or not even by resolutions in the united nations in the united nations and other. international relations the arabs and the muslims unfortunately have this automatic majority so no matter what they passed would be a game status but in real terms when it comes to trade science cooperation investments. bilateral visits we are not isolated quite the contrary you've lost egypt and turkey as close allies this is something that has to be looked through the internal situations. turkey i'm not sure it's a matter of turkey is really it's a matter of turkey and the international community where it is in the future because it's going to move towards. west or east how are you going to cope with the islamization of north africa and the middle east where this is something that has to be done not by us but mostly by the societies which are going concern. and the other international community members do you feel that western nations involvement in the revolutions in egypt and libya have created problems for israel . well it created problems for the entire order in the middle east

between us and the united states the united states is really hated in many parts of the muslim population do you think that by having such a close relationship with this well it is jeopardizing its international standing even further. not at all. there are many who say that. israel is so much attacked politically and so much incitement against is rooted in the arab and muslim world. because we were present western to all courses than the western civilization so it's kind of the other way around and indeed unfortunately in the muslim and the arab world there have been some brainwashing for generations by islamist elements by palestinians and they do not see the facts there is only one narrative. which is kind of a block for them for real opening their minds and hearts to somebody which is different from someone who somebody which really wants their. benefits. in that respect i believe all of us are in the same basket whether it's the united states whether it's europe whether it's russia or whether it's israel israel is still to have seven hundred nuclear weapons and it is the questions to

the united states have to deal with. as long as i ran it says the state announced it to your weapons, this could be even longer. so if president obama said, nuclear armed iran is unaccustomed. so that leaves us with one option. it is not an attractive one and there are many downside is. it's better than the alternative. a u.s. military iran could almost certainly destroy the capabilities and it's difficult to estimate with any capability, but i has to it would set the program back between three and 10 years and this would create a lot of time for some thing where it ends up without nuclear weapons. there is a significant upside to strike. there's also downsides to military action, but i think that these risks are often exaggerated and are not as crazy as many people believe in the united states of putting a strategy. so the most obvious cost of military action bpa ronnie military action. it's important to understand iran does not have a strong conventional military said that there has been in the military actions. so a m

including an article about the s are units in the city -- sro units in the city, of varying quality. if the city is ever going to make a dent in refurbishing that stock, they need to embrace refurbishing an innovative idea like this amendment, because only then will we start to see units replace the substandard and in many " -- many cases squalid units that many of our residents live in now. >> any questions? thank you for bringing in the module. it really kicked the tire visual. looking at the designs in your submitted to us here, there is an open space. >> which? >> on this page. i wanted to underscore the demolition is not as much as it might think. it all does stay the same. an important part of the buildings, typically are buildings have no parking. people usually use bicycles, transit, without driving. as a result the ground floor is largely given over to uses that enhance the experience of people upstairs. there will be a kitchen-like area. we hope that other areas will provide a stimulus for the people living upstairs. these still have to abide by the open space requirements

and a full unit on the upper. it accommodates good-sized units. yes, 2841 square feet means each unit is about 1400 square feet. there are nice-sized units but they are not huge. the hike is only 2610 in a 40- foot area. i think this is a really good project. >> the motion on the floor is to not a discretionary review. commissioner antonini: aye. commissioner borden: aye. commissioner miguel: aye. commissioner sugaya: aye. vice president wu: aye. president fong: aye. >> that motion passes unanimously. you are now on item #8. 62 collingwood street. >> good evening. the proposal is to legalize the implication of a triple-pain, and double on aluminum windows. they are all located on the second level. the existing structure will not be enlarged by the request. the property is locating -- the department has concluded it is these of from review and the residents reviewed the projects following the fall it -- following the filing of the d.r. they found the project to be consistent with the residential design guidelines.

optimistic viewpoint is there are bad the chinese economy may already be traders and lies and the united states won so the i'm entirely sure where it is but certainly from our point of view the perspective of europe and from the united states and europe is generally that still china is lacking far behind and we think that's clearly not true and apart from the i.m.f. we had a study by the economist released just now saying was a lie the i.m.f. bad china really surpassing the u.s. as the number one economy including sixteen in the purchasing power parity terms in two thousand and eighteen in nominal g.d.p. too and so we would think if they have not already overtaken the u.s. which is quite possible then to the and sixteen for those nations that's probably the latest date so clearly from an investor's perspective you better look at china gaining some exposure in some way from a geo political perspective clearly it's. gaining influence quite strongly and it's probably a good saying that this is happening you know a train in russia can criticize a lot in the west but then as we all know there

going to be increasing likely the united states. war anxious about its position united states. house is going to car which will which will fade away over time but for the next twenty thirty years he is going to be. an angel think the americans may feel that. they need to take military action in a certain stumble into that will walk into that. front line and in great distress at all the countries in the region. the other countries which are. close we think. you will get i think what is quite interesting is the the indian. standing clear of it now. all sorts of very complicated things going on ok we'll have to leave it there for there are a certain age especially bill thank you for that. government is acquiring for a dentist a cheap deals on alcohol an effort to curb binge drinking it's a bargain prices in supermarkets are encouraging people to drink while but others saying prices won't help authorities either bend it now reports for some the consequences could be fatal. this is your average friday night now in britain is not yet midnight many people have already drunk well over

was pressing for him to be taken to the united states but the russian citizen was in. jail for some two years and during two different courts hearings type courts refused the u.s. extradition request the russian federation also said that mr putin a russian citizen and also former soviet military officer are should not be extradited to the united states nonetheless in november two thousand times mr boot was taken out of thailand by a group of u.s. officials according to documents released by wiki leaks the u.s. government spent an enormous amount of time trying to get custody of viktor booth following his arrest in thailand according to u.s. cables u.s. president barack obama was urged to personally call thailand's prime minister directly about in addition the state department and the attorney general of boardings will weaken the documents were encouraged to call the thai embassador highlighting the massive drug enforcement administration's commitment to thailand to the u.s. federal judge says she will recommend that mr bloom remains in the prisons general population fo