prevent the united states from. supporting the theft of london and the expulsion of of people look i'm not a fortune teller we don't know what will happen a year two three five ten from now on what is clear is that the general assembly and the two thirds majority of member states ex-president for the south clearly on this matter and i think this disability message will not go unnoticed do you think that the two state solution as adopted by the united nations is viable after what has happened. and do you fear that the. approach to try and find some sort of political resolution to what is one of the all this conflict ongoing conflicts in the world that this is still an option on the table after what the united states has done the two state solution is the only solution we support is the only solution that has been discussed the only solution that is clearly been negotiated and has a strong support of the united nations and other international organizations yes we are struggling now to get the process back on track but

who we are, the united states and the russian federation? i don't want to blame anyone for the current situation in russian-american relations, but today is the first official remarks by me as an ambassador for the russian federation to the united states. [applause] amb. antonov: i am not a magician. >> i want you to stop killing in chechnya. stop killing gay people in chechnya. i want gay people left alone in chechnya. we need to protect gay people. stop killing gay chechnyans. stop killing gay chechnyans. stop killing gay chechnyans. stop killing gay chechnyans. [applause] [crowd noise] amb. antonov: you can see our relations are complicated. it seems to me everybody has the right to explain what he wants. how he can see how he sees the current situation. it seems to me i also have the right to convey a few remarks to you, trying to explain how we in the russian federation understand the current situation in russian-american relations. i would like to explain to you how we understand the importance of russian-american relations. i don't wa

first, the involvement of the united states and the war with the united states. when we think of america's relationship with the first world war as being from 1917 to 1918, we are missing the main point. united states was deeply involved in this war in a variety of ways. much earlier than american entry in 1917. the other thing this poster is attempting to get across is it is part of the movement that began -- that was known as preparedness. but the united states should or should not do to change its own society. to change its way of thinking. in response to events with -- that were going on in europe. the question of how the united states interacted with the first world war before entry is something we have a lot of conventional wisdom on, half-baked ideas, but not really a lot of solid research. the book i worked on, "path to war," was an attempt to do this. to understand how a large, diverse, complicated society, like the united states, was responding to the events in europe, and how that response conditioned not only american entry in the war, but how america

as upon sale of one or both of those units, the units become two separate dwelling units again. >> second. >> a comment we heard other issues about noise and whatnot. certainly that's something you all should address as neighbors, but not something necessarily we have jurisdiction over. >> yes, this would have to be a motion of intent to approve with conditions to include that the units retain independent defining features and that the merged unit be reverted back to two units upon sale. and we would need to continue this matter for at least two weeks, to february 8th. >> on that motion, commissioner copal? >> aye. >> commissioner richards? >> aye. >> commissioner melgar? >> no. >> commissioner hillis. >> aye. >> that motion fails -- excuse me. that motion passes 4 to 1 with commissioner melgar voting no. >> item no. 15. this is a large project authorization. good afternoon, commissioners, planning staff. the request before you is a large project authorization for a six story building. this item was continued from november 30th. the project site is a core lot at the intersection of bryant

when united states grows, so does the world. the president will continue to promote their economic competition and will make it clear that there cannot be free trade if the countries are not held accountable to the rules. as the president said repeatedly, america and his administration support free and open trade but it is to be fair and reciprocal. we'll share about the present schedule and then i will hand it over to general mcmaster to discuss our national security priorities at the world economic forum. departs tomorrow evening. on thursday, he will have a meeting with schaub. the world economic forum will host a reception to honor the president. later at night, the president will host a small dinner with select european companies to share our economic success story and to encourage them to continue to invest in america. the attendees run companies that have sizable footprints in the united states. they have invested in our economy and we want them to continue to do so and encourage others to join them. the president looks f

he wants to see companies moving to the united states to build their product in the united states. we are getting the outcome we want to get. on the solar panels, he left enormous amount of latitude in that decision that where we actually have a business, which is making the panels, not the actual cells, the cells can be imported, we are protecting our panel makers because we do make panels here in the united states and we should continue to make panels and hire more workers in the u.s. >> on having candidates take a lead on a big global trade deal and the united states pulling out of some. are you not concerned about giving up the united states? mr. cohn: the president said this through his asia trip, he said it in europe. are ven tery opfree, fair reciprocal trade. if you treat us one way we will treat you the same way. if you have no tariff we will have no tariff. if you have tariff we should have a reciprocal tariff. it is hard to argue against that, that we should treat each other equally. that's our trade policy and we are going to keep going on that. >> a year ago at davos p

of the united states. and i understand there is a nexus there with u.s. forces in those regions. but, the point is to reform the immigration system to protect americans. can you provide more information, more statistics that show doing so would have prevented people from coming in who committed more crimes inside the united states? do you have maybe better examples than what you are trying to say? >> so,. >> this is the first iteration of this report. we in working together with dhs certainly expect to have more statistics and address some of the issues we weren't able to address in this initial report in future iterations of this report. in terms of the cases that are reported, i mean, if you do look at the cases, some of which are included in this section 11 report, there are certainly cases that relate to conduct that has been committed in the united states. conduct that is in support of, for instance, al qaeda or isis. so there are plenty of examples of conduct that was actually committed in the united

when the united states grows, so does the world. the president will continue to promote fair economic competition and will make it clear that there cannot be free and open trade if countries are not held accountable to the rules. as the president has said repeatedly, america and his administration supports free and open trade, but it needs to be fair and reciprocal. we will now share a little bit about the present schedule and the economic agenda, and then, i will hand it over to general mcmaster to discuss our security priorities at the world economic forum and the president's meeting with world leaders. the president to parts tomorrow evening and arrives thursday morning local time in switzerland. on thursday, he will have a variety of meetings with world leaders and a quick meeting with the founder of the world economic forum. on thursday night the world , economic forum will host a reception with world leaders to honor the president. later on that night, the president will host a small dinner with select european companies to sh

the united states. listen. >> no longer can we compound the attacks on truth with our silent ak wee yes sense. no longer can we turn a blind eye or deaf ear to those assaults on our institutions. an american president who cannot take criticism, who must constantly distract and distort, who must find someone else to blame, is charting a very dangerous path. and a congress that fails to act as a check on the president adds to that danger. >> gloria, it was a very, very powerful speech. >> it was a powerful speech. it was something obviously that he's given now that he's not running for re-election, i might remind you. but i do think that he is trying to kind of zwrgin up some sense among republicans that's their obligation, as members of the president's party, to fight him when he does things like call the press the enemy of the people. we saw john mccain's op ed today in the "new york times" where he echoed that sentiment and talked about the importance of a free press in this country. i think it will fa

the united states and i understand there is a nexus of u.s.forces in those regions but the point is to reform the immigration system to protect americans. can you provide more information and statistics that show this would have prevented people from coming in, do you have better examples? >> one is in response to the directives and working together we expect to have more statistics and address the initial report in future iterations. in terms of the cases that are reported some of which are included in the section 11 report there are certainly cases that relate to conduct that have been committed in the united states. the conduct that is in support of al qaeda or crisis that we define qualifies the international terrorism investigation and relates to the terrorism conduct a some secondr third i should say of course we are trying to prevent through anyway we can we are trying to prevent terrorism attacks and so the most successful prosecution i've ever been involved in in the furtherance of the goal income junction we convict them and .. >> i'

when the united states grows, so does the world.n prosperity has created countless jobs all around the globe and the drive for excellence and innovation in the u.s. has led to important discoveries that help people everywhere live more prosperous and far healthier lives. as the united states pursues domestic reforms, to unleash jobs and growth we're also working to reform the international trading system so that it promoting broadly shared prosperity and rewards to those who play by the rules. we cannot have free and open trade if some countries exploit the system at the expense of others. we support free trade, but it needs to be fair and it needs to be resip are because in the end unfair trade underminus us all. the united states will no longer turn a blind eye to unfair economic practices including massive intellectual profit theft industrial subsidies and pervasive state led economic planning. these and other predatory behaviors are disturbing global market and harming business and workers not just in the u.s. but around the glo

way but i mean he did talk as i mentioned he did talk a lot about how allies are important for the united states but this whole situation with turkey is something that doesn't really underline this point it kind of weakens this point because turkey is america's you know. regional key. regional ally and the united states have seemingly forgotten about it they have chosen to ignore it altogether choosing to announce the creation of this border defense force and how this border defense force then apparently the decided to not created and to listen rex tillerson the secretary of state went in and said oh no you got us wrong and some people misspoke and mis portrayed the events so in the latest speech matters has not yet addressed this but i don't know maybe he will like you say and that is still speaking so we will be bringing us all the latest information on what he says and of course leader i'm sure you'll be back to bring us up to speed on what reactions we're going to get from china and russia too with these latest comments so thanks for now your stuff you're. in other news now a teenager

there were 30 units that were demolished, 72 units lost through legalization. 16 units lost due to unit mergers, 78 units lost to conversion and nonresidential units and 12 lost to correct official city records. affordable housing made up 16% of new units added to the housing stock in 2016. 802 total affordable units were completed including 449 inclusionary units and 65 second tear units. the number of affordable units completed increased 52% from the previous year. bringing affordable housing units have 28 affordable households earning 20 to 30% a.m.i. 65 of those moderate income units are considered to be secondary units and not income restricted. next year we will have a inventory housing report to complete the secondary units. housing permits issued are an economic indicator of future housing production in the city. the department of building inspection permitted 4059 units for construction in 2016. this is 36% more than the total number of permitted the previous year. of the permits issued in 2016,88% of our buildings were for 20 or more units. san francisco accounted for 19% of t

let's not look at units but the size of the units. we can get more units in if we make them more reasonable and we should be looking at that when we're definitely trying to maximize the density. lastly, two commissioner johnson's point, i completely agree. a lot of property developers are looking at their proformas. the risk is the rents are justifying the risk involved given the cost to construct. if they start falling, i hope we don't have a disincentive to not build. so, it is becoming a vicious circle. a vicious cycle. thank you. >> on that question, the 4,000 units that were built over the past year, do you have a sense of when they were entiets ld? -- entitled? like it would be interesting to see kind of. because we have faced this issue a little bit. there is the one side that says we need to bill. but it would be interesting to see when those were actually entitled. i don't know if you have any sense of that. >> thank you, commissioner. we do have information as to what quarter they're built in and the date of the entitlement

we recognize that peace will require compromise but you can be confident in this the united states of america will never compromise the safety and security of the state of israel and any peace agreement. must guarantee israel's ability to defend itself by itself now there are those who believe. that the world can change that we're destined to engage and loose violence that age old conflicts can't be resolved and that hope itself is an illusion but my friends president trump doesn't believe it i don't believe it and neither do you. i stand here today in a city whose very name means peace and i stand here i know that peace is possible because history records that israel has made the very difficult decisions to achieve peace with its neighbors in the past over the past two days i've traveled to egypt and jordan to nations with them israel has long enjoy the fruits of peace i spoke with america's great friends president sisi of egypt and king abdullah of jordan about the courage of their predecessors who forged an end the conflict with israel in their time and those two leaders prove ever

i think you have a brand-new united states. have a united states where people from all over the world that are looking to come in and invest, and there is just nothing like what is happening. and i just want to finish by -- i have a group of people that have been so -- i have a lot of them, so i will not introduce them, but i have had a group of people that worked so hard on this and other things. and we are really doing it. we had a great first year. so successful in so many different ways. and there is a tremendous spirit, when you look at all the different charts and polls, and you see as an example, african-american unemployment at the historic low. it has never had a period of time like this. same time with hispanic women. it was heartwarming to see. it is a tremendous spirit in the united states cannot like i have never witnessed before. i have been here for a wild. i've never witnessed the spirit our country has right now. i want to thank you all and all of those that are pouring billions of dollars into our country, or

saudi arabia would like the united states remain there israel would like the united states to remain there to cut down assad's government and to deny the syrian government oil water and agricultural land that's what chopping syria into two and a bella ping a long term relationship with the kurds in the north helping them it to develop greater independence will ultimately do it'll keep syria very weak this is a way to night iran the fruits of it's a victory in syria and also to bring russia down a notch so i think the united states is seeing this as a way to hurt its enemies russia and it won and to help its allies. both israel and saudi arabia the trouble is is that turkey is collateral damage here the united states' relationship with turkey is going from bad to worse and this dependence on the kurds is in a sense underlining that the united states unfortunately i believe has looked at turkey as a last partner that it's moved towards dictatorship greater islamist i'm less democracy is not something that's going to be reversed and that america can't reverse i think the united states t

units. thank you. >> president hillis: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening, commissioners, again. my name is mike o'cassidy. i'm a visitor. i built two two-unit buildings at 56 and 58 lower terrace which is just a little bit up the street from this site. a lot easier to build on that lot because you have relatively level lot likely. this lot here, it's great. we fought as years for builders to get more units in buildings, and nobody wanted to listen. now it's a policy. it's great. but it's kind of very hard to be genuine about what -- like this man said, the neighbor, if he wants to maximize the use. well, if he does, why not put two more floors on it from the street up top? it would match the buildings on lower terrace. if you take away square footage, don't expect more units. it doesn't even make sense. and as for the other neighbor who was happy having a family of three, i have a family of five. i mean, i wouldn't -- i'm -- i mean, we need three bedroom units. two bedrooms ma

the residential building will contain three three-bedroom units and one one bedroom unit, ranging from approximately 1,300 square feet to 1180 square feet. the project also includes eight class one bicycle spaces, four of which will substitute for the required off street parking spaces. this principle rounding up remaining fractions of one half or more. upon completion of the active tentative map application, the property will have an area of 3,900 square feet and is therefore seeking approval of four dwelling units. so this publication of the staff report, the department has received one phone call in opposition to the proposal, requesting that the commission not approve any units at the site, given existing congestion in coal valley. the department is recommending the planning commission approve the proposal as it's necessary for the surrounding neighborhood and the city as a whole. the massing and design is -- and the city's bicycle and pedestrian networks, and the project adds for dwelling units and 11 bedrooms to the city's housing stock. this concludes my presentation, and i'm av

the united nations report condemns iran saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for their roles in the war in yemen. along the whole rahman you want to go to their own life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next thirty minutes african members of the united nations demand the president trump brick tracks his reported vulgar description of their countries accusing him of racism and xenophobia also the u.s. extends the iran nuclear deal but for the last time says president trump unless he gets changes to the international accord. and more protests in tunis the gates the government's austerity measures around eight hundred people have been arrested. welcome to the program a report by u.n. experts on the war in yemen shows the extent to which saudi arabia and iran have intervened in the conflict the unpublished assessment presented to the security council is sharp. critical of coalition airstrikes which of cause the majority of civilian deaths in the war the findings also bold accusation is by the u.s. that a rainy and weapons including ballistic missiles have been supplied

states they're basically harming their own position because the united states of. eager to come back into the negotiating mode and assist the parties in in negotiating a final status so it's really quite puzzling this position but in any event i don't want that is we'll let you know only in the position that if it's puzzling let's let nor explain the reasoning behind it well i mean it is puzzling if if you have a colonial mindset if you think like netanyahu and the right wing in israel and you consider that the only way to talk to palestinians is if they endorse your point of view about the conflict then if they deny that they have rights to this land then they have roots in history so i might understand the. surprise or confusion of your guest but having said that the issue of jerusalem is not an issue between the united states and israel it's an issue pertaining to the heart of international law and the international order it is not the prerogative of the united states to undertake this is for. very responsible step and by the way the palestinians took a very cal

again, surprisingly, the united states opposed this move. finally, in eurasia, we have been working closely consolidating our efforts for integration. china has its own initiative. the president of russia and the chairman of china have agreed to promote couplings of eurasian integration and the one belt, one road initiative. members of the eurasian economic union have been working together on a treaty -- on a trade deal with china. simultaneously, we see context between them. also open for asian country and -- countries to join in, they have signed agreements with the eae you, for talks. on the whole, this is what president putin calls the greater eurasia project. this looks very promising. of course, we have to consider a number of important factors because there are a lot of economic interests at stake. but, everybody -- this initiative looks so promising because it is based on real-life. it doesn't set up specific frameworks in advance and moves on to practical things. no. the way we do it is -- i can give you a metaphor. you know how the

a bomb shell from the president of the united states. also in a separate interview with the wall street journal, the president of the united states said i probably have a very good relationship with kim jong-un, the north korean leader. ben cardin is with us, the ranking member of the senate foreign relations committee. your reaction on this description for people who to want come to the united states from countries like haiti, el salvador, african countries to the united states, these are s-hole countries. i won't say the word. he did say why can't there be more people who come to the united states from countries like norway. he did meet with the prime minister of norway yesterday. >> well, america's strength is in our values and we stand for how we represent to the global community democratic principles, inclusion, et cetera, the president's comments damaged us greatly. now i think our responsibility to say that his comments do not represent america. we've got stand up and say that we won't tolerate that type of characterization as to

we support 56 specialized units throughout central america, including fbi's tag units and isis tcius. in 2016 alone, the northern triangle and the vetted units we support made 3,116 arrests and denied more than $200 million revenue to criminal organizations. because gangs are transnational, i cannot overstate the importance of strong regional coordination. we must be nimble, and inl continually evolves its approach. inl and fbi developed the regional criminal gang intelligence platform to enable realtime information flow between tag units. last may, inl with the department of homeland security created the border immigration and coordination center, el salvador and multiagency task force to help u.s., state and local authorities identify, arrest or deny entry to gang members. to date we've identified 214 -- excuse me, 240 ms-13 members not previously known to u.s. law enforcement. 46 not previously known to salvadorian authorities, and 37 salvadorian human smugglers and facilitators. in the last two weeks, we identified 16 salvadorian gang members, four of which had active arrest warra

for the united states. so may overall view of the iran deal was if you go back and you look at what obama administration officials said that was necessary for a good deal, and compare it to the deal we have now, it doesn't come anywhere near what the officials, themselves, said was necessary for a good deal. if you don't believe me, you can go look at senator schumer's press release when the deal was completed. he opposed the deal. he is a democrat. he laid out all of the reasons he thought the deal was bad and i agree with every single one of his complaints. ok. we have the deal now. i am actually supportive of the administration's, the u.s. administration's approach now which is to say you don't certify the deal if we don't know for sure they are complying. there are reasons we believe they aren't complying including the fact that we don't have access to some of the military installations, the iranians complain the deal didn't include the military installations. my reading of the iran deal was it was purp

it will have 250-unit hotel and condo units. it took 1 1/2 years to negotiate with developers to get benefits for our community, including offsite housing for homeless people that hopefully it will be a better environment than they are in now. and job hiring for the neighborhood. i don't know if there's a benefit package with this project or not. i hope that this project does help the neighborhood out. i mean, some -- when they say affordable housing, i'm hoping that the percentage of the a.m.i. is for the middle class and working class people that deserve to stay in san francisco who are the backbone of everything we do for this city and also for lower income people that are being priced out of the city and having to move all the way to vallejo and all of that stuff. all these new projects need to be made sure that they house everybody, not just the techies or the people who are like moving in to the city from way out, who knows where, for the local community itself. i'm not -- i don't know if i'm for or against this project. b

the project provides a dwelling unit mix of 45 one-bedroom and 30 two-bedroom units. they will meet their incollusionary housing affordablity requirement by designating their on-site as affordable. the project would require 14.5% be designated as the base project, which for the base project of 55 dwelling units, would have been eight units. however since the project sponsor has elected to designate 20% of the base project, 11 units are going to be part of the on-site incollusionary housing program, and this allowed them to qualify for the maximum density bonus of 35%. since the project included rental housing, the project sponsor has entered into an agreement with the city and county of san francisco, and the project sponsor is continuing to work with the city attorney on this agreement. this agreement is not yet finalized, but is required to be executed at the time of the first construction document. the site is located within the mission interim zoning control area, and as required, the motion relevant topics for the commission consideration as it relates to the pro

driven by demand in the united states. luckily, we are partners who focus on the transit but never solved it. we need to work on the supply side and we need to work on the demand side in the united states and address medically the challenges here. let's go north to the arctic. on the left is a doomed vessel. it sailed empowered itself into the high north in the mid- 19th century. private public expedition. got caught in the ice and most of the crew got were lost. even as late as the 19th century we had no idea what was in the high north. today is a fact, the ice is melting. we can have a big debate about the science of global warmer, i'm here's a mariner. the ice is melting. the sea lanes of communication will open. hydrocarbons will be available and significant countr significt competition in the high north. this could be a real cold war overtime. rush on one side of this arctic and five nato nations, u.s., canada, denmark, iceland, norway on the other side. because of the ice melting it will create a real geopolitical ch

states that means the united states loses the only way the united states the only they with that the recession can work is if the united states wins and hence the others lose and that's a problem that's a problematic approach to foreign policy and to foreign trade because the united states is over the last twenty five years certainly since the second world war has built an international liberal order it's the united states that takes the credit for the entire international system the rule of law the relations between states full of ration of nuclear in other weapons or nonproliferation and certainly on the questions of trade it is all an american order and all his successors since world war two and certainly since the end of the cold war have respected in fact they have noticed this world order that the united states has built. donald trump over the last year has begun to chip at this liberal order in fact he is insists on undoing an entire liberal order the united states built and takes credit for that will not only be bad for their so the war if there's no other system or there's n

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if the united kingdom and the united statetes decided tomorrow morning not to buy south african goods, not to buy south african gold, to put an embargo on oil, if our investors and capitalists would withdraw their support for that racial tyranny that we find there, then apartheid woululd be brought to an end.. totoday, dr. king's cityty temple address, decemberer 7th, 1964, in londo. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. and those are some of the headlines this is democracy now, democracynow.org, the war anand peacace report. i'i'm amy y goodman. amy odman:n: today is ththe federal holiday honoring dr. martin luther king. he was born n january 15th, 192. he was assassinated april 4th, 1968, at the lorraine motel in memphis, tennessee. he was just 39 years old. while dr. king is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also championed the cause of t the poor, organizing the poor people's campaign to address issues of economic justice. dr. king was also a fierce critic of u.s. foreign policy and the

interest to displace the united states as a preeminent power. of course reinforcement from iran and north korea to have weapons of mass distraction. it appears that they intensify from what these two announcements need from those calculationsns from that dynamic that was building up. i believe this was already in the making and especially the last two years suggesting the world led by the united states giving way to polarity. and to remember that it came up in disarray. with the second world war. and did not know what it would come out to be but edison came out with the prediction unless they come up with a painful decisionon but then to talk a great lake -- length but before that the longtime statesman from singapore suggested that china could be perhaps the biggest threat in the history that would require a whole new rebalance. the former australian prime minister said something similar to that like industrial evolution simultaneously combusting in 30 years. and that would require accommodation. but you have that that the time had come for the

african embassy to the united nations have demanded an apology from the u.s. president that follows reports offensive language and reference to several developing countries and a white house meeting on immigration reform and a new u.n. report on the war and damage the extent to what saudi arabia and iran have intervened in the conflict that bolsters accusations by the u.s. that iranian weapons have been supplied to what the rebels u.n. experts were also critical of saudi led coalition airstrikes which of course the majority of civilian deaths. leaders of the catholic church of the democratic republic of congo have vowed to continue fighting for justice following violent protests for months demonstrators have been demanding president joseph kabila step down the church has organized a. many of those rallies compared us to expire a year ago catherine sawyer reports from the capital kinshasa. catholic faithful in kinshasa hold a mass for people killed by police in reason political unrest the charge had called for protests a new year's eve after the expiry of a pol

than those who think we need to carry our own flag i'm also against a united team because the athletes have worked so hard as a team so this is not fair in the game it's going to leave that up we should be unified anyway so i think it's a good idea we are the only separated nation in the world and i think it's mainly because of political reasons. some critics have questioned the decision to allow south korean athletes to train at a north korean ski resort which is known as the leader kim jong un's pet project they worry that south korea is helping promote tourism there and while there has been a thaw in north and south korean relations these talks have been limited to discuss india lympics and not the bigger issue of north korea's nuclear weapons program so the question remains what happens after the olympics when the u.s. and south korea are due to resume joint military drills which always anger the north pole throughout twenty seventeen kim jong un matched aggressive woods with twenty three missiles in sixteen tests and he told to donald trump with his talk of having a nuclear button

library was trying to mention the united states of america. and union the african union the regional called it intimate community of west african states and single girl china in particular the maldives are our friends beginning a story i want china polish here for to grow development. idea and china he also charges from president bush for support. and in the words of a president of the united states for ourselves what isn't good for the country and i'm. a lot is expected of george weah but many analysts believe that the next six months will determine which direction staging liberia and its historical success now the rich are getting richer and the poor are staying right where they are that's the conclusion of this latest annual reports on global inequality released to coincide with the start of the world economic forum in davos the antipoverty charity has found that eighty two percent of the global wealth generated last year went to the richest one percent of the population the three point seven billion people who make up the poorest half of t

he served as a unit that it -- he served as a united states senator. attorney jeff several -- attorney general jeff sessions attorney general in the united states. it is my honor and pleasure to introduce him today. thank you very much. [applause] mr. sessions: thank you, tracy. it is very good to be with all of you. it is good to see state and local law enforcement officials here, too, because we are partners. there is no doubt about it. the executive gave his order right off the bat, and he can be pretty direct, and he said to the department of justice, your goal is to reduce crime in america. i have given a lot of thought to that. we have embraced that goal, but if you look at how crime is fought in america, 85% is state and local, and we have to do this together. that is our goal, our vision, and what we intend to be partners. i think properly applying techniques of law enforcement, we could make america safer and reduce crime in america, and that is what we are determined to do. tracy, thank you for your team. i appreciate their work. there is no

renter units. it would allow the planning department to implement ab1505 otherwise known as the palmer mix. the costa hawkins prevented municipal rent controls. the municipalities can determine the amount while occupied but the owner could set it when vacated. the palmer properties versus the city of los angeles case found it violated costa hawkins. in other words, landlords should set the rates. and right now it requires they be ownership. a project may qualify by an exception by receiving a modification. in some cases some projects run able to provide units because they're not seeking modifications that would result in a density bonus. these months must pay to the inclusionary housing fee or need modification. if a project is ineligible for a waiver from costa hawkins, it could result in there's an if it's not completed in time for a required hearing. in the past five years, the department has processed at least 100 costa hawkins agreements. the ordinance before you would modify planning code sec

i am against the condo conversion of this unit because she lived in this unit and was evicted. thank you for taking the time for this discussion. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good evening. my name is cynthia from the housing rights committee of san francisco. i'm here today to talk about obviously iris' case and if the planning commission is to generate an extraordinary vision for the general plan, which i took from the website, allowing this condo conversion would be extraordinary but in the wrong way. the san francisco general plan, the primary goal is to protect -- protection, preservation of the values that establish a desirable quality and unique character of the city. the priority is existing housing and neighborhood character be preserved and protected in order to preserve cultural diversity of our neighborhoods. what has happened in iris' case is already against our general plan, our priority and policies. she died fighting her eviction. we celebrated her birthday in the unit. frankly, i want to live in the city where we respect our seniors and i believe the p

they united g.c.c. bolsters our effectiveness so many fronts particularly on counter terror countering terrorism defeating isis and countering the spread of iran it's mine and plans. to go ahead in washington d.c. per se apart from what i hope for a resolution to this is there anything will concrete in terms of trying to resolve the d.c.c. crisis that's come out of the meeting of the. well i think the meeting itself is trying to send a strong message to three people and that would be president donald trump the leaders of the united arab emirates and of course the crown prince and saudi arabia really all of this designed to send the message that secretary madison secretary tillerson have said since the beginning is that this is not in the u.s. interest and here's why that matters what he just said there because he says it's impacting the u.s. militarily obviously that is going to be a problem for president donald trump if this continues let's not forget at the very outset of the blockade it's believed th

a united nations report condemns the wrong saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for their roles in the war in the yemen with devastating impact on the people of the country. so robin you're watching al-jazeera like what headquarters here and there are coming up in the next thirty minutes african members of the united nations demand president trump or a trunk says reported vulgar description of that country's accusing him of racism and xenophobia. also the u.s. extends the iran nuclear deal but for the last time says president trump unless he gets changes to the international court. rules as he does you're against the government's austerity measures at least eight hundred people have been arrested. welcome to the program a report by un experts on the war in yemen shows the extent to which saudi arabia and iran have been intervening in the conflict the unpublished assessment presented to the security council is sharply critical of saudi led coalition airstrikes which of course the majority of civilian deaths in the war the findings also bolster accusations by the u.s. that a radia

states he also attacked the united states for what he called bullying the united nations saying that deep in this is given this record even this is a proposal received sample and mentioned as well what heeling views as the united states the long history of interventions in the internal of iran a continual pattern of disruption as he put it in the course of the democratization process within iran he sees this gathering as yet another example of u.s. intervention in what he sees as the democratization of iran now he's not alone we heard the same criticism from the russian ambassador we heard it from ethiopia from editorial guinea and also from traditional u.s. allies france which also insisted very strongly that what was happening in iran in terms of popular political protests was something for a rainy ends to deal with an internal domestic matter support for the united states from the united kingdom quoting an arcade and seldom used part of the u.n. charter to justify this. gathering on the matter the u.s. itself we heard making very clear it's intent on as it puts it to protect those