this region is not only important to the united states. it's essential for the united states and it will continue to provide enormous opportunities and as an export destination for u.s. goods and services. most importantly, it's an opportunity for u.s. innovation where the united states clearly still has a massive economic advantage. within the next two years australia wases to have a network of free trade agreements and a forward-negotiating agenda which covers 40% of our global trade. we already have in place, as i said, free trade agreements with seven of our top ten, two-way trading partners and obviously, there is a big focus on the indo-pacific. having recently concluded negotiations of a bilateral free trade agreement with peru, we are currently negotiating a free trade agreement with the pacific alliance. singapore, canada and new zealand are doing the same. the region is not standing still and it will not wait. we are also very engaged in the negotiation of the regional comprehensive economic partnership which includes 16 indo-pac

) - [narrator] a period of relative stability thanks to the influence and ballast provided by the united states. (energetic music) washington's grand strategy of promoting democratic values while backing it up with military might, has been the dominant strategy since world war two. but with renewed russian aggression, and a rising china, is it showing signs of strain? pax americana, the american peace, next on great decisions. (energetic music) - [narrator] great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association in association with thompson reuters. funding for great decisions is provided by price waterhouse coopers llp. (dramatic music) - [narrator] world history is marked by the rise and fall of empires. some remembered as periods of stability and progress, others for turmoil and war. - [man] this was the great fire in the city of london. (dramatic music) - [narrator] eras when the world was free of great power conflict stand out. pax romana, when the roman empire extended through much of europe. or pax britannica, when the sun never set on the british empire. - the original pax

unit program. but with that, planning has received a grant from the friends of city planning to undertake a community outreach program, which we anticipate doing hopefully this summer? which would be focused on adu's, the single-family homes, going out to all the supervisororial districts and doing presentations and outreach to really focus on what the needs of sipping will family homeowners might be as far as education and how to get started. we do get a lot of questions on how to get started? so really, you know, doing some kind of informational interviews first to figure out what the needs might be, and then doing that type of outreach. so -- first question. second question, i may -- let's -- i'm not sure i fully grasped what the question was, so maybe let's think through. so under the adu program, the -- if the project is what we consider a rental unit, and receives any of the waivers, so any of the exceptions through the planning code, the new adu's would be restricted to rent control through

it's not fair to the united unfair to it's very the workers of the united states. very, very unfair. today, it's extremely hard on companies that want to business in china, because the barriers are incredible, barriers coming into our country are foolishly not. foolishly. believe in reciprocal trade. if they do something to us, we something to them. never happened. and it's gotten worse and worse over the years but we'll correct it that can be the only thing get in the way of a truly long term great relationship, because we ever ingredients for our friendship. examiner -- ington gabby. >> if that proceeds would you be to ing to grant a waiver gerd kushner, or one of the senior advisers? resident trump: gerd has done outstanding job. he gets zero, he doesn't get a salary. ivanka, who is now in south korea, long trip, country, and we cannot get a better representative. fact, the first lady, melania was telling me what a great impression she made this morning landed in south korea. is truly outstanding. he was very successful when he was in the private sector. working

yes united the united states is very concerned. but at the same time it also said it is not part of their implements as it were. they are not really in a position to convene. because they disagree with that view and they feel the united states should he doing much more to end its campaign and the united states on the one hand expresses concern has not said stop. there are kerger's anxieties about the commitment of the united states to their security. as for you know the united states saying well secretary tillerson said recently they are going to be staying on for a number of reasons and my colleagues just ran through some of them. i think saying that but not matching that with any real action and specifically what we just countered a rainy and influence of course again raises questions. that puts them in a very difficult position because by presenting them as allies in its i ran against the regime without permitting the resources for doing any of that really makes them extremely vulnerable. in fact we are not just talking anymore

or to school, 900 of them enlisted in the united states military. they were undocumented in america, willing to hold up their hand to take an oath that they would die for america. that's how much they loved this country. 20000 of them went to work and school teachers across the united states of america, perhaps they are your child's teacher or your grandchild teacher today. they are doing important things in this country but president trump announced on last september 5th the program that protects them and allows them to work would end and then they challenge us and said the senate and the house to do something about it and pass a law and isn't that what you are there for a president trump said that is right in the job. this week will try to pass a law to end this crisis which will reach ahead on march 5th of thisll year when the daca progrm officially ends and 1000 young people a day would lose their protection. we have less than three weeks and so we will move today hopefully, at some point to consider some alternatives to solve this problem. i'm

he will be providing on-site bmr units, eight on item bmr units. community benefits from the project will include nearly $1.4 million in impact fees, which go toward transit improvements, education and infrastructure. in addition, mr. chiu will be working together with the c 5 lle 24 latino association to paint a cultural mural. they will also participate in choosing the artist for the mural. we've been working very closely with scott weaver, an attorney for the neighborhood groups, on a project benefit agreement and have agreed to all of the terms of the agreement as drafted by mr. weaver. i have the agreement here, and we're happy to have it as a condition of approval. it's a private agreement. it includes a number of terms, the most important of which is the provision of four section 8 rental units, which the calle 24 believes is very important for low income individuals. this will be in addition to the required bmr's and is voluntary. there will also be a right of first refusal offered to calle 24 for the commercial space if it becomes vacant i

we would rather see two more even-sized unit, rather than a gargantuan unit and a small unit. and the last point is, the one elevation showed the wall. it's horrible. it's plywood with the seams in it. i would rather have higher-quality materials. somebody will have to look at having their light and air blocked, at least it would be higher quality than just plywood. >> commissioner moore: thank you for bringing that up, commissioner richards. i would generally say that the package for this type of building expansion is very thin. it does not really speak to window sections or materials or have the 3-d. the package is thin. it's the lower end of what we're expecting for this type of application. so i would encourage the applicant to spend more time. and if it's not drawn by a licensed architect or somebody with a stamp on here to be sure it meets the minimum requirement for something like this that comes to the department. i pointed out the fire escape ladder. so i would suggest that the applicant consider taking more time, making adjustments to the project and not just take th

the united states have contradicted itself. it has contradicted its own commitment and violated international law. no country alone to install a regional or international conflict without the participation of other international. question, to solve the , it is essential to establish a multilateral international mechanism, innovating from an international conference and allied with international law. -- president council, the highest palestinian parliament body decided several weeks ago that it is the relationship with review thet will relationship. we have become an authority without authority. the occupation has become one without cause. we are working. we are working for the occupation. we say that israel must uphold its obligation as an occupying power. we do not oppose the israel control its responsibility on the west bank because the situation is a bearable. -- unbearable. our commitment to maintain our institutions and cheeseman that we have realized on the ground, in palestine. we are determined to remain committed. we h

that is the fixed policy of the united states of america. as president trump has said many times, i always believe in talking. we have made it very clear that we are open to communicating our policy to the regime in north korea. what north korea needs to understand, as i made clear in an announcement in japan, when we announced a new round of sanctions that will be imposed, the largest ever. we are confident our allies will join us on it. nothing will change until the day comes that north korea permanently abandons its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs and ceases to threaten the united states of america. mike: it does not sound like those two things are preconditions for any conversation. it looks like when you are looking at the tools in your belt, you are talking about more talking. vice pres. pence: it is accurate to say that we want to make sure north korea understands us. if there is an opportunity for talks that can communicate the fixed policy of united states of america to them, the president has made it clear. he always

bad blood between iran and the united states is one of the reasons why the united states wants to keep a footprint there it really is quite amazingly doing the bidding of riyadh in tel aviv all the time because there is now absolutely no strategic interest of the united states or the anyone in the european union about syria and i think that. it's always misguided the more they listen to riyadh in detail of the the opposite happens iran's influence continues to expand when are they going to learn go ahead in a year that's true iran has in some ways benefited from the disasters wreaked on the middle east by the us in the last few decades but i would completely disagree that europe and the us have no interest in containing iran or destroying syria the us certainly does and the west in general and especially britain and the usa do are very concerned as i said drive the outset to destroy any independent or potentially independent force in the global south of. israel and saudi arabia the. bulldogs if you like of western power in the middle east the watchdogs keeping that area basically under

it's very unfair to the united states, and it's very unfair to the workers of the united states, very, very unfair. even today it's extremely hard on companies that want to do business in china because the barriers are incredible. whereas the barriers coming into our country are foolishly not. if they do something to us, we do something to them. well, that never happened. and it's gotten worse and worse over the years, but we'll correct it. that can be the only thing that can get in the way of a truly long-term, great relationship because we have all the great ingredients for friendship. from the washington examin"the gabby. >> thank you, mr. president. your chief of staff general kelly has recommended ending the practice of granting interim security clearances to members of the trump administration. would you will willing to grant a waiver to jared kushner? >> jared's done an outstanding job. he's been treated very unflarl. he's a high quality person. he works for nothing so nobody ever reports that, but he gets zero. he doesn't get a salary, nor do does ivanka. she's in korea right

kurdistan allied to the united states and the united states has just announced they will continue funding to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars peshmerga forces and you know arctic air does so there are actually patients of iraq created on the ground both u.s. presence and iraqi forces which are allied to them or our proxy forces to them so an iraqi government is subjected to this massive u.s. presence they still. the biggest embassy in the world by the way and baghdad so there is that you actually influence in obviously the other countries of influence in iraq as well to thing all our neighbors if you like ok but it is president a little term hasn't acquiesced to tory's amazed to say bomb damascus in border in iraq would bring syria well terrorism may obviously what they sometimes do successive british governments actually is is really behave more royalist time they came to feel like if that is a metaphor that could that i could use when it comes to us foreign policy they often the us policy they go beyond these very badly to justify it this has been unfortunately britain's role

the united -- poor leadership in the united states, because the united dates leadership has a lot -- united states leadership has allowed them to get away with murder. but i think we can have a great trading relationship with china. hopefully the relationship i have with president xi will make that happen. thank you. prime minister turnbull: i can confirm that president trump and -- see t xi ci tie in eye to eye and every aspect. it is quite clear in the meetings we have attended, the east asia summit, aipac. the respect they have for each other, i think it is the single most important relationship between china and the united states. it is very respectful, very frank, very clear eyed. for our own part, we see china's ase as being overwhelmingly positive for the region and for the world. the critical thing, of course, is that the rule of law is maintained. there are people that want to try to paint the united states and its allies like australia as being against china in some sort of rerun of the cold war. that is not appropriate, it is not accurate. thatwe need to ensure is the rule

to some extent people would say that it has happened here in the united states. you see it in europe, and viktor orban in hungary, there are questions about poland as well. - those who won the cold war believe that their model had triumph and it just turned out that others didn't agree. they liked parts of it, they liked the capitalist part, they liked the trade part, they liked the technology part, they don't necessarily like the democratic part. they may not like the migration part. - i think the biggest rejection of the post world war world order is actually within america itself. - [narrator] the election of president trump came amid a rise of global populism that saw a surge of enthusiasm for far right nationalist leaders. - you take these four things together, economic stagnation, large scale immigration, unmediated social media, and creaky old sclerotic governants and what you have is a recipe for populism on a world stage. - one of the things that has been striking about the last 10 years is the rise of identity politics in the western liberal democratic

terrible if that out that's what happens here ok bellamy let me go to you here i mean this is the united states i mean it's interesting the area of northern syria there that's really serious all is ok and denying syria the ability to rebuild is when in fact you know telling the entire world that they will be sanctioned if you give money to the government in damascus to rebuild another round of sanctions against rebuilding a country that the united states is it has a great deal of responsibility for destroying in the first place go ahead in london well i believe united states realized they were defeated in syria been a project in syria was completely defeated russia hands. i mean could be that the building of syria again so at least building needs money and syria needs the oil guys which is. where the oil fields are situated so it seems that america would like to prevent syria prevent the russian from actually putting their hands on the old reserves as it is so i don't think they will succeed here i have a lot of. information saying that the next stage could be actually a war against amer

but i think the united states know that, it is symbolic.on, suggests the seriousness. if i had to choose between more aggressive sanctions or a limited strike or what is referred to as a bloody nose option, i definitely would choose the former. now, china is saying that this will hurt china— us relations. do you think that's accurate? china has always corroborated with the united states when and to the degree that it benefits chinese national interest —— has always corroborated. they have never done any thing more just because the united states has asked them to orfor the because the united states has asked them to or for the sake of a bilateral relationship. i understand china saying that it will be harmful, but in my view, the chinese are going to continue to cooperate for it suits them and they won't cooperate when it doesn't. have you been keeping an eye on the olympics in pyeongchang, i wonder‘s do you think anything will come out of that seeming slight thawing in relations between the north and south?m seeming slight thawing in relati

that is the fixed policy of the united states of america. as president trump has said many times, he said i always believe in talking. we've made it very clear that we are open to communicating our policy to the regime in north korea. what north korea needs to understand, and as i made clear in an announcement in japan, when we announced a new round of sanctions that will be imposed -- the largest ever sanctions imposed by the united states, and we are confident our allies will join us, nothing will change. until the day comes that north korea permanently abandons its nuclear weapons and the stick missile programs and seizes -- ceases. like as you look at the tools in our belt, we may do more talking. i think it isce: accurate to say we want to make sure north korea understands us. if there is an opportunity for talks that can communicate the fixed policy of the united states of america to them, the president has made it clear. he always believes in talking. but talking is not negotiation. talking is understanding one another and when you th

homeless housing units built. making sure we have equity and transit-orient. it's complicate, i know. i just don't want us to be losing the momentum collectively as a city because we're going through a little bit of chaos in room 200. and so whatever anybody can do to continue advancing the details of those conversations to make sure we're being very intelligent and thoughtful in terms of house we go about doing that, i think is a good thing. and hopefully it leads us to a better place and more affordable city. thank you. >> thank you. >> good afternoon, commissioners. peter cohen, community council housing organisations. i will i will echo and say i like what corey smith said from the hack. this is the third round of process improvements and we very much want to see that execktive directive continue to be put into practice as well. just catching up on is a little troubling. there seems to be some -- i have the overhead. some consternation about the department's quarterly data reporting as the residential pipeline

it's not fair to the united states and it's very unfair to the workers of the united states. very, very unfair. and even today, it's extremely hard on companies that want to do business in china, because the barriers are incredible, where as the barriers coming into our country are foolishly not. foolishly. i believe in reciprocal trade. if they do something to us, we do something to them. well, that never happened. and it's gotten worse and worse over the years but we'll correct it that can be the only thing that can get in the way of a truly long term great relationship, because we ever all the ingredients for our friendship. from the washington examiner -- gabby. >> your chief of staff has recommended ending the practice of granting temporary clearances. if that proceeds would you be willing to grant a waiver to jared kushner, or one of the senior advisers? president trump: jared has done an outstanding job. he gets zero, he doesn't get a salary. nor does ivanka, who is now in south korea, long trip, representing her country, and we cannot get a better representative. in f

with other words give the united states what it wants privately. and even to begin ok well that's just great brian i mean the north koreans saw what happened to libya they saw what happened in iraq i mean why in the in a lot of people have speculated that's why they have gone down the nucular road ok i mean why in the world with the north koreans give up this program and expose themselves when they're being threatened with a bloody nose you know seven ways to sunday i mean the it's absurd what's coming out of washington now that if they haven't thought it through as usual go ahead brian your question answers itself in fact and north korea won't give up its nuclear program and the united states knows the u.s. won't korea won't give up its nuclear. graham. and maximum pressure just for our audience to understand what this these these euphemistic terms mean the united states is trying to create famine in north korea when you deprive people of trade in deprive them of food and deprive them of medicine you're trying to create famine to weaken the govern

may god bless us all and the peoples of the united states of america and ghana. thank you for your attention. [applause] >> that was very inspirational. we appreciate you being here. pres. akufo-addo: thank you very much. thank you. >> national governors association also heard from david shulkin.- this is 45 minutes.

anyone in the united states. campaign or indeed any american it was they themselves said there is no evidence that any of the americans involved had any idea that they were involved with these alleged russians nor is it being alleged as far as i've seen that this was. this lynch activity was directed by russian government supposed to russian private citizens again this is an enticement not only prediction of the u.s. system it means that a threshold has been met for. taking a case to trial doesn't even. prove. but the key thing isn't that in the broader story there's no there's no indication for the russia sold election story there's no indication that. these activities had any great impact. in also one thing i think is missing from context in the in the broader media here . you know yes there are. trolls electronic trolls in russia there's also electronic trolls in saudi arabia it's not obvious why there should be such an exclusive focus on russian trolls or attempts of russian to influence us elections or u.s.

kurdistan allied to the united states and the united states i was just announced they will continue funding to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars peshmerga forces and you know arctic air does so there are actually patients of iraq created on the ground both u.s. presence and iraqi forces which are allied to them or our proxy forces to them so an iraqi government is subjected to this massive u.s. presence they still have the biggest embassy in the world by the way and baghdad so there is that you asked them flown obviously the other countries of them for. and iraq as well through thing all our neighbors if you like ok but if he's president all term hasn't acquiesced to tory's amazed to say bomb damascus in border in iraq would ring syria well terrorism may obviously what they sometimes do successive british governments actually is is really behave more royalist time they came to feel like if that is a metaphor that could that i could use when it comes to us foreign policy they often the us policy they go beyond these very badly to justify it this has been unfortunately brita

around the world and then when you think about the united states' commitment to the world food program last year two thousand and seventeen was two point five billion dollars this year you know we're hopeful that we come out with at least two billion but i'm confident that the leadership in the united states will stay strong on international humanitarian aid that in many of your public appearances you're stressed that feeding the world's most vulnerable is a viable alternative to military spending you think it's a way of combating extremism and apparently the president perhaps has a different view on that what is your strategy now to try to dissuade the president ought to try to work with the congress and hopefully defeat his budgeting proposals there well as i've told my friends in the u.s. senate and the u.s. house the republicans and the democrats as well as the president and his administration if you want to spend another half a trillion dollars on military cut the world food program. because we are the first one of us it is him to bring about exactly one of them and he's been very

it's very unfair to the united states. and it's very unfair to the workers of the united states. very, very unfair. and even today, it's extremely hard on companies that want to do business in china. the barriers are incredible. whereas the barriers coming into our country are foolishly not. foolishly. i believe in reciprocal trade. if they do something to us, we do something to them. welsh that never happened. and it's gotten worse and worse over the years, but we'll correct it. that can be the only thing that can get in the way of a truly long-term great relationship. because we have all the ingredients for friendship. from the washington examiner, gabby? >> thank you, mr. president. your chief of staff, general kelly, has recommended ending the practice of granting interim security clearances to members of the trump administration. if that proceeds, would you be willing to grant a waiver to jared kushner, one of your senior advisers? >> jared's done an outstanding job. he has been treated unfairly. he is a high quality person. he works for nothing. nobody ever reports that. bu

and the european challenge to the united states was if the united states really wanted to walk the walk, the united states should take this as its own area. if you guys talked about armenia for all these years and how awful the turks were, take over the mandate for armenia. take it over for palestine. put skin in the game. do what we're doing. take on the burden of operating these parts of the world. i can talk about it more if you want but i'm going to skip ahead to what bliss thought about this. bliss understood the odds of the united states coming into this part of the world and making it better were really slim. all the ideals, all the good ideas, all the wonderful things in wilson's 14 points and in other documents simply weren't going to work. bliss said this, it seems that certain promises were made to the arabs. referring to promises by the british to take all that stuff and make one arab federation out of it. in the early days of the war and now they are so unkind to insist on these prompts being fulfilled, the consequences that the matter be arbitrated by the united states. i

[please stand by] [please stand by] that has meant the merging of two units where in the three-unit building they are now essentially just two units. with a stairway that you go through someone's living room. it is also very discouraging to see units that had been allowed to merge are now doing short-term rentals in the in-law and the entire house. i just wish that all of our departments could work more closely together to ensure that we're not losing almost the same amount that we're building. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker, please? >> tony robles, senior disappoint action. i want to echo what preceding folks have said. for too long, landlords have been finding loopholes and circumventing things and using the system to extricate tenants from their homes. again, like people have said, if departments worked better in -- more cohesively and had a better understanding of some of the issues with rent control, might alleviate some of the problems. again, overall loss of housing is a serious issue and it's a highly critical issue as it pertains to the people that we serve at the senior and

that unit was a response unit, fire brigade. we call quick reaction force. all the -- anything that was really a hot situation, your outfit rolled on and had to good quickly. they had a siren in the motor pool, they played when it was tike -- everybody mount up and go. but many, many operations, all the road around saigon were of course mined, booby trapped, ambassadorred and they're outfit has -- had the responsibility to clear them and clear the villages. so i was that a very fateful day for you two gentleman on the 28th of march on 1968. out on a mission when something happened. what happened? >> well, we were on a search and destroy mission, in the jungle, and tom and i had -- like we often did, walk point, and -- >> just a second here. when he sauce walk point, that means there's a long column of men and the first two guys "the haguele" brothers. mop didn't know about that. >> she had other issues. we could tell her about. but i think tom and i just felt -- i think our platoon leaders and the company commanders felt that we could do a pretty good job on

ground running facing for famines facing the worst humanitarian crisis since the beginning of the united nations which by the way seventy years of history here and in russia and so we were facing a catastrophic situation along with the fact that the number one donor into the u.n. system the united states was talking about cutting all the money so who would want that job well frankly if they persuaded you to take on that you certainly had some successes already here for example of securing presence chunk of g twenty pledged shelf six hundred fifty nine million dollars to relief famine in four african countries was that pledged on earth in full and how far did it go in addressing the problem well the united states is historically been a tremendous support of the world food program as has russia but the united states was giving about one point nine billion what i assume this role in everyone thought that it would go the other way zero out. which would be catastrophic and in fact the united states went from one point nine billion to two point five billion in other countries as well have been

it was three units and now it is down to two units. i don't know what happened to the third unit and how they got rid of it because i knew someone who lived in this building before it was renovated. >> on that, too, i point out that the r.i.t. would have gotten to it. i know you didn't like elements of it. but i talked about bringing pieces of that back. again, it encouraged people, instead of building monster homes, to build three unit where is we had rh-3 zoning. i think we threw that out too early and should go back and look at it. there's certainly elements of it people didn't like. i think it generally had a lot of things that would do exactly what we don't want to do in these types of projects. so, yeah. i think that is a good example. and we'll work on people giving us a compelling argument on the 28th street property. we can work with staff. we'll work at our officer's meeting to bring that up into march so i can inform the rest of the process. all right. we can move on to the next item. >> very good, then. that will be under t

that unites us, the u.s. constitution, how exciting. what a privilege it is to share with you the five rarest drafts of the constitution assembled for the first time ever in american history in one place to show you these rare drafts of the bill of rights, thanks to the historical society of pennsylvania, thanks to david rubenstein and c-span friends. happy constitution day. >>>. >> you can watch this or other american artifacts programs at any time by visiting our website, c-span.org/history. >>> join us saturday at 9:30 a.m. eastern on "american history tv" on c-span3 at the american civil war museum in richmond, virginia. for live coverage of the civil war's impact on americans. speakers include peter carmichael, director at gettysburg college civil war institute. james robertson. author of "the untold civil war." jane schultz. author of "women at the front" and amy morill taylor. at 8:00 p.m. on electionures in history from the georgetown university law centre. thomas west talks about his book "the politi

her entire life she's lived here in the united states -- here, the united states is her home. she grew up living the american dream like any other american citizen. she celebrates the same traditions, ate the same food, enjoyed the same active to -- activities that any of her friends. throughout her education she always had been a good student and always very active, not just school activities but also with the community. she has been in girl scouts since the age of 4. played both soccer and volleyball for many years and now is a high school student. nicole spent many hours volunteering in the community and getting involved with organizations such as dream project, unidas u.s. and many more. after finding out she was undocumented she thought all her hard work an effort was for nothing but thanks to president obama she was able to apply for daca and she told her story very brilliantly. at our press conference before the state of the union. if you could hear them tell their own stories, it's just -- about -- great humility conveying their stories because when you see them and th

is not if the two koreas can actually engage each other because well they are but how much is the united states willing to go along with this engagement here because the united states has an awful lot at stake with its presence in south korea and its own not only about north korea's nuclear program go ahead brian. i believe that we're at a pivotal moment because the attempt by the south korean government the moon giant government came about as a consequence of very popular uprising that over. or through to mentally and led to the impeachment of the last conservative government poc and he. wants to have a rapprochement a lessening of tensions and possibly the beginning of real reconciliation on the korean peninsula between north and south korea this happened as happened in the past that happened certainly in the year two thousand madeline albright was dispatched by bill clinton to pyongyang canned john went and met with kim jong il who is kim jong un's father then head of north korea but when there was taking place at that time it was with washington's blessing and as a consequence we see

kingdom government or through united states as they call it usa and this is actually. as they say sold into injury that you kill these people and you make money from it and then you get one percent into to support yemenis and i've just seen i think a week ago that was her account of the u.k. ambassador to yemen who has never been to yemen during the war he is based in the early and riyadh and he was saying about two. embassy is doing to collect money for yemeni and they have collected about two to three thousand pounds. to eight yemeni just imagine three thousand pound yemeni to help them and the media and the united kingdom on as well the u.k. government is only folks in about this few thousand pounds that they are given into yemen and they keep in a blind eye about like billions of dollars they are make an improv it from supporting the saudi and this is really really sickening. many people because it's a symbol if you want to help yemeni people stop supporting the saudi just just like that we do need your aid we do need your help we need not need this before the war

that unites us, the u.s. constitution. how exciting it is to share with you the five rarest drafts of the constitution assembled for the first time thanks to the historical society of pennsylvania, thanks to david rubinstein and c-span friends, happy constitution day. announcer: the conservative political action conference has been held every year since 1974, when california governor ronald reagan delivered the first keynote address. up next on "reel america," from 30 years ago, president reagan speaks about the state of the conservative movement. in february, 1988, he contrasts what he sees as conservative accomplishments was what he argues are the ineffective liberal ideas of the democratic party. this is 30 minutes. [applause]

they bought one unit in 2004. they bought the other unit in 2015. the reason they bought it was so they can live in this building and rent one of the units out. they keep doing basically the same size existing small unit the same size as before, 800, 900 square feet. they're trying to build the house to live in at the same time. what you're requesting is that they chop the size down so they can't fit their whole family in there. i don't know if that's quite fair. >> it's the quality of the take away of the unit that i think we're really focustion on. you have a front-back exposure which is a typical flat in san francisco. that's really what we're focusing on. we're asking you to please redesign the building to that standard. >> we've heard -- you've heard our concerns. so i think that we're asking if you have enough time to, you know, take our feedback. you can come back on march 15th or later, if you wish, but you have heard our concerns. you can choose to incorporate them or not and take your chances at that hearing. but, you know, we would ask th

the syrian ambassador to the united nations addressing the security council and replying to many of the accusations made against syria and russia that they haven't upheld the resolution many mentioned all of the ypocras see mentioning that similar things happen in iraq in afraid and the queues in the groups in eastern of using civilians as human shields more in half an hour. as the united nations human rights council continues its conference in geneva there are often discrepancies between what officials tell the u.n. and what happens on the glass so how committed are governments in respecting human rights this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program husham all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights that's from the first article of the united nations universal declaration of human rights which was signed in one nine hundred forty eight and since then the document has been years as a stand for ensuring fundamental rights and the protection of minorities around the world the united nations human rights council began its annual conference in geneva this week it

there's a door that leads to the lower unit and a door that leads to the upper unit. and the upper unit has the kitchen and combined living/dining space and an outdoor space on this level as well as a master bedroom area with bath and deck on the upper most level. and unless you have any other questions this concludes my description of the project as modified per staff comments. >> okay, we may have questions, but let's take public comment first. sorry. sorry. i thought that you were done. >> hi, commissioners, i'm judith thompson, i'm the general contractor on this project. is that better? i'm not used to public speaking so i'll just read my notes that i have prepared. i have been a contractor in the city for 30 years. i have never had a violation. we're not developers, we are not flippers, our clients are not developers. we are not trying to pull the wool over your eyes or break any rules. we were following the approved plans and the code that addresses what to do if -- if during demo that you encounter rotted or burned walls. on our project there were two blind wal

in 2014, the company established a translator project focused on the united states. in july of 2016, more than 80 employees were assigned to the translator project. two of the defendants allegedly traveled to the united states to collect intelligence for their american influence operations. in order to hide the russian origins of their activities, the defendants allegedly purchased space on computer servers located here in the united states in order to set up a virtual private network. the defendants allegedly used that infrastructure to establish hundreds of accounts on social media networks, such as facebook, instagram, and twitter, making it appear that those accounts were controlled by persons located in the united states. they used stolen or fictitious american identities, fraudulent bank accounts, fraudulent -- and false authentication documents. the defendants posed as politically and socially active americans advocating for and against particular candidates. they established social media pages and groups to communicate with unwitting americans. they also purc

states james out jazeera at the united nations are still ahead on al-jazeera. forge earth was on my. word in our quest. a fabled shipping route in the arctic undergoes dramatic changes because of global . warming plus. not have time to sit on the test when thousands of migrants continue to try to reach the united states but at this arrival point for deportees and some people tell us the routes have become much more dangerous. the weather's oh looking a little unsettling across western parts of the mediterranean over the next couple of days ago there's a lot band of cloud here that's been sinking its way down across france bright skies for northern areas say paris starting to see a few showers that much much drier and brighter than all of this out west the weather though to the south of france is that western side of the med it's right isn't disturbed weather too across northern areas of spine for you portugal that's because on through friday from wintry weather there across the pyrenees madrid of around nine celsius just for london in paris to see a little bit