again according to the united nations they are using internet in 2017. the united states, 87. can we compare these resources? so again, it's not that we don't want to open the internet. and we did it because in our case it's important for the education development so we believe it is an important tool. let's save the question before the end. people say which countries are the most important for you, we are doing business with all the countries of the world and you can see that an export canada is our main partner. this comes from the congressional research service. you can see venezuela, china and spain so when they come and say i want to do business with cuba what can you say to us because we are doing business with everybody and you can see in 2016 before the new administration came we are receiving of these business delegations. there are people here that want to do business. you can see everything is because of this and we don't say that, but we say that the blockade is the most further development. we can see that. this is also very important. we have the relationship wit

so it strikes me wrong that we are dismissing the units when i knew it was a unit. okay.commissioner richards? >> i think one of the things that rubs me the wrong way is i had to submit recusal form because they lived within 500 feet of a project and it was under penalty of perjury, yet we have project sponsors not saying anybody is lying. we have falsified plans, we have demos that are -- >> it blows my mind that i have to do, under penalty of perjury, but nobody else does. i think any documents submitted to the city should have that. i will work with supervisors to get this on here and go after some people who actually put in fraudulent -- fraudulent offers that we see nearly every week. commissioner melgar saw a unit and i thank you are making this house a very, very big. i think there's room to add a small and modest a.d.u. unit to give benefit to the housing stock. i would approve the project with some modifications to ease the livability issues next door as well as to add to the housing stock. you clearly were a landlord before and have had great tenant relations. i

the lower unit has quality that i question to be fully acceptable unit due to the fact that the deck which comes down and extends over the living area is only so deep that the unit itself is basically in the dark. for to qualify as a second bedroom, it does not work quite either because the second bedroom is actually not a legal bedroom. so that said, i think this project, in order to be really approvable as two units, even as an a.d.u., has to make a couple of changes. and foremost, it has to break the ability to connect the two units and use the house is one large home. that is the most important requirement here. >> commissioner koppel? >> i hear what commissioner moore is saying and i am definitely okay with any amendments you would like to see in general, i don't think this task is too much. it makes cases for us to continue the discussion about maybe lifting density controls because this is an r.h. one. >> i would suggest we would continue this because the changes that need to be made are not for me to design, but for the applicant to professionally meet on his own because he m

we had 1,072 units that were completed and 152 units started construction. and funding activities, we had $51 million that included a pre development loan for shipyard phase 1 and a gap loan for the project in mission bay south. >> this is repeating what i just said but i want to highlight its fiscal 18-19. it's a strong year with housing completions. so more than 1,000 units and it is low income housed. i'm not going to go through them one by one. you have those in your report. one of the takeaways is and it is 89% of what we have completed to date and all three project areas is family rental. i will just jump through these. in fiscal 18-19 we had one housing start and this is 152 units and some units to help coming from sunny dale. and we've got a lot of projects in construction. this slide shows we've got 1266 units and six projects and 536 of those are affordable. there's one smaller project in shipyard phase 1 and two in mission bay south and three in transbay. so i'm going to jump to an overview of our marketing ocii affordable housing. we had the hous

affordable, more bmr units than if we built a six unit project with no affordable units. i like the design of this building. as you know, i am not a great fan of modern architecture, but i think this works. i live on the west side and spend a lot of time on the beach. my synagogue is out there. i think the design actually gets it right. that feel of the structure, as you know along the highway and a lot of the materials and contacts, i think that it works. i am supportive of this project. it is right on the judah line. it is, you know, i wish it did have less parking but i think seven is fine. i would support commissioner richards in having one of those spaces be a car share project. i think that would be good. on the whole, i am supportive of this project, and i will turn it over to the director. >> thank you, commissioner. i will emphasize this is 25% affordable. it is a pretty su substantial number of affordable. to commissioner johnson's point, it is common in much of the city to have taller buildings at the corners especially in the commercial districts. it is common

with the united states like very much like. regular contact with the rest of the p 5 be particular china diplomat tez also taking part in today's hot debates and he was almost attacked with accusations that an important player when we speak about global security spy. actually given that one of the biggest threats is coming from south asia rejects the dialogue with the us china has never let me review china's never rejected the so-called meaningful dialogue with anybody in the us has made this so much noise about having the strength natural negotiations but let me make it clear so far until now the us is never told as what exactly they want to talk about in the straddle dialogue today's gathering here in moscow is a very good chance for participants to prepare for next year is meeting to make it more productive and more effective. the chinese tech giant while we have seen a surge in global profits while also continuing to squeeze its us rival our pull out of the lucrative chinese market despite the u.s. government's efforts to o

united states is part of that. we have graduated more than 100 doctors, physicians for free in cuba. so let's go to recent history. december 17, 2014. both presidents, obama and rubble, announced they will start a new moment between cuba and the united states. that was big news, breaking news. everybody was talking about that. i like to say that we did not see the armageddon after that. we are still here. nothing bad happened, you know? werehe reality is that we more suspicious in cuba. i'm in the united states, trying to find one media that put the cuban speech. times" see "the new york put fidel and not raul who was the president. this is part again of what happened in our common history between cuba and the united states. after that, you have to go i believe more quick. why this happened? i really believe this happened not only because two men want to. i believe this happened because the majority of the american people, the cuban people, and even the cuban-americans support this. 1959, theack in 1960's, 1970's,

what trump does he took to twitter saying this time this is the time for mexico with the help of the united states to wage war on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth we merely await a call from your great new president and despite that call never coming that didn't stop the u.s. president from declaring and bill o'reilly's yes that bill o'reilly's radio program that the cartels well they will be designated i have been working on that for the last 90 days you know designation is not that easy you have to go through a process and we are well into that process. and if this process proceeds my friends what does that mean well when a group is designated a terrorist organization by the united states it becomes illegal for anyone in the us to knowingly offer support to that group the groups are banned from entering the united states and members will be deported if they are already here financial institutions yes financial institutions who have funds connected to the group are required to block that money and alert the u.s. treasury department you know if you listen closely rig

he is the president of the united states and i treat him with respect that the president of the united states deserves. having said that, he speaks what's on his mind. sometimes that rubs people the wrong way. a lot of times, just by what he says he'll upset people. a good example of that is nato. when he started talking about nato. i doubt there's many people in this room that wouldn't agree with me that nato is the strongest most successful military alliance in the history of just the world. nato is not going to go away. we are deeply committed to nato, the american people are deeply, deeply committed to nato. but the president of the united states was bothered by the fact that not all nato members were keeping the commitments that they'd made in fiscal ways. as a result of that, he raised that and that really caused a lot of anxiety on the part of the europeans. that's one of the first things they would ask me about. you know, the interesting thing is i've been going over there for almost a dozen years, giving the same message. we'd talk and we'd have good points to talk about. look

this is the united nations. it is not cuba propaganda. i also put this. women are very important. we really believe in that. cuba is the number two with more women in our parliament, our national prominent. -- parliament. cuba is number two. 53% of the cuban parliament are women. we are talking about women that are members of the national parliament. you can see how many things we are proud to say about the women in cuba. according to the global gap report, 2018, cuba was 23 out of 149 countries. what that means, we are perfect? no. we can improve many things. yes. but this is a reality. every time i read critics about cuba, i say, why don't you help to improve? so, internet. i remember when i came in 2015, people say why don't you have internet in cuba? i said we have internet in cuba. it is expensive, it is slow, but we need more technology and resources. but you know what? now we have internet for everybody in cuba. again, it is still expensive. it is still slow. we start with 3g. now we are opening for 4g. i

and the unit sizes are pretty good because the average unit size is 1600. i guess you would like that. i would like to get rid of some of the parking and reduce the fourth floor. >> agreed. >> motion to reduce the parking, approve the project and take off the fourth floor. >> can we talk about the stairs moved over so there's no -- the light well goes all the way down to the grant and a hallway. >> i'd like to include that as well. >> >> second. >> we'd had direction with staff. >> mr. washington. >> del vivin washington. as i understand, as we enter the building entry and lobby area, the goals of the commission is to extend the stairway down. we have to realize that this is an entry to reach that lower unit and if we reduce some of the parking we can possibly get the width of this garage so we can get an additional corridor that would allow access to that. is the project architect here? you think that is feasible? >> um, it's difficult. i'm looking at page a2.1. >> please, real quickly. you guys do this light bulb things all the time. we can have a fence o

thus, the refusal of the unit. everything after looking at the unit are things i am learning of. never received a firm offer, and lastly, i would like to address the issue of my sunglasses. due to years of diabetes, i am experiencing bleeding in the eye. for the last 11 months i have received an injection in my right eye. as timing will have it, i had it yesterday afternoon. hence, the sun glasses. thank you for your attention to this matter. >> i addressed you last month. i am back. i did take ms. long to look at the unit. i drove her over there. she was sick and i was leaving to go out of the country. i want to to respond. the generous offer of $100,000. i did the math. $100,000 rent supplement would cover them for about 18 months of rent in san francisco at this point. what are they to do after the 18 months? the other thing i wanted to address since i am the next door neighbor is the ridiculousness of the building leaning. i have intimate knowledge of that building. it is identical to my building. i have knowledge of the dutch gutter. the building is not falling over. it need

first, the mixed-use development including almost 1600 new housing units, of which 300 new units, 25% of the total, will be below market-rate units, and improvements to the existing rec front open space along the waterfront, and the big green, which will be a new addition to the city's southeast network of public parks. quickly, a number of other public benefits are included in the approved development agreement, including new city streets and utilities, a new bike network, including a class one bikeway through the project and a bay way trail. the project will provide space for several uses important to the community that are listed here on slide three and includes a workforce agreement with requirements during both constructions and operations of the development. the india basin project is development with a long-term use towards sustainability and resilience including on-site treatment of wastewater and stormwater, reduce waste emissions through 100% clean energy and the formation of a community facilities district that will provide facilities for sea level rise mitigation on the fu

if they put this weight cools here in the united kingdom but it should not be it's like united states mr aznar before we let you go i want to ask you on one more question and in this age of bragg's it with breaks it about finally take place knowing that the united states wants julius on to be extradited. do you think that that reduces the likelihood that the u.k. would ever decide not to extradite him i mean do you see the politics of brecht's it influencing this legal decision. no i don't think so there are certainly cases where british government business has refused to send somebody for it not to states people suffering from mental difficulties for example there was a computer who was not sent. and you can see circumstances in which it wouldn't be appropriate to do so and it's written and used to be that joint legal political per person but expression now as well else. it's they ultimately have the last word but it's very much a legal process i'm sure will put the government whichever government is elected office of our general election whatever happens to preclude the government w

states of america because they are in the united states and. we're going to mexico the lowest though that that's very lucky or in there if the united states. or they went to order they would be in in lima. the axes are arm or leg some the structure on that's the arm and also on the session or harm in front of a prick no or who are going to be by arm it's a hypocrisy in that sense the office of government accountability in the united states has documented that 70 percent of the weapons seized by the mexican police originated in the united states mexican leaders have long urged the usa to crack down on the flow of weapons into their country however attempts to do so so far have failed for decades here's the thing mexico is certainly dangerous or at least that's the message that donald trump rang out pretty loudly on the campaign trail in 2016 nearly 180000 illegal immigrants with criminal records ordered deported from our country are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens when mexico sends its people to not sending their best to sendi

just like the united states here.e have certain responsibilities to make sure to safeguard and protect those people in our custody. mexico has that same responsibility. again, we are working with them to help them in any way we can. i just went through of how we're going over there and visiting those site, we're seeing persistent law enforcement presence, we're seeing the national guard presence there. and we're seeing from i.o.m. saying, hey, we're not seeing that. again, if someone is in fear for their safety or their life, they can come to a port of entry and claim that. and we'll take them in. again, what we are seeing, what we are seeing is that the individuals that leave that shelter environment and re-engage with the cartels to potentially be resmuggled into the united states legally, that's where we're seeing and hearing anecdotal stories, that that's happening as well. thank you. [talking simultaneously] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content a

helping to fund the debt of the united states. as well as saudi support for anti-communist causes in the cold war, especially the support for the islamist insurgeonncy i 1979. in 1979 the u.s. lost the shah of iran to a revolution. the iranian revolution placed added emphasis on saudi arabia as a regional u.s. ally, but proposals to arm the saudis elicited strong opposition to pro israel groups here in the united states. following the announcement of the carter doctrine, which you also heard about, in 1980 the u.s. increased its military presence in the gulf. this encompasses the creation of the rapid deployment joint task force and later centcom. hundreds of thousands of u.s. troops were then deployed to the region, including saudi arabia during the gulf war of 1990, 1991. as you might expect, from what i was talking about earlier, the u.s. troop presence provoked opposition and resistance and opened a new chapter in the saudi opposition against the ruling family and close u.s. saudi relations. al qaeda, which carried out the 9/1

details a trade deal has been made but it's between china and france and it's not clear yet if the united states will follow suit during a meeting in beijing on wednesday but leaders from china and france approved 15000000000 dollars worth of commercial agreements that include the fields of finance aviation and environmental protection chinese president xi jinping praised the talks so they helped give a boost to free trade. to focus on the long term cooperation between the 2 countries in large scale projects they think the new consensus an agreement reached by the 2 sides. energy aviation aerospace progress between china and france comes at a time when there is hope for phase one of a trade deal between washington and beijing that could mark the beginning of the end of a 15 month long trade war french president emmanuel mccrone said he hopes his visit to china will help increase the chances of a deal with the us. to join you in your share the same feeling and trade war only results he loses just one which is the only way in discussions between china and the united states to wrap easing of

$300,000 per unit. the greater the scale of the project, the lower the price of units typically. >> thank you very much. >> doug schumacher i will answer that question. they are not for sale, they are for rent. priced at 30% of the resident's income which ti typically is between zero and $300. i came up to make a different comment. i want to thank the board and department for the work on this and our partner. two things to draw your attention that are important as you start to see more much these projects. one is this is one of the first modular projects in san francisco. it is an emerging technology. it is an industry going through its growing pains. it is going to be increasingly important to develop affordable housing in san francisco. the second piece i want to draw your attention to sb35. this is an exemption for the site. it is important to have this tool in front of us. there is a lot of debate about the potential exemptions. a project of this size with affordable housing and clinics. i think it

of the united states and canada. my family -- my grandfather grew up in a house that was right on the edge of the border. you literally had to cross the river which also crossed the border in order to get to canada. from the stories he told me, they did not think about it as being real until prohibition came along. [laughter] then it got real. and sometimes the river was where you had to jump into to get away from the people regulating the border. the stories my grandfather told me were funny but they also embedded important ideas and legal concepts in my mind. when i first tried to map our territory in a way that would help me understand our history, time, the best mapping program available could not connect rivers across the borders. the map you see here is like a second wave. after i had a faculty position and could afford to pay someone to create this kind of base map. but the ideas of regions can be so influenced by these ideas of the nationstate. i want us to think about the problem of regions when they are def

represented the united states well? >> i did. >> yet you said she was going to be rahmed early, right? was there any reason that happened? >> yes, the president had lost confidence in her. >> and you were told that by the secretary of state? >> i was. >> did you ask why he lost confidence in her? >> yes. >> and what was the answer? >> i was told that he had lost confidence in her, period. >> that's not a why. >> you asked if i asked. i asked. >> and the answer you got was -- >> that he had lost confidence. >> he didn't explain why. now, you said to me yesterday that once you were given this assignment, you wanted to treat the ambassador with respect, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> the best way to show respect would have been to push back. on the secretary and say why are we recalling someone, by the way, whose term has been extended and then we're recalling her back, even though there were only a few months left in her nomination, a career ambassador. why didn't you push back? >> well, as we also discussed yeste

and the unit mix itself. and although home sf allows for a variety of combinations of units, unit configurations to satisfy the legislation on the code, we pushed the number of two-bedrooms and three-bedrooms above the 40 percent minimum. and if you are to count the one bedrooms plus dens that we are also providing which is a new unit type we were able to provide by eliminating a substantial number of studios while maintaining the total unit count, we would be at a45 percent of our total units that would have twos and threes. the team is committed and we have repeatedly shared this as part of our outreach to ensuring that the housing that we are delivering is completely accessible. we recognize that the district is a very diverse district. it's a multilingual district. and in recognition of that have committed to posting workshops leading up -- the one year leading up to the opening of the building, every month, to assist with local residents who would like to enroll and apply in the bmr program to have their

as unit entries. those are minor tweaks that could be addressed if the architect would spend a little more time on looking at doing the quality. on the other hand, i think contrary to what commissioner fung said the size of the unit is very massive. its color and material differentiation is not varied enough to make the building overall look for like multiple pieces. it looks too solid from my perspective. those are architectural comments. but in the end what i'm concerned about is unit quality and livability which i think this project does not fully address. >> commissioner richards. >> so i guess question. the gentleman from poe day charlie -- poder charlie is he here in the audience? overflow room? i had a question for him. one of the -- what kept getting brought up over and over and over was people in the neighborhood can't afford -- i see him coming through the window. is that him? no? oh, it is. okay. i have a question for you. so when we talked yesterday probably a little longer than i needed t

united states intervene.will just add, this is the policy the united states followed in the middle east from 1945 to 1991, we had interest there, we had partners there, we didn't have a lot of troops there. we created the rapid deployment force after the shock fell, we kept it out of the region because putting threat would only have caused trouble. offshore balancer would have a more limited view of interest, today what that means basically the united states should not be actively committed to defending europe because europe has the abilities to defend itself, we would be focusing primarily on china and trying to make sure that china is not in a position to dominate asia and that meant mostly maintaining a set of powerful alliance relations with our asian partners as well, finally, we should be getting out of the middle east militarily because every time we go in there to do something, we make things worse and there is no country that threatens to dominate the middle east right now, the middle east is if anyt

unit or his l.l. c. that owns actually the front unit. so the permit -- the whole thing i feel was completely mismanaged. and in opposition to the t.i.c. agreement which we had all accepted for more than a year. i appreciate doug may have put 616 on some of his addresses, but why he would do so prior to having this reversal issue come up is a surprise to me. and certainly my 30-year investment in being 616 carolina street and part of the neighborhood and having literally the whole world know that is my address for the last 30 years is something that means a lot more to me, i believe, than it does to doug. he wrote a letter where he said he was indifferent and would honor any decision you made. he sounds less than indifferent tonight, but that's what he wrote in his letter to me. so i can produce that if you'd like. it was meant to be submitted to the board of appeals, but he missed the deadline. but i have a copy of it if you would like to see what he has to say. in any case, i would love to be -- continue to be the resident of 616 caroli

greetings and salutations as the united states gets ready to celebrate the thanksgiving holiday this week united states president donald trump took to the airwaves on tuesday to give his thanks to the mexican people by stating his desire to designate mexico's drug cartels as terrorist organizations and as many civilians caught in the crossfire of the u.s. war on terror over the last 18 years can attest that my friends is truly the gift that just keeps on giving it really is it keeps on giving in the form of drone strikes cia black sites rendition areas and of course the ubiquitous enhanced interrogation techniques that come with being designated terrorists earlier this month after the controversial and brutal slaying of 9 dual u.s. mexican citizens including 6 children who are part of a fundamentalist mormon community living in northern mexico by drug cartel members trump well he did what trump does he took to twitter. saying this time this is the time for mexico with the help of the united states to wage war on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the earth we merely await

forum of the united states.ociate members of the committee are located in the boxes to my left. i would like to ask the president's and national commanders that comprise our associate membership to stand and be recognized. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in recognizing our veterans national leadership with your applause. [applause] it is now my pleasure to introduce the executive director army national military cemeteries, ms. karen durham-aguilera. >> good morning. on behalf of the secretary of the army, welcome to arlington national cemetery. thank you, mr. vice president for being here today and for honoring our nation's veterans. welcome also to the honorable dan quayle, former vice president, and his family for attending today. [applause] to secretary defense esper, mrs. esper, secretary of the v.a. wilkie, mrs. wilkie, the senior officials before me, the duties of undersecretary of the army, the honorable jim mcpherson, chief of staff of the army, general mcconville, mrs. mcconville, welcome. mr. fran

we have three residential units. we feel the density and scale is appropriate for the neighborhood and this block in particular. the new masses is to respond to the much taller and eastern neighbor and smaller structure to the rest. the two prosed addition is -- proposed addition is back 20 feet and it further reduces mass from green street. the rhythm of the three bays is to become meto be successfully. we look at the piers. the restoration including the 1933 renovation along with doors and windows with those in the original drawing. as you can see from the street perspective. the structure is minimally visible into the surrounding context. the walls of the existing structure encompass the site. the current commercial use fills the entire footprint. proposal is to change the use of the existing building volume to residential use requiring a variance for the change in use only at the front set back and rear yard. we will remove a portion of the existing building volume at the rear for open space and lower the rooflin

of the united states senate.'m considering request to tbring the measure to the floo it isn't as if we are taking away an option which the minority leader, pardon me, the republican leader is using. he is not. when we look back to the debate in the effort to find compromise with president trump on this issue. every time the president leads toward daca dreamers these people intervene and stop and negotiations come to an end. it's time for us in the senate not to wait for permission slip from president trump to pass legislation. i'm prepared to bring this matter to the floor and except the decision on the amendments on the floor. and we are in the 'lminority. we will lose some of these, so be it. let the senate be the senate and deliver these measures. to argue that i should be asking to bring it to the floor because he has to go through regular order the obvious gh question is, when is senator mcconnell going to pursue regular order on a measure that's been sitting here for four months? let me say a word if i can

assange admitting the evidence had weakened over time is the path or is likely extradition to the united states where he faces espionage charges i discussed the case earlier lottie's donald quarter. you know this whole saga started out did it with the rape allegations against us and you've been through the whole mill since then but now we're back to those initial charges that's right neal exactly it was in 2010 that the swedish government filed in international arrest warrant against assad for 2 charges one of molestation and another of rape but assad has always denied these charges he's even cooperated with the international investigation from abroad and it was the threat of extradition to the united states if you were to have been arrested in sweden that forced him to take political asylum within the ecuadorian embassy in london and now it turns out that this case that started it all doesn't even have enough so-called corroborative evidence to the evidence sherry basis is such that he corroborating evidence is not sufficient to in a way that is prescribed by the supreme court deemed th

fifty-one of the units would be priced for occupants at no more than 100% of ami, 30 units at 80, and ten for disabled only at 50% and 11 for disabled only at 13. the unit mix would be 90 studios , five one, five two-bedrooms. in addition to the inclusive housing for the disabled which is the kelsey's founding mission, staff supports this project due to the extreme affordability levels achieved, the integrated garden design and as well as seeing all the energy and sustainability targets which was the focus of the global competition. laying out the milestones to ensure the proposal remains fiscally viable while the project enters the entitlement phase. the proposal assumes no initial funding from the city and anticipates the use of our standard long-term ground lease we deploy routinely for affordable housing projects. the negotiation term of the ena is 45 months. during which the development team must meet the community outreach design, entitlements and fundraising goals as stated in the agreement. if they remain in conformance to have the opportunity to secure ground lease from the c

it is a foe to the united states. i think that does not help put them in a frame of mind of working together to meet this growing challenge, and i think that's sort of in some ways the perception is the u.s. feels like it's intervening as much as china is sometimes. i know you are working hard to prevent that, but it makes it challenging to meet that. i just want to offer that as a reflection. >> let me respond to that briefly. look, as i said, this president is unique and he does speak his mind. i've been in politics all my adult life in the media used to get after all the time, you politician, you never tell us what you're thinking. boy, they got a kind of who tells them what you're thinking, all day long, all night long and bitter like the anybody. he has unique way of speaking and we here in america watched this as we got along and i tell my european friends, look, you've got to take the whole thing together, don't take a sentence, don't take your word, don't take a thought. we all have thoughts that we don't expr

mass protests in the country it's back bike using america destroying its economy and inciting riots united states will terminate the sanctions were related to the nuclear facility at fordo we don't expect anything else from mr compared to disgrace he defends the maximum pressure regime and imposition of sanctions on iran. and a major policy overhaul of the us causes outrage by declaring that it no longer these israeli settlements in the occupied west bank as illegal and activists in the u.k. raise concerns about domestic abuse survivors taking part in the country's upcoming elections it's claimed that for a just trying to vote could put their lives in danger by making their personal data public. good morning welcome 11 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the u.s. secretary of state has announced that washington will impose sanctions on iran's 4 nuclear facility you also repeated to his support for the ongoing protests in the country hit back by accusing the u.s. of stirring up unrest united states will terminate the sanctions were related to the nuclear facility a

they've expanded to something called the united front work department which is a party unit which is a close eye intelligence unit that is responsible for advancing the strategic interest around the world. i think one of the key features of the chinese expansionism today is something i mentioned earlier clip adult and road initiative, and this is again is morphed out of the ideology called the china dream and so now the belt and road initiative is a kind of trojan horse of chinese expansionism, and it's targeted on the developing world and the way that it works is that china goes into a poor country, says we would like to build a railroad for you and we will even help you with financing and then they provide the financing and then they do it at exorbitant interest rates have been when the poor country comes back and says we are having a trouble paying back the loan, they say wow, that is our railroad now, they are taking over and that kind of thing is taking place on a large scale around the world, especially in the developing world. my own view is, and i see this as a kind of u.s. e

we don't put sanctions on the united states. we don't attack the united states. let us not be blind to our difference but our common interest and the means by which those differences can be resolved and if we cannot end now our difference at least we can help make the world safer. in the final analysis our most basic link, we all inhabit this small planet and breathe the same air and cherish our children's future. this is an official of president kennedy talking about the soviet union. why not with cuba? thank you so much. i did it. >> you don't have anything to apologize, that was a great presentation. you get to ask questions and we can entertain comments. i am going to moderate the question and take the prerogative for the first one and some given your presentation, i have heard the saying cuba is abandoning socialism. an interesting question and it was related - i will come back. if you see how many have questions or comments. i will give people numbers. 123. your number? okay. we are going to stop with that one in the first round. >> i don't believe in that.