it's a few minutes before 9:00, and already, activity at the venice family clinic is in high gear. elizabeth benson forer: our mission is to provide comprehensive primary healthcare that's affordable, accessible and compassionate for people who have no other access to care. we truly are unique in that we're not seeking business with money attached. we're seeking people with no health insurance and low incomes. ana zeledón friendly: the majority of our patients are hispanic, and many of them monolingual, so all of our staff members are bilingual in english and spanish. and they're able to provide the services, also in a culturally sensitive manner. and we do have also a large immigrant population from russia. susan fleischman: most of them are older people in their 50s and 60s, but they seem older than that. they've come to this country mostly as economic refugees. most of them have almost no english skills, and they are very, very sick. they have terrible hypertension, lots and lots of heart disease and cardiovascular disease and terrible depression, as well. and they have a very d

he took three buses and hitchhiked, making it to my old frame house in venice. i said, why are you here? he said i was in a car and we did drive by and i don't know what to do. you said you would always be there for me. there's the answer and the question. how are we always going to be there for bobby. how are we going to help young people at risk, people who are active, to build new identities? we begin with tattoo removal, legal expunged and and we work on attachment. every individual who wants to avoid being in a gang, who wants to leave the game, they need a role model and mentor, they need someone to be there. there is no single type of person. we need it the merging of former gang members, prosecutors and social workers and public defenders. you have all had that kid. he needs role models, job training, and real jobs. i was happy to hear that in the video, nothing stops the bullet like a job. we need to provide that. bobbie ann smiley did not ask for their fates. a young woman i worked with, who has five children and has been a member of valencia 13, and f

and people still love venice, and are prepared to pay a lot of money for views of venice.this was worth between £6,000 and £8,000 today. really? really? and there it is, been just at the bottom of the stairs. and i'm thrilled. it's lovely. so am i. thank you, thank you. pleasure. it's like the three little maids from school here. you've brought in three dolls, and something else. we'll talk about that in a minute. tell me about the dolls. where did these come from? what are your earliest recollections of those? the earliest recollections of the dollies-- they belonged to my mother who's 91. but they actually belonged to her mother. and, as she got older, she just put them in some brown paper and just wrapped them up, and then she said, "oh, do have these. i don't want them anymore." so, here they are. here they are. the one that i'm holding here is basically a wax doll. the head is made out of papier-mache. and then it's dipped into wax, which gives it a sort of lifelike pallor-- or it would give it a lifelike pallor, if it wasn't quite so grubby. i know. they're very dirt

a little bit behind but applying the lessons learned from the venice -- project, this coming year we will begin to examine [indiscernible]. the city of parkway, i said a lot about this, an alphabet soup of funding, a partnership credit, credit in particular to jose luis, working with an unbelievable number of government agencies and the public. and moving to phase ii. central subway, it had the funding agreement, well under construction. i will not be surprised if there is a cable show called extreme engineering. the transit center is in the two-phase project. construction is underway on the first phase; construction of the terminal itself, a 1.6 billion dollar first phase. many construction projects are out for bit; the first one will be first-quarter of 2013. phase 2, there is a significant funding shortfall, about 2 billion for that second phase. but we had a major victory with -- naming this as a regional priority.last december we presented the authority's draft study, fast draft, bringing high-speed electrification a lot faster. i don't want to give full credit to the study but

three weeks later i was driving down venice and left on to broadway and the radio went on and strong arm robbery in pacific heights and woman assaulted and bag stolen and identified the car and two individuals and proceeding north on lawenna. gee, i am going in that direction. i have a naval aif eightor's eye and incredible eye sight and wouldn't you know it there is the vehicle coming straight towards me and the traffic was slow and could reach out and touch and i made a u turn and i got on the roo. the director of radio services had a call sign at the time and close to the police chiefs. i got on and called in and there was a pregnant pause. and they said "who are you sir?" and i said "i'm the director of emergency services" a "are you a police officer?" "no, i'm not" and do you have a gun? no, i don't. "you should be careful and don't approach that car" and "need help and he's making a left" and by the time we got to geary black and whites were all over the place and apprehended the person and i got a call from alex faigen who was the later the police chief. he was a friend of min

these include the large capital of vestments that you see here, venice and gary brt, etc., as well as many of the area planning studies, market octavia studies, these are basically acknowledged that the land-use transportation plans need to be done more in a coordinated fashion. in addition the transportation sustainability program has come to focus with a cbc streamlining work. the second initiative from 2004 but we make a progress on is the idea of streets as public space. we don't have enough public open space. we have been using the available space more innovatively through things like sunday street, pavement to park, streetscape improvements such as avalencia and leland, and pilots, things like a better market street pilot. that we eventually got legislated. the idea of using public space. by time of day. the third one, was tdm, travel demand management. the idea to use policy tools to shape and encourage people to think about alternatives and partner with new types of organizations, car sharing, bike sharing, finding the balance of working with private employers investing in reg

renowned as one of the world's three major movie celebrations, along with those in kahn, france and venice, italy. >>> japanese prime minister shinzo abe has made quite a few headlines in the short time he's been in office. ai joins us now from the business desk. ai, good morning. what have you been hearing? >> good morning, catherine. he's pushed for more government between the central bank and bank of japan. senior members of japan's government and ruling parties have approved a budget outline for the fiscal year beginning in april. the draft calls for government spending in excess of $1 trillion, an all-time high. prime minister shinzo abe took part in sunday's meeting to discuss the draft. yamaguchi was also there. he heads the new party, the government's junior coalition partner. >> translator: we must quickly complete and implement the draft budget for fiscal 2013 and the supplementry budget for the current physicifiscal year to d policies that benefit the people. >> the government would spend more than $770 billion to implement its policies, including grants to local governments. it

just opened the venice film festival.of march." >> next president of the united states of america, governor mike lauren! >> dignity matters. >> you are off the campaign. you thought it was important to fix things? >> that script has those type of layers and the message behind it is relevant. the politics behind it, you know, were kind of -- were timely. so, you know, i try to find things like that. if it's, you know -- if it gets inside of my body and my head, then i go for it. for a while, i became a little bit disillusioned with the film industry, and as it turned out, it was at a time that my eye began to drift towards some other ideas and opportunities that have really taken most of my focus on a professional level. got some interesting -- west africa, a company i've been developing very quietly for about seven years now that we're now starting to market. a natural resource company there where we're looking at mineral opportunities and agricultural opportunities. we're trying to view them in a 21st century way, try to

with still more than a year to go until the opening ceremony at russia's maiden winter olympics see venice r.t. moscow. and finally let's return then to that useful same as the international student boscobel league was only established in russia five months ago but its best talents have already been in the spotlight at their first ever all-star game in moscow last weekend robert father nan reports. your game you'll future. this is essentially what most of the youngsters have on their minds the international student basketball league was only launched in until last year and saturday is best player swirl already shown of their skills in the first and are all star game it's a beautiful most of all best of all game was a little low as a starter to the football out of the student. sun i think this is a good decision of this. game is a better world and i think it's a little improve the finer sizzles of the motor out and let all the players will be for the inaugural season of the i is b.-l. sees the pick of student basketball from course russia ukraine as a stand still in and with the one in unit

to 1400 -- it was the intersection of two great trading routes -- prague to paris and hamburg to venicereat trade is tourism. rothenburg is a huge hit with shoppers. true, this is a great place to buy cuckoo clocks, steins, and dirndls, but see the town first. most of the buildings were built by 1400. like many medieval towns, the finest and biggest houses were built along herrengasse, named for the herren, or the wealthy class. the commoners built higgledy-piggledy farther from the center, near the walls. hanging shop signs advertise what they sold -- knives, armor, bread, whatever. rothenburg's wall, with its beefy fortifications and intimidating gates, is about a mile around and provides great views and a good orientation. rodertor is the only tower you can actually climb. it's worth the hike for the commanding city view and the fascinating display on the bombing of rothenburg in the last weeks of world war ii, when much of the city was destroyed. but rothenburg's most devastating days were 400 years ago, during the thirty years' war. in the 1600s, the catholic and protestant armies

in washington on venice talking. earlier my colleague kevin owen who spoke with a moron is a former prisoner at guantanamo who was serving a sentence for what turned out to be groundless accusations he was released after the u.s. military failed to get him to confess to crimes he never committed but he says that others were not so lucky if you are not a terrorist they want life to try to make you or terrorists i should example. that i did fight with taliban together against american soldiers between the war. and going to sign papers they forced me to sign papers that i should agree that i'm be a member of al qaeda because because they didn't have anything against me in their hands and you're saying force you have they force you say what were they doing to shoot to do that. they used torture techniques like waterboarding and electroshocks they sought after this i'm going to sign and agree that i'm being a member of al qaeda and every time i refused to sign they tried another kind of torture they saw i walked one time

can you remind me when we get to venice and broadway? thanks. >> what we're talking about here is full participation and inclusion. i want to be able to lead a full life. the only way that i'm able to get from place to place this by using a fully accessible public transit system like meany -- muni. >> the americans with disabilities act of 1990 is a wide-ranging federal civil- rights law that prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities. title two of the ada addresses access to public services, including public transportation for persons with disabilities. it requires transit operators to call out stops at transfer points, major intersections, and major destinations, and to announce particular stocks requested by customers with disabilities. stop announcements are especially important for passengers who are blind or have low vision. these individuals cannot travel independently if they are not assured of getting off at their intended destination point. ♪

is a huge change in attitude from just five years ago when the same summit king juan carlos called venice where those who were chavez to shut up regardless the numbers speak for themselves according to a recent world bank study more than fifty million people in latin america enter the middle class over the last fifteen years this is the first time in history that middle class growth has outpaced population growth but of course the implications closer to home when you consider the wealth inequality in latin america has been narrowing in recent years while that's been steadily growing in the u.s. and perhaps the biggest question we're left asking after such a massive hit to the u.s. economy is regarding the reliability of western economic models that are characterized here a growing gap between the rich and the poor so while many still regard latin america as a continent of wealth disparities dictatorships and perpetual rebellion the truth is that the tables are turning on old empires so they help me break down the trends that are shaping latin america into a global economic superpower i'm

will twenty thirteen bring to the international political arena that's the question for people of venice guests in the latest cross talk shows on the main issues the growing tension in the asia pacific but the u.s. continues its military buildup against china we can watch the full episode here in r.t. in about two hours time but here's a quick look i don't know of enemy i think. well america always needs a new enemy america always has an enemy ok so is this the new one. well you well yet we we need something to leverage our in the tea against that it was russia for a while and then it was japan remember the early eighties arisings on it and now and now it's well then it was iran and iraq and iran and saddam really helped because saddam was he looked evil he was perfectly good police sketch artist rendering of a child molester yeah he was a perfect villain and china is kind of faces and really no war if it's all down to we know there he. did go ahead john jumping on it. so this is really amazing to me because the primary problem that the united states sees with china is that its economy i

fifty six percent of the people who voted for his continuing to fulfill his obligations everyone in venice well and the rest of the world will know that the government is continuing to develop social and economic reforms and he's waiting for the president to recover and fulfill constitutional obligations. overall there's a lot of expectation regarding the return of president chavez and the people of venezuela are very anxious awaiting his arrival and i can watch the full version of all his exclusive interview with the vice president of venezuela coming up at six thirty pm. the parliamentary race in israel is about the political wrangling is only just beginning the election deadlock that unexpectedly gave prime minister netanyahu is right wing block and his center left rivals sixty eight seats each means tough coalition talks and a possible compromise on policies on his policy and looks at what israelis themselves expect from the next government. the voting here might be in secret but what's no secret is the result there was never really any doubt that prime minister netanyahu would win ano

three female critters in venice activists have been found dead of from gunshot wounds in paris one of the victims was the co-founder of the latest on the workers' party known as the take a lie in an armed struggle for separation from turkey forty thousand people have so far been killed in the twenty five year battle for independence ankara has recently begun talking with the party's jailed leader to try and persuade the organization to disarm. in baghdad at least of five people have been killed and fifteen wounded in a car bomb blast at a busy bus stop the attack happened during the morning rush hour one explosion occurred in the mainly shia district of the iraqi capital the bloodshed comes amid growing discontent among iraq's sunni population over alleged discrimination by the shia led government. russia's republic of yet u.t.r. has declared a war on the walls scores of the predators are reported to be closing in on several residential areas in the region posing a serious threat to life stock and earlier are taught to explain to my colleague marina joshie why the region is currently

this is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. writing about the recent past is not easy, as i learned at this time around. there are people that you must talk to. [laughter] while i was blessed from beginning to end fascinating people to talk to about joe kennedy, including large numbers of kennedys, i much prefer working from written documents than listening to people talk and trying to figure out what is real or imagined and what they know, what they think they know because someone told them what they don't know what all. the other difficulty about writing about the recent past is that it's not always easy to establish the past. the past that is so close to us. and yet, this is. to take apart, or commonsense view of the recent past and to interrogate what we think we know. to demystify a comedy mythologize, to move beyond the clichÉ about winners and losers and saints and sinners and the wisdom and encourage of our forefathers, especially those of the greatest generation. our job as historians. grounded in evidence. the life of

the first one that i slulove is venice. the location could not be better.t on the grand canal, but you're away from the crowds. this is 15th century property that has been updated, but not spoiled, which means you'll get beautiful classic very chic italian style, you'll get some incredible baroque and renaissance paintings. lap of luxury experience, exactly what you want when you're in venice. >> yes, i remember that room well. no, i think cnn put us up in a tent last time. what were the amenities most attractive to your readers? what is it that they liked about these places the most? >> as you said, they rate them on a lot of different things. and so different hotels certainly if you have a great location, a great waterfront location is an ideal thing for our reareds. for example the hotel in cape town that is new to the list, victorian alfred, has a location that cannot be beat. not only are you on the waterfront, but you have views of table mountains. if you're going to book a room, i had suggest the odd numbers rooms, the rooms with the views. reersd te