unit. further more, i would like to talk about fairness. we about the our home in 2013 because we wanted to live in a single-family home. it was marketed and sold to us as a single-family home. in 2014, based on a false accusation, the building department asked us to stop work and let them research whether or not it was a single-family home. after six months, they did a lot of research and confirmed that it was, indeed, a single-family home. we admit that mistakes were made by our prior contractors and architects, who signed and stamped our drawings as accurate. as owners, we've diligently all means available to correct the mistakes and move forward. our proposal is to keep the building as we bought it, a single-family home. right-sized, for one family. we're actually reducing the footprint of our building by approximately 100 square feet. and we're adding about 700 square feet of habitable space by adding dormers to get a little third bedroom and through excavation. the original building o

of the united states. .. committing more crimes inside the united states? some better example than what you are trying to say? >> a few points to that. this is the first iteration of this report and response to the executive orders directors and to working together with the hs expect to have more specifics and address some of these in the initial report in future iterations of this report. in terms of the cases that are reported, if you look at the cases, some of which are included in the section 11 report, there are certainly cases thatrelate to conduct that had been committed in the united states . conduct that is in support of for instance al qaeda or isis so there are plenty examples of conduct committed in the united states which would, in the way that we define it qualify as international terrorism investigation because it leads to a foreign terrorist organization or terrorist concepts. thirdly, of course we're trying to prevent through anyway we can the administration is tryingto prevent terrorist atta

other domestic and external problems of the united states. the expulsion of russian diplomats, seizure and search of our diplomatic property, along with the removal of state flags of the russian federation, infringement of rights of the russian media, all these actions are destroying the foundation of the russian-american federation. the russian threat is constantly used as a pretext to strengthen the solidarity -- which takes forms of military planning. a clear example is all the hype around military exercises in 2017 conducted by russia and belarus in september. we were accused of preparing for invasion of the baltic countries for occupation of ukraine. there were rumors that once the exercise was over the russian troops would remain in belarus. none of this happened. it was all fake news. [crowd noise] however, the united states, canadian, german and british contingents which were pulled up under the pretext of this have stayed and are still there in the proximity of the russian borders. comments are unnecessary. the fact we are not welcom

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

members they're making a mockery of the united states on the one hand all the. protests around the world oh totally ignored i mean we saw not long ago. a young palestinian woman a sixteen year old who was arrested who are defending her whole life and how it's time to. restore trust and he's keen violated international law by giving jerusalem to israel and i guess that's the same body of lawmakers being the united nations do to by lives more lost and interior and country's sovereignty and you know the focus of the algiers accord and there are some certain powers and it is a huge a critical it's a star that's it just makes me wonder you know there's a good saying this is i i seem him doing wicked things and wonder why they're not ashamed doing that and i'm paraphrasing it you know. he talks about caring about prosperity and i want to. impose and sanction this. so i didn't interrupt but you bring up nikki haley i want to get your take on something that she said ambassador haley said that iran may experience the same scenario as syria due to the protests is this an

the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. [applause] thanks to his leadership, the alliance between our two countries has never been stronger. the friendship between our two people has never been deeper. i am here to convey a simple message heard of the american people, america stands with israel. [applause] we stand with israel because our causes your cause. our values are our values and your fight is our fight. we believe in right around and good over evil. we stand with israel because that's what americans have always done. so it's been since my country's earliest day. during his historic visit to jerusalem president trump declared the bond between us his woven together in the heart of our people and we have always held a special respect and admiration for the people of the book. in the story of the jews, we've always seen the story of america. it is the story of an exodus, a journey from persecution to freedom, a story that shows the power of faith in the promise of hope. my country's very first settlers also saw themselv

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

states to people in the united states. more agents and officers asking more questions and prosecutors prosecuting more cases. will lead to a safer united states. i firmly believe that. in support of isis-related philosophies engage in ask. talk about engaging in committing acts here in the united states that were able to prevent that makes the americans safe. >> i'd like to ask about national security as it relates to the arrest of the agents. talk about the significant of that arrest and why? >> i will say that that is demonstrated in the complaint that was unrelated to the case that former officer retained classified information. as that case proceeds through the courts, i would expect to have more information about the conduct that underlies those charges and the complaint will come out. but as of now, that case was investigated before i came to the national security division. it's an important case. it goes to illegal retention of classified information so it's going to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. >> y

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

united nations report condemns iran saudi arabia and the united arab emirates for their roles in the war again with devastating impact for the country's people. you want jobs their life my headquarters here in doha also coming up african members of the united nations demand president trump retract his reported vulgar description of their countries accusing him of racism and xenophobia also the u.s. extends the iran nuclear deal but for the last time since president trump unless he gets changes to the international accord. i demonstrations against austerity continue in two days here almost a thousand people have been arrested. welcome to the program a new report by u.n. experts on the war in yemen show the extent to which saudi arabia and iran have intervened in the conflict the unpublished assessment presented to the security council of shopping critical of saudi led coalition airstrikes which of course the majority of civilian deaths in the war the experts findings also bolster accusations by the us that a radian weapons have been supplied to who theory rebels breaking a u.n. weapon

seems to be such a continuation there doesn't seem to matter who's the president of the united states it's the deep state the decides who our enemies are and how those they will be dealt with ok because i do i can't the contrast is so great that i've never seen it from a candidate to a president in my lifetime go ahead michael. what candidates get captured when they move from the campaign and from their own voice however authentic or inauthentic it is and then they get a subservient into the imperial worldview of the imperial city and the courtiers or the deep state if you want to call it that instead reshape their worldview and in many ways the over arching sensibility in washington today in terms of strategy is one of tremendous anxiety and insecurity now and so a grandstanding strategy a grandstanding strategy that looks like it's doing things that looks aggressive like the war on isis it's all a wonderful kind of demonstration and display the u.s. is not going to risk a big war with either china or russia but it will grandstand hence the ten thousand or so barrett fifty caliber sn

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

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

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

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

but united states has been the main partner of korea. most of the projects have been driven by the governments. the infrastructure for joint r and d is still week and the room is for improvement. the key point to be extracted from here is the reality of cases and the weak vitality in the joint r and d in korea. there are three reasons i can think of that contribute to the reality of joint defense r and d in korea. firstly, there is a lack of kmoen interest. korea is more interested in acquiring technology. on the other hand, united states may be more interested in development of a market and cost savings. also the gap in technological capabilities between the two countries may be a real obstacle for join r and d. and we have no established cooperation channels to propose and discuss joint r and d. this is more so for weapons systems development. regardless, there are good reasons to believe in a bright future for join defense r and d between the two countries. firstly, korea's r and d capability and the level of our defense science and t

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

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

united there was about the right across the u.k. and all the ambassador to united nations saying the u.k. like the others are watching events very closely calling for an end to the violence and for the government to comply with its human rights obligations he did mr. president rouhani has said the people's concern is president rouhani has said the people's concerns are legitimate and he called for iran to grant special access to grant access to the un special rapporteur and then went on to talk away from the protests about the security concerns in iran and how iran has a rightful place in the modern world but that iran and regional activity is threatening international peace and security let's speak to our correspondent mike hanna who has been listening in. on what he hates the u.s. ambassador have approved of what she just heard. well she would certainly have approved of the u.k. ambassador widening out this discussion from one political protest in iran to the role the wider role that the country may or may not be playing within th

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

prevent the united states from. supporting the theft of land in the expulsion of of people look i'm not a fortune teller we don't know what will happen a year two three five ten from now on what is clear is that the general assembly in the two thirds majority of member states expressed themselves so clearly on this matter and i think this disability message will not go unnoticed do you think that the two state solution as adopted by the united nations is viable after what has happened. and do you fear that the. approach to try and find some sort of political resolution to what is one of the oldest conflicts ongoing conflicts in the world that this is still an option on the table after what the united states as the two state solution is the only solution we support is the only solution that has been discussed the only solution that is clearly been negotiated and has a strong support of do not have nations and other international organizations yes we are struggling now to get the process back on track but i've never b

units. it doesn't even make sense. and as for the other neighbor who was happy having a family of three, i have a family of five. i mean, i wouldn't -- i'm -- i mean, we need three bedroom units. two bedrooms may work for him or something like that, i suppose, but i hope that you would actually increase the square footage, and if you can fit in two units, that would be great. thank you much for your time. >> president hillis: thank you. any additional public comment? >> good evening, commissioners. i'm actually the project sponsor. my name is kieran hardy. >> if you were the project sponsor, you had to speak during the presentation time. >> okay. >> president hillis: we may have questions for you. any additional public comment? seeing none, commissioner johnson? >> commissioner johnson: yeah, i can't be supportive of this. if you look at this lot -- if you look at the buildings adjacent to this lot -- to the left, i'm not sure if that's east or west, they're multiunit, and clearly, there's -

i think donald trump has settled in to the realisation that the government of the united states itself not just his presidency but the government. is under attack from the deep state and the hard supporters of hillary clinton and that entire political group so i would say that if i were donald trump i would be dreamily surprised had this government shutdown not been the very first agenda item for his upon us we've got to remember that since one thousand nine hundred seventy eight until today that means forty years there have been eight teen govern downs that every second year roughly the u.s. government is shut down for political partisan reasons why would donald trump be an exception to that rule no reason this is expected and i'm sure he was prepared for it why do you think the democrats of chosen protection full immigrants a battleground here why why bring this into the fray instead of sorting out later in a separate bill. well it's pretty well known from demographic analysis of the voting trends united states most new immigrants are voting democrat so democratic party to win the ne

outside the united states, it's no calmer. the president is facing serious threats and d a miscalculation could lead to all-out war. i spoke to the secretary of defense, ash carter. >> secretary carter welcome to the program. >> good to be here. >> on the eve of president trump going to davos, they put out a global survey saying the risk of military conflict is rising and it will sharply rise in 2018. what do you make of that? does that sound right to you? >> the principal place that that may be true is on the korean peninsula, elsewhere there's danger, but it may be a continuation of the past. we may see -- it's not highly probable, but never rule it out, is an incident on the korean peninsula. particularly the north korean military, sort of a doctrine to lash out if provoked. it has been that way as long as i have been working. and therefore, whether it starts with an incident between the north and south, whether it starts between -- with an incident between north korea and the united states, there's always a possibility the

keep four units in the existing building and build two new units. so, because the lot split would result in a density that is not permitted by code basically. they would be having -- you're basically intensifying a nonconforming condition and the planning code and zoning doesn't allow you to do that. there is no way for them to split the lot and keep the number of units within the four existing units or even the three existing units and still build a new unit adjacent to it. >> ok. that sounds to me -- that clarifies. that sounds to me like a bureaucratic loophole that we should maybe talk more about it. i don't think we've had as many questions about the two new units maybe we did. i don't remember us focus a conversation on that in our previous hearing. >> can i ask to clarify -- on that, what code is dictating that? >> the zoning. it's rh-2 -- >> i know but if you split the lot, you have a vacant lot. >> it goes down to the creation of the lots and you can't have -- you can't do lot splits that basically force noncon frommer -- nonconforming lots

so, five units total. >> and how many occupants? >> there is eight, actually, nine occupants downstairs, and three up there, upstairs. >> commissioner lee. and commissioner walker. >> what is your profession, what do you do? >> i'm a real estate agent. i work for keller williams. >> so, when you bought this property, didn't you realize that these were all problematic? >> yes. actually, it was before i study for the real estate license. i just got it recently and so my father was the one actually made the decision of purchasing the house. and i don't think he understood fully that it was going to be a lot of work. >> how many buildings do you and your father own? >> i own, me and my father own this one and my mother owns a building on 26th avenue and gary. >> and you have tenants in the other building as well. >> yes, we have a few tenants. >> commissioner walker. >> you are very lucky that you didn't end up with a fire like the last case that we -- i mean, with all of the tapping into the electric, this is exactly why this is such a

what about here in the united states? is that breakdown still about the same, about an 80/20 that we're not seeing the r&d in clean technology and development? >> i need to come back to you for that, madam chair, but worldwide it was a surprising result. >> yeah, it is. >> i thought when i read the interviews of the business leaders and so on, i thought it was the biggest part was coming from the industry and less from the public. but public was the main driver of the r&d in clean energy. >> it's very interesting. if you learn otherwise, and particularly on the u.s. side, i'd be curious to know about that. because that is -- that's not what typically we would think. you have referenced energy security many times. you know, we think about the security that comes with abundance of supply and how we can provide security that way. you've also referenced the electricfication that we're seeing around the world. you highlight increasing digitalization of power systems that can assist with levels of efficiency that i think is imp

the united states. ambassador anatov: you are right. of course, it is difficult to start working in the united states nowadays, frankly. as i mentioned to my new friends before our meeting, you said the first news i got when i left my plane was the decision of the united states regarding the seizure of the consulate general of -- my daughter has sent me a message saying, father, be prepared. there are a lot of journalists who would like to see you and get some remarks from you. instead of going to my house, i was forced to go to the embassy to start working. what to do under such circumstances? of course, frankly, it is difficult, but my official remarks, please, it is a lot of positive elements in our history. even during the cold war, we reached drastic agreements regarding nuclear arsenals. don't forget about the treaties like imf, start treaty. and you will see these treaties are still alive. and it's very important the united states and the russian federation consider important to sit together and

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

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

the need to separate the united states even if the united states did not want to be involved well talk briefly about syria it has largely spun this web for itself. wondering whether you have not unconsciously spun from me from which there's no escape. it's classic and someone else for his problems yet softening a little bit. the curry is supposed to be progress the sense that it scientific rational along clearly identified methods and evidence-based. my favorite piece of documentation is this great phrase, the truth is out there. so the inquiry got to work. also you some amps they started putting together things like this. detailed analysis. what does the empire look like. lives there how do we identify who lives there. these are gorgeously produce maps that look at production pet look at where railroads and canals go. who lives there, what we do with them i love the way they tried to do this by shading different colors this is not the way i would try to break up an empire especially as people on the ground are saying they moved in. our claim to the land supersedes ours. the progressiv

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

and we were mechanized unit in health care we were first unit into lawrence head quarters that morning and village and he said i took a picture with my little brownie camera behind your track. of the ammo and long bin which was the largest in the world. blowing up -- and he said i would like to come by when i'm in town and give it to you. so we set up a time that he came by when i was in the senate, and had a long conversation and he gave me an eight by ten picture of this little brownie systemic camera picture. it looked like atomic bomb going off everything was astangedding that he autographed it for me and i've kept it on the wall and rest of the time in the senate, secretary of defense i have had n my office as well so it was a reminder which tom and i have discussed many times about -- again, the significance of it. >> and the scale of the destruction, i mean, because all of this ladies and gentlemen, for chuck hagel's unit at the time they were in and aired city of saigon largest city in south vietnam and capitol today now called ho chi minh so -- >> so how about you i was in lon

nations security council to convene because there were riots inside the united states but the united states seems to think that each it has the moral responsibility to protect protesters in iran when they don't even predict their own people at home good that's exactly what the russian representative to the united nations and the united nations chastised nikki haley about should be should that investigate further should and should we invested by investigate occupy wall street or these matters for internet and what happened with that shooting in las vegas i'd like to know something about that maybe the u.n. can help us find out what happened. in ferguson i think would be a good idea. these protests are completely there's hasn't been a story since russia gate well i mean there are so many of them stories actually that the press has gotten so wrong and the press was baiting the press the commentary at the foreign policy blog in the u.s. where babying as one regime change regime change freedom i mean really iranians of course is they want the sanctions to. force the uranium people to chan

in may god continue to bless the united states of america. [applause] israeli national newspaper showing vice president pence in the old city of jerusalem and reporting it took place without the presence of any israeli political leaders. the vice president met with the vice president. here are their joint remarks.

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

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

i don't mind the unit in the two-unit building. i just think it's -- it's too intense if intensefication of that one lot, and it could be solved relatively easily. i also -- like commissioner richards, i don't mind kind of the more modern architecture. i think it could fit in a little more, but to me, it should be kind of a smaller, you kn you know, building on that lot. there certainly are large buildings on castro as you go up and down, but not also with kind of the larger building on the back of the lot. so i just think it's too big for -- for that site to add all this to. so i mean i don't think we're going to design this thing tonight and figure out what to do, but as i look at the floor plan, there's a family room on the ground floor, and the top floor is used for kind of a large master suite. could you kind of put the master suite on the ground floor and not have a top floor? certainly, i think the deck is a little too much on the top of this building. so that's my general take. i think it's got to kind of go back and figure

it also rendered the united -- churchillay rendered the united states as a plural noun. it is said that before the civil war, the united states were and after the civil war, the united states was. hold the simple declared of sentence in your mind as we go through this morning's lecture. there are certain premises that underlie my remarks as morning. the first is that world war ii was transformational in a true a dramatic way, both in the life of the planet. transformations that the united states was responsible for and participated in did not just happen to they considered decisions during the war. let's go back to that remark again. the united states stand at this moment at the summit of the world. improbablest how that statement would have been from the point of view of 1940, just five years earlier. year of the 11th great depression, which began in 1929. by extrapolating backward, the standards of poverty developed in the 1960's, historians reconstruct at a party line. we believe 45% of white households and 95% of african-american households were under the party line.

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

as the united states becomes weaker, we have chosen it with h.w. bush that ended the american nuclear testing program who didhe republicans that. unilaterally ended the testing program. we can start it up. chosen not to do that uni literally. the best thing we can do is have robust, credible, nuclear threat. whohat other countries don't have them continue to belief they don't need them because they rely on the united states. me when people start saying that we can perhaps just having a north korea nuclear program. as soon as you get comfortable and you move to a containment strategy, who is going to want nuclear weapons in this region. is going to want at at the least the united states to deploy tactical nuclear weapons which we withdrew. if there's nuclear weapons in south korea, who else is going to want nuclear weapons? who is saying it? who is whispering it? who is going to be really upset when japan has nuclear weapons? see the problems we're running into? that's a powder keg almost literally and figuratively. it is a very scary situation. wha

. - [cooper] opec is seen as a bad actor and has a bad reputation in the united states and in western countries in general because of the 1973 oil embargo and the oil shock that flowed through the 1970's. the entire world economy was destabilized. and, for the first time, oil was used a weapon by the producers against consumers. - [narrator] saudi arabia is a swing producer of oil. having the excess capacity to balance the market, or manipulate price by increasing or decreasing production. - [chanis] saudi arabia is by far the single most important factor in the oil market over any period of time. their policies today, and how much they invest, will be the single most important factor determining the price of oil in five or ten years. - [spindle] it's not only the biggest producer within opec by quite a ways, but it is the one country within opec that's consistently been willing to hold back some ability to produce; it's what it's called its spare capacity. - [cooper] they've been able to come in at pivotal moments to either drain or flood the system at will. that has given them enorm

it's ready to be brought to the floor of the united states senate. it's ready to be passed into law. for senator mcconnell to say he doesn't know anything about it, i'm sorry, but we have been very open about what's included in there. he knows it's a product of long and hard bipartisan work. i'd like to address another aspect of what he has said about these so-called illegal immigrants. last night, late last night, after using that term, i noticed the gallery was filled over here with young people who appeared to be at first glance here to watch the debate on the dream act, the debate on daca. after the meeting of the senate, i invited them into my office. there were about 40 of them. they were from all across the united states but primarily from the state of oregon who came all the way out here to try to see if this senate was going to meet president trump's challenge and produce an alternative. it turns out most of them were protected by daca, the executive order that is being abolished by president trump. one of them said to me i am skipping my fi

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

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

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

cooperation with the united states. the united states is already a partner with pakistan and china. most of these projects which are being done, general electric is providing. [inaudible] the technology. in the last few months alone, if the american companies, they are all situating themselves to benefit from what's about to come up. >> and just to share for this group, what was the growth rate in 2017 for the last couple years, don' think people know. >> they've improved to 6% for 2018. >> last year was over 5%. it has been constant in these massive investments allow us to move on to make special economic doors along the corridor and we think it would be very helpful if the united states stayed engaged. corporate america is a really making up their own mind and we want them there. we had these good relations, they believed that people like me, that our relations with china and the united states. [inaudible] we've had relations since 1949 when they gained independence and with the united states since 1947 when they beca

what about here in the united states? is that break against about the same, about 80/20, that we're not seeing the r&d in clean technology development? >> i need to contact you but the worst part was to make it was surprising. i thought when i read the intel news of the business leaders and so on, i thought it was the biggest part was coming from the industry and less from the public. but public was the main driver of the r&d in the united states. >> that's very interesting. if you would otherwise and particularly on the u.s. side i'd be curious to know about that because of that is, that's not what typically we would think. you have referenced energy security many times here. we think about the security that comes with abundance of supply and how we can provide security that way. you have also referenced the electrification that we are seeing around the wor. you highlight in your testimony the increasing digitalization of power systems, and again, that can assist with levels of efficiency that i think is important, but i

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

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