he came to the united nations and he -- united nations and he told the secretary general that it was necessary to have the united nations send observers. that did not take place, why? and he was in contact with fred ricoh and i myself sent an invia station to him to be an ober in the election. they objected it outright, why? because already the plan was under way. the plan to -- for a coup d'etat was under way. three months before the election under secretary sullivan was the first to say these election will be fraudulent election. and then the president of colombia, chili and from europe stated immediately that they will not recognize the results of the election several months before the election. when have you ever seen anything like that? show me, demonstrate that there was fraud. one fraudulent vote. we heard that the ballot boxing were rigged in venezuela we have an electronic voting system. it's not matt:. there's sit-- manual. there's simply a certificate to prove you voted. then a certificate to check against the actual vote. the united states wants to build a wall between me

unit. affordable units will serve formerly homeless adults referred to the project by the department of homelessness and supportive housing through the coordinated entry system. building amenities include a large ground level courtyard, a community room with kitchen, resident lounge and game room, a services suite and bicycle parking. the project also includes a community garden that will be open to the public and managed in collaboration with a local non-profit. and with that, i had go ahead and turn the presentation over to the architects to talk through the proposed design. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my colleague and i will give you a brief presentation of the architectural design. and we want to start with the concept diagram of the design. i think it speaks to the two main goals of this development. two of the main goals, creating community and reflecting mission bay character. shows the site is between two streets and the public safety building and the new bridge view way. it e

states can pull out from the united nations altogether accessible i mean let's let's be clear the united states plays a very important role in the where i sit is a founding member like the russian deflation. and of course used to be out of one or two areas that are more i would say the other thing is to be of course involved in the sensitivity of it is of the when and i believe these will go on more true believer that when one looks at united states and the russian federation those two countries in many aspects common interests sometimes they are fighting but they have common interests and they for a look at the middle east. that we have been that was mentioned. about the decision of the global middle east in this area where i'm strongly believe that the jews the of the humanity. as you say it's in the russian federation and also in tony on the contrary well seems the jews are similar and i strongly hope the divisions that have existed will be overcome and that the two countries will be able to have very strong cooperation a lowing the international system to work there is no way in whic

the united states pulls out its funding. of of programs like the u. anti appear at the end of the year one route organization what happens is that those imbalances become much more evident. so he sort of you know you see the basically the unilateral actions at the united nations is taking and the rejection of the un structures. are in fact kind of would you know review well one of those who say that the united nations is a good idea in principle but the reality is something completely different. tell us about that troubling reality. was united nations comp be more democratic and more rules space than its member states are and the majority of member states are dictatorships or at least authoritarian regimes see. democracies in the states of law are in the minority and that of course limits the possibilities of the united nations to be what they are supposed to be which is. somehow. the car until her of a rules based -- well to order. and this is a special challenge to germany. germany is a used to put the main point on diplom

you know i think the united nations has. a problem in that if it isn't properly represented i mean look most of the countries of the world don't you know we only have five permanent members of the security council so there's been a lot of calls for that structure to be revamped to increase the representation if you don't if you have a body that purports to speak for the whole world but but there are many countries that are not represented that creates these kind of imbalances that we see and i say you know yeah i think the u.n. i would say is trying to solve problems but often unintentionally and use an exacerbation of magnifies the problems that are magnificent of the united nations how does he magnify the problems whether this of the funding of the funding for operations is very heavily weighted to the united states when the united states pulls out its funding of programs like the u.n. d.p. or the. organization what happens is that those imbalances become much more evident so he sort of you know used to basically the you k

under crean disrupting chemicals in the united states. produce disease cost at that twice as much as in europe where the regulation is much tighter i wonder if you faced any pushback on that under study not only from the industry but also from the political class because ultimately these results are a comment on the role of the government. we know that policy predicts exposure exposure predicts disease and disease costs us all as a society what's striking about the difference in our cost estimates between the european union and the united states is the differences in policy that drive those differences in costs so in the united states we proactively required brominated flame returns to be put into furniture and carpeting among other things and that's resulted in extremely higher levels of those flame retardants in the human bodies of americans as opposed to europeans and that ultimately has affected the cognitive outcomes of literally a generation of american children whereas europe proactively acted to ban those flame retardants from mus

the united states has to go. behind do pressure of it put on european union energy companies first of all the united states would like to send their own shaded guts and competition we have a russian gas the second objective of the united states has always been to control eurasia and to prevent europe to be too close to russia to move united states put pressure on europeans the mole varies their risk of that europeans try to detach from the u.s. and try to make it better dear we've russia we cannot abandon and. improve the import of russian gas of east ruby issue economics reciting saw the americans or so as italy meet new day or the pressure of capacity. washing out international are going to take a quick break now back continue. join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar cri

the thing is, here in the united states can -- not in the united states, not the people of the united states, but the elite that is in power that is ruling the united states, they believe that latin america -- they want to impose their model. they want to have this presidents were also businessmen and follow the orders of the president of the united states. but we are not, so we're trying to build our own society in new terms, with equality, with access to health, to education, housing, to culture. and that is our struggle. of course, what happens is in those terms, the u.s. elite and other countries, satellite countries of the united states, they are trying to isolate venezuela, trying to stop this from happening. it is not going to happen. but this is a difficult struggle, amy. we are really looking and pressing desk president maduro has looked for dialogue. we had a dialogue process last year with the opposition in the dominican republic, hosted by the dominican republic in the former president of spain. when we reached the agreement, we were there to sign the agreement, the opposi

oversight in the united states and whereas the e.p.a. updated its regulation very recently the food and drug administration still operates on a framework that assumes that the do is prove makes the proverbial poison and the reality is that even the f.d.a. own science suggests effects at low levels of exposure one thing that absolutely astounded me and that i didn't know before is that the f.d.a. does not have the authority to up to date or or reassess the safety of chemicals we are already on the market which is quite scary knowing how much both the bio chemical and medical industries have progress doesn't mean that once the chemical is on the market it will be on the market for ever unless the producer wants to replace it with something safer well fortunately we're seeing a lot of attention to what we call the generally recognized as safe or grass loophole there are a lot of proposals underway to modernize the food drug and cosmetic act in the united states so that we can have a framework that's clearer and more protective of human heal

on the other side the united states seeks to increase pressure on material by starting his regime of funds. so what we're focusing on today is disconnecting the illegitimate euro regime from the sources of its revenues we think consistent with their recognition no one quite zero is the constitutional interim president of venezuela that those revenues should go to the german government in washington ordered some of its diplomatic staff to leave caracas but refused to comply with the fill expulsion as ordered by video meanwhile material has been be affirmed by both the supreme court of the military but why do we didn't shy from commenting on the future in a televised interview from an undisclosed location. do. you know what is are you also offering amnesty to nicolas maduro. that would have to be looked at he's also a public employee unfortunately though he's also a dictator and responsible for yesterday's victims you know venezuelans on both sides no wait quite his next move. with me here in the studio now is croatian moya from d.w. latin america good morning carol you know. material

the united states is trying to be in a region. when they are there the only job thier doing and they have shown that they do is creation of interest groups who are risking tone during the time his tenure in the foreign ministry he. has so a meeting the. she. has dissipated in the creation of the terrorist group in syria and iraq if you recall in the. states. then trump. choose into the you who are the people who are these terrorist groups here ultimately agree with mr trump in the in these coalition he wanted to again change to the only change you followed the same policy that. created do you think you may have other things in common with mr trump and at least in the way how he conceptualizes there is no newcomer in purposes a common policy between us and the search. and there could be no more overlap of of us on how the region develops we're not. because we know that. he. has you know any policy you know or the war you're against any kind o. expansionism and any kind of his unit where you notice it or any other country now as the

they export narcotics in the united states. we export drugs, pardon me, we export guns and laundered money back into these cartels. we wonder why they're so powerful. according to the latest dea drug threat assessment, the amount of bulk cash seized has been steadily decreasing over the last eight years. dea reports that, quote, large amounts of cash continue to be interdicted among major highway corridors. with the cash typically concealed and hidden vehicle compartments or among legitimate cargo. there would be strong bipartisan support in congress for more resources for outbound inspections if only the administration put as much priority on this effort as they do on a wall. there is more that congress can do. in 2013 when democrats controlled the senate we passed bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform. do you know how much was included in that bill for border security funding? $40 billion and over 60 senators voted for it. no lack of will when it comes to border security. sadly, the republican leaders in the house refus

unit above. subsequent to that, the permit was approved and issued an appeal to this board. the project is code compliant and meets all planning code requirements. i have more information as to the history of the permits for the adjacent property at 1899 green street. it has been referenced by both parties. prior to the current owner of the property, there were permits that were thought to do interior renovations. the last permits was from 2009 and that kept two units at that level and we can all agree it is the first floor level. it kept two units there and what it did was it took the kitchen and dining room, which is an issue here, and it moved it to the other side of the building with all the windows. and so that was the permit that was issued. it seems that this was a hot mess project, and for many years , was not proper to delete -- properly maintained. the work was done with out exceeding the scope of the permits. but the history does show that when the appellant filed their permit to, it w

but the united states still had a problem. harry truman remembered from his own world war i experience, he came back and he set up a business with his friend, jacobson, and that business went broke during a depression after world war i. one of truman's goals at the end of the second world war was to try to have a rational, logical reconversion of the military economy back to a peace time economy. people had earned money during the war, but there was nothing to spend it on during the war. so there was a lot of pent-up urge on the part of consumers to spend money on the war to buy things. that, of course, would put extreme pressure on prices and prices would go up. so truman was trying to use the government to kind of balance all this out and make a smoother reconversion from a military economy to a peace time economy. now, even though truman was very much supportive of unions, he faced a real backlash from unions and workers after the war because of this. and so he had this habit of writing what we call diary entries. they're a

i believe the united states should release. the. live night to macias friend. leggy in august thanks for coming on to the program to talk about this now firstly less established when the last time it was that you spoke with the family. yes i've been in regular contact with meyers is children who are all in america. i spoke to her daughter sarah just an hour before coming on as you mentioned them as is an american born american citizen she's a journalism graduate from the united states she studied at louisiana state university and graduated many decades ago she has decades of experience in journalism and her family are very concerned and they have very little information of what is going on they know she is detained without charge and they are very very concerned about you say you spoke to her daughter about an hour ago before you came on. what was your conversation about are you able to tell us what was said. look at the moment there are very many questions and very little what we do you know what the family do know is that magazine was taken in tunnel flight y

, meaning that if you units -- if units are completed, about the same number of units are added to the pipeline. as of the third quarter of 2008, there were almost 70,000 net units, about 20% of which are affordable. this chart also shows a very -- the various stages of development, and how many units are in those stages. 7,460 units are under construction. 5,870 have permits approved, 4,870 are in projects that have been entitled, but have not yet filed for a building permit. over 40 2% of the pipeline, or almost 30,000 units are in eight major multi- face, multiyear projects that have also been entitled to, but have yet to file for a secure building permit. and should be noted that phases of some of the projects such as candlestick point, hope s.f. have started to, in units in those buildings are not included -- are now included in the other development stages, and not in a discount. the build outs of these major projects can take anywhere from 10-20 years. there are over 18,600 units currently under review. projects under review compose a total of 4,000 net units. this slide shows t

bloodbath the united states are painting a picture. of a confrontation between the majority and the people of venezuela and this picture is far from reality when you know in spite of everything the leader of venezuela obviously has broad support among the people and by the way according to sociological surveys conducted in october of twenty teen by one of the structure one an organization close to the opposition the national assembly the leader which is currently being positioned in washington as almost a president is not supported by almost seventy percent of the people of venezuela and once again about the elections and about. being informed the distinguished representative of the united kingdom spoke about stuff ballot boxes in venezuela suggesting that the elections were rigged. well just for information there are no ballot boxes menace where they use an electronic system of voting. well you have no supporting venezuela we first and foremost are against the violation of international law in particular provisions of the un which cle

is going to do once it understands where the united states or what the united states wants to do then it can act in everyone is not a man known for his patience go ahead joshua. well you're absolutely right the kurdish problem it turns out to be a problem for everybody nobody really knows what to do with it not america not turkey not syria not iraq and and do. this is you know with the collapse of the syrian central state during the civil war us out in many ways handed off eastern northeastern syria to the kurds and to the wipe egypt and then america which had been helping the arab militias against a side hoping to overthrow the regime put in a pro-american regime that would make peace with israel this completely collapsed and so the united states was left siding with the kurds to fight isis these this very reliant sunni kayla full group that was trying to build this big cayle of it and that that caused in a sense the united states to side with the allies of us if you would but now that they're withdrawing everybody is no none of the regional powers want there to be an independent or

the point at which the united kingdom left the e.u. because of course your hope premise that you are advancing is somehow u.k.'s prosperity is utterly dependent upon one relationship that relationship we have with the european union in fact we've been increasing our trade with the rest of the world despite the fact we're not in a single market relationship and you have the big promise from the usa if i may just finish finish the point and the trade we've done with the european union has been declining as a proportion so since the single market came into existence in one thousand nine hundred three we've grown exports the european union by eighteen percent we've grown exports the rest the world by seventy percent how do we do it we're trading on w. toe terms of the rest of the world we're trading across customs frontiers the fact is the future of the united kingdom does not depend on our future prosperity is not depend on membership in the european union the european union is the slow lane of the developed world it's the high unemployme

in the united nations is predicted on the idea that there oklo balkan aviation so they need generalis they need people who know about change or about human rights about organization of elections and then they can deploy these people to any conflicts and so to congo to syria etc and when you look at the career of people who work for the united nations the hope from conflicts into conflict zones because they're hired for their what i call death of my tickets purchased their expertise in. in gender in elections in human rights and nobody really cares about what they know but the consciously the country or the feel age in which doesn't work it's seen as something that second wave that's not as important what really matters for them is to have the expertise of change or an election to cetera because that's what the u.n. and that i think is one of the things we absolutely absolutely need to change in the united nations well i have to say that it's pretty shocking for me to hear that . several decades after discussing how to improve the effectiveness of peacekeeping operations that's still t

the united states stands with the venezuelan people. many other nations have chosen to do the same thing and recognize the legitimate government of interim president guaido. the united states stands proudly with you as we stand in support of venezuela. you knew that the venezuelan people did not have a moment to spare. now it is time for every other nation to pick a side. no more delays. no more games. either stand with the forces of freedom or you are in league with maduro. some countries have formally taken president maduro's side. china, russia, syria, and iran are four of them. this morning, we tried to find a way for this counsel to speak in one voice to the venezuelan people's support and democratic ideals of this council, but the russian and chinese colleagues refused to let this move forward. it is not a surprise that those who rule without democracy in their countries are trying to prop up maduro while he is in dire straits. nor are these countries supporting international norms as they cynically claim. china and russia are pro

the united states also is working to keep our bilateralun relationships strong. over the next few days, i'll hold in-depth discussions with the leaders of bahrain, the uae, qatar, saudi arabia, oman, and kuwait. we'll talk about our shared goals, just as i did in jordan and iraq this week, and as i did today with president sisi and foreign minister shoukry. and as we seek an even stronger partnership with egypt, we encourage president sisi to unleash the creative energy of egypt's people, unfetter the economy, and promote a free and open exchange of ideas. the progress made to date can continue. i also applaud president sisi's efforts to promote religious freedom, which stands as an example for all leaders and allo peoples of the middle east. i was happy to see our citizens, wrongly convicted of improperly operating ngos here, finally be acquitted. and we strongly support president sisi's initiative to amend egyptian law so that this does not happen again. more work certainly needs to be done to maximize the potential of the egyptian nation and its people. i'm gl

united the chances for the united states of america to tackle eisel in the middle east and war in yemen and contain what it considers to be iran's growing influence will be really slim. hashim the whole bara speaking to us there live from here in doha thanks hashan. well the syrian army is preparing for an offensive by turkish forces on the kurdish rebel stronghold of men bitch syria's government has deployed soldiers artillery and tanks to the northwest suburbs of the city as u.s. forces prepare to leave turkish troops have carried out military exercises at the border with syria ahead of this expect this expected offensive and considers the kurdish y p g a terrorist group and u.s. secretary of state mike pompei was hopeful of an agreement with turkey to protect its kurdish allies who fought the war against eisel the kurds are bracing for the imminent operation sin and cos the early reports from northern syria. preparing for battle these men are members of the free syrian army as hamza brigade their allies of the turkish military are on a war footing and preparing for an offensive on th

just let me bring up some some numbers in the year two thousand and eight the united states imported our own one a half million barrels from venezuela oil from venezuela crude oil and in the year two thousand and seventeen it was five hundred thousand it's still a lot the united states needs to this also that would affect the united states the people in venezuela and the military prison trump has tweeted that all options are on the table he's expressed the interviews as well. we rule out u.s. military intervention in venezuela we can't i'm afraid to say that i mean i can't really imagine how the united states would really intervene and have been as i with with with military but the steam that we're hearing from the united states from president donald trump and also with a speech from russia they are again provoking the united states so that might end in the scenario we don't want to see there the german foreign minister hard to moscow has been in washington and he's laid down germany's position is very clear on that as well in an exclusive interview with the w. mission or target we'r

and they go every now and then to the idea so is it really strange how can the united states united kingdom actually claim that they are fighting al qaeda anyway it especially in yemen while they are supporting the saudi to fight. using al qaida to fight the whole of the especially in the in the west coast of yemen in her day most of the fighters out of from al qaeda from extremist. groups from isis and i mean everybody everyone in yemen knows that so i think the united kingdom may just want to destroy yemen the same way they have destroyed syria the same way they have destroyed iraq there was no al qaeda out eyes in iraq as well in syria and in libya and we know now what is happening that they want to do the same thing in yemen. will try and get the u.s. ambassador to saudi ambassador and. three people that you in the united states alleges affiliates drug on the show thank you very much and that's it for the show will be back on saturday with world health organizations first reported to migration health care arguably dehumanization and tourism a hostile environment and children which by so

the united states is now putting its money as well as its endorsement behind the venezuelan opposition posing sanctions on venezuela's state owned oil company petter they say the path to sanctions relief for pad of a so is through the expeditious transfer of control to the interim president or a subsequent democratically elected government who is committed to taking concrete and meaningful actions to combat corruption but the trumpet ministration has president nicolas maduro in its sights hoping to weaken his support with the military which now controls the oil company and so far is standing behind him the duro vowed legal action to protect citgo it's us me subsidiary thumbelina. with this move that trying to steal six go promised the venezuelan people to be on alert finn is buying up today the united states has decided to take that road of stealing the company citgo from venezuela and that is an illegal drug the aim of the sanctions is to direct oil revenues to the self declared interim president and opposition leader won by del rio who's calling for a day of protest on wednesday inte

this migrant movement toward the united states. instead, the administration has cut security and humanitarian assistance by more than one-third to central america. he has terminated the temporary protective status for el salvadorans and hondurans which would force more than a quarter million of the people from the united states back to these countries. and he shut down, in many respects, the legal avenues for migration like the central american minor program where minors in these three countries that are sending so many people to our border could have applied for asylum in their countries without making this dangerous journey to our border. this administration eliminated that program which gave these minors and their parents few options and one, sadly, was to trek to our border and to face what they're facing today. the history of this issue is clear. a bipartisan group put together a measure and brought it to the senate floor a few years ago that would have provided $40 billion in border security. that funding had the support of b

units. from the four current units to 19. this project provides for existing tenants during the development and it includes relocation assistance, it includes temporary housing for them. this project will be responsible for zero evictions. this project will be responsible -- responsible for zero displacements. this project is a dream for the safety. the current tenants supports this project. if i can speak for a moment about the shadow earlier this morning, i attended that commission and they determined correctly. it was a 4-2 split, and this project does not significantly contribute to adverse enjoyment or use of the park. the study that was done, the shadow study that was done shows that this project will increase the shadow by 0.38% of additional shadow. this park is currently 2.5 acres , and falls with less than 20% current shadow coverage , meeting the guidelines that the city provides is 1% additional shadow for a development. this contributes 0.38. we have seen some photographs today that people have brought showing th

if he can do that by not going into the units, all the better. >> you answered my question. >> the unit is on the ground floor. >> and so what i see is that we don't have a set of plans that is going to work in the context of what the -- this is not the city plans. should we just kick this can down the road and do it on another day? deal with another set of plans. >> we will have to continue this. >> i mean, normally, i mean, sometimes they would realize that they need to speculate, come up with an agreement and they both look at the set of drawings and agree that these are acceptable and the board adopts them. >> there will be a rebuttal. and i think it would be, your testimony, is there advisable testimony to the project sponsor that with these plans, we probably cannot approve the set of plans knowing there is another set of plans. that is what the appeal process is all about. and most likely we should kick this down the road and have it on another day with the advice that they should reconsider their position on the plans, and also, how they are dealing with the customer? >> yeah, i

what lavrov said is exactly what the united states is doing. he knows they're trying to manipulate the people, the media, the constitution of venezuela even come to impose a man who has not been elected president pulls up amy: venezuelan foreign minister jorge arreaza. we wilill be back with him in 30 seconds. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. continue with my interview with the venezuelan foreign minister jorge arreaza. fromave massive flight venezuela, the u.n. commissioner for refugees has called the ongoing venezuelan migration crisis unprecedented in latin america. the u.n. estimates about 3 million venezuelans have lefeft since 2015, another 2 million are projected to leave this year. about one million of them are living in colombia. brazil,illion peru, argentina come all have large numbers. why, foreign minister jorge arreaza, are so many venezuelans leaving? >> first, you know how many: muse live in venezuela? 6 million. over one, ecuadorians, million. spaniards,

there is several violence in the united states. it escalated in 1967 in 1968 including here in washington dc. johnson wanted to focus on domestic priorities. that was always his major interest. he was consumed from early on by the war in vietnam. that is why in his final year in office he wanted to focus on whatever priorities he could do while trying to bring a peaceful end to the war. hubert humphrey was initially not the favored candidate. he was put forth by johnson as someone who can continue his programs to withstand a reasonable chance against richard nixon. johnson did not like robert kennedy. that was no secret. he was uneasy at the same time and was deeply saddened by kennedy's assassination. >> at the same time, the apollo program continues to grow with research being done in florida and texas at cape canaveral and the johnson state center. apollo 8 we saw in the video a moment ago launched in december 1968. >> the thing about the cold war is that it brought out the worst and the best in america. part of that was a peace

that role has historically been played by the united states and i believe united states, even with the changes in the distribution of power, even with the rise of other act remains the only actor in the world today capable of continuing to play that role. and in order to do so, it cannot be seen as just a normal great power looking out only for its own interest. to effectively play that role it has to be an unusual great power, a great power that looks out for the common interest as well as his own interest. and so exceptionalism comes into the picture in that important way. and then secondly, at a moment when the debate over the future of american foreign policy within the united states is being shaped by this what i believe to be a false and some ways dog whistling choice between nationalism and globalism, with the idea of exceptionalism can contribute to is the idea that there is no inconsistency between american patriotism and american internationalism, which is to say that for the american people, they can see a larger purpose that goes beyond simply looking out for the us at the

so the united states is stepping up the pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro to leave office it has imposed sanctions on venezuelan state oil company blocking some seven billion dollars in assets madeira says the move is illegal and has vowed to take action it is the latest in a series of measures by the trumpet ministration to push out u.s. national security advisor john bolton has not ruled out the military option now is the time to stand for democracy and prosperity in venezuela i reiterate that the united states will hold venezuelan security forces responsible for the safety of all u.s. diplomatic personnel the national assembly and president going to any violence against the. groups would signify a grave assault on the rule of law and will be met with a significant response it'll be my turn this shows that their objective is to take care riches what is the objective of the government of the united states take the properties from venezuela the riches of venezuela venezuela's money and later on they aspire to take away our country well let's hear now from our correspondent

what you finding was the existence of project raven which is a cyber mercenary unit in the united arab emirates that was largely staffed by former us intelligence operatives country hired these people over to a contractor to essentially run their own office of cyber program so this included surveillance of dissidents journalists rivals in the region and as we found out in our story it also eventually included the law americans karma was a was a cyber weapon that was used by project rave in to infiltrate and to hack into the i phones of opponents are enemies of the u.a.e. and what made it really unusual was that like with most of these types of exploits or hacking tools you know will send somebody an e-mail or send somebody a text message and they have to kind of trick them into clicking on that link right and that's usually the trick here what was really unusual is that all you needed was the person's phone number or email address and it would automatically send a text message to that person they'd have to click on that they need to interact with it all he would just automatically begi

to president of the united states. the power was in the data we will the american people with the truth and nothing else discover. for winning the white house unfair game on al jazeera. just a quick look at the top stories now u.s. secretary of state my point barrow is arrived in saudi arabia after visiting castle where he said a rift between the gulf arab countries had gone on for too long. zimbabwe's more than double the price of fuel overnight as the country struggles with its worst petrol shortage in a decade and that the leader of venezuela's opposition has led a rally in the coastal town of qatar despite being intercepted briefly detained on his way to the event. now and other stories we're following the southern african regional body is calling for a recount in the democratic republic of congo's disputed presidential election the opposition leader modify yunus says victory has been stolen from him by his rival felix to. catholic churches also question the result and call for an investigation . brings us more now

and we mention the united nations report with the professor the report looks at poverty in the united states are to correspond on your heart bill looks not only at the report but at some of the reactions surrounding its recent release. for fifteen days in december two thousand and seventeen professor philip alston the un special rapporteur to or on extreme poverty and human rights traveled to the united states in order to quote evaluate and report to the human rights council on the extent to which the government's policies and programs aimed at addressing extreme poverty are consistent with its human rights obligations his findings paint a dire picture of life in the us the report states that a staggering forty million americans live in poverty eighteen point five million in extreme poverty and a whopping five point three million americans toil under third world conditions characterized as absolute poverty of the thirty five member states in the organization for economic cooperation and development the report finds the united states has the highest youth unemployment rate and highest

we, the united states, command each of these efforts. and for all nations to continue the work for the full array of the regimes activity. the work to curb the regimes deadly ambitions is not confined to the middle east. america's friends and partners from south korea to poland have joined our effort to stop the wave of regional destruction and global campaigns of terror. countries across the globe have cut iranian oil imports to zero and are working toward that goal. private companies in france germany britain and elsewhere have all calculated enriching themselves through work with the regime is bad for business. and bad for the people of their own countries. in yemen, we have assisted our coalition partners as they take the lead in preventing and arranging expansion that would be disastrous for world trade. and regional security. as is always the case with america, our engagement has also been coupled with robust humanitarian aid. he supported the un talks to put yemen on the path to peace. in lebanon, hezbollah remains a major presenc

states from china and united states and canada and china in terms of arrests there in this case is that again it's not their random interaction that here they are talking specifically about americans being approached by russians who seem to be friendly in the world the words of mr brennan is most unusual and it's good it's not surprising to me that someone coming from an intelligence background has that kind of perspective on russians just randomly interacting with them that said i agree with you that if you're an ordinary american who doesn't have any affiliations with the united states government who doesn't have any affiliation with what would be considered aspects of the national security sector no that's a guy that's concluded that is somewhat exaggerated i'm perfectly happy to agree i heard you say that that while you yourself dislike conspiracy theories there is just too much smoke around trump for there to be no fire how much of that smoke is genuine and how much of that is created by segments like this is genuine and how much of that is created by segments like this the last ti

the united states is stepping up the pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro to leave office it's imposed sanctions on venezuela's state oil company blocking some seven billion dollars in assets it is the latest in a series of moves by the trumpet ministration to push would do without u.s. national security adviser john bolton has not ruled out a military option now is the time to stand for democracy and prosperity in venezuela. i reiterate that the united states will hold venezuelan security forces responsible for the safety of all u.s. diplomatic personnel the national assembly and president go idaho and the violence against these groups would signify a grave assault on the rule of law and will be met with a significant response question salumi has more on this now from washington. oil is venezuela's largest source of revenue and the united states is venezuela's biggest customer forty one percent of their oil exports come to the united states and their biggest foreign asset is citgo the refining arm of their oil company and that's based here in the united states and crucial

new affordable units built. most of the districts have positive balances, except for four, which have negative balances. this next slide shows the distribution by planning department districts. the districts, by the way, are consistent with the boundaries used in the housing inventory reports, which has been in existence for over 50 years. again, this is a range of balances from negative 286%, roughly same geography as the board district 4, to about 137% in bernal lights and western addition. the positive balance is due to a program in the district. it projects a housing balance as a proportion of new units and projects that have received entitlements and yet to receive building permits. the slide shows the balance at 16%. it's in the same time as the previous reporting period. the housing balance is provided at board district and planning district levels. the housing balance ordinance specifies the projects entitled but not yet to have building permits not be included in the housing balance. all together, the r