island city. >> we have five burrows, actually four of them are on islands. manhattan, staten island, brooklyn, queens. only the bronx is on the mainland. and they're all different. >> reporter: so you're an island boy? >> that's right. >> reporter: in koch, a centrist democrat, who still gets recognized more than 20 years after leaving office.... >> hello. >> hi, how are you? >> i'm glad to see you. >> thank you. >> reporter: he says all those differences add up to something special. >> you'll see people from every country in the world, every skin color, every religion. it's wonderful. it's what makes us so great. >> reporter: but when he took office.... >> we have to spend the monies that are currently available in a much better way. >> reporter:... new york city was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. >> you're going to make it possible to prevail. >> reporter: he brought it back, balanced the budget, and started cleaning up some of the city's most brighted areas including times square. why was that so important to you? >> because people were no longer co

got to be the out islands. it's got to be the out lying islands of the indies, must be, because it fits the calculations, right latitude, right distance, it is the indies, incredible moment in world history completely misunderstood by those participating, but an incredible moment and then comes the landing, of course, and i love all the depictions of columbus landing. you can imagine swords and decorations worn and put on the fanciest he clothes you got and there is one depiction with the vessel off and coming ashore and claiming this land for their majesties for ferdinand and isabella and holding a flag and the men in prayer. i love this one. this is one of my favorites. i don't know if you have been to the bahamas. >> is that why he called the natives the indians? >> precisely. people that he encounters the native people and will begin to see more and more, calls them indians because here in in dies. >> had he been to japan. >> no, as far as we know, i am pretty certain about this, had never been in asia, nev

it's now thirty years since the war between britain and argentina over the falkland islands but like the islands themselves the accounts of that war and the reasons for it are still hotly disputed to talk more about this i'm joined by hugh ritson oh historian and author of races age the unofficial history of that war he thanks for speaking to r.t. during the period known as the dirty war the buildup to the invasion of the falklands you were actually working in argentina as a british intelligence officer how much to the british government know about what was going on in argentina at that time everything mass murder disappearances. corruption. gosh i mean the dirty war you just named them in the. two people who got rubbed out and why they choose to ignore it. well do you want the short answer the answer the long answer is that the british government is not very good at anything much except ignoring water abuse inconvenient for it to record an instance of the short answer is the foreign office suppressed much of the intelligence coming out of the station in the us which is why after the

ten days later the outline of a new island began to take shape. the eruptions continued intermittently for almost four years until june 1967 when the island - made up of volcanic rock - was a mile wide and up to 300 feet high. since then the volcanic island - named surtsey - has remained peaceful, eventually attracting plant life, sea birds and seals. but, as iceland is already home to some of the world's most active and unpredictable volcanoes, no one can be sure how long this apparent tranquillity will last. over time, the people who live on iceland itself and the surrounding smaller islands have become used to living with danger. but they can still get taken by surprise. at 1:55 on the morning of january 23rd 1973, ten years after surtsey emerged, iceland was subject to one of the most famous eruptions of modern times when - after lying dormant for at least 5000 years - a volcano on heimaey, a small island six miles off iceland's south coast, burst into life threatening the lives of everyone in its shadow. a vast river of molten lava erupted fr

doing an act attack on mount pleasant and taking it out at which point the islands fall. but i still use a q ship come in send in your special forces dressed as tourists on a cruise ship and take stanley that two and a half of the thousand of the three thousand people in the falklands you hold that just exactly what is britain going to do that moment i don't think so how damaging would that be full for the current government here in prison mention would be what this government and modern britain deserves it isn't what the islanders does. war was actually a serious operation by a serious country i don't think this country is serious anymore why does the british government then so. desperately want to keep hold of these very far from it the british government desperately wants to get rid of it they just can't get rid of it or not because of the war so what i mean political suicide for any any government after that war was not and this is why the utter stupidity of the argentine government after that war it was politically impossible for any british government to sell out th

that is treasure island. commissioner pilpel: by concern i am looking some more at the populations and what is off is that eight is too big but we're relatively constrained so that is relatively locked down. three, however, there are three areas that we can still catch, two of which were already referenced which are russian hill and the tenderloin area and the third that occurred to me today, looking at all this carefully is the possibility of treasure island from 6 to 3. it occurred to me the development projects in six are rather significant in terms of workload. with the sea wall locked in 37, the proposal that came out last week that that will take a considerable amount of time, the transbay terminal, other issues in south beach, mission bay, there is a lot of development there, at least taking the treasure island project and moving that to three might better balance development projects on the east side. i'm wondering if the consultant can identify the population on treasure island and the resulting devi

war remained under us administration until nine hundred seventy two when the island was returned to japan. in those years the u.s. established dozens of military bases on the island today along with south korea and due to its proximity to china and taiwan okinawa still represents america's military stronghold in east asia the island hosts thirty eight u.s. bases which house a force of thirty five thousand soldiers about me. well aware of the growing tension between the us and the soviet union following the war lead to an unprecedented global military buildup and to a strategy of exploitation of people's fears that in various forms has continued to this day. you know how bad for. the atomic bomb why she could hurt you worse than a terrible sunburn specially where you're not covered. in those years america expanded into new territories such as the case of diego garcia a small island in the indian ocean part of the british overseas territories whose inhabitants got caught up in the global power struggle. nobody seems to know that diego garcia used to have a very considerable population

to the island of guam a u.s. territory the move though is tied to the construction of a new strip on the eastern coast of okinawa. the project follows the decision to expand the jungle warfare training center into cut the north in short the u.s. has agreed to return some to the locals but only if they accept to give up more land elsewhere on the island. this is an ideal habitat for the do go we have to do all we can to take care of it . the reef is right here or. it protects the bay and enables the sea grass that do go easy to type flourish. where they're going to. do this is come swab a military base to look at it and the u.s. established it in the midst of world war two with it. that if i wanted to go to the good will that now they want to destroy two kilometers of henoch obey. all the way to or a bay and build a floating airport with that that they've got you know a lot of it will call it on all. the u.s. takes no responsibility for its impact on people or the environment from work. since many rare species liv

officials administered the island for 27 years after world war ii. residents and leaders already gathering to commemorate the anniversary. and james tengan is covering the event for us. james? >> reporter: the ceremony to mark the anniversary starts at 4:00 p.m. local time. it will take place at the okinawa convention center which you can see right behind me. the center is probably a fitting venue for this event in another sense. the convention hall is just one kilometer from the u.s. marine corps futenma air station. in fact, the convention center stands on land that used to host u.s. army facilities. the land was returned to japan 36 years ago. and the convention center was built as part of projects to commemorate okinawa's return to japan. about 1,200 people are expected to attend the event, including japanese prime minister yoshihiko noda, nakayma and john roos. for many islanders, the return of okinawa offers the promise of stability and basic human rights under the japanese constitution. however, many also say it marked the beginning of another

they can't recover if the islands are lost now . we can't get them back we do not or genuinely do not have the capability this conservative government has once again emasculated the armed forces. which they've done regularly since the one nine hundred fifty s. . so it all depends on whether. the big base present can be held military are way more professional now than they were then and they have some pretty competent special forces and i can't see anything actually stopping them coming in doing an act attack on mount pleasant and taking it out at which point the islands fall but just don't use a q ship come in send in your special forces dressed as tourists on a cruise ship and take stanley that two and a half of the thousand of the three thousand people in the falklands you hold that just exactly what is britain going to do that moment i don't think so how damaging would that be full for the current government here presidential it would be what this government and modern britain deserves it isn't what the islanders does in the fall

they need more local services and support on the island. we don't have a grocery store and have to come over to san francisco to have this delivered. the bus shelter and the pot holes need replacing and repair. we need to focus on the back part of the island where the residents live. where the events occupr andrur d people come to visit. we need attention for the residents in the back as well. [applause] >> good evening.i a i am pat, spekaing for the boys and girls clubs of san francisco. through the three clubhouses, we serve 7525 youth. the three clubs and 9350 other youth with school and community organizations. this is not just a large number of kids that we serve, we have good character and community engagement. i want to give the time up for the youth and parents to say how they feel about what is going on in the community. and thank you again, supervisors kim and olague. for your support. we look forward to serving more children with the club on fulton. >> hi, my name. >> lord of mercy. i am lavina -- the treasure island clubhouse. w

and just grabbed pelican island. it was the first time ever that land was set aside to be run and controlled by a species. before that, you had, like, a yellowstone, but it was for people. this was off-limits. there were signs, no trespassing. and so these types of documents are here, and in florida, although i can go to the island and look at birds and talk to people, so i had to come here to see documents like this. here is the man if you go down to sebastian, florida, there's a statue of him down in florida and his home is right there, paul craigle grew up in germany and he loved storks because you weren't allowed to kill storks when they're in your chmnys because it was a bad luck to kill storks in europe. the famous folk call about the stork and babies were brought by storks. he came over to the united states first to new york and then chicago and as a teenager arrived down there in florida right across from pelican island where t.r. saved. and he saw these people slaughtering the birds. and paul cregle started

named the coney island of the west. we're going to remember two of the san francisco's major attractions. play baby the beach. and suttro pass. plus, how this fight among the big cats the old marine world changed one man's life for the better. all straight ahead tonight on a second look. >>> hello everyone i'm san francisco somerville and welcome to a second look. we thought it might be fun to take a trip back in time to some favorite summer destinations. perhaps the most famous of course is coney island in brooklyn. by the time this fill was shot. coney island had been a tourist worker for decades. by the mid-19080 had sprung up. in 195 the first can remember innocent amusement park. sea lion park opened its gate and soon others followed. you could shoot the shoots, take part in a mechanical play. and climb on board cal -- boardwalk memorials. in this report it was known as the coney island of the midwest. >> reporter: coney island was the undisputed king of them all. amusement parks were on their peal whether there we

still ahead, a wartime stowaway overran the pacific paradise island. and the urgent need to revise the british economy is of the central government posing new legislative program. the queen will unveil plans to help families and tackle excessive executive pay, in a speech to parliament. >> this is the sovereign entrance to parliament. usually the queen comes here once a year to set the agenda. there is not in the queen's speech there for two years he and a lot has happened since then. the coalition government are proud of taking more people --the government will have to show it is in control of events and not at the mercy of a disappointing election results last week. >> i think it is survival or death based on being able to reestablish an impression of competence and of managing the economy effectively. it is notable that the proportion of voters who believe the government has lost control of the economy has crept above 50%. >> there will be more focused on voter concerns with the economy at the top of the list. they want to cut red tape and business

the southern okinawa islands have been at the heart of japan/u.s. relations for decades from world war ii to the u.s. handover on may 15th, 1972, to now 40 years after the transition. a time when american military bases still take up large parts of the main island. residents and leaders came together against that backdrop to commemorate the anniversary and look ahead. about 1,200 people attended a ceremony at the okinawa convention center. among them japanese prime minister yoshihiko noda, okinawan governor hirokazu nakaima, u.s. ambassador to japan, john roos, and local representatives. noda used his speech to stress his government's efforts to strengthen okinawa's economy and said he's committed to change. >> translator: i'm fully aware of the heavy burden u.s. military facilities are imposing on people in okinawa. i reiterate my determination to reduce the burden on the prefecture quickly, visibly, and specifically while maintaining the deterrents. >> the remarks by u.s. ambassador to japan john roos touched on the impact the military presence ha

you had tom mitch, who was running spies on long island. you had dayton who was running spies out of elizabeth. a lot more is made of tcalpers, who are so well documented, so well documented because they operated over a long distance. when spies operate at a close distance, depositions are taken rather than original documents maintained. and their reports tend to be summarized. so what happens is that those reports from these spies who are nearby tend to be summarized in general's reports, because it's word of mouth. you're not doing that much in codes and ciphers for nearby spies. it's only spies who are coming a distance. in the case of talmidge, up to connecticut where he would then do the coding based upon his code book, which is one of the appendix items of my book. there's other copies around, and he would then send the transx p transcribed messages. some of the original messages went on when he was out of position as well. so it tends to be, whoever's the case agent, is the one that's going to be doing the decoding. not necessarily t

it has entered -- angered the islanders. the slogan here is to compete on english soil, we train on argentine soil. this sentiment is in line with many comments from argentina's president. she views the 30-year anniversary of the falklands war to accused britain of colonialism. she wants her country's flag to fly above the island. the propaganda video has gone down well. >> i think is right. we are defending something that is ours. we know we are inferior, and we have to use what we have to get something done. >> it is fabulous artistically. as an argentine, it brings the spirit out in you. >> the islanders are not amused. they say it was made without their permission in a cheap an underhand way. as if they do not exist. >> committee shall work across the skies of northern california last month, it sparked more than just passed some of amazement. treasure seekers looking for space rock. they are worth more than gold to the scientific community. even the tiniest peace can fetch $1,000 per gram. >> there is a strange new fever

they came from scandinavia over to the shetland islands to the faroe islands and you can see they would come down the coast of england and ireland and europe and france and eventually some would get into the mediterranean, so they were wide ranging, very wide ranging. >> you said they went to north america. >> yeah. >> did they have anything documenting this or just going around? >> great question. where do we get the information about these vikings? mostly from what are called the icelandic sagas, and they're oral traditions the vikings, the norse men kept and written around the 13th century. we don't have actual eyewitness first hand accounts of the norse setting out on the atlantic but we have the oral traditions written down. so they begin to push out and, again, think of these people as kind of island hopping. indeed the voyages they're making here in the vessels they had were probably not more than two or three days so they're not going vast out into the atlantic. here are the vessels they used. we talked about the egyptian vessel and the greek trirene and the war ship and they we

they went to the faroe islands, shetland island, ireland and scotland and ventured a little further as well and ventured first over here to iceland. again, the journey from the north of scotland or the shetland islands towards iceland is not all that far, 300, 400 miles maybe. the vikings began to notice, you might ask, well, why did they sail west at all? because as they saw in the water they saw debris coming from the west and birds and so they understood that there had to be something out there, these birds are coming from somewhere and the debris in the water has to be coming from somewhere so that's why they sailed west. about the year 800, again, evidences we have archaeological evidence and no pinpointed but about the year 800 the vikings arrived in iceland and settled iceland. they settled there. not many of them, one of the things these people encounter of course is that the lands here are pretty fragile. i don't know if any of you have seen iceland. it is not a country that can support a large population, particularly in days of agriculture so they couldn't support a large vi

islands are a special problem. but they are away -- and how do we know the chinese are not doing this -- of riling up the people. those we get people are taking our islands. he always had in china, the taiwan situation, to build up a sense of false pagers is some and therefore deflect public attention from the failings of governance that home. >> you are not acting as a lawyer for these people, are you? >> i am simply -- >> you are getting my juices flowing. i would like to suggest exactly what you are saying. let's make that a litmus test. they are going to do what happened to the falklands, if they are going to war, we would respond -- at the moment, the military power is extremely weak -- and i will come back to that in a moment. but i am willing to make a test case. i would predict they will settle the differences peacefully and divide the difference, the way we often settle disputes. there is an issue that deserves additional attention. tine it is very much dependent on the input of mock material -- china is v

and from island to island. it's fast but less scenic as the passengers are stuck inside. i like to hang out in the windy doorway. after a 90-minute ride, athens is a world away, and we pull into the isle of hydra. its main town, also called hydra, is home to about 90% of the island's 3,000 residents. after the noise of athens, hydra's traffic-free tranquility is a delight. i'm glad i'm packing light as i hike up to my hotel. hydra is one of the prettiest towns in greece. its superb harbor is surrounded by an amphitheater of rocky hills. there's an easy blend of work-a-day commerce, fancy yachts, and lazy tourists on island time. donkeys rather than cars. the shady awnings of well-worn cafes. and memorable seaside views all combine to make it clear, you've found your greek isle. hydra was a greek naval power, famous for its shipbuilders. the harbor, with twin ports and plenty of cannon, housed and protected the fleet of 130 ships, as the greeks battled the turks in their early 19th-century war of independence. t