with her husband to the united states from iraq in 2013. she is the proud mother of two children and is expecting a third. since coming to america, she has become a teacher's assistant in our public schools doing a fantastic job, i might add, preparing the next generation of young americans to make the most of this magnificent country that she too now enjoys. and i want to just congratulate you. thank you. [applause] matthew hemsley is from the united kingdom. thank you, matthew. he is an anglican pastor who came to the united states in 2006 and earned a masters degree from gordon conwell seminary in north carolina. fine place. his grandmother was an american citizen whose ancestors first came to north america in 1637. that means you beat us. you beat all of us. [laughter] as part of plymouth colony. now the hemsley family history of the united states is renewed, and the next chapter of their american story begins. matthew, it's an honor. great luck. [applause] [inaudible] is from south korea and came to the united states in 1992 to pursue

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

do you solemnly swear you will suppor t the constitution of the united states, do you swear faith and allegiance to the same. do you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or personal hesitation and to discharge those duties upon what you are about to serve? congratulations. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] how was i going? thank you so much. it's an honor to be with you. . >> what a great family. . >> it is so nice to see you. [inaudible conversations] . >> nice to meet you. [inaudible conversations] . >> i was already looking up. [laughter] please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear you will sup port the constitution of the united states, against enemies foreign and domenstic, do you swear faith and allegiance to the same. do you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or personal hesitation and that you will well and faithfully discharge the office upon which you are about to enter so help you god? congratulations. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] . >> please raise your r

the united states have painted a picture between a confrontation of the united states and the people of venezuela. in spite of everything, the leader of venezuela obviously has broad support among the people and in surveys conducted in 2018 by an organization close to the opposition. the national assembly, the leader of which is currently being positioned in washington as almost a president is not supported by almost 07% of the people of venezuela. once again, about the elections informed. eing the distinguished executive of the united kingdom spoke about stuffed ballot boxes in venezuela, suggesting that the ballot boxes were rigged. there are no ballot boxing in venezuela. it uses a -- system of voting. provisions of the u.n. clearly condemn any interference by independent states. further for, american leaders are talking about the possibility of even using force, aying evening is on the table. does that mean the united states is ready to use force? we need to hear a clear answer on whether the united states declares to once again violate the unl charter. secretary of state pompeo

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. 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

, 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

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

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

well you know saudi arabia needs the united states alliance and i think the united states is playing. when it's you know it's blowing kisses in saudi arabia it's protected saudi arabia from the shop she affair to a certain degree by the president saying that it's not clear that the king is involved in ness of course pompei of his message was the people who carried out the murder have to be punished which which. plex a certain amount of pain on the crown prince because it's going to see inside the kingdom it's going to be seen as disloyalty and but on the other hand it is trying to get beyond this relationship there is talk about trying to clean up yemen situation all of these are monsters undertakings unlikely to be resolved anytime soon so the united states has a lot of heavy lifting to do to try to bring unity back to arab ranks because the arab unity is completely fallen apart over the last you know the last seven eight years. majeed tell us about iran's relationship with qatar and how that plays into the into the strategic game play if you like i mean a sense. since maybe the nine

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

an existing unit. we need to really look at being much more creative, and putting more money into buying buildings that are coming up, especially when we have rent control, if there's seniors in these buildings, and low income people , it is so much harder to find someone housing, than to keep them housed. so i would love to see us really put a lot more money into our small sights program, i just think it is so important, and also build affordable, but we have to start manoeuvring in a different way because we are seeing people lose their housing , and then there is no other place for them to go because these people are usually on fixed incomes, they are in rent control, and they are pushed out of the city. so i really hope that we start really looking at affordable housing and purchasing affordable housing and that pushing the dollars towards small site programs, and any nonprofits that are managing this program, we need to actually funds them more so they have higher capacity to go out and compete wi

the united states at a number of other countries and medially recognize that. thus confirming they have the advantage over were directly involved in this artificial of a parallel government, which now threaten serious destabilization. adviser johnrity bolton a bolshevik style the creation of all that is a nonprofit he on at your. on the other hand the allies of the opposition have promised national support. we strongly condemn those pushing the venezuelans to fighting, to the edge of a bloody bloodbath. united states are getting the picture of confrontation between the regime and the people of venezuela. this picture is far from reality. venezuela of obviously has brought support by the people. geological surveys by one of the structures of the organizations to the opposition, the leader, which is creating positioned in , is not supported by almost 70% of the people of venezuela. the distinguished representative of the united kingdom talked boxes inff in the venezuela, saw the elections were rigged. there are no ballot boxes in venezuela used in a system of vot

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

under crean disrupting chemicals in the united states. produce disease cost 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 you're a pro actively acted to ban those flame retardants from mus

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

cuban leader to the united nations no surprise going against the position of the united states which is recognizing the opposition leader who's a cleric himself president. so defying the united states you're looking at live pictures continuing live pictures from the u.n. security council meeting right now discussing the power struggle that is gripping venezuela and once again the u.s. which called for that meeting taking place right now is pushing the security council to back that opposition leader. who is the clear himself as interim president but we heard earlier on from china and russia they've both reiterated their support for president nicolas maduro so divisions clearly on display at that meeting right now let's bring in the sea a newsman she's joining us from. that is on the colombia venezuela border and we did hear from the colombian foreign minister in fact lucy at the u.n. security council but let's just move away from that for a second from the action going on there and tell us what you're seeing and what you're hearing from venezuelans who've had to flee their country.

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

given that the united states has said it's going to leave and i think given no no matter what the united states says because there is a sense that one way or another the united states is going to be taking off they're going to try to reach an agreement with the assad government with moscow's backing to make sure that while this is not their first choice it's still something they prefer to a turkish invasion and there. could well be what we see going forward my one couple on your thoughts if the united states leaves who fills the void well it depends on how the united states will leave actually because if there is an agreement with turkey which is something that i believe now is not is not actually. something that we should expect to have soon given the failure of the bolt on visit to to ankara today so will we still need to see actually who is going to. take advantage of this disagreement between turkey and the united states now it seems to me that we are back to square one between two of the united states concerning the area but let's assume that the americans are withdrawing without an

so, what, would you say -- 5 units, 10 units, 15? pat: what's the price point on this unit today? steve: all right. so, the price on this one is $79,000. it does have a couple upgrades. pat: you're ordering multiple units, then what does that do to the discount? steve: when you're buying half a million dollars, you've got your discount. when we get over $750,000, if we get an order past that, we will increase the discount. and then, if we get past $1.5 million, we'll increase the discount even a little bit more. lemonis: retroactive. steve: retroactive, right. lemonis: and so, does that seem like an arrangement that we can move forward on? pat: absolutely. lemonis: awesome. pat: yeah. the relationship has evolved. lemonis: thank you very much. jeff: thank you very much. lemonis: impressing an industry leader like els is no small task, and the fact that there's a real potential for big orders is a big accomplishment. what's changed with steve, guys? tracy: i feel like he's actually reaching out to a lot of our employees, and they're recognizing it and they're seeing it. austin: i'v

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

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

what designate units are the replacing units, the numbers? >> recathe variance has to be oe bottom floor. the square footage is under requirement. we have three residential units on the ground floor. to continue the residential character, we needed a variance on the location. >> excuse me. are the replacement units subject to the variance? >> yes. >> which ones? >> all the rent control are in the d district. they are not subject to the variance. the >> i want to make sure, we are not replacing on the 192, 194. the flats with the exposure with the small units with exposure to variance because they do not have the open space in the back. >> subject the variance because the [indiscernible] is on the third floor. >> the reason the variance is required there is because it was the culmination of multiple properties. it was zoned as neighbourhood commercial. the neighbourhood commercial district. the interior lot in red, there is a district. instead of providing variances for modifications, there are exceptions taken to the planning commission, they

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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