Improvement in 2013 in relations between china and south korea, i think really has taken a lot of broader risk out of the north korea crisis. The north korea crisis would clearly be a big challenge for south korea, but i think the fear always was that the Korean Peninsula could really be a focal point for a broader International Crisis. And i think thats really gone way, way down. Jack wilson. Hi, jack goldstone, George Mason University and brookings. Want to pick on something that david said. 2013 had a lot of crises, but nonetheless we saw quite a lot of resilience. Despite the fact that debt ratios in europe went up for a lot of angle states, the euro crisis faded because of coordination and ecd. Syria, the war got worse, but oil prices didnt spike because of the global process on fracking and the ability of the u. S. And russia to surprisingly work together. So my question is, given what you said about crises and in particular spots coming forward, what do you see about the resilie
And coming up this hour. A capsule carrying four astronauts docks at the International Space station, in a mission run by the Californian Company space x. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. Borisjohnson has been criticised for reportedly calling devolution a disaster in scotland. During a call with a group of conservative mps, he is said to have described it as tony blairs biggest mistake. Scotlands first minister, nicola sturgeon, said the comments would be remembered the next time the tories insisted they were not a threat to the powers of the Scottish Parliament. The housing secretary, robertjenrick, insisted mrjohnson supported devolution, but not when it was used by nationalists to try to break up the uk. Lets find out more about this with oui lets find out more about this with our Political Correspondent chris mason. We were told the Prime Minister had been making more of a reference to the snps running of scotla nd reference to the snps running of scotland than devolution, bu
Are . Who are actually new to a country, and perhaps outside of social services or Family Support networks that would otherwise help intervene in these situations. And really provide an opportunity to get them acculturated to advocate for themselves or go to the appropriate governmental agencis when necessary. In particular, what we need is appropriate legal advice, this group does serve as a gateway, clearinghouse organization and they do provide referralals to the appropriate other organizations that provide pro bono or lowcost legal services. That without with women who have dont nowhere to go and dont know what their rights are would be at a loss. So i again stringly ong strongly ask to you support these recommendations for these funds. Supervisor mar, i just wanted to thank director rossi and director gomez for the importance of this program. And i know the group very well and the work of legal outreach, which i used to be a law clerk in 87, quite a few years ago, but i know how i
The police department, but i think what the District Attorney is saying that we have seen the opposite. Its just a oneyear drop there. Thank you. Other questions that are related to the funding for the Victim Services . The problem is that at the same time we were requesting in addition to our Victim Services the state reduced the funding coming in. So the end result of this process is that we actually lost the funding from state for three people. We gained the funding from the general fund for three and we wind up as we were prior tour to our request. Were seeing an increase. We did not have that increase. Supervisor avalos. Thank you chair farrell and thank you d. A. Gascon for your presentation. On your slide on page 5 you compare San Francisco with Santa Clara County. Just want to make sure that were talk about an applestoapples comparison. How are these Domestic Violence units in each structure . Are they structured in similar way . Are there any staff borrowed from other parts th
Only other county in the bay area that has vertical prosecution and vertical for felonies. What does that mean . When you have a vertical prosecution unit, when you are doing is that you have the attorney that picks up the case from the very beginning takes the case all the way through trial and conviction. When you have a horizontal unit, you have multiple individuals, that may be picking up pieces of the case. Somebody may take the case to arraignment. If its a felony, somebody else may do the preliminary hearing and somebody else may eventually try the case. The downside in Domestic Violence when you do business that way, is that you lose continuity and the trust of the victim. And Domestic Violence is one of those areas where the relationship between the victim and the prosecutor is crucial, because the very beginning were dealing with victims that generally reluctant. Typically a Domestic Violence victim does not want to prosecute the offender. Why is that . The offender is often