Took knowledge this. Looks with the woodrow levesque said to open, russia is facing a storm of controversy over its icon on activists from environmental activist to gay rights. Have called for a boycott of the games. We will look at a site of the olympic aims you wont see in the walltowall coverage from sochi. I will give you examples of a couple of key points you see throughout the Olympic Games. One of them is a crackdown on ordinary people. The other is the tearing down of public housing. One of the biggest ones, which is one of the things i think is the most are the biggest concern is ramping up up police powers. We will speak with a number of guest, Samantha Retrosi competed in the luege in the 2006 games, Jules Boykoff is a former member of the u. S. Olympic soccer team, he wrote the real cost of the olympics. We will also speak with dave zirin and canadian professor Helen Lenskyj, author of, sexual diversity and the sochi 2014 olympics no more rainbows. All of that and more comi
Captioning sponsored aenberg c narrator since 1980, latin america has been onef e most rapidly urbaning regions on eart nowhere are the sults more dramatic than in sao paulo, brazil, the Third Largest city in the world. In this anatomy of a megacity, well explore the urban geography of immigration and etic diversity, squatter settlements and selfconstruction. Sao pao, brazil. With its crowded boulevards and massive skyscrapers, it seemswealthy as any city in the world. Sao paulo is unique among latin american cities. In the early part ofhe, when places like Rio De Janeiro copied traditional european styles of construction, sao paulo was following a distinctly american model of urbanism. Imitating the forms of chicago and new york, sao paulo built upward, growing vertically very quickly. Buin a huge ring around the centrality slies a very different, here, stretching foriles,uickly. Is a city of selfbuilt structures in various stages of completion. They line hillsides and rocky streets w
Right over here is woodward gardens. He started collecting stuff. He invited people over and eventually opened it up to the public. He had a menagerie. It was an 1800 thing. Could any of the people in this room go . Ice skating. Ice skating. You could see the remains of the pool. I thought the ice rink was made out of one of the largest pools. Yes. You can see the ell that goes around. They tried to make it a tropical beach theme. They had a bunch of sand. Like you could not go to the beach 40 feet away. It did burn down. It seems like it would have been a wonderful resource for the city to purchase it and rebuild it you could never afford the money to rebuild it. There were efforts to try to keep it. Someone tried to sell it to the city in the 1950s. They kept it going with the ice skating rink. It closed and it looked bad. People thought we should buy it and keep it. Other people wanted to put condos in there. A serious fire started and the whole place burn down. They still talk abou
How did this perform . The composite the assembly comes assembly composite assembly. They would stucco it. They would put chicken wire on it. When i inspect buildings that are being remodeled, i see that the chicken wire mesh is completely gone. It is galvanized. The saltwater was enough to rest it out. It people think stucco is waterproof it is not waterproof. It sucks the water in. You have to water protect it and paint it. The above the low medium that was going on the bungalow frenzy that was going on, people were building houses at a remarkable rate in the 1930s. Nothing down. You can pay us later. We have to sell this. This is shared in school and the ocean view that it this is shariton school and the ocean view dedication. These early neighborhoods, this is 1910, they would have to do a lot of things theelves. The first school was built by the neighbors. The district did not have the money or the interest. When they finally got a school the city built, it took 25 years to get it
For such conduct today, tomorrow or ever. The nba investigating allegations of racist remarks from the owner of the l. A. Clippersers. How everyone from the players to the president is reacting to the controversy. Arming cars to withstand bullets and bombs in a city with a long history of violence. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im receive stay. Parts of the United States are waking up to destruction caused by three tornadoes, at least 18 people have been killed by the twisters spawned by a powerful storm system. Most of those fatalities happening in arkansas near little rock, additional deaths in iowa and oklahoma. Tornadoes touched down in missouri near job lynn, the same small town where a tornado killed 161 in 2011. The storm system is expect the to remain active through wednesday. President obama saying the federal government will be there to help those states hit hard by the tornadoes, speaking today in the philippines, the president sending condolen