People in the uk waited more than four hours in the last year. Also, the foreign secretary will pledge to stand by european allies in the fight against islamist terrorism after britain leaves the eu. Hms Queen Elizabeth will be commissioned into Service Later today. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The leader of the Palestinian Islamist movement, hamas, has called for a new intifada, or popular uprising, following President Trumps recognition of jerusalem as israels capital. The us decision has been widely criticised around the world, including by some of americas closest allies such as britain, france and saudi arabia. The United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency meeting tomorrow to debate the move. Lets show you the latest pictures we have from bethlehem, where there have been demonstrations against the decision by President Trump and tear gas is being used to try and disperse those demonstrations. Joining us now is fawaz gerges, professor of International Re
Joined shortly by supervisor mark farrell, who will be sitting in for supervisor malia cohen. Is supervisor cohen going to need to be excused for an absence . Lets have a motion to excuse supervisor cohen. We will take that without objection. The clerk of the board is Derrick Evans and todays meeting is broadcast by sfgtv staff, thank you for your work broadcasting our meetings. Mr. Clerk, could you please call do you have any announcements . Yes, mr. Chair. Please make sure on silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and any documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted today will appear on the january 16 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Item no. 1 is a motion appointing supervisor aaron peskin to a term ending january 31, 2017, to the golden gate bridge, highway and transportation district. We dont have a representative from supervisor peskins office. I do not see any issue with these appointments nor the n
All that some say i am appreciative of these amendments that were made, i know we have to have another hearing but i would be supportive of it with these amendments. Thank you and i do appreciate your comments about the budget process but if we have a report thats before us, that even has our approval, it gives us some guidance about how to make changes to the budgets the mayor presents to us. It gives us the added ability to practice our role of appropriations. Supervisor farrell. Thank you, supervisor avalos and supervisor tang for your comments and i failed to thank supervisor tang earlier for her existing cosponsorship and i want to thank you for being a huge park advocate, as well as supervisor avalos, i fully acknowledge that as well. I do want to ask, with the amendments i introduced, there are a few typos that the City Attorney will be able to use the record to do the corrections thereto. Deputy City Attorney john givner, just echoing supervisor farrells comments that every com
The winner of military times competition for the best military movie ever. Norway is an energy rich nation of five arian and a founding nato member that sees the alliance as core to its security. It is equipped with weapons like the f16 fighters and soon the joint strike fighter. Norway has prided itself on a good r relationship with its neighbor russia but suspended military cooperation with moscow after forces invaded ukraine. Russia has raised regional tensions by increasing air land, and see exercises. Climate change is making the arctic more navigable for fishing, extortion, and maritime traffic. Norway is prompting natato to Pay Attention to the high north. I am a member and onsored by thnorwegiaministry of dedefense pit we met with defense minister. I asked what rush is doing that concns norway and what norways doing differently in response. , now as it was before there was now as itt was before there is unpredictability. We havent seeen a huge increase in the number of metro fl
Which the continent is the least responsible for. Africa has an opportunity to be on leave. Im due to their own economist without following the store properly with us. But former us President Donald Trump analysis his bid for the 2024 presidency. Thats a med claims for those governor rhonda santa could be the main obstacle on trumps way to the Republican Party nomination. A mosque out of the world. This is our t international. Im Rachel Blevins here with the top stories of the our welcome to the program. Poland says it doesnt have any evidence to confirm who might have launched in alleged missile attack on its territory. Moscow says the fragments which have reportedly been found at the site do not resemble any rocket currently used by the countrys military. Thats all despite a different narrative being pushed by polish media less cross live now to our correspondent mariah garcia. Now her out of what more do we know so far about this incident . Well, this was certainly a, this was certa