Enforcement in creating systemic change toward that goal. However, to have full conversation about policing it is imperative to deeply understand the system of policing and its budget, and that brings us to our hearing today. My office worked to include questions in the report that would give this committee as much insent insight as possible into the Police Department inned a vance of the process in august. I anticipate there may be questions asked today that there arent immediate answers to. My staff will be tracking the inquiries and work on the followup report and that the board has the information it needs. I would like to remind the committee that the Police Department budget would come before this committee again and come before us two more times and in august and engaged in the full budget process. I want to turn over to the presentation today nick menard from the budget analyst and chief William Scott from the Police Department. The San Francisco Airport Authority is also here
The committee will come to order. Thank you all for coming today, i dont think all of you for being here. It is our honor to have the deputy secretary of state here to testify on u. S. Policy regarding peoples republic of china. I originally defaulting back in march, however, our need to focus on the Community Protests from doing that. It is important this committee continue its work on its most committing Foreign Policy challenges, obviously china is one of those. As a complete mistrust correctly recognized, china is a strategic in global competitor of the United States. It would be the greatest Foreign Policy challenge the United States faces in decades to come. Policies of the Chinese Communist party undermine u. S. Interests and values, as we share with partners around the world. Covid19 has brought this challenge the fork front of american life. We now know just how much the Chinese Communist partys decisions and actions directly affect u. S. Citizens, our allies and partners in t
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Bombardment and the progovernment side has taken little territory. The United Nations is warning the offensive is creating a humanitarian disaster that has been calling on turkey and russia guarantors of a cease fire to help revive the agreement but for now their proxies engage in battle to gain political leverage. Beirut joining me now in the studio is i mean our words director of the middle East North Africa bureau for the office of the United Nations high commissioner for refugees good to have you with us. What you feel when you see reports like that which lay bare the suffering of the people in that part of syria and what is supposed to be a safe so. Correct its supposed to be a safe zone we have calling on all parties to observe International Norm International Humanitarian law 1st and foremost to give access to people to leave the fighting and reach safe area. To allow humanitarian agencies to access the area so that they can deliver they can deliver Food Supplies medicine in tho
Nations is warning the offensive is creating a humanitarian disaster it has been calling on turkey and russia guarantors of a cease fire to help revive the agreement but for now their proxies engage in battle to gain political leverage. Beirut earlier i spoke with i mean our director of the middle east and North Africa Bureau at the office of the United Nations high commissioner for refugees he says a settlement is needed in syria to alleviate peoples suffering. Very frustrating situation and thats why we keep we keep really calling on both parties observe International Norms International Military law and to also go back to the agreement that in in place so that. You know a negotiated settlement can be found a much longer can the situation go on but every day counts every hour counts we saw people now under the rubble we saw both sides of population and that both sides are really suffering i think its going to go for long there is a limit to what a human being can walk out of. The off