Places you on item number four. Approval of minutes for the march 5th regular meeting. Secretary, id like to make some opening remarks, if thats all right, before we get into minutes, i wanted to just thank everyone for being here today, and i just feel that i need to open up this meeting with an acknowledgment of the tragic events that occurred at west portal station over the weekend. Im imagining, but i dont know. But im imagining that many people are feeling anger, rage, a sense of powerlessness, hopelessness. I know that ive cycled through these feelings myself over the past 72 hours, and this happens whenever i hear of any fatalities or serious injuries on our streets. It shouldnt happen in our city or anywhere, and our hearts are with the family. I also know that when these kinds of things happen, there is a natural tendency to want to make sense of the situation very quickly by finding a villain to blame, pointing a finger and demanding action and i understand that. I think that
British citizen, translated her mothers description of the abduction in form of people came through the fence. The fence cost 2. 5 billion shekel and it didnt help even a little bit. My mum is saying that she was taken on the back of a motorbike when she first arrived and when they told them that they are muslims and theyre not going to hurt them and that they share, they ate the same food that their the hamas was eating. Hamas was eating. Meanwhile , the israeli meanwhile, the Israeli Security agency has released footage of interviews with captured hamas fighters. One says he was promised huge rewards for capturing hostages in gaza. In gaza. Whoever brings the kidnapped gets a bonus. Gets a bonus. How much is the bonus they give an apartment and 10,000 for each person captured . Yes. For each person captured . Yes. Who told you this . Who told you this . Thats how it works in al qassam brigade. The commander told you this . Yes. The company commander. The company commander. For each c
In gaza. In gaza. Whoever brings the kidnapped gets a bonus. Gets a bonus. How much is the bonus they give an apartment and 10,000 for each person captured . Yes. For each person captured . Yes. Who told you this . Who told you this . Thats how it works in al qassam brigade. The commander told you this . Yes. The company commander. The company commander. For each captured, you get an apartment . Apartment . Yes. Because they wanted as many kidnapped possible. The many kidnapped as possible. The goal of our infiltration for them was to capture and kidnap as many as we could. As many as we could. Meanwhile, in news here at home, the number of hotels being used by the government to house Asylum Seekers currently costing £8 million a day is going to be reduced. The immigration minister has confirmed 50 will be exited and their words by january with that process beginning in the coming days. But walthamstow Mp Stella Creasy says refugees in her constituency have already been told to vacate
Quoting series very quoting a series of very important about illegal important numbers about illegal migration, about refugees, and about migration. About legal migration. But theres something more to it, isnt its about culture isnt there . Its about culture andits isnt there . Its about culture and its about way of life. And well a chat about well be having a chat about that. Vaiews gbnews. Com. But right your headlines. Right now its your headlines. Good afternoon. Its 3 01. Im Rhiannon Jones in the gb news room. A 15 year old im Rhiannon Jones in the gb news room. A15 Year Old Girl news room. A 15 Year Old Girl has died after being stabbed in croydon in south london. She was on her way to school. Emergency services were called to wells road. Im really pleased to have been invited by the cross party transport for north to their Board Meeting this morning. We may be mayors from different regions, but we speak with one voice. And when we say we dont want cuts to High Speed Two, we see
Also coming up. Hundreds of christians attend the first Christmas Eve mass in mosul sent islamic extremists word grif driven out almost six months ago theyre hoping Christian Life can thrive again in the city. And kremlin critic alex i know danny has held rallies across russia to back his bid to run in next years election hes considered the strongest potential challenger to president Vladimir Putin but a Court Conviction bars him from running. Plus david and goliath out in nature conservationists in south africa are turning to one of the worlds tiniest creatures in their effort to contain damage caused by one of the biggest. High my actuator welcome to the program. And we start in the vatican where pope francis has celebrated the traditional Christmas Eve Midnight Mass in the splendor of st peters basilica and remarks earlier the pope compared mary and joseph journey to bethlehem to the mass mass migration being seen in the world today pope francis told the faithful that the birth of j