The new reality for the region. Im british manager. Welcome to d. W. News asia. Glad you could join us. Over the weekend, the air over the indian capital delhi looked like this residence bursting firecrackers to celebrate the hindu festival of the bali ensured the city recorded its worst equality in 4 years. Conditions though, wont have been so severe, had residents of the had to a government ban on fox. But for many that is the very essence of the rally. While the celebrations in daily firecrackers traditionally mount the start of the hindu new year. But this time, the fun was also an act of defiance. Its fears over soaring air pollution prompted a city wide ban on fireworks. But across daily revelers refused to let the spoil the party. But a day off the diwali came the hangover. The festival of lights left a thick blanket of smoke hanging over northern india. Residents of the bustling capital used to severe air pollution. But the weekends fireworks frenzy has only added to the crisis
I have the pleasure of chairing the committee today. Many of you know that chair bernal serves as representative pelosis chief of staff. I also want to thank the commissioners. We have a fairly full agenda, but everyone submitted questions on many of the presentations, and weve gotten very thorough and thoughtful answers from staff, so hopefully that means we can go through our agenda in a very efficient way and we can go to our different activities of the evening. First item is the minutes. Are there any additions or corrections on the part of the commissioners . Okay. Any comments from the public . Clerk if youre on the Public Comment line, please press star, three if youd like to make a comment on the minutes. No comments, commissioners. Okay. So is there a motion to approve the october 20, 2020, minutes of the commission . So moved. Second. Can we have a roll call vote . Clerk yes. [roll call] clerk just for everyone to know, if the if youre not speaking, then please mute yourselve
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Lamar williams, and mr. President and madam clerk, i would like the opportunity to share a few words on mr. Williams after supervisor walton did his in memoriam as he has deep ties to both district five and district 10. President yee okay. Madam clerk, go ahead. Clerk thank you, supervisor preston. Supervisor ronen . Supervisor ronen thank you. While i didnt have the honor of knowing tui, so many people that i care about cared so much about her, and i just wanted to express my condolences to her husband and family as well as to our colleague, sonny angulo. What a tremendous loss. In addition, im introducing a resolution today, urging Governor Newsom and the department of Public Health to prioritize californias Public School educators for phase one vaccine access. In the early stages of this pandemic, San Francisco and other communities across the state closed schools to slow the spread of the coronavirus across our community. Schools responded by instantly switching to Online Learning
Gong, which is near the tick rate region. This fighting words has had no letup ever since it started about 9 days ago has caused massive casualties and the civilian casualties that are being witnessed in some parts of the region are not giving any confidence to the people. There already. 100000 people who were already internally displaced within the region even before the christmas started. And that was the last happened just about a 100 kilometers from where we are right now in a small town called mike cutler. Of course, the government is blaming the tea p. L. F. Fighters for the killings of people, most of it done through beheadings and using all kinds of weapons. But on this evening, the t. T. L. Of leader, the protests you dont get there. Michael held, released a message where he said that it was not his forces who carried out these mutha and said that there was no need for an independent inquiry into the killings in my country. Of course, the government is claiming huge victories