Electrifycation. File number 190708 concerning electric preferred buildings. Explanatory document resolution file no. 201909coe. Item for discussion and action. Commissioner sullivan is going to do the actual motion. Thank you. Save your voice. Great. So as commissioner sullivan can attest to, we had a really interesting policy Committee Meeting on these issues. And we wanted to ask cyndy our Climate Program manager to give you a brief outline of what was discussed not nearly in the same level of detail. But as lowell said, when you look at our where weve got emissions coming out, its pretty clear theres not a lot of mystery here. Our buildings are a big part of the story. And where those emissions are coming from, cyndy will talk a little bit about that. But more and more, they are coming from natural gas. And while we will be developing a Climate Action strategy that you will hear a lot more about for 2020, we dont wait for that to be finished before we adopt policies along the way.
A heros homecoming were in johannesburg as the springboks return from their Rugby World Cup triumph. So in the past hour or so yemens internationally recognized government has signed a power sharing agreement with Southern Separatists the deal was brokered by saudi arabia it aims to end months of fighting that opened a new front in the war the conflict also driven a wedge between saudi arabia and its Coalition Ally the United Arab Emirates yemens president the Saudi Crown Prince and the u. A. E. Crown prince all attended that signing ceremony in riyadh these are the key details as we understand them under the plan yemens government will return to aden to put state institutions back in place cabinet positions will be given to members of that sudden transitional. The u. A. E. Backed separatist movement had turned against had these government and seized aid in august it was looking for self rule in southern yemen here is james bays diplomatic editor who is that the United Nations in new y
He withheld military aid to ukraine for personal political gain alan fisher has more on this now from washington. Both these men were arrested at Dulles International airport on the outskirts of washington in fact its in the state of virginia that happened late on wednesday both were on a flight out of the country although you shouldnt read too much into that they are facing a number of charges its a 21 p. G. Indictment they are accused of making false statements of falsifying records and trying to evade contribution limits by hiding the source of those contributions they made a contribution to the donald trump super pac america 1st they also made a number of contributions to Kevin Mccarthy whos a senior Republican Leadership figure on capitol hill and they made those contributions asking him to work towards the removal of the u. S. Ambassador to the ukraine though she was eventually moved from her position by donald trump back in may this year now they have a connection with Rudy Giul
President has made abundantly clear the u. S. Has not in any way indorse the decision that the government of turkey to mount a military incursion into northeast syria. President trump has emphasized to the government of turkey that they bear full responsibility for protecting the kurdish population and religious minorities including christians and ensuring that no humanitarian crisis takes place the ambassadors of e. U. Countries who sit on the Security Council we also came up with a joint statement we are deeply concerned by the Turkish Military operation in syria we call upon turkey to see is the unilateral military action as we do not believe it will address truckies underlying security concerns im told behind the scenes there be no discussions about those words with germany and france wanting to take a tougher line with turkey than the u. K. Statements from the German Government and from the french government has said that they condemn what is going on the Turkish Operation in the
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