Good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council meeting friday, march 17 here in city hall in room 400. I want to welcome our new councilmembers and later up in the agenda we will tell you about themselves and their background. So right now, lets start with the introductions. Good afternoon and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council meeting today here at city hall. City hall is accessible to persons using wheelchairs and other assistive mobility devices. Wheelchair access is provided at grove van ness and mcallister street via ramps. Wheelchair access at the polk street good entrance is provided via a wheelchair lifts. Accessible listening devices are available at our meeting is open captioned. Sign language interpreted. Our agenda are also available in large print and braille. Please, as that for any additional assistance. To prevent electronic interference with this room sound system, and to respect everyones ability to focus on the presentation, these, sounds
Recovery for palestinians left injured by violence in the occupied territories. France has secured the support of russia to tackle the Islamic State in iraq and the levant as part of a grand coalition over syria. The two countries will share military information about their air bombardments over syria after both stepped up their campaigns recently. France is lobbying countries to back its campaign after many were killed in the attacks in paris. Both have agreed to coordinate strikes on Oil Infrastructure that i. S. I. L. Is using to fund its fighters. Putin has also indicated that he is ready to support groups in syria who are fighting i. S. I. L. Reporter we agreed today to reinforce our Anti Terrorist work, improve exchange of operational information, fighting terrorism, set up a constructive relationship between our military specialists in order to avoid duplication and incidents but instead concentrate our efforts toward a more effective fight against terrorists and try to avoid st
Foreign nations contributing to a ground force to fight isil in iraq. The isi method is now coming under tin creased scrutiny. Keeping watch on isil positions theyve had recent success in recapturing territory in sinjar. Now theyre hopeful they can defeat the groups from other parts of the country and its allies. The americans must intervene with permission from the iraqi government. But Prime Minister Hyder Al Abadi disagrees. We reaffirm that iraq did not need any grouped troops. We did not ask any country to send Ground Troops and we will consider such move an act of aggression. The increasing human rights violation against sunni areas in areas reclaimed from isil. Goes ton say that reports indicate that Iraqi Security forces, Kurdish Security forces and their respected affiliated groups one of those groups accused of abuses is the Popular Mobilization forces. But president obama said that he wont authorize airstrikes to support them. It goes back to the 2003 invasion in iraq. Thats
London. Im francine lacqua. Im manus cranny. The chinese premier says the country still has the policy tools to deal with pressures on growth. He announced that china will open up its onshore currency markets to foreign Central Banks. He spoke at the World Economic forum. Were integrating ourselves into the wider world, and china will open up even more. Our policy of investing abroad will remain unchanged. These specific policies will continue to encourage more Foreign Investment in china, and they will expand access to markets. Francine the speech came as china reported the fastest Consumer Price growth in a year. That will compound challenges to policymakers. Lets cross live to our beijing bureau chief. Did he map out a plan to jumpstart the economy . Nick there were no specific proposals this time around. What you heard more was the voice of reassurance. There has been so much uncertainty in the last few weeks about the governments intention to valuing the yuan and how it would resp