Speeding i want to announce that as of july thanks to tom from dbi and mayor ed lee and supervisor christensen we sarah and myself are going to put on weekly education working groups so the idea starting on july 20th well have a class every monday in the afternoon and go around you know and sign up all of the residents and all of the merchant and i sometimes here nonprofits workers our city workers may not be living within walking distance to chinatown and so we really need all the residents no chinatown to be prepared and educated thank you to do Police Department and department of emergency and rec and park to work on this project together thank you all clapping. okay. Before i end the presentation also i would you know repeat again to people here the mayor that leads here a sxhieshgsz is here and the fire chief kings and the department of emergency and ann is here also bob that rec and park and, of course everybody you know captain lazzaro is here and also i want to mention about. r
This program is one hour and 45 minutes. [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen let me welcome you to the United States institute of peace. We are very pleased to welcome you here this afternoon. My name is phil taylor on the executive price Vice President of the institute of peace, very pleased to be able to cohost this was with our kurdish friends. We will have an opportunity to introduce everyone at the right time. The Kurdistan Regional Government Special representative Bayan Sami Abdul rahman is here and we also have the ambassador from iraq ambassador fareed yasseen. Welcome, glad to have you here. Both will have an opportunity to speak to you before the Panel Discussion. Three years ago this month isis targeted many of iraqs minority groups christians have cds pokemon and others to this assault on northern iraq. Isis also targeted arabs and kurds in many more areas. Last year the secretary of state and the u. S. Congress and just last week the administration labeled as g
Maclean here this evening for this marvelous new book, democracy and change. I have made no secret of just how important i think this book is in my humble opinion. We are doing our best. Turn off the air conditioning there . [inaudible conversations] okay, okay. My little experience in electoral politics you might now is on the Durham City Council for eight years in a previous lifetime. [applause] it seemed to me then that one very important thing in politics is to understand your opponent and understand where they are coming from, what motivates them, what they are really trying to do. And as this book shows i think that our understanding of what is called sometimes the radical right, the libertarian right has been very limited and that there has been a philosophy and a strategy that goes back decades that is behind much of what we see in politics now. So i think there are a few things that can be more important for those of us who dont agree with that kind of politics than to read th
Monday in parliament. The main news from westminster. Winter pressures in the nhs. The Health Secretary calls for an honest discussion about a and e departments. We are going to protect our four hour standard. We need to be clear it is a promise to sort out all Urgent Health problems within four hours, not all health problems, however minor. Plans to stop Domestic Abusers from Questioning Ex Partners in Family Courts. As a result of the family Court Process this extremely vulnerable woman needed weeks of medication and months of counselling to recover. She has now suffered this ordeal three times. And peers rally to the defence of englands universities. Universities have changed the world because of what they are. Because they are different and they are distinctive. It was the first day back at westminster for mps after the christmas break. They returned to news that the National Health service has not, however, had much of a break. The Health Secretaryjeremy hunt told the commons that
Our look at the day at westminster. Our top stories the Foreign Secretary says all british Passport Holders will be able to travel to the United States, despite President Trumps travel ban. This Executive Order will make no difference to any british passport holder, irrespective of their country of birth or whether they hold another passport. But despite borisjohnson describing the policy as wrong, Opposition Mps say hes not going far enough reacting to the policy. This order was signed on Holocaust Memorial day. For the sake of history, for heavens sake, have the guts to speak out. Also tonight concerns the closure Ofjobcentre Plus buildings may not take into account local issues. Can my honourable friend assure me that those who have put forward the proposals have indeed visited places such as the Calder Valley to understand the demographics and geography, or have theyjust sat in their offices in whitehall using google maps . The Foreign Secretary has told the commons that President