[gavel] good morning, everyone. The meeting will come to order. Welcome to the november 4th, 2019, meeting of the rules committee. Im supervisor hillary ronen, chair of the committee. We will be joined shortly by supervisor shamann walton, who is the vice chair and to my left is supervisor norman what is wrong with me, gordon mar. Excuse me, gordon. Our clerk is victor young. Id like to thank matthew and michael at sfgov for staffing this meeting. Mr. Include, do you have any announcements . Clerk silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Speaker cards and any documents to be included in the file should be submitted to the clerk. Can you please read item number one. A hearing to consider appointing one member, term ending november 30th, 2020, to the Ballot Simplification Committee. Supervisor ronen they have. I believe lauren is here. If you want to come up and say a few words. Girardin. Supervisor ronen thank you. Names this morning. Its a hard name. Any time anyone gets it righ
A new Prime Minister earlier the shia cleric. Called for the resignation. 2 u. S. Government officials who served on the former special envoy to ukraine are testifying in each month inquiry into President Donald Trump Christopher Anderson and Catherine Croft are expected to describe how state Department Officials efforts to support ukraine were stymied by the white house the pair follow alexander the National Security council official in charge of ukraine policy who testified on tuesday when was the 1st witness who listened there on a phone call between the u. S. And ukrainian president s at the center of the inquiry our White House Correspondent kelly halkett has more on this from washington. The testimony on wednesday on capitol hill by 2 state Department Officials are expected to be particularly damaging to the white house once again this is an effort by the democrats to offer further timelines and a deep dive into ukraine policy under the administration of donald trump we expect th
A wide turmoil so the options he had was of course to counsel is to try to resole this but actually we dont know whats the real meaning if that doesnt mean that he will try to obliterate the International Scrutiny that he would have had in the a pic or in the call of the un is sending a Delegation Team to investigate the allegations of human rights abuses by Security Forces presumably that is still going ahead are you saying that you think that part of the reasons why these 2 summits were cancelled was because he didnt want the extra scrutiny i think it could be because the image of the president in chile politics is quite damaged internationally so this would be if it was if there are more insights today because protests would have happened in india to call the cop. So thats one answer the other one is yes hes trying to resolve internal issues because this is a very dramatic situation and he needs to focus on that but the right answer than real answer we still dont know and maybe ment
A muslim replacing heidi wont be easy he is considered the representative of that community. But hariri will insist on a semi technocratic government but the Ruling Coalition is insisting Political Parties remain represented hariri want to accept that so the other scenario is hezbollah forming a government that is more dominated by the Group Something it wants to avoid. Hezbollah and its allies are the majority in government and parliament but it is under u. S. Sanctions like its iranian backer that is why it needs a partner like who is supported by the west House Speaker to be a birdie is warning against International Intervention it seems lebanon is yet again caught in the arena of the us iranian struggle both countries have weighed in the crisis which began as a protest for Better Living conditions iran is accusing the Us Saudi Arabia and israel of supporting the protesters while the u. S. Is calling for a government that will be responsive to the needs of the people protesters who
Hello again welcome back to International Weather forecast here across Eastern Europe we have seen a big drop in temperature over the last few days and that is all due to this frontal boundary that is pushing down towards the south and behind the front and to the north were talking about temperatures that are in the Single Digits and actually minus 3 here in moscow so thats going to stay over the next few days but things are going to stay quite clear and cold across much of this area now out to the west its a different story were talking about a weather system that is coming in off the atlantic and things are going to get a little rough particular over here towards the southern part of the u. K. And if you do have travel plans on friday for london for paris for birmingham expect to see delays across that area were going to see a lot of rain across the region and very gusty winds coming into play across the region there so it is going to be a problem of delays and probably even cancella