The u. N. His bio is Available Online so let me be very brief in introducing him. Mark has more than 30 years of experience in both humanitarian and development context. Most of it spent with the u. K. s department for international development, which he eventually led as permanent secretary. He had led their humanitarian responses to such context as iraq, syria, nepal, several cases in africa, and haiti. He was also their directorgeneral for policy and corporate performance and finance. An extraordinary wealth of experience both in the context working where operations occur and on the infrastructure that helps to manage them. So were delighted to have sir mark with us today. Mark, there are innumerable humanitarian crises under way right now and at large scale. I know you Just Launched the u. N. s consolidated humanitarian appeal for the funding to support that effort. But today we want to focus on covid. And what the pandemic has meant for the crises that you helped to manage and for
But is it clear of co with 19 voting is underway in tajikistan where one of the worlds longest serving leaders is hoping to extend this 28 year rule and anger in nigeria against a Controversial Police unit accused of brutality. At least 8 people have been killed in the latest fighting over the disputed region. As a real fishel say the city of ganja was struck by missiles overnight both john and our media are accusing each other of violating the cease fire came into force on saturday the deal allows them to Exchange Prisoners and recover bodies to theres been heavy fighting in the region for the past 2 weeks the worst in decades so of course all is in danger as a very john where theres been an ongoing search for survivors. Today around 34 am local again just city center was it the building right behind me which is a historical one actually from 19 thirties they tell me the local sound me was hit by Ballistic Missile which is reported to be a torch go u. N. So far we have at least here a
Im with the International Security program and pleased to have joining me the chief of staff of the army, general mcconville. It is great to be here. Host there are so many things we should be talking about but we have limited time. I would like to focus more than anything on the pacific. You come from the region relatively recently, the National Strategy is to prioritize the Great Power Competition especially china and russia but most people when they think of the army think of a ground incentive environment like europe and are not thinking about that. Is the pacific a priority for the army and what does this mean . Historically were focused on europe, a National Test strategy that puts the indo pacific as a top priority. We take a look, havent been in the pacific, those are my first overseas trip as a in september of 2019, my first trip with covid19 to the region. When you look at the region, Great Power Competition. The competition is about the people. The secret, the solution to th
[indiscernable] it is between high density housing and shopping and so forth. That hasnt happened. The commercial district is taken up by expensive condos. A few units that are affordable. Those would be gone. I would very much like to speak to supervisor peskin about it. I will mention the only project recently that i know of was the one that i proposed and the Mayors Office of housing agreed and david baker and everybody was hot to trot. That was the project supervisor peskin tried to save by landmarking. He was no longer in office and david chu were not interested in a Senior Housing project. They tried to find Affordable Housing initially and reducing the price but didnt think there were any. Operator thank you. Next speaker, please. Caller i am a Research Analyst and one of the things my job touches on is asking that the community evaluate what kinds of jobs is given Hotel Development might bring to the community and how those jobs will correlate to the ability of those workers to
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