A special session of the Un General Assembly focused on covert 19 it coincides with the release of a u. N. Study showing that over 1000000000 people could be living in extreme poverty by 2030 due to the long term effects of the pandemic. Firefighters in australia a struggling to contain massive wildfires devastating a unesco World Heritage site Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world the fires have been burning there now for 6 weeks and have already affected almost half the island. This is doubly news from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram news or visit our website w dot com. Or. Or it goes without saying that in this pandemic no one is safe until everyone is safe and yet vaccine nationalism the race to be 1st in approving the vaccine if suddenly real what happens when nations race against each other hoping to beat the coronavirus with a virus usually wins in the United States almost 3000 people are dying every day from covert 19 more than 100000 hospitalizations
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H, and neighborhood permitting. Update on proposition h. Discussion item. The presenter is bridget hicks, senior planner, Planning Department, and bridget, i am going to be passing the controls over to you. Thank you very much. Welcome, bridget. We are absolutely thrilled to having you here. We are looking very much forward to how this will be implemented, so the floor is yours, and after that, well hear from the commissioners if there are any questions, and Public Comment, and then finally, a last round of commissioner comment afterwards. Excellent. All right. Thank you so much. [inaudible] and is expected to pass. The initiative will become effective ten days after the br b board of supervisors certifies the election, which is expected to happen in late december. A conditional use authorization which requires a Planning Commission to an over the counter administrative approval. It eliminates neighborhood notification which have been permitted for land use changes in commercial distri
But when and who will profit onto the points we ask vaccine against coded 19. And demick under control or thanks very much for joining us and my guests here in the studio in the burlington are professor Susanna Schreiber from the german Ethics Council, who says, in theory, we know how best to distribute limited supplies of the vaccine. The real challenge is putting these ideas into practice. Also with us is yunior fischer, former doctor now a journalist and author. She believes the vaccine is a ray of hope, but tough times she says, still lie ahead for all of us and a very warm welcome to try to be as quote, professor for Public Health and happy to be ology of Berlin Charity hospital. Who argues that the news of an effective vaccine is good, but it shouldnt distract from the many problems posed by the pandemic. Thank you all 3 for being here. I would like to begin with you. Theres so much to talk about. Some people are talking about a shimmer of hope, light, the end of the tunnel. I sa
Seeing pandemic under control. Well, thanks very much for joining us and my guests here in the studio in the bird lane are professor Susanna Schreiber from the German Ethics Council, who says, in theory, we know how best to distribute limited supplies of the vaccine. The real challenge is putting these ideas into practice. Also with us is yunior fischer, a former doctor. Now a journalist and author, she believes the vaccine is a ray of hope, but tough times she says, still lie ahead for all of us and a very warm welcome to her to be a score professor for Public Health and jane berlin, charity hospital. Who argues that the news of an effective vaccine is good, but it should be destroyed from the many problems posed by the pandemic. Thank you all 3 for being here. I would like to begin with you. Theres so much to talk about. Some people are talking about a shimmer of hope, others about light at the end of the tunnel i saw though one commentator saying, we find ourselves in the midst of a