Now on bbc news, its time for a special programme. Global questions the taiwan, china conflict. Hello, welcome to global questions with me, zeinab badawi, from Liberty Square in taipei, the capital city of taiwan. The main island of taiwan lies about 160 kilometres across the waters from china. In the past few months, china has stepped up its military exercises, and fired missiles over taiwan, in growing tensions with the government here. The chinese president , xijinping, has reiterated the claim that taiwan belongs to china, and he says he does not rule out the use of force to take it over. Meanwhile, the United States, which supports taiwan, has hardened its position with President Biden saying he would send american troops to defend it. So, if china did invade taiwan, it would be a conflict with huge global dimensions, one that involves the two superpowers, the United States and china. That is global questions, taiwan, a flashpoint with china and the world . Applause welcome to the
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Union local 258 with respect to the extension of the term june 30th, 2017. Any Public Comment on that item . Yes. One member of the public has so indicated. Good afternoon. Good afternoon director nolan and director reiskin im a muni coach operator i still get nervous when i come here im in support of contracted and a lot of the members want this they were in in favor of this they voted for it is a way of moving forward and as far as the economics were changed but the original contract is not changed we have a strong spirited leader we could have gotten more done as far as the whole contract and im in support of this but i want to see a little bit more with the contract done with the work conditions and new equipment and so and about the new operators coming in and gain top pay in the fifth year after 4 years after 2 years of working in the city here and, you know, they deserve top pay we want to keep them if another Public Transit agency is going to match our top pay then they might g
Difference between there are 3 sets of plan the first set is all throughout every sheet exhibit 2 is ill let the architect explain that im brigitte with the architecture the architect for the project sponsor their sorry they couldnt come theyre expecting a baby im here to explain on behalf of. Revision two is a set that was prepared prior to the dr and variance hearing. Right before we were to submit the sue hester saw a error so we sent a surveyor out to correct it as revision 3 so measure the height of the existing building on the site so revision 2 a combination of a couple of sheets youll find in sue hesters brief submitted for the appeal revision 4 that she referred to was in response to the paris concerns for the roofdeck so on the upper level where theres a roofdeck previously in the discretionary review and the hearing there had been a roofdeck. Up at this level here on top of the floor closer to the western Property Line so in response to that we eliminated the roofdeck and mo
More thing about i didnt know, wasnt informed about the various bus line discussions and when they say, little omissions, this is new. My block, two 2 blocks are being severely affected and a lot of this will be more homebound. Thanks to that. Willie brown had a van suggestion in counting number of patrons on this line or that in this time. Perhaps considering those little known routes and maybe van coverage for those and thats where willie brown i think he spoke about that and introduced that. It will be great. Thank you. Any other comment on protected bike ways item no. 11 . Okay. Item no. 1. 12. Information item. Correspondence. There is no correspondence for this months meeting. Thank you very much. Item no. 13. Discussion item. Councilmember comments and announcements . Councilmember roland wong . Yes, i just kind of like to remind the audience that please join us at the independent Living Resource Center of San Francisco. We are going to have a grand opening. We are relocating an