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
A 2nd wave of the pandemic. Anger grows in cyprus against corruption often aljazeera investigation forces the government to dump a controversial passport scheme. We begin in thailand with breaking news where a crackdown has begun against Anti Government demonstrations riot police has started rounding up protesters shortly after the government announced an emergency decree over ongoing protests it comes as thousands of protesters rallied in the capital bangkok calling for their Prime Ministers resignation demonstrators are also demanding reforms to the countrys powerful lets go straight to a correspondent on the phone from bangkok scott it is still very early in the hours of thursday morning where you are with the government clearly desperate to nip those protests in the bog whats happening. Yes exactly what did happen is emergency decree was asked about 2 hours ago 4 am local time and this was to disperse. The protesters remarks from democracy monument yesterday wednesday down to aroun
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Equity review this project has been delayed to undergo reviews for five years now and im concerned that the equity impact of those delays is not even being considered at all because every day that this project gets delayed and more housing is not filled and these 1 billion in Community Benefits is not paid to the city, its a day that people will not live with shelter and the city will face a budget crunch. Furthermore, i want to ask the board of supervisors as we look through racist planning, why i havent seen proposal to up said the west side westportal Saint Francis wood, these are white and exclusionary neighborhoods with Single Family zoning right next to money munitations that e you in the train in 15 minutes. As we look a lot i support the removing the central free and it should be a part of this broader shift towards equity and planning and zoning. Thank you. You will be notified you have been unmuted and you may begin your comments. Caller hell oh i would like to express my sup