All that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by bnsf railway. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff there is breaking news out of chicago tonight. The mayor and the chief of police have just released a video of the shooting of 17 year old Laquan Mcdonald. He was fatally shot last year by Police Officer jason vandyke, who emptied all 16 rounds of his firearm. The Chicago Police department has ordered all police into uniform tonight. The family of the victim has urged people to stay calm. Well have more on this story later in the program. The air war over syria saw a longfeared escalation today, as a russian warplane was shot down by the turks in disputed circumstances. While in washington, president obama pledged american solidarity to french president holland
Putin. The goal getting russia to stand down in the crisis with ukraine. And vintage vehicles. A collection of rare classic cars ruing away in a barn for d cashes rusting away in a barn getting a new life at the auction block. Good evening and welcome to Al Jazeera America im stephanie sy. And im antonio mora. Tonight we begin in the home of the dangerous al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula yemen where another rebel group the shia houthis are in full control of the government. The houthis staged a coup today dissolving parliament and putting their own council in charge. That council will now create a traditional leadership that will govern for two years. The houthis had threatened to take unilateral action this week to dissolve yemens political stale made. That resolution passed setting in motion todays takeover. The United States and the United Nations condemned the coup. Calling for Immediate Release of yemens president and parliament who are under house arrest. As Jamal Al Saal report
Story of our war in ukraine and bracing for fish farming here in the pharroah island. Reporter as we begin the news hour with yemen where more rounds of air strikes by saudi arabia and hit houthi targets including air Defense System in the north and strikes over the past 48 hours hit targets across yemen aimed around seven towns and cities as you can see here saudi arabia assigned 100 fighter jets to the mission and with allies that means there are nearly hundreds of fighter jets involved and mr. Tan explains. Reporter part of the Saudi Led Coalition against shia Houthi Rebels and military supporters and for the second night they hit military positions in sanaa and as the operations continues saudi Officials Say there is no plan to send troops at least for now. We should be for all the circumstances. Our forces is ready for the different threat. A threat or ground threat. For the time being there is no such operation but if we need we will be ready to face this kind of event. Reporter
Please stand by for budget and finance committeesfgtv42915 [inaudible] to be included as part of the file should be admit today the chirk [inaudible] unless otherwise stated thank you. Everyone we are going to call these hearings out of order so well start withiteal number 2 is aiteal sponsored by supervideser mar and breed. Item 2 [inaudible] adequately meeting the city codes and providing access to resources to [inaudible] organizations that serve communities of color thanks madamclerk. Sponsored by supervisor breed and supervisor mar and board president breed so toning over to them thank to president breed and also supervisor farrell the chair for o of the committee for accommodating this item today. It is several years as a process, president breedi was going acknowledge it is a several year at least within this Budget Committee address [inaudible] is more like a 25 year strug frl many of the Smaller Community based Arts Organizations over the years from the chronicle in the late 8
Supervisor, mar and tang, from the Mayors Office of housing and Community Development, the resolution before you will authorize the city to accept and extend a two Million Dollar grant award from the state and Housing Development of Community Development and this is a matching grant available for those who have created the trust fund to develop or acquire or rehab tait the Affordable Housing the San Francisco voters passed the proposition free, in 2013 and trust fund created in 2013, requires that a minimum of 30 percent of the 2 million be spent on the projects for the low income households, earning up to 30 percent of ami, and that is approximately, 30,500, for a family of four per year. The Mayors Office plans to use it for the Affordable Housing project, located at 1036 Mission Street and it will be developed by the tender loin Neighborhood Development corporation. And the project will consist of 83 units of housing including 40 units, set aside for family and individuals who are h