General election in israel can voters break months of political deadlock this time. Coronavirus continues to disrupt global sport as its now for the opening few races of the major g. P. Season has been called off in canada and thailand. Welcome to the news our turkeys president says attacks against Syrian Government forces will continue if they dont reverse their advance and province turkeys military operations ratcheted up after dozens of turkish troops were killed in an attack in the region last week but reza thurber door also says hes hoping to secure a cease fire when he meets with russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in moscow on thursday. Or to go back as you know by going to moscow on thursday we will evaluate the latest developments with mr putin there i hope to whether the cease fire is achieved or not the other necessary steps will be taken and we will come to a rapid conclusion on this matter. Our correspondent is in hatay on the turkish syria border how how should the turkish
Discovered vast oil reserves but drilling could be environmentally damaging. The worlds factory has been shuttered supply chains have been broken flights of been grounded tourism decimated thats the real world consequence of the coronavirus and the epidemic has yet to peak outside china growth could this year want the o. E. C. D. To 1. 5 percent from its previous forecast of 2. 9 percent growth below 2 and a half percent indicates a global recession as markets crashed Central Banks stepped forward to say that they were ready to support growth the Federal Reserve cut rates by a half a percentage point its 1st emergency cut since the financial crisis in 2008. Now whether Central Banks have the firepower of the more than 700. 00 rate cuts and trillions in phone buying after the financial crisis is another question after all that it was the stock markets that benefited most from the rate cuts little trickle down into the real economy unlike the 2008 crisis where banks needed a desperate in
Quarantine as the virus continues to spread further into europ europe the biggest buyout in europe since 2007 you can see entirely red as this selloff continues from the u. S. To asia and europe this morning. Lets look at the individual markets to see the losses. You can see the ftse 100 down. 4. 25 down in germany the cac down 3. 8 . Italy more than 3 lower lets look at individual sectors to see travel and leisure down almost 5 basic resources. Places like china are selling off. Technology stocks are down more than 4. 5 . In the u. S. , we saw extraordinary circumstances. Closing 4. 4 4. 6 for the nasdaq these were extraordinary times one of the fastest in history. If we look at the volatility across the markets you are seeing the vix five points higher. Coming from wednesday, rising through that period. If we look ahead through that days trading. You can see all three of mothos major markets. The dow jones currently with an expected open down more than 600 points one of the reasons i
Gold at the 2004 gamemes were supposed to take part, but their visit was cancelled. The plane will leave for northeastern japan aboard a charter flight later on thursday. Governments across the globe are taking tougher measures to combat the pandemic as the number of confirmed infections tops 200,000 worldwide. One of the worst affected countries is italy where residents will remain under lockdown for at least two more weeks. The countrys death toll has surged to nearly 3,000 people with a record high 475 fatalities reported on wednesday. In total, more than 35,000 people there are infected, and the Northern Region of lombardy is rushing to build makeshift hospitals to add intensive care units. In germany, c chancellor angnge merkel called on citizens to help stem rising infections there. She made her plea during a rare televised speech addressed to the nation. Translalator not since germ reunificatation, no, not since world war ii has there been such a challenge to our country that so
Our clerk, and sfgovtv. Mr. Clerk, do we have any announcements . Clerk yes, thank you, mr. Chair. Please make sure you silence your cell phones and electronic devices. Copies of documents and completed speaker cards should be submitted to the clerk. Items acted upon today will appear on the board of supervisors february 26 agenda. Chair mar thank you. Mr. Clerk, please call item 1. [agenda item read]. Chair mar this item was continued from the last g. A. O. Meeting on february 6 and is sponsored by supervisor matt haney. Supervisor haney, the floor is yours. Supervisor haney thank you, chair mar. Before i address a set of amendments that were going to be putting forward today, i want to say a few things about what this proposal is and also what a Navigation Center is. San francisco piloted its first Navigation Center in 2015. The model was dubbed more than a shelter and was carefully crafted to be ta shelter for people seeking housing. The idea for a central lobby for front line city