Michael good evening and welcome. My name is michael bishop. The result of a collaboration between our society and the George Washington university, the library is the First Research facility in the Nations Capital devoted to the study of Winston Church ill. Here students have access to a vast range of primary and secondary materials and interactive touchscreen exhibits and soon displays of original manuscripts and artifacts. And let me take this opportunity to encourage you to join the National Churchill society by www. Ing our website, winstonchurchill. Org. A few programming programming notes. I hope youll return to the National Churchill Library Center on march 1 when eliot book,will discuss his new the big stick, the limits of soft power and the necessity of military power. And on april 26, former british secretary david away, now lord his, who will speak about book, cabinets finest hour, the hidden agenda of the 20th of may, 1940. Thechill is claimed as biggest leader of the 20th
Thousands of coal minors defy authorities in china to take part in rare protests. A new round of talks to try and end the syrian conflict are due to get underway shortly in geneva, diplomates are hoping to build on a fragile truce which reduced the level of violence in syria since it came into effect at the end of february but not all sides have been invited to the talks and the Syrian Government agreed to attend but foreign minister says it will not discuss the presidency and main opposition representative will there be but only will accept a govern body within six months and the high negotiation community represents the coalition and the free syrian army. Russian wants ethnic kurdz in the talks but not invited and i. S. I. L. And the front el nusra front have also been excluded and we are joined on set by senior political analyst and we are expected arent we to hear from the envoy sef Staffan De Mistura and he is collar of his agenda but the other sides are not so much so. After the
Push it worked in the renovation and we believe that it will work for the expansion. We believe that there is tremendous public benefit, but job creation, and city, general fund creation. This process today is just the beginning of a long process. We will be loved with a great amount of community out reach and public communication, because we believe that not only will this be a great benefit for the community, but also for the neighborhood. I leave two blocks from the center and i do care about the neighborhood that i live in and i believe that this enhancement will not only make the center bigger but a bigger player and a better piece of our neighborhood. I just want to point out some of the economic facts. Two billion dollars in direct spending in San Francisco economy has already been lost. Between 2010 and 2019 because the center was not big enough. These were groups that would have come to San Francisco but decided not to because there was not enough space. The increase and avera
Push it worked in the renovation and we believe that it will work for the expansion. We believe that there is tremendous public benefit, but job creation, and city, general fund creation. This process today is just the beginning of a long process. We will be loved with a great amount of community out reach and public communication, because we believe that not only will this be a great benefit for the community, but also for the neighborhood. I leave two blocks from the center and i do care about the neighborhood that i live in and i believe that this enhancement will not only make the center bigger but a bigger player and a better piece of our neighborhood. I just want to point out some of the economic facts. Two billion dollars in direct spending in San Francisco economy has already been lost. Between 2010 and 2019 because the center was not big enough. These were groups that would have come to San Francisco but decided not to because there was not enough space. The increase and avera
Push it worked in the renovation and we believe that it will work for the expansion. We believe that there is tremendous public benefit, but job creation, and city, general fund creation. This process today is just the beginning of a long process. We will be loved with a great amount of community out reach and public communication, because we believe that not only will this be a great benefit for the community, but also for the neighborhood. I leave two blocks from the center and i do care about the neighborhood that i live in and i believe that this enhancement will not only make the center bigger but a bigger player and a better piece of our neighborhood. I just want to point out some of the economic facts. Two billion dollars in direct spending in San Francisco economy has already been lost. Between 2010 and 2019 because the center was not big enough. These were groups that would have come to San Francisco but decided not to because there was not enough space. The increase and avera