Police teams to senegal to tackle criminal gangs behind an upsurge in illegal migration, prodemocracy activists, joshua warn, could be facing more jail time after pleading guilty at a trial in hong kong. Hes accused along with fellow activists agnus child, ivan lamb, of his involvement in a protest there Police Headquarters last year. It was part of demonstrations against a controversial extradition bill on this following events at the court in hong kong. At the moment the prosecutor is laying out the evidence against joshua long and the other 2. Theyre playing footage of that night on june 21st of the protesters around the Police Headquarters blockading those building. They say joshua war and the other 2 were incited the protests. They charged them with Illegal Assembly the, the video that theyre showing is of them chanting slogans and calling on the Police Commander to come out and face the public. Now, as you said, that joshua long has pleaded guilty to 2 of those charges which incl
Clerk there are 11 ayes. President yee out objection the resolutions are adopted and motions approved unanimously. Could you read the memoriams. Clerk yes, mr. President. Todays meeting will be adjourned in memory of the following beloved individuals. I have, on behalf of supervisor stefani, for the late ms. Linda squires growing. President yee ok. Colleagues, that brings us to the end of the agenda. Madam clerk, is there any further business before us today . Clerk that concludes our business for today. President yee thank you, madam clerk. There are no further business, go ahead and go out there and do your civic engagement. We are adjourned. [roll call]. Clerk we have a quorum. Thank you. Id also like to announce that the commission will have a different order of business at this meeting, and we will hold the closed session first before moving into our regular business. Madam secretary, will you read the closed session prior to Public Comment . Clerk yes, maam, president. And prior
Clipper and George Hammond culture of the amenities forum which organized todays event. Im happy to welcome back a. J. Baime if we had them here you in half or so ago from the accidental president. His last book, and this time we have a virtually from his home, and were going to talk about his new book about a 1940 election. Were going back 72 years to another electionyear and you will be amazed at exactly how similar it sound in some ways. Another with a different but in some ways. Whats different is the politicians were all younger than they are today. Thats one big difference. But a. J. , take it away and tell us about the overview of the book. Just a very good read by the way. Very good read. Outstanding. I want to say a couple things first. Thank you so much for having the. The the Commonwealth Club is a wonderful place to be and you are doing this virtual. A lot of people are going to painandsuffering china for myself im just reminding why i fell in love with reading when i was s
With cold weather arriving, many places in the world that had largely gotten the pandemic under control are now seeing alarming new spikes. France hit the record 52,000 new daily cases while germany saw a record high of 16,000 cases. And now because of that and increasing hospitalizations, both countries are institute nog lockdowns. The last time europe was this panicked about an existential threat, it had a little mustache. No joke. But while europe is trying to limit public gat risk, the corona in chief donald trump is going around hins Country Holding as many superspreader rallies as he can. He even changed the crowd chant from lock her up to lick your hands. Now other peoples hands. All their hands. Lalalarlala but remember the president ial race isnt the only one that will be decided next week. Republicans are desperately trying to hold on to the senate and one seat they need to keep red is in arizona where republican insum Martha Mcsally is in a tough race against mark kelly who
Trevor hey, whats going on, everybody . Welcome to the daily social distancing show, im trevor noah. Today is thursday, the 29th of october, which means if you live in oklahoma, early voting starts today. So go vote remember its the oklahoma sooners, not the oklahoma laters. Anyway, coming up on tonights show why black votes matter, Jordan Klepper talks to trump supporters, and vicepresident ial candidate Kamala Harris is on the show. So lets do this, people welcome to the daily social distancing show. From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. Trevor lets kick it off with the coronavirus. Its the reason people hit the ground whenever you sneeze. With cold weather arriving, many places in the world that had largely gotten the pandemic under control are now seeing alarming new spikes. France hit the record 52,000 new daily cases while germany saw a record high of 16,000 cases. And now because of th