This is Al Jazeera America, live from new york city, im Randall Pinkston, pope francis now is in southeast cuba in the city where fidel and brother rual castro grew up and celebrated mass this for tens of thousands of cubans, this is the first time a pope has ever visited the city and pope francis is credited with helping u. S. And cuba restart diplomatic relations after more than 50 years. David is live for us in havana and david im sure you have seen many incredible sights during your visit there watching the pope, such a busy day he has had, what has been most impressive for you . Well, you know, im telling you its hard to think of a more impressive sight than hundreds of thousands in havana and he is 150,000 gathering had gathered there and just the sheer numbers of people who turn out to see this pope, not only here in cuba but across the region and mexico and honduras and nicaragua and a pontiff coming to cuba with a new relationship between the United States and cuba so pope fra
Pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you the first item on the jauntdz is item a approval of board minutes in our packet is the minutes of the regular meeting of october 2015 may i have a motion and a second and so moved. Second. Thank you are there any corrections seeing none, ms. Casco roll call vote. Ms. Chin mr. Totiano ms. Fewer mr. Haney ms. Mendozamcdonnell ms. Norton mr. Walton ms. Wynns and dr. Murase thats 5 ids. Thank you very much members of the public are remind if you wish to address the board of education your requested to complete a speaker card prior to the item being called and present to the which have assistant coming back to the boards rules and procedures speakers are not expected for an item arrested before the board and presentations to the board of education superintendent report. Thank you president murase and good evening to everyone that is join us in person o
The meeting will come to order. Regular meeting of the government and Oversight Committee for december 3, 2015. I am supervisor yee chair of the committee. To my left is supervisor christensen and to my leftleft is supervisor breed. The Committee Clerk is erica. The committee would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgov tv who recorded each of our meetings and make the transcripts available online. Madam clerk any announcements . Please make sure to silence all cell phones and electronic devices. Submit speaker cards. Items active upon today will appear on december 2015 board of supervisors agenda. Please call items 10 and 11 out of order . Yes, item 10 and 11 are ordinances authorizing federa federalally settlements of lawsuits against the city and county of San Francisco. Before we convene in closed session, is there any Public Comments on these items. If you have any comments, you have two minutes. Seeing no people for Public Comment, then Public Comment is now closed. Members of th
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Turkey is an important country by any measure. In the eyes of its critics, it is becoming authoritarian and less tolerant. The country is both modern and old, islamic and secular, gdp growth of 4 . Look at its geography between the mediterranean and the black sea. It is bordered by eight countries bulgaria, armenia, greece, georgia, azerbaijan, syria, iraq, iran. Many have fled across the border. The turkish republic was founded after the end of the ottoman empire. Many credit the first president with creating turkey as a modern and secular nation. I went to istanbul for a rare interview with tayyip erdogan. He was considered a man who could be a bridge between the west and islamist world. Erdogan today is the source of some controversy. Hes accused of coming down hard on anyone who opposes him. What are and youtube have been banned. Demonstrators have been violently dispersed. Some fear that in the process he is creating a more
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. An important country by any measure. In the eyes of its critics, it is becoming authoritarian and less tolerant. The country is both modern and old, islamic and secular, gdp growth of 4 . Look at its geography between the mediterranean and the black sea. It is bordered by eight bulgaria, greece, azerbaijan, syria, iraq, iran. Many have fled across the border. The turkish republic was founded after the end of the ottoman empire. Many credit him with creating turkey as a modern and secular nation. I went to istanbul for a rare tayyip erdogan. He was considered a man who could be a bridge between the west and islamist world. Erdogan today is the course of some controversy. Hes accused of coming down hard on anyone who opposes him. What are and youtube have been banned. Demonstrators have been violently dispersed. The process hein is creating a more polarized turkey with the deep divisions. Intense conflict is with a man who lives in