Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. The British Governments Brexit Strategy can be summed up in new Prime Minister borisjohnsons three word phrase do or decline. The uk is leaving on october the sist the uk is leaving on october the 31st he says, deal or no deal. Right now a deal between london and brussels appears unlikely, so what about the alternative . Well, my guest is iain duncan smith, former conservative party leader and ardent brexiteer. Can Prime Minister johnson deliver a no deal exit and what will it mean for britains politics and economy . Iain duncan smith, welcome to hardtalk. If i may, let me begin by quoting to you the words of an eu official in brussels uttered just a couple of days ago. A no deal exit now appears to be the uk governments central scenario. Would you agree with that . In the sense that the government has made it clear they think the existing Withdrawal Agreement is dead, unless there is major surgery to it, and there is major surgery to it, and the
Im joined by vice chair walton and Committee Number safai. Together we like to express gratitude to our clerk victor young and thanks to sfgovtv for broadcast todays meeting and today our producer mr. Jason goldhammer. Mr. Clerk . I like to reminds you to silence phone and electronics. Documents provided me will be include part of the file as should be submitted to myself. Items are expect today appear on the supervisor agenda on october 31, 2023 unless otherwise stated. That completes my announcements. Thank you, mr. Clerk. Call item 1. Item 1 Charter Amendment. To amend the charter of the city of an fran establish Staffing Levels sworn officers of the Police Department requiring a period of 5 years the mayor and the board of supervisors appropriate funds to meet Staffing Levels establishing a Police Full Staffing fun for a period of 5 years the purpose of facilitating minimum staffing and allowing a temporary froze on appropriations to the funds in the budget and economic emergency a
Providing the opportunity for the board of supervisors to make legislative decisions instead of leaving it in the charter, understanding that it is so important that we do Economic Feasibility studies to ensure that the decisions that get made around our requirements for housing, dont impact our ability to build. We know a lot of things for housing are not within our control. The cost of materials and the economy and setting Interest Rates is a whole but there are things here locally that are within our control. I want to take this opportunity to really appreciate so many people who came together with the technical advisory committee, who worked day in and day out to ensure that we really dug deep, that we fulfill a process that we made to the people of San Francisco. That when we make decisions about inclusionary numbers, if the economy changes in anyway, we will reevaluate those numbers to determine if they should be either raised or lowered, and we will not play politics with the ne
Good morning, Everyone Welcome to the october 17 meeting of Transportation Authority board im Rafael Mandelman chair of this board our vice chair is Marina Melgar i thank matthew from sfgovtv and our clerk is elijia saunders. Commissioner chan. Present. Why commissioner dorsey. Present. Engardio. Present. Machine man. Present. Voice chair melgar present. Why commissioner supervisor peskin, absent. Preston present commissioner ronen. Absent commissioner safai. Absent. Commissioner stefani. Present. Commissioner walton. Present. And commissioner ronen, present. Chair we have quorum. Great. Thank you, mr. Clerk i believe you have a Public Comment announcement for members of public interested in participating we welcome your tenants in person in room 250 in city hall or watch channel 26 or 99 depending on your provider or stream it live on sfgov. Org. For those wishing to comment remote dial 4156550001, access code 2661 002 6574. Press pound and pounds again you will listen to the meet not
Fremont where police have a suspect who shot two Fremont Police officers surrounded. He is in a house that is on fire. We will have the latest on this investigation. Good morning. Thank you for joining us. It is thursday, june 2. Im pam cook. Im brian flores in for dave clark. We continue to follow developing news. Police are still in a standoff situation with the suspect, accused of shooting two Fremont Police officers yesterday afternoon. As weve been telling you, about 30 minutes ago that home with a suspect is holdup is now on fire. You can see that in the distance. A developing situation here. A swat team hired tear gas and flash bangs is hope of getting the suspect out. We have Live Team Coverage this morning. Christien kafton on the evacuations underway for neighbors but first here is janine de la vega at the scene with the latest. Reporter good morning. Its been about an hour since police have heard from the suspect. They were talking to him on a cell phone. They do not know if