You h. O. About the state of health in the Central African republic. We meet the sound artist using poetry and song to explore how colonial power was brought western sexism to her birth country cameroon. And im presuming to welcome to news africa thousands of people in senegal as capital death call home after a stroll at the weekend brought nearly a years worth of rainfall in a single day this is video from a densely populated suburbs off to cause some residents had to be evacuated by canoe local media reports that at least 4 people have died in the flooding across the country the government has come under fire for its response to the disaster. Homes a swamps. And these sandbags havent been much help. Flooding has become a fact of life for families here and far deeper than this water is the frustration which keeps rising even as the flooding subsides in this stack a neighborhood people feel theyve been forgotten and ignored for years. Since 2012 the state comes in makes promises but un
Straight from the top other activists saying poison is just one tactic the crimean uses against its enemies and sudan declaring a state of emergency because of floods more than a 100 people a dog and thousands are homeless the rising nile river is also threatening ancient pyramid. Our viewers in the u. S. On p. B. S. And our viewers all around the world welcome we start tonight in the rooms and some dramatic developments in the mystery about what has happened to leading opposition figure Maria Kolesnik over kolesnik over with missing on monday sparking intense speculation about her whereabouts. Released these pictures they said. They detained kolesnik over all she was trying to escape or cross the border into ukraine now into opposition members who were with her in the same car have spoken out providing some dramatic new details. Are for theres a tales im joined now by resnick aman a journalist in the capital minsk she has more of that snow it is good to have you on the program so what
Tonights meeting, and once thats done, we will adjourn that meeting and begin september 2. As always, im going to ask Public Commenters to reduce public noise, turn down the television. If you want to be heard, put your name in the chat. Commissioner youngblood, can you please call roll. Clerk yes, thank you, commissioner. [roll call] clerk you have a quorum. Also here tonight is chief w l William Scott from the San Francisco Police Department. Vice president taylor i wanted to say that the public will notice we have a new commissioner, and oddly enough, shes probably why every Single Member of this commission is on this commissioner. Commissioner malia cohen, welcome to your First Police Commission thank you very much. So i just wanted to, you know, just straight believe that share in my beliefs that i believe in transparency, and i believe in the examining of data and accountability and also support the positive moves toward Police Reform. And as you know, im a soontobe new mother, a
Peskin. Thank you and clerk john carroll. Thank you to sfgovtv for airing this meeting. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. Both cable channel 26 and sfgov are scrolling a Public Comment announcement across your screen. To call in to the meeting, dial 4156550001. Enter the meeting code 1464157487, then pound, and pound again. To comment on an item, press star, three to enter the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment in either of the following ways. You may email me. I am john carroll, and im the clerk of the government audit and oversight committee. My email is john. Carroll sfgov. Org. Or you may mail in your comment to city hall. The address is 1 carlton e. Goodlett place, San Francisco, california, 94102. Items acted on today will appear on the board of supervisors agenda of september 15, 2020, unless otherwise stated. Chair mar thank you, mr. Clerk. Can you please call items 1 and 2 together. Clerk yes. Item 1 is a resolution receiving and approving
Vice president taylor welcome to what is going to be the continued meeting from august 19 as well as concurrently the september 2 meeting of the San Francisco Police Commission. As some of you may be aware, we lost quorum at the last Police Commission meeting due to technical difficulties beyond our control. So at that time, we had completed the chiefs report, the d. P. A. Directors report, and line item 1 before we had to adjourn. Were going to pick up tonight where we left off, so its going to be the president ial report, commission report, and Public Comment. We want to make sure the public has an opportunity to comment on items from the august 19 agenda. So thats how were going to proceed, and then after that, we will continue the remaining items on the september 2 and tonights meeting, and once thats done, we will adjourn that meeting and begin september 2. As always, im going to ask Public Commenters to reduce public noise, turn down the television. If you want to be heard, put y