Leaders will have no effect also on the show. As the german chancellor changed her position on migration as part of Coalition Talks her conservative c. D. U. Has reached a compromise deal on limiting the number of migrants will get some analysis. And the German National paid their story nothing faces up to fifteen years in jail and turkey along with other human rights activists hes facing charges of supporting a terrorist group allin calls the claims unacceptable. And also coming up germany confirmed their place in next years world cup after crushing azerbaijan five one the reigning world champs now have a perfect ten out of ten record in their qualifying campaign will have all the. Im brian thomas welcome to the show in spain theres been a massive row in barcelona against plans by coghlan leaders to declare independence now this march came as the spanish Prime Minister said he would take measures to prevent the region from breaking away organizers say nearly a million demonstrators pa
Has reached a compromise deal on limiting the number of migrants will get some analysis. Plus and prison than tortured for being gay will bring you the first installment in an exclusive series this week looking at what it means to be homosexual in russia. Im brian thomas welcome to the show in spain theres been a massive rally in barcelona against plans by catalan leaders to declare independence the march came as the spanish Prime Minister said he would take measures to prevent the region from breaking away organizers say nearly a million demonstrators packed into the center of Barcelona Local Police putting that number at three hundred fifty thousand the protesters called for an end to the countrys worst political crisis in decades. We have this report now from d. W. Scared us who has asked that demonstration. Was. Long live the nation is the message. Christina a student from barcelona and her friend couldnt agree more they feel cut to learn spanish and european. You know you dont hea
The rest of southern Montgomery County western fairfax down to 33. Much of fairfax mid 30s. Upper 30s in washington. So well have two types of a commute today with wet pavement this morning. A possibility patchy ice then dry pavement during the afternoon. Well be hovering near 30 degrees with a blustery wind dry drying out our road with a partlypart sunny sky. How are the roads . Right now overall looking pretty good. I want to start with hiensville here. Route 1 blocked in each direction. Only one lane blocked if each direction between van buren and albion road. Its construction that has been happening for the past couple of hours. A live look at 270 and old hundred dollar road. A little slow. 270 not looking bad at this point. Taking look at 95 and i kind of started this map a little higher than i typically do. Stafford i should say youre fine. Dale city it gets slow. You can see through here. Thats heading northbound. Southbound is open. Back in a couple of minutes with travel times
We are basically concerned with active transportation. Moving to them after becoming our city engineers major focus. We are pretty well completed on that. We need bike trails, walking trails, running trails. Part of the city moving toward higher densities. The traditional part of our city, horse trails and are expanding those as well as we go along and do that. The 3rd role is Economic Development, critical to develop because we are so dependent upon salestax and franchise tax. When the process right now hopefully it we will bring 400 million of construction into commercial construction into our area. Area. Retail development, regional Retail Development office space hotel big boxes as well. During my administration with the opportunity of seeing big boxes move in. Two walmarts in our city. Home depot laws before that we had pieces market and the rich and drug. Development comes from the north and east. So i learned easily and quickly that we have to wait your turn. My time was spent a
Do that way and one of the things i wrote down that wasnt in my campaign, but as i took office, my major job was to spend money. Not to save money. But to spend money, but to spend it in the right way. And then as i analyzed and had when i was on the counsel, the very negative funding for us is property tax. If you raise property tax they want to hang you by the nearest tree. If theres not a tree, theyll just run over you with their pick up truck either way. But you dont mess with property tax, so i got our city out of the property tax business. We fund our city basically by two sources. Sales tax and eweutility franchise and when you do that, people dont care where you spend money. As long as you dont raise their taxes, they are fine and we raise the taxes by good, Economic Growth that ill talk about in a minute and so, that is where we have come from and that is a that has allowed me to do that in that way. Philosophically for my goals my overarching goal or principle is if it doesnt