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Defy the president and join protesters as calls grow for even bigger demonstrations of the weekend. And flying high once again Hong Kongs International Airport has resumed transit flights from Mainland China. Welcome to the program a u. S. Bid to extend that indefinite arms embargo the rather its failed at the United Nations Security Council just one other country back to washington of the resolution that means unless further action is taken iran will be able to purchase conventional weapons from mid october kristen salumi has more for you at headquarters in new york. It was a quick an unceremonious and to the United States efforts to extend the iranian arms embargo that is part of the war being if thats. What you favor do whats against 11 f. Abstentions that draft resolution has not been a doctor every failed to obtain that required number and a statement u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o called it an inexcusable failure saying quote the Security Council paved the way for the wor
Week support last we report from a damaged child Cancer Treatment center. Bottom to the program the United Nations Security Council has overwhelmingly rejected a us but definitely extend an arms embargo on iran just one other country back to the move while european allies abstained from the vote that means unless further action is taken iran will be able to purchase conventional weapons from mid october christensen he has more from un headquarters in new york it was a quick an unceremonious and to the United States efforts to extend the iranian arms embargo that is out of the wording if theyre followed. In favor. Again 11 at. That draft resolution has not been a doctor. Every failed to obtain that required number and a statement u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o called it an inexcusable failure saying quote the Security Council paved the way for the worlds leading state sponsor of terrorism to buy and sell conventional weapons without specific u. N. Restrictions in place for the 1
The best thing our customers can do to help prevent going into that stage iii category is to conserve as much energy as possible. You heard it right there, conserve energy. That is going to be the motto during this heatwave we are all dealing with across the bay area. Tonights power emergency is over for now after a series of rolling outages around Northern California this evening that helped stabilize the grid. This started around 6 30 with an order from kauai so. The independent system operator manages the states power grid and it told utilities, like pg e, to shed powerlines because of unusually high demand. Pg e explained in a tweet saying there was strain on the power grid due to excess heat. Pg e began rotating Power Outages at the direction of the state grid operator. 200 to 250,000 customers were affected for about an hour each. This map is from pg es web shot. It shows a snapshot of the situation at 8 00 tonight. The red dots represent outages of 5000 or more, the orange dots