Shes the 1st africanamerican running mate in u. S. President ial election history but cover harriss past as californias top cop isnt winning over all of the black line smarter movement. A warm welcome is 8 pm here in the russian capital and youre watching r. T. International with me nicky aaron. Now tensions in the the russian capital of minsk continue to soar and its citizens have already started to gather in the city center Armored Vehicles are reported to have moved in as well it all comes in the wake of sundays disputed president ial election which has plunged the country into chaos our correspondent reports from the scene. This is just the way or the way this was there to be honest its quite difficult to describe to you whats going on in victory square in minsk on the square there are women with families announce you can also see the women dressed in white with flowers in the hands remaining along independence avenue cars and buses which are passing by honking their horns in suppo
Tumlin will talk about this, but last week we did have a press event with supervisors peskin and preston announcing that we will be delaying our fare increases. Obviously when we were voting upon that fare increase, we could not have understood the magnitude of what was before us and not to mention we didnt really have a path forward in being able to fund the operations, so i want to thank you supervisors peskin and preston for working with us to come up with solutions which i cannot tell you what they are today. But to look at how we can fill those funding gaps which primarily effect us in year two of the budget cycle, not so much in year one. That will be coming back to us in the future. And also with that we will not be having a Charter Amendment related to sfmta. Thank director tumlin for his work in working with the supervisors, and just say it was a pleasure to be there to represent the board last week at kirkland lard. And with that, i will turn it on to the next item. All right
Not joining us and i know shes on the call and id like to open it up to directors and ill start with brinkman. Thank you, very much, chair board and its going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and were a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we wont have to sensor ourselves at all. Thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. Director eakin. Thank you. Christina, director rubke, its been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. You bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. You are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. Ive learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this will lose perspective and your in
Were sad to have the director not joining us and i know shes on the call and id like to open it up to directors and ill start with brinkman. Thank you, very much, chair board and its going to be hard for me not to always call you director rubke and thank you for all the hard work you put into this and were a thoughtful and careful director and you have such empathy and i appreciated serving with you on the board and getting to know you as a friend and now we can talk and travel as long as we want and we wont have to sensor ourselves at all. Thank you so much for your years of service and i will miss you very, very much on the board. Director eakin. Thank you. Christina, director rubke, its been such an honour and privilege to serve with you. You bring an important perspective i hope you will stay in touch with us and weigh in on board items. You are always welcome to call and share your perspectives. Ive learned so much from you and i really join director borden to be sad that this wil
In line with government policy. So the us no one to trust the House Intelligence Committee chairman adam schiff ever again after it was revealed that he lied about the truck collusion investigation. Thanks for joining us here. We will begin with our daily check on the latest global coronavirus figures total infections now stand above 4600000. 00. Or approaching 300000 while the number of those who have recovered tops 1700000. The u. S. Health care system has been inundated here in the pandemic not just with patients but also criticism of the way that it struggled with the crisis now the former head of a key lab working on a vaccine has warned congress if the government doesnt make rapid changes things will only get worse our window of opportunity is closing if we fail to improve our response now based on science i fear the pandemic will get worse and be prolonged there will be likely a resurgence of covert 19 this fall and we greatly compound that by the challenges of seasonal influenz