Want to thank you for joining us and coming to the San Francisco Chamber Offices this at the yard a busy one the last 6 months with Better Together coalition. I want to thank everybody who has been here almost every month a couple times. That is the bay area council, downtown sf. The golden gate restaurant association. Hotel council. Sf new deal, sf travel, purand the union square alliance. Thank you and briefly this group come to make suggestions to get on the same page at the same table to understand our needs for San Francisco. Make recommendations to the Mayors Office the Mayors Office is listen to many requests. And that is part of where we are going today. Thank you for coming and i want to turn it over to mayor breed. [applause]. All right. Is it still morning . Okay. I have been at a few things fwrit to be here with all you have. Is this working. Testing 1, 2. You guys dont have a microphone . First, thank you all so much for being here temperature is has been a long road to re
Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Its great to see the conversation, everyone having a good time. The food was wonderful. We welcome you again to this. Unch Panel Plenary session im going to introduce the moderator and the moderator will introduce the panelists. I am happy to introduce our panel moderator. Professor mcdowell is the professor of literary studies and the director of the College Institute for africanamerican studies at the university of virginia. She has been a member of the uva her booksnce 1987 and include studies of fiction by africanamerican women as well as numerous articles and in scholarly publications. Professor mcdowell has been extensively involved in editorial projects pertaining to africanamerican literature. Me in welcoming professor deborah mcdowell. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you, marcus. Thank all of you for your presence. Thanks to the organizers for this wonderful event they have , with many more exciting panels to come i task, decidedly simple
Believing in a fresh Security Architecture needed in the persian gulf he talked about what he called an inclusive concept of security and he also talked about the mid term goal of a regional nonaggression pact was that just window dressing or should we take iran at its word whats your take on all those proposals. Those who believe that Political Solutions are not only possible but necessary those who believe that the threats in the middle east can and must be contained by diplomatic means i absolutely agree with that approach and its a call that weve heard here from a number of other speakers as well and as you probably could hear for those in the audience who are following the words of the chairman of the security conference who is himself by the way a seasoned diplomat he was very interested in that proposal its a proposal that we. I also heard voiced by arab representatives here shortly were going to be hearing from saudi arabia im not sure that theyre going to be on the same wavele
Massacre attended gun control rally close to where the attack took place. On the seas in modern day europe the first german entry of this is Berlin Film Festival transfers the plot of a famous novel to the french city of must say we have a sneak preview for you of christian pets also new film transit. Hello and welcome my name is Christopher Spring a good to have you with us well have more on the top stories for you in just a moment first though some breaking news in iranian passenger jet has crashed in the countrys southwest between fifty and sixty people are thought to have been on board the plane was on route from tehran. Port to the city of yes which we will be bringing you more on that story just as soon as we get it. Turning now to the Munich Security Conference where tensions in the middle east take center stage leaders from across the world are meeting in the southern german city to discuss Global Threats at a time when alliances that have kept the world stable for decades are
Calling the speech a quote cartoonish circus also coming up all our government and president can do is send thoughts and prayers then its time for a victim to be the change that we need to be. In the u. S. State of florida grief turns to anger survivors of wednesdays High School Massacre at ten to gun control rally close to where the attack took place. More World Premieres here at the Berlin International Film Festival today its women driving the quads at the Berlin International fund of Film Festival i have the details. Welcome to the program im marion evans dean its good to have you with us. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that if israel feels threatened it could take action directly against iran and to know who made the comments on the final day of the Munich Security Conference and at the end of a week that saw iran and israel edged closer to open confrontation. Israels Prime Minister was in hawkish form when he took to the stage in munich in a blistering speec