Gunshots the city as demonstrators came out onto the streets despite a curfew this comes after a peaceful protest was broken up by a shooting allegedly by nigerias security forces. Im told me a lot of welcome to the program pope francis has said that he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of same sex couples this break from the vaticans traditional position on the issue the pope made the comment in a new documentary about him titled francesco which premiered on wednesday at the rome Film Festival the film also tackles other controversial issues such as racism Climate Change sexual abuse and relations between christians muslims and jews. Knowledge joined by chicago based journalist michael of laughlin he is a journalist and author who covers religion and politics with a particular focus on the Catholic Church michael good to have you on the program how have the popes comments on same sex civil unions been received in the u. S. Its been a welcome statement to many of bt catho
Pose a threat to the chancellor. Clause in a mock shift for the Catholic Church pope francis says he supports same sex civil unions observers are calling it the clearest language yet from the pontiff on gay rights and christianity. Im told me a lot of ball welcome to the program with just 2 weeks to go before the u. S. President ial election intelligence officials believe that iran and russia have interfered in the upcoming vote they accuse iran of being behind recent intimidating emails targeted at American Voters to sow unrest in multiple states they also stated that teheran and moscow obtained Voter Registration details with the goal of interfering in the election democratic voters in at least 4 battleground states received emails that threatened we will come after you if the recipients didnt vote for donald trump. U. W. Correspondent is in washington covering events for us. Can you tell us more about these accusations well tell me what we know at this point is that groups from iran
Are preparing to go to the polls to vote in a referendum on whether to replace the countrys pinochet era constitution the present constitution is considered by many to prevent social progress and justice the vote comes after a year of mass and rest against social inequality. A suicide bombing in afghanistans capital kabul has killed at least 18 people and wounded many more the interior Ministry Says the blast struck an Educational Center in a Western District of the city the socalled Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack. This is d. W. News from bolen follow us on twitter and instagram at news or this is our website w dot com. Org. For. This week on the world stories. British sheep farmers fear for their livelihoods. Dangerous apportions in kenya but we begin in the south caucasus where han conflict between armenia and azerbaijan continued this week despite a cease fire the 2 nations from the former soviet union are involved in a dispute over the not go
And again, its at the early stages but i did see the announcement and would very much like that to be included in future updates. Thank you. Thank you. Are there any members of the public who would like to comment on this item . Chair, there is no Public Comment. Ok, Public Comment is closed and there is no action to be taken and so we can move on to the next item. Item 6, allocate 11,230,724 in sale tax funds and 1,043,89, 1,043,898 and double a Registration Fee fund with conditions. This is an action item. Miss leport. Good morning. Chair, are you able to see my slides . Yes, we are. Super. So the first of the three requests presented today is for the annual funding that the sale tax Program Provides to the paraprogram and weve been supporting this Program Since 2004 and there are a suite of services that mta offers as part of the Paratransit Program, most of which are still operating, of course, with declining ridership or lower ridership to the tune of 70 to 80 overall. Over the la
I see the red box. Good morning and welcome to the county Transportation Authority meemeeting. Could you please call the role. role call . We have a quorum. Can we have our next item, please. May i make an announcement about Public Comment . Yes. Public comment will be available for each item on this agenda via telephone by calling 888 2045987 and enter access code 2858465 as seen on the screen and follow the system prompts. Once you join, you can listen to the meeting as a participant. Dial 10 to be added to the queue to speak. Each caller will be allowed two minutes to speak. When your two minutes are up, we will move on to the next caller. Calls will be taken in the order which they are received. Best practises are to speak slowly, clearly and turn down the volume of any televisions or radios around you. Please allow for audio visual delays and a 30second lag time during the course of the meeting. Thank you. Next item, please. Item 2, Citizens Advisory Committee report and this is a