A mass rally in teh lonia in Northern Spain to protest against the jailing of separatist leaders bringing parts of the region should a standstill. Plus qatar promises to reform the labor laws for the Migrant Workers and building the venues for the 2022 world cup will it be enough to improve the dire conditions they face. Im carl kasell and welcome to the Program Reports are coming in of new findings in a border town in northeastern syria despite a ceasefire brokered by the United States other towns do appear to be calm at this moment turkey agreed to suspend its military operation for 5 days to allow Kurdish Forces to withdraw ancora has hailed the deal as a victory for turkey saying it got quote everything it wanted. Sporadic clashes and artillery strikes are hitting the Syrian Border town of. This just hours after top turkish and u. S. Officials agreed to impose a pause in the fighting in the region. Today the United States and turkey have agreed to a cease fire in syria. Turkish sid
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We are tearing about short term because were eight months through a 12month permit and that is the transfer the permit. We did also ensure they would make progress towards the equity goals that they were coming up short on when we did our mid point evaluation. Again, this will expire in less than four months. Before then, if this board a proves an ongoing permit program and staff expects to bring you something before october 15th, to improve the program birdscoot would have to apply just like anybody else for a new permit. So this current permit will end in october. We are, as we told you when we brought the mid point evaluation, using all of what were learning as an ongoing program. So just wanted to give you a little back story on that. Another one you may have heard of but just wanted to give you an update on, that theres a lot to say is being called faster bay area. Formally known as mega measure. Its an effort to advance a revenue measure on the order of 100 billion to a ballot ac
And staff expects to bring you something before october 15th, to improve the program birdscoot would have to apply just like anybody else for a new permit. So this current permit will end in october. We are, as we told you when we brought the mid point evaluation, using all of what were learning as an ongoing program. So just wanted to give you a little back story on that. Another one you may have heard of but just wanted to give you an update on, that theres a lot to say is being called faster bay area. Formally known as mega measure. Its an effort to advance a revenue measure on the order of 100 billion to a ballot across the region as early as november of 2020. It is an effort thats being led by some of the Large Employers in the region along with Large Employer organizations such as the bay area council, the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and spur. Their intent is to think boldly about future regional transfer needs with the focus on regional conductivity and modeled on or inspire