[roll call] mr. President , you have a quorum. President walton thank you. The San Francisco board of supervisors is acknowledges that we are on the unseated land of the Ramaytush Ohlone. They have not forgotten their responsibilities of caretakers for this place. Whereas for all people who reside in their traditional territory. As guests, we recognize that we benefit from living and working on their traditional homeland. We wish to pay our respects by acknowledging the ancestors, elders of the Ramaytush Ohlone community. Colleagues place your right hand over your heart and join me in the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] on behalf of the board of supervisors i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgov tv. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President before i begin, i will ask lornea please turn off your camera feed. Board members participate in the board member through video conference. The board recognizes that Public Access to City Services is e
Through thursday night with cold temperatures once again on thursday night we should across the state start getting freezing on saturday facebook has knocked users in australia from doing or sharing news on its platform because of proposed laws to make tech giants pay media groups for content the blackout also affected some Government Agencies as pages carrying health and weather warnings went blank the governments criticized the move as heavy handed google had previously threatened to pull out of australia because of the law but has now signed deals with several Media Outlets in recent days with david vaile as a sideline or expert at the university of New South Wales he says the Australian Government will be emboldened by google split from facebook. I think the fact that theyve had some success in google announced seeing that they had signed deals for similar sort of commercial revenue sharing with the other lidias and overnight we hear news limited around the world to the moon rocks
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Sling shots at protesters and beat them with sticks absent a bank in the countrys 2nd largest city the scale of the demonstrations has grown in the 2 weeks since the military took power. The global effort to vaccinate people in less developed countries has received a huge boost the World Health Organization has approved use of the astra zeneca vaccine as part of the kovacs program the program is largely reliant on hundreds of millions of orders of the british to a job or a challenge explains more. Countries that currently have no access to vaccines whatsoever can start vaccinating their Health Workers and the most at risk groups essentially kovacs is a project that is designed to provide equitable access to vaccines for low and middle Income Countries the fear was with the whole covert 19 epidemic or pandemic is that it would be the richest countries that would buy up all the vaccines hoover them all up and they wouldnt really be enough left to go around iraq the media is reporting a s
Protests are growing despite the governments efforts to try and contain them for instance in the eastern monsters its rubber bullets were said to be fired student leaders were also arrested there have been a number of arrests made so far to date since those protests started around 350 people have been arrested in the clue include activist protestors tutored leaders and a large number of human rights people or advocates also but it doesnt seem to be deterring those 2000 years in fact weve seen some of the largest numbers or the largest turnout in young god where there are some numbers frankly there are about 100000 people whove come out on the streets there are also groups who have come out in front of the russian and chinese embassies calling for those 2 countries not to support the military regime so it seems despite the fact that the government seems to be or the military regime seems to be making more efforts to try to contain these protests with both messages televised addresses an