principles which you can t jason , exude on a daily basis. that trip was one of the date best expenses of my life and made more special because i was able to share with you. thank you, jason, for your continued service to our city as neighborhood leader, human rights commissioner, member of the nonprofit communities, and as a wonderful and very dear friend. usually we give flowers to our honourees, but i got you a basket of italian goodies from look at delhi on chestnut street with an italian flag and rainbow flag, and they disarm hate button for your backpack to add to your backpack of buttons. happy pride, jason, i love you so much, and i would love for you to have the opportunity to say a few words. i do want to say a few things thank you so much for this recognition. it truly is a very special night i want to thank all of the people who before me stood up and fought for equal equal rights. many gave their lives to a cause that paved the road so i could stand here to
happy pride, jason, i love you so much, and i would love for you to have the opportunity to say a few words. i do want to say a few things thank you so much for this recognition. it truly is a very special night i want to thank all of the people who before me stood up and fought for equal equal rights. many gave their lives to a cause that paved the road so i could stand here today. i never imagined growing up in an italian catholic family and an environment where i did not feel comfortable being myself. one i wasn t sure of my path and that one day i would be recognized for my work, especially during pride month. san francisco is my home and will always be my home. i am excited to see where it goes. it is such an honor and a pillage to call this place our home and i look forward to the future. happy pride. [applause] okay. next up will be supervisor more mar. thank you so much for this opportunity to acknowledge begin work for pride month acknowledge meghan work.
month. i thank you for your service and your advocacy and i would like now to turn the floor over to an officer and the pride alliance. [applause] on behalf of the pride alliance, i would like to thank you for this recognition. it means the world to us. a little history on the pride alliance, it was created in 2001 when a group of courageous san francisco police officers who identified as lgbtq establish an organization because they felt the department needed to change and that the relationships between the lgbtq officers and the department needed to be flourishing and needed to change for the better. i don t think those officers would have thought we would have had a rainbow s.u.v. rolling around the streets of san francisco or that police officers from the department, lgbtq, straight, allied, members of the command staff and the chief himself will be walking around the month of june wearing pride patches, which we would like to thank the commission and the command staff f
please stand by. jason and i bonded on a recent trip to israel in march. both of us, italian-americans, and raised catholic, we had much in common and found ourselves glued at the hip, sitting by each other on the bus, eating pizza at a mall in jerusalem, sharing the best falafel ever in tel aviv, which actually was the best falafel ever, but most importantly, sharing our struggles with the crap catholic church what it meant for him to come out and what it meant for my sister to come out in our catholic families. being in the holy land together his part conversations, of course, being in the holy land together, sparked conversations, of course. it connected as to those basic principles of love, acceptance, compassion, kindness and humility. principles which you can t jason , exude on a daily basis. that trip was one of the date best expenses of my life and made more special because i was able to share with you. thank you, jason, for your continued service to our city
this is bbc news with the latest headlines. the government says it s confident it s target of 100,000 daily coronavirus tests by the end of april has been met. setting a challenging target was the right thing to do because it galvanised government and got thejob done but there s a lot more to be done. the prime minister promises to set out a plan next week for gradually easing the lockdown, rya nair announces it plans to cut 3000 jobs, as part of restructuring because of the virus. president trump says he s seen evidence coronavirus orginated in a chinese laboratory and south africa starts easing its coronavirus restrictions after five weeks of lockdown good morning to you all. welcome to bbc news. the government has said it is confident that they have hit their own target for the number of daily coronavirus tests to be carried out by yesterday s deadline as the prime minister told the nation that the uk was now past the peak of the outbreak. the target of 100,000 daily c