President yee good afternoon and welcome to the october 20th, 2020 october 20th, 2020. Regular meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Would you please call the roll. Clerk [roll call] president yee supervisor fewer will be a few minutes late and she will joining shortly. You have a quorum. President yee pleasure righe right hand over your heart for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Give me a second. I would acknowledge the staff at sfgtv and matthew two records our meetings and make the transfers available to the public online and madam clerk, lets jump into item number one Second Special order. Is. Clerk ok, the first order of business is to welcome the mayor london breed into the proceedings to discuss the questions submitted from the supervisor representing district 6 to begin the mayor may address the b
Lukashenko china rejects a pentagon report which warns of beijings france to double its Nuclear Stockpile costs. Theres an ultimatum to each day be it be straight now to. One of the thousands who lost loved ones in cambodia skilling feels that command commander who oversaw the torture and deaths dies in hospital. Thank you very much for joining as we begin with some breaking news out of germany where it talks ecology tests on the russian dissident Alexander Alexander alexina vonnie rather has found unequivocal evidence of a chemical agent being used on him thats according to a German Government spokesman now vali fell ill on a flight from moscow last month and initially received treatment at a hospital in siberia before being flown to berlin he is now being treated at berlins Charity Hospital lets bring in alexandra so janowicz gone from who joins joins us from moscow alexandra russian doctors had said now bonnie wasnt poisoned but now german. Doctors said he was and the German Governm
We have seen some push pull here. Some of that weakness still russellg with the was 2000. 8 . 10year yields continuing to rise. Breaking out of what was earlier 82month trading range between 54 and 78 basis points. Now, incredible the break and we have seen the last two days. Further weakness in the bloomberg dollar index. We are back to weakness that we have not seen since march 11. You wonder how much of that is the feds continued stimulus into the markets. I want to talk about the data that make up this morning. U. S. Jobless data showed continuing claims failed to decline again and instead rose above the forecast of 20 million, to 21. 5 million. The market is reacting to the news as a cast doubt on the hopes of a strong economic rebound. For more, we are joined by nela richardson, edward jones senior strategist. This is one of the first times for the market that it is reacting to the poor Economic Data. Been in your opinion, has driving the weakness of today after what has been a s
The bodies of 11 ukrainian citizens killed when a passenger plane was shot down by iran a return to kiev. A welcome to the program libyas warring sides and World Leaders have agreed to help secure a fragile truce in the hope that it will develop into a full ceasefire at a summit in germany they also were committed to reinforcing a weapons a bargain. Possible from berlin. It was the most important gathering to and libyas conflict in many years but from the start german chancellor Angela Merkel was struggling to narrow differences between libyas rivals the Prime Minister of the tripoli based government of National Accord phases with used to sit down with warlords highly for half the living merkel shuttling back and forth to convince major powers to help secure a permanent cease fire and stop the flow of arms into the war torn country. Nothing. Here in berlin there. Everyone with an agreement including the regional organizations the arab league to a you and of course the African Union tha
Hello im Kemal Santamaria this is counting the cost on aljazeera the weekly look at the world of business and economics this week. The birthplace of neo liberalism but will it also be the death of that were looking at how this doctrine is ended up undermining democracy over the past 4 decades and our case study is the south american countries hit by protests for nearly a month now also this week money makes the world go around but is there such a thing as the wrong kind of investment is a Corporate Tax dodge taking hold out there and its depriving the developing world of much needed money. And well take you to thailand one of the Worlds Largest Sugar Producers and export has but much of this sweet stuff shouldnt be here right now and thats not good news for the farmers. It all began as these things do with one very specific grievance in this case chillin students protesting about a hike in train fares now its mushrooms into weeks of protests about an economy that song the slide after y