in gaza says at least 50 people were killed including women and children. the israel defense forces confirmed it targeted a hamas compound in the area. in its most recent statement, the idf said it killed two senior hamas commanders. in an earlier statement, it said: the us state department says it is aware of the reports and is gathering more information. earlier on sunday, hamas launched a missile attack on israel for the first time in months. the israeli military said at least eight rockets were launched from the rafah area towards tel aviv. all the projectiles were either intercepted by air defence systems or fell in fields. meanwhile, our partner cbs news is reporting that us diplomatic efforts to broker a deal to release hostages held in gaza by hamas and other allied groups are expected to continue soon. negotiators from qatar, egypt and the united states will be part of the talks. cia director william burns last week travelled to paris to revive talks after negotiat
Noise and heat than suction will be hoovered up from the shops, under new eu rules. Good morning. Its friday, 1st september. Im annita mcvey. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. We will have more on that gas story shortly. At first. The International Trade secretary has said the uk must not allow itself to be blackmailed by the European Union over the cost of leaving. Speaking in japan, where he and theresa may have been discussing future trading relations, liam fox said businesses have become impatient with the slow progress of the brexit negotiations. Theres a problem if that continues, in that were moving much closer to our exit date before european businesses have an idea of what that trading relationship will look like. And i think that there is an impatience from those beyond the commission, ie the stakeholders in the european economy, to try to get some progress on that. Would you characterise their position as blackmailing the uk . Well, its clear that they are. They have the issues
Of supervisors for thursday, march 17, 2016, madam clerk call the roll. Thank you supervisor avalos supervisor breed supervisor campos supervisor cowen supervisor farrell supervisor kim supervisor mar not present supervisor peskin supervisor tang supervisor wiener supervisor yee madam president we have quorum thank you ladies and gentlemen, please join us in the pledge of allegiance and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all thank you madam clerk any consumption. There are no communications to report madam president colleagues, any changes to the march 15, 2016 regularly Meeting Minutes or the 2016 Budget Finance Committee minutes seeing none, is there a motion to approve motion by supervisor farrell and supervisor avalos colleagues, can we take that same house, same call . Well take that without objection. Those Meeting Minutes pass after. Madam clerk please read our first item the special order the postpones by the hon
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With the festival and serving as commission in the Entertainment Commission im here to support the resolution declaring the first tuesday of may the Asian Pacific islander heritage month and regulation of outstanding Asian Pacific islander americans in the each of the 11 district thank you supervisor mar supervisor kim and others for support this the ab celebrations in San Francisco mr. Perez sxhooepz is a sponsor. Thank you supervisor peskin as well celebrating the violent Asian Pacific Islander Community in San Francisco and including did chinese and japanese and vietnams and cambodian and samoan and others as a community organize i know this resonates throughout our community and very much appreciate it it goes a long way especially our youth a lot of inspiration and motivation to be Telegraph Hill involved and be productive citizens of our dime city thank you. I look forward to seeing you on may 2nd. Next speaker, please. Thank you for your attention supervisor and supervisor from