Gentleman from texas, mr. Castro. Mr. Castro madam chair, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and tend their remarks the speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Castro i yammings. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman virginia tech. Mr. Castro i rise in support of the uighur forced labor prevention act. The human rights atrocities, the Chinese Government is perpetuating are now wellknown. More than a million uighurs and muslims, ethnic north have been thrown into detention camps where they face torture, brainwashing, sexual abuse, and even forced sterilization. These atrocities are horrific, and the congress has acted to hold perpetrators of these crimes accountable by passing the uighur human rights policy act. We must not stop there. The legislation we are considering today focuses on a specific form of abuse. Forced labor, an abuse of human rights, which also has grave implications for supply chains and consumers worldwide
Good evening. Welcome to the board of appeals for september 2, 2020. Im Julie Rosenburg, the boards executive director. Well be joined from the City Department presenting for the board this evening, scott sanchez, deputy Zoning Administrator with the Planning Department, joseph duffy, acting chief building inspector with building inspection, carla short, superintendent with San Francisco public works and chris boch, with the bureau of urban forestry. The board requests you turn off or silence all phones so they will not disturb the proceedings. The appellants and permit holders are given seven minutes to present their case and three minutes for rebuttal and people affiliated must include seven or threeminute period. Members not affiliated have up to three minutes each to address the board and no rebuttal. Time may be limited to two minutes. If you have questions about a rehearing email boardofappea bof appeals. To enable public participation, sf gov is streaming live and we will receiv
Im michael okun welcome to the program at least 90 people have been arrested in hong kong in protests against the governments decision to postpone Elections Police fired pepper balls at prodemocracy campaigner protesters are angry that authorities will hold elections to the citys Legislature Next july instead of this sunday authorities have blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the delay antigovernment protesters have been held across since june last year. And correspondent phebe kong joins us now from hong kong by phone phebe hundreds of people are protesting there today against the press boning of the elections what exactly are they worried about. Yeah i have been writing that sos has all i said all afternoon in hong kong today and all this week with her protests so kind of like give me back my clothes and i want to kind of like those guys on the street so today i originally on this is just an election day one of the most important election in a city. Like this and so it acts like a st
Administrator with the Planning Department, joseph duffy, acting chief building inspector with building inspection, carla short, superintendent with San Francisco public works and chris boch, with the bureau of urban forestry. The board requests you turn off or silence all phones so they will not disturb the proceedings. The appellants and permit holders are given seven minutes to present their case and three minutes for rebuttal and people affiliated must include seven or threeminute period. Members not affiliated have up to three minutes each to address the board and no rebuttal. Time may be limited to two minutes. If you have questions about a rehearing email boardofappea bof appeals. To enable public participation, sf gov is streaming live and we will receive it live. To watch it on tv, go to cable channel 78. It will be rebroadcast on fridays at 4 00. A link to the livestream is found on the website so Public Comment can be provided in two ways. You can join the zoom meeting by co
For more. Than. One. Hello and welcome to to the point and here are our guests. Is an expert on Turkish Foreign policy and a fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy and berlin and he says in this conflict greece is using the language of International Law and European Solidarity and turkeys using language of fair sharing of Mediterranean Resources and coercive diplomacy and its also a pleasure to welcome choco this to me i he works for. And he is convinced that unlike turkeys adventurous regional ambitions in recent years its Foreign Policy regarding the Eastern Mediterranean is following its traditional line and were also very glad to have with us yes im an aggie and she is a freelance. Its journalist from hamburg who works mainly with the a r d network she says everyones hardline approach in the Eastern Mediterranean is part of his symbolic politics with which he tries to distract from domestic problems in the current conflict hes taking this strategy too far so let me start out with you c