Good morning. Call the roll and read the statement. Thank you chair, good morning and thank you for joining us. This meeting is being held in hybrid and inperson, in city hall and broadcasted live on sf gov. Tv. Many will have an opportunity to make Public Comment as well as general Public Comment. Members of the public who wish to provide remote Public Comment, will be added commenters will have up to three minutes to presentation. To comment remotely, the phone number is 416550001. Thats 6266019992438 and press pound twice to enter the queue. When your name is called, raise your hand. Best practices is to turn off any tv around you. This places you on roll call, item 2 i would like to make an announcement that gina has not completed her and disqualified from participating or voting on this commission until she files but she is working on it diligently as we speak and we anticipate her participation during the may 2, meeting. Please stand with present when i call your name. Butler pre
There was testimony on the budget request and where theyre working to find more efficiencies in certain programs. This hearing is about 90 minutes. Subcommittee will come to order. Good afternoon to everybody. Thank you for being here. Really deeply appreciate our two distinguished witnesses here today to give us an inside look at the budget as it relates to africa. And where the challenges are, where funding will potentially increase. As you know, the appropriations budget that has passed the house clearly indicates that there were some differences of opinion as to how much and where we should be spending that money. And i think we have come to a consensus at least on the republican side that extraordinarily important programs like pep far, the emergency plan for aid relief, a number of refugee plans and a lot of other programs that deal with Infectious Diseases, like tuberculosis need to be funded in a very robust way in order to save lives and to mitigate dangers, especially to wome
I thought i would again by taking a couple minutes and talk about what i think are the disequilibrium that are impacting the middle east, impacting the whole world, and i want to give each of the ministers a chance to talk about are creating as did disequilibrium, but how we stabilize the region. I think we are in the middle of three Climate Changes at once. We are in the middle of the climate of the climate. Were going from what i call later to now. Americaas growing up in come in the 1960s and 1970s, later was when you could fix lay,river, clean that appear that for us, save that orangutan. You could save it now, you can save it later. Later is officially over. Later now will be too late. Climate change, we see it in the middle east with rising temperatures and rising water issues among others. We are in the middle of a change of climate of globalization. We are going from a world that was interconnected to a world that is hyper connected to a world that is now interdependent. An int
Munich security conference is underway in germany with the conflict in Eastern Ukraine being discussed. Germanys foreign minister says he favors easing sanctions on russia if it can be implemented violence in Eastern Ukraine has killed ten thousand people so thats russia annexed crimea in two thousand and fourteen. Now it is the seventh anniversary of the start of the revolution and libya protests and benghazi eventually led to the toppling of colonel Moammar Gadhafi in two thousand and eleven while many people say it has led to much change on goal and Political Division the still taking its toll on the lives of many libyans mahmud up the wall had reports from the capital tripoli. Does not enjoy his business as he once did in the old days he says when the financial situation was a staple in libya he used to have fourteen workers in his shop but not now and the coppersmith hardly gets any older has to make anything new or have the where sometimes we work here for a whole day and end up
A video released on twitter thanked his supporters but he also expressed regret for the many journalist inmates hes left behind did germany strike a secret deal to get him released. But im Christopher Spring a good to have you with us day two of the Munich Security Conference is just getting underway around five hundred senior government to military leaders from around the world meeting to deliberate on pressing security challenges d. W. News well be bringing you live coverage of the event throughout the day among the highlights today british Prime Minister to resume a jew to address the conference and set out a vision for Security Cooperation between britain and the European Union often breaks it germanys foreign minister cigar gabrial is also about. To deliver a speech so lets cross now to munich mckayla coup for our Political Correspondent standing by for us mikhail as mentioned were waiting for gabrielle to speak to address the security conference we have any idea what to expect fr