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The demonstration in ukrai ukraine, over closer ties with russia. People around south africa took part in a national day of prayer to remember nelson mandela. Memorial service set to take place on tuesday. The mid atlantic and the northeast are getting hit by a bout of winter weather. Drivers are facing treacherous conditions as a result of snow ice and rain. Those are the headlines. Talk to al jazeera is up next. Sanctions. Tehran says its ultimate goal is a permanent solution that could progra...

Todds elections in venzuela is a test for the president. It will reveal the popularity of nicholas maduro, dogged by a Major Economic crisis. It is a national day of prayer in south africa for nelson mandela. Services of all faith did honored the former president. Meanwhile, mourners lay flowers and lit candles in johan he isburg. I am jonathan betts. You talk to al jazeera is next. For updates anytime of the day, go to aljazeera. Com. This is the imagine at the 70 of irans historic agreement on...

Underwater. We talk to one of the astronauts 20 meters below the surface of the ocean. Hello. The u. S. Secretary of state has said he is comfortable the u. S. Will form a broodbased coalition to tackle the Islamic State group. John kerry has been meeting with the turkish president in a bid to boost support for those plans. He already signed up arab countries on thursday, but turkey remains reluctant. On thursday john kerry secured support from ten arab countries. And several European Countries ...

By net now whos threats to tate i think there is something to that. [laughter] you talked about that. We are all engaged and one might decipher what might be the particular motives but its fair to say that Prime Minister netanyahu expected the agreement and i think he was surprised that it did. A lot of people in this country are surprised in one has to take note of the fact that this was an agreement not just between the United States and iran all those will although those were the principle pa...

There is no reason the federal government should only and and have a department of the interior to cover that is a waste of time. I would also eliminate much of the military budget if it were my choice. If we cut military spending in half we would still we the Largest Military budget in the world by far. If we cut in half again and we would still have the largest budget in the world if we cut in half a third time and reduce it down 1 8 of what were spending we would still have the Largest Milita...

Into the conference center. Lunch will be served. The rest rooms are to your right. People look out for the yellow wall. All that is left for me is to thank our panelists. Please, join me in thanking them. [applause] on tuesday, the first debate was held for louisianas u. S. Senate seat. Louisiana has an open primary system in which all candidates in office run against each other with the majority votegetter getting the election. However, run off election will occur between the top two candidate...

Typically budget 10 for cm services so i think this is really reasonable and i want to thank 4 leaf on behalf of the department for their good work on this project. With that, i conclude my presentation and id be happy to answer any questions you may have for the renovation project overall. Commissioner harrison . Yeah, since we have you here, someone brought up the point of further need of dredging, further dredging you have . Yes, the overall construction project is a multiyear project. It inc...

Its a great program, i like what you do for the kids out there and i was going to make the motion to approve. So, its been moved. Second. Seconded, all those in favor. Aye. Thank you. We are now on item 8, the San Francisco marina west harbor. Good morning, commissioners, im mary hobson, project manager of the recreation and Parks Department capital, i in the p. M. Are in charge of seeing the ren vaetion of the marina west harbor, this is a request to approve an increase in Contract Value for ou...

Additional accumulation which we would have removed as part of this annual dredge cycle, however, we ran out of time. The dredging window for dredging closes on november 30th and they dredged up until the end, they had very complicated dredging sequence and their dredging contracts were not approved until the end of august so theyre out there and removing sand right up until the end. When we realized we had this extra, about 2400 cubic yards yards of stand that needed to be removed, we applied f...

Extra, about 2400 cubic yards yards of stand that needed to be removed, we applied for a permit and we were denied, theres herring, spawning in the area and dredging is very detrimental to their spawning and habitat during this time of the year, so theres a section of sand there thats left, but we have to come back next year anyway and were already taking steps to try to get an early dredge approval and get our contract in place so they can come in as early as april, take out that sand as well a...