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The embassy of the Islamic Republic of afghanistan in washington. My colleague and director will be moderating the conversation but its my great pleasure and honor to ask the ambassador to provide welcoming remarks. Your excellency. Thank you. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on where you are right now in joining us for the session. It is my pleasure to welcome you to the second event of the embassy of afghanistan. We are glad to be hosting the event on lebanons agreement a...

Update on proposition h. Discussion item. The presenter is bridget hicks, senior planner, Planning Department, and bridget, i am going to be passing the controls over to you. Thank you very much. Welcome, bridget. We are absolutely thrilled to having you here. We are looking very much forward to how this will be implemented, so the floor is yours, and after that, well hear from the commissioners if there are any questions, and Public Comment, and then finally, a last round of commissioner commen...

Afternoon or good evening, depending on wherever you are sitting right now and joining us for this session. May peace be upon you. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the second event of the embassy of afghanistans listen and peace series. We are glad to be hosting this event on lebanons agreement and partnership with the Atlantic Council. A wonderful partner of the embassy in washington, i want to offer a very warm thank you to the Atlantic Council for their help in organizing this very i...

Lockdown in wales will last for three more weeks at least but children could return to schools there after the february half term. Around 300,000 people are expected to leave hong kong for britain using a new visa route which opens on sunday. Investors respond with outrage after Trading Platforms halt the buying of shares in the us games firm gamestop and other companies. It follows days of frenzied trading that led to a massive increase in its value. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the u...

Update on proposition h. Discussion item. The presenter is bridget hicks, senior planner, Planning Department, and bridget, i am going to be passing the controls over to you. Thank you very much. Welcome, bridget. We are absolutely thrilled to having you here. We are looking very much forward to how this will be implemented, so the floor is yours, and after that, well hear from the commissioners if there are any questions, and Public Comment, and then finally, a last round of commissioner commen...

Nostrils arent virgins any more. Today the world hit a major milestone as great britan became the first country to officially approve a fully tested vaccine. So big congratulations britan, it is amazing how much you can get done when you dont waste time combing your hair. And you know this is really, really great news for the world. Unless britain decides to use this opportunity to get revenge. So it turns out weve gotten the vaccine and well be handing it out to all of our colonies, oh, oh, tha...

Trevor well hello, everybody, welcome to the daily social distancing show, im trevor noah. Today is wednesday, the 27bd of december. Which means there is only 49 days left until trump is no longer president and start starts selling National Secrets on his only fan account, anyway coming up on tonights show, the queen has the vaccine y black people cant buy homes and Michael J Fox will join us on the show, lets do this, welcome to the daily social distancing show. From trevors couch in new york c...

Everyone its a question of we or me what will it be i bring gulf in berlin this is the day. To serve superimposed upon a search the 96. 00. County. Number since the onset there. Were likely to lose another 250000 people. And were not in a good place cannot be travelling through solid. Diminish to the extent possible travel christmas is going to be a long one. Also coming up a report from a remote corner of russia where distance is no defense against the coronavirus but with a look at one time th...

A special session of the Un General Assembly focused on covert 19 it coincides with the release of a u. N. Study showing that over 1000000000 people could be living in extreme poverty by 2030 due to the long term effects of the pandemic. Firefighters in australia a struggling to contain massive wildfires devastating a unesco World Heritage site Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world the fires have been burning there now for 6 weeks and have already affected almost half the island....

So for the first time in our countrys history latinos, the largest ethnic minority in electric with 32 million eligible voters and record numbers of latinos turning out to vote congressman hice numbers of latina and latinos weve seen in the previous election cycle. Both president ial donald trump and present elect joe biden benefited for the high turnout ofhe latino voters across the u. Yet the support that they received from this very diverse and complex electorate, and why, varied into parts o...