Chair ronen the meeting will come to order. Welcome to the december 7 meeting of the rules committee. I am hillary ronen, rules of the committee. With me are supervisors Catherine Stefani and supervisor victor mar. Mr. Clerk, do you have any announcements . Clerk yes. [inaudible] Clerk Committee members will attend the meeting Via Video Conference and participate in the meeting to the same extent as if they were physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the agenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Comments or opportunitied to speak during the Public Comment are available by phone by calling 4156550001. Again, thats 4156550001. The meeting i. D. Is 1460305414. Again, thats 1460305414. Press pound twice, and when you enter the meeting, you will be in listening mode only. When your item of interest is called, enter star, three to be entered into the queue. Alternatively, you may submit Public Comment by email to me, at
Numerous articles, thought arthur of nine previous books including the end of the american era from 2002, 2010, how they become friends and no ones worlds, the rising west in the coming global turned. The fellow at the hudson institute. The wall street journal and professor of Foreign Affairs in new york. A fellow at the council and he is also doing numerous books himself including American Foreign policy and how it changed the world from 2001. Next year i hope you will have the chance to host in a live form. The art of a covenant. The United States, israel and the fate and jewish people. The 10th book, isolationism, healing itself from the world is a subject of that discussion tonight. Please welcome me in joining them. Thank you for that introduction. It is really terrific to be here. I hate to think how long ive known him now. Quite a while. I can certainly remember back in the clinton administration, doing a pbs thing together. I think it was bosniaack then. That was like 30 years
A matter of time diplomats say before a trip becomes of involved in the war between the leadership of the ticket Peoples Liberation front and the government of ethiopia. But the leadership of the typical always maintained from the beginning of this conflict thats at a trailer, is involved in the headlines in the 1st transfer of land in the disputed region of im going to cut about is taking place part of a deal to end the fighting between armenia and azerbaijan, many People Living in calgary just set fire to their homes as they left. So now with more from the border of that district, which is being handed over. Thank you 4 hours ago. This road was packed bumper to bumper with people fleeing with their belongings with their life stuck. We saw Armenian Forces also retreating. All this military hardware coming out. And then we saw the russian peacekeepers going into the opposite direction towards killed by jar. So the mood as an been very has been quite grim among people here. Very few act
A tragedy. I mean we mourn everybody whos gone and, and our feelings are with their families as and friends as well. Were not out of the woods yet. It does still require everybody to follow the guidance elsewhere in europe. The spread is on the increase too. In italy, where hotels are now being used to cope with an over spill of patients. The number of cases has now passed 1000000. Thats despite increased lockdown restrictions, such as here in florence. Spains number of dead within 24 hours has increased to morgan 400. Its the highest since the 2nd wave began. France is now using mobile units to treat noncode patients because of demands on its hospitals. Germany as well continues to struggle to hand yet steroids 5 shots you already. Now we have to wards that up pretty much at full capacity and where we are barely able to do our jobs. Hungary is the latest country to increase its lockdown measures. Its parliament has called a 3 month state of emergency that imposes an overnight National
Very little water and all the other hardships and, and the pandemic really, i think, was a wake up call. Aljazeera is claire harriet, tell us more from tunis, a moot point if you are of the United Nations and the special envoy there. Stephanie williams there emphasizing whats been achieved from the talks. So the major headline from this week was the elections. The date has been set for that. The 24th of december 2021. No, they are obviously very optimistic about that. Stephanie williams was absolutely thrilled about that date. Her predecessor ghassan salami who resigned in march, citing stress and exasperated at the international communitys what he described as a lack of support. He has said, this is the most optimistic hes been in libya. Sources are telling us that there is an element of skepticism about whether those elections will actually take place on december 24th 2021. But thats the date thats what theyre working towards. And they have to, as im said in the week, you want to sol