Where many embassies are based. It was a little after 8. 30 in the morning when the 1st rocket landed in the Afghan Capital for the next 10 minutes, it felt like kabul was under attack. Witnesses say the attack during the morning rush hour was timed to cause maximum damage. So for the record, what they got was morning and we were leaving our home when an explosion happened 2 of my sisters and my mother wounded. So we took them to hospital. I would have thought the way for book it was around 9 am. Rockets hit the bakery, wounding an employee who needed hospital treatment. Lots of shopkeepers are going to suffer financially because of this. I still has claimed responsibility for the attack. It came just hours before the u. S. Secretary of state might bump a 0. Arrived in qatar as capital doha, hes talking to both Afghan Government and taliban negotiators. Involved in peace talks, there shows richies and security that are just breath yet again. So that the sort of weaponry gets into the c
Of alleged unlawful killing of 39 people by 25 a strategy and special forces personnel predominantly from the special air service regiment, gauges in canberra with more. This already has been a 4 year investigation, but this is really the beginning because this process has been administrative only within the defense force. It is not a criminal investigation. So all of these matters are still just allegations, but this report will no doubt be shocking. And extremely confronting to many people, it details dozens of allegations against at least 9 tain, special forces soldiers, who were in afghanistan between 2005 and 26, dana and some of the stories are quite confronting, including allegations of unlawful killing of civilians thats outside of the heat of battle, and also what was known as bloody. The report contains allegations that some younger soldiers were asked by them or say new soldiers to kill unlawfully kill people in afghanistan as a 1st kill. And some of those did do that in the
Hello again im peter w. Watching al jazeera live from Global Headquarters here and also coming up thousands of homes uninhabitable dozens of schools destroyed one week on from the beirut blast cleanup efforts reveal the extent of the damage. Growing concern over russias corona virus vaccine germany says the product must be safely tested before being released for general use. And reports of a social media post considered offensive to islam sparked violent protests in southern india. Begin this bulletin of aljazeera will accuse with the latest fallout from sundays disputed president ial election in belarus state media is reporting that several protest organizers have been arrested on weapons day in minsk that brings the total number of opposition supporters detained. More than 4 thumbs the country could now face sanctions because of suspected vote rigging and violent crackdown on demonstrators e. U. Foreign ministers are expected to meet on friday to discuss what to do next correspondenc
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President yee good afternoon. Welcome to the january 21, 2020 special meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. Madame clerk, will you please call the roll. Fewer present. Haney present. Mandelman present. Mar present. Peskin present. Preston present. Ronen present. Safai present. Stefani present. Walton present. Yee present. Mr. President , you have a quorum. President yee thank you. Will you please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. President yee so, on behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, jessie and james. Who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madame clerk, any communications . None to report today, mr. President. President yee okay. So i want to thank all the Board Members for being here today. This is a special m