that were signed, this is the first trip by the way of ibrahim rc to tajkistan, some of the mous thatrts, basically um the signing cooperation of these documents in various fields is what we're witnessing now, there are also either has been held or will be hold holding the joint trade and economic conference, and that's deem to be very... important and of course um on the agenda of the trip is uh for closer ties between the two countries overall um these are some of the steps that are in line with this 13th administration in terms of uh guess forging closer ties with uh regional countries and has done great job of going ahead and uh adding this to his resume. okay, it appears that that is uh, for now the end of our life coverage for that, and again, this is important, there are several countries that uh um the min president has gone after, but we will give you some more of the uh highlights of this very important visit by brah rice and high ranking delegation, hopefully in our international news coming up past the hour, for now it's goodbye. and in the living rooms across the arab wor

is contained in the mou. article two describes the types of fiscal support that the friends of provides to the san francisco public library, specifically, there is an annual support that provides funding for programing and that is typically assumed and provided as part of our annual accept and expend resolution with the budget process. the other type of fiscal support that the friends typically provides the library is for capital and special projects, and usually for capital. that includes furniture, fixtures and equipment under article three, you'll see the description of our roles and responsibilities with respect to the annual fund and the capital sources, as this describes how we request funding support from the friends and the disbursement process. it also talks about the reconciliation of expenditures for the for the library over the time applicable time period as i've already mentioned, we do do an annual accept and expend as part of the budget process for the annual support funds with respect to any c

have not seen any mou's? >> well, provided they're approved by aid and justified as necessary. so, i don't know if my staff has seen any of those mou's. let me just check. we have, my staff have seen it and we have examples of the mou's. >> i'd like to see some of that. >> we can arrange that, yes. >> does usaid criteria have requirements that mou's do not include prohibitions on women working with ngo's? >> any staff member that has seen the mou, can you talk about that? >> i know aid is pushing against it. i don't know, we'll have to double-check the mou's if they have anything about women. >> is usaid or u.n. able to enforce protections for women ngo workers that are implementing u.s. assistance? >> i don't believe they can. from our discussion with u.n. officials, i mean, i know they initially shut down all of their cooperation with the taliban over that issue, but i believe they have eventually decided, and i will stand corrected my staff tells me otherwise, that it was worth more to get the aid out. so,

is contained in the mou. article two describes the types of fiscal support that the friends of provides to the san francisco public library, specifically, there is an annual support that provides funding for programing and that is typically assumed and provided as part of our annual accept and expend resolution with the budget process. the other type of fiscal support that the friends typically provides the library is for capital and special projects, and usually for capital. that includes furniture, fixtures and equipment under article three, you'll see the description of our roles and responsibilities with respect to the annual fund and the capital sources, as this describes how we request funding support from the friends and the disbursement process. it also talks about the reconciliation of expenditures for the for the library over the time applicable time period as i've already mentioned, we do do an annual accept and expend as part of the budget process for the annual support funds with respect to any c

mou with the carpenters union. yes. so there are two mou, correct. two separate. whatever other revisions we make, we make, we need to change settlement agreement to mou. yeah. so this would be finding five for those commissioners are looking on page three of the motion. so um and i would just advise to spell out mou as memorandum of understanding and not have the acronym there just for clarity. okay. is there a motion to approve with the amendment as suggested? commissioner muriel move to approve with conditions and the correct motion of the i think of the item number, condition of the condition approval as spoken earlier. great i'll second that motion and just for clarification, there is a motion that has been seconded to approve with conditions, with the amendments to the findings to include add a reference to the memorandum of understanding with usm as a finding and then correcting finding item number five public outreach and comments. striking settlement agreement and replacing with mou or memorandum of understanding on that motion. commissioner braun i. comm

and they're very simple mou. so basically these these departments that have offered to help us, we had to lay out what the parameters were, where the whether or not there would be reimbursement on those type of things. so it's a very fluid situation in. but other than the operational components of them coming in to help, i don't believe those rise to that level . so then they don't cover operational issues. it's mostly about reimbursement. they cover what these departments will be. some of them cover what these departments for instance, the motorcycle officers, they're going to participate in dignitary, dignitary, dignitary, escorts, and they we are not reimbursing them for their services. they're doing that out of the goodness of their heart. so mainly those that's the purpose of the mou. but again, these are very fluid documents in terms of some of these organizations just recently committed this week in terms of these mou. so we needed to get the work done and get the commitments and so we can set our deployme

the i--the mou which is under discussion is specifically for construction. so the integrated design team from our own project management staff from cal trains, we've been working very closely together for many months to advance design for what we have termed the fourth and king yard operation of portal program. the integrated design team cults, we immediate by lateral multiple times a week. we've done sidewalks and et cetera, and the cal train resources and operations utilities and other disciplines have been made available. as alfonso and director bouchard have mentioned, this coordination is going well. we made progress in reaching an undering with the author and budget for the 4ky work. combining in two packages and deliver and responsible agency. this work has been very complex and is required a lot of time from both our staff as well as cal train staff and their oversight consultants. because of that significant effort, the existing 595,000 budget under the moa is expected to be expended in the fall of this yes, sir. they recommend increasing by 430 to

to provide its grounds and in fact facilitate the implementation of this mou in various economic andtural fields, which actually covers a wide range of issues, for the two countries , the associations of friendship between iran and china. in fact, they have experts and people in them who with their opinions and expert opinions can be very helpful and facilitating for the two countries to implement all the agreements that exist . the 25-year memorandum agreement between iran and china has different headings that now you also mention it you said that some of the headlines are cultural, some are tourism, some are economic, so it is not specifically clear that today in the meeting that is going to be held , your guests are also going to enter the country. today's programs, yes, in fact, china 's initiative in the field of the belt and road initiative is not very important, and iran is supposed to be a part of this, in fact, the economic corridor is one of the issues, in fact, the tourism industry and the cooperation between the two the country in the field of tourism that can be part of

police officers association overwhelmingly ratified the mou with the city and mou that secured another $167 million for police over the next three years. the mou process did not result in a proposal or include proposal for hiring bonus after extensive negotiation with department of human resources. they negotiated many things, including bonuses, they didn't include the hiring bonuses that now appear. the poa and dhr did not propose the hiring bonuses to the board during a process that took place less then a year ago when the board was asked to approve and did approve $167 million of increases as part of a unprecedented package of raises and bonuses so don't where the sudden call for $75 thousand hiring bonuses on top of all the bonuses that have already been promised sfpd is coming from. i'm not convinced throwing this money at recruitment bonus and new hires in the manner that would be required by this charter amendment will have its intended effect and once triggered this set aside will certainly take money from other crucial city needs and divert them to the san francisco police dep

police officers association overwhelmingly ratified the mou with the city and mou that secured another $167 million for police over the next three years. the mou process did not result in a proposal or include proposal for hiring bonus after extensive negotiation with department of human resources. they negotiated many things, including bonuses, they didn't include the hiring bonuses that now appear. the poa and dhr did not propose the hiring bonuses to the board during a process that took place less then a year ago when the board was asked to approve and did approve $167 million of increases as part of a unprecedented package of raises and bonuses so don't where the sudden call for $75 thousand hiring bonuses on top of all the bonuses that have already been promised sfpd is coming from. i'm not convinced throwing this money at recruitment bonus and new hires in the manner that would be required by this charter amendment will have its intended effect and once triggered this set aside will certainly take money from other crucial city needs and divert them to the san francisco police dep

back in uh 2022, there was an mou that was signed, israel would export gas to egypt and to the eu. okay, uh, now that makes it interesting in terms of the eu part of it. why? because we all know what is happening when it comes to the extreme gas shortage that the eu has, so we do fact check, you have energy that comes from israel that's going to egypt and then the eu. keep in mind now, this is energy that is stolen from palestinians with the help of the u.s. and the uk, because that's palestinian land of which those gas fields that i showed you exist out there, and these land, this is the land that belongs to palestinians, okay, so those are the type of things that needs to be taken into consideration when it comes to this whole thing uh regarding uh energy and gas, which palestine needs to get is share. all right, let's... bring back our guests and see what they think about uh this and more uh we have uh chris gunnis rejoining us, he's the former chief spokesperson for anrwa. chris gonis, welcome back economic divide. i'd like to actually go into the area of uh arab countries in t

a little background, this is the first consultant we are looking to hire as part of the new mou with the puc. we developed a 2 phase scope of work and really appreciate the input we got from the puc, mike has been very helpful and providing technical input from their team. also, department of environment has been very helpful. i like to thank berry hooper a expert in the field who is really provided a lot of insight and then also got input from the department of building indeckz inspection and fire department. we developed a two phase approach. the first phase is focusing on r3 occupancy buildings, single family homes and duplexes and then the second phase will look at additional building types and other policy considerations around battery storage. the intent is to try to get the first phase done quickly and the single family homes and duplexes is the most straight forward residential case for adding battery storage in the home and when you look at at larger multifamily buildings things are more complicated so why we plan to tackle that in phase 2. to expedite getting the study star

a little background, this is the first consultant we are looking to hire as part of the new mou with the puc. we developed a 2 phase scope of work and really appreciate the input we got from the puc, mike has been very helpful and providing technical input from their team. also, department of environment has been very helpful. i like to thank berry hooper a expert in the field who is really provided a lot of insight and then also got input from the department of building indeckz inspection and fire department. we developed a two phase approach. the first phase is focusing on r3 occupancy buildings, single family homes and duplexes and then the second phase will look at additional building types and other policy considerations around battery storage. the intent is to try to get the first phase done quickly and the single family homes and duplexes is the most straight forward residential case for adding battery storage in the home and when you look at at larger multifamily buildings things are more complicated so why we plan to tackle that in phase 2. to expedite getting the study star

and they're very simple mou. so basically these these departments that have offered to help us, we had to lay out what the parameters were, where the whether or not there would be reimbursement on those type of things. so it's a very fluid situation in. but other than the operational components of them coming in to help, i don't believe those rise to that level . so then they don't cover operational issues. it's mostly about reimbursement. they cover what these departments will be. some of them cover what these departments for instance, the motorcycle officers, they're going to participate in dignitary, dignitary, dignitary, escorts, and they we are not reimbursing them for their services. they're doing that out of the goodness of their heart. so mainly those that's the purpose of the mou. but again, these are very fluid documents in terms of some of these organizations just recently committed this week in terms of these mou. so we needed to get the work done and get the commitments and so we can set our deployme

the i--the mou which is under discussion is specifically for construction. so the integrated design team from our own project management staff from cal trains, we've been working very closely together for many months to advance design for what we have termed the fourth and king yard operation of portal program. the integrated design team cults, we immediate by lateral multiple times a week. we've done sidewalks and et cetera, and the cal train resources and operations utilities and other disciplines have been made available. as alfonso and director bouchard have mentioned, this coordination is going well. we made progress in reaching an undering with the author and budget for the 4ky work. combining in two packages and deliver and responsible agency. this work has been very complex and is required a lot of time from both our staff as well as cal train staff and their oversight consultants. because of that significant effort, the existing 595,000 budget under the moa is expected to be expended in the fall of this yes, sir. they recommend increasing by 430 to

was there any mou put in place for this event? there were some mous for the local agencies . for instance, the whatever departments are going to have motorcycle officers just delineating responsibility. if so, there was some. as far as mous with the us secret service and the like. no, but with the local agencies, yes. and i don't remember exactly how many. i think there's about four local agencies, maybe a few more that are helping out. and i should probably know the answer to this, but i don't. but for the local agencies from other jurisdictions, what is the process like? kind of what is the legal authority for them to come into, say, san francisco, go and assist? is it the state law? allow that? do we do you have to sign off on them coming in? how does that piece work? well, there peace officers in the state of california. so they they can they can exercise their duties as peace officers anywhere in the state. of course, the chp has statewide jurisdiction. we're not doing this, but they are instances with these this level of events where there is there are out of state offi

was there any mou put in place for this event? there were some mous for the local agencies . for instance, the whatever departments are going to have motorcycle officers just delineating responsibility. if so, there was some. as far as mous with the us secret service and the like. no, but with the local agencies, yes. and i don't remember exactly how many. i think there's about four local agencies, maybe a few more that are helping out. and i should probably know the answer to this, but i don't. but for the local agencies from other jurisdictions, what is the process like? kind of what is the legal authority for them to come into, say, san francisco, go and assist? is it the state law? allow that? do we do you have to sign off on them coming in? how does that piece work? well, there peace officers in the state of california. so they they can they can exercise their duties as peace officers anywhere in the state. of course, the chp has statewide jurisdiction. we're not doing this, but they are instances with these this level of events where there is there are out of state offi

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also dialogue, that's the way we think it should be, so given the content of the negotiations and the mou signed, we can sum up that the result of this uh visit. iran would further help the growth of relations and would benefit both brotherly and friendly nations of iran and tajikistan, so i would like to ask my indiered guest ibrahim raisy to take the floor. go ahead, president. thank you. in the name of god, praise be to almighty god and these diplomatic shuttles and visit between the two friendly countries could contribute to the bridening of relations, bilateral relations. uh, we had some negotiations with his excellency, and also ranking officials of tajikistan, we made certain decisions in order to uh further expand our relations, and today, after lots of months, we see that relations on the political, economic and commercial, as well as cultural fronts have been developed and cemented. in the negotiations that i have had with mr. president, we came to the conclusion that there is no impediment for the further broadening of our two countries relations, we are the two countries that

officials from the two countries have signed number of mous to further boost bilateral ties across variousn its alli israel the green light. commit more crimes. he urged the un to send delegations to visit hospitals in the besieg strip to prove his lying that they are used to by resistance fighters. stressing that the aggression on gaza must stop immediately. hamdan blamed netanyahu for hindering the release of captives held by resistance factions. he said netanyahu will be eventually forced to pay the price of their release. hamdan announced that the resistance is inflicting heavy casualties on invading israeli forces around the clock. he stress that the casualties are much higher than figures announced by the regime. a senior israeli military officer was killed in gaza earlier in the day. press tv has conducted. with number of people on the war ravaged gaza strip, they argue that the international silence and normalization of ties between some arab countries and israel have emboldened the occupying regime which continues to conduct daly strikes on the beseest strip. in my assessment, the

mous, contracts, various consultations were held during this trip in the political, economic and other fields and areas , and also one of the important news was the targeting of 500 million dollars in the matter of trade between the two countries in a short period of time. defined in tonight's news talk, we want to talk about the capacities and potentials of the two countries in different fields and what causes the development of relations in the issues the talks and consultations that have been done are going to take place. two guests will accompany us in the studio tonight, mr. dr. shaeib bahman, an analyst of eurasian issues, along with mr. dr. ahmad kazemi, one of the other experts in this field. greetings to you, mr. bahman. you are very welcome in the name of allah, the most merciful, i am at the service of sarkari and all the dear viewers of this program. president's trip to how do you see tajikistan in different dimensions ? actually, as you mentioned , it was the second trip of mr. raisi to tajikistan, and it was important because of this, on this page. in fact, the documents

, economic managers, etc. uh, the iranian and tajic officials are also expected to ink a number of mous. in the second leg of the tour of the iranian president, president rice will be visiting uzbekistan, also at the official invitation of his usbech counterpart, and will also be taking part in the 16th summit of the economic coop organization eco which will be taking place in the usbek capital tashkent. so we are going to keep a close eye on all the latest developments with regards to the iranian president's trip to tajikistan and uzbekistan right here on press tv. thanks for watching. we're now going to return to the normal course of programming see you in a bit. resentment and hatred from palestinians. never been okay to normalize um with the israeli regime, it's never, it's always been about anniolation, it's always been about domination, it's always been about eradicating and eraising and ethnically cleansing the palestinians, it's never been right to normalize, and those nations that have normalized, some are pulling back, some are getting rid of their uh, i know south africa has

the mou concluded no, and i hope that it will be released as soon as possible. people in the work of the minister of oil are looking for an increase in the ceiling of the gasoline standard. our products are standard, but we have the standard ceiling. we will increase the launch of 20 television channels in the parliamentary elections , the capacity is very good so that the respected candidates of the parliamentary elections can introduce themselves and their programs . we will the minister of culture and islamic guidance had some good news for books. we made all the employees of this collection of sellers members of the art fund as servants of culture. youssef salami, radio journalist, hayat dolat. in the national celebration of book day, book and in this ceremony, the librarian presented plaques to 14 people who were active in the field of books and reading books in the age groups of the parliament, pointing to the pursuit of the issue of the constitution of the country's public libraries in the parliament, and emphasized that the public libraries of the countr

his tajik counterpart and ranking officials. officials from the two countries have signed number of moussiles in the southern gaza strep. resistance of fighters have destroyed 15 israeli tanks since they launch the operation alasa flood on october the 7th. the sam brigades has also dealt a heavy blow to the regim's military by targeting tanks, bulldozers and armored vehicles in northern gaza. since the onset of israel's ground invasion of gaza, around 100 israeli armored vehicles have partially or completely been destroyed. the palestinian fighters also carried out missile strike. against several israeli cities, including telaviv and starat. israel has confirmed the killing of 349 of its soldiers and palestinians countteroffensives. press tv has conducted interviews with number of people on the war ravage gaza strip. they argue that the international silence and the normalization of ties between some arab countries and israel have emboldened to the occupiing regime which continues to conduct deadly strikes on the besieg strip. in my assessment, the american support for the israeli regime

officials from the two countries have signed number of mous to further boost bilateral ties across. tosfully hit three invading tanks with aline missiles in the southern gaza strep. resistance fighters have destroyed 15 israeli tanks since they launched operation. the flood on october the 7th. the gassan brigades has also dealt a heavy blow to the regime's military by targeting tanks, bulldozers and armored vehicles in northern gaza. since the onset of israel's ground invasion of gaza, around 100 israelly armored vehicles have partially or completely been destroyed. the palestinian fighters also carried out missile strikes against several israeli cities, including tel aviv and starat. israel has confirmed the killing of 349 of its soldiers. in palestinian's counter offenses. gemmens resistance movement has released a video showing the launch of drone strikes against israel. hemeny group. has already announced its support for palestinians and says that it is determined to force israel to stop the war on gaza. the time and the location of the drone strikes are not clear. ansara cooperati