and with us in cork city. and so i think there is major opportunities to expand our relationships with our sister city committee, with jim here, and we're working hard together. because san francisco is rich with culture and arts and institutions for performing arts, app opearts opera, jazz. we, with your jazz festival and our art gallery see an opportunity to explore further development, further growth and further relationships. i want to commend you here for your initiatives on public transport as being a leader in clean public transport. i wish you every success with your conference in september in that regard. our committee here is also working on our famine memorial. i understand that they have a location agreed with the city park and recreation and now moving to develop that. again, we at work would like to support that and be part of that to celebrate the warm home that san francisco is and has been to many irish people, but also to commemorate the tragedy of the famine. so today, we are here to strength

married about six months and he went into the mountains and six months after that dad and i went to cork city and. had two week old son. played and lived down the street here ole me and. killed. bird a bunch that he would hit really. low. where no. company wants to cold real that's georgia set off for the coal ready for the christmas they wanted him there always. suck the whole milk but done it was done it wasn't bad that it was. killed it missed. no it much. too three tell the pope that lot get one through til it. shielded. that even if you see it there i would say oh. i. feel. i. i find remnants of the mining history older memories of the casualties and the hard labor are alive in the stories told by the young and the like they're not just had the glory of collective struggle and hard work paid off. speaking to the local scene dusty barson saloons you can see that their life was and still is mine mine's harder now. relief their collective legend and whether played a part where said when private sector survived the war it disappearing before day i ask for those prices. in their spot of brand

hall on monday as well as lgbt signing with san francisco and cork city related to lgbt initiatives that i attended because i thought it would be probability and brought ms. scalin with me for that. that concludes any activity since the last meeting. >> president cleaveland: thank you. any questions for the chief? commissioner covington? >> commissioner covington: , chief, i guess it was a tupel of meetings ago we were given a chart of the numerous committees that are operating within the department on various things, is there a committee i know that you and the senior deputies meet with the union, but are there any union meetings at the lower levels? >> i think there is someone from the executive board on every committee, but particularly by the book i think there needs to be a union representation or health and safety committee, but my understanding is there is someone representing local 178 on every committee. >> commissioner covington: i wasn't aware of that, so i'm glad i did answer the question. that covers quite a few base. can you give us an update regarding the

cork. and i'm looking forward to the next sister city visit, where i will be joining the delegation to cork, ireland, so thank you again, really appreciate you being here today. [applause] colleagues, let's continue with our work here at the board. i'd like to call on supervisor kim. >> supervisor kim: i'm going to ask my honouree and i see her as the crowd exits, commissioner kathrin moore. [applause] >> supervisor kim: so this board and many members of the audience in this room known catherine incredibly well for her three terms of service on our san francisco planning commission and her general work as a neighborhood advocate and planner, but the commissioner is here today because she was honored by the fellows of american institute of certified plansers as a model planner who made significant contributions to planning and society. this is the highest honor of this profession. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> supervisor kim: she is the only san francisco commissioner, planning commissioner, past or present, to ever achieve this award in her lifetime of community service and leadership

in the scouts of the city of cork gloria woman went out in the morning and said you are not putting up be the inside my house. i told them they were coming to this trash we didn't want the water meters and that was us. within an hour or two there was a mass of supportive people here to stop them. and this was the first time that the irish people had taken a stand on any issue since austerity had begun says to troika ride to towson and not. he told. me. i think for some people it probably was the straw that broke the camel's back. you know out of a sudden move in the street together. who are. you know this is to are only a little bit of power you can't go and funk to try but you can stand to thank your folks and there's your polar and and it like it might be traders and we're still not finished but people are still resisting this because it is the one thing that they have power and they're never going to give them. and we knew that this is being something different to something it's about water forced to foremost but it's also about much more than war it's about to hurt to be trailed th

city. china tariffs on up to twenty five percent of more than twenty or twenty u.s. products including cork and wine it's in response to the u.s. raising duties on foreign steel and aluminum imports last month. but with nearly sixty refugees escaping me and more for safety and malaysia to make a stop in thailand because of bad weather around seven hundred thousand right and to have been forced from their homes since me and more launched a military crackdown on rakhine state august hackers have stolen the credit card details of war then five million department store shoppers in the united states they did it by attacking the payment systems of saks fifth avenue and lord and taylor criminal group past and threatening to sell that information. candidate carlos alvarado has been elected president following a runoff election on sunday electoral commission says he won by more than sixty with sixty percent of the vote rather is a former labor minister who campaigned in support of gay rights. so the headlines to keep it here on al-jazeera front is next thanks for your time. on counting the cost of c

killed two peace officers in jalalabad cities they guarded a voter registration center and on tuesday attackers kidnapped three employees into policeman voting center in cork province where on the whole include ports on the latest a tux. police say a suicide bomb addition a should explosives at the doorway of a voter registration seemed in kabul where afghans received identification cards for elections and not toba longer use them when i arrived at the scene we helped many wounded people to carry them to the hospital all the victims were women and children who were here to get their identity cards and registration for election. the blast happened in whist in kabul when many of the minority shia has a community live it's the latest in a series of attacks on voter registration seen tis they opened just last week part of the long process to get afghans properly registered allegations of fraud have long plagued elections in afghanistan registration process is designed to guard against that the independent election commission says it hopes as many as fifteen million people will register for the parliamentary and district council elections but the election commi