grant program. we just like idaho are going to be likely relying on a regional or local approach. the geographic expanse between locations is so vast and we have very few things that are able to cover an entire state. from the tip of southeast alaska all the way to the northern part of the state as well and on out the aleutians, it is not practical. we are looking to the regional and local approach. i look forward to answering questions and discussing other things with the panelists. thank you so very much. drew: stay on camera for a quick moment. i'm going to ask you another question too. we want to make sure we explained to the people who are not familiar with the arcadia of bureaucratic programs. could you speak to how does the digital equity related programs connect to the broadband equity access and deployment programs? that is a question for our panel later on to i thought i would ask you so you could speak to this in terms of the funds that are going to build and the funds that are going to h

on the grant agreement, which is page 37, the description of services should read the grant shall provide the following services to the total number of units listed in appendix b as part of the property management and compliance with the lease for the grant plan grantees agrees tenant conduct unreasonably interfere with peaceful enjoyment of the property of other tenants or neighbors or violate any criminal law including but not limited to drug related laws may be grounds for termination. a lot of words, but to get if to the record and again, i want to reiterate this is a clarification of a existing terminology that is within all our grant agreements, and just really spells out what the expectations are. thank you all and happy to take questions when you want. >> item 30 and 31 are two resolutions that approve two different agreements. one is a ground lease with abode property management related to 1174 folsom street. the ground lease has 5 year term and then 10 automatic 5 year extensions so long as performing on the ground lease and related grant agreement which is the subject of the ne

administer the grant. the habitat conversation fund grant program is annual program administered by california state parks department. the goal of the program is to product and enhance habitat as well as bring residents to natural areas. this grant will provide funding for the creation-actually, funding to support the creation of a resilient shoreline at indian basin shoreline park. this shoreline enhancement include expanded the wet lands and through that process it will improve the park esthetics and also serve to buffer the shoreline against storm surges. another benefit of this project is over time this resilient shoreline will migrate upland and allow as sea level rises providing protection against sea level rise at the site and reducing erosion of the shoreline. the shoreline provides new opportunities for residents and bayview hunters point community to observe migratory and local birds that come to the shoreline to forge. this project is part of the indian basin waterfront initiative which initiate

full funding grant agreement and i understand director-okay.tor alfonso rodriguez will make comments. >> [unable to hear speaker] staff willprint present to the board at the december meeting amened and restated agraument. agreement. to advance our project. management plans and how the two agencies engage in the work and establish a budget and work plan for the balance of the fiscal year. i also like to point out i'm pleased to share our engagement at the stach level with caltrain improved. we made a commitment towards partnering and seeing success that. woo eare able to make better decisions together. the project director our ability to work through difficult challenges and design situations that i are think would have been tougher before we made this commitment. the benefits of partnering are showing in our relationship with caltrain. i think that will sure up the integrated project delivery team. making decisions together. just wanted to share that with you. staff recommends approval of this item. >> this is time only extension within the exi

and general grant signed. so that's why kelly, you know, the interviews while he sketched and, kept the notes to protect his art. also, matthew brady, the famous from the civil war. brady is probably most important photographer in u.s. history, took thousands of images during the civil war, but he ran into hard times towards the end of his life, he was a broken man, penniless, lost his galleries, lost the respect of the public, and he spent his final months with kelly visiting. kelly in his studio talking about times and. kelly brady would look at kelly's portraits of grant and sherman and sheridan. and brady said to think those men once held me in great. they were my friends and now i'm nothing but a broken down old. and he never finished the sentence. brady only had weeks to live and he died in. january 1895. dan sickles well, that's someone that they didn't like very much. dan sickles if you know the story of the battle of gettysburg lost his leg and spent the rest his life disparaging general meade, the co

california energy commission grants, correct dc grants. we looking at any carb grants by chance, which would probably use a more expansive definition? yes. we are open to any types of grants, and we're cstantly applying. so we use the definitions for the project funders. in this case it was a disadvantaged community. definition that was applied by the california energy commission. but we apply for carb grants as well as are also working with entities like uc berkeley to develop mapping tools that can apply those layers of different equity definitions so that we can identify what those priority populati. so i guess for fellow commissioners, what i'd like us to consider in the future is this focus on the southeast is really important. i don't there need. but that the west side still remains unserved in many ways, as we saw in that map, is of also very big concern to me, especially because of the history of development in the city, how car driven, you know, the west side is to begin with. i justs like a very natural area to develop public cha

workforce development. 7. 8 to the existing grant agreement. the street conscience in the tenderloin have in the improved they decided to reverse the ramp down plan. and in addition to that 2.3 million dollars here for extending the program hours on segments of market street from 7 p.m. when most of the ambassadors program ends to 11. . 30 p.m. and 1. 4 million dollars forraly ways the request of sociality service agency in san francisco that is funded by the 3 want dids we detailed the changes on page 68 of our report. i do have a couple considerations for the committee to consider. one is that -- i think the grant tracks like activities of the ambassador in terms how many they are speaking to. the city collects dataeda about street conscience. 911 calls and park calls. 311 calls. street conditions and trash this public works releases a report on every year. that information i think could be better used and applied when making the decision around this service. um, i think as the department explain they'd have a more informal process for mote w

john adams granted a few pardons. i can't tell you how many off the top of my head, but there weren't many, there weren't that many prosecutions. host: sam, democratic line. caller: good morning. here's my point. i think that president biden changed his idea because he thinks that what trump is talking about with his vengeful attacks, he's going to use the department of justice to go after people repeatedly. didn't biden have a plea deal? i don't care about that, they want to keep him in the papers, the press, they want to keep continually attacking them. i understand why he would go so broad. trump is vindictive and vicious and wants to hurt people that he feels has wronged him. can you comment on that? thank you. guest: you're right, that was their concern. that's clearly why they did it. they were concerned that there were other at least potential charges out there and that trump would pursue them, so this is a way of closing the door to that. host: joe, new jersey, republican line. caller: a previous caller said t

this high grant rate was not just aligned with the patents grants of an exclusive right, but also provided level of certainty important to both patent owners and infringers. in 2006, the supreme court issued ebay versus merck exchange and dramatically altered the patent landscape. under the test imposed by ebay, injunctive relief is no longer certain. instead, some patent owners can be more certain they will not be granted an injunction and will have to settle for an ongoing royalty set by a court while the infringer is permitted to continue using the patent owner's innovative technology. studies after ebay show that permanent injunctions were granted much less frequently than before ebay, especially for patent licensing firms. there's some new research that shows that patent owners, regardless of business type, are not even asking for injunctive relief at the same rate as they did before ebay. if you take into account these patent owners who don't even seek injunctive relief, the decrease in granted injunctions where infringement is found is down 66% for operating companies and 91% for li

show them some respect and grant them the presidential medal of freedom. i will still continue to bring to the attention of the members of this house the fact that they but only have to sign on to a document that is necessary for the house to do what it can to grant them the congressional gold medal. i will continue to present it. and for those who would like to know who signed on, i've had people to ask me why don't you announce who signed on and who hasn't. i'm not doing it. but the record speaks for itself. for those who would like to know. the record speaks for itself. i'm not trying to make friends. i'm trying to make sure that people are respected who have earned the respect that they richly deserve. and i want them to know that there's at least one person who is going to fight for them. i want them to know. they're not here. how can they possibly know? well, know in the sense that i believe that if i do this, somehow, the time itself, the time itself will -- the times, excuse me, will change such that they will benefit even after they have had their

i'm happy to grant the adoption.'s nice to know she's forever mine. >> i just hope that she always feels loved and wanted, because i have always loved and wanted her. cheers. >> family means to me everything. without family, there's nothing. >> now i'm a mama. i'm glad that we finally made it to today. it's official. >> my family means to me joy. >> my family means to me everything, everything. that's what i live for, my family. >> so many with so much to be thankful for. >>> that's "nightly news." stick around for y "sunda >>> beautiful night for football.

these efforts they — granted actually works. these efforts they are _ granted actually works.orts they are calling - granted actually works. these efforts they are calling it, - granted actually works. these efforts they are calling it, to l efforts they are calling it, to touch the sun, which i thought was nice. there are some long—standing mysteries that they hope to discover as well? that's right. it's about these internal processes, because no one knows for sure how the sun works. they have been lots of missions to the sun, astronomers have studied it through ground—based telescopes, but they say touching the sun, it is 4 million miles! but that is still very, very close, closer than any spacecraft has ever been before. they aim to really find outjust how some of these processes work, and as i said in the report, we will have to wait a few days for the results to start rolling in. so a lot of excitement. a lot of excitement, and what an amazing achievement. thanks for bringing that to life for us. the political crisis in south korea has deepened after mps voted to impeach

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it is a broad grant.nly thing i can compare it to is the pardon that president ford gave president nixon, which was also a preemptive pardon. in this case, it is a po of 11 years. it is really quite unique other than the nixon pardon. >> this pardon is a departure from president biden, who has vowed not to interfere with the justice department's actions and has mostly avoided weighing in on his son's legal issues. there is this question, though, of the intervening events, the reelection of donald trump and the possibility of hunter biden being at the mercy of a trump justice department, where biden has said he explicitly uses -- where he says he explicitly uses the does -- and his nomination of someone who promised to go after the bidens if he is confirmed as fbi director. does any of that bolster the justification for this pardon? >> obviously it was very important to president biden. i am not going to comment on whether it justifies this kind of a grant or not. i am more interested in talking about the

it originates in the power of the king to grant pardons in england. that is the historical origin of it, it is modeled on that, in a sense. the founders were -- were creatures of the enlightenment, but they understood that no legislature could pass a law in the abstract that covered every single situation that might arise when you try to enforce the law, because the real world is always more complicated than we wanted to be. they understood there might well be reasons or circumstances that mitigate the guilt of someone, or that for public policy reasons, for larger political reasons, the president might want to exempt someone, even if they were strictly speaking guilty under the letter of the law. so, they vested that power in the president, in his discretion , and assumed that he, he, because he would care about his reputation, that he wouldn't abuse it. so, it is a political power of the president. the remedy, the opponents of the pardon power, they raised -- what if he grants pardons to his cronies, his family, or himself? the answer was impeachmen

you could see the men exchanged punches before the masked man sprays bear mace at grant. >>>>feeling, breathing problems to this day. >>>>grant says it temporarily blinded him and he still has injuries on his face and arm, but has no regrets. right before the attempted robbery, jim carroll was walking with his wife to the gym. he saw the man masked and dressed in dark clothing, walking towards them. he was worried they were going to get robbed, but says he just kept walking right into the cafe >>>>without even thinking. i just ran towards the restaurant. >>>>in the video, you can see carroll run through the door and immediately tries to help grant. >>>>i was on the phone with 911 and i tried to assess the situation, figure out which one was the robber. i figured out which one it was and put my arm around his neck. >>>>grant then held the suspect down for more than six minutes, waiting for police to arrive. they've identified the suspect as 42 year old amir molnar of concord. he was transported and booked in san francisco county jail for both this incident and other active

we should be saying no to grants. hundreds of billions per year going out one stop project that offense, it should be paid for exclusively by the local community should stop throwing money at the good causes. the federal government, if it needs something it can't produce itself, it should award a contract for the lowest responsible bidder and hold of that contractor responsible results not by itself is hundreds of billions of dollars in when you look at the subsidies that we spend every year to distort the natural flow of capital inflate the prices of what we are subsidizing, that's another huge one. host: how much does this compare total spending? guest: the estimates for grants exclusive of medicaid is 900 billion per year. subsidies, about the same. you are talking about an awful lot of money and a lot of it is in producing very much. host: 2023, if you take a look at that big number, is that a drop in the bucket? guest: no, you are talking to trillion in total grants and subsidies. host: first of all, tell us what

from the $3 million grant to study how hamsters fight each other, to the $3.7 million in grants given to the wuhan virology lab that likely unleashed covid upon the world, these are the very essence of government waste. government grants fall under two major varieties, gifts of public money for every cause under the sun. and grants for local projects of every variety. they are all for good causes. they go to universities, companies, n.g.o.'s, civic groups, charities, local government, state governments, and do-gooders of every kind, all promising some public benefit. unfortunately by their very nature they are plagued with lax oversight, a political favoritism, little follow-up, and questionable benefits. indeed, much of the grant money doled out each year disappears into the salary ares of various groups and agencies who then write glowing reports of their work and apply for more grants next year in an ever expanding litany of waste. there's never a shortage of highly paid grant application writers eager to make that case. personally, i like the university, says dan aykroyd's charact

as far as passing bonds or grants. i appreciate your concern in those vital areas, you know, that are coming up. and i wanted to thank you for all the work you have been doing as interim chief. you g did a great job. i will keep my report short and have been in good hands. thank you chief tong. >> thank you. reports from administration deputy chief shane can i kyle lowa the fleet and facility status and you wants finance other support services and home land security. >> hello. this on. by. yes, it is. >> good morning president morgan and violent fraser and commissioner nakajo. kaeth, chief tong of command staff i'm deputy chief of administration my report for october/november 2024. we begin with chief brown in home land security. and i will speak to what the chief tong about during the tsunami warning and the either quake that occurred in the first bullet point under home land security. and this first top bullet time the fire department operational center and i thought may be the commission would want to know wham is t

nick grant was behind the counter when the masked man walked inside and went directly for a customer's backpack. that's when grant sprung into action. >> i realized he was in a situation where he needed help. >> reporter: things escalated quickly. you could see the men exchange punches before the masked man sprays bear mace at grant. >> breathing problems to this day. >> reporter: grant said it temporarily blinded him and he still has injuries on his face and arm but has no regrets. right before the attempted robbery jim carroll was walking with his wife to the gym. he saw the man masked and dressed in dark clothing walking towards them. he was worried they were going to get robbed but says he just kept walking right into the cafe. >> without even thinking i just ran towards the restaurant. >> reporter: in the video you can see carroll run through the door and immediately tries to help grant. >> i was on the phone with 911 and i tried to assess the situation, figure out which one was the robber, figured out which one it was and put my arm around his neck. >> reporter: grant then held t

it originated in the king's power to grant pardon. the founders were -- were creatured of the enlightenment. but they understood that no legislature could pass a law in the abstract that covered every single situation that might arise when you try to enforce that law, because the real world is always more complicated than we want it to be. so we understood that it might well be reasons or circumstances that mitigated somebody's guilt. or for public policy reasons, for larger, political reasons, the president might want to exempt somebody, even if they were, strictly speaking, guilty under the letter of the law. so they vested that power in the president, in his discretion. and they assumed that he -- he -- he would care about his reputation. that he wouldn't abuse it. so it's a political power of the president. and the remedy, because the opponents of the pardon power said when if they actually raise, what if he grants pardons to his cronies or the president or to himself, and the answer was, impeachment power. it's a political power

we'd have been granted asylum. why is russia it's still protecting them as well? i think that this is the answer to the of the kremlin. we don't, uh, basically we don't leave our allies in the left that's. that's if you wish. the statement, of course that is only the, the, the awesome family i think that lots of people that were in the machine will not protected the tool, but i think that's the least important can do as a courtesy to an ally that the loss of is peace power and this is in this respects a typical button, but uh uh, this is also a very, i would say from fulton, that's a day when just proceed in the middle east was significantly shepherd and i don't think you'll be able to recoup these strategic losses any time so now this lightning surgeon campaign took the world by surprise. however, in the past 10 years we've seen president prudent standing behind us on time and time again, and actually using his air support to greatly support the president of syria. why did he not do that? this time well, i think we have a different situation on the ground. uh the

you could see the men exchange punches before the masked man sprays bear mace at grant. grant says it temporarily blinded him and he still has injuries on his face and arm, but has no regrets. right before the attempted robbery jim carroll was walking with his wife to the gym. he saw the man masked and dressed in dark clothing walking towards them. he was worried they were going to get robbed, but says he just kept walking right into the cafe. >> without even thinking i just ran towards the restaurant. >> reporter: in the video you can see carroll run through the door and immediately tries to help grant. >> i was on the phone with 911 and i tried to assess the situation, figure out which one was the robber, figured out which one it was and put my arm around his neck. >> reporter: grant then held the suspect down for more than six minutes waiting for police to arrive. they've identified the suspect as 42-year-old amir moner of concord. he was transported and booked in san francisco county jail for both this incident and other active warrants. grant and carroll are gratefu

[ laughter ] >> are you asking the court to grant their adoption?e requirements have been met, and this is a lovely family, and the adoption is granted and rendered. yay! ho, ho, ho! >> ho, ho, ho! [ laughter ] >> my family means to me everything. today our family is official. >> it's the best day of the year, because we've got all these families and all these children, and we're making the homes final and permanent, and it's just a day to celebrate. >> well, bakerson is very happy. this is a sweet family. i find all the requirements have been met and the adoption is granted. >> yay! [ applause ] ♪ ♪ >> today my family is loved. >> today my family is complete. >> laleh, would you like to be adopted today? >> well, y'all are a very sweet family, and i'm happy to grant the adoption, and we'll make it official, yay! [ applause ] >> i just hope that she always feels loved and wanted, because i've always loved and wanted her. >> cheers! >> family means to me everything. without family, there's nothing. >> now i'm mama. i'm glad that we've finally made it

dph is a resip grant of grant funds for 2024. current round of funding directored dph to submit an application for 15 million. the grants will support dph providing health services to hiv positive person in san francisco eligible metro area. ryan white programs provide a system of hiv primary medical care, support services and medications for low income people living with hiv. the grant approximatelied be march first of 25 through february 28, 2026. the grant application is retroactive first received the application that admitted the application on july 30 of 2024 a due dey date of october first, 2024 allowing 90 business days for the process. we were unable to get board approval for the application deadline. we respectfully asking retroactive approval to accept and expend the grant. >> thank you. >> i'm sorry i wanted to points out one thing the title here is not accept and expend but for the grant application >> yes. gimented confirm that as well. and with that we like to be added as a cosponsor to this item. and go ahead. >> g

>> leonard palatier i think he should grant a pardon to.ius and ethel rosenberg. we've asks for a posthumous pardon of ethel rosenberg -- >> this is the couple in the 1950s who were convicted -- >> who were executed. >> yes. >> we have documents declassified that make it clear that our government knew that she had nothing to do with spying on this country yet she was executed nonetheless. i want president biden to use these last weeks to not just do what's safe, but to do -- take on some of these more -- these bigger cases and quite frankly really need -- in the case of donziger, this is a terrible, terrible injustice and i hope that he ultimately grants the pardon. >> i believe the kids call this leaving it all on the dance floor. so we will urge the president to do that. >> i'm with you. >> thank you, democratic representative jim mcgovern of massachusetts. >>> up next, what you need to know about donald trump's strategy for ending birth right citizenship and why it is such a radical far out idea. that's up next. such a radical far out id

bashar al—assad is reported to be in russia where he has been granted asylum.ouncil to discuss what has been happening in syria. 0ur russia editor steve rosenberg is in moscow. it's difficult for russia to sugar—coat what is happening. effectively this is a blow to russia and russia are's to russia and russia's prestige when you consider the resources, the huge amount of resources that russia poured in to trying to make sure that bashar al—assad stayed in power over the last nine years, the financial resources, political resources and of course military resources. russia intervening in the syrian war in 2015 to shore up assad, sending thousands of troops and russian air power. keep in mind this intervention by russia was driven by russia's desire to project itself as a global power and to establish itself as the key power in the middle east, a power that could speak to all sides. and what have we seen in recent days? we have seen this project, syria, unravelling for the kremlin in quite dramatic circumstances. so it is a blow and that's reflected by some of the

at the white house have the implementation of grant programs and infrastructure grant programs. could highlight the big wins and talk about what to expect before the year ends. >> we been working on externally cases in the agencies and 15 or so%. and get the money out to get into the communities and then the projects running the lens. across the country and first round through rural america. the upgrades and more for electric cost. announce the funding with secretary vilsack and giving the opportunity for clean energy transition. renewable energy across the campus and i'll highlight planet reduction at pa and most of the states and large municipalities were able to take advantage before coming in. climate reduction was the broad category across the industrial is and opportunities to reduce limit lucian and mostly things they are looking to take advantage of. and they are coming out of the administration. >> does a lot of opportunity and technology. i'd be interested in your thoughts how the federal government is working to incentivize these technologies expanding the transition.

my name is grant, a bay area resident who spent a great deal of time researching the history of world war 2 internment at sharp park. a member of the informal committee developing content for the panel at sharp park and wish to encourage to accept the grant to tell the story held because of the national origin. i have a list of 400 [indiscernible] held at sharp park. a small number were women with separate quarters. the reason for thais incarceration was largely because they were community leaders. ministers, marshal artists, language instructors and photographers. it is important to note because of the 1790 nationalization act that only allowed free white persons to be nationalized. --they were classified as aliens with very few rights. there were hundreds italian and german immigrants considered [indiscernible] sharp park is one of many sites run by department of justice and u.s. arm y including fort [indiscernible] in hawaii. it is very important that the history of these sites be told, especially in the physical locations where they once stood. it is great to be able to work with

the grant modification support additional hours for staff to sforet the program, paying for increasing utility bills and distributing 1400 supplemental grocery bags to serve for remainder of fiscal 24-25. thank you for your consideration and happy to answer any questions you may have. >> commissioners, any comments or questions regarding this grant modification? >> i have two questions, what location? >> the pantry is it bookman in d11. >> okay. >> also, i was-if you can talk more how the additional needs was identified? >> yeah, so about $25 thousand is from a add-back to provide supplemental groceries in d11 and the rest is from hsa food access team savings. >> actually, my question is, how was it determined that this area would benefit from additional grocery bags? >> oh, yeah. so, i believe--so, i believe the add-back identified d11 as needing supplemental grocery bags and the additional savings is supplement that because $25 thousand isn't enough. but, originally in the rfp was it hsa that did this community needs assessment i believe and identified five service-air yeahs within s

most of them were granted refugee status. and given the rights to live and work in germany over now to some other stories making headlines around the world. germany's opposition leader has arrived in keys for talk. see those math is set to meet with you. granting president golden were zalinski. his trip comes just days after a visit by german chancellor or f, shots and weeks before possible snap elections in germany were masses. conservatives are leading in the polls. duncan, for the model, taiwan says it has put its military on high alert after detecting dozens of chinese warships and coast guard vessels and waters around the island vision also restricted nearby air space. china claims democratic taiwan as its own territory and has not ruled out the use of force to bring it under its control. australian police and arse, and attack on a synagogue and male bun is being treated as a terrorist incident. the fire on friday costs significant damage to the building. witnesses told police they had seen people inside the premises for

if you don't grant a waiver, you are telling people they have to move hundreds of miles away and do it two weeks before christmas. it's ridiculous, it's atrocious and we need a government that responds quickly to the needs of its citizens. so much of the frustration at fema and everybody else is not malice. i don't believe the officials of the biden administration are intentionally doing bad things, but it's bureaucratic red tape, it is slowness, a bureaucracy moving at the speed of a glacier when what you need is people to respond to the concerns of the people of western north carolina. >> you said something about not wanting the people here to feel forgotten. do you believe the government has forgotten the people here and do you expect to accompany -- when he's making the rounds on the nomination? >> i don't know what i'm going to be doing next week. i'm not sure where i'm going to be tomorrow much less next week. to me the question is not whether i feel the government has left the people behind, it's what do the people of western north carolina. every single person i have talked to

so is this the typical case for granting bail? maybe not. is it outside the judge's discretion in looking at those factors? probably not. >> reporter: ultimately, the judge can reverse this decision. if the plaintiffs can bring new evidence to show the suspect is a danger to the community, the judge may reconsider. >> so in a statement san jose police chief paul joseph said, "previous warnings to this defendant about the dangers of drunken driving did not prevent him from killing long pham. why should we think that these restrictions adequately protect the public from his bad judgment again? after the deadly crash in august the police found the suspect's registered blood alcohol levels well above the legal limit. >>> cyclists in san carlos gathered to remember one of their own killed in a crash last month this afternoon. the stanford data scientist was struck while biking over the holly street overpass on highway 101. cyclists say they have pleaded for street safety improvements there for years. >> this overpass is incredibly unsafe. in fact

bashar al—assad is reported to be in russia where he has been granted asylum.ing of the un security council to discuss what has been happening in syria. we can speak to our russia editor steve rosenberg in moscow. what has been the reaction in russia to what is happening in syria? russia to what is happening in s ria? �* , russia to what is happening in s ria? v ' . ., syria? it's difficult for russia to _ syria? it's difficult for russia to sugar-coatl syria? it's difficult for - russia to sugar-coat what is russia to sugar—coat what is happening. effectively this is a blow to russia and russia are's prestige when you consider the resources, the huge amount of resources that russia poured in to trying to make sure that bashar al—assad stayed in power over the last nine years, their financial resources, political resources and of course military resources. russia are intervening in the syrian war intervening in the syrian war in 2015 to shore up assad, that sending thousands of troops and russian air power. keep in mind this intervention by russia was driven by