traces of nerve agents have been found at the site to the alleged attack in a row in the syrian city of duma. i know that i. am a. trans demolition of a bedouin village in the west bank has been suspended by news radio called after scuffles between protesters and police when bulldozers moved in on. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me making erin. well let's stop and. just talk football first with the world cup in russia now very much at the business end of things there are only two more teams left to we know that last for the first match of saturday has england's pitted against sweden in some bar a party as you know neal is on top of the buildup to the big game and joins me live with the latest you know and so good to see you we haven't seen many england fans at the tournament so far is there enough i don't want on the streets of some are this time. yeah and the thing is it's been over two decades since either england or sweden got to breathe and not burn a fine idea of lust for football so today's quarterfinal has added importance by just talking up the phones you know a lot of the funds tha

i am here to push the funding of the middle school q. groups with a hundred 75,000. as my experience as a former student there are still many challenges that trans youth face in a school setting such as homophobia, trans phobia, being marginalized by peers and school staff. with groups filling our youth. i am here to ask you all, q. groups are here for the youth and we will continue to be here. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello. we would also like to advocate for the funding of the middle school q. groups. we strongly believe that they are not only -- simply a healthy alternative for children other than going home and having to feel like they are alone. we hope that your choices wise and compassionate. thank you. >> good morning supervisors. i am a fellow at lyric. i work in district eight and i was born and raised in district nine. i'm here to advocate for a q. groups. i am an attended a.p. middle school and i know that having a q. group changed my life pick likely my peers were supportive. i know of other people that dealt with bullying and on a daily basis, violence. it is important to have two groups because bullying, harassment a

. >> dear board of supervisors, i am rishe, and i work with the t.g. justice project. a lot of our trans brothers and sisters face high rates of unemployment, poverty, and homelessness due to discrimination. it is really important that we open doors and have equal access to employment, housing, mental health services, access to name changes and overall full support for our trans communities and continued budget will allow us to do that. i'm asking support for your community and budget justice coalition. >> supervisor cohen: okay. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. my name is kyle neal, and i'm here on behalf of t.g.i. justice coalition. >> supervisor cohen: i'm sorry, what is that. >> transgender, gender variant, and intersex justice project, and historically, the city ad back process has been a space for some of our most marginally community members, such as transgender youth, homeless, children and joan no, sirs to advocate for the much needed and life saving resources to support each other. this year, the $20 million ad back is being allocated over a two year period and will not

i think that i just want to speak to the city's dedication to youth homelessness and how that has to connect to supporting queer and trans young people at a younger age. so i am here to support and ask for you all to add funding for the middle school cute groups with lyric. there is way too much evidence that says we cannot be supporting queer and young trans people at the middle school age. evidence shows from their work already that young people have improved in their ability to feel proud of who they are ,-guessed which can prevent high levels are of suicide, of violence, and -- >> supervisor cohen: thank you. thank you. next speaker. >> good morning, supervisors. i've spoken to you last friday and wanted to speak up as a nonprofit here to make sure that we complete our budget ask you to keep up with the caseload increase to avoid keeping people in jail. at this point, the budget has given us an increase of $1.2 million to keep up with the caseload. as you know, we need another $515,000, otherwise we will see at least never 300 days in jail for people that we cannot reach. the other i would like to make sure that we look at is to make sure the budget analy

national service almost a free indefinitely it is completely disproportionate and this hasn't been addressed neither by the. president. nor by their tran president so i'm not i am obviously happy about this peace deal because it's such a big change. in politics nothing has happened for the past seventeen years but i'm optimistic because no one to even address these very very crucial issues if you could say something to both leaders at the moment and if they were sort of watching right now what was it your priority should be now for them as they establish this friendship and really an end to hostilities for a long time i would first of all turn to my own president or to the leader of the of my country and urge him to implement the constitution first of all implement the rule of law release of prisoners give them a fair trial and the release of of our people they desire to live a free and dignified life in our country and they cannot continue to use the war as a justification or any kind of justification for that anymore let's hope for their superior thanks very much for joining us. five people including four attackers have been killed in separate car bombings ne

it is because a black trans women that we are able to celebrate pride, and i am so grateful to be soaking in this moment. thank you so much. [cheers and applause] >> aria, the supervisor has a certificate to give you as well. >> mayor farrell: i also have a certificate from the board of supervisors. thank you it so much for your years of work. thank you. [applause] >> we also want to thank tom horn for making this event possible. thank you tom. [applause] we would not be able to celebrate this annual event without your support. next, it is my honour to welcome the leader behind pride and helps make pride happen every year. please join me in welcoming the executive director, jordan -- george ridley to help me kick off pride. [applause] >> thank you. thank you mayor farrell and thank you supervisors. i've asked the board president to join me up here today. [applause] honestly, i couldn't do my job without the support of someone like michelle. this is her third year as our president. it's my fifth year at pride. it is quite a privilege to do this. we are quite the team. again, i need her by

a negotiation going on it. >> what you think trump treats allies in the way he does? speaking out against germany. of domestic,atters trans channel politics. >> i amure. helpful.hink it is a lot of things he is trying to do in the world, take a tougher position on trade practices, is something a lot of us think needs to be addressed. the way he goes about it, alienating his friends and on goods,riffs undermines the collaboration between allies. >> it might work for him in some areas? >> what is the evidence it has worked so far? >> he will say, look at what nato has done. they are spending more. they made ade -- commitment to increase defense spending. he has a point on burden sharing. he has not succeeded in further increasing that. it was not as bad as many of us have feared. >> when you mentioned china, i know you have a lot of experience with negotiations, what would be the outcome that would allow from here both the u.s. and china to save face? >> they have to get together and , get into a negotiation about issues. china is reciprocating the measures president trump is imposing. it is not escalating. the chinese do not want to go to a trade w

i am an apprentice. a lot of people ask about glaser apprentices. i have put my fingerprints on a lot of projects in the city including the hospital and also the trans bay terminal project and as a three year apprentice, i fully support this legislation. i believe it is for the greater good. as locally elected legislatures, it is your duty to strive for the same. this legislation shows just that. a higher standard of living. a higher standard of middle class working families, l jobsite security. and safety. this legislation sets the bar for wage expectations and benefits that will support tens of thousands of blue-collar workers like myself and my brothers and sisters in this room. i ask that you please advance this policy to the full board. as sponsors of this policy i expect nothing less. >> thank you. plus plus. >> good afternoon. my name is charles. i'm a san francisco resident. i'm an electrical apprentice with the union. i support the citywide p.l.a. policy very much. without the union wages and benefits that i am provided, i wouldn't be able to take care of myself and my family. very well and i think this policy will go a long way to show the

i have a question that i am hoping someone can answer. with this new center lane on b bayonette where do the golden gate trans buses go and where to the express buses go? they can't go around each other. in thinking about this for the gerry bus line the same thing will happen. we get a lot of golden gate transit buses that turn at gerry and parkcideo and they ex down the street. i'm just wondering are those buses going to be in the bus-only lane and then how is that going to speed up their trip downtown and if that's been considered in everything? do you know the answer? >> is that the end of your question. i want to make sure. >> that's the end of my question. >> normally we don't like to have a back and fourth. >> there's someone here that can talk to you. the short answer is the golden gate transit buses will be able toous our bus lanes and are eager. >> so they're going to be stuck behind the buses. >> you are done with your question. that was my question will they be stuck behind the buses and he answered yes. >> we want to get the information from the member of staff. do i have anymore public comments? >> you are welcome. >> seeing none

i know we are facing sexually tran mied diseases, including gonorrhea and syphilis. to prevent a pandemic, usage of prep along with condoms for casual sexual encounters, i am happy to meet with you before or after the meeting. >> clerk: thank you for your comments. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. thank you for allowing me to come before you. my name is cynthia montez. i live at 201 harrison street. there is a project that is underway that we have filed an appeal for in which the board of supervisors will be hearing in the next couple of weeks. i want to make it clear that i'm not here against the project being built, i'm against what the design is right now, as well as the environmental impact that it's going to have on the residents at 201 harrison street. this project was brought before you -- this committee in 2009 and was sent back to the planning department -- san francisco planning department by you all. we do not believe that the san francisco planning department has met the obligations that was requested by you. [please stand by] >> it consists of an environmental consulting of a report by a man and trinity consulting environmental reports. my name is d

i am firmly of the opinion that you don't compare yourself to worse. even in the last couple of years, i have seen a huge difference. most of the stuff that i grew up thinking about transt few years, we have seen trans people getting their voices heard and saying, we are not that stereotype, we are diverse and we arejust going stereotype, we are diverse and we are just going about our business and not hurting anybody. i hope more people can look at that and realised that this is just about accepting that this is just about accepting that it that this is just about accepting thatitis that this is just about accepting that it is normal for people to be different. people come in all different. people come in all different shapes and sizes and everybody should feel safe and loved and able to live their lives to theirfull and able to live their lives to their full potential without being stigmatised and bullied. thank you very much. this year marks the hundredth anniversary of the royal air force, and events are happening around the country to mark the occasion. today there was a rehearsal with some of the aircraft that will take part in a major flypast over london next wee

trans people suffer from this daily. so something needs to change. 0k, good morning. i'm anna robinson. i am as there's a serious side to this weekend. inside the main building a group of parents are hearing from one of the first trans police officers in the uk. so i want tojust start by a quick show of hands about how many people have been subjected to a hate crime. how many people know someone affected by a hate crime? 0k. ok, so obviously a hate crime has had an impact on the room, and upon everyone here. and is hate crime towards trans children and adults on the rise? absolutely. we have seen it in an epidemic almost of hate crime being recorded. i think more and more people are reporting more and more people having the courage to report it. you know this is their daily life and they've been targeted just for living their daily life. more than half of young trans people say they've been the victim of a hate crime in the last year. according to research from the charity stonewall. 13—year—old cass was sent messages on his phone anonymously. and you have received some abuse from one person t

trans bay tube is a good example. millions of extra dollars is being spent on making that building. [applause] >> good afternoon supervisors. my name is rodney. i am a lifelong resident of the city and county of san francisco and a small business owner in the bayview hunter's point community. this workforce is for me too. it is for all of us. there are a few things i would like to state that i hurried and i hope you heard. we want a 100% l.b.e. exemption from the ordinance. number 2, we want a p.l.a. that is equity for kit -- focused, equity driven. that is the only way we will get ahead. and last week which lastly we want the ability to bring our court employees on just like the other ones do. that is what makes us a viable here. and if you can take that and work with that and work with us to make this happen, then we have a cohesive plan here together and we can stay here together. thank you again. [applause] >> good evening. i came here to tell you, i'm a world war veteran, disabled veteran. when i came to san francisco after being overseas 31 months, the only city that would give black people a fair chance, how dare anybody come in here and sa

trans-woman? the sniggering that i complained about, that is, obviously. i think my bike was attacked i am. and gnewt cargo actually... the firm i worked for, the actually —— vaped aportant to remember the problems was the so—called gig economy are not only related to things like the national minimum wage and paid holidays and pensions that we normally talk about, but this is a broader issue that employers can still free themselves of that responsibility if they choose to classify people as independent contractors. you know, discrimination is something... protection from discrimination, sorry, something which is a universal right, and whether you are a courier or anyone, you should have those protections. in terms of the gig economy, tim, i know that you think it has an unjustified reputation for treating workers badly. how so? ithink reputation for treating workers badly. how so? i think there are obviously instances, there will be instances, like hayley's case, and i feel for you, but at the same time the gig economy is a fantastic thing across the world. you know, 2.5 by 2025, the kinsey report says, and it will add two percentages to global gdpi will add two p

trans—pacific trade agreement 18 months ago. donald tusk, the european council president, gave more details about the new partnership. i am proud that today we are taking our strategic partnership to anational order at a time when some are questioning this order. we are sending a clear message that we stand together against protectionism. concerns over the safety of some children s slime products have been raised after several were found to contain excessive levels of the harmful element boron which can cause vomiting and cramps. the gooey substance has become a social media craze, but eight out of 11 slime products tested by consumer group which, failed eu safety standards. the government says it's reviewing the results. earlier i spoke to nikki stopford, director of research and publishing at which? magazine about the potential dangers of slime. this is very worrying, that their products being sold on the uk market that have levels of a chemical that is known to have health risks. we are worried about it, that clearly manufacturers, retailers and government are not doing enough to make sure safe products... these u nsafe make sure safe products... these unsafe products are not sol