(speaking french) (speaking spanish) (voice of translator): my experience with missionary neighborhood centers is they have provided childcare for me and one of my daughters is there as well. (speaking spanish) (voice of translator): there's a lot of people here in our community that don't know a lot about the services here in our community. (speaking spanish) (voice of translator): a lot of the barriers that our latino community here face is not being able to speak english and just being afraid because they don't speak english. (speaking spanish) (voice of translator): many times we are in fear so we don't seek services because we don't have our immigration status in order. (speaking spanish) (voice of translator): our community here needs houses and jobs. (speaking spanish) (voice of translator): i think that if our community here was aware of more services, things would be a lot easier for us. (speaking spanish) (voice of translator): i hope that together here in this community of bayview, together we can all do more. (speaking spanish) (voice of translator): many times in my case i

our next speaker, a client of mission neighborhood centers, a parent, anna (spanish) (applause) we'll have translation services for those who can't speak spanish. thank you. (voice of translator): hello good morning. i'm very grateful to be here to be here with everyone here at mission neighborhood centers.

benefit from the budget process or the ones who are the most in need, having their voice directly translated to the board of supervisors is really important. i wanted to just call that out. i think the worst kind of changes we could make in the budgeting process is to move away from that and have a reliance on the executive -- >> supervisor cohen: thank you. is there any member of the public that would like to speak? no? public comment is closed on this item. thank you to those who presented and to those who spoke. we're going to -- this is our last budget committee meeting of the year. we're going to be transitioning into 2018. we'll be working very hard to improve the process, to improve transparency, to improve our stakeholders' voice. katy tang and i will be working with our colleagues as well that will help melissa whitehouse with her process. what's interesting is we're at this unique period where there's so much transition happening. i'm optimistic that good things will come out of this transformation as we move into 2018. i also wanted to just acknowledge that alabama game through last night. so the

to say all of them they all want to be able to see dealing with voice and and language is probably one of the more difficult problems they have to do. so that what they want to do is translate you know by the millions phone calls or try or voice communication back and forth between people and really begin to discover what they're what they're talking about and they're looking for. things that will produce on the order of accuracy of at least eighty percent so they can use other software to go through and and and basically look for phrases words and things like that that they might want to learn on and so they could basically monitor you know it hundreds of millions of calls every day and be able to assess which ones they need to look at people and we know that tone and language is certainly difficult especially when it comes to slang now is it surprising that such an ad would be posted by the army on a publicly accessible website in this case it's f.b.o. dot gov. it's kind of questionable they would do that but they're really telegraphing what they're interested in so. those are white papers are generally circulated among contractors who do business with the government so i

voice of america. excellent russian language skills, so he was part of the entourage and even had the opportunity to provide impromptu translation for khrushchev because his official translator got lost in the crush of people. this was a huge event. as alison mentioned, on the flight back, they inaugurated what they jokingly called the kitchen cabinet. you can see that picture you were mentioning of nixon pointing at khrushchev. they even had a password for this exclusive club. in russian, it means peace and friendship. the language skills are so important for diplomats, you never know when you might need to pull it out. we have some exchange in the conversation going on in the midst of the cold war. and eventually, things start to thaw. >> eventually. there is a recognition that the status quo cannot remain. during nixon's presidential administration, you start to see the salt talks. these are strategic arms limitation treaties being discussed. during the reagan administration, it was a high priority as well. this speaks to that as well. in 1987, the united states and soviets sign the limited range nuclear forces treaty. that d

at davos, we heard from some of wall street's biggest voices haveding ceo saying we global growth at the best pace since 2011, but this is translating being settled into markets. the city ceo saying if we get some sort of smaller corrections along the way that it's going to not be quite so ugly. g #btv 3660. this is one gauge that suggests we have gone too far too quickly . this is a bloomberg measure of the appetite for risk assets and includes 18 different ettrick's 18 different metrics across a broad range of markets. it so happens to proceed the worst quarterly performance since 2011 in june to october of that year. we had a drop of 7%, so it's another way to look at it, but so far, we have sentiment pushing the limits of what all technical warnings are showing up. beenad: those things have there for a while, the technical warnings. they will carry on ringing. the australian market moving to the upside and trading got away in jakarta. let's have a look at what is going on there because it has changed at the moment and look at how things may turn around. shanghai positive as well. >> in indonesia, enthusiasm following the rally.

translated and will be carried all over the soviet union. >> one of those diplomats involved in this event of touring khrushchev and nixon through this exhibition was a foreign service officer. america. for voice of he had excellent russian language skills and even had the opportunity to provide impromptu got lost.n this is a huge event. allison mentioned, on the flight back, they inaugurated what they jokingly called the kitchen cabinet. you can see that picture you were mentioning of nixon tormenting khrushchev. password for a this exclusive club. in russian it means peace and friendship. the language skills are so important for diplomats, you never know when you might need to pull it out. we have some exchange in the conversation going on in the midst of the cold war and eventually things start to thought. wexler is a recognition that the status quo cannot remain. during nixon's presidential administration, you start to see the talks, strategic arms limitation treaties. during the reagan administration, this was a high priority as well. this was the segue into the nuclear forces treaty. that didn't happen so much with the number of arms but to limit the range of them. inf treaty was witness

voice of the opposition. in december it called for a government protest which led to at least six deaths. now pope francis has called for peace. translationt wonderful country to put all of their effort and work into avoiding all forms of violence. tensions remain high in the country after dozens were arrested during the protests. although elections are scheduled for the end of the year the government crackdown over the weekend has led many to lack confidence that it will actually ta ke confidence that it will actually take place. if you go backjust over a month on outside source we were telling you that iraq's prime minister was saying his forces had defeated the eye s group in iraq. —— defeated the is in iraq. but there are still daily attacks on iraqi soldiers. most are close to border with syria — is remains active there too. nafiseh kohn—avard from bbc persian has spent time with the us army in a place al-qaim on the iraqi side of the border. this is her report. this train station has seen many battles pass—through. the invasion of iraq and the fight against al-qaeda and two months ago it saw one of the final stanza of the militants

of zanjan. but many in tehran say repression is not the answer. >> ( translated ): people should be able to come out easily and voice their concerns in crowds, peacefultests and demonstrations. this should not be taken away from them. if these protests were calmer, i believe we would have better results. >> sreenivasan: despite such sentiments, there has been violence. in isfahan province, people set fire to a police station and a national bank. a university of tehran professor, sympathetic to the regime, blames western media for ignoring the violence and misrepresenting the protests. >> iran is a very normal society. it has people who are upset with different issues, like in any normal society. and they express them both at the ballot box and peacefully. and the rioters are not reflective of the will of the majority of iranians. >> sreenivasan: other analysts say frustration with president rouhani and the islamist regime is real, and change is overdue. >> he hasn't been able to provide the opportunities that people are wanting. the only silver lining, if you like, is that rouhani may well use the protests, and also the as a pressure point to push th

translation: the law and the government recognise the protests as the rights of citizens to send their messages to the authorities and make their voicesime wants to avoid is this. in 2009 a disputed presidential election brought millions onto the streets, leading to a violent crackdown by the authorities. washington is now shining a spotlight on iran and calling an emergency session of the un security council. the people of iran are crying out for freedom. all freedom—loving people must stand with their cause. the international community made the mistake of failing to do that in 2009. we must not make that mistake again. this was tehran last night. more than 20 protesters have died in the past week. hundreds more have been arrested. this simmering rage could evaporate, or it could boil over. richard lister, bbc news. six people have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences — including being members of the banned far—right group, national action. the five men and one woman — who are aged between 21 and 37 — were detained during raids in cambridge, banbury, wolverhampton, stockport and leicester. all six suspects are being held

translated. next person says cough. next person, i'm on a phone conference. i can show you the outlet. a woman's voice says hello. then a woman comes on also speaking chinese and says yes, of course. then she told me so man speaking chinese at the start, woman speaking chinese a few lines in, that a man says we can get in trouble doing that sometimes. then a different man says do you have a note pad? just one note pad. woman says it's not up yet? man says i hear a lot of noise. woman yells everyone shut up. woman says this is is washington d.c. different woman says i hope not. yeah, that's what we think. he told me 13 months but this different woman says hello, hello. different woman says is there an operator. woman with british accent says hello? is there anyone? we can't hear anything. different woman says i can't hear anything either, yes, yes, we do not recall the president saying these comments specifically. i think i know who she's quoting there. then another woman yelling has the call started? then a man says martha, can you get me another hard line? i need another land line. i can't hear anything. a woman says should we hang up. man says martha when i try to ring t