he no longer holds an official title the remains a popular figure. and see in my view it's not right for prince homicide to be linked to these people these are people who jordanians see as questionable as a really frowned upon of what. we don't want to see anything no matter how small happened in this country his country is now in a stable and secure and i ask god to have this country remain stable and secure. jordan is known as a reliable ally to the west and it borders israel syria saudi arabia and iraq the rights group freedom house ranks jordan as partly free it's one of the few are states formally at peace with israel and is an important ally to the united states the u.s. u.k. and several arab nations have all expressed their full support for king abdullah.

well for more i'm now joined by the reporter i either him who is following the story for us hello to you i a good to see you so we know that king abdullah and the former crown prince hands are half brothers can you tell us a bit more about the nature of their relationship. well as you mentioned they are half brothers they have huge age difference between them but 18 years what we do know though that the late king really loved his son. he's the eldest from his 4th wife on his deathbed portably wrote a letter saying that you know this child was and because from childhood for being so close to his father and also on his deathbed even though his at the time was student in school he wanted him to succeed his brother sister and obviously this never came to pass because he was sidelined for the position of crown prince by the

king in favor of his nephew we do know that even though as the report mentions he does not have a formal title anymore he remained a very popular figure and his name would often come up especially when there would be protests you know in 20112012 jordan didn't really have a huge wave of mass protests as other arab countries during the so-called arab spring but there were some protests and his name definitely would flow there is a kind of reformer i mean his uncanny resemblance to his father very popular figure always played to of his favor so there's definitely you know we've no insight into their you know intimate relationship but definitely he does and very some popularity among the population especially as a reformist figure potentially you know i had jordan is considered to be a very stable country and has very close ties with that when many western nations

how are these developments in jordan being perceived by the countries allies. so yeah jordan very important country just up until last year when a string of gulf countries signed normalization treaties with israel jordan was one of 2 countries actually had a peace treaty with israel so it's considered a very very important u.s. ally but also because jordan is traditionally has been a host of displaced people there palestinian refugees that live there have lived there for generations there are also about 1300000 syrian refugees that are currently hosted by jordan and you know with huge help from the international community of course with aid cetera but jordan too from the view of many of its western allies needs to remain stable reliable kind of buffer zone in what is unfortunately a very troubled neighborhood so this is a country that borders rock syria the west bank israel and so it needs to

it needs to maintain that security especially given how volatile the region is at the moment i. am always great to talk to you thank you. let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making news this hour a maintenance worker has apologized after his truck rolled onto a railway line causing taiwan's worst train crash in decades he says he will cooperate fully with the investigation at least 51 people were killed emergency crews have been clearing the site. voting is underway in bulgaria despite a 3rd wave of coronavirus infections the election will decide whether prime minister boyko body pro european ruling party will remain in power garia is the poorest country in the european union. christians around the world have been

celebrating easter under the shadow of the pandemic for the 2nd tier running pope francis has given his traditional blessing from st peter's basilica in rome he stressed at the importance of vaccines and urged rich countries to ensure supplies are fairly distributed to their poorer neighbors. it didn't seem to be putting a blessing for the faithful. pope francis address just a small crowd compared to the usual tens of thousands on easter sunday but his message was one for the world. the. internet age the entire international community. in the spirit of global responsibility to commit to overcoming delays in the distribution of vaccines. better facilitate the distribution especially in the poorest countries in. the pupil very

little resort to catholic leader focused his message on the world's most vulnerable including those suffering from the coronavirus pandemic and he called for an end to armed conflicts around the globe like that in syria where many also gathered to mark one of the most important christian holidays of the year. and middle man missi had it just as christ suffered this week the holy week for christians for the salvation of humanity we are also suffering every day with a long war that came to us with the coronavirus pandemic the economic pressure and the families who emigrate. they were among the millions across the world who found ways to celebrate despite the covert 9000 restriction. in jerusalem however this year's

worshipers were allowed to participate in mass at the holy settled considered the holiest place in christianity but even there the pandemic was front of mind. i think about my fear for brazil. and they cannot. be. church. like the pope in rome a to speak of hope amid the pandemic. now for some of the latest developments in the pandemic germany's health minister is considering lifting restrictions for fully vaccinated people that's according to the bid newspaper of a study shows they are unlikely to spread the virus britain is planning trials of vaccine passports for sporting events and to nightclubs and turkey has recorded

a record number of new cases infections have surged since the government eased restrictions a month ago. to southern africa and the may be aware coronavirus restrictions have had one positive outcome ever duction and even legal right now hunting but to the lockdowns have also heard anti-poaching organizations they've been left without money to operate conservationists are now warning that poachers could make up for lost time was the pandemic is over. the world. the us which was ready for a snack bees rhinos great conservationists and it all off. she's looked after run on a property for 30 years protecting them from parts is. of valuable life which just pulled this piece of dust i mean it's

just it's just it's just not. yet. fewer than 6000 runners and now leaving to be here and it all of us and her family are trying to save been. left. but with the tourism industry taking a hit during the coronavirus pandemic anti-poaching organizations are worried they would lack the funds to survive leaving the rhinos vulnerable to poaches. we withdrawing from certain farms because of the financial impact and leave the runners. up for grabs i mean and we are seriously concerned about the fact that the boats will become again. run as a hunted for their horns they're made of keratin the same substance in human males and have no healing properties but in some asian countries it's considered

a symbol of wealth the whole and so for millions on the black market. poaching reduced during the coronavirus. but conservationists fear that once the pandemic pastas poachers who want to get back to business. the paralympics for its wheelchair rugby has been used as a test event for the tokyo olympics countermeasures against covert 19 like sanitizing participants will be the norm at the games the olympic test events examined different elements such as the field of play for the event the use of technology and also the olympic staff the summer games are set to start in july while the paralympics begin in august. german soccer now and in the been this league has big match title contenders leipsic hosted byron munich without their star striker robert lewandowski away and would have had life sick within a single point of biron but the champions showed why they're chasing

a 9 fleet title in a row. judgment day for the young pretenders like sit coach you leonardo's man and his players knew that to win against the buy in sight depleted by injury and suspension would be a shot in the arm in the big does league title race while a loss could see their championship hopes slip away. but by and strength in depth has helped them see off all comers since 2013 and leone go did his best robot leave and ski in person nation to put by on one up after 30 minutes should work from thomas miller and an emphatic finish like 6 fought hard to get back in the game but danny almost failed to hit the target from a great position on 52 minutes. muscles sabates showed olmo with a goal was 9 minutes later but money well neuer broke legs and hearts this time i. was left to rue those misses as by and held on to win one nil with the champions no

7 points clear with 7 games to go few would bet against the byron bandwagon from ruling on to another title. and that's the latest news up next is the documentary starting strong what makes a child smart omarion adelstein back at the top of the hour with more headlines for you to join us then. we're all set to go. to citizenship. as we take on the. we're all about the stories that matter to. police. you fire makes.

welcome to our movie about early childhood education early childhood education is very important. many reasons for this the for all i know all right but enough of that for the real take it from here if you kept it up much longer we totally would have lost it and chances are we would have got me back to the point is beginnings matter. like a basketball team it doesn't play to the 1st. born architect who says forget the blueprint let's just start building. on a stand up comic who skips the set up and goes right to the punch line 28.

but the place beginnings matter most in life is well life. is in the beginnings of humanity grew up in these very rich extended families. not just mothers but fathers grandmothers friends cousins and they were all there all the time or the children. settled in that kind of context in that country village and caring for children teaching them just getting to work on the elite they all took place at the same time. the but of course the world that we live in now is a very very different from the. modern the. 'd parents are increasingly having to raise kids on their own and they are also having

to do it while the pov to warm in order to earn enough to even support a family not all. people now have come to understand the use of these early childhood years reasons redevelopment resources now in the home are more important than anything else. the central problem is that our society has i didn't minish compassion to support us in doing what society expects them and needs them to. wire society to do this. is a bit of a mystery. here's a minute that most folks don't know. these are our children our family from chicago to ignore and. then just going on as if it's going to correct itself back to the

faster for a traffic stop. so welcome to our movie about early childhood education and if we do our job by the time we're done you will use this baby and the world just a little bit differently because this isn't an exposé it's a wake up call to start seeing early childhood of what it means a grown up issue a game changer to start seeing it as no small matter lead. cut. her. hair cut. cut cut what are you to do it your house if you can't get a date bradley. this is how you do it your house.

my name is rachel jenny she i am and i and i and you have a title as your title i will be leaving the church. here at home for community school and daycare center down here in the alabama to tell me how she was how to take it over how did you start. to get your mom taught you how to touch you today we're going to her unit about how we learn. to study to develop this idea that you have this computer inside of your head that you can't see any controls that reading about you. because you because you don't really. love kids as they age are far more capable thank you and i would have heard give them credit card so when you give them the chariots and you can them some knowledge they're able to run with it ok we're going to be any employer to just such

a number one do we start talking learning i don't know if the for. first day of school. let's go to a school i want to. say you were born you started to do what. you. learned. started. babies are born learning. there is a brain ready to learn and it's ready to learn especially from other people social brain. or work on imitation i think help show that. i remember sitting in front of this 42 minute old baby who had never seen a tongue before i poked out my tongue at her and she responded tom for tradition

back i open thing close my mouth she watched my lips move and responded by opening closing her mouth says a phenomenal thing the baby had never seen her own face but yet she was able to connect her own body to my body and it was a dramatic demonstration to me that we are born and learning. for some 2000 years people thought that babies and young children were sort of defective grownups so they defined babies you know children in terms of all the things that they were missing so they were there were optional they were egocentric they couldn't understand the relationship between cause and effect or take the perspective of another person the picture was that there really wasn't very much that was going on in children got to be about the age that you went to school to get ready up close the curtain. battle 35 years ago maybe we started really changing our view all right so we're just going to harvard it was

a between the pop and now. ah all right that was the helpful guy i was in there one thing that happened is that we got new technologies that actually let us study babies in the way. i wrote and then. that completely revolutionized our picture about what made you know children like. this is very very we're the 1st in the world to put be the each and every gene machine is perfectly safe and noninvasive like a stethoscope for the brain just innocently if they see the next card fees right away on the left i mean on the side you. magneto once a philosophy allows you to measure the firing of the neurons in the brain as a child is doing something like listening to a word to little monkeys high up in the trees or interacting with mom right here what time. as you can see you were. moments talking to you they were getting

very very good attention on the part of the infant let's look at right frontal for the 1st time in history we can see what's happening in the baby's brain before they can talk back to us by themselves sound. don't withhold how comes and i feel what we've found is that children learn more and more earlier that anyone ever expected babies are doing something remarkable without anybody knowing it's going on the baby brain is actually taking statistics as they listen to us talk and they don't know words yet but they can tell the frequency of the sounds. while you're talking to the baby the baby's brain is reacting trying to get ready to talk back to you. and people have the tendency to think there's nothing going on there what's going on up there is rocket science. in fact the 1st 3 years of life are like

a big bang for the brain an explosion of 86000000000 neurons connecting to. each other over a 1000000 times a 2nd as babies interact with the world and the people around them these connections form pathways that wire together different parts of the brain so many pathways that starting around age 3 the brain hits the brakes and kicks in to use it or lose it know there's this kind of inflection point where the connections that have been used a lot get to be stronger and stronger the connections that are used disappear there prove as people say and whether or not the connection is strengthened or dies back is experience dependent right it's based on our experiences so literally our experiences shape our brains our brains grow faster during the 1st 5 years of life than they ever will again and the older we get the harder it is to change what's there this is why the surly period is so important if you miss the right

experience years or if you just rocked your circuits then you have some weekend foundation for your brain is going to have to deal with for the rest of your life. so what has the biggest impact on how well the brain gets wired. that it's not flash cards or fancy apps that build a healthy brain it's every day back and forth interactions with loving supportive adults school is basically anywhere with anyone where i'm shown every favorite game . relates. social interaction is brain food for the child healthy development. i believe he does every day moments with the child are actually learning moments of the trial. of tot.

mom put cooper. you given your kids so this really raises the stakes on what we provide for children in the earliest years of life if we don't get that right then from then on we're basically fixing something that's proca. the good news is we know what kids need to thrive. the bad news we're making it harder and harder for parents to give it to them. this is the portrayed of a very important bryan she is the wife the mother of america her job is to make a home the american home the day it is perhaps the most important job in the world . so we have all of this research from social scientists from neuroscientists telling us why it's so important to invest in young children from birth to 5 at the

same time we have these all fashion notions around the role of women why should a baby be anywhere but with a mom until she's 3 or 5. families look very very different than a day 30405020 years ago not that long ago the high school diploma that attitude was enough to get you would job but one salary to support one family with a couple of parents today there are so many families where both parents have to work if there's only one parent that parent is working more women are in the workforce more women are in the workforce that have children under the age of 5. the demands of work are radically different the unpredictable work hours that families have to navigate for example you may or may not live close to your family and so that creates a challenge parents need to support this is not a luxury. you pretend that it's ozzie and harriet it is and you know there's

someone who's taking care of the big one who's taking care of these. i think they're all. hey. hey. i'm cooking. i don't want to go besmirching around. my fists in like $10.00 a day playing the lottery to wish i could be. a start up with a 1000000 what is a. sin you heard of a daycare center was not something we wanted to do for at least a year. but we're at a home where both of us have to work in order to survive. we have to work this years at it. it's not like there's

a smorgasbord of childcare out there. we were lucky to finally found. it was a scramble like we were going to childcare facilities every day to vail ability is slim and not. really only have a few options despite p.j. ratio despite the class size they all cost the same. of course it's going to require us to basically scale back some of our spending appropriately some our savings account holders all the. others but i don't know how people do it i really don't it's for a change to come on him or to change clothes. shopping. so tomorrow you have to go to school ok homo or back stronger oh. no one's going to love your child the way you do you nobody's going to care for

your child the way you well. but i'm looking for the closest thing to it. and. so sorry los angeles you. so for us to show not ready for the shoot to. do. and the missing baby.

with the most critical point to kids like this right now right look at right now after 12 years right now but i want to tell you that the investment you do in that young push from the very beginning gives you the best possibility of scaling this thing and being upset just because of the ending and this will pay off dividends for this country in a way that nothing else will. shake gattis is about as close to living proof of that as you can get gattis is the executive. director of the flat push y.m.c.a. in brooklyn. he also happens to be one of the subjects of a landmark early learning study that's been tracking him for more than 40 years the advice of darien project launched in 1972 by researchers in chapel hill north

carolina a study was designed to examine the long term impact of full day high quality early care and education on low income children like shay i started when i was 3 months old i do have vivid memories and i remember so games puzzles those common things which today i can't stop planned possibles quite honest. wholesomeness 1st. born in half decades in the results of the study are striking as a group gaddis and his former classmates are healthier they're better educated they make more money and they're less likely to have committed a crime and then a group of similar kids the study also tracked who didn't attend the program mom she had she's 16 so my grandparents raised me from birth neither one of them had their own 3rd grade education couldn't read or write and so from my own experience here's a child grow up with limited resources good was able to attain that level playing

field in a classroom if i don't have to have a certain program probably when i have a chance. we have a chance of ending intergenerational poverty today in this country you're born into poverty odds are you're going to end up with and dealt with high quality early childhood education that's a strong possibility breaking that cycle as a dairy and is one of several long term studies that show when it comes to children there earlier we invest the bigger the payoff for society compared to all the things then we do for the rest of their life we are writing checks that are so much more expensive than what it would have been had we invested when they were little we can put our. value in not having to retain a child you can put a dollar value on the health care implications long term but dollar value in that meeting special ed you can put a dollar value on that child graduate high school getting a better job and not paying taxes in particular you can put our values on the cost

of crime which you won't find a better public return than investing in early childhood education. early brain infrastructure should be taken as seriously as other forms of infrastructure as highways and bridges and airports and those sorts of things this is her work force c.e.o.'s of big corporations they need to be young employees but play well with others they don't want just smart people they really want people that have good un-bush most skills good social judgment and so we have to really attend to the development of these parts of the brain allow us to play in the sandbox.

hi we are in my name families through our painting program is free and is for moms to have babies they can attend the program with the babies almost back of on stay is a chain generation program that partners parent education about child development with her early childhood education for little 10 to 3. almost 30 percent of people in waco in poverty there is it because and since the strikes in waco where one in 4 children go hungry. for. the one year old that house one year he doesn't know how to set up. we weren't shot with that kid really go out and you can't say anything. because that was. you can work with children until you're blue in the face but if the 100 marmont is also not transform

the child's opportunities for success will be limited. we've been seeing the impacts of early childhood versity on health on behavior on life outcomes for a very very very long time but what we now know is the mechanism we know how early adversity leads to all of these different negative outcomes and that is what we now understand to be toxic stress. to understand toxic stress we've got to understand the stress response system itself this stress response system is this amazing evolutionary system that was designed to save our lives the folks who did not evolve the stress response they're gone they got. so let's imagine you're. one year old in prehistoric time you've just woken up from your nap you're hungry and you're lowering costs really needs change so you step outside the cane and nobody's

there instinctively you know something's wrong without adults there to care for you you totally helpless and that's when your stress response system kicks into gear immediately what happens is that our brain sends a signal to release of stress hormones so we would leave adrenaline and cortisol and these hormones activate a whole slew of changes in our brains and bodies our heart starts to pound our pupils dilate our airways and the brain tells you you're going to change your situation beauty to do whatever it takes to protect yourself so you do the one thing you can to tell the world you need help. and their dad grandma grandma comes along in their stress response system powers down and you know everything's going to be ok. fast forward 40000 years.

stress is still a part of everyday life for babies and young children even if some of the causes are a little bit different. the stress response involved to switch on immediately in the face of a threat now is the fact that i'm very head. but it's the comforting presence of caring adults that teaches the brain to switch it off when the threat is passed we're just talking about being responsive just loving a child see that when she sends out a signal that she's distressed or scared she can count on the fact that a caregiver is going to be there in some way to help address that situation. but what if the stress and i young child's life never stops violence in the home or in the neighborhood parental drug addiction incarceration are mental health problems severe neglect or abuse and what if the adults around their child don't or

can't help them cope with it when children are experiencing situations of fear and adversity and they do not have the buffering caregiver continued to pump out high levels of adrenaline and cortisol and here's the problem if you have stress hormones things over actually starts to disrupt the developing brain circuits and then we start to see the health problems that are associated with toxic stress. toxic stress takes direct aim at the prefrontal cortex undermining a child's ability to concentrate control their emotions or get along with others a biological problem that becomes a behavioral one when a child gets to school the brain basically goes on fight or flight mode. so when they walk into a placid room they continue to respond as if they're in a stressful dangerous unpredictable environment but. to

a teacher that child looks like they're just misbehaving that's a problem child but the damage from toxic stress goes beyond the developing brain there are also facts on metabolism on the mune system on the cardiovascular system with profound consequences for physical health and mental health when those markers are set in childhood they impact the way our bodies work for the rest of our lives . kids growing up in low income families are especially vulnerable to toxic stress today that's nearly half the children under 6 in america so when i think of our toxic stress i think about how our cascades day electricity bill can be paid your lights go out you can put things on the table everybody's unhappy after a while adults are relating in certain ways but on healthy children are believing

in certain ways that on healthy you're living in a community that's doing things that's not healthy and all of it began to have a commute of impact on a 5 year old so this actually argues for why we should be since you just about the children because children live in families we cannot transform the lives of children we don't transform the lives of their parents as well. and. part of helping families make that shift is helping them create a dream and a goal and then think about one of the steps that i need to do in order to make that dream a reality. that was working and the chicken plans for like 78 years working on the 2 plans my 1st husband just slightly and jail a lot of times and i feel like if your microphone myself so that's what a struggle it to go to both jobs i was born through work at 12 midnight get off a 6 and then

a 6 go to house pick of the babies get them dress for school drop us cool and then go to must take a job 8 in the morning get a 5. buy some fast forward take them to the bed like around 637 almost and then he like it they don't they want to be outside we're going in there having 4 and i will sell sauce that i couldn't do it i'll work in the restaurant we're going to. find you. and i was 30 years old. and he and then i was one day on the street and these girls were pressing fliers they tell me no there's a good program was it they can help you out if you want to finish the d. and they could ticket the baby for free they to show how to deal with the kids so yes this is my fertility right there we're going to talk about the brain when you have you challenge this team late in environment his brain is going to how can we exercise the brain seeing into our children read into our children talking to

our children i'm a mom for 4 kids and i thought i was the best long that i know how to take care mickey is no one is going to tell me what to do or how to do it right but know a learn a lot of stuff from them i couldn't believe it. and then my son cassie improvement over here because now he's turned around when he hears the sounds. i warmed up eating that large. 80 k. share now don't they you have to at least hope is that can do you love them you know there we find some clothes so the teachers are like helping me a lot. and they're going to. do what is what i love about him on say is the early childhood education is forward thinking is we want our child to succeed in the future but the e.s.l. ged classes and workforce development training is the here now so i'm going to gain

the skills that i need to lift my family out of poverty that i'm already on really are going to continue to work on some day and. i also want to continue working on some of your writing which are constructive responses always in my dream hour want to be a c i'm a sort of a nurse assistance i mean you don't get payola but at least try to start somewhere to stroll around check my life i learn english. i have a better job i can deal with my son's the internet in the school i learned to be a better mom i learn to understand my children and to be respectable to my kids they need to be as a says will and dream again i'm marrying you believe me do you keep all these things saying thank you. i'll be do for me.

just as i wish one day. denmark's like me coming to.