children working there.rk for 10 to 12 hours, like the boys in the report, for less than $1 a day. of course, it is still there. we need to tackle this with many different actions. not just banning child labor. a lot of actions have to be taken. >> what is save the children doing specifically to address this issue? >> there are very good projects. it is giving these boys to these girls, access to basic education. we implement rich schools next to the slums, next to were the work. within the schools, three hours a day, so that they can still do some working. and they have access to basic health services in the schools. the have a chance in life. they have a chance to get an education and get their smiles back. that is so important. >> thank you for joining us from save the children in germany. >> thank you. >> still to come from all the action from the euro soccer championships. >> first, a quick look at some of the other stories making news around the world. hundreds of islamists in tunisia have fought runni

including the use of children as human shields. we had an incident in one of the villages where a military bus carrying military personnel, they put the children from the village up against the windows so no one would attack the bus. taking this of violence against children to another level. >> the syrian government denies your charges and says this is absolutely not happening. how sure are you of your sourcing? >> we are quite sure because of my team that went out that met and spoke with these people. in the case of children who were tortured, the telltale marks of torture was still on their bodies. >> your reporters have actually seen this? >> yes. they have met these children and seen that telltale marks. they insisted on interviewing the children without adults. this is really from the mouths of children that this information has been received. >> you say you are confident that those who have committed these crimes against children in syria will be brought to justice and these crimes will not go unpunished. are you really confi

the children -- all five children were taken to children's hospital in washington dc. >> all right. back out live here. a couple of tidbits to pass on to you. i was able to speak to a neighbor who rushed over to try and help these children. the five children. he tells me we're talking about two young girls and three young boys. police confirm their age ranges from about 1 and a half years old up to 11 years old. but, again, those children taken to children's hospital in washington ranging from serious to critical condition tonight. and police out here still trying to figure out exactly what happened. why this driver did not notice that the five children were behind and what led up to this tragedy out here. back to you guys. >> so many injuries. okay, ken. thank you. >>> we also have to get ready. we are in store for some nasty weather tomorrow. topper shutt joins us. >> we declared friday a severe weather alert day. we looked back to the west and saw a lot of thunderstorms in kentucky and tennessee. that is the same front that will generate storms here and possibly some severe weath

this man ran to the children trapped under bricks. >> i took the children because they could not movethere are also children's tollways in front of the driveway. there are people home this morning. they are not answering the door. the conditions of the children ranged from critical to serious. the mother was taken into custody last night, but police are only saying she is being questioned at this time. john gonzalez, abc 7 news. >> this next story is gruesome. police in maryland investigating the disturbing attack involving cannibalism 21-year-old alexander kinyu told police he killed his housemaid and eight the man's heart and part of his brain. he lives just outside of baltimore and is a student at morgan state where he was charged just a bit weeks ago on a random attack -- for a random attack on another student. a metro employee he hit by a train earlier this week is still in critical condition. the 28-year old veteran mechanics was pinned under a train. it out of service train was pulled the to the yard to be washed with witnesses say the mechanic walk in front of the train and wa

we wants to do what's best for the children.ldcare supplements make that possible. >> nina receives money for looking after the children at home. the 30-year-old also works evenings as a nurse when her husband is at home. norway is an expensive country. >> even though we get the childcare supplement, which is a great help, in the current situation, the fact that nina stays home is unusual, and especially in oslo, where everything is extremely expensive, many couples don't have a choice, both have to work full time. >> most mothers are forced to work all day as well as run the house hotel. i don't know. i think it has something to do we quality. >> fewer and fewer families are drawing the supplements. in 1999 almost 3/4 of women stayed at home with their toddlers. last year, it was just one in five. annie of norway's mini city, thinks the supplements should be abolished. she said the results of the study and their social consequences were alarming. >> immigrant families draw childcare sup lements much more commonly than nor week

and 47% of black children, and 40% of children are born outside of marriage, and so the probable of being in poverty is high. and finally education is a big issue. i would say that the educational system both at the preschool level, k-12 and postsecondary needs a lot of work. i would not say necessarily a failure, but the highest probability is preschool and i will talk about that. now, let me talk about the strategies to fight poverty and i want to preface the remarks by saying that the personal responsibility is an absolute tier here. and three of the four tiers is substantial component of personal choices, and if people don't make better choices regardless of what you do in the hearing room or in this congress, we will still have a prob lem with poverty and you have to worry about decision of young people the drop out of school and not work and have children before they have children and not getting married. the first strategy that has worked forever and it is not hard to understand, but it is to give them money. that is what we did with the d eldererly and especially in the '70s

society for our children because i do believe we ought to be judged by the way we treat our children and that -- if that is the case in california, then shame on us. i hope san francisco leads the way. this is unacceptable that we are way below the national average that we get $5,000 per student when you look at where over 16,000 -- we are below average and you have schools in the east that are getting 12,000 at the bare minimum. where we tolerating this? it is time to say enough and do something about it. and want to thank the freedom fighters throughout the school district who stood and said we'd make a difference. riche -- richard, i pass the torch. to ensure tha tell -- that ell kids get served. this is the modern-day apartheid. this excess is and everyone of us as human beings. we have done a lot in five years but it was a start and i want to thank everyone. i have been blessed in 37 years of public education to work with children and i want to thank my wife and my son and my daughter. they gave up a lot to have their crazy dead -- dad fight this movement for children. thank you

children with severe tbi have highly specialized aggressive care and children with more mild tbi require cognitive and physical rest within the first 48 hours. federal investments in basic and translational research are leading to improve strategies for those on the front line, and i suggest taking this to the next step by including industry in our partnerships. >> unfortunately, the reality is that there are limits to current prevention and treatment. this is why recovery is our third line of defense. one of the 15 children who suffers a tbi today could have been your child or mine and they now face the long road ahead to recovery. we need to be empowered with the best tools and, hrsa funding enabled innovative partnerships between clinicians and these need to continue. i want to close by looking forward. recently i was selected as a hero by a local elementary school's children because i work to save lives. they too want to save lives, but i worry that their dreams may be stunted. we need to shore up the necessary training and funding opportunities that young people need to become tomor

each of those is for different subgroups of children, and none of them are reaching all eligible children. >> okay. >> unlike a system that has it more tied in to public schools as an accepted part of the schooling system, or in a series as they have in france, of crutches or places that you can take children. and again, it's fairly universally available. >> thank youment >> dr. haskins, the most recent data from the department of health and human services reveals that nearly 55% of work eligible adults receiving assistance are engaged in zero hours of activity. i'd like you to comment on that statistic, and also do you believe it was the intention of members of congress and president clinton that in over a decade and a half since welfare reform, more than half the welfare caseload would be doing absolutely nothing? >> well, of course, it was not. i worked on the welfare legislation when i was with the house ways and means committee, and there's no question that it was bipartisan agreement that more people should work and that the cash welfare system should not just dispense cash, it ough

that are not effective with children or put children at risk that can be used in adults. and then, of course, we have the real social dilemma in terms of how we treat these children. it's difficult to amass them in a single environment and take them out of their cultural surroundings, family, school, et cetera. and so unfortunately, because of the vagaries of rehabilitation coverage, the schools do end up being the de facto rehabilitation setting. it's not what they're trained for, it's not what they're prepared for. they certainly have stepped up and tried to address the problem. but the medical rehabilitation of children really ought to be left to medical professionals. >> mr. chair, thanks. i recognize the ranking member for five minutes for questions. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i wanted to ask dr. winston, you described how the majority of research is focused on traumatic brain injury for adults and you mentioned the need for focus research investments to inform new safety products, programs and policies that will better produce and reduce the severity among children

as a mother, i am very worried for my children. because you know the children are our future. if you are going to open three marijuana shops, and the children take it, it is my children buying candy. -- like children buying candy. because everybody is curious, including myself. because you indicated it will kill the pain. everybody thought it was so easy. it will kill the pain. just across the street from this marijuana shop, there is a senior home. finally, i want everybody to think about it seriously. let's say our next generation have this habit of taking the drugs. how would i imagine as a mother asked that all of our children are taking drugs? we still have hope in our family? also our country, as america, is there hope for our country? children are our future. is that a future for america? you had better think about it twice. as a mother you have to think of it is necessary to open up that it is necessary to open up that many shops since there are

and subpar housing exposes children to real health risks. unfortunately, the programs under the jurisdiction of our committee designed to address poverty do not work well together even though they are essentially serving the same families. the most salient example just as a temporary systems for needy families or tanf. tanf is a block grant to states for use in ending dependence on government benefits and, more broadly, to promote child well-being. over time the focus of tanf has shifted in working with job-ready adults and preparing them for work to a funding stream largely dedicated to purposes unconnected to job readiness. based on the spending and the composition of the caseload, one can argue that tanf as a robust welfare-to-work program has all but diminish and in large part can replaced about i the emergence of tanf as a child welfare program. it expired in fiscal year 2010. during the year leading up to the expiration of tanf and each subsequent year, the obama administration has failed to propose a comprehensive reauthorization of t

of aging or injured children american veterans soldiers children you know and those kinds of things and legacy was there and i was. i cried you know i just cried we laid there's other people because when you fight this first so long in our country is so large that you feel isolated thank you our thanks. when my husband died everything that i base my life on my beliefs my value system. it was turned on his head he always told me from the time that i'm met him that you know we were going to get married that he he was going to die long before me and he died at fifty six it is it is my understanding that his death is attributed to exposure to agent orange because he did serve in country in the brown water navy on the rivers and he had yes he had diabetes and perfectly raw other secondary illnesses. i got started with agent orange legacy. after my husband passed away of course what the american people need to know that's that's who needs to know is that the families of vietnam veterans are on the brink they are they they are devastated with the circumstances though they face today that t

to what the children say.that is where you determine this case. >> what the children said to the jury was shocking. according to four of the kids, nancy smith had repeatedly taken them to joseph allen's house, where they had been tortured, and sexually assaulted and threatened with death if they told. the parents testified that in the months before the scandal came to light their children had been acting out sexually with children and stuffed animals. jack bradley said this graphic personal testimony seemed to hit home with the jury, even though no medical evidence was presented. >> it didn't matter in this case. it always went back to the children and the perception that the jurors had about the children. >> at the end of the trial, nancy smith took the stand, still insisting that she had been wrongly accused. >> i don't even know how to explain my emotions. i was devastated that anybody would even make these allegations against me. i am ea mother. why would somebody do that to me? >> but the prosecutor got n

children are falling more and more behind. the research suggests that two- thirds of the achievement gap between low and middle income children who can be attributed to what happens in the summer. it also turns out many children are gaining weight more rapidly in the summer because they lose access to physical activities and meal programs they have access to during the school year, so it is clear there is a lot at stake, which is why we have launch this summer matters campaign to raise awareness across the state about why it is so important to make sure the children have safe and healthy learning experiences all summer long. i want to point out a map to our left, where we are beginning to chart a particularly exciting summer initiatives in southern california, one of them right here in san francisco, which we are going to hear more about today. we are thrilled to have a distinguished line of of speakers to talk about creating opportunities across the state. first, i am thrilled to bring up tom, who for his entire career has re

but my next to my children going to that school because some of the school children there. smoke. in fact they're raised more by the school than by their own parents you know if we were to send our children to that school. we wouldn't last long. is the community's head the forty seven year old man has nine children. he was born in latin america like many of the communities members he spent most of his life there. leads in the community because he is the oldest of his siblings who came to russia with him there was a falling out with his younger brother over how their children should be educated. we're not against education. makes people. darkness we always teach our children how to read and write. this is the school attended by the children of the old believers classes are still taught the way they were at the time of the schism orthodox church back in the seventeenth century children gather in the home of the teacher to learn to read religious books in the old language the teacher is one of the younes brothers. and the children start with the a.b.c.'s. first they learn texts by he

this is an institution in prague for abused children. it is run by a child protection organization called kangaroo house. she had been repeatedly punched in the face by her stepmother. an estimated 40,000 czech children are subjected to punishment that exceeds a threshold they define as unreasonable force, a fine line between discipline and abuse. some 50 children died from their injuries each year, some believe outline corporal punishment would outla -- would reduce the cases of abuse. >> offer, the courts fail to classify even serious injuries to children as abuse because of a lack of evidence -- often. even if injuries are documented by photographs, they are classed as permissible physical punishment. a ban on striking children would provide the legal clarity to prosecute such parents. >> she is looking for to her birthday this week. she will be five. cases like hers are becoming increasingly prevalent in the czech republic. federal human rights minister launched an attempt to ban physical punishment. them of the czech republic has a

i know everybody has been saying oshe, the children, the children, and making lighted of that, saying we're trying to use the children to get these fields. but you know what? adults need the fields too. i have a women's semipro team and if you watch them play the style stoove -- of play has increasinged tenfold since i was a kid. they play with such athleticism and muscle that to play on these fields with any sort of holes is possibly ending a career or a scholarship. we're talking about a kid who is maybe a foster kid, from a low income family that's getting a chance to go to college so they can play. if they hurt themselves it's on me. it's my fault that they are now not able to go to college. i was at crocker amazon last night with our practice and it was overwhelming to look around and see all the teenagers and adults playing anding how necessary it is. when they first put it in, i was standing there talking to a gentleman what said i'm so grateful for this, i work owl day and i have children and i come home and i'm angry and i come around and run around the field for two hours an

basically, children had been killed and maimed. like and other conflicts, because of bombardment, but what we find to really quite appalling in the situation is that children have been tortured in detention, and as you know recently, there have been summary executions of children. it has taken the scale of violence one step ahead. also, including the use of children as human shields. we have an incident in one of the villages where a military bus carrying military personnel, they put the children from the village up against the window so they would not attack the bus. this is taking violence against children to another level. >> the syrian government denies your charges and says they are certain this is not happening. how sure are you of these? >> we met and spoke with them. children were tortured, for example, and the signs of torture were still on their bodies. >> you have seen the aftermath. >> yes, and they have actually met these children and seen the telltale marks, and they insisted on interviewing the children without adult

and that the children start with the a.b.c.'s. first they learn texts by heart and only then do they learn the letters. we learn how to pray we pray in the morning when we wake up and in the evening when we go to bed oh the rules are here . the pupils are not divided into groups their progress depends on the set of religious books they read. nothing but. if the teacher is absent teach their children to read and write instead. the old believers take a simple view of education since they are christians and to live in the countryside they need to learn religious rites and farming skills they have no use for the present day system of schooling and instead of follow their ancestors who strongly rejected of the seventeenth century reform of orthodox canon for the past three hundred years they have taken pains to protect their traditions by staying as distant from the outside world as possible to resist the impact of civilization throughout their history they have wandered the globe in search of the most secluded retreats. family lives i

of those that do survive 11,000 are children. this makes pediatric brain injury the leading cause of death and injury to children. there exists no viable therapeutic option for patients and all of the interventions are designed to prevent progression of the injury or secondary injury. in order to successfully treat traumatic brain injuries you must equip health care professionals and researchers with the resources needed to improve outcomes and quality of life for those affected. although there are numerous research projects under way across the country including the university of texas and north texas brain injury model system and the tbi center and the centralized, and coordinated approach is lacking and the government accountability office report released this january entitled coordinating authority needed for psychological health and traumatic brain injury activities that emphasized the need for coordination of care and coordination of services and traumatic brain injury in patients for the department of defense. they know in

just think about normal children and the amazing changes that occur as your children grow up. think about when you held your baby. think about when you taught your older child how to ride a bike or your teenager how to drive. just as they are different on the outside, their brains are different on the inside. and new research is showing that this fundamental knowledge of the brain and its response to injury is yielding some surprises. we used to think that children were more resilient and their brains were more resilient to impact. let me give you three examples. adult skulls fracture on impact.

children flood to be able to relate to the teachers. if i can i can't relate to you, you and i cannot have dialogue. our children need some help. what does it take to get you people to respond. you don't say anything to me. you all sit there and listen. i'll tell you this. if you kill my dreams, you kill me. that's the words of the children. >> my name is oscar james. i'm a native resident. i come here tonight on a short notice to support the pastor who just spoke, supporting my students in the bayview hunts community. i'm -- martin luther king. all the other schools in bayview hunts point. we have a concern that was brought to my amention the our organization. a group of people who grew up in the community, we came back into the community. a lot of them came back and we have gone into the schools, wanting to talk to the board, to go into the schools and talk to these young brothers and sisters to change them and let them know that the villsadge live and we are concerned about our students. we want the best for our students. we also wan

such as in the torture of children and summary execution of children.t in any, i've seen a lot of children being killed in cross fire. i've seen children recruited as soldiers. i've taken testimony from children as victims of sexual violence but summary execution of children under the age of ten, i've not seen that anywhere else. >> this is clearly not in the cross fire. i want to quote your report. most child victims of tourture describe being beatened, tortured, subjected to stress positions, scarred by cigarette burns and in one case subjected to electrical shock to the genitals. when it comes to the syrian government, what does this tell you? have they just completely spun out of control? >> well, i think they, as i said, in international hum humanitarian law, the basic premise is that soldiers should be from civilians. inhi conflict that's not happening. the whole community whether it's a civilian or a combatant are being targeted, this is great concern for all of us. the point is first we hope there would not be war. if there is a war there are ru

he has seven children. was the only community member to send his children to a state school and yes. before they left for dead there was a run over that school. to us if you don't send your kids to school you're welcome to go with us. we haven't reached an agreement. they left and didn't tell us. growing up with up with you well there are so many people with education who live in russia and a lot of them well they don't even have jobs and we have always tried to live and work in rural areas and we were just as comfortable as those learned people who are going to certainly we never went hungry. come back to a nice. thing that should be around here somewhere. the rocky soil makes of farming difficult income for t.n.t. no longer grows crops his cow helps his family make ends meet she is free to graze together with the cattle belonging to local people the trouble though is that she tends to street towards evening. after coming home. now that the community has left for t.n.t. is toying with the idea of going to

special representatives on children and conflict says she's never seen such targeting of children itt firsthand. you saw children, correct? >> yes. it was horrifying. saw more children than i've seen in 20 years of covering conflicts that have been wounded by this butcher, this regime. and their only crime is they're children of the revolution. >> have you ever seen that in other places? have you seen children directly targeted? at this level? >> no. in fact, it's horrifying. there's no real words to describe the type of war crimes that are taking place. it is just one small city, town. in syria. but may represent what's taking place all across the country. >> the u.n. peacekeeping chief says syria is now in full-scale civil war, do you agree? >> i think it's still an ethnic cleansing process. i don't think the army has enough weapons to conduct a civil war. to have a civil war, both sides have to be relatively armed. against light weapons, against heavy weapons. i don't think there's any room for reconciliation. i think that line has been crossed. so the next phase of this conflict

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are there any parents with children? ok. why not don't we do this. we're going to all night tonight line up on the left hand side of the room so if you need to depart early with kids, and young man in the blue, why don't you approach the podium? i will say tonight if we have an opportunity -- if you have an opportunity to get your point across in less than two minutes, that would be great. if you find yourself with comments and positions that have been mentioned before, you are welcome to abbreviate your comments and if you are speaking from a groip, a team, an organization, maybe you want to have all your teammates and organization raise your hand in support, that might help us get through the evening as well. so thank you. the mike is yours. two minutes. >> and mr. president, all of you on this side, on my left, i need i to line up over here so you don't block the doorway. if you could just move to the other side of the room, we with would very much appreciate it. >> my name is kurt freudenberg and i play on a soccer team called the sunset stars an

while many children, latino, african-american children are being covered. this is a 70-year span of time, finally this president got something done. and no one thought that it was going to be that hard. it was hard, but more people are reaping that benefit. when i look back at the past, 3.9 million private sector jobs created in the span of three years, 2 1/2 years, and you look back at what the previous administration did, that president only had 11,000 jobs created per month. we have been able to really kick out the numbers and do a lot more. and part of it is because people have confidence, optimism and hope. and yes i do believe the numbers can improve if people believe that we can work with each other, build coalitions that empower each other and be sure that we're working together and we hear the voices of the public. bottom line is our destiny is wrapped up together. it's not the white house and us over here, it's all of us working together as a community.

he raised his children. he raised steven wahl, raised steven wahl's brothers and sisters to expect any kind of -- any right, any opportunity that any other american could expect. >> another parenthetical, we have this gentleman -- i have to go back, because you skipped one of my favorite parts. o.s.b. wahl, an abolitionist, they're risking their lives and not to mention their livelihoods to rescue escaped slaves. when these guys back in overland rescued this one slave, they become kind of celebrities. who shows up in jail to visit them? john brown. a fearsome cat shows up. back to washington. so o.s.b. wahl comes to washington and starts a political career. he sits in the legislature. he becomes the first black justice of the peace. they call him judge from then on. then we see, we see that washington begins to take that inevitable turn toward profound, deep disenfranchisement of blacks and profound segregation. so what is happening for the wahls, which, you know, an elite family, what's happening for the wa

meeting the other children. thank you. >> good evening. thank you for allowing me to speak this evening. my name is bob. i am the father of three very active young boys. ages 10--- ages 10, 8, 6. i am in favor of the turf.ed toe due diligence that you have done in taking up the studies in regards to the utilization of the field. >> can you give him another minute or so? >> thank you. the studies that you have done in regards to environmental impact, i appreciate all of that. i am glad you have done that due diligence. i want to touch on the safety factors that have been discussed earlier. those are -- and other safety factor that may be overlooked is when children are coming and going from these fields, there is a lot of activity in regards to automobile traffic. in other parts of this project is to increase the size of the drop-off area. that is going to be very important. thank you for your due diligence. i would ask that you pass this project forward and unanimously of votes the turf project forward. thank yo

you have 72 hours to decide the fate of your children. my children. my children's children. and i start the clock now. >> a warning to world leaders from the next generation. we will speak with 17-year-old environmentalist brittany trilford of new zealand at the rio + 20 earth summit in brazil. then, 20 years ago, and the 12- year-old canadian addressed the earth summit. she became known as the girl that silenced the world for six minutes. >> you do not know how to fix the ozone layer, you do not know how to bring the salmon back up from the stream. you cannot know how to bring back an animal now extinct and you cannot bring back the forest where there is now a desert. if you do not know how to fix it, please stop breaking it. >> we will also speak with her father, david suzuki, the environmentalist. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. wikileaks founder julian assange could learn as early as today whether his request for asylum in ecuador has been approved. he spent a second night at the ecuadorean embassy in london after seek