and she said she reported what we did ask for comments from the us federal emergency management agency and they said they would get back to assess a singer as they could. our british clergyman has been cleared of paying islamic state to release sex slaves after a two year investigation and three white denies paying isaw saying he helped release several women using connections he made while serving as a church vicar in iraq the clergyman has reportedly played a role in the release of at least six women well earlier we spoke to mr white who told us that the police refused to believe him out job to ensure that terrorism issues were known by giving terrorists in mali you actually perpetrate you not stopping it the problem was they didn't realize that all i knew who some of the people who come on dues of the kidnapping groups and i heard john dawes things for the many years before well earlier we brought up this issue for debates with the man with mohammed schiff eight of the ramadan foundation and also political commentator david france. was it a fair was it a justified investigation. i th

federal emergency management agency to comment on this story although they said they would respond as soon as they could. on a lighter note a pensioner from northwestern russia has decided to give all his money away after saving up all his life to help those whose lives are just beginning. their sheer. damn scary horror. that i am just his there are. birthrights again whether for. a horse out or the sorrow that. he. has. plans for a day care are doing are you. just roll it over to us so you're more of for our provider of calmer i was for it says now there is as. i knew him when his money didn't know him before and from the documents we knew that he just turned eighty five and so we decided to get to know him well. good for him you are international back we are back with more news in five minutes . a. radially reinforced rammed earth bricks is what they really are. lose more than seventy houses about one hundred forty people with families living here. it's really a way of forming say a man. police their sons coming in and heating their house and being stored in massive walls. sagebrush

the federal emergency management agency actually did spend significant sums to aid puerto rico providing some one point three billion dollars in support to survivors however some many allocations are raising questions in particular the cruise ship which was books to host fame aid workers and first responders the so-called floating hotel docked in the virgin islands the main island of puerto rico cost them seventy five million dollars for a four month runs and that's actually more money than the money dished out to help the village an island survive this as of march first more than seventy million in themis individual assistance has been distributed there reckless the survivors so how them get back on their feet to make matters worse the floating hotel remained hof and the contract that has been defended by carnival the company which owns the fleet it stresses the way the ship was to be used was never part of the obligations we commit to who use of a ship for an extended period of time whether or not fema was go into the ship or not or feel that with relief workers that wasn't part of our

federal emergency management agency to comment on the issue they said that they'd respond as soon as they could. wrap things up for the news hour just thirty two minutes to go about with latest updates see them. hello and welcome to worlds apart just a few here is a good day to you know if you are feeling i'm devil in the bow of the united states and reopening for business with russia it seemed like crazy talk in some corners it's still nice but it's donald trump continues to spread in europe with tariffs and secondary sanctions can lead to push and seize the moment while to discuss it i'm knowledge joined by a woman she's a former chancellor of austria and i'm former president of the european council chancellor it's a great honor talking to thank you very much for your time and now you've heard my introduction and as far fetched as it may be i feel like there is that. a bit of a competition for europe's hearts. you have a new american administration treating europe with less subtlety in them europe is used.

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federal monetary emergency management agency f.e.m.a. to comment on the issue they said they will as soon as possible but it is also international about half an hour's time the russian president's i knew address to the public you can join us we'll dip in and out of it but the key highlights of his statements for the meantime though we are back in about half an hour just before the russian president speaks. i. thought. it was. kind. of the committee going on in james olmos. you don't consume don't you that in talking to them just a deal in the sand on down the aisle soon enough that equal border towns is also means only that it's a stance move on. don't we don't see only. to those on. the side of the sitting on. the. not. ever will see a. gold. bar . code of welcome to worlds apart just a few years ago they feel you are filling ambivalent about the united states and reopening for business but russia has seemed like a crazy talk in some corners it's still nice but it's donald trump continues to spread to europe with tariffs and secondary s

new hurricane season and that's why donald trump has arrived at the aged care of the federal emergency management agency with maloney is a parents alongside him arguably during more attention first lady maloney a trump has just made her first appearance before the media for the first time in twenty six days first lady malani a trump attended a fema briefing with her husband today her first time in front of a camera nearly a month the first lady malani a trump was with her husband the president this afternoon for a briefing about the hurricane season it all comes as where expecting the release of all death certificates following hurricane maria which will shed light on the real scale of the tragedy is thoughts the fischel death toll of just sixty four has been severely underestimated nevertheless has that changed the high opinion the trump administration has about the way it dealt with the disaster. still thinks his response to the hurricane is far greater than. in order for us to move say almost by. the federal response once again was a historic proportion we're continuing to work with the people puerto

anticipate 96 hours out and what are the missions that we would request of fema or the federal emergency management agency and the department of defense, and in particular, the navy. this year we're going to focus on communications. and what type of redundant communications we can bring into the city if those are comprised. and we will be working close with the port on a fuel staging area on pier 96, and we will be asking the state and fand the by area, plan, and we want to see what that looks like to be deed how and for a regional catastrophic event categorization. and are there any questions or comments around those two items before i turn it over to brian strong? brian, would you like to all the conference on resiliency? need more prep time? >> as someone who is going to talk -- all right. >> we want to leave time for conversation. >> got it. and the last couple of months when we spoke with you and a lot of work has been happening. we will talk about the lifeline restoration and you have heard about this before. and we actually have now scheduled 14 interviews with different lifeline providers includin

government's response to the hurricane, and after attending meetings with fema, the federal emergency management agency in san juan the most inefficient place on earth. was that the frustration? that it was just bureaucratic? that there were a lot of meetings and you felt like things weren't getting done? >> andres: we were already feeding 100,000 people a day, and i needed their help to make sure we had money to keep buying the food to keep feeding these never-ending needs of people in need. and there is where-- call it red tape. nothing was happening. >> cooper: fema did award andres' world central kitchen two short-term contracts worth $11.5 million to provide 1.8 million meals, but the agency refused to grant them a third, longer-term contract. andreÉs thinks the overall response to disaster relief needs to change. >> andres: the people of the federal government are great people. but then it's red tape, that sometimes doesn't allow that same people to be successful. i didn't put the name "emergency" in fema. i didn't. but somebody's going to have to tell me the meaning of emergency. to me, when we'

, president trump went out of his way to go to a big public hesitation at the federal environment emergency management agencys prepared for the next hurricane season that had begun a couple of days before and low and behold, after an absence on the tv screens ofa after an absence on the tv screens of a month, the first lady appeared by his side. so he knows that building coastal resilience in florida, in louisiana, in texas, hurricane marina and katrina is vital to maintaining that part of this political base as the mid—term elections approach on november six. so it would be irrational in the extreme if a us president walk out ofa extreme if a us president walk out of a collective approach to try and build that coastal resilience at such an enormous, immediate, partisan political cost. thank you very much for your insight. and of course, is that story develops will bring you more. and fry comprehensive analysis of the g7 and the final communique which has now been rejected by donald trump, you can go to the bbc website, where you can go to the bbc website, where you will also find background information on p

i'm requesting that the federal emergency management agency expedite the release for the essential power program immediately so that project contracts -- subcontractors may be paid as soon as possible and recovery efforts continue. mr. speaker, when contractors lay off workers, our economy falters. as hurricane season is beginning, this needs to be done now. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on june 7, 2018, at 9:04 a.m. that the senate passed senate 1692, that the senate passed senate 2857, that the senate passed with an amendment h.r. 88, that the senate passed without an amendment h.r. 1397, that the senate passed without an amendment h.r. 1719, that the senate passed without an amendment h.r. 1900. with best wishes i am, signed sincerely, karen l. haas.

host: on hurricanes and similar storms, what is the role of the federal emergency management agency?e agency -- are they the agency to help in preparations or more focused on reaction and recovery? guest: they are more focused on reaction and recovery. it is part of their job to tell preparehat to do to they had done that, but they are more of an emergency aspirants agency, although the to play a will and preparedness. on the federal level, when agency we look at in terms of preparing resilience is housing and urban development because they control the federally funded buildings. those can be schools, housing. hoodwe are looking for is to invest in those buildings to ensure they are not vulnerable when storms come. host: when they invest in something like hud or a piece of the fema budget, can localities happened to it to help in preparations? guest: i do not believe so but it is possible. i know localities -- a lot of preparation is up to localities. and you look at hurricane harvey, which hit houston, one reason it was so bad is because the city of houston had approved so much deve

at a briefing on hurricane season preparedness at the washington headquarters of the federal emergency management agencya seemingly routine event that would not be newsworthy, but her low-key presence, she sat by her husband's side and nodded as her husband and other official spoke, marked the first time she had been seen by the media in nearly a month, capping the end of an unusual absence from sight, unusual even from the first lady who is known for pricing her privacy. president trump, his big summit coming up next week with north korean leader kim jong-un, one thing the summit will not be as predictable. today" they "usa write among the unknowns is the definition of denuclearization, north korean demands, and the number of meetings that will take place. the white house confirmed that the opening trump-kim meeting is set for 9:00 a.m. singapore time on tuesday. the session will be at the capello house just off the singapore man lang. -- mainland. day monday for events -- leaving all day monday for events, and the day is blank on tuesday morning, leaving open the possibility of more sessions in the af

she served at the federal emergency management agency, the department of homeland security and the u.s. house of representatives transportation and infrastructure committee, the house government reform and oversight committee as a staffer as well as in the office of senator bob dole, one of my predecessors in the united states senate. like many of the kansans i've known who come here to washington, d.c. to work, have come here over the years, she found her way back home to kansas when she returned to her hometown and became the vice president of the farmers and drovers bank in 2010. in 2017, miss bowman became the state bank commissioner for our state where she is currently responsible for overseeing hundreds of state chartered banks, trust companies, money transmitters, and other nondepository entities. miss bowman is precisely the kind of person i envision to fill the community bank representative on the board of governors. the federal reserve act now requires, and we worked hard to make sure this was the case, now requires that the president, quote, appoint at least one member with