and more democratic liberia. the united states and liberia share close historical, policecal, and economic ties -- political and economic ties over the course of our nearly 200-year relationship. the united states is home to 80,000 people of liberian ancestry. his resolution commends this deis a practice population which has -- diaspra population which has been instrumental in build a prosperous liberia. i yield back the balance of my time, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back his time. the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. engel: mr. speaker, i rise in support of this measure, and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he wishes to use. mr. engel: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank representative donovan for his work on this resolution which reaffirms united states' relationship with liberia and calls for the government of liberia to hold accountable of those who carried out mass violence and atr

the carter center trained 144 mental health clinicians in liberia.small feat in a countryith almost no access to medicine and just one psychiatrist for a population of four million. >> at timepeople say maybe someone bewitched another person. >> reporter: these clinicians work with traditional healers, churches and hospitals to deliver front-line mental health care that respects the culture in a country where the mentally ill are often outcast and sometimes brutally punished. psychotherapist rodney presley is the former head of e.s. grant psychiatric hospital in monrovia. >> there are people you chained like dogs to a tree because the n'mily just does not know what to do, they doknow that there is treatment available. they are under the impression that the individual ha witched or is possessed. eporter: aaron debah is graduate of the carter center iogram and is the only mental health clinicinimba county, a rural part of liberia that's home to half a million people. debah works with ebola survivor support groups in nta, a city devastated by the virus.

>> no. >> is that common in liberia?hey prioritize the boys' education over girls? >> yes, boys go to school and girls stay in the home. >> that's very brave of you to stay -- to stay on your father and say you should pay my fees, i want to go to school. you know you're brave. do you feel brave? >> yeah. >> do you feel courageous? >> yes. >> you are courageous. in the rare moments when her chores are done and her school work is complete, tina loves to read stories to other children. so michelle obama is coming. what do you want to say to her if you get the chance? is there something you want to tell her? >> help our women to go to school for something better. >> later i talked to tina's father off camera. he never felt that her education was very important. until that moment she was just his daughter, unremarkable. but now he seemed proud of her. maybe for the first time. >> hi, peter, it's isha with cnn. i'm about to meet the girls who will be spending time with the first lady and they've got a couple of questions. for

so far he's staying on the barge until he raises over $2 million for clean water in liberia. >> you could. >> it's a pun! >> got to know when to fold it sometimes. [laughter] >> you do say it a lot. set your dvrs, never miss an episode of "the five." "special report" up next. take it away, bret. >> bret: president trump says democrats want to bring illegal immigrants into the u.s., provide free health care and energy, the right to vote, stick taxpayers with the bill. all part of the president's lengthy explanation for his refusal to accept migrants across the southern border. critics say he's playing on fears and stoking them with a controversial video he tweeted today. one thing is clear: immigration or securing the border is the focus of the president's message before midterms.

food to harvest and the physical water, flash flooding destroyed the village in liberia where we worked. i had breakfast with ellen johnson. we visited liberia quite a bit and she would say when i was growing up there were two renee seasons and they were predictable to the day. now i don't know when the rainy season will come or for how long. i became aware of this injustice and it brought home to me, i am hearing, organizing before copenhagen and there would be tribunals and i had my elders had on, and the chair at the elders at the time. we were listening to five farmers from africa. one stays in my mind, the first full story in the book, from uganda, i could see, becoming very depressed, hearing the stories one after the other and i remember my father in the west of ireland as a doctor, a medical doctor, i was a lonely daughter. and he would talk about the farmers. the farmer always complained about the weather. i said to these fine farmers, is this just complaining as farmers do? constance always stood up to say something important, she makes a point of that. she stood up and said n

plus, a report on the challenges of providing mental health care in liberia following an ebola outbreaklong aftermath of a brutal civil war. >> we'd go to meetingsnd people would acknowledge that psychosocial support is important. but mostly they were thinking about how to get mattresses and thckets and those kinds of gs to people and food, very important, but not about how you es

plus, a report on the challenges oferoviding mental health c in liberia following an ebola outbreak ing aftermath of a brutal civil war. >> we'd go to meetings and people would acknowledge that psychosocial support is important. but mostly they were thinking about how to get mattresses and buckets and those kinds of

liberia may be but that's the last word he better change his mind.and it's so important because in this moment with and american society that they same that one to share that same prejudice that arc of the moral universe it's true we don't live in the moral universe in the united states. and in my judgment i devote two chapters to this the chapter on race is the pattern with the liberal view is gradual improvement over time. that's true but we are down here. and a significant portion never understanding the full implications of the civil rights and not just people of the former confederacy that this is ripe stuff as we approach 2045 and the white population is scheduled to become a statistical minority even though retaining the book of the economic and political power, we could fully expect demagogues total ground for demagogues. in the end getting there would be hard. and a struggle and like cancer will keep getting better but never cure it. but this starts with the last line from the great gatsby and is populated that i was so fascinated with james

egypt just about but then it's fairly dry all the way down through north africa one to showers in liberia and sierra leone otherwise nothing much. i think this is fun for me to think i'm having fun. if she. isn't her controversies hunters and beaches. just as it is time to. thank. the racing to someone not just looking. welcome back critical top stories a turkish president you're type one says they shared already a recording is related to the murder of jamal khashoggi with saudi arabia the united states person france and germany meanwhile yemeni military officials say pro-government forces of seized the main hospital in the key port city of data where they stepped up their offensive on the french and u.s. presence of smoothed over ace add on defense as they met in paris with their attendant while one commemorations on his way to france donald trump attacked emanuel markdowns call for a european army. you know the stories we're watching the democratic republic of congo says it's facing its worst outbreak in the country's recorded history the government says the virus has killed nearly two

security council the previous involvement in diversion of weapons to south sudan to charles taylor's liberia earlier in the century and it's these kinds of standards it's spotting these kinds of red flags that exporting states need to get better at doing our writer mike lewis we thank you very much for speaking to us on al-jazeera. now supporters of ousted prime minister rudd overcome a single have pushed through a vote in parliament to cut funding to the new prime minister's office so the president replaced work with former leader departs on last month funding the country into a deepening political crisis violence broke out in parliament when those loyal to rajapaksa rejected to no confidence votes against him both men insist they are the lawful prime minister let's cross live someone else fernandez in colombo so now that we have a vote and it's another vote against rajapaksa mel will he step down. that's the million dollar question right now. we haven't heard any immediate reaction from his camp but right from yesterday we started hearing sort of the lines out of the rajapaksa camp was tha

i'm a correspondent at cnn, and this is how my trip to liberia is getting started. >> i'm meryl streeple obama on a trip to africa. >> the first lady's let

egypt just about but then it's fairly dry all the way down through north africa one to showers in liberia and sierra leone otherwise nothing much. american man spoke out against french colonial rule and was exiled. removed i saluted bergstrom is to be huge. he spoke out against the regime and was sentenced to life imprisonment he spent twenty two months in hiding thirteen years in exile and seventeen years in jail. al-jazeera well tells the story of the dissident abraham so fatty morocco's montana. welcome back a quick look at the top stories this hour turkish president russia says they have shed or your recordings relating to the murder of jamal khashoggi with saudi arabia the united states person france and germany. yemeni military officials say pro-government forces have seized the main hospital in the key port city of the data but they've stepped up their offensive on the french and us presidents of smooth diverse national defense as they met in paris without attending world war one commemorations on his way to france donald trump attacked emanuel back on school for a european army. w

egypt just about but then it's fairly dry all the way down through north africa one to showers in liberia and sierra leone otherwise nothing much. it is murder when you throw a fire bomb into someone's home and mishit off you know. not insignificant in numbers that insignificant ideologically that insignificant event is a crime against down very significant by dictating big government in the fucked up policy now shall not kill the radicalized series on al-jazeera. welcome back here without zero life from the heart these are the top stories so far today the u.s. and french president say saudi arabia should have shed more light on the murder of the saudi journalist. presidents in paris and that donald trump ahead of the centenary commemorations marking the end of the first world war that follows revelations from the turkish president won the anchorage audio recordings of last moments with several world powers. leaders from seventy countries are in the french capital for the one hundredth anniversary of the end of world war one the u.s. and french leaders it was a chance to smooth over tensi

liberia's finance ministry is reported to have employees from wearing wigs and covering their head when sun had extensions are common accessory for liberian women the proposed regulation has been condemned as discriminatory attempt to police where the new policy supporters say some has also not suited for the professional working environment he took a camera on to the streets of the capital monrovia to hear how people feel about this new policy. and how any wetness is up on this night the way we should but you would not know with i think we've. run out well for i had to carry. it would not be. there when he went out wherever they can to make sure. that when this is that we've already given you know you got if you not that what you're really coming you don't want to. be like or you have us all going up like a little for my part as a religious man because. he's also a man. who are you doing want to make them want to reach for the one particular agenda if you do that because this community because you have men every year in the obviousness and the black. now oil provides and gold is govern

so when it was attempted once in liberia it resulted in massive riots. in certain areas it was more to tolerated for periods of time. and so the quarantine here is to close off a community so that disease is not introduced into the community. and in some cases near the end of the outbreak response, they did something that was sort of called microer is collage. so if an individual was in a community or there was a community that was at risk or had a member who was ill, that community was cordoned off but supported with food, as you point out, and resources to make sure that you could have a productive life and weren't essentially being closed off to fend for yourself. in terms of isolation for cases, if you look at the literature in terms of smallpox both in how it was taken care of in rural america and also in some of the african countries, families would isolate a family member who had the disease outside the home and support them with food, but this was sort of a way of keeping the rest of the family protected support iing the fami member, but preventi

administration on the stuff going on in india, nigeria, and so on -- liberia, nigeria, and so on?ly wti kind of .trading at a range what are futures telling us about what it could be? has been and a change in the market. a couple of months ago, it was not uncommon to talk about $100 or barrel. bet. not a firm over the last couple of ways, that has really dissipated, and you do not hear that. people are bearish, but on the other hand, we're not talking about hundred dollars a barrel. francine: mike, everyone has a bloomberg terminal, trying to figure whether this is bearish or bullish on some of the equities. what is the ideal oil price? mike: somewhere around $70. it has to be said that the opec meeting is sort of important, whether we get an official cut or maybe the alternative option or compliance of production cuts, which they have used in the past to stabilize the market. they will probably be some soothing words. it has to be said, though, there has been a big washout of the in the oil position market, and perhaps a scale of the move is over exaggerated. look at the, if you

right next to him, you will see a map of liberia that is still being referenced at the pentagon today, because he was an engineer and he made maps. when he and the buffalo soldiers were at sequoia in kings canyon, he was actually part of the corps of engineers that helps to create the roads and trails that are still being used today when you visit the park. this happened at the grand canyon. this happened at you 70. these black man -- this happened at yosemite. our firstk man were rangers. of course, the army was doing a work at the national parks and we eventually took over, but you thenever underestimate power of what the buffalo soldiers' legacy embodies. young loved wilberforce. he raised his family there. his wife, ada young loved wilberforce. so colonel young loved wilberforce. s wife, ada young, loved wilberforce. she was a member of a church so there was -- this was a second home to her. colonel young created band at on force city and moved different position but he could have lived anywhere in the country in harlem, in washington, d.c., because of who he was but he chose to s