and i am a volunteer i'm not paid for my position i've been a volunteer and in my national society for many years this is a this is a passion for fashion for humanity try to improve. the way in which we live together and for me this is my always my priority and i having the owner in there is for somebody to do the most important most relevant or going to your money door it's really well mr rocca because it's a volunteering effort how do you keep your faith in what you're doing alive seeing the misery the violence the suffering proliferated to an extent they have been for the past decade or so yet but for for us this is. a mission i am not the only one we have seventeen people i've decided to dedicate your life to to set of humanity. over your nine hour legacy oh of course. it's a question to sacrifice part of our work time and maybe the first. prize and these are our families our friends but this is why we have decided to to serve in our organization and in the red cross red crescent. volunteers base for as the volunteers out of the core of our action the local level and i will do my b

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so volunteers from both national societies on working around the clock in order to. evacuate people from under vertebrate and provide them with first aid. and and what is the situation situation force of arms that is an awful lot of injured people and do you have enough. the medical equipment to treat them all. first in iran ethnic here that. years the severity of the earth cliff is there is. more difficult for the iranians says there are a lot of senate people industry because out few diplomat lives that are. more than one hundred fourteen an after shock still people are afraid to found additional damages and collapsed as. you can see people in the theater but the iranian that lessons are distributing tents and blankets. and put it in in that lesson the hard enough for talks ended warehouses that have very long experience that responding earthquakes. so for iran that there are s needed for. a we are waiting for the results of the assessment and the international federation of across will support the immaculate president and the iranian as needed. alright rhonda cass

better protect the people who work for you yes i mean that's why we're here today hundred ninety national societies from around the world have gathered to discuss exactly those issues we've seen that the world is getting more and more complex not only are we seeing more natural disasters but we're also seeing more very complex emergencies where we have a mix of disaster conflicts and also very often disease outbreaks as well this means we need to be prepared to be able to respond very quickly and we also need to be investing more in the preparedness and reduction in risks to be able to cope with this so this conference this week is very forward looking we're looking at how the world is rapidly changing we're trying to project over the next ten years what those challenges are going to be and we're trying to ask those deep questions of how can we do it better now and how can we make sure we are fit for the future to be able to respond to all of these emerging needs and the increasing complexity in the world you've just elected a new president for the next four years and from what i gathered from what

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today, four prestige us william associations including the national society of film critics voted toqualify disney films from the year end award presentations after that disney revoked the ban on the l.a. times. >>> all right what's it like way up there for the first time we get an npds look in the sales force tower. the tower literally towers over the san francisco sky line. take a look. it's the tallest building on the west coast. you might have known that process. it has floor to ceiling windows on the top froor. the floor will be used as an event space when the building opens next year. >> well it's a deal between ub err lyft and the city of frist. >>> after months of negotiation mayor ed lee agreed to a pilot program, to convert come parring spaces in painted curbs used by the ride share drivers. in exchange the companies hand over traffic data that help to ease traffic. >>> a major milestone for self-driving cars. way missouri is kicking human drivers to the curb. they've been testing. and says it's time that the autonomous cars go it alone. tests will continue over the next fe

memories and how to deal with earthquakes that that's happening in iran right now through this national society that is really making really red cross and also the government to spreading information now to deal with the earthquake another victim that is usually forgotten are the people who are left on the the rubble and they need to be basically a proper management of. needs to take place in such a situation where people are matched with the families so that the return to the families that belong to a normal snatch happens we are still receiving further information on what's happening on the ground but there is always that is all we have up to the moment or at mr house we thank you very much for your time and bringing us up to speed with what you are hearing from both sides of the border but especially in iran val's house joining us live from baghdad thank you well let's go to our correspondent and ron karnow he's joining us from the iraqi capital baghdad and ralph hello howard giving us the situation in iran and iran where it is very hard for emergency services to to get. that's absolutely ri

she's also an author and a national board member of filipino-american national historical society. to the show. dawn bohulano mabalon: thank you. thank you for having me. robert: dr. mabalon, give me an idea here in terms of why you decided to be a part of this. dawn: well, i--you know, i was so fortunate to have a grandmother who was completely organized. and when my mom and her siblings cleaned out and sold her house, we found all the old super 8s in a box and organized. and she actually did--she had actually transformed them into vhs tapes in the 80s. and those had deteriorated, so i had seen some of them already. but the original super 8s were all intact and all together, so very blessed. robert: yeah, my father did the same thing. he transferred them to vhs, and then i preserved them on a dvd. dawn: my aunt preserved them onto dvd too, and then now we have them digitized, and so it's amazing. robert: they were so smart for people not being familiar with the new technology, huh? dawn: i think my grandparents were on the new technology. i mean, they were using super 8 in the 50s

of course we must be able not only to attract but even to retain that building an accountable national society accountable organization in which they can feel respected and protected that. we do need this reporter all the actors but first of all we have to start in to build a. really transparent organization i'm just looking at a question here we broadcast this program on facebook live and some of our questions viewers i should say send and questions. and one of her regular viewers has made a point about so many things health care systems famine epidemics war affected civilians there are so many things what would you say is the most acute situation right now which you and your teams face. or you but you know you're touched. as we are having of course people on people on the move often he's the consequences of many day of the of the challenges that you have mentioned and that and this is the front line that i think about what we are doing and what we are facing in bangladesh. new town of six hundred thousand people are being built in only a few weeks people live in terrible condition and these

the course of a single lifetime, the japanese people have built one of the most successful societies and nations in the world. over the next ten days, we travel to south korea, china, vietnam, and the philippines. we will seek new opportunities for cooperation, and we will partner with friends and allies to pursue a free and open indo pacific region. we will seek free, fair, and reciprocal trade. but this future is only within our grasp because of you. you make it possible for peace loving nations to thrive, and for peace loving people to prosper. you are the reason the great american flag will proudly stand behind me wherever i go. and every time i look at that flag, i will think of brave men and women like you, and i will think of all of the american patriots down through the generations who poured out their blood, sweat, tears, hopes, and dreams to defend our country. when you follow your citizens, and people across the indo pacific region see the flags of free and sovereign states, like the united states and japan, be proud of your service and be proud of the security you provide that makes

for many years i was the explorer in residence for the national geographic society, study how are species of pipe with the world and since 2015 i have lived here in austin. i'm the founder and ceo of the consumer genomics firm in town, and co-owner of a nightclub which is -- [applause] >> i would like to introduce our authors. we have juli berwald was an austin-based side letter, and editors contribute to publications such as the "new york times," naked, national geographic and slate. she is a phd in ocean science and university of southern california and she lives here in austin she's the author of "spineless" which we will be talking about today. [applause] >> then we have peter wadhams who is the purpose of ocean physics and head of the polar ocean physics group at cambridge university in the uk. he's held visiting professorships at the national institutes of polar research, the university of washington, currently at the scripps institution of oceanography and he is the author of "a farewell to ice" which we will be discussing as well. [applause] >> next, a couple quick reminder that a

really enjoyed it. >> the federal society's national lawyers convention is taking a break now. they will return in about an hour or so and we'll hear from white house counsel don mcgann. it is supposed to start at 5:30 eastern and we'll have it for you live when it starts. >> this weekend on book tv, live coverage of the miami book fair starting saturday at 10:po a.m. eastern. msnbc's chris matthews on the political life of bobby kennedy. best selling biographer arthur isaacson on leonardo da vinci. and nbc news' katy tur on covering the trump campaign. our live coverage continues on sunday at 10:30 a.m. eastern with journalist cheryl atkinson on how smear tactics are used to influence public opinion. political commentator charles sykes offers his thoughts on the conservative movement. cnn's ben jones weighs in on partisan politics and beverly daniel tatum looks at race relations in the united states. watch our live weekend coverage of the miami book fair this weekend on spoint's -- spoint's book tv. this weekend on american history tv on c-span 3, saturday at noon eastern, the

. >> reporter: members of the national honor society at bodine high school among those helping out today you just never know their story i feel like even if you're at the very bottom you should always give help. >> that's the whole point of thanksgiving giving to other and and being grateful for what you have. >> they got a chance to grab some clothing left by runners last weekend. >> you can come clothes, shoes, sneakers it's a blessing. to people that really need it. look at everybody out here. it's a blessing. >> reporter: he is chosen 300 ministries executive director brian jenkins. for jenkins, this is a way to pay it forward. >> i actually was an orphan here in philadelphia grew up in foster care and i know what it is for somebody to rescue and to save you and provide an avenue for you to have hope. >> chosen 300 certainly serve up hope. the organization dishes out 150,000 meals a year throughout the philadelphia region. it also provides resources and support for families and individuals trying to pick themselves up and get back on their feet. iain? >> all right, dawn, thank you. >

is deeply, deeply corrosive of our cohesion as a nation, and that goes to not just our societyhe politics of the country. the government says 1.8 million more children are in good or outstanding schools than in 2010 and the national living wage is helping to boost salaries. like many other small market towns, job opportunities in newark are limited, many people have no option but to commute if they want to climb up the career ladder. relax your shoulders... and that's why starting young could make all the difference, but there's only so much schools can do. with budgets being squeezed everywhere, this could have a lasting impact on the country's future. adina campbell, bbc news, newark. if you'd like to know how social mobility varies across your local authority, if you live in england, you can go to the bbc news website and click on the map to find out. 2,500 staff have been redung tan at the palmer and harvey. the company has collapsed into administration. the nhs in england must do better at learning from mistakes to reduce the number of baby deaths and injuries in childbirt

today, he was one of the featured speakers at the federalist society's natural -- national lawyers convection -- convention in washington dc. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. it is a great pleasure to be with you and look at this overflow audience. foricularly it is an honor me to be able to introduce a gentleman i have known for a long time. he is a good friend and certainly a person i have great admiration for. appreciate we all the many responsibilities of the attorney general. course, the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government. legal advise -- advisor to the executive branch. he has a special responsibility to the people of the country to be sure that the constitution is preserved and protected. , past career, of jeff sessions could not have been better to make him such an ideally qualified person for this responsibility. restarted hisnow, career after private law practice, his public service was as an assistant u.s. attorney. and then he was appointed by ronald reagan in his first term as the u.s. attorney for the southern district of alabama. he later on was electe

way for reform in this major human rights issue does mean ahmed shafik looks at a nation's journey to more equal society in recent years starting to stick in the lead to protecting rights for people who identify as. in two thousand and fourteen it became the seventeenth country in the world to legalize same sex marriage. and the mileage and some of partnership scotland bill is passed thanks both in two thousand and fifteen and sixteen scotland was internationally recognized as the best country in europe l g b t equality and human rights a private member's bill put forward by former s.n.p. m.p. john ical soon in the u.k. parliament sought to pardon men convicted of historical steam six sexual offenses unfortunately it was effectively talked out filibustered emotions ran high in calls of she was doing it the minister that a pardon for the living takes place fatally r.t. due process to complete i know it was last week scotland again took the lead and apologized for these injustices today as first minister i categorically unequivocally and wholeheartedly apologize for those laws and for the heart and the ha

society . has become a national event these students have shown up early this year on their classmate late hours can have a police escort and police aren't allowed to take off or land during the english listening. when a rare earthquake damaged buildings in the southern regions of the country the exam was postponed across the nation by a week but it is no longer a make or break event for everyone while her classmates were cramming in the hours before the test known as the tsunami. was relaxing in a cafe with a friend she attends a specialized school and has already been accepted into university through a relatively new system which considers high school grades essays and extracurricular activities instead of the single exam i feel grateful because i know there are some people who who look towards the tsunami as if that's their last chance to prove themselves and they study so hard to just show everything that they have studied and one day a growing number of students have been opting for the new system today only thirty percent of university applications are based primarily on exam results. the

i have been part of the national honor society highway cleanup. every spring and fall they walk the sides of the road picking up trash making our town look beautiful. mr. speaker, this is a pofferings michelle's essay. i -- portion of michelle's essay. i will ask unanimous consent to submit the full essay into the congressional record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. thompson: and i will close with her final paragraph. civic engagements are abundant in our community. the local fireman's pancake breakfast to the city council meetings, civic activities are occurring all around us. it's the obligation of the citizen to engage in these activities, to assist with local challenges and to create a better community for all its members. mr. speaker, i couldn't agree more. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from california, ms. roybal-allard, for five minutes. ms. roybal-allard: mr. speaker, last week the labor-hhs appropriations subcommittee had a most r

we are joined now by jane harris from the national autistic society.. it isjust settings. they might be bright lights, a lot of noise. it is just a new environment for children to get used to, and it might not be clear to autistic children what the rules are in that environment. so for some children it might be obvious, where they are meant to go, what they are meant to do at playtime, particularly. and that is why it is really important that teachers understand autism, that the head teacher takes a really proactive approach to this. but unfortunately, as this report shows, the education system is holding these children back. these children are not getting the right support. so many frustrated parents getting in touch with us today. i am sure you have heard many of these before. samantha says i am a single mum of an autistic teenager. everyday i am in with either the school or the education department to help my son. they make him feel isolated, mad, and the only person experiencing this. is that a familiar frame?” and the only person experiencing this

society groups, women's groups. tunisia is an example of where a national labor union and women's civil society groups have actually managed to bring about something that looks like a nascent democracy. so i'm giving up. >> egypt, after mubarak there is a movement toward more democracy in egypt? no in egypt, the egyptian military rulers look an awful lot like military rulers, but underneath, again, there are civil society group wiz ought to be supporting to try to help. what happens in the middle east is that at the moment when you have a chance for a democratic opening, the strongest institutions are often the radical islamists. why is that? it's not an accident. it's because leaders like mubarak destroyed the foundation of more liberal institutions and parties who might have been a foundation of democracy. but they didn't destroy the radical islamists who organized and radical mosques so they were the best organized when elects came. we have to hem more liberal forces be organized when opportunity comes. >> then on the middle east, israel. either a one-state solution or two-state solution itch if you have a one-s

today, he was one of the featured speakers at the federalist society's natural -- national lawyers convection -- convention in washington dc. good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. it is a great pleasure to be with you and look at this overflow audience. foricularly it is an honor me to be able to introduce a gentleman i have known for a long time. he is a good friend and certainly a person i have great admiration for. appreciate we all the many responsibilities of the attorney general. course, the chief law enforcement officer of the federal government. legal advise -- advisor to the executive branch. he has a special responsibility to the people of the country to be sure that the constitution is preserved and protected. , past career, of jeff sessions could not have been better to make him such an ideally qualified person for this responsibility. restarted hisnow, career after private law practice, his public service was as an assistant u.s. attorney. and then he was appointed by ronald reagan in his first term as the u.s. attorney for the southern district of alabama. he later on was electe

nation. we know we are an open society. we know that our way of life will allow those who want to disrupt it opportunities, and we want to do everything we can to make them safe. we want to make sure we have the strongest possible vetting system on who comes to america, and that we use the most advanced intelligence in order to try to understand what people are doing that are trying to harm us and that we have a strong homeland security and national defense. it is interesting, the president is always selective on how he deals with vulnerability. he does not talk about his budget that did not fund these programs that were critically important to keep america safe. he talks about one part of an immigration policy recognizing that we need comprehensive immigration reform. we desperately need comprehensive immigration reform. the united states senate passed that four years ago, and actually dealt with diversity visas that he is referring to in a positive way. let's work together to improve our immigration system, but don't dema

last year we were able to fund 380 research projects solely from the national ms society.rldwide at $42 million. >> wow. >> ms is a disease that really affects everybody differently. so we call eight snowflake disease because just like snowflakes, ms is just so different. >> not necessarily a specific thing you could look for. >> there's not a specific thing you can look for. everybody's story is different. ms is a chronic and progressive disease of the central nervous system. so the brain and the spinal cord and what it does, it really interrupts communication between the brain and the spinal cord and the rest of the body. so depending upon, you know, where that disruption and communication is will then display itself in the symptoms. symptoms range from fatigue 80% of people with ms have fatigue and it's not the fatigue i'm tired i need a nap i'll wake up and feel better you don't wake up and feel better. >> you feel leak something is reasoning. >> yes. >> i'm so impressed by people who do these runs by the way. one of the things when we've done a couple of walks for alz

quite frankly, as a direct violation of the society of national journalists code of ethics.is to avoid conflict of interests real or perceived and avoid political and other outside activities on my compromise. >> this is quite disturbing. what were your initial thoughts? >> i was not surprised. it's actually deadly serious because he's not only the foundation, if you will of every left-wing supporter and politician from camilla harris to former president obama, but he also has an international network that he funds to openly undermine governments and counter policies. one of the scandals i hope is investigated is something that six u.s. senators have been asked to look into which is how our government is funding ngos that are tied and actually contradicting u.s. foreign policy in places such as macedonia or zimbabwe. "the washington post" is in bed with these folks, it makes me a little concerned. i'm not all that surprised though. >> george soros is a big problem, but just behind him, there is a new richest man, he's with $100 million. he conveniently owns "the washington p

until the nineteenth century the kurds didn't have a national identity they merely saw themselves as subjects of the ottoman empire as part of ottoman society ineos on an empire identity who is defined by religious rather than national terms there was mens and no muslims since the kurds were muslims they were treated like the majority of muslims or that they had semi autonomous status they too had to pay taxes and do military service that prevented the development of a national consciousness until the end of the nineteenth century only when the autumn an era came to an end did this consciousness arise in reaction to the empires turkey vacation. tells us that when they realized they were different they were oppressed they had been assimilated and extinguished. washed and there's a lot lonelier they are developed that would tunnel under this pressure. after the autumn ins were defeated there were plans to create a state for the kurds that's what it says in the treaty of seven which settled the details of the breakup of the ottoman empire. an autonomous kurdish region was to be established in eastern anatolia neighboring and mean in state. the

in high school she was a member of the national honors society, received the principal's academic award and an oakland scholar athlete, a member of the track and field team all four years of high school. hi yun is a senior at the university of michigan majoring in english. she volunteers with the red cross and copresident of an organization called the supply which raises money to help students in nairobi, kenya, obtain an education. as copresident hi yun expanded the company's efforts. she is a program intern for the asian policy advancing center. as she completes her last year of college her dream is to become a lawyer to defend civil rights. she wrote me a letter and he's what she said. although i'm legally labeled as an alien in this country i call home, i believe i'm an american and i believe this not solely because i live, study, work and contribute in this country, but because i believe in the core values all americans share as a nation: liberty, justice, and prosperity. hi yun and other dreamers have so much to contribute to our country. but without daca or the dream act, they wi

there is the thing to so close and hear in my leader of civil society kind of thing getting in and from a democratic nation under the rule of law who for thirty years gone to lots of disasters and humanitarian situations and i'm not allowed to visit we were told to do that there was no way we'd be allowed past the checkpoint on the way to the prison. the men taken out brought here to loring the main town on the island then your accommodation is near here and australia's government says it's ready for them and they should have moved in weeks ago but i've seen some of the accommodation and the still heavy machinery working on it and we tried to film a new home from a nearby road so private security tracks stopped us this is the accommodation of the refugees are moving so the australian government says it's ready to go. but is that because there are trucks there it's clearly still being worked on but the state of the new camp isn't the major issue for the refugees our protest our resistance is. the main reason is because our freedom we want our freedom we didn't come from. prison for ever they fear being dump

national interests however they always to. to make that information available for society in a way that it's legal and i would say. we don't have any protection for whistleblowers at all if you do have protection for we saw what was on in the public sector as well as in the private sector that information would have being can be made public and that actually puts pressure on the parliament to become more on this is in and do their business in favor off the public but. those whistleblowers are not protected they use no real. force there who requests for. or forces to parliament to look at. issue seriously i mean if you consider the three had looks leaks we had. leaks we have to paradise leaks slowly but surely the parliament are going to be interested in an issue but it simply takes time because that information becomes known to the parliament and they are forced to do so but it's an easy way to do it i mean basically if you have to protection a face to blowers in both sexes it will work then. as i'm sure you understand that also a fact said in very powerful interest and perhaps that that's where the reluctance to

today, jeff sessions and don mcgann will deliver keynote remarks at the federalist society's national lawyers convention here in washington. live convention -- live coverage at 2:00 eastern. also online at c-span.org, where you can listen with this free c-span radio app. looking live at the u.s. capital where both parties of congress have left for the thinks giving holiday. before the house gaveled out, they pass the republican tax 5.form bill, approved 227-20 13 republicans joined with democrats voting against the measure. the senate continues working on its measure of tax reform. senate finance committee finished its work yesterday. debate got heated at times, including this moment between orrin hatch and democrat sherrod brown. >> they know the tv ads that will be run against the five most important senators against this committee, the tv ads that the independent groups will run , senatorourse say mccaskill and senator casey and senator stabenow and senator nelson are voting against a $4000 raise that this tax cut will bestow on them. we know it is coming, we know you will have mor

the course of a single lifetime the japanese people have built one of the most successful societies and nation in the world. over the next ten days we travel to south korea, china, vietnam and the philippines. we will seek new opportunities for cooperation and commerce. and we will partner with friends and allies to pursue a free and open indo-pacific region. we will seek free, fair and reciprocal trade. but this future is only within our grasp because of you. you make it possible for peace loving nations to thrive and for peace loving people to prosper. you are the reason the great american flag will proudly stand behind me wherever i go. and every time i look at that flag i will think of all the brave men and women like you and think of all the patriots throughout the generations who poured out their blood, sweat, tears, hopes and dreams to defend our country. when you follow our citizens and people across the indo-pacific region, see the flagoffs the united states and the states like japan be prod of your nation, be proud of your service, and be proud of the security you provide that makes

last year nationally, we see it throughout society and this idea of negative partnership that becausere going to support the republican no matter what. that's a troubling change in the polarization of the country. it is not new. it is getting worse and worse. that's why moore blamed the media and the democratic party even though there is little evidence. >> it is surprising that everyone these allegations were true, they would rather support a child predator than his opponent, doug jones. >> that gets to the idea of negative partnership, you are so in grained against the other side. >> yes, i have to ask because he said that there is in his words, evidence of collusion between the accusers, have there been any evidence there maybe some kind of conspiracy or plot here? >> not that i have found or seen. we heard from one of the four women today, moore is defaming the women by saying this and suggesting thaey're liar. i fear at the beginning here of what's becoming uglier and uglier. >> the tart start of the smear campaign. this is exactly what women who come forward feared. we are seein

the course of a single lifetime, the japanese people have built one of the most successful societies and nationsn the world. over the next ten days we travel to south korea, china, vietnam, and the philippines. we will seek new opportunities for cooperation and commerce, and we will partner with friends and allies to pursue a free and open indo pacific region. we will seek free, fair, and reciprocal trade, but this future is only within our grasp because of you. you make it possible for peace-loving nations to thrive and for peace-loving people to prosper. you are the reason the great american flag will proudly stand behind me wherever i go. and every time i look at that flag, i will think of brave men and women like you, and i will think of all of the american patriots down through the generations who poured out their blood, sweat, tears, hopes, and dreams to defend our country. when you follow your citizens and people across the indopacific region see the flags of free and sovereign states like the united states and japan, displayed during our diplomatic meetings over the next ten days, be pro