the ngo had to scale back some of its projects. it also tried to cut its costs such as by turning off lights during the day. but that was not enough. the only things to do was to drastically cut the pay of full-time staff like gao. one expert says many grassroots ngos are now facing similar problems. he says china's strong economic growth is deterring donors from abroad. >> some big international organizations are pulling out the money from china because they think china's economy is so big, they maybe do not need our money, and maybe the local donors or companies can take their own responsibility for their own social problems. >> reporter: before she started working for this ngo, gao used to work for medical equipment company. her current salary is less than half what she earned before. she's now studying psychology at an open graud school. she wants to do more to help children. but she can only continue in this job while her parents are supporting her financially. >> translator: helping people is very meaningful, but if i get mar

that's going to put more and more of a burden on the ngos, if the ngos can stay. but the thing that's being forgotten here is that the contract security forces that many people depended on will be gone. and the replacement for the contract security forces are one of the undebated failures of the development of afghan security forces. the system isn't working. and it isn't going to work in the foreseeable future. >> thank you dr. cordesman. >> i'm going to take your challenge for three minutes. on the -- i we think need both top-down and bottom-up. recognize two things. bottom-up as vital as it is, is very, very difficult to scale up quickly. it -- the success of most small projects is that they are done carefully. you can't massively expand them. and we are an impatient folk usually asking for very fast results that pushes us to both top down and it pushes us to often demand speed and metrics highly unrealistic and then to blame the project implementation when that fails. i don't think i know enough about nato to say something useful about that. i can speculate bu

government, have made in partnership with ngos, international, local, and certainly the government of uganda. we programmed more than $100 million last year into northern uganda, and that was about 50% of the resources that went into northern uganda last year. and it's all coordinated under the government's peace and reconstruction development program. and a.i.d. is a major contributor and other donors and the government itself is, as well. before i get into commenting on some of the specific programs of our implementing partners, i want to say this is one area where we're being forward leaning, recognizing that there is some good capacity within some of the local governments there. and so when administrator shaw was before you and discussed some of the forward reforms, this is one area we're actually piloting the reforms. so we're programming resources directly through the local government so that the local government can build infrastructure projects to support the community. and at the same time we have an independent verifier. one of the ngos, winrock, provides that oversight to m

the chronicle says ngo was evicted from one apartment complex in the state. ngo also had federal tax liens in 2006 and 2009 totalling more than $23,000. >>> nine minutes after 11:00 is our time now. coming up, a government spending scandal. the vegas conference that led to the resignation of the general services administration chief. >>> plus, the worst and the best >>> plus, the worst and the best never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. 60 miles in 3 days is-- is huge. if my mom can fight and beat breast cancer, i can walk 60 miles. you just put one foot in front of the other, and you know that you're walking for such a great cause that you just keep going. (man) that you have all these people coming together for one common goal. (woman) the goal is to bring an end to breast cancer. (woman) the fund-raising was the easiest part. people were very giving. complete strangers wanting to help. if i can do this, you definitely can do this. (woman) i'll never stop walking, not till we find a cure. (woman) and it has to end, but it starts w

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carney to be arrested this year this infamous connie twenty twelve movie came from california based ngo invisible children it said the film aim to end the use of child soldiers and promote peace in the ugandan civil war but according to u.s. embassy cables posted by wiki leaks invisible children provided uganda's authorities with intelligence in two thousand and nine that led to the arrest of several regime opponents willing to. believe that was not the one time. provided information. what are we not know in terms of their relations with gondo government. we know that. for the year for. prominent politicians. supported their position in terms of supporting the troops to come here and help promote. the bill was passed. and it paved the way for the introduction of. n.g.o.s are not currently held accountable for the information they publish no matter how much damage. was left on regulated critics believe some non-governmental organisations would you be giving away for conflict rather than advocating for solution. for not artsy. well let's talk more about how n.g.o.s and almost play the par

right now that country has -- i shouldn't say over abundance of ngos but a deep ngo presence and the government sometimes feel threatened by it. the most important issue in haiti apart from the immediate aftermath of the earthquake is the establishment of long term sustainable prosperity and how do you begin that. and for haiti they are starting from scratch on everything from their educational systems to transportation systems. but there is some good news beginning. there is an industrial park that the clinton initiative has been involved in where some american companies are looking to go to some of the underdeveloped parts of the country and create industry which hopefully will create jobs and create the fundamentals for an economy. the other challenge haiti has is property rights. who owns title to what land. it's hard to do business there so i think we could provide some technical support in creating a registry where people can register property rights and feel safer in terms of investing and it's going to be protected under rule of law. it's education, it's striking to me, it's

. >> ngos. that's right. >> after a very long and hard day, looking at the military commission. >> it was a very special trip. on many, many levels. but i wanted to get back to this -- the broader point that adam was raising. jack goldsmith has been talking about his new book and this notion that the aclu's position in these cases, these sort of post 9/11 security cases in particular -- not just the aclu but other ngos as well have either been not at all productive -- that is, they haven't achieved anything in terms of promoting liberty. but not only that, they may be counterproductive. i guess i think that's wrong and i at least think that the answer is a lot more complicated than that, right? so, for example, torture, which was the issue that i spent an enormous amount of time working on when i was at an ngo working on these issues, there was a time before, right, in 2002, where we had reports out of afghanistan where prisoners were being beaten to death. blunt force trauma. we couldn't get an

right across the board, you can find an ngo to work with that fits what you care about. we have lists of a lot of them. you can follow it through. but it's the simplest way to start. i'm going to ask this question. it's from twitter. usher, what inspires you to do service? singing the answer is encouraged. >> you guys just won't be happy until i do a concert huh? i didn't say no. truly the evidence that by applying these pillars that i created that we have spoken about on the panel the entire night to engage youth at a very young age to support those who are in need for you to be engaged and ask or accept the help, all of those things leads me to do the work that i have been able to do. it is simply the evidence that it's a reality. the very students that i was able to meet when i first started and now in college, they have now tracked a career. they have identified a talent and are continuing to give back to the community. i have been able to take youth as far as kenya. she went actually. and actually be able to go all over the world and make a difference by identifying

four years ago, he set up an ngo to teach children uygur culture and language. but after they began speaking to the media about the differences between uygur and chinese culture, they started receiving threats. >> translator: i received death threats. they said i'm damaging the friendship between pakistan and china. a group of men came to our homes at night and demanded we stop giving the classes. >> reporter: last year, six members of the ngo were denied permission to board a plane at an airport. they were told they were on a government black list and could not leave pakistan. >> translator: our activities are legal. we should be removed from the black list. stopping us from traveling infringes our rights. >> translator: the pakistani government says our activities are legal, but tee mademands us stop because the chinese government opposes our cause. >> reporter: the court said state security authorities concluded they were involved in anti-state activities and likely to flee to the united states in the near future. nhk asked the pakistan's interior ministry ab

four years ago, he set up an ngo to teach children uighur culture and language. but after they began speaking to the media about the differences between uighur and chinese culture, they started receiving threats. >> translator: i received death threats. they said i'm damaging the friendship between pakistan and china. a group of men came to our homes at night and demanded we stopped giving the classes. >> reporter: last year, six members of the ngo were denied permission to board a plane at islamabad airport. they were told they were on the government black list and could not leave pakistan. >> translator: our activities are legal. we should be removed from the black list stopping us from traveling infringes our rights. >> translator: the pakistani government says our activities are legal, but demands us to stop because the chinese government opposes our cause. >> reporter: khan launched a legal appeal but it was rejected in february. the court said state security authorities concluded they were involved in anti-state activities and likely to flee to the united s

the ngo is composed of citizens who fled north korea. they released ten huge balloons carrying 2,000 packages. the leaflets explain the budget for the missile launch equals the cost of feeding 19 million people for two years. >> translator: we are sending these chocolate cakes with our prayers for the happiness of the north korean people. >> reporter: north korean authorities have responded with harsh criticism saying the balloons are an insult against their leader kim jong-un. south korea's armed forces have deployed vehicles to track the balloons by satellite and to observe any retaliation by north korea. the group says this action is meant to support the civilian population in the wake of the recent leadership transition. another group is preparing to launch more balloons next weekend. this time, they will be loaded with pamphlets and radios capable of receiving broadcasts from south korea. fumito sako, nhk world, south korea. >>> in other news, a bomb explosion has killed three people and injured 38 others at a railway station in the

listening were the skills from the military that translated to the ngo world, listening was not one of them. listening is actually a skill that translated from ngo work to the military, and what we can do better on in the military, but i wasn't intending to start an organization, and what i realized in these really difficult conditions was a fundamental truth in the world, and that is that talent is universal, but opportunity is not. talent is universal, but opportunity is not. [ applause ] yeah. it's really a truth, and so the question is how do you best connect that talent with opportunity, and i didn't know what the answer was, but i continued to form some relationships and over many years we built an organization called carolina for khybera, a co-founder a neighbor of mine, tabitha vesto, she was widowed with three kids and towards the end of my first summer she confronted me and she asked me for 2,000 shillings, which is about the equivalent of $26, and i had made a habit are not giving out any money in khyber in part because i didn't know where to begin and for my own safety, and

geopolitical concerns that india's prime minister manmohan singh has taken away the licenses of three ngo's and put seventy seven more on the global watch list for key believes american n.g.o.s are helping fund anti-nuclear protesters while such aid is not illegal the action reflects government anger at what delhi sees as interference in india's internal affairs and energy policy in a recent interview to the american journal science prime minister singh said the atomic energy program has got us into difficulties because these n.g.o.s. based in the us still appreciate the need for country to increase energy and. the protesters deny that they're receiving funds from america the small amount of money that we need comes from our own fisherman. but according to information from the indian home ministry released to parliament last year one third of indian ngo funding actually came from the united states india have maintained that developing a peaceful nuclear energy program will only help the country meet its growing energy needs and to create the dependence on foreign sources of energy but other

they're very great, because we, you know -- the united states government is not an ngo. an ngo which has the luxury of having one interest, religious freedom, political freedom, anti-slavery, whatever it is, the united states government has a number of interests. dennis mentioned that, in a number of his conversations with president mubarak were in the context of seeking arab-israeli peace. we had the same, i'll call it a, problem. once in 2007 and '08, the administration was pushing hard again after annapolis for an israeli-palestinian peace treaty. the view of president mubarak softened because he was in fact very useful and indeed the egyptians still are useful. now it's the staff in the israeli-palestinian context. so i would say in the long run i think this was a mistake. someone who saw some, was in cairo recently, and met with secularists, liberals, and muslim brotherhood officials said to me that all of them said we remember very fondly 2004, '05, '06 when you were really pushing mubarak, because he did respond by opening up the political space some. i think had

be arrested this year this infamous connie two thousand and twelve movie came from california based ngo invisible children it said the film aim to end the use of child soldiers and promote peace in the ugandan civil war but according to u.s. embassy cables posted by wiki leaks invisible children provided uganda's authorities with intelligence in two thousand and nine that led to the arrest of several regime opponents. i'm willing. to believe. that was not the one time but invisible children provided information. we now know in terms of their relations with the ugandan government we know that. for the. problem in uganda. they knew which supported their position in terms of supporting the bill to approach to come here and help promote. the bill was passed it was signed by the president and it proved that way for the introduction of u.s. troops. n.g.o.s are not currently held accountable for the information no matter how much collateral damage falls may cause left on regulated critics believe some non-governmental organisations will continue behaving the way for conflict rather than the t.

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what is the difference with the ability to affect change through an ngo? and through governmental action? i find there is an erosion of confidence in the government's ability to engage its own corruption, create change in the way you want, and yet, there has been an enormous energy toward these ngo's, toward the smaller groups. at what has been your experience on both sides of it? >> one i took office as -- when i took office as president, confidence in government was very low because the economy was very weak. when i left office, because we had a lot of jobs, because it was the only time out in 40 years when the bottom 20% earnings increase in percentage terms as much as the top 10%, and as many people moved out of poverty -- 100 times as many people moved out of poverty than in the previous 20 years. there was an increased level of confidence in government. the level of confidence in government people's sense of well-being and whether they can do better. but there is a difference. if your president, in theory, you're handling more money, and you can dire

as a member of the board of directors for an international ngo, working to improve sexual and reproductive health for men and women, i have witnessed women in ethiopia walking miles to get reproductive health services only to find that the supplies run available. i spoke with women in tanzania and of the countries whose pregnancies for compromise because of lack of access to health care services. these work experiences have informed my social consciousness about the importance of ensuring that all people have access to culturally appropriate preventive health care services regardless of age, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, economic status, and geographic location. as the health commissioner, i look forward to working with the board of supervisors, the mayor, and the public health director, to advance public policy that ensures adequate and affordable health care access for all san franciscans. i am particularly interested in a number of health-care issues. the president has just issued a memorandum on march 30th of that talks about the integration of domestic violence and sexu

government has made in partnership with ngos, international ngos and local ngos and certainly the government. we program more than $100 million last year into northern uganda, and that was about 50% of the resources that went into northern uganda last year. it's all kourtney did under the governments peace and reconstruction development program. a.i.d. is a major contributor and other donors of the governor -- government itself is as well. before he get into commenting on some of the specific programs of our implementing partners i do want to say that this is one area where we are being forward-leaning and recognizing that there is some good capacity within some of the local governments there. so one administrator shaw was before you and discuss some of the forward reforms, this is one area where we are actually piloting the reform so we are programming resources directly through the local government so that the local government can build infrastructure projects to support the community and at the same time, we have an independent verifier, one of the ngos providing that oversight to make su

>>> ask the ngo which he contributed to what did she did the money again is not enough to get pie chartne we saw people on the conditions now are worse than they were when i went for the first time which was 10 months after the quake it's amazing if your people have access to clean drinking water, few people have access to food and food security is a huge issue and people still living in this tarps in this camp to 6000 people in six toilets which is not acceptable. typically its religious statement from the red cross that they've said to us via e-mail saying it is unfortunate that the film assumptions about our work at no basis in fact is unfair and untrue to imply because many people still in camps that no one has received aid when 100,000 people have been moved into transitional housing provided by the red cross was a statement given to us by the red cross would he say that? equates the thing is that is that it as making assumptions this is we didn't create this the things we saw on the ground and the red cross is not denying that they don't do great work and we don't even necessarily

importante momento para el paisaunque si es ciertoa encabeza los titulares a nivel nacional por el alto ngosicariosbajo rendi escuelas, y hasta uno de los peores lu asistencia medica... tambien es cierto que es un estado clave para las elecciones... y eso lo saben ambos partidos... nevada es un estado decisivo.. las probabilidades de que un republicano o un democrata sean elejidos es de 50-50 por ciento.. al final del dia,ganae sabido difundir mejor los miembros del partido republicano, quienes tambien estan conquistando el voto latino... estamos haciendo campana, yendo de puerta en puerta, hemos contratado a lmas directores hispanos, haciendo llamadas diarias para llegar al voto hispano pese a esto, y a lo que apuntan muchas encuestas, prebus no cree que uno de los temas principales para los hispanos es la inmigracion si es importante, pero creo que no es ni el tema uno, dos, tres o cuatro... lo principal es la economia en cuanto a este tema, el partido republicano cree tener en sus manos la solucion para sacar a flote al pais asegurando que el presidente obama prometio que al final de su t

their electric utilities, municipalities, and they are ngo's as well, including cities like san francisco. i wanted to personally take this moment to applaud the city of san francisco for leading the way in electrification under mayor lee's leadership. and really, the last example i want to share is whenever i travel around the country, i use examples that i get from the city of san francisco as some of the ways they want to understand how they can become electrify -- what do they do? how do they do it? i use many examples from this great city. i wanted to applaud you again for that. we do have the focus electric. if you do have extensive empty water bottles, we take them over there. with a partnership, we recycle those. and the cloth seats in the focus electric are made out of that material. if you get a chance, come over and see that. and we had our gatecrashers -- we have our mobile app. thank you. [applause] >> we do have an award. congratulations, mayor lee and the city of san francisco. [applause]

we are not an ngo. there are developments in libya and syria. it is not a question of the revolution being against the machines. if you are, you should be an ngo. we are not. i don't think we are. by default, we might appear to be with revolution. as soon as you show the image of a child on a tank, the viewer, from that image, concludes that a child must not be very happy with the tank. by default. when you cover a correct regime -- oppression, bombardment of cities, when you lay out these images and to report that is, you are by default not on the side of the people. for example, saudi arabia and i run -- by ron are major players by design. they are major players by design. you cannot just cover that is if, okay. how much of a peaceful people are we? are we covering the story? hour that we covering the story? it doesn't have to have a good or happy or bad ending, but it has developments. i will say again, i don't speak for them. from within, we make mistakes. a lot of them. the way we cover news. that is normal, as long as they are mistakes and

a french ngo has set out with a simple and effective way to cut down demand for wood across asia. it says coconut shells are part of the answer -- so here's an example of how a small idea can have great effect. len is out with his whole family in their tuktuk. he makes the rounds of phnom penh's markets. he's collecting coconut shells. coconut flakes are an ingredient in many cambodian dishes. so there are lots of shells left over at the markets. len can earn money with them. a factory on the outskirts of phnom penh is willing to pay for coconut shells. here, they're not waste -- they're a raw material. >> the idea is to provide cambodia with an environmental friendly product, since deforestation is a big issue here in cambodia. so our charcoal is out of complete recycled organic waste so we dont cut any trees to produce charcoal. >> cambodians use lots of wood -- for construction, furniture- making -- and for fuel. even large textile factories like this one use wood as an energy source. the storage area is fully stocked. jeans production for overseas contractors can swallow up en

citizens and nonactors like ngos, corporations or criminal cartels and terrorist networks increasinglyre influencing international affairs for good and ill. so we face these complex challenges that are cross cutting, that no one nation can hope or expect to solve alone. so how we operate in this world must obviously change. when i became secretary of state, people were questioning if america was still willing to shoulder leadership. it's not hard to remember why. two wars, an economy in freefall, diplomacy de-emphasized intradetraditiona alliances fraying. the united states helped to build and defend over many decades seemed to be buckling under the weight of new threats. what we tried to do in the last three plus years is make sure we shored up and secured america's global leadership, knowing full well that it was going to take more than military solutions. we needed to be sure we were using every possible approach, breaking down a lot of the old bureaucratic silos, engaging not just with governments, but with citizens. this new citizen empowerment from the bottom up. finding new part

we are not an ngo. there are developments in libya and syria. it is not a question of the revolution being against the machines. if you are, you should be an ngo. we are not. i don't think we are. by default, we might appear to be with revolution. as soon as you show the image of a child on a tank, the viewer, from that image, concludes that a child must not be very happy with the tank. by default. when you cover a correct regime -- oppression, bombardment of cities, when you lay out these images and to report that is, you are by default not on the side of the people. for example, saudi arabia and i run -- by ron are major players by design. they are major players by design. you cannot just cover that is if, okay. how much of a peaceful people are we? are we covering the story? hour that we covering the story? it doesn't have to have a good or happy or bad ending, but it has developments. i will say again, i don't speak for them. from within, we make mistakes. a lot of them. the way we cover news. that is normal, as long as they are mistakes and

a team of ngos is at work in the former capital to restore dozens of beautiful buildings from the british colonial period. some of them date back to the 1880s. >> so we have supported 187 buildings. and these all included mosques, chinese temples, schools, private departments and government buildings. >> the old structures are scattered across 20 townships in the city and now they are being seen as potential business opportunities. international investors are betting they'll be in demand as homes, offices and hotels in the years to come. >>> another initiative launched this month aims to keep the streets clean. trash cans used to be a rare sight on the streets of myanmar. many people were in the habit of littering as they walked. but in response to the environmental protection law signed by president thien sien. >> translator: garbage classification makes the city cleaner and recycling easier. >> the garbage classification system is being implemented in big cities like angon and also many smaller towns as well. >>> and that's going to wrap up our bulletin. i'm patchari raksawong in bangko

great support but tony easton isn't alone in his fight others are campaigning on a different scale an ngo network present in around thirty countries is also campaigning for a ban on all depleted uranium weapons its headquarters are in manchester. show you some of the materials that we campaign with and some of those other organizations. we have briefings with she has a very big inquest complex issue to use every try and pull together all the necessary information into an easily digestible format this was a briefing which we produced for members of parliament in the u.k. a few years ago services the national campaign and we held a parliamentary briefing that. it's always a challenge to try and get politicians up to date on the issue. douglas is all too aware of the consequences of iranian based weapons he has studied the subject since the balkan war in one thousand nine hundred four in that time he and his team have devised a method for identifying and decontaminating bombs zones his first battlefield was in bosnia where the americans were already using depleted uranium weapons this is a m

as a member of the board of directors for an international ngo, working to improve sexual and reproductive health for men and women, i have witnessed women in ethiopia walking miles to get reproductive health services only to find that the supplies run available. i spoke with women in tanzania and of the countries whose pregnancies for compromise because of lack of access to health care services. these work experiences have rm

the ngo is composed of citizens who fled north korea. they released ten huge balloons carrying 2,000 packages. the leaflets explain the budget for the missile launch equals the cost of 19 million people for two years. >> translator: we're sending these chocolate cakes with our prayers for the happiness of the north korean people. >> reporter: those korean authorities have responded with harsh criticism, saying the balloons are an insult against their leader, kim jong-un. south korea's armed forces have deployed vehicles to track the balloons by satellite and to observe any retaliation by north korea. the group says this action is meant to support the north civilian population in the wake of the recent leadership transition. another group is preparing to launch more balloons next weekend. this time they will be loaded with pamphlets and radios capable of receiving broadcasts from south korea. nhk world, south korea. >>> a political standoff in myanmar may be nearing resolution. pro democracy leader aung san suu kyi and other members of th

by fostering partnerships between governments, businesses, ngos and private citizens. the clinton global initiative convincing global leaders to address the world's toughest issues. the climate initiative working with 40 of the world's largest cities to reduce green house gases. and raising money for disaster relief efforts around the world partnering with president george h.w. bush ond several and president george bush on haiti. in small ways as a company we have been able to support president clinton by mentoring 80 teachers in mexico by the clinton global initiative and distributing science kits to middle schools there. strongly supporting the clinton climate initiative with focus on energy efficiency. and rebuilding a 40,000 square foot school in haiti. we're very proud of our association with you, mr. president. so, when you have a president who demonstrated support for american business throughout his presidency, who has stayed hugely impactful on the world stage after his presidency, and who wants to continue helping american business and the american economy, w

andrea lugovoy didn't kill former security alexander ngo that's according to a lie detector test by a british organization and a case for continuing to drive a wedge between moscow. time for a sports update with paul. hello welcome along to the world of sports here's what's coming up and then there were three real madrid i'm bowing munich prepared to do battle in the second leg of their champions league semifinal for the right to face chelsea. deny my delight the moscow side claim a one nil victory over ivan god in game seven of the gar in culp finals to be crowned kontinental hockey league champions for the first time in their history. and on top of the world a russian ski expedition which picks seven teenage would be explorers reaches its destination north pole. the first chelsea will find out their champions league final opponents later on wednesday by munich taking a two one lead with them into their semifinal second leg with a real madrid at the button about right now and now able to concentrate on the champions league after all but wrapping up the spanish league title with a vic

we are working very hard to revolve this ngo problem. we have had a lot of tough conversations with various egyptian leaders and we hope we'll see a resolution soon. >> thank you. my time is expired, but i do want to let you know i will be submit i submitting for the record some specific questions about the nato summit coming up in chicago in may. i think it offers a tremendous opportunity for us to highlight the still critical economic and security ties of our transatlantic partnership, so i look forward to your responses. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator sheehan. senator lee? >> thank you, secretary clinton, for joining us. i want to join the chorus praising you for your hard work for our country. every time i watch the news, i wonder whether they ever allow you to sleep. i hope they do, but rest assured, the american taxpayer is getting his money's worth out of your service. i appreciate your hard work. i want to follow up on some of senator sheehan's questions about egypt. in your fiscal year 2013 request, there's a request for a

they are working with their counterparts in government agencies, businesses, ngos, but we are in the process of trying to right size our presence in iraq. i think we have to assume we're moving toward a more normalized relationship with iraq and that means we got to be very clear about what we can do and what we cannot do. because of our experience in iraq we're starting that process earlier in afghanistan because we do have through the end of 2014 until the nato combat troops will be out. we're trying to get ahead of the curve. your questions are absolutely the right ones. we do want there to be secure democratic governance and progress in both iraq and afghanistan and how we allocate the responsibilities within the civilian workforce is what we're trying to determine. >> on an entirely different subject, madame secretary. yesterday the keystone pipeline company announced it was going to construct a pipeline between mid oklahoma and houston, texas. they pointed out this would not require any okay by the state department. that was a great relief to you, ma'am. at the same time it bri