when we engage in the pacific, much of this is done through the pacific islands forum. we believe in the multilateral architecture in the region, just as we are committed to neutrality and engaging a lot of our partners in southeast asia. we do the same in the pacific through the pacific islands forum. it is another important feature, the pf is significant. it is why we announced our first ever u.s. envoy to the pif ambassador. an advantage we bring to the region is our focus on the multilateral piece, as well. >> i was going to underscore the degree to which we were working closely with our partners on these issues and so far, as son of the -- some of the places you mentioned are just as important to australia, new zealand, france who is also a pacific power, japan, korea and others as we think about that free and open -- that is what we are doing. >> you mentioned the secretary of defense is going to pop in new guinea. the secretary was there a few weeks ago where he met with the leaders. we signed a new defense cooperation agreement. i think if you go down the list of

for the pacific islands, leo leite pacific islands, leo leite pacific islands, leo leite pacific islandsome cases decades, and seeing that we are perhaps the canary in the coal mine, so we come into a new era have to move as the un secretary general said last night from global warming to global boiling and the world is just above and get ready to operate in this new era. find above and get ready to operate in this new era.— in this new era. and also we keep talking _ in this new era. and also we keep talking about - in this new era. and also we keep talking about the - in this new era. and also we i keep talking about the impact on us humans but the rising temperature of the ocean and this new era of global boiling, but has a huge impact on ecosystem in the water we don't always have a camera. absolutely. fires are dramatic but across the oceans and across the pacific ocean, the catastrophes are less visible, less dramatic, from coral bleaching to collapse of aquatic food systems, on which the pacific islanders themselves depend. but pacific islands also, one in three of the world pozner

one final point, when we engage in the pacific, much of this is done through the pacific islands forum as well. we do believe in the multilateral architecture in the region just as we are committed to centrality and engaging a lot of partners, we do the same in the pacific too, the pacific islands forum and it is another important feature, it is quite significant and it is also why we now start the first ever us envoy to the ambassador so it's another important element and the advantage we bring to the region is our focus on the multilateral piece as well. >> i was just going to underscore the degree to which we are working closely with allies and partners on this issue and so far as some of the places you mentioned that are just as important to australia, new zealand, france, a pacific power, japan, korea, and others as we think about the indo pacific. the more we are working with that collective group of countries, the more success we are going to have. >> the secondary of defense is going to papua new guinea, the secretary was out there a few weeks ago where he met with the leaders.

for the pacific islands, low lying pacific islands that have been living this catastrophe for not yearsbeen saying that we are perhaps the canary in the coal mine. and so we come into a new era. we have moved from an era, as un secretary—general said last night, from global warming to a global boiling. and the world needs to step up and get ready to operate in this new era. and also we keep talking about the impact on us humans, but the rising temperature of the ocean in this new era of global boiling that has a huge impact on ecosystem in the water where we don't always have a camera. absolutely. the fires are dramatic, but across the oceans and across the pacific ocean, the catastrophe is less visible, less dramatic from coral bleaching to collapse of whole marine aquatic food systems on which the pacific islanders themselves depend. but pacific island also feeds the world. one in three of the world's tuna comes from the pacific islands, and these are threatened. the world's food supply is fundamentally threatened by warming warming oceans, and it has now entered a catastrophic phase,

and so on behalf of s, c, d, c and the someone pacific islander community here in san francisco . we just want to say thank you. and. our next award is for the youth leader award. this recognizes a courageous immigrant leader under the age of 35, who has helped or inspired other immigrant youth in their community and beyond. we are excited to present this award to not ask coram nas left iran in 2009 on the heels of the youth revolt that failed to reform the country. nas found refuge in san francisco, where they pursued their education after a decade of working in the restaurant industry not founded. the bar, restaurant and entertainment venue are gonna located in the mission district. please welcome nas to the stage. hello everybody. thank you so much to the immigrant rights commission for honoring me with this award. it's my pleasure to accept thanks for everyone. um especially to my mother who immigrated in the age of 55. just because she knew she is not going to see me for a decade if she doesn't um, i want to thank my dad for staying behind because he had too much love for my

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>> may is asian american & pacific islander heritage [applause] >> my name is (indiscernible) the director of the office of civic engagement and affairs. before we start our evening program, i would like to introduce to our opening performance. please give a welcome to bango (indiscernible) dance company performing the west african rhythms. [applause] [drums] [music playing] [singing] [drums] [music playing] [singing] [applause] >> give it again for bango and company. [applause] on behalf of the san francisco human right commission and immigrant affairs, welcome to the 2023 immigrant leadership awards. we are thrilled to be celebrated with you again, in person this time. [applause] as a quick reminder, we have spanish, cantonese and arabic interpretation services: please go to the table in the back to get the (indiscernible) we are delighted you are here tonight for the special event to honor the powerful contributions of a local immigrants leaders supporters and champions of immigrant communities. let's begin with the we acknowledge that we are on the unceded ancestral homeland of the ram

from the pacific islanders. from the pacific islanders perspective, it brings home two things.atures than we had anticipated, perhaps even five years ago. the ice melting much faster than predicted. its consequences for a sea level rises are substantial, significant and quite immediate. if countries were contemplating adapting over three beau decker �*5 time, another have to compress it. they have to take far more serious efforts to adapt in a much more shorter timeframe. the urgency is so immediate. but thank you again very much for sharing what you said were quite glaring data analytics to human —induced climate change and global warming. human -induced climate change and global warming.— and global warming. japan's lan and global warming. japan's [an to and global warming. japan's plan to release _ and global warming. japan's plan to release treated - plan to release treated radioactive water from the fukushima nuclear power plants into the pacific ocean can begin any day now. it was backed by the un nuclear watchdog last week but sparked concern and anger in both within the

and i will be meeting with higher officials of the government moving on to the pacific islands, where again, from a very specific perspective of these smaller island nations that he's a concern about this whole plan. what the means, what would be the impact for them under local economies? us treasury secretary genet, jaelyn has arrived in beijing to ease tensions between the wells, 2 biggest economies. yeah, them is scheduled to meet china 2nd and come on who's also in charge of the economy . the apollo stadium gunman has killed and his writing, the legal settlement in the outside westbank is ready for has been shot, the attack, a dead west of novice. how my says it was behind the attack in response to isabel's right underneath. peruse declared a state of emergency for area surrounding the country's most active volcanoes. as clouds from the openness volcano have covered a 10 kilometer radius, the government's preparing shelters more than 2000 people living nearby and the state of emergency. last for 60 days, twitter has reportedly sent to cease and desist letter of a mentor as new thr

let's hear now from professsor robert richmond from hawaii university, who has been part of a pacific islands on this water release and has met japanese officials numerous times over this issue. it was made a while ago. and everything that we've heard from japan and iaea has been towards pushing this forward. as i mentioned, china and south korea have been vocally against the plan, but according to the japanese government, their nuclear power plants also release water with higher levels of tritium. is that true? and if so, why should fukushima be treated differently? there's no question that bad behaviour on behalf of one group does not justify bad behaviour by another group. and that's been a source of frustration for myself and other scientists on the panel that the idea that other nuclear power plants released tritium into the ocean is not an excuse. this is a bit different than a regular nuclear power plant operation. there are three reactors that are in meltdown that are in direct contact with the water. tritium is a concern because it can be organically bound and along with the other r

i'm talking about creating a new ambassadorship for the 15 pacific island nation states appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate who would spend her or his time traveling to all of the island states talking about trade investment and listening. >> i think it is important that we continue to engage these countries independently given their independence but to your point and i agree this is important we have appointed to the pacific island this is the main body as you know that brings all the islands together. we appointed someone that's a deeply experienced ambassador. >> it is an appointment by the secretary of state. >> so a new president could come in and say we don't want to do this anymore, could he or she not? >> that is correct. >> i'm talking about if the countries are so important, and i think they are and i think i've heard you say they are, let me ask you again would you support creating an ambassador status i don't care what you call it but it would be an ambassador level status appointed by the president and confirmed by the united states senate what's wrong

he is fiji's former ambassador to the united nations and chair of the pacific small island developingrently the climate lead at abt associates for the asia pacific. we're looking at record—breaking temperatures in europe. in other parts of the world. we are looking at it supercharged monsoon in asia, in india right now. and we are looking at an el nino across the whole of the blue pacific islands. from the pacific islands perspective, it brings home two things. one, that much higher temperatures than we anticipated, perhaps even five years ago means that ice melt will be much faster than predicted earlier. it's consequences for sea level rise is potentially significant and quite immediate. so if countries were contemplating adapting over three or four decades' time, now they have to compress it and take it far more serious efforts to adapt any much shorter time frames. the urgency is so immediate, but thank you again very much for sharing what is quite glaring data and analytics behind human induced environment change and global warming. japan's plan to release treated radioactive wat

of our servicemembers today are servicemembers from a broad array, african-american, latino, pacific islanders who are serving our country who do not be called anything but honorable. and the needs of our servicemembers, republicans are stoking cultural wars to appease their base, which will make it more difficult to recruit servicemembers from diverse. i'm a member of the armed services committee and discussing this in committee, i put into the record a report from the gold star families who conducted a survey of our servicemembers and their families who expressed the very concerns around racial tolerance, discrimination as a factor of whether or not people wanted to join the military. if you are so concerned about recruit mant, you want do focus on eliminating on focus hate, discrimination. so my message tonight along with my colleagues, not only is the congressional black caucus to call for representative crane to make a formal apology as well to the servicemembers that were disrespected, but we also want toll state in no uncertain that his views on servicemembers misguided. representative

he's among a group of international scientists working with the pacific island forum to assess the wastehe point where japan will begin releasing some of this water. do you think they should?— think they should? thanks for the invitation and _ think they should? thanks for the invitation and i _ think they should? thanks for the invitation and i think _ think they should? thanks for the invitation and i think the - think they should? thanks for the invitation and i think the plan - invitation and i think the plan release is pending and i don't think it's proper. i would say at the very best right now, it's premature based on the last 18 months of work that i and my colleagues on the expert advisory panel to the pacific island firm have performed our due diligence. a membrane biologist by training, so that's my area of focus and i would have to say that i am not convinced at this point that the plan going forward will protect the health of the water or all those who depend upon it. health of the water or all those who depend upon it— depend upon it. rafael grassi said in this press _ depe

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and to me blinking, stripped to the pacific island, is seen as washington's latest move to count a chinese influence in the region. tongue as prime minister says this country and the us chair, respect for democracy and the rule of law lincoln would like to travel to new zealand and australia. this partnership is vital to make a real, a shared vision for the region and the broader under pacific region that's open. the 3 this connected is prosperous that secure, that is resilient. when we talked about for, you know, we mean the region where all countries are free to choose their own path and their own partners where problems are dealt with openly. where rules are reach transparently and applied fairly for goods for ideas where people can move freely and lawfully for more or less. let's go to sarah clark, who joins us from brisbin. and sarah is pretty unusual for us actually, of states open a new embassy on a small pacific on and what's taking them to tongue of the it certainly is. this is part of a why to visit to the region. this is his 1st visit at the toner, is the secretary side. it's al

and i will be meeting with higher officials of the government moving on to the pacific islands, where again, from a very specific perspective of these small island nations that he's a concern about this whole plan. what that means, what was the dean bucketful them under local economies? while they took care of electric power companies storing 1300000 metric tons of waste water, that's more than 500 olympic sized swimming pools. that being stored in more than a 1000 tanks on there at 98 percent capacity has been diluted, to reduce the amount of tritium, that's a radioactive isotopes to $170.00 amount allowed by the world health organization for drinking water. so let's bring and david cross check. he's a senior electra in physics at the university of oakland. he's also a specialist in environmental radiation. he joins us live from oakland in new zealand. i'm david. good to have you with a so atomic regulate to say, look, this contaminated water is safe, but why does that need to release this was and now when can we be absolutely sure about the level of risk posed to people. i'm the env

so nami is due to visit south korea and the pacific islands, where they have been concerns about the japanese plan. we do not endorse the plan or recommend this to be done. we say this plan is consistent with the standards. so i think that with the qualification is important because they often say this is one sided. we do not take sides. i'm not in the side of japan or on the side of china on the side of of course you have the stand as a by 2 or the same way. they have expressed the number of a number of points. as i say, i stand by the, the, the conclusions and the assessment and i freed extremely confident about it. in response, china says it will bad food in ports from 10 japanese regions because of safety concerns. chinese health officials are planning strict to monitoring. so radioactive substances, especially in fish, radiation testing is also being increased in south korean fish markets. people across cities in pakistan, i denouncing the beginning of the koran in sweden last week demonstrated the demanding, the government cutoff and diplomatic ties with sweden. prime minister

and the dilution is so strong that the pacific islands are situated far enough away that that will be diluted several 1000 times more. by the time anything reaches that sort of distance away. right, we'll leave it the thanks so much for your thoughts on that. can me clinton now the us treasury secretary has begun have for the a visit to china by calling for market reforms in the world's 2nd largest economy. janet yelling is warning us will find dr. games, what she called time is on the economic practices. a child who is urging washington to create a favorable environment for healthy, bilateral, afraid gallons visit, is aimed at improving strange relations on various issues, including taiwan, human rights and export controls. relationship. china must work for american businesses and american workers. i was always championed your interest and were to make sure there is a level playing field. this includes coordinating with our allies to respond to china is unfair economic practices. let's get more now with katrina. you should joins us from badging. so one of the 2 sides actually hoping

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earlier this year we heard from the pacific— earlier this year we heard from the pacific islands forumum, a major regional grouping and it said it — major regional grouping and it said it wanted japan to delay any plans to release this wastewater to prevent what the forum _ wastewater to prevent what the forum called another major nuclear— forum called another major nuclear contamination disaster. the forum — nuclear contamination disaster. the forum has had it, however, that— the forum has had it, however, that it _ the forum has had it, however, that it has — the forum has had it, however, that it has heartened by japan's _ that it has heartened by japan's transparency on the issue — japan's transparency on the issue and the dialogue and pacific— issue and the dialogue and pacific leaders are saying that they— pacific leaders are saying that they really do need to see the iaea— they really do need to see the iaea report to fully understand the ramifications and to die just— the ramifications and to die just that _ the ramifications and to die just that report before they can really m

more significant role for from some global competition between the us and china and the side pacific. the island nations sparsely populated, the tall and bold kind of archipelago is of the region become a geopolitical slash point. on an earlier visit divided by 2 without naming china. mccall warranted the treacherous sovereignty of small estates made the us china power struggle to build the order is completely destroyed by the willingness of human failure on voters. deeper dive, things is, will be obeys order and this is new. imperialism is the basis of a new company and isn't, let's be clear. and a french thought to jeez, clearly to build with you. the defense of this liberty of southern is a rich to us and australia have long health way in the region. but over the last decade, china is carefully built up ties. the west was ronald's last year when solomon islands signed to secure. he packed with china. there were concerns basing was building its 1st military base in the area. it could use this depressed and sweeping contested claims over the side china see this month, solomon islands, prime min

john has been fairly consistent and so have the south pacific island, oceana. they've been very, very concerned. i mean, you know, 40 percent of the children around focus, you might have a heightened upside royd issues that are pre cancerous or potentially cancerous, much higher than the general public. you know, there's this thing called tritium, which is in the water is a half life of, or 26 and a half years. this being release out there, they say, well, there's tricky, i'm everywhere. yes, there is. but releasing large amounts, they don't know what the outcome of that has been very few studies on what trim jim does. so when you release something, you say, i don't know, well, she was, i mean, you don't know that doesn't hit save. yeah. and just i would add to that with what the head of the i a said it is partly goes to your points. rafa grossi said that, given the low levels, you talked about tricky and tricky. and he said, given to low levels of radionuclides into water to be released, they may be in, they may be indiscernible. a few miles for japan's coast

they say the plan is safe but china, south korea and pacific island nations are against it. >> once the government initiates the discharge of nuclear waste water, we will prohibit the import of aquatic products. this includes live, frozen, chilled or preserve seafood products. see salt and possibly protest seaweed. >> authorities have extended a state of emergency ahead of protests. restrictions are being put in place on highways. protests broke out after pedro castillo was ousted and detained. at least 60 people were killed during month-long demonstrations. southern europe is facing record-breaking temperatures as a heat wave hits the continent. it is named after a three headed monster from greek mythology. some parts of spain are registering temperatures of 45 degrees celsius it is forecast to cool. expected to get hotter in italy and greece. record temperatures have been reported in the southern united states where he alerts from florida to arizona in the west affected nearly 100 million people. temperatures in phoenix are expected to reach 43 degrees celsius on wednesday. a senior f

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on which country shares the vision because it there is a tussle between east and west between pacific islandations. they have become increasingly important. >> president biden hosted a summit for the pacific leaders in september last year. that was held in washington. he will hold another summit for pacific leaders again this year. this is also an agreement between britain and australia to supply or provide a nuclear powered sub in this region. some red flags for the u.s. and australia within the pacific has been the likes of china's military expansion in the region, in the solomon islands, and the presence of troops there. this is after the riots in the last year or so. that is a worrying sign, concerned they may be proposing to have a naval port in the solomon islands. that is why these countries are trying to unite allies in the region to counter that growing influence from china in the indo pacific. >> interesting dynamic emerging. thank you. still ahead. african migrants appealed to the u.n. for help after they were left stranded in the desert. ♪ >> it is a little cool in tropical austr

it was followed in sri lanka that the iranian team defeated the pacific islands in their last game with a score of 2-0 and won the title. vietnam teams he had defeated saudi arabia and sri lanka as the leader of the davis cup . after winning his previous game in japan 21 against manchester city, he lost in other important games this morning, he won against brighton 21 , the world against monaco 32, real betis' own defeat in passenger lee was stopped with a draw, and it was stopped with a vector. but in the most sensitive preparation game tomorrow morning, the team took off barcelona and real madrid will face each other in texas, america in a friendly el clasico. the el clasico is away from home. you love barcelona and real madrid . the competition between the two giants of spanish football is so important and attractive that even the unofficial game attracts the attention of football players. this third el clasico is a america will be held again and barcelona will win, and during the big summer purchase, both teams will get a taste of el clasico for the first time . due to injuries, the

the third meeting , they will compete in the second group and the game between cambodia and the pacific islands will be held . sports federation elections are always with tensions. there are a lot of companions that the ministry of sports itself is fueling these marginalizations. these images are not related to the conflict of ordinary citizens. the national olympic academy and after being advertised and one of the three stages of the election assembly of the sports federations, the election of this federation has been postponed every load to they are postponing these elections as an excuse and means. i have to come there for my race. if someone decides to assign a task, i will be there . note 1, article 13 of the constitution of sports federations . the presence of the elected head of the assembly is only legal for 6 months in the federations, if 18 bikes were in charge of riding, or are they currently in the equestrian federation of mr. zandi, who has been sitting on the chair for about 9 months, examining the people's government transformation document, which has been said during the break,

fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea has led to an increase in prices and protests in the pacific islandntries of china and the demand and shortage of salt due to the running out of stocks in the warehouses, which has reduced the price of this commodity by 30% in south korea , the south korean government has started selling 50 salt per day at the government price . renewed wave of concerns across south korea demand to buy and has increased the stock of sea salt in this country and the sale of salt has increased by 50% in the last two months compared to the same period of the previous year, so that the salt reserves in the country's warehouses are nearing the end , increasing the demand for salt by 30% in korea . the price of sea food salt has been set in the south. right now, our lives are facing many problems . the radioactive contaminated water is being poured into the ocean, the health of millions of people is at risk. getting healthy and planning to be more than one this summer millions of tomans of this water will be poured into the pacific ocean to cool the radiators, but south kor

in fact the studies clearly show that there is a long ways to go for pacific islanders, southeast asians do not finish high school, or college. they need affirmative action in order to be able to get the education that they so deserve. i am afraid that asians, asian pacific islanders, we're used as wedges by right wing extremists who were looking for a group to rested their case on. it was based on hearsay. stereotypes. they submitted this case to the supreme court. as a result they were able to get the supreme court decision that they did. we are going backwards. this is why i am so dismayed by this decision. why i am immediately came out with my try caucus colleagues to condemn in. to say, this is not right. after so many decades of precedents. upholding race as one of the elements of consideration in admission to the elitist colleges. >> president biden talked about the issue of reforming the court in an interview with our own nicole wallace this week. i want to play a little bit of that. >> do you worry that without court reform this conservative majority is too young and too conserv