we have a huge shortage of medical quitman and medicine for the serious cases it's shortage exists because yemen is under siege. almost all supplies of humanitarian aid to rebel controlled areas are being delivered via the port of who dated in two thousand and fifteen an attack by the saudi led military coalition which consists mainly of arab nations destroyed the cranes used to unload container ships. just recently the port received help from the u.n. world food program which delivered five mobile cranes but they can't unload large containers only smaller freight the port authority blames the saudi led coalition which rejected larger cranes and delayed the delivery of the small ones. these cranes were supposed to arrive last year but the coalition sent them back. they were only allowed into the port after protests by the world food program. court officials also say the saudi led military coalition seldom allows ships with humanitarian aid to dark here. now some of the other stories making news around the world are grainy and are waiting to learn the fate of sixty five people on a crashed

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quitman and tested positive for life and. now the rescuers are trying to dig further down to look for them and that's the situation for. teams of engineers and firefighters are attempting to prop up the toppled buildings and continue the search there's been two earthquakes in taiwan since sunday and several aftershocks the island is no stranger to powerful quakes it lies directly on the pacific ring of fire the u.n. warned recently the ring is active right now this time it's taiwan that's part of the brunt of its fury. and let's get more on the story with carolyn wang she said where the quake struck just two kilometers away from the city center carolyn thank you for joining us tell us about what you experienced when this earthquake struck overnight. ok well we have the enquirer for over twenty years usually we have many to seriousness of what are the cracks actually wanted people have got used to do our quacks but we have never had one that is why i guess this is so different because there were serious double quacks two days

quitman and tested positive for life and. now the rescuers are trying to dig further down to look for them and that's the situation. teams of engineers and firefighters are attempting to prop up the toppled buildings and continue the search there's been two earthquakes in taiwan since sunday and several aftershocks the island is no stranger to powerful quake that lies directly on the pacific ring of fire the u.n. warned recently the ring is active right now this time in taiwan that's point the brunt of its fury. so you look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today the u.s. house of representatives has passed a bill to repeat rather a to prevent a repeat of last month's government shutdown and it extends funding for federal agencies until next month and must all be approved by the senate this after president trump said he'd love to see another shutdown if democrats didn't agree a deal on immigration. british court has rejected an attempt by wiki leaks founder julian assange to invalidate and arr

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to which the mayor said, "but i have the quitman. can get it done right now." , "we are from prepa sorry, because we already subcontracted that." the private companies are starting to leave by mid-march, but yesterday, just yesterday, the army corps of engineers said they no longer could comply with 95%r goal of having 90% to of the island nation of puerto energized by february. they were thinking that could happen perhaps by march, but it would be better off if they said by april. so what they promised first, by december, the governor of the army corps of engineers had a tit-for-tat regarding that, then they promise for february, and now they're saying, it is most likely in april. so this keeps pushing back any opportunity that we have. what this creates? it creates desperation among people. so when people are asked in the street, are your favorite of privatization of the electrical company? they say yes. when you ask them -- the governor of puerto rico made a statement yesterday. when asked in new york, what would anybody buy prepa

quitman and tested positive for life and. now the rescuers are trying to dig further down to look for them and that's the situation for. teams of engineers and firefighters are attempting to prop up the toppled buildings and continue the search there's been two earthquakes in taiwan since sunday and several aftershocks the island is no stranger to powerful quake that lies directly on the pacific ring of fire the u.n. warned recently the ring is active right now this time it's taiwan that's part of the brunt of its fury. in the city of taiwan's east coast are reeling after those series of earthquakes in recent days we spoke earlier to witness that carolyn huang and she described the latest quake over night. last night we were awoke by typically that i was very big quake the big question was not terrible you know the quake the earthquake was nice twenty one was moving more fiercely so what is this gary is that taylor a series of cracks we say aftershocks so the horde night we scaled up out movies again and again every few minut

in behavior province egypt's railway system has a poor safety record due to badly maintained the quitman to end quarter management president that the fact is c.c. recently said the railway system needs upgrading to avoid more deadly. the afghan president has offered to recognize the taliban as a legitimate political party ashraf ghani made the offer during the kabul peace process peace conference where twenty five countries were meeting to initiate a meaningful process and that ending the sixty four tony berkeley reports from kabul it was a warm and far reaching speech in which the afghan president offered the taliban a peace deal without precondition he also promised official political recognition and an office in kabul if the group joins the peace process. taliban a machine. i call on the taliban and their leadership today the decision is in your hands accept peace a dignified peace will come together to safeguard this country which has been the results of our sacrifices and struggles that they were his most conciliatory words as president ghani has previously described the taliban as

sierra has raised its full-year forecast, the largest maker of pharma quitman, is forecasting a 25% increasebuthad a prolonged slump now, corporate farmers are replacing tractors. lloyd blankfein used to be the highest-paid ceo on wall street and now is behind his rivals. indman increased his pay 9% 2017 to $24 million. that puts him behind jamie dimon of jpmorgan chase, and james gorman. david: thank you. blackstone group chairman and ceo steve schwarzman join jason kelly yesterday to talk about what the market changes could mean for the deals he is looking at. >> you usually have more deals when the markets feel good and people are confident and prosperous for their own business. you seldom by somebody else's business if your business is having trouble. as business confidence remains high, you will probably see more activity. kailey: still with -- david: still with us, michael holland and stephen stanley. mike, is that what you are seeing, a rise in business confidence and an appetite for more deals? rightsteve schwarzman is at the neck of what is going on with m&a. we had numbers come out

additional personnel on, and also there is an equipment requirement that we are occurring additional quitman. -- equipment. harris: do you have the necessary funding and resources to provide the states with their requests and get this completed in a timely manner? >> for those that have requested right now, we have the capabilities to conduct. harris; how many state election officials have applied for security clearances? approximately 37 have submitted the paperwork. we have one final secret issued. we have about 17 interim secrets. this changes on a daily basis. we have the opportunity to do daily one-day regions -- read ins on any issue that may come up. harris: those daily one-day read ins mean that if you want to have some consistent information that is happening, you have to call in every day? >> it depends on the bulk of the information and intelligence we want to share. it would require me to be an person with those folks are have local intelligence officials that they -- day. harris: that seems extremely bureaucratic. >> it is also for additional staff. we are at the point right now

we do so by reviving advisory support, taylor quitman and training, and assistance in expanding the size and reach of the more high-performing forces. we also do this by assisting in areas where they lack key capabilities, such as in aviation and intelligence. coalition partner of us are underway, and will continue through 2018 and our own uplift is underway. u.s. and nato will seek increased afghanistan control of population centers, reduction of violence, increased capabilities of afghan special forces and an increase to the independence of sdf operations. simultaneously, we are relying u.s. military and civilian assistance to coincide with our overall objectives and strategy. major realignment initiatives include adjustments to our authorities, seeking a unity of effort within the afghan security forces, and a shift resources outside of afghanistan into theater. the leadership and kabul seek to double the size of the special forces and modernize their force, which we are contribute to and helping them with. next steps will include the deployment of u.s. security assistance for grades

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