as foreign policy chief. called on russia iran and turkey to force a horse to the fighting as well as drumming up aid organizers hope the conference will revive the stuart peace process. let me now join correspondent ben righetti is in brussels covering the donor conference for us and bent the german foreign minister heikal moss announced a billion euros for syria what has been the response from the other people that all of the other donors are pledging a lot of money for the coming years to help the people in syria the united states great britain the european union all will pledge a lot of money and it is it seems that the conference will arrive at the aim of six point five billion euros for this year as in the coming years and the numbers are quite staggering because you and others have to support thirteen million people in and outside of syria and the united nations say the six point five billion are the
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let s zoom through some of the top stories. relief workers have finally managed to reach the islands following cyclone pam. the storm left behind widespread devastation in the pacific island nation. aid organizers have struggled to deliver supplies. the u.n. puts the death toll at 11, but officials fear it could go higher as they start to search the islands. here in the u.s. next hour we ll be watching the secret service director go before lawmakers. he s there to testify about the budget. but he s sure to field kes about the scandal facing the secret service where two top ranking officials were suspended after driving into a barerier at the white house command post on the 4th of march. fraternity fallout at another university e penn state suspended a fraternity after police say members created a secret facebook page with offensive pictures. they show unclothed women either
government building. there is widespread looting in towns like tacloban and attacks on convoys as people get desperate. local politicians are call for the relief operation to improve the movement of aid to those desperate for it. aid organizers say they have to speed up the delivery of supplies. priority has got to be, let s get the food in, let s get the water in. we have a lot more coming in today. even that will not be enough. we need to scale up operations on an ongoing basis. reporter: the u.s. marines in tacloban say the local operate should be operating around the clock there soon. people on the ground say a lot of aid is arriving at transit points like sabu airport but it is difficult to get in large quantities to get to all areas hit by the typhoon. bad weather and destruction of many roads and bridges are slowing down the distribution of aid. the you know u.n. says as many