The largest fundraiser of the year for the jcccnc, the Japanese Cultural Community Center of Northern California. The event this saturday will feature Culinary Creations from the bay area, hawaii, and japan and will help the center continue to serve its 185,000 visitors every year. And we will end with a unique mission as a former child interned at the manzanar camp searches for his classmates. Well show you how he hopes to track them down. All that on our show today. Well, were big fans of books and the written word here; and thats not always an easy thing to promote in this digital age, but it is a Crucial Foundation in education and understanding your own culture and community. Joining me now is christina newhard, the publisher of sarisari storybooks. She was born in the philippines and moved to the us when she was 10, but has held onto her roots and is helping to pass it along to others. Sarisari storybooks are geared to english and many of the other languages associated with the p
new allegations that it hacked into the phone of the washington post on a jeff bezos world health organization considers whether to clear a global emergency over the corona virus that s already killed 17 people in china donald trump announces plans to add more countries to the u.s. travel bans and heads home to his impeachment trial. scenes of chaos anger and fighting erupted in central lebanon barely a day after a new government formed the cabinet met earlier for the 1st time saying it would work to end months of political and economic crisis a protest quickly spiraled into these scenes you see here people throwing rocks at police 5 back with tear gas shots of also being hood anti-government protest inside the new cabinet is nothing but a rubber stamp for the tide political system by accused of ruining the country resigned ahora is live for us in by rumors zinah bring us up to date on what you re seeing around you and the protests that have now been underway for the last cou
it confirms human to human spirit of a new virus and the toll climbs again. besides the loss of the sense of peace feel like there is no. young libyans wonder whether their future lies abroad because of the continually fight for control at home. plus mexico detains dozens of margarets who crossed the border from guatemala on their disparate journey to the united states. u.s. president donald trump has delivered an upbeat headline address at the world economic forum in switzerland that is the final details of his impeachment trial is set to be hammered out on the other side of the atlantic that trump told the gathering of political and business elite that america was experiencing an economic boom like never before he dismissed what he called prophecies of doom as concerns of a climate change overshadow the summit. this is not a time for pessimism this is a time for optimism fear and doubt is not a good thought process because this is a time for tremendous hope and joy and opti
Winds and rains blow towards manila. Starting with an al jazeera exclusive kenyas Police Squads admitted for the first time to carrying out extrajudicial killings, speaking to the Investigative Unit of al jazeera, the officers discussed the involvement in the kenyan assassination programme, targetting suspected muslim radicals. Reporter this is the body of maclebury, one of 21 suspected radical muslims allegedly shot down by police since 2012. He predicted death when i met him last year. Im the one terrorized. My life is the one in danger al jazeeras Investigative Unit spoke to the police hit men involved in the extrajudicial killings. We verified that they were members of the counterterrorism units, and we agreed to conceal the identities. reporter britain and america provided millions of dollars of counterterrorism training and equipment to kenyas police, and the officers claimed western security agencies know about the killings because they provide some of the intelligence in the re
And bracing for the storm. Typhoon weakens in the philippines, but still forces millions in manila to take cover. We begin with breaking news from lebanon. Thats where there has been an explosion on the board with syria. Lets get more details from jane ferguson, who is joining us on the line from beirut to tell whats youre hearing about this blast, jane . Reporter it would appear that a bomb inside the car, and it was an assassination attempt on a resident. Not clear yet who that resident is other than a resident, not a military figure at this point. Of course, just to give you background on the other side of the border, it there has been violence from syria ever since al nusra and isil came inside. Ever since its been very divided, and there has been a presence from the Lebanese Army as well as rebel groups inside syria. There are over 60,000 refugees. The residents who normally live there. It is a tense at times 37 and such explosions and bombings have been heard over the last year.