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
Just standing there in the street had the right to do that. We of freight around the streets of oil city this is nonsense its a shame. The un authorised protest had been called by the jailed opposition leader. Of mauritius had banned local election candidates from running because they said the candidates in question had not collected a sufficient number of genuine signatures in their support a charge rejected by the Opposition Movement who say the candidates are being unfairly excluded for. All that is being done is an attempt to intimidate and we need to show that they cannot intimidators with these methods the protest also comes at a time of serious questions over president Vladimir Putins popularity discontent and anger over falling incomes under rise of the national pension. Age appeared to have caused a slump in putins Approval Ratings that have been denied by the kremlin. But the opposition sees this latest crackdown as a struggle for its right to challenge what it says is a legi
translation: first of all, i want to thank god - for having given me this second chance and for being back home. i want to thank all the people of barangays, the families and colombia for the great support they have given my family. thank you all. i love you all very much. very soon i will have the opportunity to hug you all. thank you so much, my people. thank you. it was almost two weeks ago that his parents were kidnapped at gunpoint at a petrol station in barranca in northeast colombia. his mother, celina, was rescued that night, but his father was abducted. police in the military had focused their search on a difficult to reach area on the border between colombia and venezuela. the group holding diaz, the national liberation army, known as the eln, had called his kidnap a mistake and had agreed to release him. but it wasn t until today when a team, including un officials and those from the catholic church, met with rebels to bring diaz senior home. much to the delight of
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