Hello im told me all a lot of well its good to have your company the World Health Organization calls it an extreme form of discrimination and a way of controlling women were talking about female genital mutilation or f. G. M. More than 200000000 women and girls alive today have had parts of their genitalia removed for nonmedical reasons of the 30 countries where women are subjected to f g. M. 27 are in africa the dark red areas on this map show the countries where more than 50 percent of women have had their genitals neuter lated such as somalia sudan and mali in the orange areas the figure is 26 to 50 percent and the yellow areas it is between 11 and 25 percent. One member of the muscle using her fame as a former missed tons and to try to end what she describes as a barbaric practice. Diana edward lucas is a 22 year old messiah woman shes trying to break the silence the silence surrounding female genital mutilation or f. G. M. She set up the cut Alert Foundation it is working to stop
Now the chancellor and leaders of the countrys largest cities agree new measures for places where case numbers are on the increase and this is the 1st of all a lot of big speeches looking up the believe the head of the World Food Program expresses his joy as the agency is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Welcome to the program. Germany has marked the 1st anniversary of a deadly antisemitic attack on a synagogue in the eastern city of holland it happened on the jewish holiday of young kid for the neo nazi attacker couldnt get through the synagogues front door and so went on to shoot 2 people outside the commemoration ceremony president frank expressed shame and anger over the resurgence of antisemitism in the country. It was an occasion to mourn and reflect for survivors for the been briefed and for germany the ceremony in. Church marked the anniversary of an anti semitic attack that evokes germanys history. A year has passed already a year just a year. Or do i ever go to day and nightmar
I am victoria, the deputy executive director of the eisenhower memorial commission. We are here tonight in washington, d. C. , at the northwest corner of the new president ial memorial for dwight d. Eisenhower. This story starts about a thousand miles west of washington, d. C. , in abilene, kansas. His family moved to abilene, kansas, when he was a toddler, and he stayed there through high school. I want to direct your view to this speech inscribed on this wall. When world war ii ended, eisenhower came home to abilene and was given a heros welcome. In a very humble way, he started talking about not that he was a hero but what he dreamed of doing when he was a young boy. Ended with the proudest thing i can claim is that i am from abilene. That first paragraph of that speech, was a primary inspiration for the designer of the memorial frank gehry. He has expressed here in this statue of Young Eisenhower as a teenage boy sitting on the stone block looking in the direction of two of his gre
D. C. E here in washington, at the northwest corner of the new, president ial memorial for dwight d. Eisenhower. Starts about 1000 miles west of washington, d. C. In abilene, kansas. Inle eisenhower was born texas, his family moved back to kansas when he was just a toddler. He stay there through high school. I wanted direct your view to speech that is inscribed in this wall in the memorial. When world war ii ended, eisenhower came home and was given a heros welcome, and in a humble way, he started talking butt not that he was a hero what you dreamed of doing when he was a young boy in abilene, kansas. And ended with the proudest thing i can claim is that im from abilene. I come here first, to thank the proudest thing i can claim is that i am from abilene. [applause] that first paragraph of that speech was a primary inspiration for the designer of the memorial, frank gary. He has expressed that here in this statue of Young Eisenhower as a teenage boy, sitting on a stone block, looking i
Would have been john lennons 80th birthday wed look back at his life and legacy. Welcome to the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel and the mayors of 11 of the countrys biggest cities have agreed a package of new measures to halt the spread of the corona virus germany fears are growing its 2nd wave of the pandemic after infection rates in several cities including berlin and frankfurt passed a key threshold and triggered tighter restrictions. From her office in berlin and the americans Video Conference with the mayors of key cities sent the message germany urgently needs to prevent corona spreading in urban centers the other spear and other things we are sans that the big cities they have an area as and now the area now where we will see if we can keep the pandemic and control in germany as we have done for months so for if we lose control that is precisely where we are right now it cannot and the important thing is to contain the virus the mayors agreed a tough new framework it cou