In colombia, a great allies ally of ours. There seems to be a real situation in colombias largest port and the scent of its population were over half a million inhabitants, over 90 of them are black. They are mired in crime and poverty, and over 80 live below the poverty line. 30 are unemployed and virtually none have access to supplies of electricity, water or basic wrote infrastructure. This violence thats going on, i know we want to make sure we are able to address underlying social problems so if theres anything that what were doing there. And, finally, on the lines of what Ranking Member engel had asked, he talked a special about tuberculosis, but thanks in huge party was investment in Global Health, the world has cut by 50 the number of children who die before age five whether its pneumonia, malaria or tuberculosis. The leading killers of Children Worldwide. Were on the verge of some exciting breakthroughs and lifesaving potential. For example, another Usaid Youtube to prevent an
Extraordinarily important. As far as a bullet goes, more for the record, i know five cdc people arrive and this is different. This is unprecedented and we have a lot of infectious bass diseases. Doctor ben from washington dc, hes help to cure over 5000 kids in uganda and i have introduced a bill and we have asked you repeatedly look into it. We are talking about getting this involved and this is a situation of kids who are dying horrible deaths and i have seen the kids and i have met the children and i had one of the neurosurgeons testify from africa. And that is part of the vision to grow the capacity of the resurgence in africa. I just want to thank you and i want to thank you for your leadership on all of these Global Health issues. We have set a tone for American Leadership at this point tremendous results. The thank you goes to you for these results. On may 22 we will have part of this policy and we a have been designed to take the thousand days approach targeting pregnant women i
Youll have to return on an entire segment for what it would take to win, because there is a lot that he did that would very much mitigate any kind of defense like that. But were flat out of time. Paul callan, thank you for that. Thanks for watching. Newsroom international starts right now with michael holmes. Welcome to newsroom international. Well take you around the world in 60 minutes. Lets start with whats going on out there. There is plenty. First, the future of the u. S. Troop presence in afghanistan and the security of that country, hamid karzai having lunch with president obama this hour. The two leaders hold a News Conference in the next hour. President karzais visit will help determine how many u. S. Troops will remain in afghanistan after the drawdown in 2014. Chris lawrence joins us. The white house floated the idea of a zero option, if you like, leaving no troops behind in afghanistan. Whats the pentagon think of that and a lot of these people say that really complaint hea
But afghanistan will be a country that will be moving forward. Education will grow better. Thousands of students will graduate in our own universities. Thousands more will come from studies abroad who are now studying abroad. The democracy and institutions that democracy requires will grow, there will be more elections. There will be more institutional reform. There will be a better government but afghanistan will continue to face problems, there may be violence and there might be other challenges as we move forward but the speed of progress will move and will not stop. Will afghanistan remember the United States as a country that helped or a country that did not help . Definitely afghanistan will remember the United States as a country that helped. Definitely afghanistan will remember that it was the u. S. Assistance that brought so much to afghanistan. Who will forget the less pleasant aspect ours relationship and we will move forward in the gratitude of the help that the United Stat
Just like the analysts and special agents who are working these issues, we aim to stay on top of the threat picture and to help devise tactics and strategies and tools for getting ahead of it. Today its standard it is standard procedure for agents conducting counterterrorism investigations to consult throughout the process with attorneys and prosecutors in the National Security division. That is to ensure that all potential avenues for destruction of a threat, intelligence gathering, investigation and prosecution are all preserved. If you asked me to break down how much intelligence versus how much Law Enforcement work we do, i would be hard pressed to give you an answer. We are almost always pursuing multiple tracks at the same time. We no longer have to across organizational lines to bring tools and talent to bear against a particular threat or problem. For instance, our Office Lawyers in the office of intelligence work day in and day out with the Intelligence Community to secure aut