Im sam is a dan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up after a chaotic start interruptions and delays the russian sponsored talks on the war in syria finally wrap up. With. Two days of fighting in yemen and southern secessionist say theyve taken control of the port city of aden plus. Any one and a half million afghan refugees living in pakistan face an uncertain future. The u. S. President has delivered a wide ranging speech to a joint sitting of congress it was Donald Trumps first state of the Union Address he spoke mainly about domestic policy trump highlighted his successes in tax reform and the need to change immigration laws to protect u. S. Interests oh i thousand correspondent Kimberly Halkett was following the address from capitol hill. Most of donald trump speech certainly focused on domestic policies and what he sees as achievements on that front that he has scored in the last year in office there were certainly some very pronounced Foreign Policy messages as well t
Success and where new optimism. To reexamine our military detention policy and to keep open the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. Multiple promises for the u. S. Military on top of a prison will stay open indefinitely. Im Richelle Carey this is al jazeera life and also coming up some of these afghan refugees in pakistan for generations but a deadline for them to leave is just hours away. The military push that made americans question whether the vietnam war could be won a combat photographer remembers the tet offensive fifty years later. An appeal for unity at home and a message of strength and power abroad ill tom still up for his first state of the union speech highlighting the successes of his administration outlined a plan per tougher immigration policies a powerful military and a stronger nuclear terence program from washington d. C. Alan fischer reports oh yes oh oh no truck thats got to go for a president who wants to unite the country his journey to the capitol in washingto
The meeting will come to order. Robert frost once wrote home is the place when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Unquote. Unfortunately for far too many children in the foster care system that type of home is not available. Today, the Senate Finance committee will hear testimony annal alternatives that can reduce the reliance ons Foster Care Group homes. I have been pleased to work on this with Ranking Member wyden. I enjoy working with him on everything we work on. Keep it up. This is a bipartisan hearing and i appreciate senator wydens efforts and those of had staff to make it so. The basic premise of this hearing is simple. Whenever possible children should grow up in a home with their family. When problems arise, attempts should be made to keep the child safely at home. If they cannot be safely at home efforts should be placed to put them with relatives. Children and youth should only be in group homes for short periods of time and only when efforts to place them in a
Mr. Dillard thank you for your observation. Trauma informed care is truly something that is needed if we are going to be preventive. I can use myself as an example of someone who had traumas at the age of 1213 years old. When i was diagnosed, i had been severely depressed most of my life. One reason i self medicated was Illegal Drugs had i been diagnosed, maybe i could have been given legal drugs and avoided the criminal Justice System. The fact is, we never look at the cause, we just look at the effect. Many, many, many of these women and men who ive encountered have tremendous traumas. We are working as a Pure Organization to help them work through that. To avoid Walking Around as hurting people because we know hurt people hurt people. If we do not address those early on, further down the road after recidivism, we are still going to be paying a much higher cost. Mr. Ofer i will give a perspective informed by the fact that i spend a lot of my time in newark, new jersey. A city that is
At some point come to stumble when im assembled leaders and you typed a lot about what is going to land in what is going to use. What can lose is for structure. All the Service Chiefs are grappling with this he dilemma. How do you modernize and made team for structure at the same time . 80,000, 31,000 of them are all volunteers, coast guard auxiliary. Whatever you multiply by zero, you get zero. They provide millions of free manhours sorting Coast Guard Missions that dont involve putting themselves at risk, mostly Recreational Boating community, but i cant come for structure. Maybe make difficult decisions about operations do not cut appeared with always defined itself by love and Statutory Mission and some pages get rid of one of those missions. Each one of those has a mundane line when you divest of omission, all you have at the end of the day is a smaller coast guard. 100 years ago was when the coast guard first came into being. The first commandant of the coast guard was under atta