Singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Glad you could join us. It is 7am in singapore, midnight in london, and 9am in queensland, australia, where the devastation caused by Cyclone Debbie is beginning to emerge. Australias Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has activated a Disaster Response plan and has warned people they may have to remain in shelters for several our come. The storm brought with it torrential rain and winds of almost 260 kilometres per hour. Nearly 250,000 people lost power, airports have been closed, and there has been damage to infrastructure near the water. Look at these images filmed by nasa from the International Space station. Cyclone debbie had an eye 50 kilometres across. The premier warned of plenty of work to be done. We are looking at significant destruction, we think. We are preparing for that. We are doing the work now to get the assets on the ground, including with military partners, to make sure we can get in there with the resources we
Set the goal of rewriting the rules. s so more Companies Share profits with their employees, not just their executives, instead of shifting profits and jobs overseas, we have got the greatest country in the greatest economy in the world, lets start acting like it. Lets make it clear that the companies have to be part of that greatness [applause]. Lets set the goal of makinggoag sure that wall street and the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes. Of ways of now there are a couple ways of doing this. I have been proposing a number of them, something called thee buffett rule after warren buffetts. No millionaire should pay a lower tax rate than somebody working for him, like his secretary. [applause]. The people who have profited the most, even since the Great Recession of people now need to give back. This country hasry given so much to all of us. Everybody should share the burden. I have made a pledge, i will not raise taxes on the middle class, but, but we are going to raise taxes on c
Grandchildren so when they look back and they see what we did here in paris they can take pride in our achievements, let that be the common purpose here in paris, a world that is worthy for our children, a world that is not marked by conflict but cooperation and not by human suffering but by human progress, a world that is safer and more prosperous and more free than the one we inherited, lets get to work. Thank you very much. That was president obama speaking at the Climate Change summit in paris. Your world this morning begins right now this is the moment we finally determined we would save our planet. That is todays top story, tackling Climate Change and president Obama Joining dozens of World Leaders in paris and time is running out to limit Global Warming. Day in court the alleged gunman accused of killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood will face a judge today. On trial jury selection beginning with one of the officers charged in the death of freddie gray in baltimo
Country, we want to know your story. If you live in the east or central part of the country, dialin at 2027488000. Gotten pacific at 2027488001. If youre outside, we want to hear your story as well. 2027488002. You can also join the conversation in twitter at http twitter. Com cspanwj. Or email us at journal cspan. Org. We will begin this morning with refugees only. Your experience trying to come to the United States or if you are outside the country, but has been your experience so far . If you are trying to get in or another country. We begin with molly otooles piece about the syrian and iraqi refugees trying to come. How fear slammed americas door on Syrian Refugees. The u. S. Has 2011 resettled just under 1900 Syrian Refugees. But the war in syria, nearly five years old, has displaced more than 12 million. Five have left the country, flooding the region and flowing into europe. Turkey has registered some 2 million refugees. Germany said it will pick up 800,000 this year. The u. S.
Condemns and disassociates itself from every terrorist attack, and every terrorist. Republican president ial candidate donald trump continues to insist that he was right that thousands of muslimamericans in new jersey celebrated years ago. In an interview on nbcs meet the press, trump said that he heard of celebrations after the terrorist attacks in jersey city and paterson. Yet city leaders and Law Enforcement leaders in new jersey say the largescale public celebrations never took place. A sunday of campaigning in central iowa at a Worship Service before heading east. Cruz appeared in tama at a Caseys General store within the hour for retail politicking. After that appearance, the firstterm republican senator is due to appear in van horne. Cruz will be in coralville on monday for a 10 am town hall meeting at the Kirkwood Regional Center at the university of iowa. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie hasnt been able to reach doubledigits in the polling of Iowa Republicans but, today, a c