You, many of my friends in the white house and our great Vice President is right here. So thank you, mike, and so many of our wonderful cabinet. Its really a terrific day, and its so much fun, so much fun to have you here to celebrate a very important element of our culture and our life, africanamerican History Month. Right . Were very glad to be joined by our outstanding Surgeon General dr. Jerome adams. Jerome, thank you very much. I also want to recognize our great secretary of housing and urban development dr. Ben carson. Where is ben . [applause] great guy, great friend. And thank you to all the members of our cabinet and all of you who are here, and some of you came from far because this was very important for you to be with us today and thank you very much. Hope Christian Church choir, i said that is a beautiful sound i am hearing. And david a king is my friend. I saw you moving to the music. Thank you very much. Special, special person. Really, right from the beginning. Thank y
James base has the details. All day frantic negotiations here at the United Nations to try and get a Security Council resolution passed a great deal of the pressure on the Russian Ambassador vasoline who has problems with some of the language in the draft resolution drawn up by kuwait and sweden at one point the kuwaiti ambassador the president of the Security Council appeared with the other nonpermanent members of the socalled elected ten and he sounded upbeat were still working on. The language on some of the but i did ask but we are almost there and we would like you know as have been holding as a president of the city council to thank actually the eaton for their support to a lot of votes and hopefully you are so close to adopt this illusion that today throughout the day votes were scheduled then perspire own meetings were delayed towards the end of the day the Us Ambassador nikki haley tweeted unbelievable that russia is stalling a vote on a ceasefire allowing humanitarian access
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A meeting with the president dominated by emotions and raw pain im very angry that this happened because it keeps happening nine eleven happened once and they fix everything how many schools how many children have to get shot it stops here with this administration and me this mans daughter was shot nine times at Stillman Douglas high school in florida last week this student lost his friend i turned eighteen the day after i woke up to the news that my best friend was gone. And i dont understand why i could still go in a store and buy a weapon of war. Described as a listening session by the White House Trump joined by his Vice President and secretary of education said all ideas to prevent Future School shootings are on the table that includes Arming Teachers an attack has lasted on average about three minutes it takes five to eight minutes for responders for the police to come in so the tack is of if you had a teacher with who was adept at firearms they could very well in the attack very
Diplomatic editor james bays at the u. N. For a third day diplomats worked frantically to get a resolution for a cease fire on Syria Ambassador he got an agreement with the russians now. Today were going to see if russia has a conscience the Russian Ambassador conferred with his syrian counterpart whos government has continued without rest by the bombardment of eastern puter even as the negotiations dragged on diplomats have been working around the clock exhausted frustrated and in some cases angry most of the discussions focusing on the exact wording of one paragraph in the end they agreed to a place an immediate cease fire with one that comes into force without delay it meant they could vote. It was unanimous but there didnt seem to be much unity in the chamber. Every minute the council waited on russia the human suffering Group Getting to a vote the came a moral responsibility for everyone but not for russia not for syria not for iran i have to ask why as they dragged out the negoti