taliban seeks from the international community will depend on its conduct. we organized contact groups of key countries to ensure the international community continues to speak with one voice on afghanistan and to leverage our combined influence. last week, i led a ministerial meeting of 22 countries, nato, the eu, the united nations, to continue to align our efforts. and fifth, we ll continue to support humanitarian aid to the afghan people, consistent with sanctions it will not flow through the government but rather than independent organizations like ngos and u.n. agencies. just today, we announced that the united states is providing nearly $64 million in new humanitarian assistance to the people of afghanistan to meet critical heat and nutrition needs, address the protection concerns of women, children, and minorities, to help more children, including girls, go back to school. this additional funding means the united states has provided nearly $330 million in assistance to the afgh
we have organize contact groups and key countries to ensure the international community continues to speak with one voice on afghanistan and to leverage our combined influence. last week i led a meeting of 22 countries, neato, the e.u., united nations to continue to a. it will continue to support humanitarian aid to the afghan people. consistent with sanctions that the aid will not flow through the government rather through independent organizations like ngos. today we announced the united states is providing nearly $64 million in new humanitarian assistance the people of afghanistan to meet critical needs, dress the protection concerns of women, children and minorities, to help more children including girls, go back to school. this additional funding means the united states has provided nearly $330 million in assistance to the afghan people this fiscal year. in doha and ramstein, i toured
different type of disaster, putting constant pressure on japan to battle rising infections and to get vaccines into arms as fast as possible. translator: the coronavirus cases may rise or fall. so we will think about what we should do when the situation arises. reporter: canceling the olympics at this point seems inconceivable. but there is one thing dr. zuka does appear about. translator: i think that japan could be rated a c for its measure against covid-19. reporter: while there are 400 icu beds in tokyo, only half are available for covid-19 patients. that combined with the rising number of cases and hospital sa izations doesn t leave a lot of room for a surge in a city of 14 million. is there a criteria by which you would start to become concerned? mostly what we look at is changes this pattern. so if we started to see infection in people who weren t part of close contact groups, if
significantly the harm the virus causes significantly the harm the virus causes. vaccination means now possible causes. vaccination means now possible and necessary to shift our strategic possible and necessary to shift our strategic aim and reduce the wider health strategic aim and reduce the wider health social and economic harms that strict health social and economic harms that strict lockdown measures cause. the second that strict lockdown measures cause. the second paper published today is the review the second paper published today is the review of physical distancing. physical the review of physical distancing. physical distancing has been an important mitigation against the virus important mitigation against the virus but important mitigation against the virus but it is also burdensome for individuals virus but it is also burdensome for individuals and costly for businesses. as vaccinations bear more businesses. as vaccinations bear more of businesses. as va
person into those services and then where fred and i might disagree is having those services available. and they re not available in this country. one more thing, very important, because i promised it. the relationship between taking marijuana, particularly when you are an adolescent and increasing probability for having schizophrenia symptoms is very clear if this if we had known that as a probability factor with this young man taking all this marijuana, that would have sound signals as well. so hopefully we ll begin to get that word out, that these illicit substances, for certain vulnerable individuals, increase that likelihood. the violence. in our final moments, give me your best piece of advice for what s being called the chronically normal, a friend, a child, you know, what should they do? first off, as a parent, realize you re not alone. contact groups like mental health america, the national