Threaten the National Security of both israel and the United States. Our president and our government have not been able to secure the release of an american citizen languishing in an iranian prison. Simply for his christian faith. Now ill tell you something incredible. During the time pastor saeed has been in prison, hes been able to lead dozens of fellow prisoners and Prison Guards to chri christ. [ applause ] and then you look to another example. An example of Miriam Ibrahim. Miriam is someone who every elected official, every american should be speaking out. Miriam ibrahim is a young woman, a wife, mother, she is in prison in sudan, for the crime of being a christian. Miriam has a 20monthold son, his name is martin. And she has a newborn baby daughter mia. Miriam gave birth to baby maya just a few weeks ago, in a sudanese prison while in leg irons. Miriam and martin and mia are in that prison right now today, and the government of sudan has sentenced miriam to 100 lashes and then h
And within the u. S. Government doing nightly interagency calls and a variety of other mechanisms to make sure that we have our own house in order. Its been going fairly well so far as more and more ngos come in it will become a greater challenge. Does the government of the philippines coordinate the capacities of the ngos and the need, the capacities of participating International Partners as well as their own cash requirements . Is that balanced together . Yeah. Their involvement in those cluster coordination meetings so you have a meeting on health every day, water every day. Government of philippines is involved in those and able to hear what ngos capacities are available, what their plans are, provide feedback on that and feedback on priorities in addition to its own activities. There are 4 million americans plus with filipino heritage. There is strong compassion among the American People to be engaged. People want to help. I think thats true internationally, but particularly true
After recognizing myself, chairman smith am a Ranking Member deutsche for opening statements, i will then recognize other members seeking recognition for one minute. Then we will hear from our witnesses and without objection the witnesses prepared statement will be made part of the record. Members may have five days to insert statements and questions for the record subject to the length demonstration like limitations. The chair recognizes herself for five minutes. Ng aqua data jobs of course, we cannot forget the 2009 Green Movement in iran in which millions took to the streets calling for reforms. The administration refused to the soap refused to support the Green Movement and a part of the world that is resistant to peaceful change. It is unfortunately a mistake we have seen with this administration too often and we are seeking the results we are seeing the results of this in action and indecisiveness now. Then along came the socalled moderate rouhani and the administration trip doll
A 3rd, a a with with, with a thank you. A with about with ah with law be 9100 and 26th meeting of the Security Council is called to water. The provisional agenda for this meeting is maintenance of peace and security of ukraine. The agenda is adopted from home, so you will know in accordance with role 37 of the counsels provisional rules of procedure. I invite the representatives of italy, latvia, poland, slovakia, and ukraine to participate in this meeting. It is so decided to fulfill your remind you of your of your in accordance waived rule 39. 00 of the counsels provisional rules of procedure. I invite the following briefers to participate in this meeting was miss Rosemary Decarlo under secretary general for political and peace building affairs. 6, ms. Brands, caris assistant secretary general for human rights and ms. Alexandra drake, coordinator for International Cooperation center for civil liberties. It is so decided the Security Council will now begin its consideration of item 2
Influence in the arctic us, russia and china all competes to have a say. Plus, we are trying to actually establish a permanent presence on the moon. Now says new high stakes moon mission is ready for launch mocking of the day few of its most power holbrooke h, yet ah, more than a 1000 people in pakistan have died. An unprecedented monsoon rains across large parts of the country. 33000000 people are affected by the worst floods in decades. A nationwide emergency is in place. Town of char sada, in the north, is one of the hardest hit areas. And the 200000 people have been ordered to leave their homes, and then the southeast and send province mud. Houses are submerged, and many villages. We have 2 correspondence following the story, and pakistan come on, hider is in the north in char sadder but 1st, lets hear from zane. Best ravi is in the corner and send province are everywhere. Weve gone in the province and weve visited a number of villages coming up tiller kind of district and inside o