have shown great personal dedication to the success of this purpose, cop-21. for four years, the group has been able to implement considerable work. i d like to show my respect to the presidents of the different groups, facilitators, and negotiators of the groups. i would like to thank affectionately the peruvian presidency of cop-20, in particular our friends, who gave us the necessary impulse. [ applause ]
president obama after passing the senate. it removed the threat of a shutdown for most of 2015. the bill will fund most of the federal government through september. a u.n. conference on climate change has approved a draft for the 2015 agreement according to the twitter account lima cop 20 it was signed with no objection. the 2015 accord is expected to commit every country to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. well, happening this hour in japan voters are heading to the polling stations for primary elections. prime minister shinzo abe says the vote is a referendum on his economic policies. those policies called abenomics are designed to kick start japan s lagging economy. instead, the country slipped into an unexpected recession. but mr. abe s ruling party is
and a video! the thing is, the grand jury is supposed to be in charge. we know that it s the prosecutor truly in charge. prosecutors work with cops every day. they need them to make their cases, in which they themselves, the prosecutors, are judged upon. so there s no real independence here. i wrote a piece for mother jones that came out yesterday. i was a witness to a cop 20, 30 years ago, shooting an unarmed homeless person near the metropolitan museum of art in new york city. i went before the grand jury as a witness. i had to actually tell the police i saw it, and i had to go down to the station. they didn t want to take my statement. they had their story all set. when i got down there and i got into the grand jury room, the jurors were kind of sleeping. and the prosecutor asked me one question, really. did i see a knife in the guy s hand? i was right next to the guy. he wasn t holding a knife. and i said no. and the reason why, because he