Live here on cspan three in the Senate Veteran Affairs Meeting testifying on the president s 2024 request for his department. May join this meeting live in progress. I visited there, as you have, as your staff had, you do the right thing. We want to keep working with you. I want to talk about the pact act a little bit. Do you have numbers, up to date numbers of how many veterans are taking advantage of it . I like to say when i do these round tables that this is government and right. This bill passed if, i remember, of august 2022. By january you had it up and running. Hundreds of thousands of veterans were getting care. That is exactly the way governments should run. All of us are proud to be part of that. Do you have an eye to the number of how many people have been served . Yes. Thank you very much. As of may 6th, 251,584 total veterans or survivors have had completed pact act relating claims. We are granting at about 80 . That is the beauty of the presumption we are able to grant a
Many of these species have yet to be researched in depth. But for marine biologists the priority these days is conservation. Cynically them as a, if we didnt protect all this diversity, whats in store for the future, and we need to learn to protect it if were the research is are in a race against time. So this has been nibbled by turtles and fetching with bas god the largest Marine Laboratory in the world. The Galapagos Islands ah, scientists saw early rises. Its 5 in the morning and im barely awake. But diana has nino and her team are on a mission thats best carried out at dawn. Theyre researching baby ham ahead shocks and res sally most dump them. But i mean though, politically have to leave this early because the only fleet near the beach at this time of day. And so when does it, once the sun comes out and the water gets warm, it they retreat to the deck and its hard to find them the night. Air must be one day, is moyvey c ceilings and deanna was born in the Galapagos Islands studyi
Lorna cloud, this is out 0 life and also coming up, mammals deposed leda. Ang santucci is sentenced to 6 more years in prison on corruption charges. Germanys environment minister warns of an ecological catastrophe, as fish die in large numbers along the border with potent ah. So kenya is Vice President william rita has been declared the winner of kenyas president ial election. He received just over 50 percent of the votes, less than 2 percent ahead of his main rival, a former Prime Minister runner a dingo rito as promising kenyas radical economic reform, gender equity. That id called for unity. I am a vague, proud canyon. They say to me that the people of kenya have raised the bah on up who are thinking leadership in our country, not to sell away in cities, but to settle our program. Our manifesto, our agenda, and our plan. We do not have that luxury to point fingers. We do not have that luxury to apportion blame. We must close ranks and walk together for a functioning democratic prop
Myanmar after 50 years of nightmare, something unexpected is happening here. And its pretty incredible. I took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, anthony in yangon, capital city of myanmar, its dark. Blackouts are frequent with the ancient power grid. What sources of light there are in the street cast an eerie, yellow orange hue. For almost 100 years under british rule, this was rangoon. In 1948, after helping the british fight off the japanese, and with a new taste for selfdetermination, the country gained independence. After a decade of instability, however, the military consolidated power and never let go. Elections . They came and went. The results ignored, opposition punished or silenced entirely. Burma, now myanmar, where orwell had once served as a colonial policeman, where h
spit in the magical hell broth of fish, spice, and herb. mohinga? uh, this i must have. correct me if i m wrong, if there s a national dish, a fundamental, most beloved dish, would it be would it be this? u thiha: yeah, for example, take a look at all this sweet stuff. this is indian. these are chinese, et cetera. but then mohinga is a local thing. and it s popular not in the city but also in the rural areas, too, in a fish base with some rice or noodles. we would sometimes we put in some crispies, like fried beans or anthony: mm-hmm. u thiha: fried. anthony: mm. u thiha: so, these are some coriander leaves. anthony: yeah. u thiha: you can mix some some limes. anthony: sprinkle some in here. mm. good textures. particularly in the light of, uh, obama s recent visit, these are interesting times. significant changes for the first time in, you know, 50 years. u thiha: yeah. there s one thing which is quite significant. for example, take a look around. all kinds of