To covering live house coverage here on cspan as they gavel in eight bills today, including antilynching legislation. The speakr pro tempore the house will be in order. He prayer will be offere by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain onroy let us pray. Dear lord, we give you thanks foriving us another day. Use thismoment to be e reminded of your presence c1 tap the resoces needed by the members of this peos house to do their work as w as it upon those torn nation and upon the members of this assembly who struggle to see the shared hope for a Better Future in those withwhom they disagree. Fo many americans, the holy season of lent begins tomorrow d foreheads are marked this as men andwomen and as a reminder of your power to thrugh our failures all this day and through the week, may our representatives do teir best to find solutions to pressing issues facig our nation. Please hasten the day when justice and love shall dwell in the hearts of all peoples and rule the affairs of the nation
[applause] i am honored to be here like to say a couple of words about the track of the human spirit i talk to you about andreas bravery and i say this all the time we have to fight for our local newspaper and journalism whether its the bakery or in big parts of the community this is just as important joe mcnamara reported that we care about. Our kids, local teams and then theres Nothing Better than a local basketball and i agree with that 100 percent also thank you for coming here for co andrea has shown tremendous bravery and what she has done for us. Not only has she lost her soulmate but had the courage to stand up and step forward against the nra and subjected to horrible things throughout that process but she was brave enough to stand there to say we need to talk about these issues. These violent things that are happening in our communities whether red or blue we need to tackle these horrible things happen in our communities its not picking out democrats or republicans causes hea
But in june, troops from the northern kurdish territories began liberating the city, gradually putting an end to the terror, arbitrary executions and repression. Hundreds of thousands of people in Northern Syria have been forced to flee. The fight to liberate raqqa could be over soon partly as a result of u. S. Military support but its been left devastated. Reporter you could say this man actually got off lightly. He survived a booby trap left behind by retreating i. S. Troops. German trauma surgeon michael wilk treats the wounded. Hes set up an operating room in a kitchen in an Apartment Building close to the front. Michael this was clearly caused by an exploding mine. The man was hit by many small pieces of shrapnel in the lower body, and has several larger wounds on his shoulder and head. But if you consider that he set off a mine, hes actually doing well. Reporter after receiving first aid, the wounded man is evacuated. The trip to the nearest medical facility will take over two ho
But in june, troops from the northern kurdish territories began liberating the city, gradually putting an end to the terror, arbitrary executions and repression. Hundreds of thousands of people in Northern Syria have been forced to flee. The fight to liberate raqqa could be over soon partly as a result of u. S. Military support but its been left devastated. Reporter you could say this man actually got off lightly. He survived a booby trap left behind by retreating i. S. Troops. German trauma surgeon michael wilk treats the wounded. Hes set up an operating room in a kitchen in an Apartment Building close to the front. Michael this was clearly caused by an exploding mine. The man was hit by many small pieces of shrapnel in the lower body, and has several larger wounds on his shoulder and head. But if you consider that he set off a mine, hes actually doing well. Reporter after receiving first aid, the wounded man is evacuated. The trip to the nearest medical facility will take over two ho
Previous year. Many of those who do make it only survive thanks to good luck. And then there is the daunting prospect of gaining legal residency. Italy, for example, rejects over half of asylum applications. This is the Hilltop Village of riace, in the southernmost part of italy. Iman and atieh al jedi and their four children are building a new life here. Their first step has been to start learning the language. The family originally came from syria, but fled from the to lebanon, where they lived for five years. Atieh remembers what a shock it was to arrive in italy after traveling for 30 hours. When we got here my first thought was take me back to lebanon. I was so tired. But then, bit by bit, i calmed down. The people here treated us well. The italians are good people, and the welcome was warm. Flashback beirut, the capital of lebanon syrias neighbor in the middle east. About two and a half Million People live here. The 6person family is paying 200 dollars a month to live in this win