Particularly because taking a look at a small town in oregon that you come from and i come from a small rural town in oregon and i just ponder how in your professional career traveling the world in a different environment reporting on World Affairs but you choose to focus on a small town in oregon. Why we were all covering the humanitarian crisis and going back to my beloved hometown to the family far we saw humanitarian crisis unfolding their. One quarter of the kids were on my old Number Six School bus for drugs and suicide. The kids who got on the bus right after me a smart talent of kids from drug and alcohol abuse one died in a house fire when he was passed out drunk and regina died from hepatitis injectable drug use and so for a while with a Life Expectancy was falling for three years in a row and it was a microcosm. You saw this through the lens of returning home it could have been titled School Bus Number six. And then early in the relationship over the last couple of decades a
For those that have the catastrophe that follow. Hello there. Guess who i am. [laughter] if i have to give you an introduction about Tara Westover you need to get out of the hole you have been living in for a while. [laughter] her book has just celebrated 100 consecutive week on the New York Times bestseller list. It is number one. [applause] Michelle Malcolm milken is down there. Im assuming that a lot of people are familiar with the narrative and thats why you are still here at the last lecture on the second day but we thought we would go through some of her story because its so gripping and it starts in idaho and actually it is such a beautiful setting and a lot of beautiful memories that you still have. Yes. It was a Beautiful Mountain that i grew up on but i still have fond memories to be on the mountain and playing on the mountain. It is incredible we had this entire farm a lot of wonderful things that could happen i guess i was the original free range kid. [laughter] there was a
Good afternoon. Im sarah perry director of partnerships here at the Family Research council and it is my very great privilege to introduce todays lecture and coauthors of the book upon which it is based. Why meadow died some of the people in policies that created the park when shooting and in danger of americas students. As a reminder to those of you in the audience, we will be taking questions during the last 15 to 20 minutes of this lecture. We will let you know when we are opening it up and the lecture will also be archived in our Speaker Series library frc. Org speakers. When completed we encourage you to share it on your social media platforms. Bill bennett wrote that why meadow died is the untold almost unbelievable true story of how the moral corruption brought by politically correct policies and willful blindness made the most avoidable School Shooting in history somehow inevitable. Broward county florida was ground zero for a new approach to School Discipline prompted by radic
A majority in parliament. Thousands of protesters are back on the streets in chile capital santiago despite a government reshuffle aimed at ending the protests and demonstrations began several weeks ago over a hike in metro fares but have since turned into a wider protest over inequality in the country. Those are the headlines were back in half an hour right now its women make change. We understand the differences. And the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take aljazeera well bring you the news and Current Affairs that matter to. 0. The best generation in your family as a woman going to. Let me show you something this is a 1. 25 a where i live its why a very small cup of coffee millions of people around the world exist on less than this amount a day of the numbers have gone down but theres still a lot of work to be done at a time when the world is looking at how to reduce extreme poverty the spotlight has been towed on women wherever they have the opportuni
Deceased is the countrys worst rail disaster in more than a decade a day after the philippines was struck by a powerful earthquake people are worried of possible aftershocks the 6. 6 tremor struck the southern philippines killing 5 people it was the 3rd powerful quake to hit the region in 2 weeks our correspondent allan dogan joins me now from north to bartow on mindanao and of course jamil a day after the quake and the real enormity of the task ahead and the help thats needed is coming to light. That is exactly correct so hale i am right outside the District Hospital in a town called north of about the province and behind me basically are patients who have been injured by the earthquake most of them are the elderly basically and they have were not able to run away in time but because the building that this District Hospital may have been already condemned it isnt safe for patients to stay inside there are older people here there are also very very Young Children babies who are just ab