America. This is Aljazeera America. Good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Pope francis is hours away from arriving in america. Hes wrapping up his trib to cuba this morning with a mass next hour at the countrys holy shrine. This afternoon, he lands outside washington, d. C. For the first leg of his six day visit to the u. S. On monday, the pope closed out the day praying at a shrine to cubas patron saint. The pope placed a bouquet of flowers at the foot of the 403yearold statue. An unprecedented show of security will greatly the popes arrival in america. His six day visit takes him to washington, then new york and philadelphia, prompting what has been called the largest coordinated security efforts in u. S. History. Paul beban reports. This is what makes protecting pope francis such a challenge. His habit of breaking away from his security detail to be with the people. On his visit to the u. S. , the sat can Security Force will be beefed up by a battery of u. S. A
Poverty, immigration, and Climate Change. Today he heads to capitol hill, but the popes visit to washington has not been without controversy. Seven people were arrested wednesday after staging a diein calling for the ordination of women. We will speak with one of the women priests who were arrested, as well as the granddaughter of dorothy day, founder of the catholic worker movement. Then when exxon knew about Climate Change. Newly uncovered documents show the companys own scientists confirmed Global Warming was occurring over three decades ago due to rising carbon emissions. Then the Company Covered it up, spending millions campaigning to stop the world from taking any action. We found a trail of documents that go back to 1977. Exxon new Carbon Dioxide was ,ncreasing in the atmosphere that the combustion of also feels was driving at, and this post a threat to exxon. Amy we will speak to a former exxon scientist and a reporter from inside climate news. All that and more coming up. Welc
Thousands of people who have greet you this weekend, share in that same joy, now and always. Holy father, welcome to philadelphia. Applause. Customary that the holy father visits a city, the gifts are exchanged and just presented to archbishop chaput a beautiful chalice as a commemoration of his visit to philadelphia. Applause. May god be with you. And with your spirit. Inaudible. And the holy spirit. Amen. Go forth in mass. Thanks be to god. I will miss you and i ask you to pray for me. There you have it, the very first event of the holy father as trip and it was eucharist that he celebrated. Such a beautiful, beautiful moment. But he truly saved the best for last here in philadelphia. He did, indeed, bishop, how beautiful and what a gorgeous gift he gave to archbishop chaput that stunning chalice, im sure the archbishop will be so thrilled every time he celebrates mass using that chalice. So what we understand now is that the holy father was going to go, there it is, into the the sid
Amy in his first trip ever to the United States, pope francis speaks at the white house about poverty, immigration, and Climate Change. Today he heads to capitol hill, but the popes visit to washington has not been without controversy. Seven people were arrested wednesday after staging a diein calling for the ordination of women. We will speak with one of the women priests who were arrested, as well as the granddaughter of dorothy day, founder of the catholic worker movement. Then when exxon knew about Climate Change. Newly uncovered documents show the companys own scientists confirmed Global Warming was occurring over three decades ago due to rising carbon emissions. Then the Company Covered it up, spending millions campaigning to stop the world from taking any action. We found a trail of documents that go back to 1977. Exxon new Carbon Dioxide was ,ncreasing in the atmosphere that the combustion of also feels was driving at, and this post a threat to exxon. Amy we will speak to a for
But we must also realize that, that for all our power, we can rarely succeed by simply going it alone. If we want the world to heed our views and follow our lead, we must listen to the concerns of others. We must listen confidently to rising powers such as china, who want to have a greater say in global governance, as we push them to abide by the same rules that we ourselves uphold. We must listen to scientists who say Global Warming is a real and grave threat to our future, [applause] secretary albright scientists who believe that conservation is a National Security imperative not a fourletter word. And we must listen to those who argue that globalization should not lead to marginalization of the worlds poor. I have traveled almost everywhere, and i have found that there are essentially three categories of countries in the world today. In the first, people work all day and still dont have enough to eat. In the second, families are able to scrape together just enough food to meet their