We chose to stoke that claimed rather than extinguish it. This is my challenge to you tonight, do not let history show that the torch went dark on our watch because we chose to repay lies with lies, to repay hatred with hatred for pettiness with pettiness. Do not leave this place with a sense of defeat. Go out boldly. Go out with your heads high, with your face in our great nation faith in our great nation renewed, restored, encouraged, with a stronger appreciation for the exceptional as an of america and a commitment to fight for its preservation. May we be bigger than this. May we be bolder than this, stronger than this, wiser than any temptation to do otherwise. And may god continue to shine his favor on our great land, and may god continue to bless the United States of america. [cheering and applause] [applause] [applause] [applause] thank you. [applause] good luck. Thank you. I tell you what, the love is mutual. I look around this room and see the distance that people have come, t
Political and Economic Reforms, particularly in the countrys Energy Sector. As a result of mexicos reforms, moodys upgraded its Credit Rating to Investment Grade in february. This makes mexico the only latin American Country other than chile to achieve this rating. The Mexican Congress recently passed a law that will enable courts to try cases alleged against soldiers. To protect human rights, to protect advocates and journalists represent an important step forward. This is a real challenge, and mexico remains a dangerous place for those working to shine a light on abuses, corruption and crime. I urge the Mexican Government to speed up its implementation of these measures. I also urge the state department to provide direct funding for this effort to help build a safe environment for these men and doing such important work. As our witnesses know, i have been a supporter of the Merida Initiative since its inception, but ive also made clear we have certain obligations under the initiative
Hello, welcome to al jazeera america. Live from new york city. Im morgan radford. Operations at Los Angeles International airport are slowly getting back to normal after a man opened fire with an Assault Rifle. One tsa agent is dead. The suspect is in custody, hospitalized after being shot by airport police. Brian rooney is at lax with more on the shooting that is creating panic and chaos. The airport has been reopening, from a traffic jam. Virtually nothing took off or landed all day long at lax. 750 flights were affected. In the last couple of hours we learnt a few more details about what happened earlier today. Cell phone video caught the moment when travellers ran for the directors doors to get away from the gunman. He was identified as paul ciancia from new jersey, saying he pulled an Assault Rifle out of the bag and began to shoot at the tsa screening station, and seemed to be targetting employees. Fired 20 yards away from the escalators. He was looking down, shooting. 10 plus sh
Central African Republic and south africa will pay respects to Nelson Mandela as his body lies in state for the final time. The top of north koreas ruling family ended in the execution of one of the most powerful figures and this week he was publically humiliated at a meeting and now he is dead guilty of trying to take power from his nephew and we are in beijing and there is nervous reaction to the news and are neighbors worried there is kind of an instability now . Well, that is right, all of north koreas neighbors are trying to work at just where this leaves them and where it leaves their relationship with north korea. China sees an internal match up for the people to deal with japan and on the other hand says said this may be a domestic issue but its one that its certainly interested in given the possibility instability that may stem from this in the region and trying to figure out if this points to a bigger power struggle within the leadership of north korea and what is most striki
My favorite store, im not so sure about that. But it is one of my favorite stories. There is a deal that should keep this company out of bankruptcy. A person familiar with the matter says investor standard general will give American Apparel 25 Million Dollars to pay off the 10 million loan and in exchange get to overhaul the board. Julie hyman has been on the story for weeks now, in part because there is such a captivating figure at the center of the American Apparel story, the ousted ceo. It is fascinating because of him even though he is not involved, especially in this current situation, in the current phase of the news. 25 million is coming from standard general. Standard general is one of the companys the guest investors, recently struck a deal with charney whereas whereby it lent him money to increase the state in American Apparel to 43 , but they would essentially have control of that. He could not vote without the approval of standard general. Are they his ally here . He is the