I am amy goodman from democracy now this is our last question. Amy just a simple yes or no from each of you whether you support President Trump pulling the u. S. Out of the Paris Climate Accord . Stay tuned for their answers. Then kumi naidoo, former head of greenpeace, on his new initiative africans rising. And today is gender day here at the u. N. Climate summit. We speak with the first female president of the Marshall Islands hilda heine. Women of the Pacific Island nation. Thank you. In the pacific, it is often women and mothers who are at the hearts of our communitys and ensure resilience. If women do not plan for the longterm, families and communities amy today Marshall Islands president hilda heine, along with her poet daughter, climate activist kathy jetnilkijiner. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from bonn, germany. The death toll from sundays earthquake on the iraniraq bor
Panelists in the most difficult position of any panel in any event which is standing between resistance and the bar. But there is extraordinary substance on this panel, and the intent is to turn us forwardlooking. I would like to turn over to ambassador john ordway, our partner in kazakhstan. John, it is an honor and a pleasure to have you here as our moderator. Amb. Ordway thank you very much. We are facing the future with an urgent set of problems and to prove they are urgent we are going to have a little time to deal with them. Let me just say i really liked from the beginning what bill perry said about the challenge of this separation of the variables and what we are going to do with this panel is separate those variables and address them separately. I would like to recall what the general said that he is optimistic, and the time to renew the work we have been talking about is not somewhere over the hills. There is it is not over the hills, but i expect there is still a lot of terr
These are updating. These are live cameras from around the area. A few scattered thin clouds around easton, but sunshine and warm temperatures into the mid aths around 2 00, and inafternoon temperatures will start coming down later today. High temperatures near 90. The temperatures climbing with a little southwesterly wind. 89 degrees. At the shore, a little cooler, 78 degrees. A chance of showers tonight. Dry during the day. Take a look at the futurecast when i come back. See you then. As we head into the memorial day weekend, people will be spending a lot of time outdoors. Theyre getting a feel for the hot weather today. Pamela osborne is live with the first of the devon horse show. How are spectators beating the heat . You know, a lot of them are just kind of hanging out in the shade right now. Its a good thing the bleachers are located under some of these trees here, providing a little bit of relief. Other than that, we have seen people with bottles of water, gatora gatorade, every
Each week american artifacts visits locations across the country. The archive offers permanent access for scholars, historians and the general public. The idea is to try to build the Library Version two. Can you go and make all of the books, music, video available to all those that are interested enough. We are trying to do the pieces that are missing. Maybe the historical pieces or the large scale hosting materials or taking the materials of people that people are puting up on their websites every day. The archive is large servers but also physical holdings of books, music, video, and offering them for free Public Access anywhere in the world. The digital materials are on servers that are here in a church that we have bought in San Francisco. We have converted a church to be a library. I love looking at them. They have lights on them. Every time a light blinks it is someone uploading or downloading something. We get ten to fifteen million books downloaded a month. Concert recordings a
Them for free Public Access anywhere in the world. The digital materials are on a church weve brought in San Francisco. I love looking at them. Every time the light blinks someone is uploading or downloading from the archive. We get 3 Million Viewers a day. Books aloan we get 10 to 15 million books a month download ed from the internet archive. We have the primary servers here. We have backup servers in richmond, california and in redwood city. We have a partial copy in egypt and amsterdam. The idea is to have copies in other places so that we dont have the fate of burning and disappearing. It has been my idea to try to take advantage of this change that we can actually store things online and make them broadly available. It was always in the air. The promise of having the library of congress on your desk forever. It was like why dont we just go and build that . It has been a long journey and then building some of the computers and systems that became the worldwide web. The early days