one. as he, himself, said, our values are our interests and our interests are our values and you can t separate them. i think that s something that a lot of people around the world recognize and appreciate. the other is that he really e pit ni epitomized for a lot of people what was best asbout the united states. steadfastness as an ally, speak out for those who were oppre oppressed, facing conflict or aggression against their countries, ukraine, georgia, for example. he meant a lot to a lot of people around the world. he was a member of congress who would go where many of his colleagues and other government officials didn t. he wasn t afraid to go the most dangerous parts of the world, iraq, afghanistan, syria, many times during active operations there. i remember in 2013 when he went into syria, he met with the rebels. what do you think he was trying to accomplish in these visits? well, the first thing is that he wanted to communicate directly with the people who are facing these
formation, streams of military vehicles, helicopters flying overhead. at first glance this could be a full scale military invasion. actually, it was a massive anti-terror rally held by more than 10,000 armed police in a contentious western chinese region last week. this staggering show of force was not the only one like it this year, reuters reported. these rallies are a response to what the chinese government calls terror but observers say is ethnic violence between the country s han chinese majority and the minority uighur muslims. they say that the uighurs are oppre oppressed, beijing blames them for fomenting unrest. on the same day as the rally an isis propaganda video surfaced showing fighters reportedly from the uighur minority pledging to, quote, shed blood like rivers in
oppre oppressed. statemen at the same time, he acknowledged the fact the israeli state was essentially being bombarded at the same time. so you re a part of the global citizen initiative. this initiative to stamp out world poverty. gaza is a very unique case. it s one of the most densely populated places on earth. in 2012, the u.n. reported that the projected population growth would be up to 2.1 million people in 2020, up from 1.6 million people now living in an area about the size of philadelphia. also in that same 2012 report by the united nations, it found gazans were worse off than they were in the 1990 with a per capita gdp that was $13,027 a year in 1994 and that s projected to go down to $12,073. when you look at situations like that, that also include
jerusalem built the palace on top of macada. he built another fortress palace. he is respected as the greatest builder but reviled as a paranoid mad man who killed his wife three of the children and the rabbi of the jewish dynasty. in matthew s gospel when the magi followed their star to jerusalem and asked herod where the king of the jews had been born he commanded soldiers to kill all of the babies in bethlehem. the slaughter of the innocent. would mary and joseph felt o oppre oppressed? is i would have in their position. already it would have been a very intimidating place for
athletes who have worked as hard as i have. i think our presence will do nothing but help fight this law and help the lgbt community. i urge americans not to push for a boycott. meanwhile you have gay groups in russia who are trying to take this to the constitutional court. also here in the united states senator jeff murkly said he will be raising this for some type of vote urging the international olympic committee to criticize it an also to urge the russian government not to enforce it. all right. thank you so much. appreciate that. it s interesting they say we re not going to enforce this during the olympics and what happens to the gay citizens afterwards when everybody goes home and not paying attention to this. they re the ones that get oppre