The u. S. Military dismisses claims by Islamic State militants that they shot down a jordanian war plane in syria. Jordan confirms one of its pilots has been captured. And ten years ago, a deadly tsunami hit the indian ocean. Were in aceh in indonesia to see how people have rebuilt their lives. Hello, and a very warm welcome. We begin in rome, where pope francis has been giving his annual Christmas Day blessing and message to the public in st. Peters square. This is the popes second christmas as head of the Catholic Church and his second urbi et orbi, or message to the city and to the world. The pope spoke to a crowd of more than 10,000 from st. Peters basilica. He sent a message of hope, condemning what he called brutal religious persecution in the middle east. Translator yes, brothers and sisters, jesus is the salvation for every person and for every people. I ask him, the savior of the world, to look upon our brothers and sisters in iraq and syria, who for too long now have suffered
Its release. The u. S. Military dismisses claims by Islamic State militants that they shot down a jordanian war plane in syria. Jordan confirms one of its pilots has been captured. And ten years ago, a deadly tsunami hit the indian ocean. Were in aceh in indonesia to see how people have rebuilt their lives. Hello, and a very warm welcome. We begin in rome, where pope francis has been giving his annual Christmas Day blessing and message to the public in st. Peters square. This is the popes second christmas as head of the Catholic Church and his second urbi et orbi, or message to the city and to the world. The pope spoke to a crowd of more than 10,000 from st. Peters basilica. He sent a message of hope, condemning what he called brutal religious persecution in the middle east. Translator yes, brothers and sisters, jesus is the salvation for every person and for every people. I ask him, the savior of the world, to look upon our brothers and sisters in iraq and syria, who for too long now
Extensive efforts to recruit from the provinces of the south. Some of these efforts are successful. As you can imagine if you put yourself as chairman in afghanistan, if you enlist as an afghan, you face Different Levels of [inaudible] the province is quiet. The taliban are not operating. Theres less threat against you and your family. Therefore despite the inferences being made, we still have challenges to recruit a member members of the Security Forces from those provinces. We purposely go and try to recruit students from the south or places [indiscernible] since the School System was not to this standard, i does not matter. Were not successful to bring them as much as we want. Do you want to talk about these issues . In terms of who revises the Afghan National army, in 2001, we had a plethora of offers. The pakistani, the indian, and the iranian fradkin to me and said it wanted to collaborate. I thought that we ought to try to devise some arrangement in which i and some limited aspe
Present to you his excellency, the governor of the commonwealth of virginia, governor Robert Francis mcdonnell. [applause] thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for that warm welcome, and welcome back. Mr. Speaker, mr. President , the justices of the Supreme Court of virginia, ladies and gentlemen of the General Assembly and my gather in mr. Capital for the annual state of the commonwealth address. The virginia General Assembly has met in this billing now for 220 years. The speaker was a young boy during that first session. [laughter] next door, the executive mansion is the oldest continuously all of the nation. This year, we markets 200th anniversary. I want to thank the first lady and all of her team for promoting for their work in promoting this extraordinary history. Thank you maureen, and all my [applause] tonight, we can been surrounded by our legislative history that started way back in 1690, ready t
Mr. President , mr. Speaker, senator mckinney, representative cafero, lt. Governor wyman and my fellow state officials, ladies and gentlemen of the General Assembly, honored members of the judiciary, members of the clergy, and all the citizens of our great state who are watching or listening today thank you for the honor of inviting me into the peoples house to address you. Id like to offer my sincere congratulations to the newly elected leadership of the democratic and republican caucuses in each chamber, and especially to speaker sharkey and majority leader aresimowicz as they take on their new roles. Congratulations as well to the new members of the General Assembly who were sworn in earlier today. I look forward to working with you in the months and years ahead. As we gather in this historic chamber, let us always keep in our thoughts the brave men and women of the great state of connecticut serving in our armed forces around the globe. We thank them and our veterans for their serv