We have to do everything possible to keep these jobs here in the area the authorities in Indonesia say the number of people killed in yesterday s earthquake and tsunami has risen to almost 400 all of the victims are from the city of poly on the island of sin away say thousands of buildings have been damaged including the main hospital are Indonesia editor Rebecca Henschke Shank says a relief operation is underway in Polish agencies and the military have been deployed to stop these search and rescue relief efforts but that s made very difficult by the fact that the airport in Hollow was in the white and is now closed and also 2 of the main roads heading into these town have also been blocked by rubble free hot screenings are being offered to 100 youngsters in difficult today is to mark the 10th anniversary of the death of guy Evans from along with them he died from UN diagnosed heart arrhythmia at the age of 17 the free health screenings are taking place at the Cornerstone art center g
Grads on the government oversight and Foreign Affairs Committee say they ve obtained extremely disturbing documents from a whistleblower they include e-mails from Trump administration political appointees describing some career officials as quote a turncoat a troublemaker or associated with previous policy State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert says that s not her impression they may not always like the policy that they are asked to advance on behalf of this administration and the American people but my personal experience has been that people have done that and handled it in a very professional manner she says the department will respond to the letter from Congress Michele Kelemen N.P.R. News the State Department the White House says President Trump has been extremely tough on Russia during his time in office the comments from spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders Thursday came back from the U.S. Announced it was imposing sanctions on 1000 Russians for alleged interference in the
And it represents a challenge to the state that we don t usually see in Iran because the state is so good at being brutal and suppressing dissent on the other hand we don t want to reach too far in our church protégé sions when there may really only have been a few 1000 people in some of these demonstrations and when we don t really know the purpose or the goal of the protesters demonstrations are the largest seen in Iran since of disputed 2009 presidential election more than a dozen laws that address California s affordable housing crisis take effect in the New Year N.P.R. s Ina Jaffe reports the measures could raise billions of dollars for building and rehabilitating affordable units almost 70 percent of working poor Californians spend most of their paychecks just keeping a roof over their heads so a couple of the new laws are designed to create more affordable units by reducing the red tape that slows down approval of new development another law puts a fee of up to $225.00 on som
From n.p.r. News and Washington and Giles Snyder North Korean leader Kim Jong un is warning the u.s. That he has a nuclear button on his desk and you wouldn t know it requires from they don t undo in. The United States will never be able to start a war against him a country its own of America is within range of our nuclear weapons and the nuclear button know he s always on my desk and this is reality not a threat to you she this here we should focus on mass producing nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles and I m speaking in his customary New Year s Day address and her put it by the b.b.c. He went on to say that North Korea is a peace loving and responsible nuclear power and he offered an olive branch to rival South Korea suggesting the 2 sides hold talks to discuss the possibility of North Korea s participation in the Winter Olympic Games to be held next month I m John Chiang South Korea says it welcomes the offer Meanwhile N.P.R. s Rob Schmitz reports that South Korean authorities