Directly impacted and they are worried about their well being. H they also are frustrated becaush they want to help, and how can they help . Que and thats a question were try going to try to focus on during this hearing, is how can individuals help in the responss effort, what is the best way to deal with it . Deal w i thought the meeting with billy was particularly helpful, but it was clear to me that we have to keep a focus on what is happening, and that brings me ts this hearing, the purpose, of course, to get an update where the circumstances exist today ie the philippines, what is the government doing, what is the W International response, and wha role america is playing on thise latest humanitarian need. With that, let me turn it over to senator rubio for his comments. Mr. Chairman, thank you for a holding this timely hearing. Over the past week, our hearts t have been broken by the news ans the images that have been comina out of the philippines, entire towns and villages, and,
Number one, mr. Speaker. The Prime Minister. Thank you, mr. Speaker comes to the whole house will wish to join me in paying tribute to warrant officer ian fisher of the first the type who was killed on operations in afghanistan on tuesday the fifth of november. It is clear from the tributes paid he was a professional and well respected soldier who made a huge contribution to the army over many years on a number of operational tours. Our thoughts and condolences should be with his family and his friends. This morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. Im sure everyone of us will want to in this season of her members we will always remember their service to our country. Hear your. Mr. Speaker, in piece across the house will have memories of the nightmare unfolding across the bank. Does the Prime Minister share my sense of his belief that a person such as responsible as he was f
African republic conflict. Is this how to stop illegal elephant poaching u. S. Wildlife officials crush 6 tonnes of confiscated ivory. Thousands of people in the philippines are still waiting for aid a week after the islands were struck by typhoon haiyan. President Benigno Aquino has visited volunteers parking relief supplies. They are based in manila. Trucks have been gridlocked. The interior minister said the problem of supplying aid is on the same scale as a wartime invasion. In a situation like this nothing is fast enough. The need is massive. Its immediate. You cannot shove anybody aside, because everybody all at the same time is hungry, have no water, no communication, no power. The challenge here is almost li like. The relief effort is hampered by rumours of misinformation. It was thought one island everyone was killed. We went and discovered they were full of survivors, wondering why help had not arrived. They are the forgotten victims of typhoon haiyan, people in the islands n
Policy. But can parents afford to have more than one baby . The u. N. Says the aid effort is turning a corner in the philippines. Aid groups are warning of major challenges in reaching Remote Island communities. The United Nations distributed food to more than 170,000 people in tacloban. Many bodies and dead animals are polluting water supply, creating perfect conditions for diseases such as tif i had and collera. Craig leeson travels to an island off the northern tip of cebu. Early Morning Light filters on to the deck of the mg gemini 6, it fails to wake the crew. Theyve been up most of the might loading to bring aid to an island off the northern tip of cebu. It was one of a dozen to be desmated by typhoon haiyan. I can only imagine who people have been going through hunger, devastation, fear in their eyes. The cebu based Rapid Response team, a group helping with disaster relief, says 95 was wiped out in the storm all but forgotten until now. Many here have been without food, clean wa
Happened. Ahead a rocky relationship. Indonesia punishes australia over spying allegations. Welcome to the program. Iraqs capital has been hit by eight car bombs in a something hour. Most of the explosions targeted shia neighbourhoods in the capital baghdad. A series of car bombs what can you tell us . The number of attacks has gone up to 9 in abu graib, another neighbour hood. There was an improvised explosive device killing at least one, bring the death toll up to 30 people killed, and Something Like 75 people injured. We are hearing that there was an assassination on a government state employee, an employee of the Electricity Company in baghdad in the last 20 or so minutes as well. What the Baghdad Operations command told us, and these are the people responsible for securing baghdad is in the last hour there was an attempted suicide bomber who tried to detonate his explosives at a checkpoint. He was shot and killed. What is interesting is the baghdad Operation Command says that this