[applause]. [applause]. Please be seated. Good evening to all. I have the honor of being the executive director of the Ronald Reagan executive director and i want to thank everyone for coming this evening. In honor of our men and women in uniform, who serve our cause around the world, please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thanks, please be seated. Now play ball. Before we get started i would like to recognize one person in particular in the audience. His name is ben sutton. He he is one of our board of trustee embers of the foundation. Thanks thanks for coming, ben. [applause]. No matter how practiced one might feel they are at introducing a famous or important person, its its also not easy, at least not for me. I think one of called on to do their very best and go beyond the reading of a simple impre
Devices to alert the team to the prejudic presence of radiation. In 2004 we developed a maritime Radiation Detection program and maintain a close relationship to standardize the equipment and enhance the National Capacity for detection with multiple levels of capability including the ability to reach back to scientific experts for more information. We do this in conjunction with cbp and with tsas visible intermodal response. Many of our units including our coastwide sectors and our Deployable Specialized forces and our major cutters are equipped with the devices that can identify specific isotopes distinguished between manmade and Natural Sources and reach back for assistance. Specifically our Maritime Security Response Team or msrt provides the nation with the unique maritime capability for Nuclear Detection, identification, selfdecontamination and routine or hostile situations. The msrt is specifically designed and exercised to integrate with other inner agency or dod response forces
And i think you had some level of optimism. During that same trip, i got the chance to go to baghdad. Im not sure that i walked away with the same level of optimism about his willingness to reform, the reforms that he suggested have been fairly paper thin. We have been hearing for a very, very long time about a Sunni National guard. They cannot get their act together to begin. The military is effectively 95 shiite. There is no understanding how if we were able to take back ramadi there would be an effective multisectarian or sunniled military force that could hold it. The question i guess is for either of you. It just doesnt seem like we have the leverage with the body right now to get him to take the tough steps to fully integrate the military to give the sunnis participation in a force that would ultimately hold these areas once we take back. Tell me what we need to do in order to get a baddy to take the next several steps. Hes actually got to make a commitment to reform the military
I am johnna hull in london on the latest on the plane crash in ukraine. Blacks box is found. Rescue workers recover flight recorders from the wreckage, but prorussian separatits are holding on to them for now. The israeli army has confirmed 13 of its soldiers have been killed in the gaza strip on sunday. Now, this comes as israel intentionfies its bombardment of gaza since the launch of its ground offensive. At least 60 people have been killed in one neighborhood of gaza. Shujayea has been pounded overnight and through sunday. The red cross was allowed in during a brief lull to retrieve bodies. More than 430 palestinians have been killed in 12 days of israeli attacks. More than 100 of them are children. People have been fleeing their homes, but there is no safe place to go to. Ambulance have been struggle to go reach the injured. The wounded and their wailing families stream into hospitals without end. A Health Ministry Spokesman Says the medical shortages are catastrophic. Stefanie de
You are watching al jazeera live from doha. The israeli tammy confirmed 13 of its soldiers have been killed on the gaza strip on sunday. Israel has been intensifying bombardment of gaza since it launch launched its ground offensive. At least sixty people have been killed in one neighborhood of gaza, pounded. Excuse me overnight and on sunday. The red cross was allowed in to retrieve bodies. More than 400 palestinians have been killed in 12 days of israel attacks more than 100 of them are children. People have been fleeing their homes t hardly able, any of them, to find somewhere safe to go. Ambulances have been struggling to reach the injured. The wounded and wailing families stream into hospitals without evened. The Health Ministry spokesmen saying the medical shortages are catastrophic. The worst h hit area, the humanitarian area was briefly in effect. Charles stratford reports. Dead bodies sprawled over gazan streets. Victims of israels military assault. Al jazeera has no way of ver