The Television Companies, and more, including comcast. Think it was just a Community Center . No. Its way more than that. Comcast is partnering with 1000 Community Centers to create wifi enabled lists so students from low income families can get the tools they need to get ready for anything. Comcast, along with these Television Companies, supports cspan 2 as a public service. All right, well, hello and welcome, everybody. Its good seeing you here today at the American Civil War museum. For todays program, im pleased to introduce our guest author, dr. Ken weatherford. Ken weatherford, phd, is a professor at the department of Political Science at James Madison university. He cofounded the Landmine Survivors Network, and escorted Princess Diana on her last humanitarian mission to visit landmine survivors in bosnia and herzegovina. Weatherford was prominent also as a leader in an International Campaign to ban landmines, which won the 1987 nobel peace prize. He has served as director of the
[inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. The committee will come to orde order. We are here this morning to review ongoing Recovery Efforts in puerto rico and the Virgin Islands in weeks of Hurricane Irma. We are now over two months removed from when Hurricane Irma devastated st. Thomas and st. John on september 6. Its been nearly 60 days since Hurricane Maria hit st. Croix and puerto rico. This is a little over a week ago that senators cassidys, franken and i, along with senator carper who was just here and senator harris as well as some of our house colleagues visited both st. Thomas and puerto rico. I want to thank both governors, the governor or cello for your hospitality, the time that you gave us during that visit was incredibly important for all of us to see to be on the ground and to be hearing directly from you. I know that some other members of our committee have traveled to puerto rico previously and i thank them for that as well. What i think we observed is that the
A deliberate act two people arrested. While watching. Violating aviation. Flight with. Welcome to the news are there are reports in australia that up to nineteen people have been injured after a car drove into pedestrians in melbourne a white s. U. V. Crashed into a cable car stop on flinders street during Late Afternoon rush hour police have arrested the Driver Police arrived at the scene within minutes and arrested i mean at this stage we have fourteen people injured and several i critique on at this stage we believe is that a deliberate act and i repeat that at this stage we believe it is i deliberately act however we do not know the motivation and is still early stages of the investigation. Under thomas joins me now live from sydney and while the Police Investigation continues just bring us up to speed for those that are joining us here on the news our andrew in terms of the timeline leading up to this incident. What happened just over four hours ago now just after fourth four thir
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National presentation of bbc world news is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Doug hello and welcome to bbc news. The u. N. Security council is holding an emergency meeting on the deadly protests in iran. It was called by the u. S. Ambassador nikki haley after a week in which the Trump Administration expressed strong support for the protesters. The meeting went ahead despite objections from russia and some other Council Members. Our state correspondent barbara rereports. Nikki haley warned iran that the world was watching its response to the antigovernment protests. She used the platform of the u. N. To amplify the message of President Trump, whos been tweeting support for the iranian demonstrators. The United States stands with those in oriental who seek freedom for themselves, prosperity for their families and dignify dignity for their nation. We will not be quiet. [chanting] this unusually robust stance on human rights by the trump s