Australias aboriginals the latest push to recognise them in the constitution. So we are two hours into another ceasefire, this one three days lornings and has been long, and has been agreed to by palestinian factions. Israeli army announced that it was pulling out its Ground Forces from gaza, and the israeli delegation is expected to travel to cairo for talks with palestinian factions. These are some of the live pictures out of gaza city. The truce appears to be holding, despite a burst of military activity from both sides in the minute leading up to the deadline. Traffic back on the street, but gazans will be wary of the truce, seeing so many others broken during the course of this conflict. And what exactly are the palestinian factions, including hamass demands. They want a full israeli withdrawal from gaza, an end to the israeli and egyptian blockade of the territory. The release of hamas prisoners, and International Assistance in the reconstruction of gaza. For its part, israel it
Human rights brits have enjoyed since the days of winston churchill. And theyre prepared to jeopardize britains membership of the eu, and our prosperity with it, in order to appease their backbenchers. So much for a credible plan from the conservative party. And most astonishingly of all, they have chosen to single out the workingage poor to bear the brunt of the final years of deficit reduction, while refusing to ask the superrich to make a single additional contribution. Thats the people scraping by on the minimum wage. The jobseekers whove found themselves temporarily down on their luck. The men and women trying to earn their way out of poverty, often working more than one job. And given the conservatives are not planning a single tax increase, how will they pay for all their spending commitments . They will have no choice but to cut the services they have not protected like social care, policing, education, education right to the bone. No wonder theyve stopped claiming that were al
Educational reformers to suffocate almost every Single Initiative designed to instill opportunity at an early age for all children. Not just some because a worldclass Education System is one that releases the potential in all children, not just some. My mother worked as a teacher with children and myself and my brothers and sisters when we were growing up. In those days it was and is readily recognize that bright children could be hampered by learning difficulties which may obscure their talent but doesnt make them any less bright. Those days countless children were discarded by the Education System because children were not treated as individuals. They were expected to conform to the rigors of the classroom or be left behind. And my mother drummed into us what seems so obvious today, that you dont write anyone off. You dont overlook anyones talents. Given half a chance everyone can succeed and for me that is my commitment to expanding childcare to all two, three and 4yearolds is all a
In the past he has supported a sales tax on services. I would like you to address the cuts in kansas and revenue issue. Tax dont agree with the policies put in place in kansas. I have advocated we look at our entire tax code in illinois and reform our entire tax code to make us more competitive. We have got to grow our economy. Bycannot solve our problems raising taxes on families. We need to grow. We need a progrowth tax code. Rapidly growing states have a broad base and low rates. I believe we should keep the rates down but rod in the base. We should expand sales tax to include services that are more business oriented rather than on low income families. We need to close tax loopholes. We need to modify ontaxes should be available ability to pay. , everyday people are going to have to pay a tax on garbage pickup, or does they adopt a child. Those are on their taxes. Myople who are not opponents plan will give himself a 1 billion tax cut. It will shift the burden. That is not right. We
Make contact without causing damage to them on the floor on that later in the show. I am. Washington d c our friends are watching. Sear the journalist who broke the story of the reach of nsa surveillance returns to us today for the First Time Since they began reporting on documents leaked by former contractor adverts noted Glenn Greenwald and mark waitress arrives in new york this morning to receive the prestigious george polk award for journalism. They said the National Security reporting award with fellow reporters. Elaine in a cask ale and Washington Post partum down. It is an ss teacher and mentor greenwald at the event and joins us now with more. This aussies spoke with the pre op this morning the First Time Since he stepped foot onto us soil after the nsa revelations whats the significance of this return. There were concerns he may have trouble getting back into the us thats right when yemeni significance of this guy is pretty cute because the june will mark exactly one year sinc