I been asked a modern todays webinar. We have seven phenomenal women. Lets get started. I party apologize to them about the lack of an introduction. If i introduce all of them with what they so richly deserved and their careers we would be out of time so i apologize to them in our Planning Meeting that ive would not be giving long introductions but i hope to get answers on the question they will incorporate about their personal careers. We will be discussing their successes as they have moved to their careers and i believe there will be an opportunity for them to do that. So here we go. These r. Our panel members and ill introduce them in alphabetical order. Attorney Paulette Brown member the bar former prisoner of the Bar Association american Bar Association. Bernadette dsousa chief judge of Orleans Parish new Orleans Louisiana and the honorable Eva Guzman Justin justice on the supreme court the honorable barbara lynn chief judge united States District Court for the northern district
The need to reform our military Justice System. Just this month the department of defense released its annual report on sexual assault in the military. That report and more than a decade of data on sexual assault in the military shows a clear and disturbing trend. Reports of sexual assault have increased every single year and remain at record highs, while Prosecution And Conviction rates have declined, including a shocking 10 Point Decline in the Prosecution Rate from last year. By every measure that you can imagine, we are moving in the wrong direction. Congress has given the military more than a billion dollars. 500 million dollars in fiscal year 2019 alone. Enacted hundreds of provisions and chartered special panels, commissions and advisory committees to address this problem. Not one of these steps has reduced the Prevalence Rate of sexual assaults within the ranks. We are still getting reports like the one we got from Fort Hood which found that the worlds largest Army Base was quo
today. i never seen more places open in the city. i think there s a defiance, there s a proud defiance. and i know you saw this while you are here to. upright defines among the people of this is part of their standing. it s russia, if they re not fighting, they re trying to live their lives. i m gonna ask you of the snow happens because every night when i was there, i would see people stop and watch presidency come out at about 11:30 at night. and tonight s address, he had very strong words about russia. when did he say? he did. i m gonna quote from, it because they were powerful, and you are right. he s on all the time, people have got the tvs on wherever they are. their watch and listen those words. as wards tonight were directed at russia and there was strong. they said russia will be miked as a source of evil for targeting civilians. he goes on to say that the russian military will be written in history as the most barbaric and inhumane army in the world. what he s ta
ukraine, where the coming hours may be critical for the besieged city of mariupol according to intercepted communications. russians plan to level everything to the ground. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, i m paula newton. i ll be covering some of our other top story, including the new era of maskless travel. how the biden administration could fight to revive the mask mandate. the russian ministry of defense says it s offering a ceasefire to ukrainian forces surrounded in a steel factory in the city of mariupol. but ukrainian commanders call it surrender and vowed they will not give up. russian fighters have laid siege to the southern port city for seven weeks now as part of the donbas region. russian state media used drone footage of the steel works where hundreds of civilians are taking a shelter. a marine commander says the situation in the steel works is critical with food and water in short supply. translator: this is our statement to the world. it may
about five hours from what russia s defense ministry calls a ceasefire offer in the port city of mariupol. but ukraine fightered holed up there say it s really just a demand for surrender and they will not give up. russian media released drone video of the steel factory. ukraine says hundreds of civilians are taking shelter there as well. marine commander says about 500 wounded service members are also there, left to rot without medical care. russia s assault on mariupol is a key part of its offensive in ukraine s industrial heartland known as the donbas. moscow says it wants to liberate the region from ukrainian nationalists. new video shows some of the damage of a shopping center and grocery store in luhansk. the camera pans across the street, another building destroyed by strikes. and farther to the north in kha kharkiv, graphic video which we also need to show you. russian shelling killed at least three people and wounded 16 others. ukraine s president says incoming fire