I do not believe that usaids action that were quoted to promote quote democratic societies that are able to realize their potential are in anyway a bad idea. I believe it is what the people of cuba, iran, burma, north korea and other nations need to help communicate with each other and help them achieve usaids stated mission of a quote free, peace full and self Reliant Society with an effective government. I commend you for giving people a less controlled platform to talk to each other, for helping them find a way to connect and share views. Global Internet Freedom programs and use broadcasting for support were human rights activist are components for our longstanding efforts to promote democracy over states. For 50 years, the United States has had an unwavering commit to provide free information around the world. Our work in cuba is no different than promoting this in ukraine, iran, russia, china or north korea. It should be noted there is 76 million set aside to promote global Intern
This is a human tragedy and honestly one of the fastest expensive and so we would urge you to work on that. Finally, i would like to make my last 24 seconds recognizing this through. Last sunday on 60 minutes, there was a feature on a clinic called the health wagon in west virginia. It all started back in the 1980s by a sister who in an old vw would travel around and provide medical services. There was a certain governor early in the decade actually included this program in the state budget and she has served six counties and my folks and assistive 11,000 folks in an area that is dramatically affected by poverty. The grants are very important and i would commend this remarkable story documented for every dollar of the federal money, we get a hundred dollars rack of health care services. Thank you, mr. Chairman and thank you, secretary sebelius. I would like to echo the senators comments. I also was absent when senators have now brought this up. But it bears repeating that we have made
In iraq the rebels advanced towards baghdad as military advisers touched down. The countrys biggest refinery has now fallen to members of the Islamic State in iraq and the levant. They have also taken control of a border post near syria. We have reports from baghdad. Reporter major news is far from baghdad but hugely mourn. O important. Sources say the Islamic State in iraq and the levant, the alqaeda off shoot has taken control of the border crossing. This is significant because this means that fighters cannot only go back and forth between syria and iraq, they can actually bring in weapons, something that everybody has feared. Early on in this war they were fighting alqaeda there and managed to win it back, well, its gone back again as have a lot of cities and towns in central and northern iraq. Here in baghdad primaries Nouri Almaliki is under intense pressure to reach out to political rivals and form a government that deals with this crisis. There has not been that kind of governme
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley good evening. Small pox was one of the most frightening diseases the world has known. It killed at least 300 Million People in the last century before it was eradicated. So it came as quite a surprise when the u. S. Government revealed yesterday that vials of small pox had been forgotten for decades and were just discovered in a cardboard box. The big question now is whether the virus is alive and dr. Jon lapook learned more today from the scientist heading the investigation. The vials of small pox are currently being tested in a level 4 High Containment Laboratory at the cdc in atlanta. That is the agencys most secure facility. You can only gain ent row through a special eye scan. Steve monroe runs the division of high consequence pathogens. Is it possible the small pox can still grow. Its possible. But we done know for sure if the small porx virus in these samples will still be able to grow in the labo
Champions germany are back home and showing off their newest cup in the capitol berlin. Peace of a sort appears to be an offer with israels cabinet agreeing to an egyptian plan to a cease fire. This is the scene in gaza right now. There have been no more israeli strikes since 9 00 a. M. Local time. What we have continued to hear is the sound of rockets being launched into israel. Hamas has to officially respond to the call for a cease fire but say cease fire is by the people and john kerry is expected to speak in the next hour. Is he likely to add anything more to what we know at this stage about the cease fire and his position on it, james . Reporter well, i certainly think he is going to give his first camera reaction to the cease fire when he speaks at the podium behind me in just the next few minutes. He already posted comments on twitter so we know the general tone of that reaction and says the cease fire is an opportunity to end the violence and restore calm and he goes on and we