People at a military base in washington. Bosses of hostages are freed in the philippines but some are still held at gunpoint. And the Costa Concordia is raised in 18 hours. There are calls for the chemical attack in syria to be referred to the International Criminal court. The nerve agent sarin was used august 21st. The details support their claim that the government is to blame. While the u. N. Claims unequivocally chemical weapons were used. And rockets compared sarin. 85 of the samples taken from the attack tested positive for the agent. The u. N. Secretary general came to speak to reporters after presenting the Security Council with what he said was evidence of a war crime. As he spoke he was flanked by the head of his weapons inspection team, who wrote the report. The report makes for chilling reading. The team gathered testimony from survivors, medical personnel and first responders. The findings are beyond doubt this is war crime and grave violation of the 1925 protocol, and oth
Of the work poor. A person must make less than 931 a month in order to receive more than 200. A family of four, they get around 660 for month. Federal benefits are sometimes too lean to keep a family fed. Do you have a lot of pickups this morning . Jessica kogan runs food for others, a Northern Virginia food bank. In the last couple of months weve seen the demand for our services get even higher than the past year which was already quite high. Our numbers went way up during the height of the recession and they came down a little bit and leveled off but we saw an increase again lately. Kogan wonders how the difference can be made up if congress lessens food stamps. Their needs as i mentioned are very high. So were going to have to try to get more food in. And since 90 of our food is donated i dont know where were going oget it. But were going to rely on the community to come forward and bring us food. At the end of todays show well take you back to food for others to hear firsthand from
The snap program . They say this is an out of control program that people are becoming dependent upon and not lifting themselves up because they have these resources and other side sees this as a growing and expanding program to meet a growing and expanding problem that they have been seeing hard times and this helps them from hitting bottom. Allison cohen . I think the primary reason for increase it is higher than it ever has been since we started you know looking at these numbers, some years ago. Weve got more americans up to 49 million americans that are hungry today. And increase of course is due to the downturn in the economy, the economic recession, but also the growing inequality in this country. So a growing economy alone is not going to have a tremendous impact on hunger and on the number of people that are relying on food stamps. We also have to address the issue of the growing inequality between the rich and the poor and at the root of that is living wage jobs. Well talk mor
More than 1200 people are still unaccounted for in flooding that stretches ore colorados counties, the governor melt with fema to address regulation cue and recovery empth. President said a lot more needs to be done. To help rebuild the u. S. Economy. He also addressed concerns of raising the debt ceiling by saying, lets pay our bills on time and pass a budget. Those are the headlines. More next hour. Inside story is next. As the governments fiscal year comes to an end the farm bill is tied up in knots. And with it, the fate of food stamps and the lives of 47 million mains. The inside story in washington on al jazeera america. If hello, im libby casey. A reason gallup poll says one in five americans doesnt have enough money to buy food for themselves and their family. The future of the food stamp safety net is in questions. On inside story well unravel the politics of hunger, how to feed everyone in the land of plenty. We begin at a foot bank a short drive from the u. S. Capitol. I jus
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