Coast some of the us and Congress Members live there is well what is the significance off that city cape can. You have good cause to anyone see where the host of the lives of our way taken out so weve become a symbol by the fact that the very last thing on the south was because of our progress of the very thing that representative we have brownsville. By george your people were taken out from the conservation of the evidence ok and so mr young guy we really appreciate you coming on were looking forward to having you here now studio to talk more about the book youve written called you young colts and for me n. P. N. Can escape codes thank you thank you. Not gonna has say so the year off returned to mark the anniversary the government is billing it as quote a major landmark spiritual and birthright journey and an invitation to the global african family to come to ghana they dub the africa made one Young American who came home. 26 year old ivory kula and his colleagues i getting ready for
Im christine window welcome to news africa im glad youre chandon africans on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are remembering the start of the slave trade ceremonies are taking place in the u. S. And in ghana as capital. A delegation from the u. S. House of representatives is in ghana for the departure point or other the departure point for millions of africans a bound for the americas. Nancy pelosi the 1st House Speaker to address gun Us Parliament 400 years after the 1st africans when taken across the atlantic into slavery the 400th anniversary of the 1st inflate person to set foot. In america from africa right now today july 31st 2009 we think its very appropriate that were here with you members of the Congressional Black Caucus to get to lucy visit to Cape Coast Castle theres a sleeves would go through the door of no return. For congresswoman karen bass this visit is crucial. To her. Before they left here and are treacherous journey to the United States in. 200. Years of conflict.
Topic for usea but one that were eager to have a conversation about and im hoping that this will be the first of a continuing conversation because the matters that were going to address this afternoon are taking on a degree of urgency. Theyve always been urgent, but i think, myself, that the urgency is growing. So thank all of you for coming. We have an excellent set of panelists here today for our discussion. We hope to have audience participation as well. Moderating todays session is mark wolfe. Mark will provide a discussion and will moderate the discussion on the need for Energy Assistance. He is an economist and is an expert on local and Regional Energy and housing financing. He has consulted regularly for federal, state foundation and nonprofit agencies. He is very experienced at testifying before congress, and he is the executive director of the National Energy assistance Directors Association. And the Energy Program consortium and is the Founding Partner of project energy saver
Total catastrophe thats happening in yemen and they believe this step was taken after 4 years of. War on yemen and they believe now its time for the airlines those w. s in saudi airport as they stop using sana airport after the saudis started the war against them and i think its time because if there is any civilian civilian car casualty in the coming days or coming weeks this means that airlines take the responsibility so get a get take that as well as ability because actually is not i mean the saudi arabia cannot just bomb yemen airport while the airport still open and this is exactly what the Yemeni Government forces here in sanaa are saying that an airport and i for an eye and if they close our airports we will close all the ports. What do you say to those who argue that you know if one side is far into guns they should take responsibility for any one for any civilians that are being hit and you know just putting out a warning saying saying were coming after this is doesnt absolve
You guys worried at all about your safety and we shall mommy dont you understand. That im all mother. To the husband but he must listen closely that it was. One of the shots that. One of the stars he is same on faced im struggling to understand why the taliban would ban the work of the humanitarian organization especially one that helps disabled afghans. Its too risky for us to ask the taliban in person so we called a spokesman you recently revoke the security guarantees for the red cross why did the taliban decide to do that. Says the red cross has failed to deliver the medicine and services it had promised the red cross says they cant respond because theyre still negotiating with the taliban. What we do know is that the organization supports clinics across afghanistan in areas where its difficult to access any of the health care most of the people that work at the red cross and certainly all of the patients are afghans including members of the taliban and your families are you hurtin