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To officer stacy. Because when the video of the encounter went viral, folks across the country began calling the Tarrant Police department asking how they could help too. And the woman later said shed been blessed with manna from heaven, all because of one officers kindness. He pushed my world in the right direction, the woman said, and i will never forget it. Thats america at its best. Thats some good police work. [ applause ] thats what so many of you represent. I thank you for the work you do...

States has allocated more than 4. 5 billion to meet syrian humanitarian needs. This includes over 1. 5 billion to ngos, the International Federation of red cross and red crescent and other International Organizations. Yet according to unhcr chronic funding shortages are greatly limiting aid. Since 2011 the u. N. Appeals have remained significantly underfunded and recently resulted to cuts in food aid and cash assistance. Lack of supplies is leading to begging, child labor, survival sex and incre...

Operations. But even though were doing more than weve ever done before, its not enough relative to the need. Contributions are urgently needed. The second prong of our response is diplomacy on humanitarian issues. For several years, we have engaged government officials in the region to encourage them to keep borders open, allow refugees to enter their countries, authorize the work of leading humanitarian organizations, and allow refugees to pursue normal life, as normal as possible given what th...

Have been suffering from fatigue. I felt in the last year or two that their contributions while increasing were not keeping pace with the needed increases. Certainly europe now is very focused on needing to provide more assistance to help the refugees who are in the middle east and are displaced inside syria and also refugees in the surrounding neighboring countries. Then for a couple of years now we have been trying to encourage gulf states to become routine regular donors to and through United...

Didnt find a whole lot in terms of studies that have looked at these things. Theres a lot of studies that talk about computer assisted and used to design a program that could be effective. What criteria is success . Well, first of all i think it was successful in that we did achieve what Congress Actually asked us to do in 1996, make sure that it was no inequality in terms of, you know, highincome areas having classrooms connected and lowincome areas not. By the way, in the early phase, not sure...

And the inspired action you took to come to the aid of the veteran in crisis. Thank you all for the work that you do day in and day out on behalf of those who have served. A few weeks ago i had the honor of meeting with robert mcdonald, the secretary of the va. Secretary mcdonald is a man who has time and again answered the call of duty to his and our nation. He graduated from the United States military academy at west point in the top 2 of his class in 1975. An army veteran. Mr. Mcdonald served...

Mission. After days of fighting in yemen, houthi fighters sign a peace deal. In sierra leone, a 3day nationwide lock down to help the spread of the ebola virus is over. Thanks for being with us. We start tonight with a Climate Change rally led by thousands around the world. More than 400,000 protesters, according to organizers, took part in what has been billed the peoples march, touting it the biggest event of its kind. Reporter this is more than a march for Climate Action. Organizers say its a...

Refugees are just trying to stay alive. The girls from nigeria, still missing, why they havent been found. Well meet the woman behind a Fearless Campaign to bring them back. And rising tide. Why Scientists Say Climate Change could have millions of americans packing their bags. And we begin tonight with new air strikes on i. S. I. L. In syria. This time washington and its partners took aim at the Oil Refineries that help fund the group. The u. S. Command said there were a dozen strikes on sites i...

Anticoup student protesters. Bosnians head to the polls. General elections upset over high unemployment and widespread corrosion. Corruption. Lets begin in the gaza strip, where the palestinians are starting to rebuild after many parts of the occupied territory, more than 2,000 killed. The financial cost is in the billions for palestinians who have suffered for years under the land, sea and air blockade. They are asking for 4 billion. Homes, hospitals the u. S. Secretary of state is among those ...

That he wanted to harm or indicate in any way that he wanted to harm any of the protectees of the president. Walking, and there was a bulge in the back of his jacket. As ive been briefed here. And the officer approached him, and noticed that he had a hatchet in the back of his pants. As i was briefed. The hatchet, my understanding, in d. C. Is not in violation of the law, if its considered to be used for campingtype activities. And thats what his individual indicated he had the hatchet for. The ...