To ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States accompanied by medal of honor recipient Master Sergeant Matthew Williams from the United States army. It is a gentleman in a word of prayer. Almighty god, the liberty and champion here are prayer it is the right just center of justice and we gather here to honor the spirit who through adversity remain focused on the lives which need to be done. You put the safety of others with it much more danger and we thank you for Matthew Williams and is heroism with his heart, soul in the battle in producing a stronger man today. This character, courage in the moment is an example and god bless matthew and his wife kate and son nolan and extended family and his comrades. But matthews life, legacy and very battle around his neck and remind for us all to face our fears and find your own moments to shine. The lap of liberty continue when the United States of america, the army and weepy have piece of our world. The righteous name i pray. Than
Breakfast on. Gb news. Well tens of thousands of civilians in the gaza strip are fleeing south right now after israel gave palestinians living there just 24 hours to leave. Yesterday , the idf told over yesterday, the idf told over 1 million gazans to flee from the northern half of the strip to south of wadi gaza. The United Nations says the order is horrendous. Well , before that order was well, before that order was given, over 400,000 palestinians had been displaced because of fighting and the death toll in gaza from israeli airstrikes had risen to over 1900. The israeli Prime Minister, netanyahu , said last night that netanyahu, said last night that the week long bombardment of gaza was only the beginning. And gaza was only the beginning. And the otzma we are striking at our enemies with unprecedented might. I emphasise this is just the beginning. Our enemies have only begun paying the price. I wont detail what is yet to come , but detail what is yet to come, but i tell you this is
Sim cards on board, the attackers were going to use all this for sabotage in the interests of ukraine, largescale fsb raids in 40 regions of the country at once. All equipment was confiscated, more than thirty people were detained, including personnel from a special operation of the security forces. Well, big water that goes to new regions of siberia and beyond east. The difficult situation in the urals, when to wait for the peak of the flood, what kind of help local residents can count on, well tell you. Supporting participants in a special military operation is task number one for the crimean authorities. The head of the region, sergei aksyonov, announced this in a conversation with vladimir putin. The president spoke with him via videoconference and discussed, among other things , Security Issues on the peninsula, as well as how things are going in the economy. In general , the situation in the region is clear, however, of course, your assessments and your plans there are important,
Thank you very much for the meeting, i would like to report the results of five years of work, i handed over the presentation, if it might be convenient to look at it, its there, but the first such key result for all of us within the framework of our plan to live in the north, this is, of course, what we achieved last year. For the first time in the past 33 years , we have achieved an increase in migration, that is , more people have come to us for permanent residence than have left us. As for the slowdown in population decline, last year compared to 1919, the natural population decline decreased by almost seven times, and this is, well, for us the most important indicator of our fiveyear work. Another one good news that last year we had an increase in the birth of firstborns, first children, this figure increased for the First Time Since 2009, and the number of large families continues to grow, now there are 9,500 of them in the region, if we take the seventeenth year there, then this
Good evening everyone and welcome to the New York Historical society. I am Louise Mirrer the ceo and im thrilled to welcome all of you two are beautiful auditorium. This Evenings Program is presented in conjunction with our exhibition vietnam war in 1945 to 1975 which i hope you had a chance to say but if not it is on view through april 22, so i hope you will return during regular museum hours to see it. Our program Edward Lansdale and the american tragedy in vietnam is the petraeus lecture on leadership. We created the series five years ago as a permanent way to honor two great americans roger hertog and David Petraeus who both won our history maker awarded 2013 that like to thank mr. Hertog for his incredible leadership and support and now as chair and marriages of New York Historical and general petraeus for his leadership and for his generous participation over the past four years and this illustrious lecture series. Thanks so much to both of you. [applause] i would like to thank a