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let's go we start with the United
Nations General Assembly in New York
also known as the unga every year world
leaders and members of the United
Nations or un gather here for an
international Summit this is their 78th
session with 140 heads of state and
government scheduled to attend including
U.S President Joe Biden and Ukraine's
President Vladimir zielinski this will
be zelinski's first in-person appearance
at the summit since Russia invaded
Ukraine in 2022 the UN has 17 big goals
known as sustainable development goals
they range from ending poverty and
hunger to improving education gender
equality and climate action all those
goals and more are on the table this
year
it's the United Nations meeting place
for most of the world's countries from
the most powerful such as the United
States China and Russia to the smallest
and most vulnerable the UN has been
involved in everything from assisting
refugees to negotiating peace among
nations of all the languages in the
world the UN uses six to communicate El
Arabia
Francaise
and Espanol
in some combination of those six the UN
deliberates on global issues for
judicial matters they look to the
international court of justice the
economic and social Council otherwise
known as ecosoc deals with you guessed
it the world's economic social and
environmental issues the trusteeship
council helps countries become
self-governed and independent while the
Secretariat another part of the UN
family tackles day-to-day issues that
include keeping the Press informed where
I'm standing is one of the more
recognizable places in the U.N the
security Council it determines threats
to International Peace and works to
solve those problems right here in this
chamber a gift from Norway in 1952 and
on top of that this Council selects the
Secretary General who is then formally
appointed by the general assembly the
main representative body of the UN the
ga as it's called meets from September
to December every year but the world's
problems don't exactly follow the
calendar the UN has to operate year
around and one of the ways they're
staying current is through social media
and you can follow the organization in
any of its official languages also in
attendance at this year's Summit Iran's
president Ibrahim raisi he addressed the
United Nations General Assembly in New
York on Tuesday after Iran made
headlines this week over a prisoner
release agreement with the United States
ahead of the unga Iran released five
Americans who had been detained there
some for years they landed in Washington
D.C yesterday in return the U.S released
five Iranians and unfroz 6 billion
dollars of Iranian funds Republicans
including Senator Lindsey Graham and Ted
Cruz have criticized this deal some say
it sets a dangerous precedent in a
statement from the White House though
Biden said his administration has always
prioritized reuniting wrongfully
detained Americans with their loved ones
he also warned Americans not to travel
to Iran and said the United States would
continue to impose costs on the country
Pop Quiz hot shot
insurfing to what does the term Hang Ten
refer performing a trick that scores 10
points a 10 second ride surfing with at
least 10 friends hanging 10 toes over
the board
very skilled Surfers can walk to the
front of a longboard and hang all 10 of
their toes over the front of the board
our CNN series champions for change
brings you stories about everyday people
who are lifting Humanity up my Champion
is Jesse billauer and his story reminds
us that when we don't give up we cannot
fail when Jesse was 17 he was named one
of the top 100 Surfers in the world just
weeks from turning pro but one morning
he was thrown headfirst into shallow
water and was instantly paralyzed but he
didn't give up he helped to create
adaptive surfing went on to win three
World titles and he created life rolls
on the foundation which helps people
discover and ReDiscover their potential
that lies within
the feeling that I get when I'm on the
water that's when I feel the most free
when I was a kid I fell in love with
Surfing by the time I was a teenager I
was on the right path to becoming a
professional Surfer and Surfer magazine
named me as like one of the top 100
Surfers in the country people
they don't understand how lucky they are
until something like that's taken away
take us back to that day March 1996. in
the day it was beautiful the waves were
really good and I took off on a wave and
pull inside the barrel and when I came
out the wave hit me my back and
I didn't have too much time to put my
hands up it was shallower than I thought
and I hit my head on the bottom
my whole body just went limp and numb
and I knew I couldn't move after that I
woke up in the hospital on this rotating
bed when the doctor told me that I broke
the sixth vertebrae in my neck and then
I was paralyzed I was devastated I mean
like I'm 17 years old I'm in high school
I'm about to be a professional Surfer
and now I'm paralyzed all I wanted to do
is just be a kid and be with my friends
and it was a difficult time because I
didn't know what my life was going to
look like
growing up for me Sports were my life
Just Like Jesse Bill Lauer my dream was
to make it to the NFL I made it but in
my sixth season I had a really scary
moment I hit this guy and his head came
down and slammed right on top of mine
and I got this burning sensation down my
neck there was this tingling sensation
like pins and needles down my right arm
and I didn't really have any strength in
it so I needed surgery they could have
played four screws keeping my fifth and
sixth vertebrae together fortunately for
me I was able to come back but not
everyone who gets a spinal cord injury
can make it out on the other side the
same as they were before what happened
to Jesse
it probably would have completely ruined
most of us but Jesse found out a way to
shine
and so it took a few years to really get
back into the water to Surf because
nobody was really doing this before me
started doing it more often and figuring
it out and Jesse billauer is a
trailblazer he's one of the pioneers of
adaptive surfing the international
Surfing Association created the world
parasurfing championships in 2015.
Jesse's won it three times the thing is
Jesse not only got himself back up he's
now helping people around the world he
started his foundation life rolls on
we take people with various disabilities
surfing skateboarding and now fishing we
offer these things free to the public
for us
her not in pain all the time and happy
as you can see it gets us through all
the hard times I never thought I could
surf
and when I met you you made a big
difference in my life
it's amazing about to get back and to
see the smiles on their face and the
parents face and something to me that's
priceless at the end of the day
when the lights and the cameras and the
people are all back at their house
to be paralyzed lose that Independence
that freedom that's the real stuff that
people need to like see surfing and all
that's easy
being paralyzed is hard
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I don't think our circumstances truly
Define us because to me I'm in a
wheelchair I shouldn't be able to Surf
but I look at it like I just do it in a
different way figure out the strength
with inside you and then you can help
other people I'm Jesse bilauer and I'm a
surfer
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finally some Baristas at a Starbucks in
River Falls Wisconsin got an alpaca
surprise at the drive-through window
pup for my alpaca please meet Oliver the
alpaca going viral after his owner
Carrie drove him to get a treat at
Starbucks he didn't drink coffee or even
lemonade just straight whipped cream
homie and of course the Baristas had
their phones ready and the videos have
gotten millions of views on Tick Tock
now back at Oliver's Farm Eagle Eye
Farms you can do yoga with Oliver in his
pal Packers you could also behoove you
to not try to stretch your necks like
them though these alpacas even got
introduced to some football being from
Wisconsin I guess we could call them the
Green Bay alpacas all right remember
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out today goes to
the owls of wake young Leadership
Academy in Raleigh North Carolina rise
up Brooklyn Dr Terry you rock
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