Welcome to another week of Robertson’s Reportings! On February 22, students marched in Paris protesting for more action on climate change. Hundreds of students skipped school to participate in this movement led by Greta Thunberg, a sixteen year old from Sweden. The students want more action taken to preserve the earth, reduce gas emissions, and, overall, simply have a cleaner environment. Some students held signs with phrases like “There is No Planet B” painted on them. This march took place shortly after another march, also for climate change, in Brussels.

Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former attorney, testified in front of the House Oversight Committee on February 27, 28, and March 1. In this testimony, he answered questions regarding him and the president. Cohen, who was found guilty to lying under oath and many other crimes, was sentenced to three years in federal prison. The purpose of this three-day event was to learn more about what Cohen claimed was the president having affairs with various women. He talked about the alleged hush money payments made to him and the women. The testimony was televised for the first day, but the rest was in private. One report claims that almost 16 million people watched the first day.

President Trump recently met up with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un to discuss North Korea’s nuclear weapons that the United States, along with many other countries, hope will be deactivated. In return, Kim Jong Un wanted United States economic sanctions lifted. This was their second meeting in the past few months to discuss these issues. The summit was hosted in Hanoi, Vietnam where Kim Jong Un reportedly left the table as the two were negotiating. This meant that a deal was not created, and nobody is completely sure of how the meeting ended because President Trump and North Korean officials have conflicting accounts as to who walked away from who.

London doctors claimed to have cured a patient with human immunodeficiency virus, commonly referred to as HIV. This patient, if the doctors’ claims are true, would only be the second patient to ever be cured of HIV. Timothy Brown, an infected man from Berlin who was cured over a decade ago, and the newest patient to be cured were saved by receiving bone marrow cells from a donor. This process, where a patient’s immune system is almost fully flushed out and replaced, is called a stem-cell transplant. Other than the two recognized patients, all other attempts at this procedure have failed in curing the virus. See you in March on Robertson’s Reportings, coverage you can count on!