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kiev is a government in that once local autonomy.isn't that a factor the united states should be aware of? >> i think so. i think one of the things that the new ukrainian government leadership has to talk about is in the context of a unitary a debate aboutng what kind of autonomy, or greater autonomy the eastern region in particular might have in terms of assuring the rights of the russians. the language, religion, and so forth. placek it has to take within the framework like we used to talk about iraq. we can talk about baton to me. ofhas to be in the context we will support you, and you isd to have autonomy but it within the framework of a unified iraq. that ought to be the attitude come it seems to me, dealing with ukraine at this point. greater autonomy ought to be on the table, but it ought to be on the table as ukrainian terms. >> mr. secretary, madam secretary, madam secretary, thank you very much for your comments. my name is fletcher. i'm in the nuclear energy business and do all of my work in the former soviet union. the qu

hong kong residents are becoming increasingly concerned about china's handling of the city's autonomyone has called on people to take over parts of hong kong to localized residents feelings toward the chinese government. the same academic is also inspiring students to also take action. other citizens are voicing their opposition to these movements. in this episode of "asia insight" we follow the ongoing struggle of residents in their 17th year since returning to chinese rule. >>> hong kong, one of asia's main business hubs and a leading international financial center. as it's economy increasingly merges with main land china following its hand over from british rule, beijing's influence over the city continues to grow. in the tourism sector alone, 75% of visitors were from mainla chin lastye. thatmounts to more than 40 million people. without mainland china the economy probably wouldn't be able to function. recently, several incidents have installed fear in the hearts of hong kong residents. books criticizing the government and politicians are openly displayed and sold in bookstores. c

and that want new a noble peace prize now you're targeting what you call the killer robots fully autonomy's weapons tell us more about them for those who don't know what they are in simple words sure i think when we say killer robots most people think of drones but killer robots are weapons that would make drones look primitive at least with the drone there is a human being who looks at a computer screen sees the target and pushes the buttons to fire the missiles and kill various militaries are doing research on weapons that would have no human being involved in the targeting and killing of human beings and we found shocking and horrifying that people are really thinking it is ok to give the right to target and kill human beings to machines so these things haven't been used yet right tell me what tell me more correct. but there are many many precursors to kill what we call killer robots the u.s. for example is testing the x. forty seven b. which is a you know a subsonic super drone as it is called the u.k. is testing the to ram this european countries under france are testing the neuron chi

there is not rising autonomy. nevertheless, he is flaunting a mechanism through which people are going to be asked to deliver right and formulate -- deliberate and for melee decisions. we could perhaps acquire some institutional autonomy of sorts. what is going to kill all of this is of course the indefinite election rule that chavez left venezuela with. maduroparty knows that cannot run for office, it could develop far more autonomy. because the party knows that maduro is going to seek reelection, this is always going to hurt the autonomy. you are right. i hope nobody interprets my sense of governing through institutions as saying that he is empowering institutions in , as anse that we like rules-based autonomous basis. perhaps quite the contrary. >> thank you. eric? another group of questions. >> eric olsen from the wilson center. i wanted to go back to this issue of maduro's popularity. polls aren't great but somewhere in the area of 35% to 40%. if we take what you are saying, javier, he is consolidating his po

we can talk about autonomy.when i would go to talk to them, it has to be in the context of we will support you and you need to have autonomy, but it is within the framework of the unified iraq. that ought to be the attitude it seems to me, dealing with ukraine at this point. greater autonomy ought to be on the table, but it ought to be on the table as ukrainian terms. >> mr. secretary, madam secretary, madam secretary, thank you very much for your comments. my name is fletcher. i'm in the nuclear energy business and do all of my work in the former soviet union. the question of sanctions. do we run the risk of somehow painting the russians into a corner? particularly given the fact sanctions at this point really have not done much? what has been most damaging to the russians, i think, is the immediate reaction of the credit markets. russians are now absolutely unable to sell any more uranium

we can talk about autonomy. when i would go to talk to them, it has to be in the context of we will support you and you need to have autonomy, but it is within the framework of the unified iraq. that ought to be the attitude come it seems to me, dealing with ukraine at this point. onater autonomy ought to be the table, but it ought to be on the table as ukrainian terms. mr. secretary, madam secretary, madam secretary, thank you very much for your comments. my name is fletcher. i'm in the nuclear energy business and do all of my work in the former soviet union. the question of sanctions. do we run the risk of somehow painting the russians into a corner? particularly given the fact sanctions at this point really have not done much? what has been most damaging to the russians, i think, is the immediate reaction of the credit markets. absolutelye now unable to sell any more uranium in the united states, not because of sanctions but because fuel managers simply will not buy russian fuel because of what's happened. my

an hp settlement with shareholders over the $9 billion autonomy write-down is now in doubt. a federal judge says he would not approve a provision in which hp will have to pay for shareholder lawyers and shift the focus to ex-autonomy executives. hp is suing deloitte over the results now. in parts of napa, they are cleaning up after the strongest earthquake to hit northern california in 25 years. the 6.0 earthquakes damaged buildings and it hurt 170 people. we will see how scientists predict and prepare for earthquakes. amazon is no stranger to opening up its wallet, today at least. today, they announced its largest acquisition ever by buying twitch video. a platform where people watch other people play videogames. amazon paying $970 million in cash. toss in the earn-outs, the price tag is $1.1 billion giving amazon what? amazon will get 55 million active users. that is how many people are watching people play video games every month. it will help amazon expand streaming offerings. it includes the fire tv set box and the fire phone as well. it comes as talks between google an

that pro shango is the man to lead the country for them they want federalization they want more autonomy and that's why there is a civil war now. he has two options he can either accept these facts and actually agree to give more thought to me to the region which would hopefully end the conflict or the second option he will continue to shell the region which resulted in two thousand people innocent people dying it resulted in three hundred thirty thousand people being displaced many of them going to. with the russia and if he chooses the path then the conflict continue and that will result in ukraine's economy going downhill at a very very fast speed it's already struggling and i don't know any examples of any country. to survive a civil war and prosper during a conflict so for push anchor it's a choice between peace and autonomy for east and eastern ukraine or a perpetual civil war ok well i want to talk about of the right sector and poroshenko economic problems in a few minutes here michael if i can go to you dmitri mentioned you know the my down crowd which i think he's being a bit ge

e, is autonomy code for wealth? what are we talking about?the impact for five biggest conferences? >> these are the power players, for sure. there are one or two. other academic institutions that do not fit into those five. it is a a six, but small one. this is the haves and have-nots we are really looking into. the five -- >> the five biggest conferences will have more power. but as we were talking during the commercial break, this pay for play, that is out of the question. instead they are talking about expanding scholarships. said -- howncellor does this protect the integrity of the collegiate model? does it? >> that is the great question. that was what i was getting at a bit ago, looking at why you are doing it -- you're really looking at the roots of the ncaa , why it exists as an organization, what it was meant to do when it was established more than 100 years ago, versus what it is today. they may be two different things, but it has gone unchecked and the entire world around it has changed. >> i am speaking to a professor from nyu, tal

. >> has this latest struggle strengthened the hand of the kurds and their desire for autonomy, to be left alone and not have very tiekt links to baghdad? >> sure. the importants of kurdish independence have grown and certainly more autonomy and they have had it for some time and how much does this change the relationship between the kurds and the central government and the hope is they have the same enemy and for now the same goals and working together in a more constructive way and there cob more of a shared iraqi identity in the face of the unprecedented threat, which is isis. >> we are taking a short break, when we come back we talk about the united states, are americans really ready for another intervention in the middle east after taking so long to get out of iraq, is this country ready to be back there again. this is "inside story." stay with us. >> welcome back to "inside story." i'm ray suarez.the islamic state came roaring out and headed to the east and seizing the money and oil and killing and destroys houses of worship and historic sites. the area experts and officials are

in the loop drones but it's the future plans towards autonomy and the means drones that work on their own select their own targets and kill them and this seems that these are going to be required in the future if you're fighting a sophisticated force because the first thing they will do is to jam all the signals so you want feedback coming back you won't be able to control your drones cetera so most restarting much aware of this and the united states roadmap since two thousand and four has been discussing the idea of the next stage from money in the loop to man only. to the about a year ago i was at an international law conference and there are all these international lawyers arguing back and forth and one of them was the. general counsel for the u.s. air force and he said we would never ever work on armed autonomous systems because that would violate the law we would never ever do something like that and all the lawyers might be that's right that's right that's right and a couple days later i was at our office of naval research and we were laughing about it because i was meeting with

ukraine and would like the donetsk republic and luhansk republic to gain if not independence but autonomy from kiev. >> your perspective from kiev. >> the thing is there has been too many accidents. they were shelling from russian artillery and missile launchers on ukrainian troops. there are already reports about that. russian paratroopers getting to combat and then in russia claiming it was a shell explosion on some russian training grounds. now paratroopers get 20 kilometers from the ukrainian russian border. it's all too much for mistake. all in all, we see that russian troops actually ignited the uprising in eastern ukraine. we saw the leaders of the so called republic are russian nationals. this gives a clear picture that we have russian instigators, terrorist operation in ukraine. the way out as the situation is that the russians pull away their paratroopers and seal the border not to allow terrorists and tanks coming in from the russian side. then it will be resolved. people in lieu happens and donetsk do not support acts of terrorism from so called people's republic. they want pe

and by giving the wealthy ones the autonomy are you stacking the deck on wealthy conferences bases thes in the college race? >> there will be more money available for 65 schools and it's a have and have knots. the reason they have a distinction are some schools are playing a different game than other schools, to chris' point some are nfl prep and others are athletes and the other 95% is taking advantage of classes and not preparing for nfl but they boxed themselves in a corner because it's more than a scholarship going to school and rules saying you can't pay for a kid to go to and from the home and certain limit on tickets and cannot get a job, all the limits that they have has forced ncaa to have a blind enforcement. so i think with this ruling they are going okay we will have to let a little bit more happening but we will not deal with it but let the schools deal with it. >> stick around to hear the rest of this interview, next. ♪ welcome back, we continue our interview with former minnesota vikings player chris clooney and scarborough. you said it mirrored a minor league system and

hp said it's fraud by autonomy. what is it? we'll never know.ng the case, the lawyers settled the case on these terms. the shareholders get some unspecified corporate oregon nans reforms, that's it, no money, no change in personnel, no facts or stipulations. the lawyers are hired by hp to sue autonomy up to the tune of $48 million. >> so the allegation here, the allegation is that the lawyers are selling out in order to get the -- swapping sides in order to get $48 million in fees from hp, which is quite happy not to have the trouble. >> oh, of course. hp mewants it to go away. i don't blame them for the deal. i would too. >> larger autonomy, meg whitman sat where you are yesterday, and it's. t been two years, wheeling of justice turning slowly, and she's awaiting some sort of, perhaps, jurisdictional conclusion there on the part of both the fcc here and office of fraud. >> we have sound from her, actually, on autonomy on that. >> oh. >> the wheels of justice, as you well know, turn slowly, and we appropriately, i believe, turned the investigati

a settlement over shareholders with a $9 billion autonomy right is now in doubt. a federal judge says he would not approve a provision in which hp will have to pay for shareholder lawyers and shift nomyfocus to ex-auto executives. hp is suing another company over the results now. napa, they are up after the strongest earthquake to hit northern california in years. it hurt 170 people. we will see how scientists predict and prepare for earthquakes. amazon is no stranger to opening up its wallet. its longey announced -- largest acquisition ever by buying twitch video. a platform where people watch other people play videogames. price taguts -- the is $1.1 billion giving amazon what? amazon has 55 million active users. that is how many people are watching people play video games every month. it will expand streaming offerings. it includes the fire phone as well. down. and switch broke our guests. have stuart, let me ask you about this deal. why is twitch so exciting to a company like amazon? >> you are right, the last time i saw you, i refuse to divulge any of the deta

we can talk about autonomy.when i would go to talk to them, it has to be in the context of we will support you and you need to have autonomy, but it is within the framework of the unified iraq. that ought to be the attitude come it seems to me, dealing with ukraine at this point. greater autonomy ought to be on the table, but it ought to be on the table as ukrainian terms. >> mr. secretary, madam secretary, madam secretary, thank you very much for your comments. my name is fletcher. i'm in the nuclear energy business and do all of my work in the former soviet union. the question of sanctions. do we run the risk of somehow painting the russians into a corner? particularly given the fact sanctions at this point really have not done much? what has been most damaging to the russians, i think, is the immediate reaction of the credit markets. russians are now absolutely unable to sell any more uranium in the united states, not because of sanctions but because fuel managers simply will not buy russian fuel because of w

russia wants to give autonomy to the groups, the same way russian troops after occupying independent georgia an independent state. it leaves the conflict open, and allows moscow to manipulate it going forward, when convenient. if ukraine pushes for n.a.t.o. membership, russia would remind ukrainians they can resume the conflict at any point. >>> richard white. senior fellow at the hudson institute. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> democracy denied - chinese government says no to independent elections in hong kong. that won't stop the activists. that is next >>> pakistanis take to the streets to demand exchange. -- to demand change. >>> deadly anti-government protests in pakistan. at least three people were killed in islamabad during clashes between protesters and police. thousands marched to the prime minister's residence, urging him to step down. police fired tear gas after some tried to break through police lines. kamal hyder has more from the pakistani capital. >> reporter: in islamabad these protesters stand their ground. they staged their sit-in for two weeks now, but say

degree of political autonomy. and the capitalist system continued. but the chinese government said that deal is being undermined. part of what is calls are foreign conspiracy to turn hong kong into a base of subversion. >> the foreign ministry in china races the issue and warns whoever is involved in this emanuelal forces or international forces, from avoiding using hong kong. >> reporter: for china, the matter of hong kong's political fewer has been finalised. and now expects hong kong to listen. >>> roderick is in lion, an associate fellow at chat am house. thank you for joining us. china confirming that it won't allow the fuli demics elections to go ahead. what is china worried about. >> i think china - the main concern for china is to ensure that it controls the political processes in hong kong and the chief executive. so they don't want completely free and open elections, they want to be clear that the candidates will be fully supportive of china's aims. >> where does this leave hong kong then is this. >> wel

the kurds have been looking for autonomy, and their own country for a long time. turkey is helping them out, and the united states has been giving them arms. >> the kurds are friends. the kurds and the u.s. have a long-standing relationship that precedes the relationship in iraq. they want an independent country, but the u.s. recognizes that if they did get an independent country that was inflame -- >> it would take pieces of different countries. >> the iraqis would be upset, the iranians would be upset, that could change the balance there. and the u.s. has been trying to encourage kurdish autonomy. but falling just short of complete independence. now things could change when isis attacked, it was the city that had the prize oil in iraq. the kurds now have it. will they give it back? that's the billion dollars for iraq. that's the big challenge now for the prime minister. can he give the kurds more power sovereignty. >> what a markable story there. >>> there's a deal to get humanitarian aid to people in ukraine, but no deal yet to stop the fighting. plus tension n

uniform if we create more space for a public charter schools and they are public schools with the autonomy they should be held to the same transparency standards. to the greatest extent possible any city building space for a district to be better and for charter schools to be innovative need to create the most level playing field possible. and to be transparent as they can be and that is the biggest tragedy. when the chicago teacher strike was happening the title of the article is a part of buses dying in chicago. of wind things like that happens our ongoing ability to maintain tenuously a hold on a democratic society admits to a larger engine of a capitalist society becomes gravely threatened it is something we should take very seriously with eyes wide open. and to the extent possible we should not throw too many babies out with the bathwater and for those of us that are the most passionate we have to help them understand what are non-negotiable is and the positive next step can begin. >> [inaudible] obviously this has different implications for the jury to man charters with the relations

coming up the ncaa has voted to let the five richest athletic conferences have more autonomy. it is a very big deal. and why the receipts from this restaurant are going viral. >> on techknow, new hope for a cure >> he has a rare severe form epilepsy >> a miraculous medical marijuana breakthrough... >> it's something we can all relate to, a sick child getting better >> a week went by, still no seizures... then we know we were on to something... >> tech know, every saturday go where science meets humanity. >> this is some of the best driving i've every done, even though i can't see. >> tech know. >> we're here in the vortex. only on al jazeera america. >> critics of the ncaa, ruling over student athletes with an iron fist. today that fist got a little bit looser. michael eaves joins us with that story, michael. >> david, today's vote represents a huge shift for the ncaa, to limit the benefits of those who play college sports in the name of amateurism. under the current model, those players who receive athletic scholarships, were only able to receive tuition and fees, room and bo

the ncaa will allow five conferences with more autonomy, big deal. hawaii is not a paradise today, an earthquake rocked the island earlier and hurricane is getting stronger not weaker and that hurricane is one of two on a direct path towards the island. >> critics of the ncaa have long said that college sports governing bodies allow colleges and administrators to get rich while ruling with an iron fist. michael eaves joins us. michael. >> this represents a huge shift, ncaa has fought hard to limit those who participate in sports under amateurism. only allowed to receive tuition and fees, room and board and any required course-related books. but for those of you who have attended college or sent a child to one, you know there are certain other costs involved to sending a child for education. benefits for student athletes to also include the full cost of attendance. that sum could be anywhere from $2,000 to maybe $5,000 depending on the school. the new measures also allow for athletes to receive better medical coverage and more opportunities to purchas

it's not willing to make autonomy or allow these so-called independent movements to have real control over foreign policy or foreign trade policy. that is clearly the role of the central government. if there is an interest in local autonomy, in terms of budget decisions, language decisions, that's something that you can meet with. >> ukraine's military continues to clash with rebels. ukraine said 10 russian soldiers were captured. russian separatists were captured and paraded through donetsk. we heard they were spat on, things thrown at them. the sanctions so far have been tit for tat, and nobody is really getting crippled by them. russia's economy is taking a hit. i'm concerned that russia is waiting for the weather to get colder, where their real weapon, which is natural gas could be used. >> they have a weapon in natural gas, that cuts both ways. the russian government depends on natural gas and oil sales for 70% of revenue. if it cuts off those sales, it is in a real financial strain. so that cuts in both directions. the ukrainians have supplies, reserves. there are better pipelin

uniform if we create more space for a public charter schools and they are public schools with the autonomy they should be held to the same transparency standards. to the greatest extent possible any city building space for a district to be better and for charter schools to be innovative need to create the most level playing field possible. and to be transparent as they can be and that is the biggest tragedy. when the chicago teacher strike was happening the title of the article is a part of buses dying in chicago. of wind things like that happens our ongoing ability to maintain tenuously a hold on a democratic society admits to a larger engine of a capitalist society becomes gravely threatened it is something we should take very seriously with eyes wide open. and to the extent possible we should not throw too many babies out with the bathwater and for those of us that are the most passionate we have to help them understand what are non-negotiable is and the positive next step can begin. >> [inaudible] obviously this has different implications for the jury to man charters with the relations

he is ready to tell president to change he wants the constitution in order to win more regional autonomy. so, he wanted to send a clear signal by praising the russian course, by promising financial germanylear signal that supports poroshenko. merkel did not say much about russia, she just said it was not the right moment to talk about new sanctions, although they cannot be ruled out. many people i talked to in kiev germany was being too soft with russia. >> the truck's germany -- the truck's russia sent to ukraine without her mission have been returned. what are they saying about that? >> be position of the you -- the position of the ukrainian government is very clear. they regard this convoy as a violation of international law, but in the end they couldn't do anything about it, and in the end, it was a pr success for , who can now say look, we're the only ones who are able to help the suffering civilians. >> thank you very much for that. >> three explosions intercut cook have- in care killed at least 18 people. people in the city continue to resist an offensive by a sunni islamic milita

. >> they seek autonomy. we've been trying in a u.s. all the way towards autonomy or independence, actually. the israelis and the turks and others have said, do that. there are 3 million kurds inside syria. you have lots of kurds in turkey. that could be another element in the region that really blows apart lines that raises the prospect for every ethnic group, that it ought to have its own nation. so there are real down sooids as well. >> we'll have to see what, if any, hidden costs there are to the relationship overall as the years play on and so often we see people we arm and train not being so friendly to us in the long run. seems like the kurds so far are the safest bet. steve, thank you. before we go, new video just coming in right now of attorney general eric holder meeting moments ago with president obama. there, of course, to update the president on the situation in ferguson, missouri. the governor right now this moment has lifted the curfew in that community. that is just coming in over the wires right now, getting it in my ea

china promised hong kong a high degree of political autonomy. that pledge is being tested. the political temperature is rising. ever since the protest in july. it was organised by pro-democracy groups, demanding that the vote could happen in every election. china said fine. so long as candidates are patriotic. >> critics say it's not democracy and warn of scenes like these. >> they try to give us a fake democracy, 10,000 or more will come out and sit on the street of central. >> reporter: that threat to occupy hong kong's central district led to a large beijing protest three weeks ago. it later emerged many of those taking part will be busted - paid and treated for lunch. the protests showed the the mood was heartening. we expect serious polarization in the society. although, certainly law and order will not be an issue, but we expect a very difficult scenario for all parties concerned. >> hong kong's rurnt executive was chosen current chief executive was chosen by members approved by beijing. that's the election that china wants. they are in no room to compromise. >> prote

not another autonomy, say? >> for hp's sake, certainly hope it's not autonomy.umber of also mid-sized companies. rack space comes to mind, another one of those companies. whether that fits in for hp, hard to say. but i vote more on the smaller side than the big. >> the fact pcs were so strong this quarter, jon, was that a one-time occurrence or do you think that's going to be a lingering problem? >> i think that continues. the xp refresh continues somewhat. continues to be strength in domestic markets. hp has to milk that cash flow and invest it somewhere else, i think. the question, where does that go? software business, not growing. networking business not growing as much as you hope since hp is an insurgent in that market. >> 1% revenue growth compared to cisco and ibm. still a positive. >> and i say one thing hanging over hp, that company will get split up, too? >> announced that. didn't rule it out, said not now. certainly a -- >> referring to with the -- >> could be on the table again. >>> next up, a tess flight for an somme drones. according to the econom

having been engaged in a frome-long or for autonomy turkey, they had been considered a terrorist organization by the west, but now they are fighting for the right side in the west's view. >> handoff -- an offshoot has been playing a critical role -- battling islamic groups for some time and it is one of the few groups that can claim to have structures resembling those of a fully fledged state. >> in iraq, the autonomous kurdistan region is one of the few stable places in the country's north. in 2009, germany opened a new consulate in the regional capital, part of a wave of new construction programs that with oil sales triggered an economic boom. they might have an autonomous province, but the kurds are pushing for statehood. they are currently spread over four countries. there are strong communities in iraq and syria, but the biggest is in turkey. the prime minister has vowed reconciliation following his recent election victory. >> do to the instability created by the conflict in syria, turkey knows it has to keep the kurds on their side, and also to prevent what could have happened in the 19