and there have been successes. as in tripoli on saturday when more than 1000 militiamen turned up to hand over their weapons. today is anre doing important step in rebuilding the libyan army and the country. our strategy is to place the army barracks outside the city. >> but despite moments like that, as elsewhere, militias have been attacking the army more and more often. despite reinforcements, the security forces have been unable to stem the tide of violence. the prime minister to call for all militias to disband. in benghazi protestors were adding their voices to that call. but it was hard to hear. let's get the latest from our reporter in benghazi. >> the casualties resulted from dead,day's clashes are 8 and others injured. were clashesthere between armed protesters and members from the libyan shield forces. as we mentioned yesterday, for some reason -- protesters say that the libyan forces had detained one of them inside. and then the clashes e rupted. and the protesters, many of them were actually armed. the

streets of angry campaigners over fifty people have been wounded and more than nine hundred have been arrested across the country because you know i've been following the unrest. most of the roads have been blocked off to have to walk quite some way to my hotel and i've seen people who have also been arriving from the airport along with me would pick up their suitcases and somebody who would be meeting them would give them their masks so they could continue on their way to the hotel but would have to suffer basically you can love this tear gas on the syria where and it gives you this sort of out of history feeling in your throat this is all the result of the protests that have been going on in istanbul people started off with the sit ins and to taksim square where the government planned to raise down a park this siege and was dispersed by police who used tear gas after they did at least several dozen people that were there in the first place were replaced with hundreds upon hundreds of thousands people in the same place in the square who were protesting but this time they were not pro

has been attacking my mom verbally and it's been very stressful to receive those letters. my sister can't even be here because it's that stressful. she can't properly describe how she's feeling about the whole situation particularly the very last letter that my brother showed on the overhead screen. that's all. >> thank you. >> is there any other public comment? >> okay. seeing none then we will take rebut tal. there is 3 minutes. miss wright? >> so, for no. 1 it is my hope that you have experience with stalking and harassment and narcissistic paranoid stalkers. the city planner the notes he made about my house has been correct. the house is very clean. we have 5 roommates that make more than 6 figures and we all clean and they have very high level jobs. it's not a crime to have a clean house. we have a pandora in our kitchen because we like to cook and it's great music or tv. there is no other business from my house. with regards to the woman taking out boxers, that is patricia. i have currently i have bronchitis, a staph infection. i have asked her to make juices for me.

killed and thirty five have been injured locals have been advised to keep their windows in their homes shut and this comes less than two months after a similar incident in texas where an explosion and fire at a fertilizer plant then killed fifteen people almost two hundred more were injured the explosion also left one hundred fifty buildings destroyed or damaged the plant in the city of waco reportedly hadn't been inspected for almost three decades and had been violating safety regulations authorities have launched a criminal investigation however the cause is yet unknown we will bring you more updates on the latest blast in louisiana as we get them. mass protests are taking place in after the government pull state t.v. and radio off air as part of its cost cutting drive leaving more than two and a half thousand people without jobs maybe unions launched a twenty four astra which has been joined by various members of the greek media greek state t.v. went live again today after broadcasters across europe stepped in to try and r.t. on air in geneva based european broadcast news to the thi

there has been appropriate sound readings. there have been at least 5 in my house. they did take legitimate sound readings and each time they came over they were issued a citation after that. it's been an on going problem for two years and i hear everything in my living room and on the plus side, i do think that since the last hearing they are taking steps to try to rectify the situation and they have been more receptive than the past. i would like to move forward an get a good relationship with them. so, that's where i stand right now. i'm okay with hearing a little bit of the sound while they fix it. i don't want to place too many restrictions on their status right now because they have a lot of people that work there and i don't want anyone that works there to have to suffer, but i do just want to make sure that there is a specific timeline of when this soundproofing is going to be complete because it's been two years now. >> the sound test that were taken inside of your apartment, what time of day? >> they are usually 2 years now. >> the sound test that were tak

exposed has been shut down there is not freedom of press in turkey about lawyers who have been just arrested hundreds of them. which was followed by the push this aside to be released we are very concerned not only about the heavy crackdown that although the prime minister's words but also the which. may follow everything else in the long run. we are very concerned for it. iranians have chosen a pro reformist moderate president to take the place of the outgoing hardline presence backload that would turn into a son rouhani received over fifty one percent of the vote after promising to dawdle with the west and some of the most important issues may be beyond his reach for national expects. people have taken to the streets of tehran to celebrate the victory all of us on the hot and that is. that hot victory has provoked mixed feelings that man iran's comes into this is known as a reformist and so carries the hope of many specially in terms of greater freedoms boiron and surrounds diplomatic isolation the country has been on the top sanctions for years now over a spencer version of the n

that's been fired up.ite ingeniusly engineered devices. >> firing water and perhaps trying to suppress. reconverging back towards taksim square. >> anything walsh. thanks for joining us. for our viewers in the united states and else where in the world, we are continuing to cover dramatic events unfolding in taksim square in istanbul,

has that area now been cleared? >> reporter: we actually moved away from that area into another park. since this happened, the protesters clear out when the tear gas gets fired in. then they slowly trickle back. that's what we're seeing happening in the area that we're in right now. >> okay. >> reporter: and that, of course, has enlisted yet another heavy bombardment of tear gas. a lot of these protesters, anderson, they really came up just wanting to highlight one thing, that they would consider themselves a -- but they feel as if they do go out and stand with the others that they are in the busy parks themselves. most of them are people, they're professionals. they go to work in the day and demonstrate at night. everyone is so shocked and angry how the government is handling all of this. >> that was arwa damon. we have to take a short break. we'll be joined by christiane amanpour in just a moment. also, professor fouad ajami. all our correspondents in the region. we're going to take a short break. we'll be right b

in decades at least three people have been killed while as many as one hundred thousand have been evacuated and this coming after a year's worth of rain fell in just thirty six hours the rivers flooded the city's main roads bridges had major traffic it was quite a scene though at this point the area's oil fields and fields are the pipelines though so far not effect. and to cairo where supporters of president mohamed morsi have taken to the streets on mass to mock the opposition who are called re his removal comes ahead of planned rallies against their leader who will mark the first anniversary of his inauguration debut year in office has been blighted by political instability and economic problems its government policies of often provoked mass protests some of which have turned deadly. i now terror attacks constant drone strikes in vicious sectarian strife pakistan's newly elected government faces an awful lot of rather ugly challenges but amid the outbreaks of violence many other issues such as an immense lack of energy are left on the sidelines however even when the government starts look

the desert capital of kiddo has been out of governmental control since last year first it's been captured by terrorists indigenous african people fighting to create a breakaway state in the north of mali than the radical islamists came the un sardine group believed to have ties with al qaida the two factions came to an agreement to establish an islamic autonomy when the french military came they drove out most of the islamists but tour except protist are still there mali and forces haven't been able to enter the town for months now something that's never been a problem for french troops who have an air base in the baltic or the i think them in a lot we have contacts with the separatists but we don't have coordination with them we don't discuss things with them they don't attack us and we don't consider them enemies but we don't have any reason to attack them. what the touring separatists do attack is the mollen military the areas around and kid else to witnesses heavy fighting yet the french army so far refuses to engage with the rebels and can tell regardless of the threat they may pose

cook's wife has been tough. he has raised eight kids as a security guard in a football stadium. -- >> life has been tough. >> i love football but there are more important things. if you have to go to the hospital, you do not know if you will come back or not. >> the protests are large part fuelled by the anger over the billions being spent on the world cup. some protesters are calling for brazil to give a post in the term altogether. that is unlikely to happen, especially in the country that has 1 more titles than any other. we're here in one of the many -- iconic favellas. it is clear how much the government has been getting ready for the world cup. it is staring them in the face. it cost $500 million to get a facelift ahead of the world cup. >> some protests are more provocative. this installation on the beach ascasts footballs brazilians have been wounded in their souls seeing this in contrast to our hospitals, streets, and security. about edits a blog football in brazil. >> we want to show the world we're no

has there been pruning done? >> there has not been any pruning. we'll remove the trees pending on this outcome of this hearing. >> at the time the tree fell, it looked pretty severe. do you know much about the circumstances how it happened, why it happened? >> i don't. it was a large limb that failed. there was some evidence that there may have been some decay in the limb, but i don't know, it was at night. i don't know beyond that, the circumstances. >> okay. >> miss short, your resources are extremely limited as you indicated. is there an option should somebody be on that list of trees to be removed on your list. can the property owners undertake it? without waiting to be in line? >> if they were granted -- yeah. if the tree were an approved for removal, yes, but they would still have to

if place for ten years, performance has never been measured or effectiveness been determined. we believe the police department could continue to provide sufficient and effective policing at these properties using regular work shifts. we also recommend that the housing authority get a staff person toover see public safety and conduct a needs assessment of those needs. those are the key highlights from our report. we would like to thank the staff and management of the housing authority for all of their assistance, including the new housing commission. we'd also like to thank the housing authority clients who participated in our survey and we're happy to answer any questions. >> thank you very much. holly, any questions on the findings? none? okay. let's open up for public comment. wait. oh, okay. housing authority. sorry barbara. >> it's okay. well, i do wish to thank all of you on behalf of the housing authority and express our appreciation to the board of supervisors and the budget audit. it begins with the hud assessment last year and designating the housing authority as trou

he has been in dominant form.ite in this final, he was not at his that that his best. -- his best. it transpired in two and a quarter hours. if he stays fit, and that has always been the issue with the spaniard, can he keep the knees in good shape -- you wonder if he could add more grandson titles. still short of roger federer's record of 17. he has won wimbledon on a couple of occasions. that is where he will head now. he pulled out of the event in germany. he will now rest up and prepare for an assault on the grass courts at the all england club in a few weeks time. few would bet against it. he is a remarkable man. another piece of tennis history here at roland garros today. at the canadian grand prix was killed after he was run over by a recovery vehicle. it happened after the race. the date, it did band to belonged to -- it vettel. the street circuit in montrÉal. so far the german maestro has failed to convert the front position into a win. this time, apart from a close shave with the wall, he dominated the ra

that the boston marathon massacre could have been thwarted. could it have been prevented? the answer is, there is nothing specific that would have been done, that could've been done that we could point to that could have been done differently would have prevented this. but we can say that had we had a much higher level of operation all along so that the whole situation would have been different, i believe that would have been one of the type of things we could have thwarted by higher level of cooperation between our two countries. >> a federal judge has ordered the internet giant google to hand over customer data sought by the fbi. in a ruling disclosed friday, u.s. district court judge susan illston said google must comply with the so-called national security letters granting the government access to users' private and affirmation without court warrants. the judge's latest ruling appears to contradict her decision earlier this year to order the government to stop issuing the letters. a group that has challenged the letters in court, the electronic freedom foundation said

but the troops have increasingly been shot at and some of them have been kidnapped.n recent weeks, several countries have pulled their forces out of the mission. nevertheless, the security council did manage to extend the mission for another six months and a strengthened the language of the resolution the self- defense capabilities of the force there, in hopes of making the troops safer and also encouraging more countries to come forward and donate their forces for this important mission on the border between syria and israel. among the things they are going to do is provide body armor and armored cars as well as more heavy weapons, things that they currently do not have. they have cut back on some of the patrols in order to keep them safe. all this because they think it is so important to keep an international force on this very volatile border in an area that is increasingly destabilized because of the conflict in syria. >> the u.s. court has towards the alleged boston marathon bomber with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill four people. he faces 30 charges

she's been in and out of syria. her life has been in danger many times. if we've got a signal issue, we need to clear her and clear our crew. if you have been following, cnn's reporting, nick paton walsh has been watching over the square for 18 hours. a gas mask on for 18 hours. those protesters have ebbed and flowed. only in the last hour and a half, there seemed to be an ebb. now it has escalated again, as arwa was reporting, hard to make out what she was saying under the gas mask. the police and riot crews advanced on barriers. hard to make it out from the pictures we are showing. there was an advance to push down the protesters' barriers. clearly the escalation at arwa damon's and crew's location. it happens in a flash. it can be dangerous. sometimes protesters have one protest in mind. others can have something different. trouble. big trouble. we have seen that happen with a cbs crew before. we have seen some of our reporters injured. assaulted. clearly a big concern for arwa damon. i don't know if she is able to hear me any longer or if we have any

the protesters mostly have been throwing stones. they've been throwing fireworks.y've been throwing some molotov cocktails. those, by the way, can be lethal. one police officer today was badly burned. at least one police officer has been killed so far in these demonstrations. according to turkish authorities, at least two civilians have also been killed. there have been a large number of injuries, but any time there is tear gas involved, it's hard to know how serious those injuries are. sometimes they can number in the hundreds or more but oftentimes people can recover from them. >> richard, just a quick question on the process. i know you talked a little bit about turkey being a democracy. why wouldn't they go to recalling an election instead of protest? what drove them to protest at this degree? >> reporter: that's sort of the odd thing in all this and why the government was so surprised. this began as almost a nothing protest by a very small number of environmentalists who were protesting knocking down a few trees in that part of the square over there. under tho

now here in europe, the big topic has been the upper-level low that's been sitting there cut off, still bringing some rainfall. about 40 millimeters in a few locations out here in the czech republic. what's happening is that all these rain showers in higher elevations that fell in the past week are flowing downstream now. just saw some reports just south side of vienna, some villages starting to be inundated with floodwaters. even after the rain has stopped, it is all coming downstream. we want to continue to watch this, the situation not quite over yet. we've seen an upper-level low start to spin in the iberia peninsula, bringing rain showers toward spain and france. but look at these temperatures -- sunny skies out there. look at london -- 20 their on thursday. that's a look at your world weather. here's your extended forecast. >>> that's "newsline" for this hour. i'm gene otani in tokyo. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks for joining us. have a great day, wherever you are. ♪ >>> from the four winds and the scent of the earth come the color of the seasons. exploring the four sea

it has been 2.5 years. has cited the ongoing investigation as a reason for not providing information. at some point they will have to answer questions about this matter. it is a matter of humanity to do that. i remain concerned that whistleblowers continue to face retaliation. i will ask the director about the final outcome of to whistle player -- blower cases. this has blown the whistle. the second is robert colbert is who blew the whistle on time and attendance fraud at the new york city field office. the deputy attorney general found special agent turner was subject to personnel action. appealedhe f -- fbi the case for nearly a decade? what action was taken against those persons who participated in a retaliation? the current status of that case and if there has been a ruling, why has my office not been provided a copy? thank you very much for your service and also for helping me get to the bottom of some of these things. >> thank you very much. director mueller, we will of inrse put your statements the r

it has been nearly a week since my police stormed a park in central istanbul, which had been occupied by anti--government protesters. some isolated demonstrations are continuing, so what comes next for the movement? >> colmer waters in istanbul, at least for now, but under the surface, there are some powerful currents swirling. the prime minister has shown his strength, but he now faces a challenge. gomal life in istanbul will on, but something sustains because after 10 years of weak opposition to this government, these protests have brought a dynamic to turkish politics. and this was the first example, the standing man at taksim square, inspiring others to stand in protest. for many protesters, the struggle must continue. >> we have a lot of people, and we think they should be free. they do not want us to sit down and talk to guys when we talk, things will change. >> the balance has to be right. others are more cautious, arguing that a point has been made and hoping the government will pay more attention in the future. >> the economy has suffered, and so have local businesses. in tha

have been even worse than the u.s. in their spying efforts here.dr katherine albrecht a spokesperson for the alternative search engine start page says governments obsession with surveillance may bring about an end to privacy as we know it i think if we start going down this road of saying that is it any place people are where there is privacy they need to be watched by the government then we get to the point where we will not have private hotel rooms we will not even have private bedrooms or private showers in our own homes and eventually you know we're going to have nostril cams looking up our noses so i think it's some point we've got to say just like the founding fathers of the united states said in the in the bill of rights no you can't go rifling through a law abiding citizens privacy just because on the off chance someone might commit a crime down the road truly what if if law enforcement wants to find people who are doing bad things it's not looking for the people who are going online looking things up it's really to people who are doing bad

they've been used as both a carrot and a reason. to bring some countries into the european fold and to keep others out human rights are thought to be universally have their application is highly specific to the country's political social and economic circumstances is it time to redefine what is meant by human rights and should all countries be held to the same standard while to discuss that i'm now joined by thorpe on the gaggle and secretary general of the council of europe mr young going to be appreciate you being here and now i think what is manned usually manned by few men rights in the west and political discourse are political rights rights having to do with political activity freedom of speech freedom of expression freedom to protest and i think some countries in particular russia and china argued that their bill a treaty to grant their citizens full political rights is conditioned on. the economy on dire economic prosperity and i think for some time these sort of argument was brushed off as authoritative ploy but i think now

has been discriminatory against nationals of other e.u. countries in receiving welfare now there's already been reaction from the u.k. particularly angry ones from the government i want to from the work and pensions secretary who says that he will want to cave in he says a brussels is once again launching a land grab and over reaching its areas of responsibilities and meddling into the affairs of national governments now we have spoken to a legal expert to explain to us why the commission has done what it has. a case where the commission. for feeling that. he wants to have a referendum in two thousand and seventeen you want to renegotiate the treaty. i mean. this latest move by brussels has once again brought to the forefront issues like sovereignty of member states immigration or the pressure put on social welfare systems the very issues that really have led to would increase and support for euro skeptic parties and countries like the u.k. the commission is looking also at another country spain it says that it has received complaints of t

this has really been something the president has been focused on and trying to promote.ing this increase in the united states. >> when you have that many people with a college degree, does that not then devalue the college degree? >> well, i think especially because technology is advancing so much. and you have seen -- now especially that we're out of the recession, we are seeing these companies using cash reserves to add jobs. people are using those degrees towards those jobs? >> always a pleasure. thank you. >> have a good weekend. in today's one minute playback, the mets fan who became a viral sensation. here's a minute from late night with jimmy fallon. >> the mets play the cardinals this week here in new york. check out what happens to the mets fan in the stands. he's behind the pitcher to the right. >> major league baseball. in fairness, nothing says you're a mets fan like collapsing in june. but there are some things i've never seen before. this ge jet engine can understand 5,000 data samples per second. which is good for business. because planes use less fuel, sp

well so it will set in the head of the company has been a busy mt. i was want to talk about show gas because putin approached this topic in his manner when he was a bit defiant towards the fact that many people are saying that russia's let through the. resolution revolution i should say so he said the main reasons why it's not in the energy well simply because it costs more costly to produce and natural gas as well as that is also environmental concerns as well to do with the fracking process that is needed to get the shale gas and the fact that it can contaminate the water so far as producing was concerned he was defiant towards the so-called gas boom. but after a short break here on out c it'll be mike's and stacey taking on the global money makers of course the kaiser report live from moscow it's on say. i know they tracked approval ratings of the presidents of various countries by did know they still research the approval ratings of former presidents twice on gallup poll that says that george w. bush has been slowly growing in his approval number

a number of people have been mentioned but there are some who are supportive who have not been mentioned one is former mayor and congressman, and of the dot, norman who was instrumental way back years ago. and our current dot director ray lahood and i want to call a special shout out to former member of our board who has been a supporter of this project for many years, will (inaudible), thank you. thank you, will. and steadfast support. and this is truly been a labor of love for the board and critics along the way and i am totally convinced, absolutely convinced that when this is opened, everybody will realize this was totally worth while and all of the struggles forward and a lng time coming and great leadership. and he and his team and we appreciate that and we are it marks the beginning and i am looking forward, mr. mayor for dedication and whether i am able to rise this. and i did tell the mayor that i have a problem personally, and my term will be up before it is dedicated so i asked for one more term to be here on that great, great day. thank you all. >> so it is because of the lea

firms also have been selling gas to some other countries where brutal police crackdowns have been headlines like egypt and bahrain is marina portnoy reports now who's cashing in on the cheers. for six days the world has seen video and images of turkish police cracking down on thousands of anti-government protesters and want an arm activists of all ages have been targeted indiscriminately with tear gas and pepper spray critics say that behind closed doors the united states has long played a major long wall in aiding the least brutality that is currently unfolding in turkey he's reporting to reports turkey has bought twenty one million dollars worth of tear gas and pepper spray in the past twelve years and the united states is listed as a main provider to the us is one of the world's largest manufacturers and exporters of tear gas and whether sold or given tear gas shipments from the united states to anywhere in the world must be approved by the u.s. government the three big american tear gas manufacturers nonlethal technologies defense technology and combined systems inc have reportedly expo

stored and no one can say for sure how many to repeat is have been stored there have been at the site when the incident happened and we've been hearing different reports from six thousand pieces to thirteen million these are of course two completely different pictures and as we understand it there have been some injuries but we're not quite sure of the details of those yet but the whole area has been evacuated that is correct at the moment is it it is and the major concern remains whether there were people at the scene at the moment when explosion happened there are reports that they could be from three to eight people trapped at this side and given especially this this sad day to all of these kind of incidences not for the first time that we see sounds like that happened in russia. over the last three years dozens of incidents like this happened in different parts of russia claiming lives of both military personnel and civilians. well the blast in chopper yes is the latest in a series of explosions at military sites in russia in recent years several blast occurred at the don't ski ra

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>> i know that i have been the one on holiday in ibiza, but they have been the ones taking, how should i put it, policy- altering substances. first they are for child benefits, now they are against child benefits. first they are for winter fuel allowance, now they want to abolish winter fuel allowance. only now do we find out that they might not go ahead with the policy of the scrapping child benefits. >> with the prime minister show us that the perspective film on lobbying will include a ban on people selling on downing street? >> what the bill on lobbying will do will have a register that has been promised and should be levered. it will also make sure we look at the impact of all third parties on our politics, including the state union. >> does my right honorable friend agree that the actions of the european court of human rights, in reading our souls of terrorists, illustrates the extent to which its -- the court has betrayed its original principles. i wonder if you would update a house on what actions his government will take and the president of the court, who said that if we were

have been to charge crowds with water cannon which has happened in tacks in square and has been happening night after night here in the capital where protests have also been ongoing and also take gas a lot of criticism at the beginning of this that the police fired far too much take us into into the crowds i interviewed one young man the other day who was hit in the fêtes by a tear gas grenade breaking his nose and and shooting wouldn't splint is into his eye from a nearby a wooden board that's just one example just last night when i was reporting from a street a police force a cannon drove up behind me as i was speaking into the camera and shot me in the back with a water cannon so a lot of this feeding into the accusations protests is that police are trigger happy gung ho and far too brutal in their crackdowns there have been dozens of buses burnt have has been damage to shops as well and a lot of that pinned on certain groups within the protesters as well so a lot of mutual recrimination going on with tension growing especially when larger crowds gather each scene is unfortunately the

has been following the events. this is the third night of protests in turkey and unfortunately for the people here this isn't it earlier we have seen the police and protests broken. and one of the stumbles that main squares investigation in fact we do know that there is some confrontation going on there still at the moment at least we have seen clouds of smoke and of course puddles from the water cannons and tear gas being used but that doesn't stop people neither in istanbul or in any other cities and in fact there is almost too little to have them which have seen people coming out on the streets and protesting the government we're still surrounded by people in istanbul and still people are gathering here and they show absolutely no determination to go anywhere they're going to stay here for as long as it takes like i said there have been protests which have been broken up by police investigation but this is not the only thing that happened in turkey on sunday orally or in october almost two thousand people were a

has been judged illegal and whatever happens next, he will have been damaged politically. >> al jazeera, athens. >> a funeral has been held for a bosnian baby girl at the center of a debate over national identity. the baby died after lifesaving surgery was delayed because they didn't have a passport. an internal battle inside the war torn nation has left the government unable to issue citizenship documents. they eventually smuggled her out of the country but they say was too late to save her. the identity document issue has been at the center of recent anti-government protests in bosnia. there were more demonstrations on monday over delays in the adoption of a national identity . it began june 5 when parents asked lawmakers to end the bickering and adopt a new law. ecuador and britain agreed to establish a working group to solve the standoff. he has been held up in the embassy in london for almost a year. we have more. >> sunday's meeting was a reassuring one. he's been a guest at ecuador's london embassy for almost a year now. and outside is the constant threat of arrests. but ecuador'

it's been weak for the last three days, down about 4%. that's because it's tied to the home builders who have been notably weak. doubt me about the relationship. will pool down 11% the last three days and the etf for home builders is down 9%. a rough week for the home builders. they are a little bit frothy, and a lot of that froth has come out of them this week and all the concerns about higher rates, a little overblown. very unlikely we'll see 6% mortgage rates. >> all right. bob pisani, see you a little bit later. ty, up to you? >> from frothy to frosty for some of the home builders. let's go to the nasdaq where seema modi is tracking, at least for a few more days, the big moves in oracle? >> that's right. oracle is now responsible for the nasdaq 100's entire loss today, and it's not just oracle's lackluster earnings that are disappointing the street. an analyst says oracle's tans fer from the nasdaq to the new york stock exchange could pressure shares between now and july 5th which is the date that oracle makes the switch. oracle has a

had been several. times around a number of issues including the current that's i could governments but i'd be in serious trouble. with why it. was. the government's collaboration with the also invention in syria and beyond a variant parts of the hue that's been going on inside kiev for years which has been the infamous identical in thailand hundreds of people have been sent to prison including high ranking army officials and in this. teaches you name it which has caused. in the country in five times the radio i was an attempt a couple of months ago by participants and so i'm going to reprint them which is one of the largest detention facility in the wild many of the people. currently being touted as being for a while these tensions are going on beneath the tragic and it looks like. the shopping mall which was. being constructed in the pog was really just a cap today for all of the. underlying i'm going to be sort of for now it seems like it's exciting and it looks like i've been there's no end in sight

he's been following the story. this week washington confirmed it has ample proof of assad's troops using chemical weapons against the opposition but the timing seems to be rather strange for that the incident in question allegedly happened in december last year but it's been brought up only now when the government troops are winning the battle after battle according to the russian foreign minister this makes no sense at all from the military point of view and the follow up statement by president obama that he wanted to see the balance of power is restored in the country and possibly even the syrian rebels is creating even more grounds for concerns in russia and europe as well so we have russia being skeptical about it are they the only voice or are there others were skeptical about the u.s. evidence not everyone is buying it the e.u. the main allies of the united states they are asking additional checks from the u.n. investigators russia says that the proof gathering process itself was done with violations of inter

has been using diplomatic channels to try to get snowden back there have been talks with the u.s. secretary of state john kerry sort of softening the tone saying that the united states does not want to start a confrontation over this now president obama did speak to reporters in senegal and he said quote there will not be any wheeling and dealing and trading to get edward snowden extradited back when it comes due to russia of course there is no extradition treaty so the best the united states could do is ask for russia to expel him from the country mr putin did not indicate that this is a course that russia's willing to go on at the moment and of course the other big question is what mr snowden can do he doesn't have a u.s. passport anymore the americans will vote that there's questions even if he goes through cuba whether cuba will participate because of put some theoretical warming up to the times between cuba and the united states now as for the response from washington which is rather typical of the lawmakers have been a bit more harsh than the administration itself one lawmak

so why do you think there's been a lot of resistance to accepting this evidence that the u.s. says it has well just let's look at the history let's go back ten years ago to two thousand and three when the u.s. state secretary colin powell was shaking a vial with allegedly anthrax in it suggesting that iraq has weapons of mass destruction chemical weapons we all know where this when so the u.s. clearly don't want to step on the same break again the same time another rather concerning statements coming from the u.s. that they are considering implementing a no fly zone over syria which in many cases is the first step for military and and has certainly a striking resemblance to iraq a scenario almost a decade ago and so as we've seen the rebels themselves are kind of a very diverse group a lot of interest in a lot of different groups as part of the so-called opposition that they have in the syria are there allegations against them as well i've heard words of regret coming from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov that all claims and allegations coming from the syrian governm

and china that haven't been easy in recent years and there's also been though this resistance coming from washington over beijing's a growing influence in the world in light of all of this what do you read into this upcoming meeting. i think the meeting is a crucial in building up the trust between the two countries you know to the chinese people they didn't get the feeling that it's always the americans are asking for more and more on the economic front so they're asking china to open up the market once you open up the market ask you to let's say buy more american treasury bonds you know so it's always the americans asking for more and more is like the absolute the more you perform the more you believe in the future so this is why does the feeding of the chinese people now to mean america and china you know these are these these two countries are like a couple you know you don't really argue in front of the many other people who are sort of like being a public live in the uk if you really are you in your old person owning your own home so these meeting actually is is really crucial

what have you been anal to see -- have you been able to see there on the scene? night has fallen and there is heavy rain and flooding. but have you been able to see any of the damage? >> caller: no. we haven't been able to see any of the damage yet. i know that power's still cut to lots of the city, as far as i know. and we haven't seen any extent any of damage yet. were you able to see the overturned vehicles, the tracker trailers that were blown over as well that we have heard about? >> caller: we didn't encounter any overturned semis or anything of that nature. we were forced to stay out ahead of the storm because the tornado was so close to the interthe state, we had no choice but to charge eastward as the tornado was moving toward the area. >> i read somewhere that you said that the tornado was chasing? >> caller: yeah. at one point when we first got on interstate 40 to go east, out of its way, it was -- too close for comfort behind us. we knew that. so we really had to stay out of its way quickly. yeah, we could see it coming down the interstate, right behi

it is overwhelming to me the amount of recommendations that have been made in this area that have been ignored by your agency, and i see no good reason why these recommendations have been ignored i you want to address why the recommendations have been ignored, you're welcome to if have some other area is want to ask you about also. i -- it appears to me -- which is not the first time this has happened. i spend a lot of time around gao reports and looking at recommendations and whether or not they're implemented, and typically agencies with least amount of oversight by congress have the worst record of thinking that what gao says matters. there is some kind of cogent answer you can give why all these recommendations made have been wholesale ignored? >> we take what gao recommends through their audits very seriously. >> when is the last time you implement one of their recommendations. >> we have implemented this is in scag year a number of recommendations regarding -- i'll take the last odd. cost transparency. we have done a number of things to support cost transparency. we submitted our

>> well, certainly the arab leaders have been, the saudis and qatar, they've been arming them. we have the situation where the refugee crisis in turkey and particularly in jordan is really becoming critical. jordan cannot withstand the continual flow of refugees. but i think the big difference is iran. now that iran is so fully engaged, they were always arming and, by the way, maliki in iraq, he's letting those arms go through, so we have not been able to persuade iraq and the government that we helped put in place to stop the flow of arms through its territory and over its territory, ground and air into syria. but i think the fact was that iran was helping assad win and we could not consider the geopolitical ramifications of letting iran win this victory and so then you have assad there and iran, more powerful than ever with an iranian election tomorrow and more, you know, forceful leader presumably than ahmadinejad has been. it's just the worst possible calculation. and also the weakness that it projected throughout the arab world for us to be dragging our feet. i mean, if th

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