the budgetary tug of war between italy and the european commission has been going on for months conti is now suggesting a budget of two point zero four percent of g.d.p. down from two point four just a bit higher than yoko would like. it's not for me to foresee what the final reaction of the commission will be shortly our proposal was judged important and significant and the next hours we will continue to work i trust on a positive solution. with italy's prime minister bring an early christmas present back from brussels while shoppers are spending freely on holiday presents the amount of money their government can spend next year is still up in the air and the coalition partners in rome are trying to satisfy e.u. regulators by showing goodwill towards brussels and a willingness to compromise on their original budget proposal many italians now want to see their government make a deal. it's all very messy i think that something may finally be moving and maybe little by little in a strange way we will finally become europeans we've tried to form europe for so long even if often we've not

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italy's prime minister giuseppe conti offered the european commission a compromise in the dispute over his country's ballooning budget he proposed a deficit of around two percent of g.d.p. down from two point four percent. but it's not for me to first see now what the final reaction of the commission will be surely our proposal was judged important and significant we will continue to work i trust for a positive solution. would like to present italians with promised pension and welfare reforms but that something is government may not be able to finance if brussels insists on lower borrowing now room seems to be taking a conciliatory tone to avoid disciplinary action by the e.u. . many italians want to see their government make a deal. it's all very messy but things may be moving maybe a little by little in a strange way will finally become europeans we've tried to form europe for so long even though we've not always been happy with it. but if the commission rejects the budget plan and sanctions italy that could trigger new elections next year and that would mean even more insecurity for

but italy says it can't change too much in its program without affecting domestic priorities today conti is meeting with european commission president john claude younker and italians are waiting to see what comes out of it. will italy's prime minister bring an early christmas present back from brussels while shoppers are spending freely on holiday presents in rome the amount of money the government can spend is still up in the air the coalition partners remain un willing to bring the budget deficit for next year to levels demanded by regulators in brussels many want to see their government come to a deal. you know. it's all very messy with don i think that something may be finally moving and maybe little by little while in a strange way we will finally become europeans with it all that we have tried to form your for so long even if often we have not been very happy others have an understanding for their government's current refusal to limit the deficit to below two point one percent of g.d.p. . but what about the i hope the budget law will be approved it. e.u. understands the problems t

. >> reporter: indeed history is being made and people contie to take photos and reflect on stories and remembering times in regards to george h.w. bush,he many of tell me they'll be watching funeral tomorrow. live outside the u.s. capitol, i 4. shamori stone, news >> thank you, we have seen many moments today of people paying respects. ush family came to the rotunda earlier tonight. they did not just say good-bye to their beloved member of the family, they thanked everyone in the room who was there to do the say. >> george w. bush and his brother jeb was seen shaking hands and giving hs and daughter genna and barbara bus was there, too. barbara got married recently in may. here is what the twins had to say about their father's eulog for their grandfather. >> there is a lot of pressure. i know he wants to make sure he canet through it himself without breaking down. it is something else he has been working on. >> and then there is this moment,ust beforeush 43rd left the room. he spotted a woman of her five-month-old daughter, sienna, he took into his arms. a hard day for the bush family.

as far as the rain is concerned, you can see it justes conti to push through the region. through this evening. heavy rain as tsft energy tr takes place from one area of low pressure to off the coast. we can see heavy rain into the portion of the overnight. as the system pulls away, more toowers rrow. now, it could end as a period of light, wet snow. northern shenandoah valley. as temperatures come down we coul have a period of wet snow. we dry out by 7:00 p.m. tomorrow night. again, just about another inch, maybe two possible as we get through your sunday night. again, temperatures are in the mid 40s for tomrow and then we're back in the low 50s on monday. it will be breezy. blustery on tuesday. more rain thursday, idfray, saturday. looks like rain with temperatures in the 50s. rit now christmas eve is dry. >>> here's a look at the traffic. the rails for this weekd, because of wreaths across america at arlington national cemetery, lots of folks will be headed that way for the weekend. that is a small station. you want to use rosalyn or the pentagon station instead. it mig

and that asian and these small countries and iran is not actually giving any assurances to these conti's in order to at the right to defuse the tension that is all about the that these are the they are and so. i'm just i'm just trying actually to to make this spawns between between what the saudis are. doing and what they are doing and in fact most of us here in the region are stuck in between are caught in this crossfire between between the iranians and that's are with these because because of this conflict between the iranians and so on and i can see actually the attitude of the saudis and the iranians not very much from from each other i said it's looking across across the region and we need maybe to see an end to this conflict so it's not one side or. a threat or. or something like ok we need we need to you know we're out of time i'm afraid no one. profess a shady under stuff but he thanks indeed for being with us on today's inside story as always thank you for watching don't forget you can see the program at any time just by going to the website of al-jazeera dot com for further dis

conti however has not specified how that reduction would be achieved the government is promising to maintain spending on pensions on welfare the e.u. rejected italy's initial draft budget in october and one italian m.e.p. time came up with an unusual way of expressing his dissatisfaction. we spoke to a journalist covering drugs who says the pressure on the financial markets is behind the italian government so you. think the government was quite by deals because that was. well using and that all they were consistently high i'm not was. increasing the chinese all the costs and that was putting pressure on the banks and . it was creating. businesses and that sort of take the impulse and. then they leak it which is on small businesses in the north which is one of the eventual. i think that was the main reason financial markets. president has announced plans to deploy troops to northern syria to fight what he calls terrorist groups. we will start an operation to free the east of the euphrates from the separatist terrorist organization in the coming days jog it is not american soldiers but to run

al >> he conti thinks about pardons.hether he's willing to do it is a different story we hear from white house aides that president trump is talking about it. it is a topic of discussion. a lot of people around the president believe that it ia bad idea politically. it's a bad idea in terms of theo president' legal fate that he could be putting himself in even greater legal jeopardy if he even starts to have those conversations. and on occasn the past, he's been talked out of it in ral concrete ways. so this is al thing that's constantly churning. but like a lot of things in the trump white house, allt takes is the president to finally make a decision to move forward. soar he hasn't done it. but i think a lot of people continually hold their breath that it's on the horizon. >> i do this that is somethinge that drats will be looking very closely. the dangling ofnshe parnd how that -- robert: do you think they're going to bring female capitol hill -- >> i thank you they will try -- i think they will try and do as much as th

comments on the matter of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi nikki haley's hold the atlantic a saudi arabia conti given a pos for the killing and she pointed the finger at the crown prince saying government officials carried out the murder making mohamed bin sound man technically responsible french riot police have force running street battles with thousands of anti-government protest as in paris it's the fourth straight weekend of the yellow vest protests against the government. voting has just begun and amin is historic parliamentary elections it's the festival that since mass protests ended twenty is of one party rule opinion polls suggest a landslide victory for prime minister nicola passion younes party which led the so-called velvet revolution china is warning canada of severe consequences if it doesn't release a top executive of the well it's one of the wilds largest telecoms companies were always chief financial officer has been arrested on charges of evading u.s. sanctions against iran those are the headlines up next al-jazeera correspondent. we live in an ever connected. with gadgets th

government and agreements can be struck dave lindorff a founding editor of the online news website this conti happening thinks it's all a bit of a gimmick it's just it's all theater it's playing to the media the media is making a big deal out of it. and it really isn't a big deal unless it blew up into something that was going to last for a month or two months or something and started hurting me in the government's ability to pay its debt on time as happened one time with this but it you know it's becoming kind of a joke in the united states that you know this super powerful super rich country can't come up with a budget every year and it's almost every year thing and trump has made it more so with this continuous threats to shut down the government but it's really a joke it's unclear how long the shutdown will last but president trump earliest rustic could be full of a very long time we take a look back at the main reasons the shutdowns in previous years. violence flies in barcelona as pro independence protests erupt in spain's casa lonia region more than sixty protestors on policemen have b

until an agreement can be struck dave lindorff a founding editor of the online news web sites these conti happening thinks it's all a bit different giving it it's all theater it's playing to the media the media's making a big deal out of it. and it really isn't a big deal unless it blew up into something that was going to last for a month or two months or something and started hurting me in the government's ability to pay its debt on time as happened one time with this but it you know it's becoming kind of a joke in the united states that you know this super powerful super rich country can't come up with a budget every year and it's almost an every year thing and trump has made it more so with this continuous threats to shut down the government but it's really a joke. and it's unclear how long the shutdown will last but president trump earlier stressed it could be for a very long time so we took a look back at the main reasons for shutdowns in previous yes. a speech therapist in the u.s. is suing old florida keys in texas off to being sunk from her job as an elementary school for refusing

to bring i hope that material salvini and our prime minister tzipi conti manage to do something good for italy. then they will believe that. but if the budget plan is rejected and italy is sanctioned by brussels that could trigger yet another election in march and even more insecurity in italy citizens. and france of course of a compromise is in his government and the e.u. seems to be on the horizon that's good news for the euro is it not. it is absolutely good news for the euro and it's also good for italy's reputation on the financial markets you know get hard when we talk about italy and its debt the focus is always on lost spread that's what italians call the spread between the yield on italian government bonds and on german government bonds and this spread has narrowed significantly the yield on italian government bonds has come down significantly due to this perspective on a compromise clearly investors seeing a less of a risk in investing in italian assets. talking about the euro the e.c.b. is expected to end its super lose monetary policy today or the announcing that they wil

meeting between prime minister decepticon and european commission president sean claude juncker mr conti has now reportedly backed down and agreed to trim spending plans and adjust the projected budget deficit to two point zero percent of the g.d.p. down from the earlier figure of two point four percent most of the cuts would be accounted for by reductions in a proposal for universal basic income according to the at. industry minister dario golly. and a new mexican president the new all mad hell lopez obrador amo is set to unveil his first budget proposal as the business class literally frets about his spending plans the written proposals expected to be delivered to the mexican congress on saturday the new president has notably places to invest in education and infrastructure and improve mexican pensions with offsetting cuts in other budget areas on most deputy finance minister has told mexican lawmakers he is concerned about the debt load of state oil company he mixed investors took that as a sign that mr lopez obrador will postpone or alter his plan to build a new p.m.x. refinery in so

french president's government european commission head john claude juncker an italian prime minister conti met earlier today in brussels and to take a different look at some of the major economic news around the world we now turn to professor of economic americas at the university of massachusetts amherst professor richard wolfe professor great to have you back there's so much i want to ask you about today first i want to ask generally about china and their economy and not about the third quarter any particular data point but more overall professor how their economy is doing and how they've been operating for decades with specific regard to technology and are they playing by the rules of global commerce i mean given the concerns about stealing intellectual property really what seems to be part of their business model it has been for decades does china need to shift gears if they are to be accepted in full by global governments and global companies. basically the answer is no and let me explain why for most of the last twenty to twenty five years the united nations keeps a record how fast i

even unfolding right now invented telling a reporter conti. it's very disturbing it's very horrific like what you mentioned that over the last past few weeks our. came in better town has been very busy providing a much needed medical attention and psychosocial care for the woman and girls aloud what has the report that was between nineteen to twenty nine of november the number was one twenty five but in the last two days we have seen another thirty two survivors that have. that we have received in our clinic invented town so numbers just on president it that many of you mentioned that many of them where. they were also beaten and robbed and they were all the vulnerable position that they process where they can and in many cases in many cases the story is just very horrible in many cases that you have children witnessing the rape of their mother and of their family members and many cases have been reported. having a multiple perpetrators and many have have been raped multiple times. the story just coming out it's very disturbing we understand f

per a revised plan from prime minister just at the conti remarkably the e.u. is economy commissioner last week rejected the italian climbdown as not going far enough meanwhile prime minister edward felipe of france admitted in an interview that president emanuel micron's recently announced reversals on taxes and spending or pushed the french budget deficit to three point two percent of french g.d.p. . we now have a great top coming up but i couldn't be more excited because i'm pleased to be joined by one of my former colleagues at a law firm both of us were not lawyers that we gave unscathed. very malley the founder and managing partner of carbon who is not only an expert in start ups and venture capital but as involved with us super noble endeavor making a real social impact shane welcome it's so great to have you here also to be here good to see again so let's talk about carbon what you're involved in tell the boom busters about it absolutely could be more excited so this is been a passion of mine for advice fifteen years actually and what we've come across

the budgetary tug of war between italy and the european commission has been going on for months conti is now suggesting a budget of two point zero four percent of g.d.p. down from two point four just a bit higher than your co would like. three and it's not for me to foresee what the final reaction of the commission will be shortly our proposal was judged important and significant and the next hours we will continue to work i trust on a positive solution. with italy's prime minister bring an early christmas present back from brussels while shoppers are spending freely on holiday presents the amount of money their government can spend next year is still up in the air the coalition partners in rome are trying to satisfy e.u. regulators by showing goodwill towards brussels and a willingness to compromise on their original budget proposal many italians now want to see their government make a deal. it's all very messy i think that something may finally be moving and maybe little by little in a strange way we will finally become europeans we've tried to form europe for so long even if often

that's where cold war era conti contamination is still being cleaned up.ending could complicate the city and developers efforts to transform 500 acres in waterfront property. >>> congress is not expected to return to washington until december 27th at the very earliest. abc news reporter has the latest. >> reporter: the impasse coming down to fundsing over the president's border wall. >> $5 billion is a lot of money and to spend it on aering fourth century strategy is something we're just not going to do. >> reporter: the president disagrees tweeting drones and all the rest are wonderful and lots of fun but it's only a good old-fashioned wall that works. after meeting with the president on saturday republican leaders said they would settle on less than the $5 billion the president wants for the wall but balked at chuck schumers offer. >> i don't think i would take an offer of 1.3 when you had previously offered me 1.6. >> reporter: during his campaign the president promised mexico would pay for the wall but his incoming chief of staff said any money coming

giving i hope that material salvini and our prime minister just that conti managed to do something good for italy. they have been able to do that. but if the budget plan is rejected and italy is sanctioned by brussels that could trigger yet another election in march and even more insecurity in italy citizens. in a major step toward space tourists virgin galactic is going to launch a rocket powered plane from california later today to regionals two to fifty miles which is considered the edge of space goes to plan the pilots will experience zero gravity for a few minutes out of breath taking view. this test five would put the company closer to becoming the first operational space tourism business. the virgin c.e.o. richard branson is in a race with all the billion and founded jet bases to develop a vehicle that sends tourists on short trips into space. and here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you british prime minister terrorism may has survived a no confidence vote brought by members of her own funds unhappy with her great deal about mason swords he is damaged because m

al-jazeera berlin italy's prime minister says he wants to stop arms sales to saudi arabia giuseppe conti says he intends to take an official stand against selling weapons used for the war in yemen the government announced last october it was considering the move following the murder of the journalist. and. the truth of the murder must be established at any cost this comes in line with the general idea of stopping arms sales to saudi we will monitor the kingdom's behavior over the coming weeks after that a decision will be made we do not prefer to sell arms to saudi arabia when it is now a matter of translating this desire into an official stance then evaluate the outcomes and then respond on that basis in the mangers disaster agency studying satellite images showing the scale of the volcano collapse that caused a deadly tsunami a week ago and krakatoa originally stood more than three hundred meters the volcano is now about one third that height it also lost three quarters of its volume after last week's eruptions peter rock an ash into the air researchers believe the missing mass slid in

rain will conti through much of the day tomorrow. storm-team 4 is tracking the timing. >>> if you blink, you may have missedit. as soon as instagram rolled out an update this morning, it changed everything why the sudden rollback? >> susan hogan is working for to you tell you why this trigger an immediate reaction from instagram users. >> well, this is one of those things where you say what the heck just happened? id instagram really mean to do that? here's the deal. for a brief time, instagram changed how users interac with its feed. instead of scrolling up and down on the home page to see your images, use hers toap to the right or left to stalk their e friends. letll you. this literally created a frenzye from instagram who took their citizen stoix twitter with the #instagram fail. some of them making the point that they didn't likehe change at all. wt every account has been upgraded, those did, have it. right there, the head oin agram tweeted a series of isologies saying sorry about this. as supposed to be a very small test but we

. >> a lot of rain headed our way as we contie through you friday. rain chances only increasing. we do have a flood watch. that begins at 6 p.m. and goes until 6 p.m. on saturday. we're going to have a good dose rain headed tr way. lot of that hitting the ground. maybe a few sprinkles but of course that's going to fill in because all of this is going to be headed our way. f again, we are going to have rain, especiall the second part of your friday. it's a cool rain, too. the temperatures are in the 30s and 40s. we're headed into the upper 40s outhere today. as you plan out this afternoon, rain starts to move in during the early afternoon but expected all the way through this evening. we'll talk about how much rain and when it can finally be outo here. that's all coming up in a few minutes. guys? >> we've got breaking news to tell you about. the virginia state police are respding to a small plane crash near the shannon airport. the plane landed on federal property and federal investigators are looking into the crash. >> in the district the search is on to found the masked gun man

the er servicese will conti here at the hospital in northeast washington throu the end of april through flu season but d.c. fire and ems already stopped bringing patients herehoo the ital. now the nursing and rehab center will remain open. nurses wt to save the hospital. they want it to remain open and a fully functioning facility. they say the cuts that are planned here are dangerous. they'll hold thatnd rally protest right here at the hospital at 10:00 this morning. back to fyou. >> liv us in northeast. thank you. >> it's 5:48. the hov lanes on i-395 are back open thining after a major pile up yesterday. they brought traffic to a stand still for several hours. >> any time you see a car raised a or elevated on top of barrier or another car you think, well, that's a pretty bad crash. >> n one was seriously injured. the cause of the crash is unknown but virginia state s poli weather does not appear to be a factor. >> if you everanted more proof than a dog is man's best friend, look no farther than radise, california. that town was all but destroyed during last month's wildfires. dozens o

department of justice is conti into similar accusations made by officers here. there are nearly 120 officers signed on to that complaint. reportinglive, tracee wilkins, back to you in the studio. >> thank you. >>> allegations against a priest already charged with sexuallyab ing a child. claims he sexually touched a 9-year-old and a woman. the new claims come a month after the 46-year-old was charged with child sexual abuse. the washington arch diocese has removed him from the position. the d.c. church is one of the largest predominantly latino parishes. >>> among those who died in a training acciden off the coast of japan. he's one of five service members declared dead after two military planes collided during a training exercise last week. herseman was 38 and leaves behi a wife and three children. herman attended hilton hig school and h parents live in stafford. >>> chopper 4 over the scene of a big truck fire earlier today inlargo. the truck was fully engaged in flames in a parking lot not far from the commuty college. firefighters got to the scene and quickly

giuseppe conti says the government will keep pursuing its goals. term after the government managed to push its revised budget bill through the italian senate. the government held a confidence vote which is used to ensure swift approval for legislation. it needs the measure to pass the lower house to meet a deadline. active investigations are continuing into the drone incident which closed one of the busiest airports. said the, they sightings may have been a mistake. a couple arrested after the incident have been released without charge. global news 24 hours a day and at tic toc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm viviana hurtado. this is "bloomberg." francine: thank you. top policymakers confirmed that more fiscal support will be rolled out in 2019. as the second largest economy grapples with the slowdown. it lowered import taxes on more than 700 goods. so with us are robert hormats and greg boudle. ambassador, let me start with you. you know china like not many people do. what worries you

tain" conti. >>> welcome back to "dateline extr extr extra," i'm craig melvin.lton was charged with the murder of meredith emerson and police would soon hear about her last moments. as it turns out, her family and friends were right. she fought hard for her life. once again, dennis murphy. >> in your decades of law enforcement, have you ever had a session of interviews like this one? >> no. no. he was very straightforward and was very nonchalant about the whole thing. >> so you get down to the point where -- well, with meredith, i had $40, money, and several days food. i was going to have to kill somebody in that period of time. >> after his initial confession, gary hilton, the man of stony silence, became a chatter box, spilling out a story that sickened detectives who thought they'd heard everything. he began with meredith's abduction here on a hiking trail on blood mountain. he said that he ambushed meredith and her dog ella as she came down the trail. it was a struggle and meredith with her martial arts skills, as hilton tells it, nearly got the best of his.

our coverage of the budget battle conti fes in a minutes. we're looking at what happens next. >>> 6:33 now.ec for thed time in less than a month, holiday shoppers at westfield wheaton mall had to deal with violence. >> darcy spencer is live with more on the story. darcy? >> reporter: well, good yorning. may remember last month there was a shooting on mall property. yesterday afternoon there was a stabbing just as the mall was filled with holiday shoppers. this is video from ned afternoon in front of the dsw shoe store. the man who was stabbed is expected to survive. the week of thanksgiving a man was shot in the parking lot after some sort of dispute inside the mall spilled outsidey montgo county police have put out some safety tips for shoppers to keep in mind. we want to show you those. stay alert. be aware of your surroundings. park in well-lit areas. park as close to your car or the store as possible. we know this is a very busy time of year. a lot of the parking lots and garages are if you can try to abide by those rules and stay in wel

conti may be willing to cut deficit targets.u look at the pressure that is piling on europe. this is where the bond market volatility is perhaps the best response by germany versus italy. the government laid down a mantle. what does this take for you to take italian risk? >> we don't. if we want to spread assets over we will be looking at different markets within europe from a sovereign perspective. we could be looking at the market -- emerging-market debts within local currencies. the popularity of those institutions is high. the backward step on structural reform is most troubling for investors. i think president micron the greatest example of that. you are defensive on european equities. do you see in europe's problems going deeper than just political risk? >> all of these things are in swing. pmi is down. i think that justifies the risk premium that investors have built in. we are really looking for some sort of catalyst. >> thank you. we had that demolition on the growth story. assistant and on the money. money.intct and on

it's in his prime minister says he wants to stop arms sales to saudi arabia giuseppe conti says he intends to make an official stance against selling weapons to be used in the conflict in yemen denmark finland germany and norway have all decided to stop selling weapons to riyadh it follows international outrage over the murder of the saudi journalist jamal. the balance of power in northern syria appears to be shifting after the u.s. decision to withdraw its troops russia and turkey have agreed to coordinate with each other after they had talks in moscow it comes as fifty turkish tanks have been sent to the syrian border in preparation for a possible attack on kurdish y.p. g. forces from gas and tap close to the turkey syria border here's mohammed. columns of turkey stunts roll into syria. and iran has been all through its military positions along with south the border as it prepares for what it calls a full fledged offensive on the kurdish held city of mumbai is syria syrian rebels backed by tuckey are also on the move inside areas of syria under techies sway and along the eight hundred tw

the volcano that started this whole thing conties to erupt. the coastal region is under an extreme weather advisory. authorities are warning people to expect big waves and to get as far away from the coast as they can. at least half a mile to be safe. yesterday, there was aan when false rumors spread that a second wave was on the way. people were absolutely desperate to reach higher ground. of course, it wasn't real, but the sense of fear is very real. sarah harmon, nbc news, indonesia. >>> several families now without places to call home tonight. take a look at this map. we want to show you the american red cross has said it responded to five locations on christmas day. they helped displace families. the fire stretched from loudon county to capital heights, maryland thchlt is video of a fire that you can see here. the smoke billowing out of the top floor of this structure here. seven adults and two children made it out a safelyng with the family dog. so good news there. no word on the cau of that fire. >>> a holiday disaster for a local fily

the shutdown starts at 9:00 tonight and will contie until at least 5:00 a.m. on monday. so they hope to have everything back open byrush h on monday. now the crews are going to be installing a temporary support structure under the middle arch of the bridge. they're also going to remove steel from theenter of the bridge. this is part of an overhaul, the memorial bridge,he work not expected to be completed until 2021. now tia mem bridge of course is in pretty bad shape. the work has been o f going sometime but it needed an overhaul and that's going to mean some issues for commuters as they have to periodically shut it down from time to time. they're trying to minimize the impact by doing the shutdown over the weekend, but still, still a very popular, heavily used bridge, so it's going to effect people over theaneekend again, not just cars. we're talking about pedestrians, cyclists, anyone, all of it. the sidewalks, all of it will be closed. it's going to have an impact, but the hope here is that theil workbe completed over the weekend, or at least this section of it and th

several times the congress and the white house have forced, have salt laken -- shake contie down to get just can't do that with a bill barr. i don't want to portray him as a march w-- maverick who will be looking to slap the president around. he can't do that and won't do that, but i think he will gird against any attempts to, for the department to be breached in the way it has been over the last few years. >> is it at all worrisome however that mr. barr has been critical of the mueller probe and that's why he might be appealing to president trump? >> well, i think this is a possible appeal for the president. and as i mentioned, i can see specific points where he and mueller would have principle disagreements, of course, as you mentioned, barr was there when mueller was the head of the criminal division, and surely share, i was there at the time as well by the way, and he surely shares the universal respect for mueller's professionalism, which trump denigrates daily. can you see ways in which it would peck at the margins? yes. nevertheless, given where we are and where we could be, the

the two sides agreed t to contie negotiations in the coming months. u.n. envoy horst kohler said -- "a peaceful solution to this conflict is possible." over theast four dade, thousands of western sahara's indigenous people -- the sahrawi -- have been tortured, imprisoned, killed and disappeared while resisting the moroccan occupation. you can see democracy now!'s exclusive documentary "four days in western sahara: africa's last colony" at democracynow.org. education secretary betsy devos will cancel $150 million in studenent debt after being forcd to abandon efforts to blblock a rule that created protections for students whose for-profit college defrauded them or shut down. in october, a judge sided with attorneys general from 18 states and the district of columbia who sued devos for delaying the obama-era rule. the policy allows for students to automatically have their debt canceled without formally applying for the benefit. and in north carolina, the state legislature has approved a bill requiring a new primary and election if the state's election board

basically, he, and so much of the national security establblishment, wants to contie these wars because the truth is, they cannot think of any , younative other than to know, press on. amy: in my the interesting to listen to the republican and democrats who were saying this is a terrible idea, pulling the troops out, that we were just on the brink of victory in wiping out isis there when n others mit say, where was evidence of that? could you talk about mattis' history? for example, the intercept pointing out in 2004, it was mattis who plan the marine assault on fallujah, that reduce the iraqi city to rubble, forcing 200,000 residents from their homes. according to the red crossss, at least 800 civivilians were kill. well, he is undoubtededly a distinguished soldier, as that word distinguished gets defined a military circles. he is a competent professional. he is a master of his trade. would not want to compare him but he has s a, certaiain skill i think in relating to the press and therefore, in creating an image that goes down well in washington circles as the thoughtful warrior. appa

the humanitarian organization e ars thousands will conti drown in the mediterranean now that doctors without borders is decomissioning the last rescue ship, the aquarius, because of what the groups says is untenable political pressure. special correspondent malcolm brabant spent time on board in 2016; now he looks at the legacy of a ship with a unique spirit. >> the aquarius has saved about ives over the last three years. people that without that dedicated search and rescue capability on the mediterranean sea would otherwishave died as they undertook that perilous journey. >> reporter: the head of doctors without borders in the u.k., vicky hawkins, is angry at those who've engineered the end of the ship's humanitarian mission. >> our decision comes on the back of a year and half of an essentially concerted campaign to force us to stop.en we've bebstructed, we've been criminalized, the vessel has been stripped of its flag twice. we've been shot at and harassed by the libyan coastguard. so today there is no dedicated search and rescue capability in the mediterranean.te >> repor which w