murder, but entered a plea and sentence agreement with a national prosecuting authority, in brackets, npaclosed brackets. in terms of section 105-a of the criminal procedure act. in terms of the agreement, the national prosecuting authority. >> you are listening to the judge in the oscar pistorius case read her sentence. she hasn't quite gotten to what we are all waiting to hear which is will oscar pistorius serve prison time yet. judge masipa going through other cases describing how the pistorius case is similar or dissimilar to them. it is very hard to tell which way she is leaning. i want to go to cnn's diana magnay outside the courthouse. diana, this is high, high, drama right now. we're all looking for any sign of where this judge might be headed. >> reporter: it certainly is. i think that she will be suggesting some kind of jail term. she discounted the evidence that jail was not suitable for a person with disabilities. the judge turning around and saying she believed much more of the testimony of the acting commissioner of correctional services who had said that facilities are fine

murder but entered a plea and sentence agreement with the national prosecuting authority, in brackets npa, closed brackets. capital 1 of the criminal procedure. in terms of the agreement, the national prosecutor authority accepted a plea of guilty to culpable homicide. the national prosecuting authority agreed to the following sentence in the plea and sentence agreement. i quote, it is agreed that a just sentence in all the circumstances shall be that the accused is sentenced to eight years imprisonment, which is wholly suspended for a period of five years on the following conditions. one, the accused is not again convicted of murder or assault or any other offense in which assault is during the period of suspension, closed quote. again, counsel for the defense argued that the facts in the mdunge case had a striking similarity to those in the present case. i disagree. it is so that in both cases, the accused were reacting to a noise they interpreted as someone entering their home. the huge distinguishing feature was that in the mdunge case, someone, the deceased, did open the door. which

the accused in this case was arrested for murder but entered a plea and sentence agreement with the npa, in terms of section 105 capital a of the criminal procedure act. in terms of the agreement, the national prosecuting authority accepted a plea of guilty to culpable homicide. the national prosecuting authority agreed to the following sentence in the plea and sentence agreement. i quote, it is agreed that a just sentence in all the circumstances shall be that the accused is sentenced to eight years imprisonment, which is wholly suspended for a period of five years on the following conditions. one, the accused is not again convicted of murder or assault or any other offense of which assault is an element during the period of suspension, closed quote. again, counsel for the defense argued that the facts in that case held a striking similarity to those in the present case. i disagree. it is so that in both cases the accuseds were reacting to a noise they interpreted as someone entering their home. the huge distinguishing feature is that in that case someone, that is the deceased, did ope

. >> we believe that as npa, we have done all we could to get to where we are. but of course, we are already stated before that we were not entirely satisfied with the outcome of the case in as far as the judgment is concerned. it was not what we had set out to achieve for that purpose. so now that the sentence has been delivered, we are going to have to go and study the judgment, study the part of the sentence that was imposed today, but also go and study the case load that is relevant to see if it would support us in the event that we take the matter forward. >> reporter: well, with me is one of south africa's leading experts in sentencing of the university of south africa. professor, you were actually quoted several times in this trial, including today, the judge used one of your quotes from your book as an example to say there was no perfect sentence that many could actually be appropriate in a judgment. just how do you view what's happened today? >> well, i thought that the judge had quite a balanced judgment. there are very few things that one can say that

. >> i think we would be in a much better position if we had left the presence inú$npa iraq. >> former, leon panetta says, if no one else will put boots on the ground, the u.s. will have to do it. >> in order for us to bele

. >> we believe that as the npa, we have done all we could to get to where we are.course, we have already stated before that we were not entirely satisfied with the outcome of the case in as far as the judgment is concerned. we indicated that we are disappointed, because it was not what we had, you know, set out to achieve for that purpose. so now that sentence has been delivered, we are going to have to go and study the judgment, study the part of the sentence that was imposed today, but also, you know, go and study the case law that is relevant, to see if indeed it would support us in the event that we take the matter forward. there is an appetite. we do believe there is something that you can work with. but of course, we were not going to hastily take that decision. we have 14 days within which to indicate to the court that we are going to appeal the matter or not. and at this point in time, the prosecution team will try to make sure that when the decision is taken, it's based on law, other than the feeling that we have at this point in time. >> reporter: what wo

. >> i think we would be in a much better position if we had left the presence inú$npa iraq. >> formersecretary of defense, leon panetta says, if no one else will put boots on the ground, the u.s. will have to do it. >> in order for us to be able to win against isis, you have to have some boots on the ground. >> his book "worthy fight" is critical of the president's middle east policy. >> he writes, too often in my view, the president relies on the logic of a law professor rather than the passion of a leader. >> my experience in washington is that logic alone doesn't work. >> more on the u.s.-led fight against isis. >> isis takeover. the terror group takes control of a syrian town. >> isis fighters are moving closer to seizing a key city along the border with turkey. >> people saw isis, walk up, drive up to kobani, enter the city. >> turkish troops a mile away have done nothing. >> what will it take to degrade and destroy isis? >> i think that's the question. >>> tonight, we have a new perspective on president obama's decision making, thanks to a new book by leon panetta, entitled "wor

my name is raul soto, i'm from the npa and development practice program here, and i wanted to ask regardingmaybe minor schools of thought in economics, trying to bridge the gap between economics and physical sciences is such as the use of measurements of energy as in jules in economics. and on the other side, maybe more subjective, economics like the economics of well being, measurements of happiness, subjective perceptions that have been recently been developed. if this is going to be something that's coming more prominent in economics, or is it something that maybe will get cut off. >> >> yeah. thank you. no, thank you for all of those -- yeah. thank you for those important questions. well, first question, how did neoclassical economics win? well, you need a ph.d. dissertation on sociological knowledge to really pick this apart, but i have a few ideas. first is that what some people call physics envy -- [laughter] so, basically, economists wanted to become scientists, and the closer you look like physics, the better you are. and then in order to do that, you should get rid of concepts lik