and outside the region. how we interact will contribute in a cumulative way how each country assesses long term intentions of each other and acts on the assessments. whether maritime issues or north korea or some others it becomes very important that we work hard every day to get those right. i agree very much with professor jung that we are in a very transitional period no matter which scholarly approach you take. and i agree with him in a specific way. transitions are plastic. nothing is inevitable. and nations have the liberty of choice. and so how you make your choices and the factors you take into account become very important. that's true of the government in washington, beijing, tokyo and seoul and one hopes those choices are made well. not only in the big picture but on the specific issues that i talked about. i think that with respect to east asia itself the goal of beijing and washington is to do everything we can to in the american term avoid strategic rivalry and the chinese term build a new patt

regions. bmw north america promptly agreed to participate in this campaign. in july of 2014, out of an abundance of caution, bmw of north america expanded its voluntary campaign and previous 2013 recall of passenger front airbags. on july 15th, 2014, bmw north america notified nhtsa of the voluntary nationwide recall of an additional 574,000 vehicles. the next day, july 16th, 2014, bmw dealers were notified of the recall, after notification to nhtsa. standard practice for notifying customers involves an auto company preparing a draft customer notification letter for nhtsa's review. in late august nhtsa approved our letter. bmw of north america mailed notification letters to our customers in mid-september, using first class mail, as required by nhtsa regulation. another way customers are informed of recalls is at our dealerships. when a customer visits a dealership, the service adviser at every bmw dealer conducts a vehicle inquiry for outstanding recalls. once the vin is identified the service

regions. i believe an area that needs focus by automakers is the commerce of recycled original equipment manufacturer parts. each day over a half million oem parts, same parts designed by your companies to meet your fit, finish and durability standards are sold by professional automotive recyclers. they play an important part and are readily sold from one state or region of the country to another. recently gm reached out to professional automotive recyclers offering to buy back or purchase recalled gm ignition switches. to accomplish this, gm provided specific oem part numbers for ignition switches so they could identify the specific recalled parts in their company's inventories. to those representing the car companies, do you agree sharing oem part numbers and other identifiable information with the professional automotive recycling industry would increase safety? yeah, so we'll start with that. >> congressman, i myself am not familiar with the gm action. i would bring up another point. count

it was an aircraft that was flying in a very stormy region. they asked to divert around the bad weather. and unfortunately there were some issues with that aircraft and the aircraft crashed. now, of course that's a totally separate incident. we can't really draw too many parallels. but with that case it was a case of a weather-related issue. and then you have a -- it took them also a day to find the aircraft. and that was actually on land. they located it in a remote part of mali out in the desert i believe. so that's another thing that's similar as well. the aircraft disappears on one day and with luck it's found in the next day or two. with mh370 it went on forever. >> let me ask you about that pilot's freedom to divert. how much freedom is there? what are the parameters for a pilot when they can see that a storm has just turned course and they need to do something and do something fast? how much freedom do they have? >> well they have a tremendous amount of freedom because the first rule of being a pilot, the three core rules of being a pil

the regional transportation plans the community strategy and actually let me back up, the plan is the region's long range transportation blueprint for the nine counties, in the bay area, and with the passing of sb 375 in 2008, an additional element was added and which is the assistant in the strategy and that did bring into the mix a few elements in terms of the land use and housing which when combined with transportation will help the region achieve the greenhouse gas and emissions goals as well as accommodate the increasing houses that were mrnd for the region. and the san francisco transportation plan is the formal mechanism for inputing san francisco priorities into the regional transportation plan and ses. so the 2013 update and the comprehensive update, included a broad out reach and a trade and sequence strategy, with several different city agencies to take into account, the different components including the climate and the air quality component and the land use component and the economic development components and the transportation, and in addition to that there was coalitio

-- regions similar to the kurdistan region? >> there are some similar to the judge who has been a minister and parliament member who is probably the best person to articulate the cause of basra -- his narrative is quite well known. i think what goes on -- basra is not just about basra, the leadership and the political leadership -- the governor and city council, they belong to strong parties that are national parties. also there are leaders from outside who paul their own politicians -- poll their own politicians, but the biggest problem to achieve political status is the politicians. but i think he is trying because there is a mechanism to collect signatures and present them to the election commission and then it will go forward that way. the question is will the same people who caused the previous attempt to fail do it again or is the momentum to strong right now -- too strong -- that remains to be seen. i think it is more workable to have not just basra but the south provincial -- that is more kind of a contiguous demographi

disruption in this region could cause serious problems across the globe. i strongly believe that the united states must take a leadership role in these disputes and work to support a peaceful collaboration to these issues. the resolution takes a step in the right direction. we cannot accept unilateral action by any of the countries involved in these disputes as it it further degrades security in the region. here is a clear example of congress supporting the united states role in the rebalance to the asia-pacific region. in particular, we cannot allow

many of our regional ally, and they would do so rapidly.i don't think i need to convince anyone on this committee how important our relationship is with jordan, what an important position jordan plays in the region. and what could very quickly happen to jordan had isil's progress that they were making through iraq gone unchecked. so we've concluded, and rightfully so, and the president's concluded that this group, left unchecked, poses an unacceptable risk to the national security of the united states and therefore they must be destroyed and defeated. that is the objective. senator johnson was talking about that a moment ago. but when i read through this aumf and some of the amendments that are filed here, it strikes me that what we're saying if they're to be approved is we are committed to defeating isil but only if we can do it with air strikes alone. or we are committed to defeating isil but only if we can do it in three years or in some cases in a couple of the amendments in one year. we're committed to defeating them but only if they s

in this region including northern mali.he president ousted president has been the got--to negotiator and have been concerns that the recent ouster may have put and end to those negotiations. we don't know whether that was the channel that was use. we will probably never know the truth. the french government negotiates not directly but via proxies with the jihadists. what do they negotiate about? the question of money and ransom money. there are two answers about whether or not france paid ransom money. there is the government's answer, which is no ransom money is ever paid in these situations. it has been a strict policy. that is the official answer. what we can gather from sources that have worked on these negotiations these release scenarios via northern mali or syria is that the french government has a reputation for paying. it is a reputation. several sources have been involved in various hostage release scenarios that say money changed hands. it is not necessarily direct. their might be regional proxies who managed to

that being said, it's a regional transportation system.d i think this will be a good opportunity to have that discussion and explore both the costs and the benefits of the different options that are before us. so mr. dykes. thank you for leading us off today. >> thank you. supervisor wiener and cohen. it's my pleasure to be here. thank you. i'm the principle engineer at tjpa and i have been involved in this design and project for seven years as a member of tjpa. and for some years before as a consultant. just a quick recap. elements of the project, the downtown extension starts at grade down near colman street and the tracks, two tracks are peeled off parallel to 7th street and reach of the beginning of the tunnel portal beyond 6th street, having go underneath the 6th off-ramp from the freeway. this is now fairly shallow cut-and-cover work to build an underground station at 4th and townsend and then still cut-and-cover until we get to 3rd street, where we are turning left into 2nd street and arrive at rock or soft rock rather than water an

and seasonal because it changes from season to season and region to region. region. are you looking at things other than humidity, like dryness, whatever? >> a very good question. the answer, i can't go as far as to say every climactic condition because that would be going a little too far,, but we are testing from the humid areas and others. the purpose of a good engineering study is to have a different sample to look at. that is what we are doing. >> i am prepared to yield back, but let me make this statement. coming from an automotive supplier, and i appreciate your candor, but i think it is a little shortsighted to say we can't test for all the different climate conditions. if conditions. if we already no they are affected by humidity, for god sakes, we don't no what other climate situations affect the inflator's as well, and i think we need to get to the bottom of that. with that, i yield back. >> thank you. the gentleman from texas, doctor burgess. >> thank you for letting me be here. i am anxious to here from our next witness. >> thank you. there there has bee

the region, for a whole variety of reasons.c. our history is if and. our faith is different in many respects. and when you talk to the partners within the coalition who are of the region, what you here very early in the conversation is that this is our fight. this is our crisis. islam is our faith, and daish has hijacked our faith. and it is up to us to be the leading elements seeking to create the momentum that delegitimizes daish's claim, both to be an islamist entity but also an islamist state. that's really encouraging to my perspective. and as time goes on in this line of effort, as for example, we've had in one country they have sponsored a conference for all of the states were present as were many other members of the coalition. and we spoke in great detail about the nuance of the message and who should be saying what, and how they should be saying it in the region to have the greatest effect. and so while we will have common themes, how those common themes are depicted in the region versus how we americans may articulat

and international peacekeeping come in terms of regional organizations and regional architecture. as i said, his is a voice that needs to be heard -- this is a voice that needs to be heard. what is appealing to me and my colleagues is the fact that prime minister modi has undertaken to build from what has been a look east policy to an act east policy. he has shown in word and deed his interests in involving india in the interest, and the thinking and the affairs of the broader region, engaging in political term, engaging in economic terms, engaging in a dialogue about future security arrangements. that's very much to be welcomed, something that i'm going to hear more about. >> we have time for one last question, if it's brief. the gentleman, yes. >> mr. secretary, congress has voted to authorize the sale of four frigates to taiwan, the president is expected to sign it into law any day now. what is the significance of this? are you concerned that this may have any impact on u.s.-china relations, particularly the mil-to-mil exchanges? thank you very much. .. that taiwan maintains it

>> based on the data we are collecting from the region and other regions the vendor supports that we should remain focused on the region with heights temperature and high humidity. >> okay. the crashes and california and north carolina led nhtsa to believe the takata inflators were at risk outside of the state with absolute high humidity so why do you disagree with this conclusion here? >> let me state from my opening statement we are not opposing nhtsa's direction. we are committed to take any action leading to auto safety for the public. that also includes producing additional replacement kits to supplement their recall effort by automakers. once automakers decided to expand recall of vehicles we supported. i want to explain that we did investigations but they are not completed yet. and regarding the event in north carolina at this time we have had no chance to check the vehicles. we only have the production serial number information in the pictures so we will inspect the vehicles later and sent to the automakers and takata. >> i only have 28 and slept so i yield back my temin reco

we aren't so rich compared to western european regions.n my opinion, there is this correlation. >> briefly. >> it is important to differentiate. yes, they are poor. they are under stress. they resort to violence more often. this is clear. what we know from our research is that this is a phenomenon across classes, which means a can beat their wives. a poor woman maybe doesn't have a choice. she can't get out of a relationship. this is where the correlation is. it is structural. it is not by making this women richer or giving her different income that the violence will disappear. the violence will disappear when we create mechanisms and new mentalities and new laws. >> let's talk about some solutions now. i would like to return to the story of malala who told the nobel audience that change is coming. >> 17-year-old malala yousafzai is the youngest person to ever win a nobel prize. she is also the first pakistani. she shares this year's prize with a fellow children's rights activist. those attending applauded the recipients for their selfless

i looked to the future of this region of the world. country that is most at risk in terms of oh economic growth from climate change is china. it's china because of the shortage and mal distribution in terms of where the population is of useable water. that's in part because of a changing precipitation patterns. it's in part because of water pollution. and also the rising sea levels will threaten more of china's gdp than i believe the gdp of any other country that we are discussing here given how much of china's gdp is generated in the pearl river delta and the yangtze river delta. both are under severe threat from rising seas. at the same time china will also be the country under the greatest pressure to limit its emissions. given that it is now by far the largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world. and those emissions, at best, will peak roughly 15 years from now. so the pressures are going to keep increasing on china. so it gets hit on both sides of the climate change issue. third issue is the effect of security on economic growth.

but people around this region. it's front page news.t's made the major papers and news channels here in china and throughout the asia pacific region. and there was one regional network caught in a very disturbing situation for viewers. they were simulcasting a local television station when graphic images showing a half partially clothed body floating in the water were shown on live tv. we've talked about how it was extremely upsetting to the families in indonesia who were watching that signal live. but that signal was also shown live via this regional network in china. shown in malaysia and australia, very upsetting to a lot of people here following this so closely. i've been talking to the mh 370 families and i was sitting next to steven wang a young man whose mother was on board of 370. he told me he was hoping for a miracle of those on flight 8501. he was hoping there might be survivors. it was during our interview that the news came in and in fact debris had been found and bodies pulled from the water. >> thank you, will. >>> the de

we know that there are c-130s there, ships in that region. this is a very busy transit area of the sea, very busy with maritime traffic. but so far we don't have any information on any sighting of this plane. there were 162 people listed on the flight manifest 155 passengers and seven crew most aboard indonesians. that's a picture of the plane we're talking about. most indonesians. but there were three south koreans aboard one singaporean, one malaysia and one french person. of the passengers there were 17 children. one of our analysts says there were 17 no-shows on this flight that took off from indonesia at 5:30 in the morning. the ceo of airasia, tony fernandes fernandes, highly regarded businessman is on his way to surabaya. earlier, he tweeted a short statement. it read "thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. we must stay strong." then he later tweeted that he was on his way to surabaya. there have also been tweets from malaysia airlines to airasia. they're competitors, expressing their support and understanding what airasia is goi

-- regions similar to the kurdistan region? >> there are some similar to the judge who has been a minister and parliament member who is probably the best person to --iculate the cause of basra his narrative is quite well known. basra ishat goes on -- not just about basra, the leadership and the political leadership -- the governor and city council, they belong to strong parties that are national parties. there are leaders from outside who paul their own politicians -- poll their own allocations but the -- politicians, but the biggest problem to achieve political status is the politicians. but i think he is trying because there is a mechanism to collect signatures and present them to the election commission and then it will go forward that way. the question is will the same people who caused the previous attempt to fail do it again or is the momentum to strong right -- thatoo strong remains to be seen. workable tos more have not just basra but the -- that is more kind of a contiguous demographic and geographic and in many aspect

a key player in the region. is important for us to understand the complexities because it is different. how it how it exists and how it can conceivably interact if we did something here it could play out here. and then the issue of the specifics associated with the counteroffensive. it will be very important when we see the counteroffensive which in some respects is underway now in a limited manner, important that we won every battle. and so giving battle and not giving battle is for a commander commending a large feel the force. it is sometimes much better to no not to fight. it is sometimes better to ensure that you set the conditions ultimately to win rather than to reduce the risk associated with the engagement. what i mean by that is for example ramani, both iconic, i think, with respect to iraq. i will tell you that just up the road if you no the area well and i suspect that you do, al-assad, one of the principal strong points. and and while there was mixed success in and around the city which ultimately b

it is a problem in all regions of country. >> hard to believe. congress wants to give sacred native land away to a foreign copper mining company. you have to read between loips lines to find it. we did, that story is next. >>> there's usually more to a story that meets the eye, and we intend to show it to you in the new series "between the lines", what does a national force in ards arizona have to do with national security. you may think nothing, congress decision. when it passed a bill it contained provisions that this nothing to do with defense. one had native americans feeling betrayed, it has land that is a cultural and historical interest to the apache tribe. we go "between the lines." >> reporter: tucked away between the lines of a massive defense bill in washington are the rites to this - protected land that is held sick red by apache tribes much pore more than a decade a british and australian mining company rio tinto, and resolution copper spent millions to lobby congress to get in here to get at an enormous copper government. congress a

it is a big search region 156,000 kilometer search region. they have been really methodically plotting and ticking off region after region. so they've gridded it out, if you like to make sure that they're not missing anything. whether now that focus, the vessels there start focusing on that area we still don't know. it's interesting, though robyn. if you look at a map where the plane was last reported seen it is not that far from the coast, from the western coast of borneo. and there is a city there. now that seems to be the reference point for where these objects were found. what we've been seeing and what we've been hearing from the indonesian air transportation acting director general is that these objects were about 190 kilometers from the coast there. now we don't know exactly in which direction, but it does push out towards where the plane was last seen. so there's a lot of connections starting to be formed here. whether or not those connections lead to anything we don't know yet. but if you consider just a few hours ago there was a lot

china is an actor in the region. wanting to take a look at northeast asia however, we start to notice that the region basis of the major challenges despite the economic clout. for example, korea and japan face unprecedented tensions between the remarkable economic coupling with china and the military alliance in the united states. another is the volatile north korea was dumb. despite the numerous efforts to denuclearize the control north korea fails to show the nuclear ambition but continues. there were tensions between japan and and its neighbors because of the abrupt account to take up an assertive roar in the region since the leadership changed in 2012. the first was the revisionist buf history. another tension is the maritime. now but we have joined in its take a step back to look at the big picture. the world itself is facing many challenges and uncertainties. as all of us know the upheavals across the various parts of the globe such as isis, syria, iran and ukraine are affecting not just those regions and their

this region is susceptible to thunderstorm development. it's all because of the dynamics that occur across this region. the northeast monsoon encountering land mass and various other aspects creating the thunderstorm activity. remember, natalie, that turbulence can form from all kinds of factors, that being wind, thunderstorms, flying directly through a jet stream or flying very close to a mountainous region. and this area is indeed very, very mountainous. so we've had all those factors in place. so weather is certainly a formidable threat across this region. >> yes, it is now as well. all right, derek, we thank you so much for all of that information. i want to bring in now alan deal. he's a former accident investigator for the ntsb, faa and air force with 40 years' experience. he's also the author of the book "air safety investigators." alan, you've been with our coverage, you've been listening to derek's weather forecast. what does that say to you when you consider what we do know about this flight in that the pilot asked for a deviatio

it will dramatically increase nuclear proliferation in the region. many experts anticipate north korea is likely to explode nuclear device in the first half of next year. then i am going to ask my friend what is china's policy to deal with this kind of issue? is there any specific policies? seems to take new initiatives in the north korea policies. if north korea tested the nuclear device how will china respond to it? my fourth question is related to russia's return. we also face new factors in the northeast asia. there is a prospect for the cement meeting in 2015 between putin and kim jong-un. and is it helpful or negative? the last question is about china's new initiative and their foreign policy. we are witnessing great transformation in china's foreign policies which is very different. what is the new normal diplomacy of china? what is the meaning of the new normal and also what is the implication to the world? my last question is about the -- under this initiatives of new diplomacy and rebalancing they are saying in south korea, south korea face

the tibet autonomous region spreads across the southeastern portion of the plateau. in the center is lhasa. its name is tibetan for sacred place. rapid development has brought dramatic change to the city over the pasten yrs. development has radedly changed the local environment and the way residents live and work. many people have moved here from outside the region to take advantage of new opportunities. in this episode, we'll offer a rare inside glimpse of this ancit tibetan capital. lhasa lies more than 3500 meters above sea level in the heart to have tibet autonomous region. it plays a central role in tibetan buddhism and was once the capital of tibet. the breathtaking potala palace is a world heritage site. the pal laz has an area of 1300 square meet es and some say it has 2,000 rooms. it used to be the home of the dalai lama, the country's former spirl eventual and political leader. nearly 13 million tourists visited the region in 2013. 90% of them were from other parts of china. special permission to enter the region. with such permission is not easily guarante

every request for weapon systems from the curd stan region have been approved. we have a new minister of defense, from mosul. he went to see the president. and he has committed to getting the supplies to the curds that they need. i was just in berlin last week. the germans are supplying the pesh mer ga significant anti-tank munitions. so we are very focussed on this. we're acutely focussed on it. but what is important is that unlike some of the tension we had with the last government, we have very strong cooperation now. there's been about 40 cargo flights. they land in baghdad first but then they immediately go to supply the pesh mer ga with the weapons and supplies they need. we're working on this everyday. we have joint operations centers set up in the curd stan region. i've been to them. i went to dehook to see the president when he was commanding some of his units in an offensive near the border crossing. we're working with them everyday, but we work through this and our military colleagues work through what are the requirements, what do you need, how do yo

it would have been calling to other aircraft in the region, have you heard. they would have been calling back to airasia's network operations center. so it's not necessarily for 30 minutes people were twiddling their thumbs. if you look at >> people were making calls backwards and forwards to each other to try and work out what happen happened. they did a pretty bad job on it. however, i can see looking at what you've just said, i am seeing a lot more urgency and a lot more -- can i just bring you up to date on one point. you asked me a moment ago about how many a 320s incidents there have been. major incidents there have been. it looks like a cursory glance. it looks as though there's been about 26 full-scale, you know, incidents where the planes have been lost and there's been serious fatalities. now, that sounds like a lot but there have been several thousand of the air craft built just to put this into perspective. >> i think this time, perspective context is very necessary. so richard, we appreciate that far our viewers. i want to let you know the white

the winds have been a major issue across this region.usts across the higher elevations. even down towards the san francisco bay area. i want to show you some of the images we have coming out of this region. this is north of san francisco from tuesday afternoon, the winds again 55, 60 miles an hour. 50,000 customers without power. the forecast shows you winds generally in 209 to 30-mile-an-hour range across the west coast of the u.s. before conditions improve. very chilly across las vegas as well. wind chills below freezing as we approach new year's there on thursday morning. but here's the temperature trend across the country. more than 80% of the united states will have temperatures below freezing when it comes to thursday morning. so pretty impressive cold spell. and leave you with some footage in areas around oregon. this is mount hood. shows you the sunny skies but yes, the winds were howling across this region as well. some of the people of course, getting up on the ski resorts. mostly people leaving the ski resorts you would hope.

there are no regional partners. that raises concern about this notion of outside the region engaging in this military conflict. would you talk a little bit about where we are in building a meaningful coalition? not just kind of photo-op but people really committed to this effort and how they're sharing the burdens of this fight against sois? >> thank you, congressman. we built this from scratch. the president and secretary kerry. we brought the gcc together and other key partners, meeting in jetta which issued a very strong communicae. and u.n. general assembly later that month, we began to build this coalition. in jetta, the focus was joining an air campaign in syria. once those air strikes start you saw the regional states, uae and qatar were part of those. 60 members joined am brussels for a cooperative effort. there's a different role for everyone country to play. the military side, we have the air campaign. we also have now substantial contributions developing to support the train/eequip effort in iraq. we have

thunderstorms really begin to blossom across this region. certainly going to be choppy as well on thursday morning. and really much of thursday. even into the afternoon hours. storms push through this region only until about 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon do we start to see improvement in the way of weather. that's the concern over the next three days. could see three inches of hateful across the area. a predominant area of one plus millimeters expected in this region. want to talk about the ocean currents and how they could impact the debris field. because the debris field again, 60 to 120 miles away from the last point of contact. the currents here move at roughly 1 miles an hour. we're about 80 hours removed from the point when this plane went down. so quick math tells you, roughly 80 miles of motion, which puts it in the 60 to 120 scale. so it makes sense where this debris field is located. but it also makes sense the debris is going to be on the move very slowly. you walk generally at 3 miles an hour. so this is 1/3 of the speed as you t

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in the kurdish region, the halt to transfers has led to deep crisis. but the budget is based on a forecast for oil prices that is already outdated. as prices fall to a four year low. while struggling to pay it's bills. al jazeera, baghdad. >> here we see bent ming netanyahu the prime minister shortly after saying there will be elections very soon. shortly after sacking his justice minister, his finance minister, and a number of other whose have been opposed to some of his ideas in cabinet. and also shortly after the french parliament voted to recognize palestine as a state. we are listening into what the israeli prime minister has to say. and we will have our experts analyzing that. and indeed around the word. and we will bring you that just as soon as we can. in the meantime. and declared wash on al-shabaab after the somali based group killed 36 people in the north of kenya. the attack was in a quarry, that's the same area where dozens of bus passengers were killed just over a week ago. erica wood reports. >> bodies lined up on the ground, the grizzly

area >> thank you. -- region. >> thank you.ith respect to members of congress, the members of congress who oppose what the president did today, and the administration, as lewdly share the same goal. we want a cuba that is free and where humans have the ability to make choices. the president's announcement today is calculated to open up opportunity for the people of cuba, but also to break down barriers for all these years, so we can, hopefully, deal with other issues of concern. the ability of people to move, travel, and make choices, and we are confident that what the president did today will make some difference. we hope the process, which we will engage in now, for -- further price -- further progress will be made, but also, in the next months and years, -- that is what i think will happen here. we recognize some members have strong feelings about it. but these are the choices one has to make. we welcome debate. we will look very closely when congress returns next year. hopefully, people will ultimately see the wisdom and po

no matter where you live around the region there is storm will impact your morning commute.he region there is it is tuesday, december 9th, good morning, i'm ukee washington. >> i'm erika von tiehl. flood watches and winter storm warnings are already in effect in our area. we have live team coverage for this morning, want to start things off first with katie fehlinger in our weather center, katy? >> as you said, will end up a system affecting everybody in some way, shape or form. so we are going to see rain, some potential here for some sleet, some freezing rain, some snow, depending on location might even see accumulation out of it, but let's go ahead, take you right back outside. we at any time to start things offer by showing you the view down the shore where we've already start today see the winds firing up out there. and you know what, picture is worth how many words? quite a few, in atlantic city. not only do you have the raindrops, sort of leading to this out of focus view on the camera lens, but that shaking going on at the camera, very clear indication that the winds is alrea

there are no regional partners. that raises concern about this notion of outside the region engaging in this military conflict. would you talk a little bit about where we are in building a meaningful coalition? not just kind of photo-op but people really committed to this effort and how they're sharing the burdens of this fight against sois? >> thank you, congressman. we built this from scratch. the president and secretary kerry. we brought the gcc together and other key partners, meeting in jetta, which issued a very strong communicae. and u.n. general assembly later that month, we began to build this coalition. in jetta, the focus was joining an air campaign in syria. once those air strikes start, you saw the regional states, ua sbechlt e and qatar were part of those. 60 members joined am brussels for a cooperative effort. there's a different role for everyone country to play. the military side, we have the air campaign. we also have now substantial contributions developing to support the train/eequip effort in ir

, regional architecture.this is a voice that needs to be heard. what is appealing to me and my colleagues is prime minister modise has undertaken to build from what has been a vote east policy. he has shown indeed his interest in involving india and the thinking of the affairs of the broader region, and gauging in political terms, engaging in future security arrangements. that is very much to be welcomed as something that i am going to hear more about. >> we have time for one last question. if it is brief, the gentleman. yes. >> cpi tv of taiwan. mr. secretary, congress has voted to authorize the sale to taiwan and the president expected to sign it into now. what is the significance of this? do you buy to concerned that this may have any impact on u.s.-china relations, particularly built a mill exchanges? thank you very much. >> i am not going to speak to any legislative issue, other to say the united states under the obama administration followed the same policy as the preceding administrations than normaliz

certainly cementing russia's role as the region's dominant supplier. but it's come under increasing fire this year. of course, the crisis over ukraine led to brussels freezing its approval process and the pipeline had trouble over weaker european gas decline and the falls in energy prices. president putin, he has now proposed building a new pipeline through turkey instead, offering turkey gas at a discounted rate. let's get more on this. an associate fellow at the russian and eurasian program joins us. great to have you with us. we understand, of course, these western sanctions against russia, but some may be wondering why the eu was so reluctant so have a new gas pipeline that would have bypassed ukraine so no more disruptions when those two had a gas spat, and considering parts of europe still rely heavily on russian gas. >> i think the answer is that the eu saw this as a largely politically driven project. not so much a commercial project, with the explicit aim of isolating ukraine. in other words, it was bypassed infrastructure. you've got around 5

difficult region regarding weather.u've seen big red blogs all over the weather maps and they have been converging. it could well be he knew about two of these storms but didn't know about third one that was heading his way. >> mary you were talking earlier about what happens when a pilot runs into trouble. there are two codes that they have may day, we all know may day and pan pan. can you describe what those are and what they mean? >> may day means you're losing control of the flight. may day san emergency. it's a dire emergency. a pan pan is level down. you're not afraid you'll lose the aircraft or lose the integrity of the flight or control of the flight but that it's a very serious condition and either of those will require the air traffic controllers to give that plane immediate attention and immediate clearance, whatever i want needs to get out of danger. >> and, unfortunately, you have been dealing with, obviously, not just malaysia 370 but you've been doing this for your professional life. traditionally is weat

but the piasecki morte eastward in south and sees turkey as a regional player, a major regional player which can decide its own agenda, its own policy, so interest which aren't always coinciding with nato. reporters viewpoint is down on the border. the border from east to west have traveled into syria. jonathan's remarks were about its hard to monitor the border. it is very noticeable that on the kurdish side closer rat, not order is pretty well locked out. it is actually very, very hard to cross illegally. of course they're not allowing people to cross at the moment. on the more sunni side, it is very open. the geography is slightly different. it is more mountainous on the western side. but if for example you go down to the border gate, you have the main entry point which is monitored and controlled at the turkish arms and the immigration service. there is an illegal way in right by the camp and it is never going backwards or forwards by the turkish authorities. you can meet people, for example, with ease inside turkey. a missouri on the border hides the family and is frequently visit