with the exception of that, he has accomplished very little on the one hand and on the other hand he has left us with an economy that is still struggling five years into his presidency. nd so the idea that he -- to answer your question -- can think that he is doing what he is doing is constitutional is on the one hand correct and on the other hand not. but if he sees it that way it means that he is simply misreading the constitution. and will be up braided for it by the courts as he was in the recess appointments case and in all likelihood will be by the supreme court if we may judge from the oral argument that took place in that case. host: and the final point. guest: i would just like to add and make one small point. and that is that is constitution also applies to congress as well as the president. what's going on right now is that a minority of the congress is using its obstructionist powers, which are quite considerable as roger points out to actually try to shut down government. that's really what was going on in the case of refusing to confirm appointees to the national labor r

the americans have the clock the mother he has the time -- that he has the time. and now the afghans have the time, and that is why you're seeing a desperate taliban flirting with political settlement. at some point, a decade of opportunity in afghanistan is going to catch up the taliban. blowll catch them, it will right past them, and the taliban will be left in the dost. 0--- dust. there is a moral charge here, and the american people have answered it. we should be proud that we have answered it. i do not want to sound like i am feeding silver linings, especially when they are one warranted -- unwarranted. there's no question that afghanistan is still a monumental challenge. when i find astounding is that the president will not acknowledge these big areas. i'm astounded he will not give this speech. why on earth will you not take credit for his own strategy, his own success tories -- success stories? timeline praising the end of the iraq war, they take credit for leaving iraq. you can ask iraqis how that has been going for them. contrast, there is nothing specia

now the u.s. has welcomed of ukrainian parliaments calls for the creation of a coalition government and early elections washington also hailed the release of the eight nations former prime minister yulia timoshenko meanwhile the president of the european council has said that the bloc will stand by ukraine and that the terms of the crisis deal reached on friday will bring the country out of its deadlock party's lawyer smith reports. we've seen slightly surreal things like polish deputies setting up tents on the my dad and making speeches distributing polish delicacies to the protesters we've seen the u.s. undersecretary of state victoria nuland distributing cookies we hear and we've also seen the lithuanian foreign minister handing out warm love to the protestors and these are also the the physical manifestations of this seemingly unconditional support that western powers have offered to the protesters since the very beginning and in fact up until recently they've been calling them peaceful protesters

the stock market turmoil we've seen has not happened. the brokers and the businessmen like renzi so they feel he's going to start cutting taxes, making sure he gets an increased revenue by making cutbacks elsewhere. i don't know if that's going to go over well, but the businessmen at least think he has got the guts, and he's young enough to make sure that he reaches ambitiously for those targets unlike the politicians who have been too involved in the coalition to get any real results from the italian people. >> thanks very much, indeed. anti-government protesters in the center of the kiev, wants opposition to live barricades and leave occupied police station by monday. protesters are digging in, among them a growing women' brigade. >> the 20-year-old have come to join the revolution. the protester command center all recruits are vetted. an unlikely new member of the opposition women's brigade. >> the first time i see how they burn and how the police attacked them, after that i just went. >> you said yourself it's a dangerous situation he

called the comments unacceptable. ukraine hasemained silent on the comment. demonstrators are divided on the comment. >> translator: i don't think this is medaling with ukraine's internal affairs. if they can assist us with advise and put pressure on the government then we would be grateful. >> translator: it is not correspondent to the demands of the people. >> reporter: for now the parliament remains dead locks over the future of the country. there's growing feeling here that ukraine's fate is being decided elsewhere. >>> dozens of people have been left injured after violent anti-government protests in bosnia. government buildings have been set ablaze in three cities. they are angry over what they see as government corruption and high wages for officials. tim friend has more. >> reporter: the protests are spreading. thousands of people are taking to the streets and in between the uneasy standoff with riot police there have been clashes. many people have been injured, including police. the targets of the protester's anger, gover

the world's most wanted drug kingpin has been captured. execute and marines are rested in a resort city early saturday. he was the leader of the senate lower drug cartel, one of the largest in the world. offered officials had $5 million for information leading to his arrest. that is all we have time for. we will be back with more on the ukraine, bundesliga soccer, don't go away. a very warm welcome back to the "journal." an unprecedented scene at vatican city. retired pope edited 16 -- francis xvi joined pope at a ceremony, the first time they have appeared at a public liturgical ceremony since benedict became the first pope to step down in more than six centuries. benedict xvi pope sat in the front row as his successor pope francis celebrated 19 archbishops to the rank of cardinal. it was the first time that an addict attended a papal ceremony since he stepped down last year. benedict, the of german archbishop, was one of those who received pope franci'' blessing to become cardinal. five of the new cardinals are from south america. two asi

the new ceo is a company man who has risen through the ranks. elationship with bill gates and will be able to get advice from him moving forward. >> okay. we have a new tech story. we are saying happy 10th birthday to facebook. a significant milestone, but many users in the united states are logging off in favor of other networks. >> reporter: conceived in a college dorm room a decade ago, facebook has become a behee mouth, but a growing number of users have lost interest. >> what we found was that in the last three years, there are 3 million fewer teenagers, we define that from 13 to 17 year olds, so there's a decline in both age groups, and specifically a 25% design amongst teenagers. >> reporter: to find out what happened, we went right to the source. a bunch of cool kids hanging out after school. >> this whole way where everybody can get ahold of you no matter what, and they just know everything about your life, i don't like it anymore. i like to have my own life and have the able to choose who comments on it. >> reporter: snap chat, and of c

the mayor of the capitol has resigned in protest, against the violent, interior min industry says it has equipped the police with combat weapons and there are reports that more than 60 policeman have been detained. on another dead lady in kiev. >> on tuesday. >> the aused of the protestors of attacking with guns. >> the fighting follows. the police were picking their targets. >> even under fire, the participants seemed determined not to lose ground no matter how many casualties they took. and there were many. >> here a hotel innone dated with injuries people. many did what they could under these conditions. in the square outside, the movement seemed more like a war machine. with people marching with bags full of rocks. once again, the square is a battle zone. the truce had seen tenuous from the outset, now the front line has moved everywhere they look there are casualties. the protestors had quickly organized the injured, convoys of ambulances a steady strene many were treated on the spot. as they tried to get their wounded to hospitals, the protestors were also reaching out men mixin

and families have been affected by the heavy rain. government has declared a state of emergency in many of the regions, but aid has not reached the worst affected place. >> reporter: the damage is clear. ruined by floodwaters. for months, bolivia has struggled to cope with heavy seasonal rains. in the city of trinidad, they have set up pleases on the road to escape from the rising floodwaters. and this is where theresa and her family call home. >> we had to leave everything behind in the floodwaters. we couldn't get it out with all of the rain. there was nowhere to go, and we're living on the side of the road. >> reporter: people's lives are under threat 160 hectors of agriculture land has been affected, devastating farmers, and cattle are in scarfvation because the herders have no dry feed left. >> interpreter: this area is at risk, and if we don't receive help or take them to high ground, haul of these cattle will die. >> reporter: the government has declared a state of emergency across bolivia, but food and supplies have yet to reach those who ne

ball is now in the opposition's court. how has the opposition responded to that? >> reporter: well, the ball is in the opposition's court. they are not prepared to hit it back. they have repeatedly rejected a list of concessions offered by president yanokovich which started with the resignation of the unpopular former prime minister, but continued with a repeal of a very unpopular anti-protest law. after that, a new amnesty law was signed into being. >> happened on friday. that would pave the way for the release of hundreds of prisoners in return for the protesters giving up their occupation of this square and other government buildings. the opposition have also rejected the offer of making two keep opposition leaders, both the prime minister and the deputy prime minister. in terms of the coming out of it munich, the indication is from the opposition that they need something a little stronger, concessions that go much, much deeper. the head of the uda party has called on the international community to help mediate the dispute. but

the country. going to be and as you well. seoul has offered to discuss with north korea ways to help him deal with an outbreak of a highly contagious swine disease. the aid would be its first to the north in four years. the move comes amid annual joint military exercises by the self and the us the north has criticized the trails. what a mouth disease was first found in early january in a farming community later spread to pigs and seventy more near the capital. the country's state run korean central news agency says a lack of medicine and equipment is hampering work to contain the outbreak. south korean officials say they sent the north a proposal for working level meeting through come and gone in the de militarized zone. the offer comes amid reunions of families separated by the korean war in the nineteen fifties the meetings for the allies after the north accepted to a request from the south and will end on tuesday. experts say the agreement to hold the reunions. maybe behind the offer to help them get on with the outbreak the ads tha

the u.s. has apologized. >>> and the sochi games have begin. ews out of europe. >> thanks. we're focusing on violent anti-government protests spreading in bosnia. police have clashed with demonstrators in saroff ho who has been trying to enter the presidential building. this is a local government building in a city that was set on fire. so i'm joined now by al jazeera correspondent and this is the worst civil unrest bosnia has seen in years, as we see the protesting getting worse. tell us what has been happening where all of this began. >> reporter: well, a very chaotic situation here in bosnia and in many cities of the country, especially here in tusla. protesters have been protesting for a couple of days already. say they are no economic perspective and have huge problems with the living here and the corruption and the jobless rate. 100,000 people are jobless. that is why they are angry. they started protests on wednesday, but today during the day a couple of thousands of them gathered here in front of the local government center. at least tho

the chair: the gentleman from new york has -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york has 25 minutes remaining. the gentleman from michigan has 25 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. crowley: thank you. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from michigan and the ranking member on the ways and means committee, mr. levin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan, mr. levin, is recognized for two minutes. without objection. mr. levin: well, we've been adamant about a clear, clean debt ceiling vote. and now it's happening. it should have happened the last time. and because of the republican position, a high price was paid. jobs were lost, 120,000. the stock market plunged nearly 20%. economic growth was slowed. significantly. so this time around we're going to do the right thing. the gentleman from michigan, my colleague, the chairman of the committee, talked about working together and i want to close by suggesting now with this vote in terms of the debt ceiling, we've cleared the deck. let us now take up the other issues of major importance to the people of this country. an

the next chief executive has to be on the game. has the rightla's background. there is a challenge in mobile computing and an opportunity in the cloud. ,e has driven innervation gotten architectures put together that really meet the customers needs. the opportunity for microsoft is greater than ever before, whether it is taking office and bringing facebook acquired instagram and, oh, yeah, the company went public at $38 a share. by the end of 2013, facebook servers had saved more than 300 petabytes per data. of data. everyone million gigabytes stores 10 million photos. that is a lot of selfies. facebook continues to grow with its market cap close to 150 billion dollars. zuckerberg's next challenge, making it through the next 10 years. ahead of the company's 10th anniversary, brad stone sat down with mark zuckerberg and they talked about the future, including this new app that allows users to read and write the news from an iphone. going to produce lots of independent standalone apps first of that. the first one, kind of a newsreader, flip board like, but what's

this will surprise and the countries of fire on its bonds has endowed the riots and diminished equipment than they did from a local base and given away to anti government riots has come from the west of the ukraine run schools have been using guns made bombs and improvised weapons. take a government office. the idea has been causing outrage and examined the east of ukraine is one of the country is traditionally more pro russian and has great to support the president of the chinese government locals have been organizing gains anti government riots have been imagining it's a hyundai his height of what the radicals have built in to see seal and paste as well as government offices were also surrounded in one of the east can be gifted to me put that all peoples may just cause and in joining forces with the police and they seem to ten and to find don't the spread of radical threat the site to your region into the minds of our patriots do in this difficult situation when nationalists contagion spreads across ukraine the kids to one region after another. the attack ordinary citizens. for the nig

seen since the beginning of the price has announced a twenty five people was killed on the streets of kiev on tuesday but it is needing hospital treatment for injuries all season exceeded test he has an ace is from the ukrainian style. this is now a smoldering just as the tires and all other things which are burning at the barricades at the independence square in my job. it's not as violent as it was on tuesday during the night. during the night it was pretty violent we saw last night's historic buildings are built of coffee sells her look at the police would do it sometimes though at the moment of flashbacks are being excluded from the biggest hit is seen at the defense way is the former labor union house which was glad when the opposition as revolution that list which is almost completely dark. it's the building is old black white balance tilted but it's coming out. several windows all of this building is still an unpredictable situation because the police line is that he tried to get away from the protesters. his booming voice like six like the storm the independence square gard

but the tech boom has another added benefit. it's bringing jobs not only to the bureaus but to another type of workers there are these ou outlying boroughs that are cheaper, that's what happened here. a spreading out of the jobs that other parts of new york. this is creating opportunity for minorities in new york. >> for example, queens has 2.2 million residents. half of whom were born outside of the u.s. making queens one of the most diverse communities in the entire country. queens native started a tech non-profit in his neighborhood. >> it's based over skills, and you don't necessarily have to go to an i will least institution to break into the industry. that's an amazing opportunity if we can teach people and provide the skills to students and people were diverse communities in queens and with moderate backgrounds it's a tremendous opportunity for mobility and increasing people's income. >> and the numbers back him up. there are 20% more african-americans working in tech-related jobs. that's just since 2010. for hispanic it's

the u.s. has committed millions of dollars working with saudi arabia to run light weapons, ak-4 ak-47s, missiles,d assigned itself in the south. you know, i agree more can be done on the humanitarian front. i agree with heather allowing more refugees into the united states and european country where they have easier access to. i agree with heather about the limiting or the elimination, i should say of assad's resupply capability. this is a point that does not get a lot of attention. he's fully depend on foreign weaponry from iran or russia. most of it is flown in to the country. some of it is sailed into the country, you could implement a naval black said. we have a number of warships in the mediterranean. you could take out some of those runways without shooting planes out of the sky just to prevent the cargo resupplies of weapons from russia and iran. yes, this would pick a fight with the russians and iranians but they don't care about having a fight picked with them, and i think they tend to re

the united states has also backed the opposition and has steadily ramped up pressure on the government to give in to opposition demands. >> that means their futures do not have to lie with one country alone and certainly not coerced. the united states and eu stand with the people of ukraine in that fight. >> that is the message kerry reiterated in meetings with top ukrainian opposition leaders. ukraine's ally to the east russia accused the west of bias in favor of the opposition. russian foreign minister lavrov accused western governments of double standards. >> why don't we condemn those who seize and hold government buildings, attack the police, using racist and anti-semitic slogans? >> boxing champion turned opposition leader viktor klitschko says the ukrainian president was the main obstacle. he said there was just one person responsible for the escalation, and that person could easily stop it. he was speaking of ukrainian president viktor yanukovych, saying he had absolute power in his hands and absolute responsibility for what happened in the ukraine. protest he joined a march in

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the leader of the opposition has the client's homes with. the protesters are planning a coup backed by washington can bots also believes venezuela is getting in the way of america's economic domination of the region. the role that has played historically over the past decade and a half. of promoting a kind of an independence movement within latin america which seeks to extricate itself from u.s. control particularly economic control in terms of the broad economic policies that have been imposed upon the region venezuela is a key piece of the puzzle when it comes to trying to look for governments that may be more amenable to united states. and moving on to germany or last year the amounts of energy produced from coal roasts its highest level since the lines in ninety's that's despite a campaign to shift to greener sources of energy are ceaselessly caffein office of a small town there which now risks being the steroid by the country's coal it's action. welcome to out of wash population two hundred forty one it's a place that steeped in history

the truce has been extended for another 72 hours. chance, at least a despite the political disagreements over the truce in a geneva and new york at the un security council, there was a chance that this could continue, despite the cease-fire violations and the truce violations on the ground, because this has been worked on very hard by the governor of homs-- by the governor of and the united nations in syria. we have to be mindful of the big picture, melissa, because we are talking 2500 to 3000 civilians trapped in homs, and the u.n. estimates there are people trapped in syria in similar situations. this is a war of attrition, with the siege is a key instrument in that war of attrition. in some areas, the rebels, too, have been accused of using that instrument and cutting civilians off. >> in iraq, 15 soldiers have been killed overnight in the north of the country. a dawn were killed in attack. it is the latest bloodshed in a country where the unrest is at its worst in nearly 6 years. warnednt rouhani has that -- hassan rouhani has war

has cosponsored it. the government has opposed this measure. it refuses to disclose this information on its own. -- ifk it is common sense the public knew this information, it would be able to make a better decision for to both the purpose, the efficacy of this program, i thinkhat extent -- the president said it last night. it will help with trust. and will the government give the american people a good idea of had theirf them have information collected and viewed or accessed under this program? >> one of the things we want to try to do -- you are right. we took one monday. it was the first step. there is a need for greater transparency. for people to understand the nature of the programs that are being run. we always have to understand that the value of these programs -- they are intelligence programs. they have to be kept secret. how we strike that balance is something that we will be working on in conjunction with other people. we will invite your involvement in that process. so that we ultimately come up is effective that and keep the americ

it is the removal that has been slow. amount of material due to be transported out of syria is 1300 tons. according to the u.s., as of last week less than five percent had been removed. at that rate they will not finish this year. disarmament,ze the say the russians. russia is one of mr. assad's main allies in the key player in the negotiations. it has been told chemical weapons removal will be completed by march, but still the un says syria must act faster. >> there are serious security with, syria has to deal and there has been inclement weather, but the chemical weapons must be removed and destroyed in their entirety by the 30th of june. that deadline is what we have our eyes on. we continue to believe it is possible. >> destruction continues. syrian government has been accused of using huge barrel bombs on opposition areas. assad issident strengthening his position on the battlefield while his national attention is focused on chemical weapons. >> a terrible situation in syria. let's look at other news from around the w

-- the little that has been achieved in hommes gave them even more hope. >> dr. brohimi explained there had been arguments over the agenda for the talks. he made a compromise proposal and he made it clear which side had objected. >> unfortunately, the government has refused, which raises the suspension of the opposition that, in fact, the government doesn't want to discuss at a time at all. >> within minutes, both sides came to brief media even though everyone had heard dr. brohimi say it was the syrian government that didn't accept his order of the agenda items, the syrian government representative had a different interpretation. >> why do you not accept his order for the discussions that he has proposed? >> the other side gave his own interpretation of the agenda by saying that there is no need we finalize the first item. there is no need to fully finalize the first item. we will give it one day, one day for discussion, and then we will move to the other item, which is the government. >> why don't you accept his propos proposal?

whereas the president believes that he has the legitimacy and he has to you continue insisting on hisrights. however this strategy may not work. >> what impact will the immanent release of tymoshenko? >> tymoshenko was, indeed, the popular leader back in 2004-2005 during the revolution. but don't forget the ballot boxes in 2010 she was defeated. she's not necessarily an unifying figure. the other problem is that because she's such a charismatic leader, she's quite likely going to emerge as the key leader as the opposition leader in the upcoming elections. it's still unclear how this will sit with the other leaders in the opposition that have been carrying this movement. i think at the moment ukraine needs a leader that will have calming and unifying impact but i don't see anyone who can do that. >> how seriously should we take these concerns about the possible prospect of ukraine dividing along that long-existing "fault line" between east and west. how seriously should we take the prospect of that further? >> i think it's quite simplistic to put divisions along the cultural or linguis

my cats douglas herbert is in the crimean capital and has more now. we had tension is rising again inundated we woke up this morning with the russian flag flying not just on one of the apartment building you can see here behind me but also on the roof of the regional government building. we have earlier this morning to report that the building had been occupied during the night occupied by two unknown people. still not sure exactly who is inside the parliament building. will we do have is the prime minister at least at the crack me up saying that he has confirmed that in fact there has been an intrusion by armed men unknown armed men in the parliament. one of the reasons why the security i drank years being taken so seriously. this morning to reach me this morning we were able to get access to the parliament few hours was able to walk up practically to the shores of the comic which i had was barricaded overnight of wooden crates of little wooden planks without profit for the entry to the parliament building blocking the entrance according to police and

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they see in turkey has the us has something to do with my hands up. some of the real reason for that is not how do you stop to make business sense and reason for that because for the first time in turkey's is a bit deceiving them. politics means something is up over the issues in fact it was decided by military and open day. an alliance. it's a mess and i'm out. monastic you up because runtime is saying is that the story the script is still unwritten on what's in what's going to happen it's getting to my own thank you very much for joining us from ankara i want to think of art union and for being remiss in a stumble and region near the town of destiny. thank you for joining us here in the falls and gets a bit. i was. the and. it is. these the artsy and us troops may soon be gone from afghanistan the pentagon is very bold with todd all troops after the us and afghan governments could reach of bilateral security agreement. what does this mean for the future of afghanistan. i got to have and the line between church and state blurs in the us military. more

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if the swiss decision has reverberated throughout the year. eu foreign ministers met in brussels to discuss an initial response germany's from optus time i was blind of the disease by the switzerland has missed the home itself with this outcome when the snow the kids and we must underline the cherry picking to suit themselves the long term strategy in relations with the eu. go up to his income. the ministers made clear they expect switzerland to comply with existing agreements especially that he is a tree shaded area. with upcoming european parliament elections german sphere the swiss outcome will energize other political parties opposed to uncontrolled immigration this is a slap in the cities to one of the fundamental freedoms in your freedom of movement. i fear switzerland has sent a signal to other countries that want to limit immigration. and since avoided. the eu intends to keep other european countries from following switzerland's leads in berlin and brussels politicians are trying to bolster support for european immigration policy. we m

been debated publicly, the city attorney has advised us to do the same. and so the staff and the city attorney will represent any questions that you have about the document in the settlement. and anything that is in this department, and if we go. off of the document, and into some details about the investigation, we may have to pull back from there. the bottom line in the settlement is that altogether there are several findings of violation of state and local law. for the purposes of simplification they have settled with the respondent for $3500 for a violation of section 8986 of the government code and the ethics commission has four counts of finding a violation in here. the first two counts reflect that the same section of the code that has been adopted for the local code and so for the purposes of the settlement, the state portion of the settlement covers the two and for the other two countses, two and three and four where we proposed and the respondent accepted 2500 each for those two and a total of $5,000 local for a grand

even the royal house hold has tried to keep a distance, but there is no doubt the damage has been done, and it will take an enormous amount of effort to try to reverse that. >> the tunnel does not tolerate corruption, stealing funds or tax fraud. all of this has been reflected on the duke. this is why the case has left the public disenchanted with the royal. >> 15 billion-dollar loan for the ukraine will be put on hold until the country pays back its debt. this comes after a meeting on friday. meanwhile heated scenes in kiev after pro government supporters voice their anger at anti-governmentment demonstrat demonstrators. when president viktor yanukovych rejected a trade deal with the e.u. favoring closer ties with russia instead. the protest has had a devastating impact on ukraine's economy. >> ukraine's national currency, here it is, about $50 or so has been fluctuating wildly in value over the last few weeks. last week it plummeted to its lowest in four years, and it has had an affect on the cost of things here. petrol prices have gone up, and the fear is other goods and services wi

the u.s. hasot gone as heavy as they might want to on syria. >> the theory is president obama has decided the most important issue is the iran nuclear issue. get iran into some sort of compliance where they not a nuclear threshold state. maybe the rest will follow. if you upset the apple cart by making demands about sponsorship of terrorism or engagement in iraq, you are going to ruin whatever chance you have of getting a deal on the most important thing. the president has said this is the issue. for him, there are only two main national security issues in the middle east. the first is keeping al qaeda on its back foot. the second is preventing iran from reaching the nuclear threshold. this is the best spin i can give you. >> that means the sod who everyone was saying is a goner is now more entrenched. >> he is our partner getting rid of his chemical weapons. on the al qaeda question, this has become a more serious challenge. the director of national intelligence said some of the al qaeda groups i

now no top story the fresh round of violence that has flared up in kiev. opposition demonstrators have broken through the police lines there are four of the twelve protest those have been injured some seriously with thirty seven law enforcement officers also heard rioters are burning tires and attempted to make their way to parliament there were also reports of grenades being thrown at the headquarters of the ruling party in retaliation for police firing rubber bullets and the interior ministry claims there have been firearms used it comes just a day after an amnesty for opposition protesters came into force after dave mckay to administrative buildings that have been occupied for two months of course we'll bring you more as we get it at the top of next hour. and latest cries of reporters coming up shortly. transit through to vnukovo report your best way to the heart of moscow. i just first state of the city address new york mayor bill de blasio said that he would put forward legislation for the city to issue special municipal identification cards to undocum

patty, a rather stern warning from the president, what more has he been saying? picked up the phone, and we will find out from the press secretary if this terse tone continues. but ard cooing to the read out, the president told karzai that he had made it clear that he has no intention of signing this agreement. the department of the defense says that is too late. if they are going to pull them all out by the end of the year, they need to plan now, and it is exactly what president barack obama has ordered the department of defense to start doing to figure out how they can get all of the troops and the equipment out by the end of the year. ahe also sent the warning that the longer he waits they do leave a force that will be 13458, possibly as few as 3,000. they did say the president has made the decision to do the zero option, but that it is becoming increasingly more. >> despite the zero option, it is probably inconceivable if the u.s. wouldn't leave behind. a bit likely they will get this deal signed at the 11th hour. >> el, if you talk to the department of defen

but what we can see is that there has been a coup the deal agreed to has been broken and the congress in harkov has declared that any decisions taken by this parliament now have been taken without the work to subpoena sion of the majority of the party of regions and communist delegates and that any of its decisions are invalid because they have been made under threats of violence and death by the mobs that were literally sieging the parliament and are now in physical control of it. so who do you think's in charge of the country now. that is the question. essentially no one person is in control of the country right now and we have seen quite clearly that klitschko yes. it's in your can john to block the three main opposition leaders they are not in control of what they have agreed to multiple times first the truce then this deal with the e.u. has been broken by the militants of the might not. last night klitschko went to a meeting of the my don he was booed whistled at and made to apologize when he was interrupted from the crowd that was upset that he would shake hands with the murdere

the president has said this is the issue.ainim, there are only two national security issues in the middle east. the first is keeping al qaeda on its back foot. the second is preventing iran from reaching the nuclear rush holt. -- threshold. this is the vest spin i can give you. >> that means the sod who everyone was saying is a goner is now more entrenched. >> he is our partner getting rid of his chemical weapons. on the uptight a question, this has become a more serious challenge -- on the al qaeda question, this has become a more serious challenge. the director of national intelligence said some of the al qaeda groups in syria, one of them in particular, has aspirations of attacking u.s. targets. the homeland. that changes the dynamic. syria was previously in the catastrophe or column. if the head intelligence agent is saying, these guys fighting it out in syria also have a but weto kill americans, are in another situation. >> there may be less of a presence in south asia. but they are not on the run. >> there is good reaso

been extended by three days and the u.n. hasmed the decision and says more than 800 people have now been taken out of homs but they will derail the mission and activists say at least 14 people have been killed in shelling in homs since saturday. there are big rallies expected in yemen on tuesday, the third anniversary of the revolution that was part of the arab spring and in a federation of six regions and final approval given at a meeting between the president and representatives of yemen main parties but there are doubts whether the deal will satisfy the separatists in the south pushing to win back independence. by the end of british rule in 1967 yemen was divided in an independent mark of state in the south and tribal north but they merged in 1990. and the short civil war broke out four years later when southerners accused the north of going back on the promise to share power and ended when they crushed the break away movement and the regions are four in the north and two in the south. and it will remain the capitol but not a

been exposed as the pro more lobby. it has also been exposed for not having restaurant base of like the most powerful lobby in the u.s., the national rifle association. all apec seems to have in its fighting retreat is a whole lot of learning. and i want to say that they have failed to shut me down on my book tour. they have actually acted and attempted to stop events that have already been held on a book tour, and the heavenly failed. and this week there has been an attempt to suppress my talks and the discussion and we're having here, the discussion about the facts on the ground, and is to his failed. so i think we should welcome this failure as a victory for free speech. [applause] >> thank you. there have been interesting new developments related to the iran deal in israel. it is there were my book take place. and over again to the geopolitics in my book. i don't deal with washington on the israel lobby to read my book is really an intimate, on the ground portrait of israeli society in israel, palestine, the single state u

the violence has taken a toll on ukrainian olympics. reporter holly williams was on the ground earlier. >> reporter: this started out as a peaceful protest but has become a deadly power struggle. they want the government thrown out but the country's leaders are determined to stay in office. >> it is unclear who actually broke the truce, but both protesters and security forces suffered casualties. >>> by now, you probably heard about the new shoe bomb warning at airports. a college drop out known as al- qaeda's master bomb maker may be behind it. u.s. officials indicate the latest al-qaeda terrorists are working on shoe bomb designs. and this man, a 30-year-old college drop out could be connected to this threat. >> this is just the kind of device he is trying to built. >> reporter: u.s. intelligence officials say he is "the best bomb maker we know of in any al- qaeda affiliate. " may leave he is operating in yemen. he designed the underbear bomb which failed to detonate at the last minute in a flight in 2009. a year later, printer cartrid

i understand the department of environment has been working for some time on an update to the climate action strategy, but we have not received a final report. one has been given to my office that has not been actually authorized. it is signed by the mayor. the major signed this strategy but it has not been re'sed yet and i'm very concerned that when the report stated this unequivocally that moving to 100 percent renewable electricity is the single biggest step the city can take to reduce gas emissions and the administration has voted against implementing our clean power sf program, i'm concerned we are moving back ward as a city when it's clear we should be moved forward on a clear climate action strategy. i hear a lot of lip service given that we're doing everything we can to improve the prospects for future generations for climate change. people talk about justice for planet earth, but i think it's as long as it's business first. i don't think that's the right approach. we're considered to be leading the effort around climate change, but i think that's a very dubious thought. as we

the electricity has been off for a couple of hours now. there is a generator running downstairs to keep the hot water going. but look, the lights are off and nothing. last week foreign journalists arriving to cover the games reported stories of unfinished hotel rooms and accommodation in disarray. according to this bloggers, many were lies to spread misconceptions of russian incompetent. >> i find it on the internet and find some proofs also on the internet, like photos that were made about two years ago and now journalists tell us that it's -- that these photos are from sochi, but they are not. >> reporter: they don't care where foreign journalists have an anti-russia agenda or not. she just wants her taps to work. >>> the southwest of the united kingdom continues to be hit by heavy storms with a warning of more flooding still to come. coastlines are being battered by winds reaching 130 kilometers an hour. we're a town where a main line railway has been swept into the sea. >> reporter: rail lines are the standards here in the south of engl

the death toll has now reached at least twenty five with hundreds of police and protesters reports are coming in that the police have set up checkpoints for vehicles cominand going go to the capital kiev and hundreds of government thugs known as t tuesday are roaming the streets to determine if protesters ukraine's defence minister has reportedly ordered five hundred paratroopers to queue in order to guard ammunition dumps doctors hospitals are overflowing with people who need treatment. european leaders are calling for sanctions against ukraine and accused ukraine's president viktor yanukovich of having blood on his hands the chemical which maintains that the violence should be blamed on the opposition. as of the two suicide attackers coming out in a bill into group have blown themselves up twenty eight henry new coach will soon turn into shiite district in southern beirut killing at least four people and injuring another according to lebanese security officials is the latest blow for tackling to the civil war in neighboring syria. with the bombings connected to the syrians war has st

three of them went inside the taliban has claimed responsibility for the raid.a fierce gun fight is now raging near the presidential palace in the capital after militants blew a hole in the perimeter fence with a car bomb is in this terrorist group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack seven people were killed last week when an explosion targeting u.n. officials ripped through a busy street near the airport. and also. protests in venezuela against a government event. activists burning debris in the capital part of rallies dominated by students it has spread to several cities across the country demonstrations turned violent just over a week ago leaving two people dead and dozens injured. only three days now remain of the twenty second winter olympic games though the action is anything but dying down in such a way. for the first time in its history russia has taken an olympic gold medal in the ladies figure skating and what a show it was seventeen year old kovar defied the odds with her performance which ended with a standing ovation from the stands

president here in the ukrainian capital and has pledged financial support from the e.u. meanwhile in the e.u. it's most debt stricken nations are not very happy about the idea of financially helping ukraine right now. first they could greece. and then they owe for ukraine all the money they should support us now that we're in great need i find it completely wrong to the european union or first all this money to ukraine we don't have any job's and at the same time we have debts to pay it's not right to give all this money to ukraine kiev is in need of financial assistance the economy is in bad shape and it was even before the events here in kiev but the question is at what price is this help going to. meanwhile ukraine's finance ministry is calling for a donors conference with brussels washington and the international monetary fund it says it needs financial assistance for the next two years as well as urgent eight in the short term with the i.m.f. requiring painful economic reforms in return the help would likely come at a very high price as foreign affairs analyst brian

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