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A Hezbollah Official called it the biggest Security Breach suffered by the group. Paul adams has the latest a warning his report contains distressing images from the start. This was a devastating attack. In supermarkets. On the street, in cars, at home and even in barbershops scores, perhaps hundreds, of hezbollah members simultaneously injured by exploding pagers. Incidents reported from all over lebanon, from beirut to the bekaa valley, and even in neighbouring syria. Each explosion was small,...

When president Muhamadu Buhari won the nigerian presidency two years ago it seemed like africas most populous nation had turned a corner. A first ever peaceful democratic transition bought a promise of cleaner, better governance and Major Economic reform. Hows it going . Well, my guest today is emmanuel ibe kachikwu, minister of state for petroleum resources. Can Oil Dependent nigeria transform itself into a modern, Trading Economy . Emmanuel ibe kachikwu, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen...

When president Muhamadu Buhari won the nigerian presidency two years ago it seemed like africas most populous nation had turned a corner. A first ever peaceful democratic transition bought a promise of cleaner, better governance and Major Economic reform. Hows it going . Well, my guest today is emmanuel ibe kachikwu, minister of state for petroleum resources. Can Oil Dependent nigeria transform itself into a modern, Trading Economy . Emmanuel ibe kachikwu, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen...

When president Muhamadu Buhari won the nigerian presidency two years ago it seemed like africas most populous nation had turned a corner. A first ever peaceful democratic transition bought a promise of cleaner, better governance and Major Economic reform. Hows it going . Well, my guest today is emmanuel ibe kachikwu, minister of state for petroleum resources. Can Oil Dependent nigeria transform itself into a modern, Trading Economy . Emmanuel ibe kachikwu, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen...

Three days ago it went up anothanath $800 billion. you cant keep doing that indefinitely. every household, every governor in the united states as mr. mackintosh knows, has to balance the budget by constitution or necessity and my motto is theres no such thing as government money. theres only taxpayers money. theyve forgotten that in washington and they think its their money and its not. >> let me play devils advocate about the debt. there have been folks like yourself and others talking about if...

Reduction or budget controls in the federal budget, if you dont have a suggestion about how to help contain costs in the health care sector, since the government is already so heavily invested in that sector through medicare/medicaid, veterans health benefits. thats why 20 years ago republicans were proposing plans based on what they thought would do this kind of thing, help control these costs. >> well, for instance if you look forward to the budget projections by the cbo, more than 100% of our...

Cant get my pen to draw a little bit, come down to $3.6 trillion. all of this has come out of discretionary spending. theres been no cuts in entitlements, no cuts in the mandatory programs. if you look at the effect of that on the economy as the deficit comes down it makes the economy grow less, contracts the economy. youve had a very dramatic effect, more than weve ever seen before. this shows the effect on gdp when the budget is more in a deficit position, when its more -- less in a deficit po...

And the vast majority did. >> reporter: thanks for covering this. >> i want to cover this without being partisan. can you explain to the american people why we have to get to this just to get a two-month agreement here. >> its because we are so very different in the way we want to pay for the extension of the tax cuts. we do not want social security to start going into a further deficit position. therefore, republicans are insisting that there be some kind of offset and thats where the disagreem...

Time speaker gingrich in a deficit position. so thats the schizophrenia that the republican party now finds itself in. a lot of as you know a lot of what you call traditional mainstream establishment republicans are very worried about that going into the fall not just about winning the election but what it does downstream to the party. does it do real damage to the party for the long haul if you get a third-party candidate coming out of this who is more right of center. >> if im not mistaken if ...

im erin burnett. "out front" tonight, the u.s. pullout of iraq and its final hours. in 19 days all troops will be out. iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki traveled to washington to meet president obama today. >> this is a historic moment. a war is ending. a new day is upon us. and let us never forget those who gave us this chance. the untold number of iraqis who have given their lives. more than 1 million americans, military and civilian, who have served in iraq. nearly 4,500 fallen am...