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Soldiers from niger and chad have joined the fight against bomb in boko haram in nigeria. They helped to retake the town of damasak in borno. This is latest offensive by neighboring countries inside nigeria. On friday the the africa union reinforced the contingent with 8,000 troops from cameroon and benin. Security forces have confirmed that the town of damasak has been arrested from boko harams control. Troops acrossed into nigeria yesterday supported by air and Ground Forces and then arrested ...

Venezuelas embattled Dilma Rousseff. United nations emergency teams are being rushed to the South Pacific island of vanuatu. Jerald tan has the latest. The Tropical Cyclone pam has tornado off roofs and downed power lines. Villages and remote islands damage will be steven. Communicatescommunication is down. So it will take a very lock time. He has been a very destructive cyclone. Hitting a country that has a lot of traditional housing so they are vulnerable to this kind of damage. We are poised ...

Both of them to stop wasting time. You can receive calls on your watch. And watch this. Apple decides the time is right to move in to wearable technology. Hello there, thank you for joining us. Troop are troops from chad and niner have made their first gain since launching their joint offensive at the weekend to fight boko haram. They recaptured towns. 10 chad soldiers died and up to 200 boko haram fighters are said to have been killed. Niner and chads military vehicles were seen crossing the bo...

Here are the top stories we are watching. French air accident investigators looking into yesterdays german plane crash saying voice recordings survive the impact. They say this will lead to clues in seeking to explain the tragedy a full analysis may be months away. Graces Central Bank Governor speaking in london. He said greek banks must actively manage stressed loads. We will have more later in the hour. Facebook opening its messenger chat application. The app will be opened to businesses to co...

The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered chaplain, guest springfield, missouri. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, you equip the founders with great resilience as they sought your wisdom in establishing our nation. With that same power that inspired our patriots, bless these members of congress today, lift them up, o god, when they feel discouraged, when negative thoughts seem to dominate, when the winds are against them, strengthen their minds and spirits with an ...

That is good news from the director general of the hospital in france. She is saying that Michael Schumacher had to unger go more surgery last night and that his condition has improved just slightly. This is the second operation he has been put through since this accident. Yesterday we were not given a prognosis. It was an hour by hour situation as far as the doctors were concerned and certainly they said, well, he is a very fit 44yearold. But so he might be able to deal with this sort of injury...

The secretary the speakers rooms, washington the clerk the speakers rooms, washington d. C. , december 23, 2013. I hereby appoint the hobyorble fred upton to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, revved rend eugene emrick, Catholic University of america from washington, d. C. The chaplain lord, we thank you for yet another year, the awesome blessings you h...

In colombia, a great allies ally of ours. There seems to be a real situation in colombias largest port and the scent of its population were over half a million inhabitants, over 90 of them are black. They are mired in crime and poverty, and over 80 live below the poverty line. 30 are unemployed and virtually none have access to supplies of electricity, water or basic wrote infrastructure. This violence thats going on, i know we want to make sure we are able to address underlying social problems ...

It includes comments by Edward Snowden. Imagine a place of people dedicating their lifes to others. This is an object in a cruel experiment and over us to supervise this is a dictatorship. A kind of north korea like situation. [laughter] welcome. [ applause ] c1 welcome to this extraordinary debate on state surveillance. My name is rudyard griffiths. Its my privilege to act as the organizer of this semiannual series and to once again serve as your moderator. I want to start tonights proceedings ...

Ubiquitous, more and if were not carrying it on ourselves personally, nor were being watched by somebody else who has a reason to do that for us. When it becomes that ubiquitous, when the chair becomes smart, the water glass becomes smart, is it useful to think of that as Information Technology or is this a new state of being and how does hewlettpackard make any money off this . The question is, who controls all of the information, whether its individuals, the government, the companies themselve...