Racing through south america. Iraqs armed forcing are marking their 94th anniversary but sadly theres little to celebrate. The army is facing unprecedented challenges, an enemy that sees large part of the country internal corruption and desertion and not to say an unstable political climate. Mohammad adow, certainly no time for pomp and circumstance but still significant nonetheless mohamed. Indeed significant nick. It is the nowrt 94th birthday for iraqi armed forces. The event today to marked the Armed Forces Day was key with the Prime Minister and other officials with tomb of the unknown soldier. Now the iraq army has had definitely a very ills ill citrus illustrious ceremony, seven or eight months have been the most critical for them when i. S. I. L. Forces came charging across their country many of them left their positions those left behind face facing i. S. I. L numerous challenges. Rah ramahdi. , what is making the difference. But the work is challenging in many ways. As you kn
Antigovernment rallies in germany. Opening day win details later in the program. The u. S. Justice department has charged two u. S. Citizens with conspiring to carry out a coup against gambias president. Let me remind you what happened on december the 30th. A group of soldiers attacked the president ial palace in the capital and four people were killed. President yah yah jameamay returned to the capital and announced the attack was based on disdenlts from thedissidentsin the u. S. Rob reynolds, tell us about this. Two dissidents came back from gambia and were arrested by u. S. Authorities. Their names are papa foul and cherno njae. A texas businessman. He according to alleged coconspirators was to have assumed the presidency of gambia if the plot had succeeded. He also financed the operation and purchased weapons to be sent to gambia. The plotters were trying to overthrow, as you mentioned yaya jamae who has ruled gambia with something of an iron fist for 20 years as part of his polici
We are spending on education and incarceration more than we are spending on anything else. We are dropping a lot of money on the back and just imagine if some of these programs that you mostly work in or want to start just imagine if you had 50,000 you could buy a house per year that money just poured down the hole because what happens is the about the Political Forces going on in the country to come up and say walking up. Three strikes and youre out and they wonder why they are vagabonds when they come out and cant get a job or student loan. They can barely get access to their own children and then we wonder why. They dont have anybody in their life. You see it. You see how this thing happens. Its a couple of small decisions that become big. That is a short portion of tonights programs on social workers in america. You can watch the entire Program Starting at 8 p. M. And that will be on the companion of work cspan. Now todays edition of washington journal. First up we asked viewers th
Details a lot of Miss Management and at the phoenix v. A. We saw cases where folks had serious are diseases. Still had to wait months h nine weeks. Six months to get any sort of follow up apoints scheduled. I got a class to talk to a deputy second earlier this week. He said it is still bad news report and still an embarrassment for the department. How extensive was the i. G. Investigation . This was a pretty in depth report. They spent months combing through files, not working, they said working with the department of justice and the fbi on possible fraud and case thats could result in criminal cases down the line. But they found widespread problems and investigationings of other facilities turned up the same issues of mismanagement, problems with how scheduling occurs. And really some systemic cultural problems that the va has been struggling to address since the spring. What did they find out about suicide and prevention related to the care they get at v. A. Facilities . Small we hea
Markets slightly weaker yesterday. A couple of big stories this morning. The big one is hp reportedly planning to sell a majority stake in its chinese data networking operation for about 2. 3 billion. Heres whats going on. The wall street journal saying it comes after revelation that u. S. Spying for demand for tech products. Sis coe and others have had issues about this. Also in Economic News new numbers overnight showing chinese factory activity contracted for a Third Straight month. Chinese output shrinking at the fastest rates in more than a year. This is going to reinforce expectations for more policy stimulus. Geo political headlines this morning, isis saying its in full control of the ancient sere juan city of palmyra. Heres todays squawk planl. Key economic reports. Weekly jobless claims later in the morning. Manufacturing pmi. Existing home sales. Leading Economic Indicators in the Kansas City Fed survey. On the earnings front best buy will report Quarterly Results before the