Special envoy to syria who painted a bleak picture of the ongoing violence on the ground but he expressed cautious optimism about a political process that he maintains could result in the formation of a Constitutional Committee its possible to form hopefully to find him agreement on that also to a full committee and then we have to use start agreement as a door opener into a political process that could create the beginning for a new syria a new syria the human spirit the mission between the people in syria and start a better life for everyone. For the 1st time the special envoy put a timeline on the process saying that there could be agreement between the opposing parties by the time of the General Assembly next month. Lesson 3 years after signing a landmark Peace Agreement in colombia a former commander of the fog rebel group has called on his followers to take up arms again Yvonne Marquez blames the government for betraying the implementation of the peace deal. He has more from colo
Or around there was always a margin. A margin of space if i may say between the official position of the of any state as well opposition as a resistance this fortune or 5. Recently has has been. Diminished or has. Become smaller hezbollah and its allies now hold political power in lebanon its opponents accuse it of doing irans bidding in the proxy war with israel. The months long war in 2006 was sparked by a cross border raid in which hezbollah killed and captured Israeli Soldiers there is now the possibility of a new confrontation hezbollah says it will not reveal details of its planned retaliation and its timings but there are those who believe it will likely be a calculator. Response in order to avoid all out war. Israels response is not guaranteed back in 2006 the lebanese government disavowed itself from hezbollah today it is a different dynamic and israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is warning the lebanese state it will be held responsible for hezbollahs actions. Beirut an
Just as a quick disclaimer is a nonpartisan educational organization. The institute takes no position on any issues. The views expressed in this report are mine and mine alone. Im going to make some brief comments on the report. And we will invite our two distinguished discussants up to the stage. Then i will sit with them and will ask a few questions and we chat about this topic of dismantling the corruption nexus until about 4 pm. Then we will take questions from the audience. And we were dismissed promptly at 430. What is this all about . I am a political scientist. This means our study and explain how the political world works. Not my job to offer my opinion. It is my job to explain how things work. My work stems from actual personal frustration. Letting you know my opinion. I have been frustrated with being able to predict terrible outcomes in the worlds authoritative regime. Looking around and seeing terrible things that are going to happen. Then being frustrated by the fact that
now. it is 4:00 in new york. breaking news this hour. we are covering yet another mass shooting in this country. this one on the campus of the university of nevada las vegas this afternoon. it is still early, but minutes ago, police saidsuspect, now dead. as for victims, police say tre appear to betiple although how many exactly is still unknown. at least one of thes of the ooting, unlv s beam hall, the university s business school, mere yards from the student union. law enforcement is still asking people to avoid the area. joining us now, nbc news justice and intel correspondent, ken dilanian. former fbi agent, peter strzok and with me at the table, professor of politics and journalism at morgan state, jason johnson. ken, please fill in the gaps wherever possible. what do we know? well, about an hour ago, the university of nevada las vegas twitter account posted an alert that said university police were responding to a confirmed active shooter in beh, which stands for be
jeanine pirro along with just the charcoal off. jesse watters, martha mccallum and greg got bailed. it is 5:00 o clock in new york city and this is, the five.. liberal leaders are finally cleaning up san francisco. but it is not because they want to fix the crime and drug fille city for residents, it s all to impress world leaders and top ceos coming to town for a big economic summit next week. the democratic city has refused to lift a finger to address drugs, homelessness and crime. but now that joe biden and president g are coming to town next week, the roads will be repaved, the streets power washed to get rid of all the graffiti, and the public capitation stations will have added overnight deep cleaning. it is so obvious what is going on that even liberal california governor gavin newsom admits, they are putting a band-aid on bullet wound. i know, folks say, oh, they are just cleaning up the put because of all those fancy leaders coming to town. that is true. becaus