Subtropical climate but the fact that the subtropical climate happens to be in the country that actually occupies the most territory in the arctic region is rather an almost as well. Never before has Olympic Games been held in the region in such close proximity to a conflict zone. Never before, although more about this conflict zone never before has Olympic Games been held na conflict, in such close proximity to conflict zone in which was, in fact the site effectively to civil wars in the country that is holding the games. One of which effectively russia lost in the mid 1990s with chechnya and one of which was one, the zone in the northern caucasus they are referring to where my esteemed colleagues will talk at greater length about the challenges you know, when mr. Putin went down to Guatemala City in 2007 it was a period of relative relative quiet since i would say in the area. Chechnya have been somewhat stabilized, and the frequency of violence in the other republics, the northern c
What dr. Coburns point is well taken. If we want to take a lot of revenue out of the system for the Postal Service, potential revenue out of the system, weve got to figure out how to pay for that. What are we going to cut . Be what further are we going to cut in when i talk to my colleagues on our side of the aisle, i dont have people coming to me and saying i want you to take more money save more money on Mail Processing centers. I dont have people coming to me and saying we want to save more money on, you know, rural post offices. I dont have folks coming to me and saying we want to take money out of workers comp costs. You know, i dont have any of that. But what im hearing is we want to reduce revenues by billions of dollars a year, the potential for revenues of billions of dollars a year, but were not sure how were going to offset that cost. Again, my democratic friends, we just cant have it both ways. We cant have it both ways. And what weve tried to strike here is a reasonable ba
United and russia disagree on the outcome. We actually agree on the outcomes. In each of the case where we disagree where the challenges in both case how you get to the outcomes. Thats where all the diplomacy and the negotiations and the meetings are focused. We agree in iran without a Nuclear Weapons program and a nuclear a Peaceful Nuclear program under appropriate International Law monitoring. We agree on that. We have to different views about how you get to that. We worked out a common approach were now implementing. On syria, similarly we agree we want syria with a government that is answerable, accountable to its own people. We agree that can only be reached ultimately through a political process. Through negotiations and the political process. Question agree we do not want syria to be an environment in which extremism is implemented and able to operate threatening not only the people of syria but also syrias neighbors. Where we struggle to find a common approach in how to get th
Lives of the other two . And our national lead, it is spreading at 800 feet per day. So the good news is at 800 feet per day, you can outrun it, but the bad news is your house cant. Molten lava smothering everything in its path and heading for a neighborhood in the u. S. Good afternoon. Im jake tapper. Well begin with breaking news in our world lead. A chartered plane carrying American Military contractors has been forced to land in tehran, iran. Lets get to our Global Affairs correspondent elise labott at the state department. What can you tell us . Jake, this as you said was a contracted plane with American Military contractors but also from other coalition countries. I understand there were some commanded aboard flying to dubai. The iranians contacted the pilots to say this is an out of date flight plan. And it ordered to return back to afghanistan. But the pilot said they didnt have enough fuel. The iranians said well then land, or youll be intercepted. We understand it was escorte
In a significant and surprising turn of events, on the evening of April 5, a prominent Iraqi leader in the Syrian Sunni Islamist group Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, Maysar bin Ali al-Juburi, also known as Abu Maria al-Qahtani, was reportedly killed in an attack in Idlib’s northern countryside.