Art. Welcome to the program, surgeon Kurdish Forces are pushing back fighters in iraq near the town of kabini and part of the aleppo province and close to the curbingish border and thousands went to turkey after weeks of fierce fighting between isil and Kurdish Forces. This isil video shows the groups advance toward the town and isil fighters had been occupied a crucial hill toward the area but a female fighter blew herself up to dislodge them and we have more from turkey. Reporter its an indication of the desperation of the syrian, kurdish fighters in kabini but took a female suicide bomber from the ranks of the Syrian Kurdish fighter to dislodge isil from a position on a strategic mountain to the south of kabani and on monday morning shelling and gunfire continues in that town. Its relentless but holding the town and sooil not able to penetrate into kabini and we understand that the leader of the main Syrian Kurdish parties are muslim and he was in the curbingish capitol a couple day
Welcome. There are many meanings of transparency. Im not going to get into all of them today, but im sure there will be many different aspects. Their widely divergent opinions on the successes of the Obama Administration and i hope to explore some of those today. President obama made a number of promises when he was running for president. A number are Still Available on change. Gov. During the course of the administration, new issues came up. Everything from Campaign Finance disclosure to dealing with the lawsuit and others on visitors logs. Theres been a lot of changes during the course of the administration. What i hope we will talk about today is wouldve occurred or not occur during the last four years am looking forward to what will happen over the next. I am joined by three experts. I have on my right, anne weisberg. I have sent through the Data Transparency Coalition and a former hill staffer. To my last is Josh Gerstein with politico. Theres more extensive biographies on your ch
Compromise but had some savings including the emergency provision. In this is the provision is. With final passage with the bipartisan support and opposition. Yes. One of the issues is where you see the senate to going with this san senator leahy who offered companion legislation already expressing disappointment with changes and the compromise that has been made to it. Host the senate dealing with National Security with the nomination of david barron to the First Circuit the senate advanced the nomination 52 43 vote. What is the headline here . Why was there some sense of opposition . Guest the role he played to author a memo justifying that lays out the administration is justification for the drone and strikes abroad targeted against Counter Terrorism suspects that has been very controversial tactic. Rand paul who was the persistent critic has been the loudest voice of that debate. Host circling back to the white house from obviously there but the barron nomination to pass what about
Thank you for inviting me here today to discuss nigerias struggle against boko haram one of the most lethal terrorist groups in africa today and thank you mr. Chairman and of the committee for a long Time Leadership on african issues. Over month ago the world was outraged when boko haram kidnapped some 250 young women from a secondary school in chibok and United States with a joint effort to help nigeria safely recover the hostages. President obama pledged our full support and president dory accepted secretary kerrys assistance. Today a robust Multidisciplinary Team for the nicest government is working handinhand with nigerian counterparts and teams from half a dozen other countries such as the United Kingdom and france. Our military and civilian experts and intelligence military planning Strategic Communication civilian protection and victim victim support have been given unprecedented access and cooperation to assist nigerias effort to safely recover the kidnapped schoolgirls. This e
Ties with swiss land after vote is there on eu michaels. Im in heiti where people are recovering from catastrophes and we will show you a Mental Health some in desperate need of money and resources. Another chance or the last chance. The Syrian Government and the opposition is said to start the second round of peace talks in geneva, the international brahimi has the difficult task of mediating between both sides and there was little to show after the first round of talks last month but agreed on a threeday cease fire in the city of homs and hundreds considered the most vulnerable did manage to leave the rebelheld city on sunday and the truce is extended for three days to allow more aid to get in and to allow more people to get out. And we are in the beirut studio with james base is in geneva and first of all the three extra days presumably will allow people to do some of what they wanted to do in the first place was get more help and more people out. Absolutely, david. We were just spe