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Down. Sanctuary under the sea. New zealand unveils a massive Marine Reserve thats twice of countrys size. Hello. We begin in afghanistan where Security Forces are struggling to retake the Northern City of kundas from taliban fighters. They took control of the city on monday and broke hundreds of prisoners out of jail, many of them their own fighters. Lets go live on the front lines with afghan Security Forces. East just south of kundus. Whats the latest on this operation to retake kundus . Reporter hundreds of afghan Security Forces with hundreds of are going towards kunduz. R theres ied ez, r...

Fighting in make shift shelters. Plus the man who gave birth to the contraceptive pill dies. We look at the revolutionary impact of this little tablet. We begin with the breaking news out of egypt. One of our journalists, peter greste has been freed from prison after 400 days mind bars. And et cetera in good health. He was arrested alongside our colleagues who remain behind bars. Al jazeera continues to demand their release. The three journalists were falsely accused of coludding with the outlawed muslim brotherhood. A short while ago, the network issued this media release. Al jazeera has said...

Conditioned on this question the incoming secretary needs to have the courage to speak truth to power to congress, yes but also to his commander in chief. Half. Mr. Durbin mr. President . Speaking in morning business, i rise to express my support for the president s nominee dr. Ashton carter to serve as our nations 25th secretary of defense. A few words of thanks first for chuck hagel our former colleague in the senate who served as secretary of defense. Hes a friend. Hes had a long career in public service. Hes a veteran from vietnam and the people of nebraska rewarded him by asking him to re...

It was either with you are chairman smith asking about working with faithbased organizations. We do work with that. In fact, we visited with the archbishop in kurdistan when we were there to talk about the work they are doing. I know the king and jordan has been very open in meeting with different religious leaders both sort of from an islamic perspective to reduce the lore of isil, but also how do we work with the various religious groups. Syria was one of the most tolerant countries in the entire middle east before all this took place. It is important but there are many groups we work with t...

Highlight had the need for a conditionsbased approach. Like our National Military strategy written in 2012 president obamas calendarbased troop drawdown plan for afghanistan no longer accurately reflects the facts and conditions on the ground. Like the president s policy against isil, the president s afghanistan policy lacks of strategic disconnect, providing a list of goals or preferences but precluding the means necessary to achieve them. Perhaps it is time for the president to exercise strategic patience, as our witnesses yesterday unanimously agreed. Former u. S. Ambassador to afghanistan,...