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This is Al Jazeera America live in new york city, im del walters. Tough questions on capitol hill for defense secretary ash carter. He answered questions of the fighting and training and equipping syrian rebels. Jamie mcintyre. Tell us more. Another Senate Testimony for secretary carter and the new joint chief and the grilling about the sputtering policy in iraq and syria. The training and equip program for moderate opposition is a complete failure, and he outlined his new strategy, which no longer involves training entire units outside of the country. The new approach was to train troops outside of syria before sending them into the fight. The new approach is to work with vetted leaders and groups who are already fighting isil, and provide equipment and training to them and support their operations with their power. The secretary outlined the three rs of the strategy, ....
The search and rescue efforts in after georg afghanistan and pakistan and focusing on remote areas where the impact of the mondays 7. 5 magnitude earthquake are unclear. 340 have been killed, most of those who died were in northern pakistan, india, iran and forces in afghanistan all of them offering to help but so far local authorities have not requested any assistance. Good morning, welcome to your world this morning im del walters. And im stephanie sy and rushing to deliver aid to quake victims and thousands spent the night outdoors in near freezing temperatures afraid to sleep inside because of the potential for aftershocks. Al jazeeras Jennifer Glasse is in kabul. Jennifer talk to us about some of the challenges in this search and rescue effort there. Reporter stephanie really one of the Biggest Challenges is the scope of the operation here, the earthquake effected p ....
South carolina throwing a teenager girl to the ground. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Tough questions today. Make the orreryky military the u. S. Air strikes have made against isil, carter also addressed the controversy program on training and arming syrian rebels. Lets go to Jamie Mcintyre at the pent upon now. So jamie, tell us more about this today . Well, rachelle, it is always a tough sell, as this goes before an increasingly skeptical senate arm services. Everyone acknowledges that the u. S. , Train Program for moderate opposition, was dismal failure. Carter outlines some new changes including some that could put u. S. Troops closer in the front lines in both iraq and syria we wont hold back from supporting capable parter ins. Or conducting such missions directly. Whether by strikes from the ....
In this particular area you are addressing with the act is a critical one, if that is good to be our goal. It raises three issues today. The first one is economic theory. And the economics behind us, there has long been of human economics that functioning effective functioning of markets depend on information. Received theomists nobel prize in 2001 for their Research Related to what they called asymmetric information. This is exactly what is going on here. When you go to a hotel, you do not know anything about what you see. The hotel knows everything. This is a market with asymmetric information. They won the nobel prize because they shows the markets with that information underperformed what would otherwise be economic welfare for everyone, consumers in the overall economy. In particular, this and other researchers found that markets do not perform effectively, number one, if buyers cannot accurately assess the value before the ....
Ive learned quite a lot. I, too, w like to associate as myself with the remarks of our chair about how enraged i think we all are when we hear some of the things that weve heard today. I think that just leads us all want to go forth and make sure we do everything we can to cooperate with you to minimize these issues that are out there, if not eliminate them entirely, and i do agree, too, that the role of the internet no doubt has been really important in magnifying the problem multiplying the problem perhaps in many instances, too, so thanks for being here today and i want to thank the chair again for having this hearing. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Mr. Ryan, thank you again for being here. We really appreciate your leadership. Appreciate your commitment to this country and our kids. We join you in that effort, and we look forward to continuing our relationship in that dialogue you spoke of and doing everything we can so that families can build better lives for themselves. With that, se ....