Officials, journalists and a representative from the International Crisis group. Good morning, everybody. My name is john hamre and im very pleased to have all of you join us today for what is going to be a fascinating conversation. I was talking with our very distinguished speakers just as we were waiting for people to gather and i said you know, in washington, north africa is kind of a blank spot. So much in this region that we dont know. We tend to look out your appeared we tend to look at africa and the middle east. We dont tend to look at the mall grub and think about it in a systematic awful way. That is going to be the opportunity for today. We are going to have a dad with these remarkable leaders and i do want to stay thank you for coming. Im very proud that you would be here. We are going to explore three Different Things today. We are going to take an honest look at terrorism in the maghrib. We are going to analyze what the governments of the region are doing and how they are
High School Students completely fell through the stage right there at the collapsing. Good morning to you and thanks for joining us, you are watching Al Jazeera America and live from new york city im morgan and ceremonies in armenia today mark 100 years since the massacre of more than a million armains by turks and french president as well as russian president Vladimir Putin placed a yellow rose on a wreath commemorating lives lost around the time of world war i, for complete coverage we are if turkey and paul live and paul lets start with you this morning, an solemn day in armenia and what happened this morning and what is scheduled for later . Well its been raining all day, morgan and that has not stopped people from walking up to the eternal flame to pay their respects to those who died 100 years ago between 19151923, earlier today was the commemorative ceremony and World Leaders including Vladimir Putin and french president was here and other president s and they had an official me
Orchestra with a revival and they are by the Armenian Community and important to know turkey has a Community Still living in it and the main ceremony is at the cathedral which has maybe the most important armenian population there inside turkey that cathedral was actually renovated by the turkish government an example they do not discriminate against the armenian citizens and have never done so before and its important to know that actually turkey in the society actually is more busy or busier commemorating the centennial the battles here which are very significant because actually the founder of modern turkey played a huge role and a military officer back then and it was his role in those battles which gave him prominence to go and create the states so some say the huge celebrations around the centennial are essentially being used by the government to steal away from the focus of armenian issues and its just the National Pride like i mentioned earlier that is pushing them to that and
We know exactly what happened afterwards. Heres what the time line looks like. The first hearing in the senate is expected to be held tomorrow. The full congress is not scheduled to return until next week. So far, the only consensus in congress is there is no consensus in congress. Im hoping by the time next week comes around and hopefully the president can make his case, that he will be able to get a majority of the house of representatives. I think its at least 50 50 whether the house will vote down involvement in the syrian war. I think the senate will rubber stamp what he wants but i think the house will be a much closer vote. With congress in a holding pattern, the Administration Says proof is building by the day that syrias bashar all ac assa used sarin gas against his own people. Nearly a third of that countrys population being displaced by the civil war. White house officials reportedly say theyre flooding the zone. The president has meetings today with republican senators grah