Skirt and thousands of people gather to see the Prime Minister for a rally in australia. We begin in columbia where the government suspended on going peace talks after an army general was kidnapped, a mass massive search for civilians in chacho traveling by boat on the river and they were on the river here. Reporter peace announcements in 2012 promised a chance of peace but two years later there is no agreement and the kidnapping of an army general led to suspending the talks altogether and he walked into farc controlled territory wearing civilian clothing. And one thing i think is curious about this event is that this general apparently voluntarily walked into farccontrolled territory breaking protocols for security for the Colombian Armed forces which would appear to be a kind of voluntary in some ways a kidnapping by the colombian gorillas. Reporter peace alluded columbia since 1964 when somebody inspired by marxism through columbia or farc and peace agreements failed after trying l
Attack pledge g his allegiance to i. S. I. L. Thanks for being with us. Its been another day of sights and sounds in france. This time grease grief and unity is on display. Leading the march was the heads of states and Foreign Ministers from 40 different nations. They walked arm in arm, with french president Francis Hollande in a show of solidarity against terrorism. The group included Palestinian Mahmoud abbas and Binyamin Netanyahu. As paris marched in mourning the investigation continued to unfold. A video surfaced appearing to show one of the gunmen pledging allegiance to i. S. I. L. The shooting of a jogger on wednesday appears to be linked. Theres no sign of the suspect hayat boumeddiene. Jacky rowland has more from paris. Reporter a president and a people. United in their loss. Words of comfort for the families who lost loved ones and gestures of support for those who survived. The victims were journalists, Police Officers and customers of a jewish supermarket. Unconnected befor
Its my great pleasure and honor to welcome all of you here. With respect to our guest of honor, ambassador rice i want to welcome her back to this premises. She is a former colleague of martin index and mine both here at the Brookings Institution and in government during the 1990s. And special welcome to her mom, how about that . Her mom has come out [applause] to hear her daughter speak on a very important subject. I have to say just a quick word on lois rice. Im quite sure 99 year history there has only been one motherdaughter team both senior fell lows. One in Foreign Policy and susan and lois in economic studies and lois continues to be an important part of the since staougs. As all know, susan is here to talk about the National Security strategy for 2015 and into the future. The origins goes back to the aftermath of world war ii and the dawn the cold war. Today the big challenge facing the United States and its partners and allies in the International Community is not contain the.
But we also believe we are not doing them a disservice. We are doing them a service. They may be sometimes uncomfortable with what we say, but all of us are pushing in the same direction and that is for the betterment of the people of the country concerned. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] we are looking for them to have the full protections the law provides for. Thank you. Just one last question. What do you think of the escalation . Thank you very much for that question. The office which i lead has a Monitoring Mission in ukraine that has been in place really almost since the crisis. Since the crisis began in the eastern part of the country. We have periodic reports we make available to the international community, and yes we discuss ukraine with a large number of countries. Nationally it is of great concern to the international community. This is a very serious crisis. And we have seen, of course even though we have, all of us have cause for further complianc
Controversial address which angered the white house. Outgoing president is awarded the abraham prize for excellence in African Leadership. Iraqs hard my launched mayor offensive to push i. S. I. S. Out of dick rit but its not just the army but Popular Mobilization forces involved in the effort as well as sunni tribal fighters and 2000 sunnis are involved and includes fighting jets and helicopters backing up Ground Forces and fighting to push i. S. I. L. Out and secured several neighborhoods in the northeast of the city and lets bring in jane live for us in baghdad and seem to be some successes as far as Iraqi Military is concerned. Talk us through them. Well jane its a huge number of troops and talking 20,000 and includes the shia malitias who are better equipped and trained than iraqi units and includes u. S. Air support and significantly the sunni fighters you mentioned. This is a predominately sunni city in the heart of saladeen and an i. S. I. L. Stronghold and its a fight the mili