University bans after an out break of Sexual Assaults and a strong earthquake good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Thank you for joining us, im morgan radford, live in new york. We begin with a developing story overnight. Former washington d. C. Mayor, marion barry, has died. He served twice, beginning in 1978. His first three terms ended when he was arrested and convicted of crack cocaine charges. After spending time in gaol he staged a comeback, winning reelection to city council in 1993, and a fourth term as mayor in 1995. In 2005 he was reelected where he served up until now. He died at a d. C. Area hospital. The cause of his death is unknown. Del walters joins us, working in washington and covering marion barry extensively. Good morning to you. What was your reaction to the news that barry had passed away . Dell, it appears we have lost him temporarily the wait continues in ferguson, missouri for the grand jury decision. The grand jury is expected to meet on monday. Marche
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. We are going to get the hearing started. I want to welcome director Nick Rasmussen from the National Counterterrorism center. Nick, we have invited you here today in an open session. I think some of the news outlets vice chair that said this would never happen with me being chairman that everything would be close and i want to point out we are having an open session and this is to provide the senate and the American People with an update on the current threat from terrorism. The committee remains concerned about the expanding evolving nature of this threat than the challenges facing the Intelligence Community and the evolving nature of the threat. This is the first of what i hope will be a number of open hearings that should give the Intelligence Community an opportunity to better inform the public of its current efforts and challenges. As mr. Rasmussen and i have talked about here is what we do. More importantly here is why the American People
Conflict. Lesotho elects voting early after allegations of an attempted coup three women president s in latin america, each one the subject of a Corruption Scandal. Here they are taking away the body of Boris Nemtsov, a thorn in the side of the kremlin, a vocal critic of the president Vladimir Putin. He spoke out about russias involvement in the war of ukraine, and the annexation of crimea. The 55yearold served as a deputy Prime Minister under russias first president boris yeltsin. He was shot dead in central moscow hours ahead of a massive opposition rally. We go to Rory Challands live in moscow. I dont know if you are near the scene youll tell us that but a thorough Investigation Promised by Vladimir Putin, yet he was a critic of Vladimir Putin. Are there those that believe it could be a fair investigation . Well it depend who you ask. Certainly the people that have come down here to where Boris Nemtsov was shot they would believe that an investigation is going to be essentially a wh
Afghanistan. Well find out how emergency crews are coping with dozens of avalanches and the heaviest snow this valley has seen in decades. Well, to the kremlin he was a thorn in the side. Vocal critic of Vladimir Putin he spoke out against russian involvement in the war in ukraine. 55 years old, he had served as deputy Prime Minister under boris yeltsin. On friday late he was shot dead, gunned down in central moscow just hours ahead of a massive opposition rally. He had received Death Threats before, but he pressured them aside saying if he were afraid he wouldnt be leading an opposition party. Justjust in front of the cell lynn he was killed by a shot from a passing car. He was big and talented. The kind that they kill. We needed him very much. This is a new spiral of russias descent into a fascist state. It is a political murder of one of the brightest opposition politicians. He was killed just two days before he was supposed to lead an opposition march in moscow. Now there is anger
Effectively fight isis and how will the Central Government in baghdad supplied military equipment directed to the kurds . At it prevent the transfer of equipment when i was ambassador. I dont have the statistics but the kurds believe that it has. They cite only 25 of hundreds of m. Rapp Armored Vehicles that have been provided to them and there are some pretty good reasons why we are careful in what we give them. The point is they are fighting. They are the allies of baghdad and a lot of these weapon systems and are not a threat to baghdad but they are a threat to isis. We will go to tom amory of minnesota. Thank you mr. Chairman i will try to be brief. I apologize for going back and forth. There seems to be a bunch of things going out of the same time. I dont want to cover old ground but im afraid i might touch on it a little bit. My understand first we are here because the president has requested renewed authorization for military force and it seems everything that i have read in eve