Countries come close to running out of snake bite antidote. U. S. President barack obama is due to announce that American Military presence in afghanistan will be extended. Its a dramatic shift in strategy. It originally aimed to withdraw most of the 9,800 strong force by the end of next year, but military leaders have been pushing for more u. S. Support especially after taliban fighters captured kunduz city for three days last month. Afghan forces have continued to fight the taliban in several areas. The u. S. Is expected to keep 5500 troops in the country when Obama Leaves Office in 2007. Jennifer glasse joins us live from kabul. Talk us through how this is going to work now, jennifer. At 9,800 u. S. Forces are going to stay through much of the rest of next year. They were supposed to start drawing down at the beginning of 2016 but will stay through the end of 2016, drawing down to 5,500 in be 2017, so thats a big change. Its the second time this year that president obama announced a
Agrees on peace with rebel groups. Many signatures are missing and suspended u. S. Chief Michel Platini finds out if he has the support of his own organization, as they hold a crisis meeting to discuss his future. E. U. Leaders are meeting in brussels to try to find a solution to europes growing refugee crisis. The summit focussing on working with countries outside europes border. Turkey is keep. The e. U. Wants to make sure the refugees its hosting stays there. Turkey is hosting the largest number of Syrian Refugees close to 2 million. Thousands are crossing into europe, most arriving on greek shores in boats. Thats a problem for europe. Its buckling under the pressure, 600,000 entering europe this year alone. Neave barker is in brussels where the leaders are meeting and Bernard Smith in istanbul. What do e. U. Leaders want from turkey on tuesday the European Commission published a plan, a list of requests and requirements for hopes that ankara would fulfil, in what is described as a
F 150. Phil will give us a live test drive and review the new truck in real time. That is coming up. First to sue at the nyse. After getting off to a decent start stock markets struggling a little bit on the last trading day of september and the quarter. The dow is up 1 1 3 points. The s p tracking towards its worst quarter in nearly two years. Despite the volatility this month the dow flat for september but the s p 500 down about 1. 5 . The nasdaq down more than 1. 5 , as well. The big talk down here is the brent crude contract and west texas intermediate getting crushed. The gold market getting hit hard down 2. 5 on brent crude down almost 3. 5 on west texas intermediate has a lot of people using the d word, deflation. And it was brought up and it is interesting because we didnt show gold but we will show it later and that is getting hit very hard. It is starting to impact the stock market a little bit here. We had a bid to the market. Take a look at the s p 500. I said there was a b
Palestinians who had fled to that shelter thinking it is safe, that is causing widespread condemnation, an its complicating the efforts to try to achieve a ceasefire. For those on the ground, a ceasefire agreement cant come soon enough. Gunfire in the west bank overnight. A massive protest of thousands of palestinians near a checkpoint between jerusalem and ramallah resulting in clashes with israeli forces. Hundreds wounded, and one palestinian man shot dead. The anger stemming from this, a United Nations school in gaza bombed. 16 killed, more than 100 wounded, including women and children from families who came to the school because it was being used as a shelter. Both sides of the conflict casting blame, with hamas accusing israel, and israel saying the destruction could have been caused by a hamas missile that fell short. Outrage over the attack kicked ceasefire talks into high gear overnight. Secretary of state john kerry, working around the clock in cairo, presenting a deal to bot
Services at the va. Last time i checked, you dont die waiting on a lie at disney. You do die waiting for care, and people who go to a park on a lark are very different than people who put it on the line for this country so the folks like you and me can go to a park on a lark. Wow. Ive covered washington and bureaucrats for decade now and heard some doozies but this is at the top of the doozie list. And as a quick p. S. , secretary, the disney folks do closely monitor those who wait on line. Thats why they keep them curving and winding and have monitors to pass the time, because they know that people,do well, if they wait on line long enough will start killing each other. Thats neither her nor there think of what he secretary is saying erick acquitting park visitors with our veterans. How mickey mouse is that . To Sarah Westley of the washington examiner. You were at this first meeting, and the first to report on that comment. I dont know if its just callous or stupid, maybe both. Tell