Dropped against mubarak. Could it be the bloodiest 24 hours syria has seen since the start of the civil war . Some claim chemical weapons have been used. We are looking at how the west is reacting to both of those stories in this special, too part addition of france 24 debate. Lets start the hour and say hello once again to chris moore. The Un Security Council set to meet on the claims that three used chemical weapons. According to egypt, ordering the release of former president Hosni Mubarak, they stop short of suspending aid after the crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood. 35 years in jail for bradley manning. We start with the u. S. Un Security Council set to meet over allegations see reuse chemical weapons. There are conflicting reports from damascus suburbs this wednesday. The opposition says poison gas was used in more than 1300 people killed. Bashar assads government has denied the claims. Julia seger has more. Civilians are shown covering their faces and dozens of bodies lying on
Security say they fear lone wolves could be inspired to act. We know they were planning attacks against western europe either in europe or the u. S. Homeland and they were close to the end game on those Planning Efforts and they were getting close to execution of an actual attack. Bill doug, what exactly are they warning in this new bulletin . Reporter the fbi and the department of Homeland Security say they have no evidence of precise terror planning in the ustheUnited States. This document reads in part, we believe these stlieks contribute to homegrown extremists possibly motivating home the attacks by hves. Those single events do not generally provoke immediate attacks from hves. We do not have any indication at the present by concrete plotting by isil against the United States homeland. But we do know that they are dangerous, they threatened americans, killed americans in the region. Reporter this follows last weeks revelation by jason chaffetz. He said i have reason to believe on
I think what happens next, as i said, equipping the free syrian army, moving forward with taking mosul and raqqa, and creating safe havens for these refugees. We need to know if the plan is now to topple assad come need know what the post assad syria will look like, how we get there and how that makes the American People safer. I think the white house should bring to us their plan on syria. I hope that what the plan would contain would be the establishment of a humanitarian zone in Northern Syria where we can deliberate deliver aid to syrians that would be protected by u. S. And other nations military assets from the Bashar Alassad rise. I appreciate President Trump making that case to congress about what further military action should be taken if any pair there are some folks in congress who want to see us in protracted military involvement in syria. I think that would be a mistake. Julie conor powell is live from the syriaisrael border with the very latest. The u. S. Response to tues
it is just mistakes. i think that it is a very important issue and i think that you are right that while we have seen some real tangible progress from the important legislation that you and others have worked on in the past, the current level is unacceptable, unacceptably high, so we have to be committed to moving to do more. i guess when i think about how to do that, i think about two issues. one is technology and data, the other is evidence. so, on the side of technology and data, as i understand it a lot of the issues associated with improper payments are a function of not having effective data sharing between agencies to identify whether and when payments should and should not be made, so i think there are opportunities to try to improve the way that we are s the way that we are sharing data through the use of technology. we have to be careful about protecting privacy in the process, but i think that is an opportunity. the other place, and this goes back to some of th
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