Good morning, welcome back to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford. Al qaedas effort to exploit the lack of security in iraq and syria appears to be gaining traction. In iraq two cities are under siege by Al Qaedalinked fighters. More alarming is the violence could set off an allout sectarian war as sunni anger towards the shialed government intensifie intensifies. Despite how bad the fighting has gotten secretary of state john kerry says, this is a fight that belongs to the iraqis, we are not contemplating returning. Al qaedalinked groups have taken control of fallujah. The other province, ramadi, is under siege. It was one of the most dangerous places during the iraq war, where 1300 Coalition Soldiers were killed. The the group calls its the Islamic State of levant and wants to set up a sunni state in iraq, and across the border in syria and other countries. Its taken control of parts of syria. We go imran khan for more on the fighting. Fighters from the Al Qaedalinked state in the
Obesity is a problem in the developing world. The United Nations say rebels in south sudan are marching on the capitol and as cease fire talks get underway in neighboring ethiopia and the u. S. Embassy is evacuating all nonessential staff from the city and lets get straight over and talk about this in the capitol duba and mohamed what is the latest there, how far away are the rebel soldiers . Well, according to officials of the United Nations, rebels are 150 kilometers away at a town called mcwhite and this is 150 kilometers north of duba and its causing jitters here in duba particularly among the Diplomatic Community with the American Embassy and they are taking nonessential staff from dub and and asking any of the citizens in duba to make it to the airport so they can be provided with flight out of town. However, a spokesman for the presidency who spoke to me minutes ago has denied the allegations and the reports that the rebels are advancing on the capitol saying that was pure propa
Host our guest, larry elder. Radio talk show host, columnist. The firms are up on the the numbers are up on the screen. Were talking about his most recent book which is a memoir. Mr. Elder writes a lot about politics as people who follow him know. If youd like to dial in and talk about that as well, 2025853885 in the east and central time zones, 5853886 if youre in the mountain or pacific time zone where we are right now on the campus of usc. Mr. Elder, chapter two, if norl was hate. My hatred for my father was not the kind where you get a spanking, seethe for a bit and things go pack to number go back the number because you realize he punishes you because he loves you. Norm was intimidation. Normal was tense. Normal was wondering if you would Say Something that could set him off. Normal was hate. Yeah. When people look at me and im smiling, they often wonder why is it that im so sort of nonchalant about it. Im writing that from the perspective of a child, andering seems romantic, ever
Our worries. Maybe lights out for the United States. This was studied by congress in 2008. The effects of the power grid. Whether its that or a hack attack, if the grid goes out, they estimate that within a year, brenda, due to starvation, illness, general society breaking down, 90 of the u. S. Population could perish. There would be no food or water. It would be a combination of the walking dead, Hurricane Sandy and 9 11. It would be disastrous. John, this is a big weakness. Do you think it would be that dire . The e. M. P. That gary is talking ability, those are the projectio projections. I have a hard time believing that could happen. It could happen by a solar flare in the atmosphere. Whats more likely to happen is a simple hack. We have 5800 power plants in north america. 450,000 miles of high voltage lines. We have seen zero day vulnerability in power plants that the vendor doesnt know, but they are sold on the web to places like north korea, to places like iran. If this happens,
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