Symonds of the scottish fishing port of peterhead ill be assessing the mood here over the fishing rights the main obstacle to post trade talks with the e. U. And im santa how much and i have all the sport the Atlanta Braves to take it to a nothing lead in the National League championship series. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced following days of heavy fighting between Government Troops and taliban fighters in southern afghanistan it began on saturday and aid agencies now say hospitals are becoming overwhelmed with the fighting is in Helmand Province and centered around the regional capital of lashkar gah or the u. S. Has been carrying out air strikes to defense Afghan Security forces though this is the 1st Major Taliban offensive since peace talks with the Afghan Government began last month and it could come. Kates the United States plans to bring the whole remaining forces by Christmas Well weve got 2 reporters on this story a summer binge of baiters life or is indoor b
Not discussing a transition, and if he thinks hes going to be part of that future. Its not going to happen. The people who are the opponents of this regime will never, ever stop. They will be an insurgency at least and worse potentially even than a civil war if it continues, because they will not stop. Now we also are not out of options with respect to what we may be able to do to increase the pressure and further change the calculation. And i think weve made that clear to the Russian Foreign minister and others. Nor are the other players short of an ability to be yet to have an impact here. So i think they can bolster, they can protest, they can put out distortions. At the bottom line is we are going to geneva to implement jimmy fell one. And if assad doesnt do that he will invite greater response in various ways for various people over a period of time. So im not particularly surprised that hes trying to divert this, hes been doing this for months to make himself the protector agains
Caller these are things i consider and i am concerned about. I want people my age group to get involved. A lot of people dont have a platform to talk about this. I think they have a lot of energy. Id like to really see the youth, and people in churches, and people that have good morals and ideas for the future to step p. It looks like the brookings interests tute discussion is about to start. We have time for one more. You are on cspan. Go ahead. Caller yeah, i was watching the speech and stuff, which i thought was good to a certain extent. The thing i have a problem with is they can say all they want on these speeches, but they are still going to do what they want to do behind closed doors. I was raised to respect the title of the person, whether it be the judge or police officer, ut it boils down to a person that has that title. If you cant respect that person that has that title, then there is no respect at all for law or our government. Im not just thing obama, im saying our congre
Us on facebook or twitter. Finally, send an email. We get to your calls, here is some of the news from overnight. Tom coburn will not serve out the rest of his term. On thursday night that he will not serve the rest to steperm and intends down because of deepening health problems. In his statement, he acknowledged that he is battling a recurrent cancer and will continue to fight for his priorities are in the remainder of his time in office. Both carolyn and i have been touched by the encouragement we have been received, he said. As a citizen, he is convinced that he can best serve his children and grandchildren as shifting his focus elsewhere. He notified aides earlier in the day. Earlier in denied the evening. The decision to resign marks a shift in his plans from an interview earlier this month. He said he had believed he was healthy enough to serve out his term, but acknowledged that circumstances could change. The decision will be made in conjunction with family as to how to best i
Others on the hill with a rewrite of the 96 act and one of the principle things we wanted to do was to be able to plan. I think you guys gave us 110 rulemaking said we had to do roughly in 18 months so we were doing an awful lot of planning and that just got eliminated which meant when we came back to work we were all working double time to try to catch up. Host were deadlines extended . Guest the deadlines in terms of the fcc were extended obviously for certain kinds of filings. But you know the most critical thing was congress didnt give us any slack and i dont think they shouldve let me pass the bill a couple of months later and said you get these things done in six months and these then 12 months and these in 18 months. It took an awful lot of work an awful or portability an awful or portability than we were able to meet up with deadlines. If we had a shutdown the middle of that there is no way we could have done it a luck its just a lot of extra work and if you were to take a busi