Some people are stopping pills, medications altogether. Is there going to be a desire for shareholder value, prescriptions and profits . Its the inside story. Welcome to inside story. Im ray suarez. In the past few weeks, americans have been treated to the spectacle of an unapologetic corporate chief confidentably justifying his decision to take a 62yearold drug and start charging 50 times its regular price from 13. 50 to 750. The drug startup made mar stin martin strel lrv elli look like gla glaxo smith kline, look like a poster boy. Since it has no counterpart, its developer, touring pharmaceuticals, can charge what they want. Even by a factor of 50. Successful drug company, profitable drug company. I see where it looks greedy but there are a lot offal truic of altruistic issues. Critics attack touring and others like it for this basic Business Model. These companies are simply acquiring all therapies and repackaging them and saying well now were going to set the price at this amount
Alaska. And life on mars . A New Discovery suggests it could be possible. A busy day in new york for president obama after addressing the u. N. General assembly he met on the sidelines with Vladimir Putin. And topping their agenda, the war in syria. President obama had some tough words today about president Bashar Alassad. Lets remember how this started. Assad reacted to peaceful protests by escalating repression and killing, and in turn, created the environment for the current strife. Lets go to Mike Viqueira at the u. N. Mike, president obama called out russia over its position on syria, and ukraine in front of the entire General Assembly. What if anything do we know about what happened hah in sideline meeting with president putin. Reporter i have to tell you, as i stand here on 1st avenue on new york citys east side, the president s limousine just went by, an hour earlier than we expected it to go, because that meeting went an hour longer than expected. So we dont know exactly what
N. A. T. O. Renews pledges to defend mem berls, including neighbouring turkey. New threat. We are trying to salvage what we can. South carolina residents trying to recover amid rain falls of dangerous flooding. Pluto revealed. Discoveries about the mysterious planet billions of miles from the sun evening, im antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. We begin with a Shocking Development in the battle for House Speaker. The front runner dropped out of the race just before a meeting to nominate the party. It throws the area into chaos. Al jazeeras Michael Shure reports from capital hill. A shocking day on capitol hill. A day we were supposed to know who the republicans were nominating for speaker of the house. Turns out that at the end of the day we are further away from knowing who that will be. It started with an abrupt withdrawal of majority leader of Kevin Mccarthy. Reporter when the day began, Kevin Mccarthy was the frontrunner for House Speaker and then the unexpected. What happened
And we begin with the United States announcing that its abandoning its plan to train Syrian Rebels to train against isil. The pentagon admits that the 500 million plan is not working, but Mike Viqueira is in washington with the latest. Reporter succeeding failure, secretary of defense, ash cart, said that the u. S. Is pulling the plug on the program to train and equip Syrian Rebels. The way to achieve the same kind of strategic objective, which is the right one. Reporter the idea was for the u. S. To train fighters in a third country and send them back to syria to fight isil. [ audio difficulties ] our apologies, well get back to that report from Mike Viqueira in moments. A top general has been killed in syria. Hosein was apparently advising syrian troops when he was killed. Hamdany was a long time figure in the revolutionary guard. Russia said its latest airstrikes in syria have killed hundreds of fighters, along with two field commanders. Russia has remained one of bashar alassads st
Ryan express, calls grow louder for former republican vmenVice President ial candidateo fill the shoes of john boehner. And elephants, cancer fighting . Their secretes could help scientists find cures to cancer in humans. Good evening im antonio mora, this is al jazeera america. As president obama traveled to console the families of 9 College Students killed in oregon, two attacks occurred in other parts of the country, in texas and in arizona, at flagstaff. 18yearold steven jones opened fire on four Fraternity Members after a fight broke out in a parking lot. Jones is charged with murder and assault. We are of course shocked and deeply saddened by the circumstances that bring us together this morning. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families and our entire lumberjack family. While guns are prohibited on Arizona College campuses, state law does allow for guns in vehicles. And in houston an 18yearold freshman was killed and another wounded outside student apartments. Police