Im sammys a dan. This is al jazeera alive from dell hall. So coming up in florida, braces itself for the storm of the century. Is harrison in sets in size. In the united states, several European Countries warn the mystery leaks in Gas Pipelines from russia properly and acts of sabotage. And the record breaking drowned in the horn of africa puts humans and elephants in closer contact. Serious consequences. Ah, russian Bank Authorities in 4 occupied regions of ukraine say the results of a 5 day rough random show, a vast majority of people have voted to join russia. Kevin, its western ally. Se referendums are a sham of the boats were held in hassans upper asia. Don yeske and landscape together, they may comp 15 percent of ukrainian territory occupying administrations reported huge margins of victory sang enhanced 98 percent of voters favored annexation. Im at val. Reports its the final day of voting, but already elishas presence is overwhelming. Here for any one doubting the outcome of th
The eu have experienced sexual or physical violence. The worlds top dip lom at screening screening screening diplomats have converged on paris. Screening that you refer to seek a political solution to the deadlock. Ukraines economy has been given a boost. The European Commission has announced a massive aid package that you refer to ukraine worth at least 15,000,000,000. Now, all eye you screenings screening screening screening screening eye screening screening eye s and nato will hold talks with its headquarters in brucels. Ukrainian soldiers in the cream are surrounded by sharnings forces. In some cases, ukrainian troops say they are coming under pressure to take sides. Thats where we begin with this report from hoda who is on the cre crimean port. In there is somewhere where the russias have control, its here at sevastopol. They block all traffic, draining all life from this otherwise thriving port. This is an easy target for the russians. But if their intention is to take over all U
Rhetoric between the United States and russia today as the crisis in ukraine grows. Its time we wake up about Vladimir Putin. Students took to the streets, they said against rising crime. New report finds american hospitals and doctors have been overprescribing antlightics. Antibiotics are often used as shotgun treatments. We took time to watch the movie gravity. 260 miles above the earth, we know a little about gravity. We begin with russian pat Vladimir Putin in a rambling News Conference scolding the u. S. For interfering in ukraine and said his country was on a humanitarian mission to protect russians in crimea, vowing that any use of force by russia would be a last resort. President obama responded saying putins rationale was not fooling anybody, and he bristled as suggestions that the russians were doing a shrewd power grab. The way that some of this has been reported, that there is a suggestion somehow that the russian actions have been clever strategyically, i think this has no
And many other amendments that came from folks would never had an amendment brought up and discussed, those amendments were discussed in the farm bill. I would say that probably of the 73 that were considered, there were 300 offered and people would get up, they would have their say. They discuss the amendment. They knew probably it would not pass, and they would withdraw it. But they at least had the opportunity to represent their states and their constituents, and we had that opportunity. This years farm bill, was in 73 a maintenance. Voted about 10 times. Senator thune, respected member of the Agriculture Committee, senator johanns, former secretary of agriculture, senator grassley and myself, we all had a total of about 12 amendments. We withdrew those from consideration from the Committee Markup and said well take them up on the floor. Except the majority leader cut it off saying, timeout, no more. None of us got those amendments. As a former chairman of the Agriculture Committee
He could not have predicted how the terrorist threat would evolve buried at this Time Congress was completely focused on preventing another largescale attack on u. S. Soil. In 2001 we understood al qaeda to be a centralized organization no thought was even to the prospect that al qaeda would franchise terrorism and inspire satellite groups in the Arabian Peninsula and africa to bury the prospect and then attack would be carried out by a lone wolf actor with no direct training support from al qaeda and a barely into discussion. We were thinking that terrorist groups were focused on taking human lives. We did not predict that in the decade after the september 11th state actors or terrorist groups would try to and devastate our economy and steal valuable intellectual property by targetting are Cyber Infrastructure and in. Finally, we could not have imagined that on the eve of the 13th anniversary 9 11 another american president would come before the American People to make the case for de