Good morning for russia live from art internationals World News Center here in moscow has just turned 1170 in here with the update in more detail this hour 1st started releasing protesters who were detained during the arrest that followed sundays disputed president ial election now weve got for you here the 1st images of colorations walking free from to tension so many of some people have been held for 4 days the interior ministry had pledged to release all detainees later today friday around 6000 were arrested during the 1st 3 days of unrest and ambulance talk to released overnight describe to us what shed witnessed inside she says. As it was written when my girls were lying there enjoy swinburne x. Out. Mostly beaten so badly that the guys just how it was a terrible how the blood flows in my veins just from what we heard every night it was terrible whats wrong with your life so bad deciding to play a little war here because of some nonsense what kind of doctor is are you are not a do
Internet and find themself spart, you see people who have had no training, no association with it, including americans, who go on the internet and find themself s themselves enthralled because of whatever lost souls they are or because of the violence with isil and selfradicalize and unfortunately undertake to do violence. So you see that spectrum there. You do see some effort by isil, meaning isil in syria and iraq to command and control, but its not exclusively that way. I say all this because thats very distinctly different from the al qaeda model. The al qaeda model was a very hierarchical, very clear command and control type terrorist enemy. And that meant they had discipline and it meant they could take on big things like 9 11, but it also meant that when we started to go after them they were vulnerable to attacks on the command and control structure and on their logistics structure. Isils more resilient because it is more decentralized and informal in that kind of sense. Takes a
Discuss the future of television technology. A Government Accountability Office Report has found that construction of a new u. S. Embassy in kabul afghanistan, has gone 27 overbudget. Gao and state Department Officials testified about the project at a House Oversight committee hearing. Republican Jason Chaffetz chairs this three and a half hour hearing. Committee on oversight and government reform will come to order. I appreciate you being here as we have a hearing today regarding the Construction Costs and delays of the United States embassy in kabul, afghanistan. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. I appreciate you being here. This is an important topic. We have so Many Americans who have given their lives in afghanistan, who have sacrificed away from their families to serve the United States of america and our interests there. We have a duty and a obligation to make sure that they are well housed, that they are safe, that they are secure, that theyre able to do
Decades or more and the policy has failed. We ought to try Something Else not just continue applying that same model to new substances. Thats just me. Mr. Wooldridge. In talking about alcohol in the period of alcohol prohibition, bootleg dhol was adulterated with methyl alcohol and other compounds and drinkers were blinded and people were paralyzed and there was a term called jake leg which was a kind of paralysis in which people were perm nentsly injured from their use of alcohol and that, of course, we know is the function of prohibition and not of the legal control. Are these drugs harmful . The evidence is of people who present themselves to the police and so on yes, these seem to be quite harmful. They are harmful as a consequence of the market distortions that Law Enforcement creates for the drugs that people want to get and there was an article in the New York Times magazine this sunday, i didnt want to use these drugs, but theyre easier to get and theyre being represented as be
Thank you, mike. This has been a terrific session. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] that is live at noon eastern here on cspan. Institute hosted this discussion on how religion factors into u. S. Diplomatic efforts with islamic nations. This is an hour and a half. Good morning. I would like to welcome you to the middle east Institute Panel on preventing violence in the name of god. Religion and diplomacy in the middle east. I would like to issue a special welcome to our cspan viewers this morning. Series one second diplomacy and religion. The first, we held a month ago featuring the cardinal and ayatollah taking up topics from a religious point of view. Today, we take it up from a diplomatic perspective. Things have changed regarding religion and statecraft in u. S. Diplomacy, particularly in the department of state. Madeline albright records in her memoirs the mighty and the almighty, many pract