Agree with you. We really cant underestimate the size of this deal. What i have learned in the last 24 hours, it is only the beginning process. A lot ofi spent time with Wolfgang Munchau trying to stagger the european parliament. Jonathan the signal here is important. Europe is demonstrating they can borrow at the european level and distribute grants accordingly. That was unthinkable 10 years ago. Lisa they are also putting in certain taxation powers that give it more of a federation kind of feel. Europe has gotten its act together. How about the United States . Today we hear potential results from treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and House Speaker nancy pelosi discussing the proposal that mooching came to with the white house. This will potential into payroll tax cuts, as well as potentially no state aid, which will be a problem for democrats. In the Senate Banking committee on nominations to the fed reserve board. Then united air and snap reporting earnings. Snap at the forefront of
Also today, 200,000 passengers have had their travel plans disrupted because of a ba pilots strike. Jesy nelson from little mix reveals that online bullying after appearing on the x factor drove her to try to tkae her own life. I remember i think i had about 101 inbox messages on my facebook. And i remember clicking on it and the first one that come up was from, i dont know who it was, some random man. And he was like, you are the ugliest thing ive ever seen in my life. You do not deserve to be in this girl band. How on earth were you ever put in this girl band . You deserve to die. And, this actor, Anthony Ekundayo lennon, was at the centre of a storm when he when he was accused of faking his racial background to get onto a theatre traineeship scheme. This is his mum. This is his dad. Hes since taken a dna test to discover more about his background. Hes live in his first broadcast interview about the controversy. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 00 this morning. Wer
Include isil or assad, as you stated in your testimony and that relying on moderate rebels to defeat them both and usher in a political settlement, will the assad regime being supported by iran and russia as they are and with isil being so well financed, how will a group of rebels be able to defeat them both . And what would they need in order to accomplish that goal . The administration doesnt have a comprehensive policy to deal with all of the threats in iraq and syria and iran, nor does it seem to want one. These arent realistic plans that can truly destroy isil, can defeat al news ra and defeat the assad regime. We havent even begun the train and equip mission and were about a year away from even standing that minimal force up, if ever at all. Is that the case . Where are we with that mission, sir . In my testimony, i did focus on the concern about the militias and Prime Ministers batty to reign those in, all armed groups within the structures of state. I also focussed on the desir
Or second us a tweet at comments. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Now on efforts to combat isis in iraq and syria. Deputy mckirk testified before the House Foreign Affairs committee about the obama administrations strategy and efforts to build a more Effective National government in iraq. This is two hours and ten minutes. This hearing will come to order, i will ask those in the audience to take their skates at this time. This morning we welcome back ambassador mcgirk who was one of the few sounding the itsis alar as early as you did. We were having hearings last february to discuss the need to use airpower to turn back isis. After four months of the u. S. Led air campaign in iraq and in syria, isis still controls essentially the same amount of territory than it did in the summer. And one of the reasons for this in my opinion is the limited nature of this effort. We have conducted only about 1,000 air strikes to date, to date. Now if you if you compared that to when Saddam H
Review board report to upgrade security for personnel at highthreat posts. Has this been done . Not according to the facts ive heard. So, in fact, the department has yet to comply with benghazi arb recommendation 11, correct . We believe benghazi arb 11 intended for there to be Marine Security guards at all high threat posts. So i want to hear you say yes, that is correct. Thank you very much. Ive got 24 22 seconds left. I did want to touch a little bit on the local guard force. Real quick, mr. Linick, if i can just get to the findings with you. A, b, Regional Security officers took it upon themselves to vary the vetting and approval process and failed to ensure that the security contractors provided all the required documents. Thats correct . Thats correct. So, did any of the Security Companies that had contracts fully perform all vetting required in their contracts . No. We looked at 87 personnel files and none of them none of the security contractors performed all of the vetting req