Nationwide. We begin with a show of force by the commander in chief. President obama made a rare high profile visit to the pentagon to defend his strategy against i. S. I. L. The u. S. Led coalition was hitting the group harder than ever. The president s comments were aimed at his critics. Jamie mcintyre has more from the pentagon. Antonio. After a more than two hour meeting in the Briefing Room. President obama essentially said read my lips no new strategy. Trust me, the old one is working. President Barack Obamas motorcade left the White House House for a strort trip. Clarifying the commander in chief to the headquarters of the troops he commands. The meeting of the military and Homeland Security team was intended to show that defeating i. S. I. L. Remains among the president s top priorities. Afterwards in the pentagon Briefing Room obama talked tough but took no questions. As we squeeze the heart, well make is harder for i. S. I. L. To pump the terror and propaganda to the world. P
A referendum meant to bring stability to the country. Here in new york street art like this is becoming evermore prevalent and the street artists themselves gaining worldwide attention. Im gabriel, and that story is coming up. We have the days sports as asias football champions pull off a huge upset at the club world cup. This win is china setting up a semifinal encounter with barcelona. For months foreign powers have been pressuring rival factions in libya to form a unity government to block the advance of isil in the country. A major meeting on the political future wrapped up in rome with the u. S. Secretary of state john kerry warning that libya needs to move forward to realize its future. The countrys two rival parliaments are set to meet on wednesday to sign an agreement to form a unity government, but opponents have been resisting the deal, and past agreements have fallen through. Libyas leadership is torn between the General National Congress based in tripoli and the internation
Burundis president said he doesnt want the African Union to send peacekeeping troops to his country to stop the silence there. The a. Usaid that burundi is on the brink of civil war and will send 5,000 soldiers without the governments consent. They told al jazeera why they wont be wonderfullewelcomed. There are international regressions in sending peace keepers in any given country in the world. We as the government believe that these regulations have not been followed because the center has not been consulted on this, and was surprised that troops are being prepared to be sent to burundi. And which has an army and a police which are fully functioning. We dont believe that the u. N. Security council is going to back such a solution. They passed a resolution, and they didnt point to anything that would point to a situation where peace keepers would be needed in burundi, and very recently there is a special enjoy in the u. N. Council, who was here in burundi, who received an audience by
At the end of the day. Take a look at nike, thats been a big help to the dow, popping after yesterdays stock splint, they told it about it after the bell. We will tell you why much of the streets still bullish after all of these moves. When the last time a Company Split their stock in it happened all the time in the 90s. It started to happen a little bit once we got that round after 2009, things started to come back. Apple obviously did it and there was another example of a company that was under pressure to increase its financial moves, return capital to shareholders, now nike following suit. A lot havent and the average price of the stock is higher than it has been historically. As the Hackers Group anonymous takes aim at isis in the wake of the paris terrorist attacks we have a former member of that organization, of anonymous joining us live to talk about whether the war on terror will be won over the internet and whether Silicon Valley should be sharing its information with the gov
Lot of people typically wearing dresses. But its not necessarily for style. Style. By wearing a dress we can hopefully raise awareness of human trafficking, not only in the rld but here locally. For 31 days, a dress a day is supposed to spark questions in an effort to educate. Educate. This is the official dressember dress. And its been working. Working. Often the response isis ivvnever heard of that and thats a great opportunity for myself to share about dressember. Dressember. People think its iowa, its a small town, a sml state, its pretty safe but theres actually a lot of trafficking victims that are taken through the state of iowa. By wearing the dresses, theyre not only taking a stand, theyre supporting an effort already in place. All the items you u e here a a mama by women, rescued from trafficking and they made these in the sewing center in nepal. Nepal. They make is so that the women can have a choice between being a prostitute or they can give them a chance to get a job, to