Dropped an atomic bomb on at the end of the second world war. He is not expected to offer an apology, so what will he offer . Good to have you with us. To sin, to slim, after decades of downsizing, germany has announced plans to expand its armed forces. It is a paradigm shift, 25 years after the end of the cold war. Back in 1990, germany had 600,000 soldiers in the armed forces. Today, they are just shy of 180,000 left as a result of a strategic shift toward a lean, tech savvy and mobile, modern army. They were significant cuts at the same time. The military commitment abroad has grown, around 3400 german soldiers are currently deployed in more than a dozen conflict regions around the world. We are talking about afghanistan to iraq, to the balkans and to south sudan in africa. Germanys defense minister wants to add another 14,000 soldiers and 4000 civilian personnel. Not everyone here has welcomed the plans. Reporter the defense minister visited nato maneuvers in poland. New challenges
Defenses. The first session for the evening is from pete and joyce giving Public Sector perspective on this topic. Pete was former cto for department of energy, currently a member of icit gala board and ceo of doths and bridges. Joyce Hunter Deputy cio policy and planning for u. S. Department of agriculture. So please help me welcome our first speakers. Great, thanks, parham. I appreciate the chance to be here. Two villanova grads, if youre wondering what the v stand for, pretty excited, it was a good year for us. Again, im only about nine, nine and a half, ten months removed from the federal government. Whats most exciting after 25 years and spending the last 7 1 2 or so at the department of energy was the opportunity to sort of take what i was doing in my role there. That was working inarguably the members us of the critical sectors, the 16 we know exist today but also on this panel or this conversation were going to talk a bit about how joyce at the usda and department of energy, co
More than 150,000 people reportedly making reservations for the car. Putting down 1,000. The car wont even go into production until late next year. Kara, you wouldnt know that this was a day when a newish iphone was going on sale. We didnt see lines outside the apple stores. That group of people moved to tesla and lined up out there. What do you think this says about the model 3 . Its supposed to start at 35,000. Probably the people putting this reservation down are going to end up paying more like 54 or 60,000. What does it say about anticipation for the car and just the overall star power of elon muscling. I dont think theyre going to pay that much. Theres federal subsidies associated with the first 200,000 cars. Thats the whole point of the model 3. Its part of his master plan was to push out the luxury cars and then move into this market which is where most people live. Hes trying to do a car for the masses. Im not sure everybody can afford this car. Its still very expensive but it
Americas kids. We begin tonight with what european authorities are calling a crack down on islamic terrorists. In paris 12 people arrested and questioned for possible ties on last weeks attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a jewish supper market. Two people in custody suspected of having links to i. S. I. L. And in belgium 13 arrested after two suspects are dead. More from neave barker. Police stand Guard Buildings stand the effects of a raid. This was one of a dozen across the country. Imminent attack on a grand scale. This operation was meant to dismantd ldismantle a terrorist cell and the network behind it. This investigation for the time being has shown that these people had intention to kill several police in the street. Gun fire and explosions ring out as federal police storm the building. The man that filmed these images has lived on the street for seven years. No situations that anything could happen no suspicions that anything could happen on the street . No, no suspicion. I would lik
Parts of the u. S. Northeast already buried in deep snow are bracing for anoter blizzard. New yorks governor is calling it a historic event. A monster winter storm earlier this week pounded the state of new york, leaving it buried under six feet thats about three meters of snow. If forecast hold true for this storm thats coming, new york will have gotten a years worth of the white stuff in just three days. At least eight deaths in western new york are being blamed on the Winter Weather so far. At least three of them from heart attacks suffered while the victims were shoveling snow. Residence across the northeast are being told to stay indoors. Almost two meters of snow fell over the last 24 hours in buffalo. Helpless drivers were everywhere. Many roads had to be closed, and hundreds of vehicles were trapped. Emergency workers did all they could to reach people stranded on the highways. Many of them could not get home and had to spend the night and public shelters. It was cold. I was re