Modi that well resume negotiations on a High Standard bilateral investment treaty. And we seem to be miles apart from india. Even on basic definitions of investment. There is not much time left if you want to talk about it, but id like a detailed answer in writing. Im happy to get back to you in more detail. But in the minute i have lets me take a quick shot. Ive been deeply involved with the discussions with china through strategic and economic dialogues. It is a very important conversation because if it concludes successfully china will raise itself to standards that will help in a lot of ways in normalizing and improving trade balances. It empowers their reformers. It empowers their reformers to make the changes internally and stops them from doing things in International Markets that cause unfair advantage. I understand the rationale. What id like is a detailed summary where we are with this. And they are just taking the very first step very shortly putting out their first cut at w
House. Lets begin with the decision to retain troop levels in afghanistan. Democratyou can also send us a tweet or go to facebook. Com cspan or journal cspan. Org. Lets show you a friend pages of the pages. Obama the slow troop withdrawal from afghanistan. The u. S. Will maintain current levels. Two will be out by 2000 troops will be out by 2017. What are your thoughts on this . The phone lines are open. Lets hear a little bit more from the president yesterday. [video clip] president obama you cannot minimize the sacrifices that our military families make. Some folks will be rotating that for a few extra months. We are moving the drawdown pays over to the bright for several in part to compensate for the linkengthy time it took for government formation. We want to make sure we are doing everything we can to help Afghan Security forces succeed. So we do not have to go back. So we do not have to respond in an emergency because terrorist activities are being launched out of afghanistan. We
We have found that has been a really great thing. The byproduct of ethanol actually goes into the food chain and makes for delicious beef. Host in your state of the state address you listed a series of goals for this year, including the creation of 200,000 new jobs and a 15 reduction of the cost of government across iowa, 25 notease in family income, only the healthiest eight of the nation, but the best schools in the nation. How do you pay for all of that . Those areest Ambitious Goals that i said when i became governor. We have created 130,000 of those 200,000 jobs already. We have gone from six percent unemployment to 4. 2 unemployment. The big challenge now is funding the people with the skills to fill the jobs. Have an initiative this year and courage and the people coming out of the military to come to iowa. We are eliminating the tax and military retirement, making it possible for them to go to our schools on instate tuition, making it easier for them to get professional licensi
Mandatory minimum sentences in drug cases. Live coverage at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. 3, there will be a hearing on disabled military veterans and we will have live coverage starting at 2 00 eastern. I think there are some myths out there. I think that people think the maraschino cherry is some righteously preserved product and it is no different than a pickled cherry. The brine process is no different than with types of sulfate to use in making wine. Really, it is a i wouldnt call it a healthy product, but i would call it something that is a tasty treat. What you see here is cherries in various stages of process. The cherries that come in, even though they put them in water, they will have right in the fruit and so they will go through an extensive washing to get the sulfur and the call cm calcium salt out of the fruit. The practice of making them is basically, you taking that brine and youre soaking it in a stronger and stronger sugar and color solution. Over the course of that syrup theg
Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And friends of the newshour. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Woodruff ukraine pulled back from the brink, just a bit, today. The prorussian president reached agreement with pro western opposition leaders to limit his power and speed up elections. Protesters are supposed to disarm and withdraw, but its far from clear they will, after scores were killed and hundreds wounded this week. James mates of independent Television News filed this report. Independent square in kiev for once at a stand still. The only signs that chanting increased is the coffins of yesterdays dead hoisting up above the crowd. So many is making it extremely difficult for those who live to make it anything