Northern iraq. An awesome site. Celebrating mass with Saint Francis on the last day of his trip to the philippines. Syria, several hezbollah fighters have been killed from an alleged attack by israeli air attacks today not fear from the border with lebanon. In beirut with more on this. Tell us what you know. We are still getting information. The information we have is an israeli hedge staktdz the out outskirts of the town in southern syria on the border with israel. Its been confirmed by hezbollah that the son of imad mahari his name was jihad was killed in that attack. Still trying to get more information. He is a field commander for hezbollah. More information still waiting dom through at this stage. The syrian observatory is saying that six proassad allies were killed in that attack. So that is as much information as we have so far. The information i have here correct me if i am wrong is that its the son of i amad the kognia who was killed in dubai about 2008, i think it was. Is thi
Officials lift the flight data recorder from the java sea. And a film that took over 12 years to make boyhood, takes the top five at the Golden Globes. Well be mulling over all the other winners. Plus aaron is here looking at a return boom in the u. S. Car industry. Happy days are here again, lucy u. S. Car sales had their best year since 2006 and so with the big daddy of motor shows, detroit, kicking off today, were going to take a look at what hot, sexy sport cars are back as the u. S. Economy bounces back. Oh and those Lower Oil Prices mean big babies like these are in hot demand. Its midday in london 7 00 a. M. In washington and 1 00 in the afternoon in paris, where the french cabinet has held a crisis meeting on the countrys security. Nearly 15,000 french soldiers and police are now going to be mobilized to safeguard sensitive sites in the country. 5,000 of them will protect jewish schools. Well, deployment comes as the hunt continues for accomplices of the attacks that left 17 pe
Understanding of this truly devastating problem. That concludes our hearing. Thank you. We are live on capitol hill this morning in the Canon House Office building where up next counterterrorism and intelligence officials from the departments of Homeland Security, justice, state and the National Counterterrorism center will testify before the House Homeland Security committee about the threat of far win and domestic terrorists who the United States. Its expected to get under way in just a moment. Live coverage here on cspan3. While we have a moment the Associated Press reporting today that the president is asking congress to formally authorize war against Islamic State militants, offering a draft resolution that says the Islamic State poses a grave threat. The president is sending congress a proposed threepage authorization for military force. The president would limit authorization to three years with no restriction where u. S. Forces could pursue the threat. By the way, the entire do
On thursday, the Potomac Institute for policy studies brought together the former Defense Department and fbi officials to discuss the terror group isis. They reviewed the groups evolution and spoke about why the International Community did not detect them earlier. This is about an hour and 45 minutes. Thank you very much, mike, for the introduction. I would like to welcome the panelists as well as the audience and those who collaborated with us over the years in the Diplomatic Community in washington and internationally. As mike indicated, we are going to focus with isis and we have a very distinguished panel with rich backgrounds and experience. I will not go into details to introduce them, but first, we have professor ruth wedgwood. Right here to my left, not politically, but at any rate i am, actually. [laughter] she is a professor of International Diplomacy at Johns Hopkins university and the president of the International Law association and she has worked with different administr
And to visit the plants that have been displaced. The titans that run these global transnational corporations, they are operatives and the wall street giants that finance them could care less about workers anywhere or the community in which they live. And frankly, these new bosses of Global Production dont care about democracy or the rule of law either. They pay whatever they want and they can pay off as they see fit. Ive seen workers in making may tag washing machines in monterey, mexico. They used to be made in newton, iowa. Those workers dont make enough to buy the washing machines they make. The poverty rate in newton has dramatically increased in the town that paul may tag built. The quality of those machines has gone down too. Who can be proud of what is happening . I visited the homes of those workers from monterey lived and other maquilla factory zones and seen firsthand their impofferished living standards. I stood at a surreal location in mexico witnessed the jobs outsourced