To adjoin assads forces. They have been bolstered by militiamen from iraq yemen afghanistan months others leaving some to refer to the regimes constellation of forces as irans foreign legion. Meanwhile heavily sunniarab northcentral region has come under the control of the diverse assortment of armed opposition groups including al qaeda affiliates and the Islamic State of iraq bolstered by fighters from the middle east to europe and even the United States. In the Kurdish North the offshoot of the Workers Party of the pkk has also dominated the scene and operates freely. Meanwhile attempts by major neighboring states and world powers to contain the crisis are under serious stress. Car bombs and violence threatening both the countrys fragile sectarian balance and jordans suffering the stress of a 615,000 official refugees is currently struggling to defend his territory from crossborder attacks. What is sometimes called the regions Security Architecture middle east postworld war i boundar
The russians with something that they know cant happen for two, three years is, may be counterproductive and, my reaction as an Energy Person is to say that the russian reaction would be, if that is the best youve got, then we have nothing to worry about. Thank you all for your testimony. I once again, thank you. Mr. Chow, let me follow up on that for a moment if i might. And that is you mentioned that any solution with lng in regards to ukraine would be midterm, longterm solutions, not short term. Can you just review with us what we should be doing in the short term . N russia has a doubleedged sword here. They can absolutely imply different pressure on ukraine by either raising price or, or cuttinger off but, its a very profitable source of income for russia. And of course a lot of the energy goes through the pipelines to other countries. However, ukraine needs to make itself more independent and have alternative sources and use less energy which is an area that i think the imf is ve
Specifically the art museum in berlin which is one of the areas things to go through in the world room by room. There is no provenance attached to any of those works of art. It is just artists, title, thats it. You dont know if it came from prussian state. You dont know which state or municipal gallery it came from. You dont know anything then thats the principle artist. Museum of germany. It is very very weird. Comments . Let me just contrast that with france. France had this socalled Art Collection which was essentially jewish art that they made minimal efforts to locate the owners but to their credit much more recently and after the Washington Trust what they did with their art is face and its and in fact it was the question whether the Jewish Community should claim that art and have a museum of their own and they said no it belongs to the french state but what we want and what we got was some history of what happened. It may save from an unknown jewish family that at least someone
Industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. Watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Next, the first in a series of discussions from this Years National bullying prevention summit. Officials from the National Institutes of health and the Education Department describe trends in bullying behavior over the past year. It is part of an effort to create a National Strategy that engages private and public organizations. This is 45 minutes. Good morning, everyone. I would like to introduce the first session which is entitled bullying trends where we have been, where we are now and where we are going. We have three excellent speakers for the session. First up is mr. Tom snyder from the department of education. He is the director of annual reports and information staff at the National Center for Education Statistics and is a recognized expert on Education Statistics. [ applause ] thank you for this opportunity to come talk to you about some of the data tha
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