Transmitted from human to human. Becomes a city chiefs reach the super bowl for the 1st time since 1007 think theyll face the 49 is after the player that nobody wanted to lead San Francisco the biggest guy even american school. Fellow we begin this news hour in iraq where there are reports that protesters have been killed in the capital baghdad thats after police tried to break down barricades on the outskirts of the city dozens are said to be injured rallies have also broken out in several southern cities including as often also the protesters have cut off the south. Major roads lets bring in it is joining us from baghdad a cautious as weve been reporting taking place osama are the numbers getting larger. Absolutely dreamed throughout monday weve been hearing more and more protesters gathering where we are in tehran square weve been hearing gunshots being fired from a distance been seeing live ammunition is being used let me move out of the frame and if we can zoom in and show you whe
Inside stories next that youve got so much. The civil war in libya is a global affair many countries are involved on both sides as the battle for tripoli intensifies turkey is the latest to deploy troops making neighboring countries increasingly anxious so how are outside forces shaping libyas future this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program. Libyas warlord is pushing on with his 1st took up the capital tripoli its in the west where the u. N. Recognize government of Prime Minister. Is based while how to have the support of a rival government in the east libya has been divided like this since mama got that the was deposed and killed in 2011 its more than 8 months since houghton launched his offensive against tripoli and his forces have now which the center of sirte 450 kilometers away the city lies close to libyas socalled oil crescent where several key export terminal located the advance comes as turkey has begun deploying troops to libya to support assad was his government as
Thank you all for coming. I want to thank our panelists for what is going to be a very important hearing. The rules will be that i will make some opening remarks, senator burr, the Ranking Member will make opening remarks, members will have three minutes, and i will keep people to three minutes because it will be a long hearing it, and that we will go to secretary shinseki, and the undersecretary. Excellent second panel and a very good third panel as well. It will be a long hearing, and we will get through it. Let me begin by just making a few basic points. Serious allegations have v. A. Personnelt in phoenix and other locations. I take these allegations seriously, as i know every member of the committee does, which is why i have supported an thependent investigation of v. A. Inspector general, and they are in phoenix doing a thorough investigation, and my hope is the report will be done as soon as possible. What i have stated and i will repeat right now, is that as soon as that report
Chairman, for holding this hearing. I certainly echoed the concerns of my colleagues and the need for structural and systemwide changes. Healthcare system is a promise that we made to americas veterans that we will take care of them in return for their service and sacrifice. The close to 10 million veterans that access care through the v. A. Systems need to trust that they are receiving high quality care when they need it, and i do note that 10 million veterans signed up for the healthcare huge here that is greater than the population of a number of states, including the state of hawaii. When we fail to provide proper care for our veterans, we not only fail them, but their families as well, and these families have also sacrifice for our nations security, and provide essential care and support for our veterans. While the immediate focus might be on the phoenix case and similar allegations regarding a hospitals,ther v. A. It is important to see what is happening systematically at the v.
I do not think any took place did the v. A. Take to respond to the memorandum that to see to it that hospital directors followed their orders . We have worked very hard to root out these inappropriate uses of the scheduling system and these abuses. We have been working continuously to try to identify where those sites are and what we need to do to prevent that from happening. It is absolutely inexcusable. The schedulers response validity is to nature that that program is administered with integrity. What do you do when you uncover one . What do you do to hold them accountable . The individuals are held accountable. I cannot give you an example of specifically, but if someone were found to be manipulating the scheduling system, they would be disciplined. Would they lose their job . I do not know whether that is the appropriate level of punishment or not. We can probably give you a little better answer to this, because youre focused on scheduling. In 2012, we involuntarily removed 3000 e