Have serious concerns about the rising number of palestinian civilian deaths and the loss of israeli lives. Why it now has to be our focus and the focus of the International Community to bring about a ceasefire that ended the fighting and can stop the deaths of an and civilians, both in gaza and israel. Kerry will meet with allies and partners. I have instructed him to push for the immediate cessation of hostilities based on a return to the november 2012 ceasefire agreement between israel and hamas in gaza. The work will not be easy. Obviously, there are enormous passions involved in this, and some very difficult Strategic Issues involved. Nevertheless, i have asked john to do everything he can to help facilitate a cessation of hostilities. We dont want to see any more civilians getting killed. With respect to you train, it since theen four days flight was shot down over territory held by russian backed separatists in ukraine. Over the last several days our s have been absolutely broke
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Ill be reporting on how this market has seen business from europe and america. Hello, we begin in iraq, where they are preparing a counter offensive to try to retake the city of ramadi from isil, they took control on sunday night after days of heavy fight, it makes the Group Stronger as it consolidates its hold on the biggest province. Dana has more from baghdad. Isil is in control of ramadi, after three day sophisticated assault they managed to push Government Forces out of the capital the provincial council asks the help to recapture the city and these militias are now preparing gear up for a counter offensive. This is very controversial decision, and many tribal leaders have been warning against it saying it will backfire, and some of them are saying, they will consider this a iranian occupation. They have been issuing warnings and, appealing for weapons and they were requesting weapons to, take on the fight and the government has been has been reluctant to give them weapons. We hea
These are completely counterfactual. Speed mac. The fed used to have reserves and one of the changes is that now they can pay it and they look at the new tool of the interest rate. And number of people to put this in context a number of people have been arguing one of the problems in terms of Funding Investment in the private sector is that the fed is taking the money out of the system by paying interest on reserves. I think there is very little evidence that that is the case created the design of the policy was primarily to make sure that there was control over the rate to keep the fund rate is much narrower than they had been. Remember that as a time when it was all over the place. It seemed to have worked quite effectively, and i think the evidence to that policy is pretty positive. The evidence against it in terms of its longterm effect is minimal. That doesnt mean that it couldnt be used to harm the private sector by taking the money out of the economy because they have discretion
Lets go to a second question and that is given the way in which this nexus crosses two communities, the Law Enforcement community and the National Security community, are we effectively organized to deal with these problems and the special issues of this nexus and how should we be changing our organization nationally or internationally to be dealing with these issues. Any thoughts from the panelists . We should not go to knee jerk reactions when a major disaster happens and ill give you an example. Back in the days of my partnership of trying to bridge that gap between intel and Law Enforcement and Work Together, during that time we had an Organization Called the organized crime operation. S group. Case officers from the cia, i had about 15, at any given time 15 to 20 fbi agents and analysts assigned there fulltime. It was very successful. With regard to Human Trafficking internationally, we did two renditions in that program for Major International human smugglers working together. 9