The mouth expensive olympics in history are now underway in sochi russia today. There were qualifies events in snowboarding, and figure skating. The olympic flame also finished its tour a day before the opening ceremony. Construction crews are putting the finishing touches on security is tight as thousands of athletes and visitors attend the games. Despite threats of attacks from militant groups al jazeera has more now from sochi. Some of the preparations here have come down to the wire, with armies of helpers and volunteers putting the finishing touches to russias olympic dream. But on theve of the games an unlucked security development, a warning from the u. S. Government that bomb making equipment could be smuggled on to planes in tooth paste tubes. Russias deputy Prime Minister was quick with his reassurance. This information is being checked, if confirmed this means our Security Services are on alert. And this information that we got today about threats and risk allows us to say t
Decade behind bars. The Defense Department is creating the metal surrogate that could save your life in the future. In the wake of sagging Approval Ratings and approval over thinks healthcare law, president obama held his final scheduled press conference of the year, and he did make some news. In a session that lasted 61 minutes that involved questions from 11 different reporters the president for the first time publicly addressed the Task Force Report that urged the president to scale back efforts by th the National Security age. I have confidence that the nsa is not engaging in domestic surveillance or snooping around, but as people start changing algorithms and programs and map out all the information that were downloading on a database on our telephones and our computers we have to refine this further to give people more confidence. On the Affordable Care act known as obamacare the president said this afternoon nearly 2 million americans have applied for coverage on the health exch
Example, adult diabetes, Childhood Obesity and so on, other things that qatar is now trying to position itself as a Global Leader in addressing. I hate to end tonights discussion with the mention of diseases, but its been a pleasure and an honor being here. Thank you all, and my thanks again to osama. Thank you. [applause] before you turn if you dont mind i would like to say that have the professor for two more days here. You will be appearing at the Carnegie Endowment tomorrow at 1 p. M. To give his thoughts. Been back here for a conference on religious and secular trends in the region of north africa and the will be a paper on qatar involved with some of these religious developments in the region. So please, join us again tomorrow and the day after. But for now, please join us outside for some snacks and feel free to continue the conversation with professor mehran kamrava. Thank you all very much. [applause] is there a Nonfiction Author a book you would like to see featured on booktv
Center operations. Allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from texas, ms. Jackson lee, for five minutes. Ms. Jackson lee ask to address the house for five minutes, and revise and extend. The specrying,vomiting, and eigs pregnant the yuck woman walked in labor pains for an hour in search of an ambulance. She was 23 years old. Her journey did not end with that. She finally got to a place where a taxi was there, she had to convince this taxi driver in the midst of confusion, desperation, lack of food to take her 12 hours in labor to a place where she could deliver her baby. That is the plight of almost 650,000 women in pakistan. Where the floodwaters are monstrosities you would not imagine. In visiting pakistan, the congressional pakistan caucus, in the last 10 days i could see water as far as the eye c
Add war breaking out, will new Health Exchanges be up and running. And Risky Business unregulated banking is a 6 trillion dollar industry in china. It could cripple the worlds second largest economy. That and more tonight on nightly Business Report for tuesday, august 20th. Good evening everyone. The big buzz on wall street today, the strength of the american consumer. Four retailers came out with earnings and the results are mixed raising questions about how comfortable consumers are about spending and how that could impact the u. S. Economy. First up, home depot. Sales soared 11 helped by the turn around in housing. Sales are so good they uplifted the sales and earning look for the rest of the year. Barnes noble doubled, hurt by a 20 drop in sales by the nook e reader. J. C. Penney lasts tripled and sales dropped 11 as it tries to recover from Sales Strategies of the past. The Biggest Surprise is from best buy, earnings up a stunning 22 times from a year ago. It looks like the Electr