tomorrow. thank you. tens of thousands of egyptians rallied today in cairo to mark the first anniversary of the uprising against then president hosni mubarak. liberals and islamists gathered on different sides of tahrir square illustrating their divide over the way forward in egypt. russia s foreign minister says his country will continue to block sanctions or involve in the syria. international red cross reports the head of the syrian red crescent branch was fatally shot today in a northern town in syria. a prominent lawmaker says parliament will soon consider halting all oil export to europe. e.u. announced monday it will stop importing iranian oil. they are promoting a boycott to pressure iran over the nuclear program. back in this country, supporters of a project to pipe canadian oil to the gulf coast are not giving up. chief national correspondent jim angle has the latest on
the keystone xl efforts. republicans made clear today they will press for approval of the keystone pipeline in spite of the president s decision to delay it. we fought in one world war ii in less time than it s taken so far to evaluate this project. the pipeline was studied 40 months before the president delayed final approval in the face of a 60-day deadline from congress saying it wasn t in the national interest now but he would take a look in 2013. today democrats raised a new objection, calling the pipeline a republican earmark. do you remember the republicans saying they were against earmarks? report that koch brothers might have interest and demand a subpoena. we re not asking the koch brothers to appear because the koch brothers have nothing to do with the project. as they called for a success, waxman threw this dart. are you calling the koch brothers in the recess? let me tell you something,
tomorrow. thank you. tens of thousands of egyptians rallied today in cairo to mark the first anniversary of the uprising against then president hosni mubarak. liberals and islamists gathered on different sides of tahrir square illustrating their divide over the way forward in egypt. russia s foreign minister says his country will continue to block sanctions or involve in the syria. international red cross reports the head of the syrian red crescent branch was fatally shot today in a northern town in syria. a prominent lawmaker says parliament will soon consider halting all oil export to europe. e.u. announced monday it will stop importing iranian oil. they are promoting a boycott to pressure iran over the nuclear program. back in this country, supporters of a project to pipe canadian oil to the gulf coast are not giving up. chief national correspondent jim angle has the latest on
they also argue it created 300,000 jobs. visibly angry house speaker accused the president of selling out jobs for politics and surrendering u.s. energy security to china. the council said the pipeline projects like this one can create hundreds of thousands of american jobs. the union support it, the state along the proposed route support it. bipartisan support here in the congress of the united states. wary of offending the labor units, the democrats offered a mostly muted reaction. the study, you to look at the new roof and be sure there are not problems with it. that is doable. it find it unfortunate. reporter: environmental groups waged a three-year war against the project. the real fear is that pipeline is unsafe and could
the recommendation of hillary clinton who 16 months ago spoke in support of the pipeline. considering relevant environmental issues and the consequences of the project on energy security, economy and foreign policy, the president wrote in a memo to clinton i have determined the keystone xl pipeline project has presented and analyzed at this time would not serve the national interest. state department reviews the process made clear that setting arbitrary deadline for this purely political effort would put the state department in a corner, severely hamper their ability to review an alternate route and pipeline route. keystone pipeline pumps half a billion in crude oil a day from alberta, to illinois. keystone xl would have run to texas and brought online additional 830,000 barrels a day.