Dominating the headlines with president obama describing the shooting in california as an act of terrorism. Success inont party the first round of Regional Elections in france. The latest from paris with caroline. Hans nichols joins us. Let me take you to washington. The me take you to your former home turf. What you think the president was trying to do with this speech . What did he try to communicate . Hans he is trying to reassure the public. He uses the oval office for very somber occasions. Part of that was other rooms in the white house were occupied by christmas holidays. Publicrying to brace the. Here is how he put it. Quit the threat is real. The overcome it threat is real. We will overcome it. Wont depend on tough talk or abandoning our values or giving in to fear. That is what groups like isil are hoping for. We will prevail by being strong. Resilient and relentless. By drawing upon every aspect of american power. Hans he did announce a strategy review. Unclear what sort of
Some ice boating. Reporter rich fitzpatrick manages the Hardware Store in sparta. Without snow business is sluggish especially compared to last year. Last year was phenomenal for snow blower and other sales. It was almost we couldnt keep up. Reporter last winter he sold more than 1,000 bags of rock salt and calcium chloride combined. This year he only sold about 300. Clearly this winter has been slow for snow. We lushly get 4. 8 we usually get 4. 8 in december. We only had a trace. Now we usually have 2. 4 but we have received none yet. This is an el nino winter which is warmer than average precipitation but often more rain than snow. And that has some people or lack thereof come spring. We part of a watershed area reporter of course were looking at just a dusting here in sparta. We had a burst of snow showers a couple of hours ago. That slowed down. We are seeing occasional flurries. There is another burst of snow showers moving through the area in the next couple of hours. Some peopl
E director of the institute. I am delighted to host todays event, to welcome all of you to this very special gathering. I am hearing i see that the audio is a little bit low. We can raise the volume for the back. Let me try that again. Is that better . All right. Let me just first begin by asking everyone if you could please turn your cell phones to mute. Todays event is being live streamed out. Since our last major event with guests from curtis dan kurdistan was our most highly watched live streamed event in history, we expect this event to break that record. [laughter] perhaps there is a president ial directive in kurdistan. We are here today because the topic of the future of kurdistan is at the top of the global agenda. It is one of the key issues that is swirling around the entire set of issues triggered by recent events in iraq. Of course, the issues regarding the Kurdish People are not new. They have been a subtext to politics in the middle east for many years. Americas connecti
The name is kind of stupid, it is a trade and investment pact, trade and investment partnership. We can really merge into this sort of transatlantic giant large single economic space where we can do a great deal of business with each other. Are who knows, but the white house says that they could create air t million createthin the trait 13 million jobs within the trading zone for economic activity. What we were learning about this summer is that there is still a long way to go in putting together this trade packet. There are a lot of concerns in europe about companies coming in with our privacy standards. When you look at the history of germany with not seas, with half the country being occupied or whatever you want to call it with communists in east germany, there are a lot of concerns about invasive Government Police , corporations, those kinds of things prying into your private life. They have very different feelings about privacy. They dont want people snooping into their lives. A
Iraq Officials Say they have asked the United States for air power to fight back a huge sunni muslim onslaught in the north of the country. U. S. President barack obama so far insists a return to combat in iraq is not in the cards. A group is captured a number of cities and towns in a lightning advance over the past week. He sees more territory this wednesday and reportedly besieged the nations main oil refinery. Our coverage begins in the autonomous kurdish region of the north. The aftermath of clashes between Kurdish Forces and isis near cure cook kirk cook kirkuk. Unlike the iraqi army, the kurds are not backing down. They have long fox for an independent state in this region and are putting up the only credible resistance in the north of iraq. It is to these regions that hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing displaced by the islamist advance. While the kurds have stopped the insurgents drive towards kirkuk, sunni militants claim they have now gained control of the countrys la