Afghanistan. Ashraf gandhi is sworn in for the unity government. And we look at the understanding of the world. Turkish tanks have been positioned close to the besieged town of kobane. Three further shells landed on the turkish side of the border. Turkish police fired tear gas and prevented gathering at the border. Powerful rebel forces not all ied to isil are denouncing the airstrikes. Oil facilities across eastern and Northern Syria have been among the targets of airstrikes. They want to deny the Islamic State of iraq and levant fundi funding. They tell us there is a shortage of fuel and prices have doubled. These airstrikes are causing an economic crisis. Winter is around the corner. Most of the facilities are not operational, even thoughs which have not been hit because people are scared. It is not just that, the observatory for human rights says killing workers and fighters. There is no doubt that it will effect the food for the people. Reporter isil has been stopped from making m
I hear boom boom boom and hit my car. And i look back. At least 12 cars involved in a deadly collision in the east bay. One person is killed and a freeway is shut down for hours. Good evening, everyone im katie mar zulzulla. Lisa . Reporter katie it really has been a rough night for drivers on 580 east heading into livermore. In fact, the traffic was backed up until 9 30 tonight. But right now its smooth sailing. It was all because of a massive pileup that happened five and a half hours earlier. It was pretty chaotic. They were getting calls 15 16 vehicles. Reporter this is what emergency crews rolled up to about 4 00 this afternoon. Cars piled up one on top of another. Broken glass and fear across the highway. It all started when a few cars rearended each other. No one was seriously hurt there. But then a backup started. And thats when the real trouble began. When my car hit, boom and i see the whole back broken off. And i was like, oh wow. We just kind of panicked and jumped out. Rep
Unemployment insurance extension. The house not in session today. Members return tomorrow at noon eastern for legislative business. Among the bills being considered under suspension of the rules, one that authorizes 150 million in aid for ukraine and expands sanctions imposed this month by the Obama Administration against certain russian and ukrainian officials. This bill passed the Senate Last Week by a voice vote. Votes tomorrow are post poped until 6 30 p. M. Eastern time. You can watch live gavel to gavel coverage of the house on cspan and the senate here on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 35 years ago and brought to you today as a Public Service by your television provider. Host david cohen is the executive Vice President of the comcast corporation, and hes our guest this week on the communicators. Be mr. Cohen, when it comes to the comcast Time Warner Cable proposed merger, whats the biggest hurdle that you see facing comcast . Guest so what a surprise we shoul
A lot less complicated than some people would like to make it. So when you think about it in the video space, it is not a horizontal deal. We do not compete with Time Warner Cable anywhere. There is not a consumer in america who has a choice between buying comcast products or Time Warner Cable products. At the end of the day, were are going to have under 30 of the market. So not scary. There is one thing that is appropriate to think about and discuss. It is the implications on the broadband side. I think there is a very good story there as well. Lots of competitive impacts and proconsumer impacts from the transaction as a result of the increased investment. Again, not a very scary story when you look at market share. Something less than 40 of the wire line broadband share. But if you factor in wireless, and it is indisputable that wireless is beginning to be an effective competitor and substitute for at least many uses of broadband, market share is as low as 20 . Again, National Share
Tens of thousands of Anti Government protestors have again taken to the streets of minsk for a third sunday, angry at the re election of the belarusian president alexander lu kashenko. Thereve been clashes with riot police tryinging to stop them entering the capitals main independence square. Steve rosenberg reports from minsk. All chant. In minsk, they headed to independence square. Protesters keeping up the pressure on alexander lu kashenko. But this time the police were waiting for them and moved in. There were chaotic scenes. Some protesters were detained, others tried to free their comrades. We found sasha wandering alone, completely confused. Wheres my husband . She says. The police took him, but where is he . Was he in here . No reply. Further down the avenue, there were more scuffles, and more riot Police Taking up positions. Todays protest feels very different from the protests on previous sundays. As you can see, a lot more police, much tighter security, the police determined