Good evening we begin tonight with a Big Development with the u. S. Led coalition to fight isil. Turkey reese parliament voted to allow military action against the group. The government now has more power to launch operations across its borders with iraq and syria. But Officials Say they have no plans to rush into battle. Bernard smith has more. The legislation passed we the parliament talks about terrorist groups it make as reference to isil, but thats not the only threat. In fact, much of the debate was about the threat from the asaad regime, in syria, and there was also talk about the threat from the kurdish workers party. So turkey doesnt just see this the turkish government doesnt just see this as a fight against isil, it sees it as a fight against what it described as different groups. And as legislation gives the military an awful lot ovulated it means that the military wouldnt necessarily just have to act against the threat from isil, it could act against any terrorist threat a
Violence in nigeria. So Kurdish Forces engage in a desperate battle to defend kobane and isil sending in reenforcements and tanks and heavy weapons in the town on turkeys border and Security Forces has changed hands more than once but currently controlled by isil and kurdish representatives told al jazeera they are being pushed back in the south and in the east of the town. And Stephanie Decker is here on the turkish syrian border. Reporter a couple hundred meters oi way from the border from the town held by isil and hearing military activity and those sounds throughout the last couple of days since monday night when isil managed to get inside kobane on the eastern and southern sides and what we hear from kurdish fighters in the town is the front line has not really moved because this is such gorilla warfare and street to street they push forward and they are pushed back and we dont have a clear indication of how the front line is moving inside but we know they are inside of course and
Points. At 1969. Bouncing off of some pretty strong support according to some traders today. The nasdaq has done well. Up 54 points right now. At 4484. Lets show you the russell. Thats been the laggard lately and it is again today and 1 gain. You cant quibble with that. Trading at 1107. Just a little context there, perspective. I think that the s p and the dow about 2 away from the record highs. Right . So, you know, keep on watching until the close because these markets are absolutely soaring today. After that better than expected payroll number this morning so the move coming two days, though, after 200point drop. Remember that move telling you about . We want the know what you think and whether or not you think the selling in this market is overfover for now and let us know what you think. Showing you that vote as you can see discussing things. Yes. We call it i pow wow. Yes, we do. Joining us now on the closing bell exchange, sunny, rob morgan, doug gordo and of course our very own
Child, that would be the best thing that could happen for our country. To me, its absolutely the marriage rate. Brad wilcoxs article in the index makes it screamingly clear. Theres been a 10point reduction in the marriage rate in the last decade. What astonished me looking at the numbers again is that its been 50 since the era of the 19 physician. We all talk about out of wedlock childbearing. The childberg is not the problem. We are below replacement rate birth rate in the united states. Only two years of the last 42 have we been above replacement, even with the influence of immigrants to the country. Its the out of wedlock thing. And ill add one last point to that out of personal experience. I imagine theres some in the audience too. When young people come out of college, and theyre doing what we consider pursuing the American Dream in the right way, and their initial experience is a debt thats larger than the mortgage of their parents, we have a problem. It is its not the only reaso
Win are we willing to consider humanitarian invention . When are we willing to put your lives before hours. What are the key factors we think of from the very start in terms of whether the United States is willing to intervene and by maiziere in bosnia or libya . What key factors might drive us . Kurt . Human rights violations. Human rights violations. Right . Higher level of crisis, the more threats, the more violations, the more rapes and things like that. The more likely we are to get in. Excellent. What else . A calculation of whether it will direct we or indirectly affect us, affect our interests . Like what . Likeegic interests our oil supply, obviously. National oil supply. We do not what prices to go up. R geocentric issues are in play here. We call it humanitarian intervention, when really we are concerned about classic economic interests or regional stability interests. Yes, i can see it. What else can matter there, the domestic side to the equation . [indiscernible] Public O