Embassies reopened. In sport seth blatter names the date when his successor for fifa president will be reelected. Change wont be happening quickly with an election scheduled for next february. At least 28 people have been killed in a large explosion in turkey. Around 100 have been wounded. It happened at a Cultural Center just north of the border with syria. Its not known what caused the blast, but the Turkish Interior Ministry called it a terrorist attack that targeted kurdish volunteers deading to nearby kobane for relief work. Home to a refugee camp housing 35,000 Syrian Refugees fleeing the war. A Foreign Correspondent has been based in turkey for over 20 years is also the author of turkey, what Everyone Needs to know and joins me now from london. Good to have you with us. On this attack, it is now thought to be an isil linked attack targeting youth workers who came to help rebuild the syrian city of kobane, just over the border there. What do you make of it . Well, that it is a ve
Taxpayer dollars are being well spent in this regard . Well, ive asked the deputy secretary to lead this effort and she is traveling around the country visiting with a number of organizations and groups who are interested in getting into farming or folks who are encouraging people to get into farming. One of the issues that has cropped up is this issue of land tenure. Candidly, you mentioned the fact that there are going to be a lot of people retiring and leaving the farming business. That is probably true. The the question is what happens to the land . Whoever owns that land what is their ultimate goal here or their relatives ultimate goal . Is it to maximize return or is it to create opportunity for the next generation or is it a combination of both . Frankly, ive asked the this task force to come with recommendations on this issue of land tenure. What can we do should we do . As usda with reference to our programs to ensure that there is that proper balance so that its not a focus s
Said earlier our foreign friends, we had a meeting in baltimore where over 30 countries came with representatives to talk to them about the appropriate way of banning boultry if we have this, that its not fair to your poultry producers because theres an incident in oregon or iowa the ban production from you and so were continuing to work on that, as well. The last thing were trying to do is to convince congress that this is a longterm issue. Im pretty sure this isnt the only time were going to have to dole with Something Like this is to see if we could complete the funding for the poultry Lab Improvements that i think are absolutely necessary in modernization of that lab. That would be good. Would this virus be available fairley soon or whats the timetable . Well, you know i would hope it would be but i dont want to speak for the company in terms of how quickly they can turn it around. But, you know im pretty impressed with the fact that in a relatively short period of time weve come a
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