The reason why this is important is because the number one complaint that we received was the failure of vfg and its agents to redisclose the redirect risk. Because its illegal to sign away your pension, they could direct the escrow company, the Pension Company to redirect the funds back to a different account and no longer to that es ko account or if the pensioner got into financial trouble, the pension would get caught up and no longer go to the escrow account. They were no longer getting that monthly return. They were never warned that this was possible. A lot of the investors were Senior Citizens and thats how this was packaged to them. They were safe. You get a return each month. Some were told it was government insured, which was patently false. Another miscommunication and lie from vfg was the failure to disclose the fees involved in these type of products and youve heard some about that. They failed to disclose a fee break down on both sides. A pensioner never knee what their p
Wreckage of the Malaysia Airlines jet two days after it was shot down over Eastern Ukraine. Talks with Irans Nuclear programme is being extended we look at the progress and the stumbling blocks. Good to have you with us in the middle east. Its sunday morning, day four of the Israeli Ground offensive in gaza. Israel intensifies air strikes overnight. Some areas were hit with tanks and rocket fire. Lets look at the sky line in gaza city, where it is just after daybreak. Throughout the night we have seen explosions and flares across the horizon. Two Israeli Soldiers were killed during an attack. Four fers were injured and officers were injured and one gunman killed. The Israeli Army Says hamas used underground tunnels. They unveiled a milewide stretch of tunnels, claiming to have found more than 100 rocket launchers in the process. 50,000 gaza residents have been displaced. More than 340 palestinians have been killed, including the son of a senior hamas official. More than 2600 officials
Obama, since obama has been in office. As a committee there are particular things. I think that of course the administration gave an adequate support in different times ofti the past two or three years but maybe just put it in contextfo uncomfortable for us and not what we were advocating for with the state department and others in thest United States. But this wasnt fortunately a moment where lives were at stake and as would be seen by the rest of the world as a top issue for American Foreign policy or given all the other things going on. So i agree with you that the sort of language they use on several occasions was unhelpful, didnt go as far as we would have liked. W i am not sure whether it ranged alongside some of the things we discussing today for the Foreign Policy issue betweev them. One of the things with the two countries working sidebyside with iraq inquiry by this committee and the housing inquiry and currently it taken Something Like four years. We are beginning to emerge
Different and new. I think it is useful but not absolutely essential to the overall relationship. Just getting the Team Together on the american side, which hampered its first few months, but i would not myself think that this was critical to the issue of inking forward. I think that has to be done to some degree by the Prime Minister and the president. They have little time together, so it is very much something that needs to be included in the regular meetings at the foreign secretary level and then at the theor official level, like political director and others in the foreign office. You have this overview of the overall relationship. Well, that takes me rather neatly onto my next point, which is that sometimes we make a mistake in this country in seeing american foreignpolicy as being monolithic, because you have a number of sources. You have got the white house, that you mentioned. You have got the state department. You have got the senate, the Foreign Relations committee. C, and
Capability. To what extent is there concern cut into itss military capability . Can you give us any more feelings on that . You listed it as one of the , but can you be more graphic . Can you give us any more detail as to the extent about the cuts to our military capability. Our military capability . Statess in the united and one of those involved in protecting the governments thetion when we published strategic defense and security review in october of 2010. Remarks, in my opening the administration at that time, although there were some underlying concerns, they were persuaded that we were going to spectrum of full capabilities, that they were reassured that our defense spending would remain above 2 , certainly throughout the life of this parliament, and that the numbers we were talking about for interventions in the future were scalable. They were not as great as we have managed before, but they were nevertheless militarily significant numbers for continuing operations and for large