The last few days that we were so glad he could come here and help elevate our discussion. But he comes at an incredibly important time, certainly on the heels of several days of incredible news not only security related issues, with the north korean launch of an icbm, but also as we watch unfold the historic meeting between President Trump and president putin today. Secretary fallon, thankfully, is a frequent visitor to csis. He was here two years ago in march and the topic of the discussion was in defense of a rulesbased order and how that transatlantic relationship can be used. And i think now, in todays discussion, we will look at the defense of the rulesbased order and see where we go from here. Secretary fallon assumed secretary of state for defense, his position, on july 15, 2014. Two days later, a Russian Missile shot down mh17. That was his first few days on the job. Three years later, two elections later, one referendum later, secretary fallon, you have had an extraordinary t
About why most people develop most types of cancer. Its not your behavior or your genes. Box off bust, hollywoods lowest show in years is it a history of things to come. Doubling down on the theory that north korea was involved in hacking sony pictures. Ten leadership officials and organizations, the Obama Administration acknowledges that they have not established a connection between the north korean leaders and the attack. Ablimg theblaming the attack to the officials in the first place. Libby casey has the latest. Senior Obama Administration Officials Say this is the first imposing sanctions on a country because of a cyber attack on a company, sony pictures. The nature of the hack which they say was destructive and coercive and u. S. Officials are standing by the assertion that north korea was responsible for hacking sony pictures. They say that this is part of a larger plan to push back against the threat of cyberattacks. Now there are low pressure sanctions in place on many north
Before his trial. Israel has decided to withhold around 127 million of tax revenue from the Palestinian Authority. Now this comes after the palestinians officially applied to join the International Criminal court. Palestinians rely on this money to run its government and pay civil workers salary. It could effect aid to palestinian authorities. Well bring you more on that later. Lets move on to other top stories. The arab airasia crash indonesiaen Officials Say that airasia was not permitted to fly on that route on that day. Recovery crews found four large pieces of wreckage in the java sea. The weather was a factor in that incident. Only 30 bodies have been recovered so far. 162 people were on on the flight that took off from indonesia and a third of its way on its destination to singapore. Crucial developments in the sea south of borneo in the search for the airasia plane that crashed last supplied, four big chunks of the plane have been detected on the bottom of the on or about in th
The white house lashes pyongyang with another round of sanctions after its alleged cyber attack on sony forced to flee emergency alerts as bushfires threaten lives in australia. Good morning to you. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Thank you for spending your saturday morning with us. Im morgan radford. New developments in the search for qz8501. Four large parts of the jet were found in indonesiania coming as we learn that the airline may not have had permission to fly the route that it took where it fell straight into the java sea. Why would the plane take the route if it was not authorised to go there, ross shimabuku. Thats not clear. All flights from this area are suspended. The airline was permitted to fly the route monday tuesday, thursday and wednesday. It used to have a slot on sundays, but that permission ended in object. Officials say airasia has permission to fly it daily. Airasia is not commenting but is helping with government investigations. Reporter its been nearly a week s
The virus. A cattle ship carrying around 450 migrants has been safely towed know to an italian port. This is the third migrant ship found off the coast of italy in the past two weeks. An areacaptain has told al jazeera they are fearful more will come. Must have been an enormous relief and how exhausted they must have been. Italian officials were sympathetic. We must create humanitarian corridors, free from dwreedy greedy human traffickers. Recognition coast guard officials were forced to board the ship. It was abandoned without power left to the mercy of the sea. The second of in as much days. The other had been rescued close to the italian coast before it too became wrecked. Told al jazeera he believed the crew had deliberately abandoned the ship. They are now digesting the assumption that this is the traffickers new strategy. It is deliberate. They have no respect for human life. But you think thy they might do more like this . We expect there can be other there can be new cases. We