Than anybody else. Saying sorry, the racist jokes the Senate Majority leader wishes he never made. We made scleclear if you com after americans well come after you. Strong words from ben rhodes, the Deputy National security advisor from the white house addressing the growing threat. Good morning and thank you for being with us. Welcome to al jazeera. U. S. Officials say the Islamic State poses a serious threat to the u. S. And her allies. Vice President Joe Biden says for three years the white house resisted entering the syrian law. Islamic state fighters have taken huge chunks of syria and iraq, trying to establish their own country. The group issued threats against americans and beheaded journalist james foley. The effort to stop them may expand into syria. Al jazeeras jane arraf joins us from erbil. What will it take for the u. S. To really expand into syria . Probably what it will take is a political recognition, thats what is required and sold to the american public. On the milita
Begin. New york city got off light. At this moment, though growing the economy shrinking deficits, bustling industry, Booming Energy production, freedom to write our own future. Stuart it sounds good. Do you like that graphic there . We have a weakening economy now. Some of the bigname stocks that you know reporting lower profits. Not good news. We have a selloff. Look at the names. Caterpillar down big time. The biggest drop for that stock in four years. That stocks biggest drop in a year and a half. Combine those two. Move on down the list. United technologies. Dupont. They are all down. Dragging the dow industrials. The Technology Sector are. The worst performing their own fault. Locate the big names. Apple. Google. Amazon. Twitter. All of them down. Cheryl casone is here this wednesday morning. What does it tell me about the economy . Or perhaps there is more going on. That is what i think actually hurt the market. Down 3. 4 . Even if things bolstered are both good orders, taking a
Christians around the world mark easter the Coalition Led by saudi arabia continued its military assault against Houthi Rebels in yem yen. After a week of air strikes the coalition started shell target from see. Reporter the Saudiled Coalition unleashed air strikes including the base and other locations containing rebels and fighters loyal to ali abdullah saleh. Translation four rockets came down on our village. Reporter overnight there were arrests. These illegal procedures were a result of what was done by the houthis and others in the area of aden. We prejudiced the procedures. Further south the fight is for control of aden. The port city was a strong hold. The coalition airdropped supporters. It was aimed at supply lines and depots. Theres no indication of whether Ground Forces will be deployed. Parts of aden will be without water for electricity for two days. Its adding to fears of a growing humanitarian crisis. We have not been able to get in the medical supplies that we need. In
Found initially is somewhat of a confusing puzzle. And that was perhaps best captured in this old usa today newspaper clippings. But it has been repeated a few times in a variety of different outlets. The notion that could recession be good for you. The headline confusing confused me at first. I had assumed that during the recession. Matt, Peoples Health insurance would be lost. They would stop paying for medications, they would be depressed, they would turn to alcohol. And this and other news stories were based on a series of studies that suggested during recessionary. , unemployment is associated with improvements in life expectancy, which i found really confusing. And what i want to do is present what i would argue as one solution to this apparent puzzle. In presenting the solution, i think that we can gain insights into why we might be asking some of the wrong questions when we correlate the recession to a lot of different things. But i will do his first talk about how we might lea
And his colleagues havent wasted time either. Already removing yee from committees. Weve already asked that he step down. And if he does not, the president pro tem of the senate has already announced that we will be voting on the floor tomorrow to suspend him. So leland yee will not be on the floor of the senate ever again. Reporter but when we asked yees attorney if he would resign from state senate no comment at this time. Reporter this followed by a statement announcing that he was dropping out of the race for secretary of state. This was a very personal decision on the part of the senator. This is what he wanted to do to that election for office, given the circumstances of the federal case. Reporter a case which yee himself has yet to comment on and which will effectively end his political career in a matter of hours. Regardless of what happens, it is just too late to hold a special election to replace yee. So it appears that eighth Senate District in San Francisco will remain unre