The cheating scandal garts steam. Gathers gathers steam. Talks on the longest running latin american conflict. Lucia newman reports. An image speaks larger than a thousand words. Juan Manuel Santos shaking hands with the leader of the farc rebels is one that colombians could not have dreamed of. On the 26th of march of 2016, at the very latest, exactly six months from now, well say goodbye for good to the longest war in colombia. Colombian government and rebel negotiates reached a deal to guarantee punishment of perpetrators of gross violations and war crimes, including members of the farc. Translator those who refuse to recognize responsibility will be sentenced to a maximum of 20 years in prison. It is up to us now to multiply efforts to reach consensus on a bilateral ceasefire and to turn into a legal political movement. Reporter removing the last stumbling block to end 40 years of war but displaced more than 6 million colombians and killed an estimated 220,000 others. Cuban preside
Marking the 1973 arabisraeli war. Wanted, dead or alive. I am stephanie skown and i will tell you why malaysia has launched a nationwide rat hunt. But first, western forces have attacked an al shabaab based on the somalian coast according to somalian intelligence. Al shabaab said a helicopter was used at a raid at night. Others say it was an amphibious assault. Al shabaab said one fighter was killed. That raid comes exactly two weeks after al shabaab attacked a Shopping Mall in neighboring kenya. 71 people died in the siege at the Westgate Mall in nairobi. We have reporters in both countries. Lets begin with peter gresta in mogadishu. Peter, how much or what do we know about this raid . Reporter well, stephen, as you just mentioned, there are conflicting accounts. Al shabaab insists it was a seaborne raid. It happened about 2 00 oclock this morning. They said that the attackers, western attackers came ashore, launched their offensive on a safe house close to the beach, and they said it
Reading your book, maybe i am reading in to this but did you talk with the queen in crafting your book . Well, the queen, as a policy and is probably sensible from her standpoint, which is that in her entire 60 year reign she has never given an interview and that has helped probably to preserve her mystique and is kept her from having to pick and choose who she might give interviews to. I was lucky to meet her three times and private social settings and i describe her three times in the book. At each of them was brief, but revelatory and in each case it gave little glimpses of that private side, that gaiety of spirit, the flash of wit and so, they were very valuable to me. I also watched her a lot in different settings. I traveled with her overseas. I traveled with her around the u. K. So i could see how she interacted with people. In addition to interviewing people there were lots of other ways that i developed my sense of who she is and how she goes about her job. Was she aware that
Well, good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here today. Its my pleasure to introduce secretary of defense lloyd austin iii and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley the second that you would deliver remarks and then they will have time to take a few questions. I will moderate this question and call on questioners. Thanks, patrick. Good afternoon, everyone. We had just completed our seventh meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, and its been another highly successful session. Now, we are meeting today as russia continues to target ukraines civilians and bombard its energy grid. But russias deliberate cruelty only deepens our resolve. And will continue to support ukraines bedrock right to defend itself and defend the rulesbased international order. Yesterday we saw reports of a deadly explosion in poland near its border with ukraine. I spoke last night to my polish counterpart, deputy Prime Minister Prime Minister of National Defense, and i conveyed my
First of all the appropriators have to agree on that. So we are also working with the appropriations committees as they try to get a topflight agreement and get the appropriation bills done. At the end of the date the appropriate other want to decide how much money gets spent. We have something to say about the oversight and how that money gets spent. So all different parts of that, appropriators and authorizers are working together to try to settle on with our file number is going to be. Host representative smith, what are your impressions so far going into the possibility of not becoming a member of the minority come next year . Guest the biggest thing for me is how successful this election was. Well, good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for being here today. Its my pleasure to introduce secretary of defense lloyd austin iii and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley the second that you would deliver remarks and then they will have time to take a few questions. I wi