California governor says the state could be facing the worst drought on record. We begin tonight with questions of spying, prying, and privacy. There were several new important with developments today. We will get to all of them. Were looking at just who has your data and what theyre doing with it. In a major speech the president defines how the National Security agency collects information. Mike viqueria joins us with more. Mike. Reporter john, good evening. Now comes the hard part. After much controversy and much deliberation, congress will have to help him out with much of what he wants to do. How the government handles telephone conversations, the most controversial aspect of all of this the president has proposed solutions that even he doubts can work. While admitting legitimate concerns about potential abuse president obama aggressively defended nsa programs calling them important tools that have prevented multiple attacks. We cant u unilaterally disam our intelligence agencies.
Debate about their programs president obama orders some n. S. A. Reforms. Making friends. We take a look at chinas practice of panda dip loam assy diplomacy syrias main Opposition Group is deciding whether to attend peace talks in switzerland, which are due to take place in a few days. The Syrian National coalition is meeting for a second day in turkey to decide if theyll attend the geneva ii talks. The former Prime Minister met his counterpart Sergei Lavrov in moscow, and said they were worried that the opposition hadnt committed to the talks. Each of us is at the meeting in istanbul. The Syrian Coalition has to do today what it failed to yesterday. Thats a raft of important things. It has to hold an official meeting. It didnt convene. It met unofficially, it didnt formally start the meeting. That was because it doesnt believe or it didnt yesterday believe it had the numbers to hold a credible vote. A vote representative that stood up in the international arena, about whether to go to
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