The International Red cross is still waiting for word from gunmen who kidnapped several workers in syria today. Officials believe it was an Al Qaedalinked group that seized six aides and a local volunteer from Northern Syria this morning. So far no one has claimed responsibility for the kidnappings. Once again, the International Red cross is waiting on word on the six workers and one volunteer. Those are the headlines. Im Thomas Drayton in new york city. Keep it right here. Fault lines is coming you next. For news updates around the world, just head to aljazeera. Com. Haiti, october 2010, at a hospital in a small, rural town north of the capital. These were the first victims of a horrific, unknown disease in a country still reeling from a devastating earthquake. Patients were dying in the space of a few hours. Children were especially vulnerable. Al jazeera was the first news channel on the scene. In the following days and weeks we tracked the epidemic as it ripped across the country.
Bay area Rapid Transit areas are on strike for the second time in four months. The negotiations fell apart last night over enlisted issues. The bart train leaves thousands with no way to get around president obama has nominated jay johnson, the pentagons former top lawyer and would succeed janet napolitano. Those are the headlines. Inside story is next here on Al Jazeera America. As dysfunction reigns in washington and trust in congress plummets, a look at the millennial generation. 95 million strong and ready to change everything. That is tonights inside story. Hello everybody, im david shuster. The Government Shutdown and the fight over the debt ceiling last the 16 days and the poll Shows Americans did not like what they saw. Republicans are taking a hit, but so are democrats and president obama. Younger americans, the socalled millennial generation, those born between 1980 and 2003, are the most dissatisfied with the public institutions, and they want to do more about it. What lies
After 16 days, it is now starting to look like business as usual for the federal government. Hundreds of thousands of employees are now back on the job, the nations parks and Historic Sites are reopening, and president obama welcoming the deal that ended the Government Shutdown and saad the u. S. From default. These twin threats to our economy have now been lifted, and i want to thank those democrats and republicans for getting together and getting the job done. Wall street seems worry about the impact. The dow down 34 points at this hour. The u. S. Can still borrow money, but the deal has no concrete steps to reduce the nations nearly 17 trillion debt. We begin with libby casey at capitol hill. What was the mood from the white house and capitol hill today. President obama was very serious in his comments. He wasnt whitewashing that has been going on in the last couple of weeks [ technical difficulties ] and credit is unharmed, its not dinged by this experience and he thanked federal w
Billion in new revenue, new taxes. If you do that by closing loopholes or other ways around. Now, to come to numbers like that, you think it would be more difficult to pull the democrats or more difficult to pull the republicans . A lot of those cuts could be doing things like cutting tax breaks for businesses, and other special interests that are out there. And that is something that i believe plenty of people in the tea party and others might sign on to. I think it would be more difficult to get republicans to come on to that bargain because they have a bright line on taxes. Democrats, as i mentioned a but if youre talking about cutting loopholes and cutting tax breaks that certain people are getting, we have Grover Norquist joining us today. He might not say that what is raising taxes. I expect he would say that is raising taxes. Look, the president said in our interview two weeks ago that tax rates are a thing of the past. Raising tax rates are a thing of the past. That what he wan
Something to do with the fact that the financial liberalization hadnt yet happened and that that had something to do with the stability of the it surely did. The fact that the stock market kind of went up 15 to 20 a year every year through the 50s even though Economic Performance was kind of lousy and getting worse had something to do with a growing sense the world what kind of reverse to decreases in the risk premiums but no doubt what you are describing is a portion of the story the extent to which one could go back to that in the modern world. I have a question in terms of a Lesson Learned from the last episode in the recession in the u. S. Some would say that a lot of policymakers and attention went to strengthening the Financial Center wall street and there was considerable success there and too little was done to prop up main street cleaning the mortgage voters were underwater and for various reasons that was it took sometimes propel the market to recover. So that explains the im