Sports. He is defending his masters title in augusta. I have all the details for you later. The syrian army and its allies launched a marnl offensive against rebels in the countryside south of aleppo. Its the biggest government operation in the area since a partial ceasefire late in february. The fighting threatens to derail completely the agreement at that reduced overall violence across the country. The special envoy to syria announced new talks have been pushed back by two days to next wednesday. In the north of the aleppo countryside, rebel fighters have reportedly taken over a town. They launched an offensive against isil fighters there. Its an important stronghold for the group. Meanwhile, syrian state tv is reporting that the Islamic State of iraq and levant has abducted as many as 300 near the syrian capital, damascus. Its unclear what happened, but several of those taken have now been released. Reporter there are conflicting reports with regards to the news of the abduction of
A sliding economy. Growing argentina at argentinas president amidst of the fall out from the Panama Papers scandal. Hundreds have gathered outside of the Government House demanding that Mauricio Macri resign. Some accuse him of corruption. On thursday a Public Prosecution asked for permission to investigate the president s role in offshore accounts after being named in the Panama Papers. We have reports now from buenos aires. Argentinas president , Mauricio Macri won last years election on promise of crackdown on corruption. And the details have been released in the Panama Papers. President macri has sworn he has done nothing illegal. I respect the law and i have nothing to hide. Im going in front of the judge with all my information so he can verify the truth. But many in argentina think differently. Once people have offshore companies, we want to know why the president is trying to hide something from the state. Thats why macri needs to be investigated. And the prosecutors agrees. He
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] welcome good morning, everybody. Im john walsh, im with the Washington Office unlike america and its my behalf or to want me to this mornings event on the International Impact of the u. S. Trend towards Marijuana Legalization. This is the sixth event in the brookings series on Legal Marijuana. It again in october 2012 with an eye to what might happen if, in fact, the states of colorado and washington voted to approve Legal Marijuana. In fact, that it happened. Weve had a series of events since then about federalism issues, about public opinion, and have published a cities of papers including two recent papers on the rollout of Legal Marijuana in the states of colorado and washington. Todays topic is going to be what are the International Impacts of this shift within the United States, especially given the fact that the United States was the chief architect and has for decades been the prime defend of the u. N
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