In america might be headed. Well break it down for you. Im ali velshi, and this is real money. This is real money, and youre the most important part of this show United States house of representatives tonight took a major step towards increasing americas involvement in the fight against the Islamic State of Islamic State in iraq and the levant. The house voted to approve president obamas request for 500 million to train and arm groups opposed to the assad regem in syria. Lawmakers didnt do it in an up front transparent way. Instead they approved the fun fundin funding. The top military advisers said he would consider using troops against isil. Speaking at the u. S. Snarl command the president said, quote, this will not be americas fight alone, but the administrations effort to build a Broad Coalition to act against isil has brought resistence from a key ally in the region, turkey. Isil is holding 49 turks hostage and turkey fears for their lives. But beyond the hostages turkeys positio
Real money this is real money, you are the most important part of the show. Tell me what is on your mind americas focus is on the middle east and what the United States and its allies will do to stop socalled Islamic State insurgents wreaking havoc in iraq and syria. Part of the answer will rely on cutting off the groups financing. In all the violence sweeping the region, one of the biggest weapons is money. Some of the funds are provided to groups fighting on the ground by governments in the region. Saudi arabia, turkey and qatar have been accused of funding terrorism. Al jazeeras Terror Company is based in qatar, and is funded in part by the government. Over the next few weeks well children how governments whel examine how governments in the region funnel funding to groups in the middle east. Tonight we focus on qatar. At first clans, qatar hardly seems a place that would be a big player. Its a small country, population 2 million. A quarter are civilians. They export more than 100 bi
Im ali velshi, and this is real money this is real money, you are the most important part of the show. Tell me what is on your mind americas focus is on the middle east and what the United States and its allies will do to stop socalled Islamic State insurgents wreaking havoc in iraq and syria. Part of the answer will rely on cutting off the groups financing. In all the violence sweeping the region, one of the biggest weapons is money. Some of the funds are provided to groups fighting on the ground by governments in the region. Saudi arabia, turkey and qatar have been accused of funding terrorism. Al jazeeras Terror Company is based in qatar, and is funded in part by the government. Over the next few weeks well children how governments whel examine how governments in the region funnel funding to groups in the middle east. Tonight we focus on qatar. At first clans, qatar hardly seems a place that would be a big player. Its a small country, population 2 million. A quarter are civilians. T
The options to combat suspected chinese cyberespionage that targets u. S. Industries and trade secrets. Chinese cyber hacking has been going on for a long time. Whats new is that were finally fed up and want to do something about it. Woodruff and Jeffrey Brown talks with author colum mccann about weaving together three reallife atlantic crossings over three centuries in his latest work of fiction. What was it like to construct that, as a novelist, did you know how all these connections were going to happen . Honestly . Honestly. I had no clue whatsoever, it drove me nuts. laugh ifill thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributio
Ifill ray suarez explores the options to combat suspected chinese cyberespionage that targets u. S. Industries and trade secrets. Chinese cyber hacking has been going on for a long time. Whats new is that were finally fed up and want to do something about it. Woodruff and Jeffrey Brown talks with author colum mccann about weaving together three reallife atlantic crossings over three centuries in his latest work of fiction. What was it like to construct that, as a novelist, did you know how all these connections were going to happen . Honestly . Honestly. I had no clue whatsoever, it drove me nuts. laugh ifill thats all ahead on tonights newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. And. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadc