Yemens capital. Ebola solution, a vaccine may be available by the end of the year. A new section in london displays lego as its never been seen before. So then, the United Nations Security Council Christopher Gibson resolved to stop foreigners being recruited to fight for the Islamic State of iraq and levant. We have more from the special session in new york, chaired by u. S. President obama. Reporter president obama invited fellow World Leaders to the special session of the u. N. Security council about the threat from i. S. I. L. As the u. S. Currently holds the rotating presidency of the council. It was president obama himself who chaired the meeting. The 7,272nd meeting of the south australian Christopher Gibson is called to order of the Security Council is called to order. The focus is on the foreign fighters in i. S. I. L. s rank. 15,000 fighters from 80 nations joined terrorist organizations such as al qaedas affiliate the new zealand Christopher Gibson front, and i. S. I. L. , t
Reluctant members of congress to vote on an attack from syria. We randall is now joined live from washington. Reporter reluctant is the key word. The Washington Post opinion keeping an official head count of yes and no vote. In the senate so far theres only 23 solid yes votes. An indication of the challenge the administration faces. Reporter the obamaed a pheup administration continues to make the case on a military strike on syria. Joyce President Biden addressing in the room. Even some of the president s close allies are not rushing to support his decision. I am busy doing my Due Diligence to decide how i will vote and and be. Ing in the best interest of the United States to deter further use of the grim and reference of mass destruction both in syria law makers acknowledge that the shea dow of the iraq war when no weapons of mass destruction were found hangs over this decision. What i have tried to do is see those same problems this time and they are not. I think the intelligence is
Billingham, director of Civil Aviation issues for the Government Accountability office. That plus your calls live on washington journal, at 7 a. M. Eastern here on cspan. We continue the discussion on foreignpolicy in the middle east with with a look at al qaeda and its operations in this is from the foundation for defense of democracy. It is one hour and a half. I think we will get started. We have a full house. I am the president of the foundation for defense of democracies and i am pleased to welcome you to this discussion on al qaeda. We look forward to hearing from you i lay, the Senior National security correspondent for news newsweek and the daily beast. And of course my calling, ms. Sedin, senior fellow at journal. , most of your probably familiar with the organization. We would like to say that we start with as a polls and focus on research and policy and we try to achieve real progress. And those who are affiliated with sed in various capacities dont agree on everything. We l
This is the only way you can invest in syrians. This is why syria has to have a longterm plan to recover. Syria needs at least 60 billion to recover. With all the destruction that we have in all of our cities. I will end here and i will be more than happy to answer questions that you have a. Thank you very much. [applause] the first thing i would like to ask you, trying to look more into the new syrian position, my concern is that the rights of the minorities and in the new Syrian Opposition has not been really addressed as the same issues were also presented. How do you address this issue . Your last. Trying to think about what is going to happen next, that is an issue that the new syrian position should address. The rights of the minorities is an important issue. Sometimes we emphasize the issues from their own perspective. When the syrian uprising started, christians, alliance, and christians being killed by participating. He decided to go back to his hometown. He is from damascus,
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