By 2003, 3000 people. You can see the proportion. Side. As the economic a Significant Impact on the country in relation to health care, education, social work. It has a decade of dictatorship. The present government has slow decisionmaking. It is a manifestation of countries new democracy. It is not the most effective system because there is no opposition party. All of the parties have his editions in cabinets and in parliament. You have to get the buyin of everybody for any system for any declaration to put in place. A very adverse dictatorship in dictators usually create regulations and procedures to suit the wishes and needs of the dictator, not of the society. That is the key issue. We will talk about that later. To transform the democratic process, you have to go through a very painful process. You cant just people dont adopt democracy like they can adopt a new fashion or a new dress or any new sport. No, it is a much more fundamental it impacts your core belief in the society, co
The appropriations debate and with regard to Defense Authorization moving ahead. Two other issues we are following, one is Homeland Security grants. Were still working off a system built 10 years ago. We need to move to system 2. 0 or 3. 0 and get more sophisticated about the grant funding. The last one would be veterans. A lot of folks are coming back from the theater about how do you get them employed. The government is famous for silos. Governors have been taking the lead in saying we need to work ,o break down these silos combine data and information so we can best help and assist our veterans. , further Committee Members the governor only session, our chair asked us to look at the issues which we will follow up on. Governor snyder, anything else youd like to add . Thank you for your leadership. Its been great. I want to thank the representatives from the red cross. I appreciate all the wonderful work you do. Thank you for your service and all your colleagues. The guard is somethin
Explorers ship that vanished in the arctic more than 160 years ago is found. Secretary of state john kerry is in baghdad to meet the new iraqi Prime Minister Haider Alabadi. The trip comes hours ahead of a live televised address by the u. S. President. President obama is expected to announce a new strategy to tackle the Islamic State group, which currently controls a third of iraq. Kerry will visit jordan, and saudi arabia, where King Abdullah is hosting a meeting. The coalition include nine mostly european counties, as well as the United States. In a moment well be speaking live to our correspondent in jordan. First to john hendren, in the iraqi city of erbil for us. There has been a lot of american pressure on the iraqis to form a government. John kerry in baghdad. What is on the agenda there. What is he hoping to achieve . John kerry is here, first of all, to show support for the 2day Old Administration of Haider Alabadi. He will likely continue to press Haider Alabadi to make this
European headquarters in london. We have a great show for you coming up. We are going to be talking about stunt driving. We are going to meet a youtube fameturning his online into hard cash. Withe are going to be live the ceo later on the pulse. We will be talking how sanctions impact a business like bayer. That brings us to our top story. Will talk story we about later. Plenty of other European Companies are being affected by sanctions that have now been imposed by europe on russia. The coordinated sanctions with the u. S. And europe are increasing pressure on written on putin and his countrys role in ukraine. There is some and the duty surrounding the sanctions. What do we know and what do we not know . Sanctionst important that the European Union and the u. S. Introduced yesterday involved in the financial sector. That is the first point. The second point is the eu is effectively going to ban russian stateback banks from issuing new bonds and shares in European Capital markets. Ther
By 1 5 today. Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton joined by one hide. The eu imposed its strictest sanctions on moscow since the iron curtain fell. We are joined by Ryan Chilcote. Lets talk about the shank the sanctions. Eu did it. It will surprise some people. Three is really the eu is going to ban state backed banks in russia from issuing new bonds and stock in europe. The second thing is they will ban some technology for the oil industry that they need for unconventional projects, more sophisticated drilling, deepsea drilling, shale deposits. The export of that material from the European Union is now banned. Get ane are going to arms embargo. The one caveat is that france will still be able to sell its warships to russia as it was hoping to do. These are not retrospective. I think obviously we were expecting these, but when you have 28 countries involved, and they all have their own vested interests, and those interests are vastly greater than the fact thaterest, the this happene