Expansion of isis in the middle east. After that remarks by the israeli Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu. Next a look at u. S. Strategy against isis. Thursday david cohen, the undersecretary of treasury for terrorism and Financial Intelligence outlined his agencys work to attach the terror groups Funding Sources. This hearing of the House Financial Services committee is three hours. The committee will come to order. The chair will declare a recess at any time. Before we begin, if you think you are in a strange room, you are. We did not change the portraits, as i have announced previously to the committee. Our hearing room, i think, is the last hearing room in the raburn building to receive a sound upgrade and other modifications to make the room ada compliant. As a reminder to all members, we will be a no maddic tribe between now and theoretically the end of march. We hope that doesnt mean midw midwmid midmay. And we will take whatever Committee Room our friends will allow us to have.
Finishing up the inheritance here when Michael First joined as a fellow and you know, at the end of the day, he would come by either my office or his office and his endless curiosity for for how this would play out, his love of the wonderfully ambiguous nature of dealing with the iranian. The questions of whether or not the specifics of the deal led to a much greater political kind of reconciliation, a subject that my great colleague, mark, will take up in a moment. He was also wonderfully into the weeds. And wonderfully competitive in that way that somebodys whos been a reporter all his life can be. When i r reported in the book after i wrote after i had done the inter hans than the United States had been involved in a lengthy cyber saab technology, that was really the first use of a cyber weapon by the United States against another state, i think michael was probably the first person who called me the day they ran the excerpt in the paper. And his mind had moved three chess steps out
Chemical weapons use. The group is tremendously destabilizing force across large swaths of iraq and syria and the brutal campaigns have approximately u drawn the condemnation appropriately drawn of the broader International Community. In addition to the horrific massacres, kidnappings and decapitations, officials believe that isil is one of the Richest Terrorist Groups to ever exist with estimated assets in access of 1 billion. Unlike most other terrorist groups, which tend to rely heavily on foreign sponsors, isil generally raises funds internally limiting available to the Treasury Department to cut them off. From the formal Financial System regardless. The ability to sanction and block assets remains vital to ensure that over the long run the United States and our allies can shut down any funds that are tied to elicit oil sales, extortion and kidnapping for ransom. As we make progress in curtailing isiss internal funding schemes, it may be forced to rely more heavily on types of fund
A new deal to stand and the crucial role played by german chancellor Angela Merkel. And the trans america partnership. After five years of closed door negotiation with 600 Corporate Advisors who have access to the text and writing and helping to write these rules and the public does not know about it. Reporter the white house pushes a big trade deal with countries in asia and the americas but could people in the u. S. Be on the losing end . Welcome to al jazeera and im antonia and im stephanie sy and go to yemen on the bring of war and verge of collapse and an alqaeda Affiliate Group seized an army base in the western part of the country today and a tribal source said dozens of tanks, jeeps and military equipment captured on the raid on the base. At the airport in sanaa vehicles left by american diplomates exiting yemen were also seized the u. S. Had suspended operations at the embassy on tuesday, deteriorating situation prompted emergency meeting at the u. N. Security council today, g
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations taking place] [inaudible conversations taking place] [inaudible conversations taking place] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] and once again we are live at the Wilson Center waiting for comments from chuck hagel talking about the Nato Alliance as tension heightens between russia and ukraine. Russias military move quote shatter the myth that the end of the cold war meant an end to insecurity at least in europe. Speaking in washington he says the european nato members need bolster their expense effort because they will test the 28nation lead alliance. We expect remarks to get underway in just a moment here at the Wilson Center. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] morning. Good morning. Morning, everyone and welcome to the Wilson Center. I am jane harmon the president and ceo. I am delighted to introduce our first event this mornin