Al qaeda, and its leaders have raised their leader. No surprise that Russian Foreign officials including the security minister and secretary of the Security Council have described isis as the main threat to russia and the main threat to global security, respectively. N the u. S. Side, there is less agreement of whether isis represents a top threat. So, since neither the United States or russia can tolerate the existence of isis in the middle east and both countries need to come counter al qaeda and keep it on the run, i would argue there is definitely grounds for potential cooperation. That is impeded by different approaches toward syria, although i believe, and russian officials have said officially that russia is not married to Bashar Alassad. I believe in the long term there is a possibility for ransition. Or now, the u. S. Russian ooperation could be limited to fighting isil in iraq in joint operations, which is something u. S. And Russian Special forces have done on a low scale in
Peak of their careers will get a federal appointment and move sideways into the federal judiciary. So theres a lot to be said for this idea. But the problem is it contradicts the idea of having the Career Civil Service model where you start off as a junior person in the very lowest court and work your way up. Because the whole point of having these sort of experienced dignified people is theyre going to start off at a relatively high level, and not want to start out in the low courts making 5 kwi a month. So theres some contradiction there that needs to be worked out. The decision also calls for a significant reform in the court system. And both of these are apparently designed to address the law of local protectionism. Courts at a given administrative level tend to be answerable to Political Authority at the same level. Because their personnel appointments are controlled at that level and their funding is controlled at that level. So theyre not subject to any meaningful control from s
Fighters who are joining the militant group. Witnesses who are joining the Homeland Security security and state department officials. This is two hours, 20 minutes. Without objection, all members may have five days to the submit questions and extrainous materials. Whether its isis or al nusra or corson, theres the influx of foreign fighters far surpasses anything we have even seen in afghanistan. The scale of this mass migration is unprecedented and it results in deadly attacks. More foreign fighters have fought for islamic groups like isis in the last two years and then fought in iraq in afghanistan in the last 12 years. I have a map, i hope we can put that up on the screens. That show the areas that these fighters have come from they have come from all over the world. According to estimates, around 15,000 jihadists from over 80 countries have traveled to syria to fight. 2,000 of these fighters are from th the all of these western passport holders can travel freely in europe and even
Its binding components will only come into force in 2020. This means the other components must test the needs to increase substantially our investment and resilience now. The economics of resilience are compelling. For every dollar we can save 4 in the cost of relief. For every dollar invested in Early Warning we can save up to 30 in reconstruction. The cost of an action arising. Economic losses from Natural Hazards have hassen from 50 billion from each year in the 80s to just under 200 billion a year in the last decade. Along with economic losses, ensured losses from weather events have also increased significantly. Estimating that over the past ten years insured losses from weatherrelated events are growing as a proportion of global gdp. The gap between overall losses and insured losses has been widening. 75 of catastrophe related losses worldwide are still uninsured. That the World Bank Group we will use our track record for financial innovation to look for ways to raise the onetime
Very much for your remarks. Center for naf val analysis. Instead of the marvelous mark sitting next to you, say you had the Koch Brothers and u. S. Climate skeptic, what would you say to those people to envoc their self interest and commitment to Climate Change . I try on this particular issue to say the same thing to everybody. What i start with is that you really got look at the science. And the science is pretty astounding. And the science is one that you really have tomorrow brace it. And then after the science, i would invite them to travel with me. To places that have been impacted. So i would invite them to visit for example, where i visited just a while ago. Then i put it in the same way that David Cameron has put it. What he said is, is look, the science is pretty convincing to me. But even if you dont think that this is real, and you think that chances of the terrible events that we predict are not real, even if you think this is 10 chance that this is real, wouldnt you buy i