Repeated budget cuts have tested blms ability to keep up with industry demand for new permits and to enforce safety and environmental standards. Thats why the president s budget calls on congress to support a strong on shore inspection program, partly funded through fees. This proposal takes a page from the offshore Energy Industry where industry pays fees for permits and inspections. Which means we can keep pace with the work load, and we dont have to divert funds from other programs to support permitting, leasing or inspection activities. Coupled with the transition to a new automated permitting system, which is under way, that eliminates paper applications, these Budget Resources will strengthen the capacity to do its job well. Thats a perfect example in the budget where Congress Needs to move beyond mindless austerity, brought about by sequestration and i can tell you, my first year in this job was 2013. I thought i left the private sector for this . Crazy budget. But this enables
For unicef say children in syria lack many of the things they need to develop, and they are warning of a lost generation. Members of an Ethnic Minority Group in china say they are being harassed. Government authorities are blaming uygur people for a deadly car crash near Tiananmen Square and members of the group are concerned it will spread. Nhk has more. Reporter a Utility Vehicle went into a crowd on monday, then crash and burst into flame. The three people in the suv were killed, along with two bystanders. Investigators have described the incident as a well organized terrorist attack. They say all of them are uggers, as were the three people in the car. A spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign ministry suggested members of the east Turkish Islamic movement may be linked to the incident. The group is fighting for independence in the autonomous region. Uggers in beijing say they are experiencing backlash. Some say their landlords have pressured them to move. Others say staff at a hotel
Being made towards the peace conference. But theyre not certain whether the talks will take place as planned in just over three weeks time. The schedule included a meeting with president assad. The bbc is also in damascus and she asked him how successful his visit had been. I think we are making progress whether that progress would be enough or it is not certain yet. We are preparing for the conference and i hope that will go through. What are the aspects that give you hope . Because many people are very skeptical. What have you seen that convinces you that this is making progress . I think people are realizing more and more that there is not a resolution and they dont see any other way of forgetting of getting out of this horrible situation except through geneva. And what is still the major obstacles towards the holding of the conference on november 23 . You know, the opposition is ill trying to put together their ideas and agree to come together and form an and we need a little more
German parliamentarians to visit german soldiers and so we had to change that and pull our troops out so theres a lot of things where one is unreliable and now he needs our help and that is a moment where we should have very Firm Conditions under which we will give him financial it own posner president had wanted to play. Oh yeah definitely i mean. He started out as an economic reform. Important point and the west especially europe welcomed that and the idea was that turkey with this is a mild brand of islam is and could go Beyond Kemalist Nationalism and the. Kurds and turks and other minorities can find Common Ground in in being turkish and islamic and at the same time having this economic reform but. For whatever reason he abandoned that course he has abandoned the course of reconciliation of the kurds
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We have heard gunfire just about 20 minutes ago, what are believed to be multiple explosions in istanbul and ankara although some people have also been confused because of lowflying fighter jets which to some people have sounded like explosions. The Reuters News Agency reporting that turkish legislators are taking shelter in parliament building. Our Sister Network, cnn turk, was taken off the air by members of the coup, by soldiers apparently who entered the building. That you see the broadcast, nobody obviously behind the anchor desk anymore. Plus a president ial source saying that the president of turkey has actually returned, flown into istanbul. His exact location now, not clear. A lot, to say the least, is in flux. We begin with jeff kell on the phone from the airport in istanbul. Jeff, i understand did you yourself hear an explosion . What happened just now, was a big bang and it did rattle the windows and the walls of the airport, and people were running in a panic. But to say e