Carolina. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york. Im tony harris. The Obama Administration is overhauling its program to equip and train moderate syrian rebels. Ash carter says the effort has failed to produce real results. Mike viqueira is live for us in washington. Mike, before we talk about what changes are coming to the program, can you talk for a moment about what a complete and utter failure the program has been to this point . Reporter i dont think theres any sugar coating it at all. 500 million was just for the first 5,000 of the socalled moderate vetted opposition that were to be trained in thirdparty countries. Ultimately the goal was to have 15,000 of these individuals on the ground in syria, fighting isil. And that was one of the fundamental problems. A hard time recruiting people to do that, when Bashar Alassad was attacking them. And many had serious grievances against the assad regime. When it came right down to it, general austin has to testify before congress a
This is jazz, good evening. We begin with tensions in turkey, following the deadly suicide bombings in the capital in ankara, at a peace rally staged by opposition and prokurdish groups. At least 95 were killed, 246 wounded outside a train station. This is the third attack against meetings of kurdish activists in four months. Turkish government officials call it a terror attack. And president obama expressed his condolences to turkeys president. Mohammed jamjoom has more from ankara. Reporter chants for peace. They were the victim of a horrific attack. One of the worst in turkeys history, dozens killed. Hundreds wounded. Translation there was a commotion, i was walking, an explosion went off. We lay on the ground. A second explosion went off. There were two. The one that went off here was strong. Reporter this is the third attack targetting prokurdish activists since june. In july dozens were killed when a suicide bomber struck on the border with syria. Since then the security situatio
Farmers in South Carolina. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. The Obama Administration is overhauling its program to train and equip moderate syrian rebels. Defense secretary Ash Carter Says the 500 million pentagon effort as failed to produce real results. Mike viqueira is live for us in washington. Mike, what does the pentagon have to say about the changes . Reporter well, good morning to you, randall. It has been brewing for quite sometime theres no question about it. It was a delayed launch of this program, much touted to train the socalled moderate opposition, put them in turkey, saudi arabia, jordan, train them, and then send them back into fight isil forces. It simply has not worked out. Ash carter as you report, randall was in europe. Here is how he described the new program. I wasnt satisfied with the early efforts in that regard, and so were looking at different ways to achieve the basically the same kind of strategic objective, which is
Midair at cruising altitude of 33,000 feet. Ukraine government claims jet liner was hit by a missle fired by a ground launcher while russian forest and pro russian accepttition denight involvement, hostile situation on the ground concerns local aviation expert arthur wolk. Lots of Airlines Flight over this area because it is a a trait line to where they wanting to in asia. There were enough warnings out there that there were very sophisticated weapons with tremendous capability to bring down high flying airplanes to me it makes no sense to deliberately fly over a war zone, when that capability exists on the ground. Reporter faa has prohibited u. S. Carriers from flying in that region while Malaysia Airlines says it is investigating the crash, terrorism experts say that this crash will change the dynamic of commercial air liners flying over war zones. Up until this point it appeared that the troubles in Eastern Ukraine were on the ground not in the air. This is a game changer of sorts.
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