A deal by late march, and there is apparently so much obvious pressure that iranian media portrays the United States as desperate for a deal. Also here tonight, critics blasting president obama all last week as an apologist in chief, saying his refusal to acknowledge radical islamist terrorists would only embolden them. Now with only two days into this week the administration yesterday warning of alshabaab terrorist threats against the mall of america, and today the Islamic State has kidnapped at least 150 christian men and women and children from a number of villages in northeastern syria. Well be taking all of this up tonight with former pentagon official k. T. Mcfarland here in moments. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell came up with a plan to save republicans from themselves allowing the gop a graceful exit from the department of Homeland Security funding fight. Ive indicated to the democratic leader that id be happy to have his cooperation to advance the consideration of a cle
Obama is waking up in San Francisco this morning. Later he will lead a summit on Cyber Security at stanford. Dozens of ceos will take part. Privacy experts and Law Enforcement officials will also join in. They work on ways the government and private sector can Work Together to prevent cyber attacks. The president is going to be speaking with, um, a large number of ceos, um, of major american corporations who i believe are going to commit themselves to taking specific concrete action to improve the Cyber Security postures of their individual organizations. Today the president will sign an executive order to improve information sharing with Law Enforcement. This follows recent hacking attacks on several major companies. Several prominent figures in the Technology Field will not be taking part in todays conference. They include facebooks mark zuckerberg, yahoos Marissa Mayer and googles larry page. The snub reportedly is linked to the pressure from the government against those companies t
Will still have to confirm. As for the two officers, they have been placed on routine paid administrative leave. Reporting lookive in san jose, len ramirez, kpix 5. Surveillance photos could help catch the man who knocked a San Francisco Police Officer off a muni platform. Police say that this man ran full speed at the officer last month on the muni platform at 4th and king streets. The officer landed on the tracks. He was okay, got up and chased the suspect. The suspect got away. Call police if you know anything. Outraged protestors barged in on a bart Board Meeting calling for criminal charges and restitution to be dropped. It stems from a black lives matter demonstration last november. Kpix 5s anne makovec reports, they wont be getting everything they asked for. Reporter protestors interrupted the bart Board Meeting as members voted 54 to ask the District Attorney not to pursue 70,000 in restitution from the black friday 14. But to allow the criminal charges to stand. This is a bala
This after federal and state investigators began looking into unreported deals and meetings he had with the heads of the very Power Companies his agency is supposed to be regulating. Thus, the protestors. Youre really witnessing a walk of shame on the part of people that have associated with a corrupt system orchestrated by a corrupt person. Reporter but some of the dinner attendees say peevey deserves to be honored because he helped save california during the energy crisis. By putting the rate increases on the people with bigger houses, he saved poor people billions of dollars. Reporter is this really appropriate to have this kind of dinner . Well, it celebrates a career in Public Service of longterm things and i dont think it has anything to do with the taxpayers. Reporter youve seen what he is accused of. Is that appropriate to have these conversations i dont think you can make decisions unless youre available to talk to everybody. And candidly, tell them what you think. You cant do
As fighting intensifies in Eastern Ukraine, the Obama Administration is now considering directly Arming Ukrainian forces against russianbacked rebels. This comes as former soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warns the confrontation in ukraine cold war. We will speak to professor Stephen Cohen. Then to turmoil in north africa and the middle east. The general impression is the countrys rate close to total chaos, and if they miss this opportunity, it is very difficult to imagine there will be a secure nation in the country that will allow is only to start a new process. As libya faces its worst crisis since the u. S. Backed ouster of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, we look at a region in tremendous turmoil from syria to iraq to lebanon to yemen to saudi arabia to egypt. We will speak to professor Vijay Prashad. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama has unveiled his 4 trillion Budget Proposal for next year