Well again i have a dream figure in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up hope for south africas future as the finance minister offers Free College Education in the countrys new budget but the cost will be steep. So i think on the Prime Minister israeli media report that one of Benjamin Netanyahu is closest confidantes will testify him against him. And billy graham one of the most influential christian evangelical preachers of the Twentieth Century has died. The rebel held on klav of Eastern Syria is on the war heavy bombardment by russian and Syrian Forces the kremlin though denies any involvement almost three hundred people have been killed over the past four days including four c. On witness day its the highest casualty count in the area since a chemical attack there in twenty thirteen aljazeera sent a hot air. On the story just a warning you may find some of the images inside this report to stop i. There is no frontline in eastern. Oh residential neighborhoods have becom
Will say is they better straighten the law out before they ever introduced into the country, we would not have all of this trauma or the political moves to do waivers. On and on a ghost. It is politically motivated and it is ridiculous. There is no health care and available, it is just Health Insurance. Guest the law had an infamously strange route to passage where only democrats supported in congress and they had to do a little maneuver at the end to dodge the republican senator scott brown, who joined the senate in january before the law ever became final. The criticism is fair that it was a work in progress when it became law and they have had to do a lot of creative regulation, lets say, to get the law off the ground. Host lets go to west virginia. Democrats. Caller good morning. I would like to go off the subject a little bit. This has to do with, are you aware the Medicare Supplement Insurance Program has preexisting conditions in it, and it has been there for years . It has been
The subcommittee on the near east and central asia. This is just adding underway. He has also spoken on issues like universal prek, and on the domestic front, he is a real leader on universal prek and the needs of children and families in our country and we are indebted to him for that area for that. Afghanistan, in less than one month, afghans will go to the polls to elect a new president. This will be the first transfer of power in afghanistan since 2001, when president karzai came into office. The importance of this political transition cannot be overstated. A successful change in leadership has the potential to usher in a more legitimate Afghan Government that can get to work growing its capacity, its economy, and addressing security threats. On the other hand, a strange electoral process has the possibility to threaten security, reversing many of the gains made since 2001. The Afghan People have make an progress that deserves to be sustained. Afghanistan has broadened access to he
Introduction. I am honored to be back here. I am grateful to have this chance to talk about this topic which has dominated our discussions here in washington for more than a decade. I am grateful for the opportunity to be back here. When you get invited summer to speak, if you get invited back that is a good thing. I am grateful. I want to thank the centers for American Progress for the work that you do. Often in the congress we have exposure to a lot of data, a lot of information, a lot of hearings and briefings. But sometimes you do not have the policy work in front of you that you would hope sometimes. Centers for American Progress has been a great value to me and i know two other senators. To other senators. I want to thank you for agreeing to moderate our conversation today, caroline. I know we will get to that later and we will certainly take questions from the audience. I am grateful, in addition to the folks in the audience who actually work at cap, to say hello to those of us