Tuesday. He was the third american serviceman to die in the country since 2014. Meanwhile, in syria is there is a mush to maintain a fragile ceasefire in the wake of recent violence. I am pleased to have brett back at this table. Welcome. Thank you, good to be here. Give me your sense. This is a huge concern for you, and we are going to talk about many things. Where is iraq today . Charlie, i have been in and out of iraq now the last month, kind of going back and forth to baghdad and beil. Not yet in mosul. Iraq faces tremendous challenges. Let me try it break it down. The president came into office in september of 2014 after eight years of rule by Prime Minister maliki, his predecessor. It was a democratic transition arcs peaceful transition in the heart of the middle east. At the time the price of Oil Per Barrel was about 100. Every single drop of the price per barrel of oil, iraq loses about 1 billion a year. Last month it went down to about 30. You got a sense that the tools with w
70 years. The body count is rising as desperate typhoon survivors cling to hope of aid and rescue. Good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America. The death toll is above 2300 the the union warns it will spike. The red cross is preparing to send 1500 body bags to the region. The first mass burial took place outside tacloban without ceremony. 40,000 people in tacloban got water, rice, canned goods and victims. Each ration is enough to feed a family for 23 days. Another shipment is expected today. The u. S. S. George washington is arriving today, carrying 5,000 sailors to aid in the rescue and relief efforts of the the arriving of the Aircraft Carrier will trip the the number of helicopters. Theyll help to deliver hundreds of thousands of gallons of water. In a town in northern cebu one person was killed in the storm. It suffered significant damage. Officials say requests for aid have gone unanswered. Al jazeeras correspondent is on the island in northern cebu with this report. Many peop
Forestall military action on syria. Russia saying that it could urge syria to put its chemical weapons under International Control if that would avert military strikes. In an hour, Congress Goes back to work in washington. Tonight, president obama will be making his case to the American Public in 6t. V. Interviews. With start with london. Phil, first, what do we know about this plan . Coming out of moscow, we didnt hear too much, just the idea being floated. We did hear secretary of state john kerry saying in an off hand comment that assad could avoid to strike if he gives up all his chemical weapons, but hes not going to do that. Where we are hearing a little bit more of the specifics is actually coming out of the United Nations, and the head of the United Nations has made a comment here in which he said that he has actually been thinking about this for days and could possibly bring this to the u. N. Security council or unsc and propose that the syrians would gather up all their chemi
theme today is the 10 year anniversary of the invasion of iraq and many of the administration officials are spending the anniversary polishing the medals they received after screwing things up. george bush celebrated by going to his local dennys dressed in a flight suit and ordering the grand slam breakfast. people have signed a petition objecting to comments on that c in my n perceived as sympathetic to the steubenville rapist. there is a number any rapist can call if they feel the stress. phillip roth is 80 and bob dylan s album was released 51 years ago today. if you re angry about the iraq anniversary, we re all 56 now. theme i m john fugelsang. ten years ago the invasion of iraq began. we all know what followed, zambrano hussein s regime was top would u.s. troops found themselves in a quagmire as civil war broke out. the u.s. adopted a counter insurgency strategy. whether it really succeeded is till a matter of intense debate. there is no debate that it prep