Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Colonist and editorial cartoonist is an awardwinning graphic novelist and the author of nonfiction books about domestic and International Current affairs. His cartoons appear at approximately 100 newspapers around the United States and from 2008 to 2009 he was president of the association of the editorial cartoonist and hes won several awards for his work including the journalism awards and the National Journalism award and best book of the year award. Joining him on stage tonight is chris hedges who spent barely two decades as a correspondent in Central America the middle east, africa and the balkans. Hes reported for more than 50 countries and has worked for the Christian Science monitor and the National Public radio at the Dallas Morning News and New York Times. He was part of the team of reporters at the times and awarded a Pulitzer Prize for coverage about global terrorism. Hes also the author of several bestselling books including ward gives us
That is what we will continue with. And that is why we will stick to the longterm economic plan. Eliminating the deficit, net migration down into the tens of thousands, no topdown reorganization, why did the Prime Minister make these promises, and why did he break them . We said we would get the deficit is down, and the deficit is down by half. From a disgraceful situation left by our neighbor. I thought the gentleman would take the opportunity to talk about the vital still interests in his contingency that well talk about later on today. Im working as hard as we can to try to make sure we keep still production growing in our country. But i have to say to him, as hes introduced a political element, so might i. Production is up. And to this Government Employment in industry is up where it was down under labor. Why is that . Because weve got a car industry thats growing, were got an Aerospace Industry thats growing, weve got construction thats growing. Were getting britain back to work.
The physician payment sunshine act. It was a bipartisan piece of legislationo senate by senatorrofz grassley. Republican from iowa. And senator herb kohl a democrat from wisconsin. And the bill sought to lift the veil on the relationship between industry and it was a true piece of Bipartisan Legislation that was founded on a lot of the research that youre going to hear from some of our great speakers today. It was written in conjunction z with the information that we gotrcd from the research community, and the consumer community, represented by pew and allen here today and aarp and amsa and me concerned that these r b2bk ; relationships, the Financial Relationships, were impacting both the quality of health care, and the cost of health care. J2. Sn and i have to say that the process was long and tireless. At the time i worked for senator herb cole and we had, with my colleague Chris Armstrong from oa senator grassleys office, about 300 meetings with consumer a d z tr t hahp hc groups,
Heard from janet yellen, who said shell do what it take to get the country back on track. A full senate vote could come next week. Whitey bulger was sentenced to two life sentences in prison plus five years. An attorney for the mob boss said he plans to appeal. Conservation authorities in denver destroyed 6 tonnes of ivory, they want to send a message to poachers to stop killing evidence for their custodies. America tonight is on next. You can get the latest on aljazeera. Com. On america tonight. Disaster aid delivered. Tonight, the mass graves, the threats of violence, and the mounting health concerns. Also tonight, innocence, perverted on the internet. The crack down on one of the largest child important rings. It is still on going, there will be further arrests and i would imagine there will be more children that will be saved because of it. And revolving door. A controversial operation giving prostitute as chance at a new life. Our crime and punishment series takes you inside the s
Oil has been a week since the store hit. Those are the headlines after this hour, america tonight is up next on al jazeera. Ill see you back here at 11 00 eastern, 8 00 pacific time, now you can all get the latest news on aljazeera. Com. We will see you back here at 11 00. On america tonight. Disaster aid delivered. Tonight, the mass graves, the threats of violence, and the mounting health concerns. Also tonight, innocence, perverted on the internet. The crack down on one of the largest child important rings. It is still on going, there will be further arrests and i would imagine there will be more children that will be saved because of it. And revolving door. A controversial operation giving prostitute as chance at a new life. Our crime and punishment series takes you inside the sex business, through project rose. When a woman comes to a place, where selling her body a all she has, thats a difficult place to be in. It is blurring the lines between linking people to social services the