Return home, but there were hampered efforts to recover the wreck. [music] and asia welcomes in the new year with fireworks from hong kong and pyongyang. Hello palestinian president Mahmood Abbas signed a treaty to join the International Criminal court. More than 20 International Treaties he has signed. It will allow the prosecution of israeli officials and their actions in the palestinian territories. They territories. Territoryies. It follows the rejection of the palestinian resolution calling for an end of the Israeli Occupation of its territoryies by 2017. The veto yesterday is not the first veto. It wont be the last veto. But we have our rights. Rights are not to be given. Rights are to be taken. And we have to work hard to get and take our rights. Despite the u. N. Set back on tuesday president Mahmood Abbas has been celebrating. A procession was held to mark the 50th anniversary of fatah being established. Were live from ramallah. Tell us more about the signing of the treaty. We
Moments ago spoke at a News Conference that was interrupted by protesters. Any questions . [ chanting no justice no peace ] there were a number of announcements, the mayor announcing announcing that officer slagger had been fired. The officer that was terminated. While he has been terminated, his wife is pregnant, and the city will continue to cover insurance on her until after the baby is born. We think that is the humane thing for us to do, and were going to do that. The mayor said that officials will not make any statements, however, walter scots family spoke this morning on good morning america. His mother calls the video of her sons death shocking. When i looked at that tape. That was the most horrible thing ive ever seen. I am very very upset concerning it. I almost couldnt look at it running defenselessly they shot and i hope this never happens to another person. This has got to stop. The player and police chief visited the family of walter scott this morning. The mayor saying t
About so much, but on the ground for people right now who have already borrowed, clients like mine having the existing programs that work well, it is incredibly important. Hopefully a lot is going to happen in that area. The cfbp is the new sheriff in town. I will add that president obama said a lot on the campaign trail that he wanted to tie federal aid to colleges ability to keep costs down. We have not seen specifics on that. It will be interesting. Something to watch to see if he actually does that. We have seen some specifics from the prior version of that proposal. The students aid and fiscal responsibility act, which passed the house, but provisions were dropped from the bill. Eventually became the health care and education reconciliation act. Campus based funding the perkins loan, the grant, a federal work study tying it to a colleges success in keeping tuition from growing too quickly. Also their success enrolling pell grant recipients. The final proposal will be different, bu
Mr. President , mr. Speaker, senator mckinney, representative cafero, lt. Governor wyman and my fellow state officials, ladies and gentlemen of the General Assembly, honored members of the judiciary, members of the clergy, and all the citizens of our great state who are watching or listening today thank you for the honor of inviting me into the peoples house to address you. Id like to offer my sincere congratulations to the newly elected leadership of the democratic and republican caucuses in each chamber, and especially to speaker sharkey and majority leader aresimowicz as they take on their new roles. Congratulations as well to the new members of the General Assembly who were sworn in earlier today. I look forward to working with you in the months and years ahead. As we gather in this historic chamber, let us always keep in our thoughts the brave men and women of the great state of connecticut serving in our armed forces around the globe. We thank them and our veterans for their serv
Believe them. If you ask most americans do you want smaller government, they say yes. Then if you ask them to cut my particular item on the budget, they dont want to cut anything. So its not clear if they really believe in it. Based on the best data i have when writing this book lowest 10 and highest 30 . So lib tarnse if they were conscious and political, they could be a big movement. It could be a group of people that have a lot of influence in politics but they are not organized that way right now. What you might not know sunday night at 8 00 on cspan q a. The Inspector General overseeing reconstruction efforts in afghanistan said the u. S. Risks losing billions of dollars without proper oversight of the projects. Those remarks same at the same time that president karzai. This is 50 mens. Thank you very much. And thank you very much for everyone showing up this afternoon. They were very generous comments and i am honored to be here today at the stimson center, an institution named f