This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im tony harris. Yemen is a country in crisis. Less than 4 hours ago the president of yemen signed a deal with Houthi Rebels to end months of crisis. Today president hadi resigns leaving the country in chaos. This is the resignation of yemens president. The countrys head of state after the revolution. It comes a day after he agreed to houthi demands including a change in the constitution. Shia houthi fight tours control the capitol of sanaa. But theyve been in control of most parts since september last year. Theyve been promising statement and calling for the setting up of a new president ial council. In this secession itself, there have been calls for the north that shows how divided this country is. There have been calls for the solution to the crisis. I ask everybody to be wise, to be in a spirit of national union, to respect the supreme interest of yemen and dialogue and political solutions. Some analysts say that hadi should have
They were trying to show you hear stories about hagel. Hes lazy. Come on. Theyre trying to demean him. And at the Staff Meetings he agreed with kerry and general dempsey. If they were right, why not . In other words, some people who got to say, got have my opinion, whether or not it whether or not its agrees or disagrees elm think were trying to show theyre shaking things up because things are not going as well as we would like in the middle east, like we were surprised by isil. Oh, general clappers fault. Well, do you want to fire him . No. So, hagel was easy sacrifice because, a. , a republican, who the republicans dont like. And, then you have and of course he wag weakened by the confirmation hearing. Again, ive known chuck. We worked together in the Reagan Administration. He was number two at va. Not 35 years old. A pretty big job. The head of va at the time said, agent orange is no worse than teenage acne. Can you believe that . So hagel said either he goes or i go. He went. That
Congress. However, since 2011, there have been 60 attempts to do the same. It is sunday, february 1. The budget, taxes and spending expected to dominate much of the debate in congress this week. Congress calling for higher taxes and doing away with sequestration budget cuts. We want to get your comments on all of this. 202 7488001 for republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7458002 for independents. You can also join in on the conversation, send us a tweet send us an email. Good sunday morning to you. Lets look at what the presence budget will include 7 increase over sequestration level 530 billion a nondefense spending. Cuts according to the white house would be evenly divided over the nineyear. Now, white house saying they want to undo the requester nation spending. We will get your comments and questions in just a moment. First, Jonathan Allen. Guest is my pleasure to be on. Host let me go to one of the court points of your story, Available Online from bloomberg. You talk about
Appears to show the other hostage dead. But the post was reportedly deleted quickly and a website affiliated with the Islamic State group disagree about whether the message is authentic. Japanese officials are working to verify the video and they call it outrageous and unforgiven. John huddy is covering this from the middle east newsroom. What do you have . Reporter well, yeah, arthel u. S. Intelligence officials are trying to authenticate the video. Look, its hard to look at it and in particular its also hard to listen to. Now, take a look one more time at it. It shows 47yearold freelance journalist kenji goto what appears to be a picture of the beheaded body of contractor haruna yukawa. We blurred that picture out because obviously its too graphic. Now, the video has an audio track of a man claiming to be kenji goto imploring shinzo abe to accept isis new demand, a prisoner swap. Goto in exchange for a woman named a sajida al rishawi. The Japanese Foreign ministers have been in jorda
Hour of newsroom l. A. An urgent search for the suspect in a berlin Christmas Market attack. Anis amris identity papers were found in the truck which barrelled in to the crowd. He went to germany last year and known to police. He was arrested carrying forged documents but authorities were unable to deport him. He is linked to radical islamist groups. We get details from brian todd. Reporter police say anis amri is under suspicion in the market attack in berlin that killed a dozen and wounded 50 others. His identification was found in the truck along with the original driver who had been shot at close range. As the search for the alleged terrorist expands, including raids by police in northern germany where he lived, theres growing concerns about his links to isis. Reporter he had contact islamist organizations, variety Security Services assessed him as a person who poses a risk. Reporter isis has claimed responsibility for inspiring the attack, and cnn has learned amri has connections