Eastern ukraine descends into horrors of mariupol as rockets fall on residential areas. And all the day sport. Novak djokovic is in action at the Australian Open. We find out why the african cup of nations ecuadorial guinea will turn to buy footballers around the world. The u. S. Led Coalition Must do more to help forces win the fight against i. S. I. L. That is a message from kurdish leaders who say they cant do the job by themselves and need boots on the ground. Zeina khodr reports from Northern Iraq where Kurdish Peshmerga forces are battling i. S. I. L. Kurdish peshmerga have been winning battles, but the war against the Islamic State of iraq and levant is far from over. Air support has helped them but commanders say it is not enough. The slow pace of the offensive allows i. S. I. L. To regain momentum. The Kurdish Security Council Representative oversees the military operations on the ground and told me that the International Community needs to engage more. This he said would requ
Industry and a country known for dangerous working condition animators are looking to change that perception. Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America, im stephanie sy, four people have been killed and Dozens Injured in bangkok thailand has police mount an offensive against antigovernment protesters. Police detained about 100 demonstrators while trying to clear protest camps around government offices that have been occupied for weeks and as Al Jazeera Veronica reports it shows how volatile it is between the Prime Minister and opposition calling for her to resign. It was before noon in this historical area of old bangkok when the violence broke out. What had happened was that riot police were trying to clear the area of demonstrators who occupied this intersection for several weeks now. They brought in bulldozers that were trying to clear the area as cheers rang out from the protesters and suddenly an explosion was heard and we since discovered that was an m79 grenade and they too
Culling the Upcoming Elections in syria a farce. While stopping short of offering u. S. Military aid. Kerry said he and partners remain committed to, quote, changing the dynamics on the ground in syria. Neither kerry or William Hague offered many specifics. Heres more with what sect kerr secretary kerry said at the News Conference with William Hague. Ask yourself, how do you have a legitimate election when half the people in your country are displaced and not able to vote . How do you have a legitimate election when another several Million People are in refugee camps, unable to vote . How do you have it when hundreds of thousands of peopleliterally, almost a million perhaps, are scattered in various countries in the region, seeking safety from assad. Its just impossible to believe that under those circumstances, where people are hunkered down in homes, intimidated and afraid to be able to come out, afraid of being forced to do one vote or another, just have no climate, no framework wit
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Of deal. Welcome to wednesday. Meet the press daily. Good evening. Im chuck todd here in washington. President trump didnt want america to be the worlds police. Well, we got to ask this question. Is this what it looks like when there is no american cop on the beat . There are clashes in hong kong between prodemocracy protesters and riot police. There are decadesold tensions reemerging between japan and south korea. At a moment they should be focused on north korea. There are populist and xenophobic riots rocking the globe. Russia is Testing Nuclear powered missiles. There is now Russian Missile Technology Inside turkey, a key na nato ally. And i havent even mentioned your just sort of runofthemill whether it is middle east peace or latin american, especially where some demonstrators are singing our National Anthem like weve seen in hong kong. I didnt even bring up the democracy movements we have nothing about to say in russia. A Top Administration official actually said the hong kong m