Interview, tony harris conversation with Michael Browns mother one year after her son was killed in the ferguson. The Obama Administration is just suffering a major set back in the push to get rebel forces to fight for u. S. Interests in syria. The u. S. Military officials have now been forced to acknowledge that rebel troops trained by the u. S. Are refusing to go into battle. Jaime mcintyre is live at the pent gone with the latest, jaime. David you take a very complicated situation on the ground and an incomplete understanding by the u. S. Military and that results in a major miscalculation. And an embarrassing set back, the u. S. Sent the first of its trained and equipped fighterred into northern syria, the so called 54, that were going to embed with moderate Syrian Opposition forces but never thought that the front, linked to al quaida would engen those forces that turned out to be a very flawed assumption, and on friday of last week, there was an attack, it had to be repelled with
Everybody has been shot at. Everybody has been under fire and had to deal with the enemy in one way or the other. A dangerous business, pot transactions, families are hiring armed guards to make. Hi there and welcome to al jazeera america. Im thomas drayton. Good to have you with us. Ukraines political standoff has reached its bloodiest point sint since the situation began. Hotels turned into makeshift hospitals. But in the last hour there has been a recent break through. Ukraines president says a deal has been reached and will be signed on friday. Nick shifrin has more. Reporter every army needs a supply line and for the antigovernment protesters in kiev. Crudest kind of bomb, moll off the cocktails. All tonight they will stay here, stuffing rags, pouring gas. Somebody has to help the fighters. Even if it means deceiving and leaving their families. What do your parents say . Think dont know that were here. I have a son, one year old son and i think that i must be here because its my c
Dealers get ready to pay millions in tax revenue in cash, because banks wont do business with them. A spokesman for an Opposition Group tells al jazeera the countrys parliament voted to have security forced leave kiev to avoided more violence, but it is up to the countrys president to decide whether to pull back those forces. Kiev Health Department says at least 67 people have died in this weeks fighting. Here is a live look now. It is calm. But theres been plenty of unrest. How to respond. But the e. U. Took action imposing sanctions on some officials they include a travel ban to europe, and freezing assets in e. U. Countries. We will go live to kiev in a moment, but first, we spoke earlier today with the Ukrainian Ambassador terrorist the united nations, he says blame for the violence goes to both sides. When the protestors were killed, 16 of them, and ten policeman, saw the snipers they were shooting but nobody until now ready to fight. The students over the night in november, and p
The idea of the s. A. T. Has shifted under the feet of american teenagers. Only the College Bound were encouraged to take it, it was an important sorting tool in the scramble for seats and competitive schools but not that important if you plan to graduate with an academic diploma, and then head off to state u. Where you lived. In more recent years the College Board which administers the test has tinkered with it to respond to criticisms of cultural bias, a writing section was added and the test was scored on a basis of 2400 points rather than the long time yardstick of 1600. More High Schoolers were encouraged to see themselves as College Bound, and encouraged to take the test, and kids were advised to take it multiple times starting younger, while an entire industry grew up around prepping to sit for the exam, the sat is about to make another big change. If you have or are going to have a High School Student in your life, these changes are headed your way. If we believe that assessmen