Year after strikes, a blunt assessment from the general. Hes one of the strongest leaders. Chinese president xi jinping arrives in the u. S. , meeting with leaders in the west who are wary about chinese commercial hacking. Canvas masters. Such an exhibition is fascinating, you can experience things by looking, and you can learn a lot. Vincent van go, a 19th century painting, never crossing paths in life, but how an exhibition explores their shared visions. Good evening, im antonio mora, this is Al Jazeera America. We begin with the arrive of pope francis in the capital. The pope touches down at st andrews this afternoon to be greeted by president obama and the first family. Joe biden, and u. S. Bishops. On thursday hell address a joint session of congress. Hell meet with the president at the white house tomorrow, before a prayer. Hell end the day by holding the first canonization mass on u. S. Soil in front of 25,000. Mike viqueira joins us at the white house. What was the atmosphere l
Tomorrow. And that is a problem, because it just means that were going to see this snow piling up, and although the year is only 22 days old, theyre already calling it the storm of 2016. The monster storm is forecast to dump around two feet of though on the most iconic sights on the Nations Capital. Washington, gong, the most heartiest taking it in until it gets too deep. President lincoln never looks to pleased especially today. The citys mayor says, this is a dangerous weather event made worse by major winds. We see this as a major storm, life and death implication and all the residents of the District Of Columbia should treat i. T. Tha it that way. We need the citys full cooperation. The city has only a dusting of snow and ice, and some commutes home took six hours. The snow we anticipate is wet and heavy which means we can expect downed trees and power lines. The winds are expected to be 30 miles an hour up to 50 miles an hour through saturday evening. And we believe that were goin
Thanks for being with us in the fight against i. S. I. L. The battle for kobane is gaining momentum. Now that kurdish peshawar arrived. [ cheering and applause ] people at a refugee camp on turkeys border watched and cheered as war planes flew over kobane. Loud booms bellowed over the area. Al jazeera reports from the turkish side of the border. Reporter we are a few kilometres from kobane, where the sound of sporadic fighting and shelling persisted throughout saturday. Behind me is an entrance through the town. That is where the Iraqi Kurdish peshawar forces crossed friday, in the early hours of saturday, bringing reinforcements for the fighters who have been combatting i. S. I. L. Now, the peshawar forces, when they entered, stationed themselves in the west of the city. And they brought with them the semipickup trucks that were essentially carrying heavy weaponry like antiaircraft guns, rocket launchers, bazookas and the like. These were weaponries that the Syrian Kurdish fighters be
Donations to Breast Cancer charities, but many businesses are accused of pink washing, companies that use Breast Cancer awareness to improvele bottom line and lack of transparency in their fundraising. Our executive producer, we asked that question to our viewers. Has pink become so widespread that it has lost its meaning . You know, our community is really divided on that and what it means so as always, its a live conversation, so feel free to joining us. By logging on. Joining us onset with a critical eye all of this is gayle, the founder of the Breast Cancer consortium, and author of pink ribbon blues. And shes a prominent arthur of Breast Cancer research, one the top Womens Health specialists in the u. S. And lisa, a blogger, and shes fighting stage four Breast Cancer. Thank you for all of u. And weve really been looking forward to this conversation tonight. Dr. Love, where was Breast Cancer awareness before the pink ribbon campaign, and where is it now . Well, before, way back 30
Nigerias army says it rescued nearly 300 women and girls from boko haram. They were found in the forest, which is the armed groups lastknown strong hold. Ynonne ndedge is live in abuja. First of all, clear up some issues for us here. Who are these women and girls. Well the military promise to release photographs and more details of the individuals. All we know so far is theres an ongoing screening and profiling process. They are the words that the military is using to describe what is going on to identify who the individuals are. Late tuesday night nigerias military spokesperson gave an interview to jazz, and he was probed about the identity of the individuals, and he was probed but he said some of the individuals could be the wives and children of boko haram fighters. When asked about the like to chibok and the 200 or so girls kidnapped, he said because of that profiling process that is going on, the military are not ruling out the possibility that in the midst of the 293 individuals,