Out killing more than 2 dozen people and its partytime. Brazil kicks off carnivale celebrations. Five days of nonstop parties. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. And im antonio mora. We begin tonight in argentina where officials are renewing an investigation into argentinas president kirchner, following up on a bombing of a Jewish Community center moreover two decades ago. Who was lind the behind the bombing is still unclear. Today a prosecutor reaffirmed accusations that kirchner held back blame. Both kirchner and tehran deny it. AflAlberto Nisman died before he could prevent his evidence. Allegations will not go away. The allegation is they covered up iran annually involvement in the 1999 attack on a Jewish Center in buenos aires the government has always vee mentally denied those rks vehemently denied those accusations. Translator one has to distinguish between the judicial and the political aspects. The judicial aspect is highly questionable while we cant deny its havi
Areina kirsh inner. Battle is getting worse near debaltseve. The rail railway junction, near the rebel stronghold of donetsk. There is also shelling in luhansk. This is not just an attack of the ukrainian sector, but the minsk result. After minsk the offensive operation of russia, intensified significantly. At least 25 have been killed since the ceasefire was signed. Charles stratford reports from the front line there. Ukrainian tanks behind me are in a support position for what is believed to be 8,000 ukrainian soldiers in the town of debaltseve. Separatists say they have surrounded the town. Become a major stronghold, if the separatists take control of debaltseve, it will give them a direct route via rally way to russia. Ukrainian fighting close by. Everything is destroyed said this ambulance driver, you cant get into town and there are dead bodies on the road. We pushed up further towards debaltseve. Were here at a Ukrainian Army check point. There is a lot of heavy weaponry going t
New york. Its 50 years since the assassination of the American Civil Rights leader malcolm x. Were asking if his legacy is greater than just the street named after him. To nigeria where military say they have captured a down from boko haram fighters. Boko haram had taken over a town, hundreds of people are reported killed. Now is this a success for the Nigerian Army . Lets talk with yvonne, our correspondent on the line from abuja. What more have you got yvonne. Reporter well, the military said it has recaptureed the town and it is a significant victory it was symbolic for them and for the nation, really, for the capture of this down, baga. It has been at the center of the worst violence weve seen perpetrated by the group. Reports of 200 people were killed in the cross fire the. This has been called victory and they would recapture this town to show ultimately the nigerian people that the offensive against the group is a success and slowly but surely boko haram will be diminished. Hold
Abdullah achaland urges armed rebels to end their their fight with the turkey. A message to isil. Memory of Boris Nemtsovmensova murdered in moscow. He was deputy Prime Minister and one of the kremlins most vocal critics. Putin has taken charge of the investigation saying he will do all he can to bring the gunman to justice nemtsov. He was an out spoken critic of russias involvement in ukraine and had been promoting a large march against the war planned for sunday thats likely to be dominated by protests against his murderer. Rory chal lands reports. The bridge where he died is now a shrine. All day saturday people brought candles candles. This murder besides the walls of the kremlin has shocked many. Its a. Its hard for me to talk about it. I just feel sorry for him as a person. He was murdered for some he was pop positive. Some for some negative. He was considered to be a potential successor of the former president , yeltsin. He chosed a spy chief called putin and numbemanjastsov nem
And mind control a allowing a paralyzed man to lift a glass. And in makes a winning return to pakistan. After a sixyear hiatus International Cricket is welcomed back in the country. Hello there, a warm welcome to the news hour. The Islamic State in iraq and levant is tatening its grip, and it appears to have extended activities to saudi arabia. There are is the recent capture of ramadi, quote a complete disaster. Isil continues to move across baghdad and continues towards alawadi. The last city. They have been going door to door executing as many as 150 Assad Government loyalists. And a group linked to isil said that they carried out attacks in shia mosques. Atat least 21 people were killed when a suicidebomber detonateed a device during friday prayers. The mosque was packed with worshipers. Security forces say theyre investigating the case and trying to find out how their suicidebomber managed to get in to the mosque and who it is affiliated with. In the same part of the country two m