a new british survey reveals more about how children are developing with their devices. and don t use them to their school be asian champions league is the latest competition to be affected by the coronavirus with all matches involving chinese clubs postponed until april. thank you for joining us the world health organization says the corona virus outbreak that killed hundreds of people and infected thousands is showing no signs of mutation and has not caused a pandemic the global death toll stands at 427 all but 2 of those have been recorded in mainland china more than 25000 people have been infected there are now examples of 2 people contracting the virus without being in china one got sick in thailand the other in singapore and a cruise ship is under corn. at a port in japan a passenger who got off the ship in hong kong was later confirmed with the virus that brings the total number of cases in hong kong to 17 as a city reports his 1st death from the outbreak and in an unp
Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy, thanksgiving has come and gone and black friday is in full swing. Some of the biggest chains have been open for hours. Toys r us and, walmart and target opened hours ahead of the midnight start on black friday and macys opening on thanksgiving evening for the first time in the 155 year history. The retailers want to makeup for the shorter span this year between thanksgiving and christmas and, walmart has protests with workers demanding higher pay and better working conditions and patricia is at Roosevelt Field in new york. Sorry we do not have patricia now. We will tell you a little bit about black fridays history. Thanksgiving thursday may have given black friday a run for its money this year. Some of the nations biggest chains started the Holiday Shopping season on thursday. Kmart welcomed shoppers at 6 00 a. M. , toys r us, target annual mart opened before the usual start on friday. Retailers say they need to time beca
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
A push to recognise and reconcile children who were virtually stolen by their families. It was heart breaking to walk by empty cages top predators falling victim to a virus. The race to save a sanctuary full of big cats. We begin with breaking news in lebanon, where a series of explosions has claimed seven lives. A pair of bomb blasts ripped through a suburb south of the capital beirut. Its a predominantly shia muslim community. Four civilians and one military officer were killed, along with two suspected suicide bombers. Reports say it was a car bomb and a motorcycle bomb exploding subtle aniously outside simultaneously outside an iranian embass which. Around the World Governments in crisis. In ukraine 25 are dead, and hundreds injured after police went into kievs Independence Square and cracked down on antigovernment demonstrators have been camped out since december. In thailand fighting in the streets. In venezuela. Deadly protests. This is a live look at kiev. We have this report m
Condemning the sentence of peter greste and says her government will try to intervene with the Egyptian Government. Other news as the fighting continues in iraq the u. S. Secretary of state has flown in on unannounced visit and we are live there. And the manhunt is over, a south korean script accused of killing five of his comrades has shot himself. In the past hour we have been hearing an egypt Court Sentenced two al jazeera journalists to seven years in prison and another to ten years, greste and fahmy and mohamed have been jailed for about six months already and falsely accused of collaborating with the Muslim Brotherhood and six other al jazeera Staff Members being tried have received ten years in jail. Mohamed has more. Guilty verdict nearly six months in the making and the alleged crime doing their job as journalists and al jazeera correspondent greste and producers fahmy and mohamed have been 170 days behind bars in egypt and now sentenced to seven years behind bars and bahmy gi