Ignorance as he is hit with Death Threats. Good morning. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im paul beban. A key u. S. Ally in the fight against isil is stepping up its attacks against kurdish fighters. Turkish jets targeted the kurdish rebel group the p. K. K. Inside turkey today. So far turkey has only attacked them in iraq. The move comes days after turkey stepped up airstrikes against isil. Bernard smith is in turkey in the kurdish city. How is that move by turkey complicating the fight against isil . We already know that in fact the u. S. Has said that the introduction of turkey into this fight against isil, turkey allowing the u. S. To use bases in turkey is a gamechanger, because it means u. S. Fighter jets dont have to fly hours away down from the gulf and now just a couple of hundred miles to hit isil targets in syria. The concern of the u. S. And nato partners is if the p. K. K. Gets drawn into the fight with turkey turkey and the p. K. K. Start fighting all o
Idea that killing cecil was illegal. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. The Afghan Taliban is denying the reports that its long time leader mullah omar has died. They say they have credible evidence that he died in 2013 in pakistan. He headed the tap ban in the 199s but fled after the u. S. Led invasion in 2001. The state Department Said it is still looking into the reports. Jennifer glasse is live in kabul for us. Jennifer, good morning to you. What are the afghan officials saying . Well, the afghan president s Office Issued a statement saying saying that it has credible evidence that the afghan leader mullah omar died in 2013. The spokesman for the told al jazeera that he decide in a hospital in karachi pakistan, in april april 2013. The of a afghan it will ban saying these reports are not true. Refresh our memory of who mullah omar was and what did he. Omar was a young mujahideen leader who fought the soviets in the 1980s. He founded the Taliban Movement, which took
The us is now the Worlds Largest oil and gas producer in part because of whats happening here in north dakota where advances in fracking have unlocked crude oil in the bakken shale formation in the western part of the state. North dakota is now producing more than a Million Barrels of oil a day. Ten years ago there were fewer than 200 oilproducing wells in the bakken. Now there are more than 8,000. They call it boomtown usa this is where all the money is. Its crazy the amount of money you can make here. This rapid pace of development and the flood of workers coming here, has given north dakota the lowest Unemployment Rate in the us. But its also raised questions over the dangers of working in the oil fields. The more jobs you complete, the more money you make. The faster you complete them the faster you can get to the next job. Lets say i mean you take your time. If you be safe you are not i bet you could cut your pay in half. Fault lines spent six months investigating some of the risk
Being. Whats needed to help protect the animals. We begin with a potential blow for the taliban in afghanistan. Afghan Officials Say that the groups reclusive leader, omar, is dead, and he has been for two years. The white house said that the reports are credible. News comes as talks between the taliban and the Afghan Government are set to resume. He was the spiritual leader of the taliban. Famously reclusive, only a few photographs of him exist. Fbi offered millions of dollars for his whereabouts that remained a mystery in the last years of his life. It was never clear if they were his wordsful as a young man, he was a fighter battling the soviets. How mullah omar game the self ro claimed emir of afghanistan. The need to have a leader, because he hadim and weapons to use, and the second reason, he was famous. His 30 fighters became thousands. The taliban took over afghanistan in 1996. Under mullah omars command, they established order in a company ravaged by instability and violence.
Ahead after they say police beat and burned them to get information. Good morning. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city, im paul beban. It may be the best clue yet in the search for a jet that went missing more than a year ago, Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared last march. Now what looks like part of a wing washed up on remote reunion island off the coast of africa. It does appear to be the wing of a bowing 777, the same model of the doomed flight. What do we know . The fate of the Malaysian Air flight has been a mystery. This morning, the thoughts are many are expressed when the plane fragments are found a major break through. Experts think the plane fragment that washed up on tiny reunion side might be our first glimpse of wreckage from malaysia air flight 370. Eventually, the search concentrated on a 23,000 squire mile area off australia. Experts are headed west off the coast of madagascar to examine that piece of debris. Bowing and experts are traveling to the s