Reciting video keep him from speaking his mind. The topics for week ahead. We begin tonight at a national wildfir wildlife refugn eastern oregon. Typically, no one is around for miles but protesters are occupying an office there. They took up amps after a judge ordered two ranchers to turn them in tomorrow to serve time in prison for arson convictions. Mallier National Wildlife refuge, being led by amon bundy, they are prepared to stay there for years if they have to. Al jazeeras Allen Schauffler joins us live from burns, oregon and allen youve spoken to these protestors, why are they doing this . Well, they have chosen the occasion of the resentencing of these two ranchers from this area, the hammonds father and son. They will now be serving five year minimum prison terms for arson convictions dating back in one case to 2001. So three have chosen that occasion to take too stand with what they say is overreach of the federal government the way ranchers and farmers can manage their land
Saying the country cant wait for congress to act, president obama laid out an executive order. And he shed tears as he recalled the children killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in new town in 2012. The president put it this way, we cant save everybody, but we could save some. Mike viqueira is in washington for us. Reporter tony, good evening, and there will be legal challenges and the president s proposals may not survive the process, but for one day for the president and the white house, this was a long day coming. At times during his presidency, he has been called aloof, detached and even cold. But talking about the murdered children of new town, connecticut in the packed white house east room, president obama openly wept. Every time i think about those kids, it gets me mad. Reporter the gun violence and the victims families. The president talked about new actions immediately, cracking down at gun shows, where no background check on a buyer is needed. Under the plan, those who
This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Things are getting back to normal in paris after police shot a many carrying a knife and what appeared to be a bomb. Officials say the bomb was fake and do not believe that anyone else was involved. The incident happened on the First Anniversary of the attacks at charlie hebdo. Al jazeeras Jacky Rowland has the latest from paris. I can tell you now that the incident is over. You can probably see behind me that the traffic is moving normally again in the 18t 18th district in the north of paris. It was a few moments ago at a the police lifted the security cordon and reopened the roads. They had closed off quite a large area around the Police Station nettably because there was a fear that the attacker might have been wearing an explosive vest. The bomb squad came in and they were able to establish in fact there werent any explosives there and in fact what he was wearing appeared to be some kind of a fake explosives. They did search the ne
A week. This morning, stock futures in this country pointing towards a big selloff here when the markets open. Chinas 7 selloff wiped off value in just 15 minutes. Analysts say investors are reacting to the Chinese Government devaluing the un and what it signals that the economy may be doing worse than expected. Chinese markets have lost nearly a quarter of their value. More from beijing. The new year really has got off to a bang on chinas jittery stock markets. Trading was halted twice on monday. On thursday, the same thing happened again. The first session lasted just 12 minutes before the index dropped by 5 . That was enough to halt trading for 15 minutes. Trading then resumed. The market then dropped by 7 after just three minutes. So on thursday, just 15 minutes of trading was possible. Why is this happening . China, currency, the yuon is continuing to weaken. Thats further confirmation the worlds second largest economy is continuing to slow. Also on thursday came reports that the
Administration sparked a debate about genetically modified food by improving franken fit the f. D. A. s decision that genetically engineered salmon, produced by a massa chews et cetera company, is just as safe to eat. They grow in half the time as normal salmon, and means cheaper and more food for those places overfished. More on that later. First, some of the big Food Retailers are saying no thanks to genetically engineered salmon, including kroger, target whole foods and costco, and that is one side around the genetically engineered organisms have as much to do with fear as scientific evidence. Most americans dont buy that. A Pew Research Survey found 57 of americans dont think genetically modified foods is safe. Compared to 37 that say its safe. You wonder how many in either group know that 80 of the food americans eat contains genetically modified ingredients. One thing is clear. Most Consumers Want to know if the food they are buying contains g. M. O. S. Tens of thousands of produ