Philippines as he visits the most catholic country in asia. A little battered and bloody, but two rock climbers make history, scaling yosemites mountain with bare knuckled strength. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im stephanie sy. Four of the secret service top officials are stepping down, another two rehiring following sharp criticism of the agency after a series of embarrassing Security Breaching. Last september that man jumped the fence and made his way into the white house. Days later a security contractor with a gun riding the elevator with president obama at the c. D. C. An investigation blames a lack of leadership within the agency and leading to the resignation of the agency director. Libby casey is live in washington d. C. What is the director Joseph Clancy saying . Hes calling it necessary a shake up of the top levels. Its not a complete gutting. This may have been the breaking point that led to wednesdays shakeup in the secret service. Omar gonza
Ordered, planned and funded attacks in paris. Al qaeda in yemen is considering the most lethal terrorist organization. Yemen is almost a failed state. The new afghanistan. Radicalization was nothing like in france. The United States does not have a large disgruntled radicalized Muslim Community. Changes to find individuals on the fridge gs of the communicate fringes of the communicate i why. A court ruled a teenager must under go chemotherapy. Efforts to rebuild in haiti are hampered by corruption. The political situation is as it was yesterday chaos. Glen close and her sister tell their story about the struggle with Mental Illness. The fact that shes here is a testament of her strength we begin with allegations of a threat to the u. S. Home lpd as al qaeda claims responsibility for attacks on the Charlie Hebdo in paris. 20yearold Christopher Lee cornell has been accused of planning to attack the u. S. Capital with fight bombs and then fleeing the scene. Fbi contacted Christopher Lee c
Vaccination fears cause a measle outbreak at disney theme parks . And we begin with the latest developments in france where police have arrested more than 50 people in the last week. Its being called a crackdown on hate speech. The arrests include a controversial muslim french comedian, du donay who condemned terrorism righting i feel like Charlie Coulibaly a reference to the man that led the attacks in a kosher deli an Al Qaeda Group in yemen today claimed responsibility for the attacks on Charlie Hebdo but responsibility for the attack that followed may reach beyond al qaeda. Reporter the details emerging about the violence of terrorists last week are painting a complex picture. Brutal attacks inspired by rival groups. The first last wednesday. 12 were killed at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical french newspaper. Police identified the gunman as brothers said kouachi and cherif kouachi. They had known ties to al qaedas branch in yemen. Reports say one of the brothers had weapo
Thank you for joining us lets bring you up to date with the end to two dramatic hostage situations in france. The kouachi brothers linked with the killing of 12 people of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo are dead. [ gunfire ] at the same time police moved in on a second hostage taker at a kosher supermarket in eastern paris. He has been named as Amedy Coulibaly. He is also suspected of killing a policewoman on thursday. Police say his accomplice is this woman, hayat boumeddiene. And in the past hour the french president has addressed the nation. Well al jazeera has correspondent covering every part of this story. Rory challands is in porte de vincennes in eastern paris where five hostages were held by a gunman. And lawrence lee is in dammartinengeole where the kouachi brothers were holding a hostage in a factory. Rory it was a shock day, not one siege but two. Tell us what happened where you were. Reporter well some normalities returning to this part of eastern paris as you c
Intolerance. Its been a day of rapid and deadly developments in france. Two separate Police Standoffs in two locations after days of fear. The brothers accused in the massacre of the satirical newspaper in paris were shot dead. And a standoff at a kosher market in paris ended up with one killed and there is a possible motive. There is possibility that said and Cherif Kouachi had ties with al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Paul beban has the story. He talked about their motives, they were backed by anwar alwaki killed in yemen by a drone drone strike. Lets take a listen. I sharif. Do you plan to kill in the name of ah allah . Kill who . You killed journalists. Did we kill civilians or people during the two days that you looked for us . Did you kill this morning . Were not killers we defend the prophet we dont kill women, we dont kill 9 anyone. We kill people who insult him. Were enot like you youre the ones killing people in syria and afghanistan. You sought revenge you killed 12 peopl