Its really difficult especially to just find ways to get through day to day from you know finding clothing to finding shelter to finding you know where youre going to eat. Tonight its pretty hectic because of the snow outside and theres not a lot of places for us to sleep now, so everybodys kind of coming in. In just a decade, the number of People Living in new yorks homeless shelters has nearly doubled reaching 60 thousand a night last year. Its a homelessness crisis unprecedented in any american city. What we see today the homeless that we see the exodus from this city, families doubling, tripling up, the rent skyrocketing. This has been a crisis thats been cooking for 20 years. Why are so many in new york homeless . This week, fault lines looks at the forces that are displacing thousands from their homes. Were on our way to the south bronx to new yorks only Intake Center for homeless families. More than seventy percent of people in the citys shelters are families with children. Home
And in iraq saving christian artifacts from destruction. And in a lab where they can produce a human ear in about five hours. A group linked to isil has claimed responsibility for multiple attacks that killed at least 35 people and injured 125 others in the afghan city of jalalabad. Lets go to jennifer glasse, who is in the capital of kabul. Jennifer tell us more about what has happened in jalalabad today. Reporter well, 35 People Killed as you said, richelle, some of the more seriously injured has been brought here to kabul for treatment. Since the explosion this morning, the streets of jalalabad has been deserted. Many people came to hospitals to give blood but the attack happened this morning during the Early Morning rush hour. The suicidebomber detonateed his vest among a crowd of people lining in front of jalalabads bank. The target was civil servants. Passersby tried to help the injured and move the dead. I saw many people, dead bodies injured people on the ground. Ambulances arr
Organs. Hello, a motorbike riding suicidebomber has detonated a bomb outside of a bank in afghanistan killed 35 people. President ashraf ghani has called it a new war in a country struggling to beat the taliban. Reporter the suicidebomber detonated his vest in a crowd of people lining up outside of jalalabads bank. Government salaries are paid here and the apparent target was civil sur fans. Passersby try to help the injured and move the dead. I saw many people with dead bodies and injured people on the ground. Ambulances arrived very late and many people died of their wounds. Two other blasts around the same time targeting a shrine and high lighting a difficult security situation. President ashraf ghani said that groups affiliated with isil are to blame. Today the taliban did not take responsibility. Daesh took responsibility. International terrorists are responsible. They are not our people. If youre afghan or muslim, stand with us. If youre influenced by foreigners, then this is a w
Ballot over who should head up fifa. The u. S. Is saying no to sepp blatter. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. A new report is out on the economy and so far the nation is off to a week start. The Commerce Department says the Gross Domestic Product shrank in the first three months of the year. Is this a surprise . Its not because this is the second revision, the second reading that were getting on First Quarter gdp, and with some of the data we have seen a lot of economists were expecting that the economy contracted in the First Quarter. The gdp shrank. 7 . The big drag exports those fell 7. 6 . Some temporary factors were behind that including bad water, and strikes disrupting activity at u. S. Ports. But a strong dollar also dragged on exports because it makes American Goods more expensive to buy abroad. Meanwhile u. S. Imports increased 5. 6 . Consumer spending rose 1. 8 , but it marked a sharp slowdown from the end of last year and that matters
Homeless veterans and what the rest of the country can learn from it. We begin tonight with reaction and some frustration over a new deal for ukraine. It is Early Morning in the capitol of kiev, life pictures from Independence Square. Thousands of demonstrators are still on scene. Viktor yanukovych agreed to give up some of his power, a president ial election by december. But some demonstrators that is not enough. Nick shifrin, with an update. Nick. Yeah john, you know the Opposition Leaders have worked very hard both leer and in the intrsh here and in the International Community as a way to solve these problems. You talk to people here in Independence Square the cradle of where this opposition began and its hard to find anyone who will agree. For 50,000 people todays historic handshake was reason not to celebrate but to mourn. For exactly three months they filled this square, that witnessed two revolutions in hope for a third. Tonight their hopes are dashed. The Opposition Leaders cam