Believe the jetliner was shot down by a surfacetoair missile. That plane took off from amsterdam with 298 souls. No word on whether there were any americans on board. Ukraines president blames prorussia separatists. They say they intercepted a phone call discussing the situation. Vladimir putin insisting ukraine is ultimately responsible. If it is results of the separatists or russian actions, i think theres going to be hell to pay. Israel has launched a Ground Invasion into gaza. The israeli army, one of its soldiers has been killed. So far 27 palestinians have died. The israeli Prime Minister has said hes ordered the military to prepare for a significant expansion of that ground offensive. What weve been hearing are explosions. Theres a rocket thats just been fired from gaza city. Dozens of homes have been burned by fastmoving wildfires in Washington State. An entire town is now being evacuated. A powerful typhoon is now heading for china. The strongest winds at the surface on planet
17. U. S. Officials say they believe the jetliner was shot down by a surfacetoair missile. That plane took off from amsterdam with 298 souls. No word on whether there were any americans on board. Americas president blames prorussian separatist. They say they intercepted a phone call discussing the situation. Vladimir putin insisting ukraine is ultimately responsible. If it is the results of the separatists or russian, i think theres going to be hell to pay. Israel has launched a Ground Invasion into gaza. The israeli army confirming one of its soldiers have been killed along with nearly a dozen palestinians. Hes ordered the military to prepare for a significant expansion of that ground offensive. What weve been hearing are explosions from the rockets, consistent fire from gaza city. An entire town is now being evacuated. A powerful typhoon is now heading for china. The strongest winds at the surface on planet earth. All that the Justice Department is accusing the shipping department of
Tools that became news platforms. This story is about more than what is happening in one small town in the Mississippi Valley in the heat of the night that has tempers and twitter boiling over. It goes right to the core of racial conflict and social divisions in america and the way that those issues are reported. Our starting point this week is ferguson, missouri. Its no longer a 24 hour news cycle. Its a 24 second news cycle. A technological eyewitness to history. From the moment the first couple of tweets hit and once you reach that first 25,000, it quickly turns into four million or whatever, the next thing you know, those people are spreading it to their networks. You dont need a mainstream platform to access a significant chunk of the population. Its word of mouth writ large. Or tweeted large. To understand what drove the coverage of the ferguson story during its early stages, it helps to understand this according to data from the washingtonbased pew research project, 40 of Africa
How boulders in at the time valley, manage to move across the dessert. The crisis in ukraine, took an ominous turn. Russian forces have entered south eastern ukraine, in what one of the countrys military leaders call add full scale invasion, nato says at least 1,000 troops are now in ukraine. President obama says the u. S. Military will not get involved. We are not taking military action to solve the problem. What we are doing is to mobilize the international community, to apply pressure on russia. Al jazeera has more from south eastern ukraine. The evidence is mounting and for the first time, the word invasion is being used at the highest political levels. In brussells nato officials released satellite imagery, as evidence of artillery pieces and the Russian Military column on the move. The Prime Minister has urged the council and the European Union to act with the highest urgency. We can confirm, that Russian Military boats are on the ukrainian ground. Ukrainian forces are capable to
More like the orders are coming from beijing. This is a heat map of activity on twitter for a new story thats gone global. This particular story has been trending in a big way in the u. S. But there is plenty of interest and output all around the world. How did ferguson, missouri, population 21,000 become a global dateline . The killing of a black teenager, Michael Brown on august 9th by a white policeman triggered protests and showdowns with a police force that seemed particularly well armed, remarkably well equipped. The sight of Small Town Police looking like an army have peas wondering why do cops need armored military vehicles . There was the way the Police Conducted themselves, arresting peaceful protesters, politicians among them, imposing curfews, hand cuffing judgists and tear gassing news crews in a Security Response that resemble something out of a war zone. In the age of social media, datelines become hash tags. Any stories that journalists struggle to file from ferguson ju