Englan englands englands stonehenge. Welcome to al jazeera america, im stephanie sy. A developing story out of afghanistan. Taliban fighters have attacked an American Military base. It happened in the province near the pakistani border. The talibany opened fire on the base and tried to enter the base. No International Security forces at the base were hurt. Six american soldiers were killed in another incident in afghanistan. A black hawk helicopter crashed in a remote part of the county. One soldier was rescued from the crash. Its the single deadliest accident in months. N. A. T. O. Says no insurgent activity was in the area at the time. Mechanical failure could be to blame. Exists from the Top Tech Companies met with president obama, urging the president to rain in surveillance programs. The meeting comes after a ruling that the agencies Data Collection likely contravened the constitution. Tech titans were here at the white house google, microsoft, yahoo, netflix. They are concerned.
Here is more of what is ahead. Expect other nations to respect kievs sovereignty. Russia will inspect the territorial sovereignty. I urge russia not to do anything to escalate tension. A day of action an under way around the world to draw attention to our colleagues. Attention to the imprisonment of our colleagues. Theres action taking place. Half a billion tweets of that hash tag. We begin with tensions rising in ukraine. Armed gunmen seize control of the crimea region. The scenes reminiscent of the protests sending Viktor Yanukovych into hiding last week. He has surfaced in russia, claiming he is ukraines limb mate leader. We are joined by al jazeeras correspondent Jennifer Glasse who is in ukraine. Good to have you as always on the show. Leaders in crimea have distanced themselves in the changing regime in kiev and announced plans therell be a referendum on the political future of the reason and whether it should be autonomous. What is the latest from there . The real question is wh
Sudans oilrich battleground. The first major snowstorm of 2014 is about to hit the northeast as dave just mentioned. Residents from new york to new england are preparing for a blizzard. Some areas could get up to 14 inches of snow and see wind gusts up 30 to 45 miles per hour. He has been caught up in several scandals, including to admit to go smoking crack but rob ford is running for reelection despite repeated calls for him to step down. He remains defiant. He is the first candidate to put his name on the october ballot. Tony harris in new york. Inside story is next on Al Jazeera America. In california a braindead teenager is the focus of a battle over end of life decisionmaking, while in texas its a 33yearold woman in her second trimester of pregnancy. When is life over . Who gets to say, and who has to pay . Thats the inside story. Hello, im ray suarez. Dying in america can be complicated, expensive and accompanied by questions that are hard to answer. If a person is unconscious an
Again but their heart is beating, their fate can hinge on family members, the state where they live, hospital rules, legal documents and the struggle to understand their wishes in the absence of key documents. As a nation the United States already spends a lot of money on people whose lives are almost over. One out of every 4 spent by medicare, more than 125 billion is spent on the tiny minority of patients in their last year of life and costs dont just fall on the public system. Many families are shocked by the out of pocket costs that accompany keeping a dying loved one alive. Two cases, two very different situations bring end of life decisionmaking into focus this week. On december 9 she had a con sill electricity and adenoid removal. She began to bleed heavily from the nose and mouth and went into cardiac arrest. Her family is fighting the hospital saying she is alive. I hate it that they refer to her as just a body, because that is my child that theyre talking about. They dont eve
They feel that they were left out antonio of what has been happening in kiev. One thing that particularly angered people here is the fact that the new authorities in kiev, one of the first things they did was make ukranian the official language of the country. Most people here speak russian. And that made people feel very left out and very angry. And that is what we have been seeing here in crimea as we have been here over the last few days. Crimea is used to be a part of russia. There must be fear in ukraine about keeping it separate. Is there a danger that crimea and other parts of the Eastern Ukraine could want to somehow split off from the rest of the country . Well, i think they very much want to make sure that the ties with russia stay not the same certainly as strong as they are largely industrial soviet area industrial. And 70 of the industrial exports go to russia. So, much of its economy is dependent on russia. The ties very, very close. Obviously you have the borders very cl