and the hard yards that we need to undertake to get this right. hello and welcome to the programme. we will be live in ireland tonight, asjoe biden makes the journey south to his ancestral home. we will be finding what came of his brief visit to belfast today, and what unionists made of the speech he delivered. we ll bring you more of that extraordinary conversation between the bbc s james clayton and elon musk. plenty to disect in that, including musk s confession he only went through with a takeover at twitter, because the judge would have forced him to do it anyway. and who controls the distribution of the abortion pill in america? the us government is in court this next hour, to appeal a decision in texas to suspend the licence. we will get reaction. lets start first with president biden and the speech he gave today marking the 25th anniversary of the good and friday agreement. a speech in which the us president held out the promise of huge us investment if and when stabl
Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford. We begin with breaking news out of russia where a suicide bomb attack killed at least 15 people. 27 others are injured. The blast saw through a train vasion in a Southern City of volgergrad. These are the latest pictures. A female suicide bomber detonated the explosives as she walked through the metal detectors. Theres no claim of responsibility for the attack. Russia has bund a height end state of alert ahead of winter games in february. Well have a live report in a few moments. Israel has fired a barrage of artillery shells across the border into lebanon after rockets from fired from lebanon were fired into israel. No one was injured. Tensions on the border are high after an israeli soldier killed a lebanon soldier earlier. The new report by the New York Times is that the benghazi bombing was not at the handof al qaeda. Since the attack some republicans argued not only that al qaeda was behind it but Obama Administration
Reporter hello, im in london with the latest from europe, including negotiators set a new deadline to reach a deal on Northern Irelands toughest issues. And at home moscow coming out with lights to tackle the winter blues. The United Nations has warned of a disastrous humanitarian situation for palestinians. There are reports that five people have starved to death. We have the story and we must warn you that you may find some of the images in the reports disturbing. Reporter besieged, bombarded, and ultimately starved to death. This is what happens to the human body when it doesnt get enough food. These images have been filled by an activist inside the refugee participate. Al jazeera spoke to him. We only used his voice and not his face for security reasons. The humanitarian situation is disastrous. There is a threat of famine and people are getting sick. Basics like rice and sugar are hardly available, and corrupt traders have taken advantage of the situation and sell one kilo of rice
Translation its cold so i thought i would come to the train station. Its warmer there. As soon as i walked to the station, all hell broke loose. People, glass, people in the air. I received a concussion. I didnt understand what was going on at least is an are dead after a suicide bomber attacked a train station in southern russia, after approaching the metal detector. It happened in volgograd, six weeks before the winter Olympic Games in socchi. Peter sharp has the latest. The chaotic after math of an attack at a Railway Station in volgograd. A body lays on the ground as Emergency Services struggle to treat the survivors. Police say a woman set off a suicide vest. The blast was captured on camera at the entrance to the station. The station was packed with people leaving for christmas holidays. Translation everything was covered with smoke. After 10 minutes i could see again. The attack killed and injured dozens of people. Translation according to preliminary information, the power of t
New york city. Al qaeda was not involved in the attack of the american consulate in benghazi, thats what a New York Times investigation found. The new report says the attack was led by militants who the u. N. Tried to recruit as allies. Since the attacks some republicans argued that not only had alqaeda planned the attack, but the Barack Obama Administration covered up the connection. The report says the benghazi residents joined in the attack, fuelled by an antiislam video, as well as misinformation. The attack was not meticulously planned. It wasnt spontaneous, and there were warning signs. A diplomatic cable described growing problems with security and suggested that the focus on alqaeda distracted from more serious threats in the country. Jim walsh is from mit and specialises in International Security and says the security approach wasnt enough on local threats. We assumed that the bigger groups would control the smaller groups or give us advance intelligence. They had more allegia