Over cities that were taken over for months. And the dirty secret in poland. Hello there, welcome to the program. At least 13 people have been killed after a huge explosion in the chinese port city of t tianjin. These are live pictures that were seeing now just after dawn. The explosion happened after midnight. Thats what the site looking like now. We know its an industrial area, but there are lots of residents and flats around it. We know from eyewitnesses, too, lots of windows were shattered. Hospitals were full overnight and well get more information from chinese authorities tomorrow. Earlier al jazeera spoke to drew chemovac, an american living in tianjin. I her a rush of air followed by a second rush of air and smoke. This is a Development Area with factories. There are malls and a large concentration of apartment towers. So initially at thought we because that area there are a lot of pharmaceutical factories, chemical factories, initially we thought it was from one of those. From
Things worse. This is al jazeera america. Live from new york city. Im richelle carey. Thai police are clearing the scene of an explosion in the capital of bangkok. It happened in the heart of the city just outside of a shrine that is popular with tourists from all over the world. The official death toll is 16. That includes citizens of china and the philippines. More than 80 others have been injured. Veronica pedroza has more from bangkok. It is a bit quieter. There are emergency vehicles that were swarming the place, they have mostly left, but the area remains secure, cordoned off from the public. This means that major interception has been cut off i want to bring clarity to the casualty toll to let you know that the National Police chief in the last few minutes has said of the official number of deaths is 16, and among them are filipinos and chinese fatalities. Local Television Networks or news hour have been reporting higher death tolls. The official death toll remains at 16. Also i
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Officially called the state of the union the first time around for a new president. Inside the house chamber, First Lady Melania Trump has just taken her seat, were told, along with ivanka trump and jared kushner. We want to show you this extraordinary picture recorded a little while ago, the president seen on camera practicing his speech or at least thats what he appears to be doing inside the beast, his president ial limo. A lot of buzz over what the president might say including from the president. We learned a potential nod, a compromise on immigration may be afoot. Chuck todd is here with our team. Chuck, this suddenly came up with Network Broadcasters today, maybe ill talk about the immigration bill. He talked about what he might do about socalled dreamers, kids brought here by their parents, not on their own. It felt almost offthecuff at one point. He said maybe the time is right, maybe theres a point where you could do a big immigration bill, as he called it. He used the word c
For a new president. Inside the house chamber, First Lady Melania Trump has just taken her seat, were told, along with ivanka trump and jared kushner. We want to show you this extraordinary picture recorded a little while ago, the president seen on camera practicing his speech or at least thats what he appears to be doing inside the beast, his president ial limo. A lot of buzz over what the president might say including from the president. We learned a potential nod, a compromise on immigration may be afoot. Chuck todd is here with our team. Chuck, this suddenly came up with Network Broadcasters today, maybe ill talk about the immigration bill. He talked about what he might do about socalled dreamers, kids brought here by their parents, not on their own. It felt almost offthecuff at one point. He said maybe the time is right, maybe theres a point where you could do a big immigration bill, as he called it. He used the word compromise. A big immigration bill. He said, maybe ill mention i