In the florida keys, influence release genetically modified mosquitoes have local residents deeply concerned. Welcome to the program. Human Rights Groups have criticized the sentences given to 14 young egyptian woman for protesting against the government. The women were sentenced to more than 11 years in prison wednesday. Theyve been charged with thuggery, and destruction of public and private property. The girls held a protest in alexandria on the 31 of october calling for president morsis rein state. Hundreds protested in a show of solidarity for those charged. The governments announced it will stop anyone defying new anti protests allows. They say the laws protect the rights of society. We have more from cairo. Theres rising anger over the jail sentences given to these young girls. Is this likely to explode on to the streets, do you think . Well, its certainly exploded on the campuses and universities today in cairo university. You had a large turnout of students who were decrying w
Deadly cholera epidemic. The disease has killed thousands of people there. Good morning, and welcome to al jazeera america. Im stephanie sy. President obama is expected to nominate janet yellen to replace ben bernanke as the head of the Federal Reserve. Yellen is a respected economist who has a long history with the fed. Patricia takes a closer look at the woman who could soon hold one of the most influential jobs in the world. In the class photo of the g7 financial Leaders Summit in may, shes the tiny one on the right, but dont let size fool you. Janet yellen is poised to land the most powerful job of them all. The least contender to head the Federal Reserve built a career spanning academia and policy, including a longstanding relationship with the university of california berkeley and chair of the council of economic advisers. The economy is the strongest its been in a generation. Reporter perhaps her best qualification to take over for ben bernanke is her 36year history with the Fed
An Early Morning train ride into new york turned into a nightmare today. A passenger train derailed narrowly missing the harlem river. Seven cars in the metro north train came off the tracks just outside of the station in new york city. Four people are dead and dozens more are hurt. They were heading south to grant Central Terminal in manhattan. Right now the Fire Department says there are 63 reported injuries and 11 are in transit call conditions and six injuries are reported serious. Morgan rad ford has more. Quiet weekend was shattered when a commuter train violently derailed. The train jumped the tracks along a nare ro turn. Narrow tu. There are police a and firefighters here gathering in clusters. When we got here it was a traumatic scene. We had people in cars and we had to lift use air basion bags to e train. The train was about half full carrying far fewer passengers aboard than on a busy workday when this rail line deposits tens of thousands of passengers heading straight for
Attacked government buildings in thailand today. They took control of the state broadcaster and forced the president to take refuge in the state compound. Until yesterday it had remained peaceful. Again back to the breaking news out of the bronx new york. The metro north passenger train derailed this morning. There are four fatalities and several serious injuries several cars derailed as the train headed southward taking off from poughkeepsie that is where it departed heading towards Grand Central station in manhattan. It appears that all of the injured have been taken to area hospitals right now the fdny say 63 reported injuries and of those 63, 11 are critical. And 7 are said to be serious the ntsb which will lead the investigation just held a news could be foconference in washin. The ntsb is heading up the investigation on a go train this morning on a metro north accident that occurred at 7 00 this morning in the bronx, new york area. Before i go any further on behalf of the ntsb i
Welcome and a happy thanksgiving to you. Across the country, family and friends are celebrating and shopping. Well bring you more on the holiday festivities at home and abroad but now we want to start in egypt, where alah fatal has been arrested, in defiance of a new law. Earlier Egyptian Security forces used water cancan on killing one student. Sentenced up to 11 years in prison. Hoda amil has more from cairo. Certainly there was an uproar across the board. People were angered seeing this 14 girls standing in that cage in the court and being treated as if they were highrisk criminals. Now these groups do belong to a group called the 7 00 a. M. Movement, that is a movement that does support the anticoup alliance and former president mohamed morsi. But typically what they did before going to school or university they stood in the street for about half an hour sometimes carrying balloons with the sign of their anticoup loins on it. On the day they got detained they were forming a human c