Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy, thanksgiving has come and gone and black friday is in full swing. Some of the biggest chains have been open for hours. Toys r us and, walmart and target opened hours ahead of the midnight start on black friday and macys opening on thanksgiving evening for the first time in the 155 year history. The retailers want to makeup for the shorter span this year between thanksgiving and christmas and, walmart has protests with workers demanding higher pay and better working conditions and patricia is at Roosevelt Field in new york. Sorry we do not have patricia now. We will tell you a little bit about black fridays history. Thanksgiving thursday may have given black friday a run for its money this year. Some of the nations biggest chains started the Holiday Shopping season on thursday. Kmart welcomed shoppers at 6 00 a. M. , toys r us, target annual mart opened before the usual start on friday. Retailers say they need to time beca
Tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovski in germany. And praying solidarity with russia. South sudans crisis fighting between forces loyal to the president an kiir and machar are escalating. The United Nations is struggling to maintain any semblance of order. A Memorial Service for United Nations peace keepers killed in south sudan. They died trying to carrying out their mandate to protect civilians but were unable to protect themselves. The bodies of the indian peace keepers from flown. They were attacked by tw 2,000 armed youth from a tribe. Several civilians were also killed. The compound is now empty. Staff from United Nations and other International Groups were evacuated by u. N. Troops but there is Little Information about south sudanese who were there seeking refugee. Now we only have 43 peace keepers. They were trying to protect the civilians under threat in this area. We had 30 civilians death. This attack was like a frontal attack on the base itself. The two peace keepers were killed in a
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