Politics, the ongoing wars in the middle east, u. S. Empire, and working with the late historian howard zinn and more. In the Police Boycott of director plus films of speaking out against Police Brutality. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Doctors without borders has released an internal report on the u. S. Bombing of its hospital in kunduz, afghanistan. The airstrike killed at least 30 people, including 13 Staff Members, 10 patients, and seven unrecognizable victims get to be identified. Doctors without borders has said the strike appears to be a war crime. In a report describes patients burning in a beds, medical staff who were decapitated and lost limbs, and Staff Members shot from the air while they fled the burning building. The report described doctors and other medical staff thing shot while running to reach safety in a different part of the compound. Doctors without borders says it provided the
The world series even raging the kansas city royals. When it was the mets turn at bat, they delivered winning the game 93. There will be more fireworks tonight in game four . And happy halloween. The peanuts gang has gone home and now were pulling out the stops for our very own halloween celebration. Today, halloween, saturday, october 31st, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im carson daly alongside dylan dreyer and sheinelle jones. We have the latest with the breaking news from ron mott in london. Reporter good morning, carson. Metro jet flight disappeared from russia radar over egypt 23 minutes into the flight from the city of Sharm El Sheikh in egypt en route to russia. The officials confirm to nbc news it crashed in the Sinai Peninsula and jets located the wreckage of the plane. It is too early to pinpoint a cause of the crash. The area where the plane went down is near the
Lets turn too tom costello who handles aviation news. Tom, what are investigators looking at . Reporter i think they have to look at a number of things. They will look at the weather conditions at the time. Right now, there is no suggestion that weather played a role. The mechanical history of the airbus a321. This is a reliable plane. The biggest airbus in the family. It has a good record. They will look into the mechanical history of the plane and we dont know which engine configuration on the plane. One made by ge and one madad by rolls royce pratt and whitnene they will look at the rate of descent. At last report, the plane was coming down 6,000 to 7,000 feet per minute. That is not a terribly unusual descent rate. It would suggest that somebody must have been trying to control the plane. Keep in mind that for example, to compare that rate of descent to the plane we know crashed. Air france 447 over the atlantic, descentete 15,000eet per minute. We dont know the circumstances. We n
Today, halloween, saturday, october 31st, 2015. Announcer from nbc nene, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And welcome to today on saturday morning. Im erica hill. Im carson daly alongside dylan dreyer and sheinelle jones. We have the latest with the londonon carson. Metro jet flight disappeared from russia radar over egypt 23 minutes into the flight from the city o o Sharm El Sheikh in egypt en route to russia. The officials confirm to nbc news it crashed in the Sinai Peninsula and jets located the wreckage of the plane. It is t t earlyly to pinpoint a cause of the crash. The area where the plane went down is near the scene were terrorists clashed this summer. According to the associated press, quoting the egypt committee, the pilot reported technical difficulties and inn text tension to be land at the nearest airport. The 18yearold airbus a321. The jet was descending at the rate of 6,000 feet per minute before the signal was lost. The air russian transportation
The leaders of china and taiwan are set to meet saturday for historic talks. They will mark their first top level meeting in over 60 years. Hour,oming up this Stephen Carroll will be reporting live from the web summit in dublin. Stephen he has been ceo of some of the worlds biggest companies. We will be live from the web summit in dublin, finding out what john scully is going to do next. Genie we will start at the vatican, a place that has been rocked by a new scandal that some people are already calling. Atileaks for more on this, i am joined from rome about josephine mckinnon. What did you learn . i just came from a press conference releasing the book called the merchants in the temple. He found the vatican is at war with itself. He says pope francis and the reformers are trying to introduce radical changes with greater transparency, facing extraordinary obstacles and resistance from conservatives and others in the vatican who do not want to lose their position and power and do not w