And americas favourite pastime. Welcome to al jazeera america. Im stephanie sy. The deadline to sign up for the Affordable Care act has come and gone. Getting coverage in the final 24 hours proofed to be difficult for some americans. Healthcare. Gov buckled under the demand. It may be at the goal of 7 million. The website went down twice on monday, the first time for maintenance at one in the morning. It was supposed to be down for three hours. The outage lasted until 9am. Killing the website for crucial hours as americans got ready for the monday morning. It got back up and running and went down monday afternoon. This time the administration said because there was a big surge in people trying to get online, find out about what kind of insurance they could get or sign up. If folks tried to use the phone and called. They got a phone message saying because of the heavy volume it would be a long wait. Americans could leave an email address or phone number and be contacted later. As long a
Interviewer last year we have abided by all our human rights a big ations this was clearly provably untrue wasnt it. It could not be true but sometimes you depart from normal for reasons that has to be explained living in a world. Of for ten or more you around us neighboring countries are different problems you call it a departure when you called it repeated violations of civil and Political Rights incidents of harrison and arrest torture and prolonged detention for Civil Society actors thats more than a departure isnt it cannot be a long detention. That is not. Preventive measures sometimes to come in order to ensure Social Security not. Calls from the uns Human Rights Councils independent expert on sudan so one of you is not telling the truth you are so sure which one is which obviously we are telling the truth but only to accusing the other side of not telling the terrorists but not about you are by implication but sometimes envoys exaggerated things for reduced that im not going to
Article of a murdered journalist alleges links to the Italian Mafia at the highest level of slovakias government well talk about his explosive claims and how they are shaking up in some. Thomas a very warm welcome to the show we start out here in germany where Authorities Say the defense and foreign ministries have been targeted in a cyber attack a group with links to the russian government is thought to be responsible for its hacks were discovered in december but are only made public now the interior ministry has given very few details so far just a brief statement sources say Russian Hackers have been trying to attack the government they planted spying software. The hackers apparent targets were the foreign and Defense Ministry as they searched for information about russia and ukraine lawmakers are now asking why they heard nothing in their Intelligence Briefings even though the agencies apparently knew about the breach about government to have said nothing possibly for months which
Protests in the capital khartoum turned violent despite a breakthrough in talks between the countrys military rulers and opposition leaders. And to california for towards 2000000000. 00 in damages to a couple of says monsantos roundup weve killer calls to their cancer a German Company fire has to foot the bill it bought monsanto last year. Im sumi so misconducts good to have you with us. Anti muslim mobs in sri lanka has killed one person and attacked mosques and muslim owned businesses the government has extended a curfew to a 2nd night in a bid to contain the violence sectarian anger has been building in the country since the Easter Sunday bombings by islamists that left more than 250 people dead at. Justice in sri lanka i agree and impatient some sri lankans have rioted and taken to attacking muslims after is the missed terrorists carried out the Easter Sunday bombings killing over 250 people. Police struggle to contain the anger with one muslim man dying from stab wounds shops run
Sanders will take place in the United States capitol. Sanders is about to submit legislation that will call for the complete cancellation of every penny of Student Loan Debt across the country. That is 1. 6 trillion. It could impact 45 million americans. It has broad implications across the board and of course the next big question is, how do you may for Something Like this . Sanders has a plan for that as well. He wants to institute what he is calling a wall street speculation tax. Basically, three different types of tax on wall street trades and derivatives that he believes could raise as much as 2. 4 trillion over the next ten years. What sanders wants to do is take all of that money, cancel every persons Student Loan Debt and also set the stage to allow for Free College Tuition at public universities and Community Colleges. This is a big deal, a big plan on sanders part. It is also a part of a proder attempt for him to stave off Elizabeth Warren as she is surging in the polls. She