Broker a humanitarian ceasefire in yeppen mission unaccomplished. An unman russian spacecraft that spun out of control after launch comes hurtling home good evenings, this is Al Jazeera America, im antonio mora. Im libby casey. We begin with the closely watched election in the u. K. The votes have been cast and ballots counted in a tightly contested race. 50 million voters stand out across the country to vote some british newspapers show results showing a win by David Camerons conservatives as a shock. Others are casting doubt on that prediction. Tim friend has more on the race. Reporter the exit polls suggest that David Cameron will perhaps, once again be Prime Minister. Hes not predicted to have an absolute majority but if the liberal Democrats Join him in coalition for a second time he might hang on to power. For labour and ed miliband the predictions are not quite so encouraging. Polls suggest labor will be down 19 seats from 2010. And the liberal democrats themselves led by nick c
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im tony harris. The pentagon raised the threat level at military bases. Jamie mcintyre is live for us at the pentagon. Is the pentagon responding to a specific threat here . Well no in raising the threat level from alpha, which is the lowest level to bah woe, which is a higher level of threat the pentagon says it is not reacting to any specific or identifiable threat. Technically this order came from the commander in colorado who is responsible for protecting the home homeland, he looked around and sees what is going on in social media and decided it wasnt acceptable for military bases to be at the lowest level. Here is what he said, quote and thats the point they are stressing here. No specific threat. No specific group, but just an increased amount of the kinds of things they cant keep track of on the internet. Social media, people talking to each other, the rise of extremism in some places. They felt like this was a prudent step to
Its historic day in ukraine on the peninsula of crimea where people are voting on whether or not to join russia or to become more independent from ukraine. The polls there close in two hours and Officials Say this is the highest voter turnout ever. The countrys interim government in kiev along with the u. S. And European Union have called todays votes illegal. Russian president Vladimir Putin said the referendum complies with international law. Jennifer glasse joins us live. With polls closing in a couple of hours, do people know which way this vote is going to swing . Here they certainly do. They didnt even wait for the polls to close here. Theyve been partying all afternoon on the streets here. You can hear the music behind me. Thats a regular weekend thing here on this walk way by the sea, but over in the central square, they were literally dancing in the street, flying the russian flag, a clearly indication of what they think the outcome will be. Its in that square later this eveni
Offensive in venezuela to knock down protests and Big Bang Theory and what some are calling the biggest discovery in history. Im authorizing sanctions on russian officials and operating in the armed sector in russia and people who provide support to the russian government and if russia continuing to interfere we stand ready to impose further sanctions. Reporter president obama imposing sanctions against russia since the cold war and welcome to al jazeera im stephanie sy, friction between moscow and washington, the president froze assets of senior russian and ukraine officials linked to crimea and they followed suit with its own set of sanctions but russian president Vladimir Putin is not backing down and said they are an independent and sovereign state and in an hour from now he will address the parliament and putin will discuss his plan for making crimea part of russia and we will bring you the speech live when it happens. Tens of thousands of troops are gathering at the border of Eas
By rebels who want to exchange them for jailed for fighters. Its her birthday and cant happen. Reporter the recalled vehicles may be responsible for hundreds of additional deaths. Malaysia airlines 370 disappeared a week ago today and its going west to the indian ocean and a u. S. Navy ship is heading there. Im stephanie and the search was expanded after a report said the plane may have continued flying for hours after its last radar contact and a chinese ship and radar found nothing off vietnam and we have the latest on the investigation. One of the most confusing and intriguing questions, did the plane keep flying, was the jet in the hour for hours after it disappeared in the air and they reported from the wall street journal that investigators are looking into in and systems that automatically send out engine data continued to operate for sometime. Malaysia officials refuted that. Whenever there are new details they must be corroborated. And these media reports talks specifically ab