Al jazeera america, weekday mornings. Catch up on what happened overnight with a full morning brief. Get a first hand look with indepth reports and investigations. Start weekday mornings with al jazeera america. Open your eyes to a world in motion. Welcome back. Top stories here on aljazeera. Voting has begun in bay ruinty. The incumbent is running for a controversial third term. Blasts were reported around the capital. Cuba and the United States have restored diplomatic ties. On monday Foreign Ministers from both countries met in washington. This marks a major step towards ending decades of hostility. Turkey is blaming isil for an attack. 30 people were killed and a hundred injured in the explosion at a cultural center. Now the white house says it could use military force if iran breaks the nuclear deal signed with six world powers. The next big challenge is to push the deal through congress which has 60 days to review t early on monday the u. N. Security council endorsed the deal wit
Suicide bombing which killed 30 people on the border with syria. Seibing alien life, well known scientists get behind a multiMillion Dollars project to see whats out there. First, voting has started in burundis president ial election. The poll is being boycotted by several leading opposition parties and the u. N. , the eu as well as the African Union have said they wont recognize the results. Theres been months of violence since the incumbent president announced he would be standing for a third term. Critics say it violates the constitution. Gunfire and explosions were reported around the capitol. Reporter i have covered a lot of elections in africa. I have to say this one in burundi is interesting. I have never been at an election where there is so much International Pressure for one man not to run for a third term, for one man to step down. They insist hes running for a third term despite violating the constitution. He says he has his supporters who wants to keep ruling the country a
Authorities in texas have released dash cam video of the traffic stop that landed sandra brand in jail and charged with assaulting an officer. She was found dead in her jail cell last week. In waller county, texas the Officials Say that she hanged herself with a garbage bag. The trooper now is on desk duty. And pretends and family of sandra bland will gather soon in prairie view, texas to hold a memorial service. Usher is there with the story for us. Reporter good afternoon tony well, we just heard from officials who had been meeting here at prairie view a m university, thats where sandra bland was expected to take a job. And she was seep here interviewing when she was stopped in that traffic stop just over a week ago and the state and local officials were talking for about two hours to discuss the dash cam video that was released a short time ago. And we heard from some of the officials, including the lieutenant governor, who said this would be a very transparent investigation. In tex
And we begin with a new version of the dramatic dash cam video of sandra bland. She was found dead in her cell three days after an altercation during a traffic stop earlier this month. Speculation of a coverup. The officials wednesday denied that the tape had been intentionally doctored and released a clean copy today. And more importantly, what is on that tape and how the situation escalated so quickly . Take a look and listen. Would you find putting out your cigarette, please . Im in my car i dont have to put out my cigarette. You can step on out now. I dont want to step out. Step on out of the car. Step out of the car. I will write you up. Get out now get out of the car for a failure to signal. Youre doing all of this for failure to signal . Lets take this to court yep, for failure to signal. Get off the phone. Get off the phone. I have a right. This is my property. Put your phone down. Sir. Put your phone down, right now. Put your phone down. I will light you up. Kristen is in texa
Frb environmentalists. From environmentalists. Jason rezaian. The me from his family the plea from his family to release him. A defining day for world dissident iweiwei as china finally gives back his passport. We begin with the circumstances surrounding the death much sandra bland and the questions that continue to grow. The racially charged case started with a contentious and controversial traffic stop. Three days later her body was found in her jail cell. The jailers said it was a suicide. Her family said she wouldnt take her own life. Much attention is focusing on that initial encounter with a state trooper on waller county, texas. Tristan atone has more. Get out of the car. I will light you up. Getget out now forced the Texas Department of Public Safety to rerelease the tape as authorities insisted that it was not edited or manipulate ed. Manipulated. The film had been criticized for having gaps and overlaps. Dps said it was a problem when they loaded the video file onto the inter