We are going to begin with a number to deal with a crisis in seems to be growing by the hour. The white house now asking congress for close to 4 billion to deal with the growing Immigration Crisis at the border. And today they provided details about how that money would be used. Thrive at the white house, and mike, tell us more about the proposal and exactly where that money would be spent. Dale, it is an unfolding crisis. Fear for their lives and safety driving many of these families and unaccompanied children to the border principally in the Rio Grande Valley of texas. The administration has been struggling to cope. 50 go thousand unaccompanied children the vast majority of them from three Central American countries. El salvador, hour door russ, and guatemala. Today much more money than we were initially led to believe. 3. 7 billion total, thats what the administration is asking congress to deal with this problem. We have a break down, 8,079,000,000 of that for detention and removal
May determine if charlottes web is real medicine or not. Lindsay moran is an excia operative and analyst. Im are phil torres. Thats our team, now lets do some science. Hello and welcome to techknow. My name is phil torres and were joined today by Lindsay Moran and dr. Crystal dilworth. You went to investigate can marijuana but this marijuana is missing something. Right, its missing thc, the compound responsible for that high. I got a chance to go to colorado and look at a Family Business whos producing marijuana that helps treat children with intractable are why being diseases. More than 400,000 children in the u. S. Suffers from epileptic seizures. Heather jacksons son zaki is one of them. Zaki had these, he has a rare form of epilepsy known as doose syndrome. By the time he was 5 years old he had had 500,000 seizures. Dont usually start crying this early, actually. Its an emotional day because hes 16 months seizure free today, so im happy. Its a happy emotion. Today zaki is talking,
Through the season. It has been another day of dramatic developments. This time on the diplomatic front, with back to back news conferences Great Britain and rome, all in an effort to diffuse a cry that is seems to be growing worse by the day. Just moments ago, the president unannounced coming to the podium announcing new sanctions against russia, we have a team of reporters cooing the crisis but we begin with jennifer glass, she joining us live now, and jennifer, western leaders taking a very hard line against russia. Thats right. President obama says as clear plan he would like to see international on servers here on the ground that wont be easy here right after president obama spoke, we heard from john kerry he had very harsh words for russia. We cannot allow russia or any country to defy International Law with impunity. Theres no place in the community of nations for the kind of aggression, and steps that we have seen taken in crimea and ukraine in these last days. 40 russian ships
President obama has reached his lowest approval. Edward snowden has a new job, a lawyer for the n. S. A. Leaker said his clients found a tech support job as a are you sure website. He has been living in the former soviet republic since granted asylum in august. Those are your headlines. Consider this is next. We have updates 24 hours a day on aljazeera. Com. Im dell walters in new york. Well see you at the top of the hour. An Al Jazeera America exclusive. Corruptions has reached is the higheshighest level of politics. How wide spread is this conduct . Well run it down across america. An important follow up on a story we brought you recently. Interpreters who risked their lives being kept in harms way by political red tape. And the hemingway curse. One of americas moist americas families has been rocked by suicides. Mariel hemingway will join us. We begin with corruption in california. In this report al jazeera Investigative Unit will look at a sting operation launched by the fbi. Los a
Person at a time. That war of words between the United States and russia over ukraine continue today. Only this time, more bloodshed in Eastern Ukraine, as more and more troops are now on the ground. Russia starting new military exercises. Thousands of troops are there just waiting for order from moscow. You crane now being used as a geopolitical pawn. The attempts for anybody to claim status of ultimate judge worldwide, can turn into and have already turned into a dangerous loss of control. The quite tries to behave like winners, in the cold war and act like they can ignore russia in european affairs. Also the interior minister is reporting that five people are dead following a shoot out of prorussian activists and ukraines Prime Minister, vowing once again, to continue those so called antiterrorists operations all of this is hundreds of americans soldiers continue to arrive in year europe. Barn biphillips is in year ukraine. We are at a new Ukrainian Army check point. What we are hea