High School Students completely fell through the stage right there at the collapsing. Good morning to you and thanks for joining us, you are watching Al Jazeera America and live from new york city im morgan and ceremonies in armenia today mark 100 years since the massacre of more than a million armains by turks and french president as well as russian president Vladimir Putin placed a yellow rose on a wreath commemorating lives lost around the time of world war i, for complete coverage we are if turkey and paul live and paul lets start with you this morning, an solemn day in armenia and what happened this morning and what is scheduled for later . Well its been raining all day, morgan and that has not stopped people from walking up to the eternal flame to pay their respects to those who died 100 years ago between 19151923, earlier today was the commemorative ceremony and World Leaders including Vladimir Putin and french president was here and other president s and they had an official me
Police commissioner rare eruption a volcano in chile comes to life trail blazer ruby bridges paves the way. I think what protected me was the innocence of a child. The civil rights pioneer on her lifelong fight for civil justice. First came the drone strike, then the apology. Two high valued targets for the u. S. Killed in the unmanned attack in pakistan in january. There were other casualties two hostages with the unintended guests information and the out come. Jamie mcintyre with the latest. The white house said the protocol was followed to a t but had unintended consequences of a tragic nature. A spokesman admits this raises questions about whether changes need to be made. The white house says there were two separate drone strikes in january targetting an al qaeda compound in pakistan along the border and one attack unknowingly killed two aid workers held captive. American lauren wine stephen and an italian wine stephen, and an italian. Both working to improve the lives of pakistani
Away. Good morning and welcome to al jazeera america. Im Randall Pinkston we are following breaking news at this hour. The white house, president obama, calling a special News Conference to identify two hostages that u. S. Forces accidentally killed in january. Warren weinstein, an american was held by alqaeda since 2011, and geovany laporto, held since 2012. Mike viqueira is live from washington. We just heard from president obama not a News Conference my error, he took no questions what else do we know . Reporter it came as a complete surprise. The president appearing in the Briefing Room taking full responsibility a somber even rueful president obama, taking responsibility for those two hostages. Here is a little bit more. As president , and as commander in chief, i take full responsibility for all of our Counter Terrorism operations including the one that inadvertently took the lives of warren and geovany. On behalf of the United States government i offer our deepest apologies to t
Welcome to Al Jazeera America, im tony and humanitarian crisis in syria is mounding is the word from the u. N. As it asks for help with the growing refugee crisis there leaders from across the world meeting at the u. N. Syrias neighbors say they need more aid to provide housing protection and other services to the more than 4 Million People who fled syria in the past four years and james has the latest. Every month the u. N. Security council gets a report on the humanitarian situation in syria, every single month that report shows the situation is getting worse, its now believed 220,000 people have been killed in the conflict the u. N. Says 7. 6 million syrians have been displaced. This month they decided to talk about all of this in an open session to try and get the world to take notice, just listen to the word of the u. N. Humanitarian coordinator valorie amos. The government arms and terrorists groups continue to kill maim rape torture and take syria to new lows that seem unimagina
Light punishment. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Thank you for joining us. Im morgan radford, live from new york city. Migrants arrive in southern europe. More than 1,000 come into the port in the past 24 hours alone. They are coming in overcrowded and unsafe boats. European leaders are holding an emergency meeting to find a solution. The italian Prime Minister matteo renzi is asking for help from the e. U. We are getting off an italian customs boat. 220 people from subsaharan africa, but women and some pregnant amongst them. We watched them taking obvious the boat into Processing Centers throughout the past hour. This is the context and the reason why there is an e. U. Emergency summit. 1,000 arrivals in the italian port in the last 24 hours, and a couple of days ago the u. N. H. C. R. Said there has been 13,500 arrivals in the past week. In the mediterranean, the weather is warmer seas calmer so theres inspection that the flow of humanity across the mediterranean will i