Growing demands. Attacks on the freedom of the people who tell the stories journalist are happening around the globe including here at home. We begin with a Staggering Number of refugees world wild, as the list of Armed Conflicts around the world has grown, the people forced to flee their home now exceeds 50 million, the highest since world war. Launching a massive operation to bring aid to half a Million People driven from their homes by Islamic State fighters. Most still living in schools, mosques, churches, and unfinished buildings. So 9 Million People have fled their homes because of syrias brutal civil war. Almost 3 million refugees have escaped to neighboring countries, turkey, jord and not iraq, and south sudan in africa, half a million refugees, some internal, and some in caverns in uganda. And meanwhile, muslims in the Central African republic has led to 30,000 refugees since last march, and many are dying in desperate attempts to find a better life. Im joined from washington
People who tell the stories journalist are happening around the globe including here at home. We were talking to a young lady saying she just wanted her voice to get out there. By the thousands, theyre sending their government a message. Ahead of em is a humanitarian crisis where tens of thousands of people are without food, water, shelter. A special one hour look at global attacks on free press. Tonight 9 00 eastern. On Al Jazeera America. The Syrian Civil War continues to convulse the middle east. In the years since it began, over 700,000 people have been killed. And 9 million displaced. And millions have fled to other countries. Even when others drive this from the headlines, Doctors Without Borders continues its heroic work. Volunteers from the nobel prizewinning ngo have delivered 3,000 emergency room consultations, on thousand surgeries, and outpatient visits and babies. In places from hospitals to caves to tents. Doctors without borders call attention to suffering in syria and n
China to russia, and attacks on people who tell those stories, journalists, happening around the globe, including here at home. We begin with a Staggering Number of refugees world wild, as the list of Armed Conflicts around the world has grown, the people forced to flee their home now exceeds 50 million, the highest since world war. Launching a massive operation to bring aid to half a Million People driven from their homes by Islamic State fighters. Most still living in schools, mosques, churches, and unfinished buildings. So 9 Million People have fled their homes because of syrias brutal civil war. Almost 3 million refugees have escaped to neighboring countries, turkey, jord and not iraq, and south sudan in africa, half a million refugees, some internal, and some in caverns in uganda. And meanwhile, muslims in the Central African republic has led to 30,000 refugees since last march, and many are dying in desperate attempts to find a better life. Im joined from washington d. C. , by je
Understand recor understand, some of them are still receiving medical treatment. So i dont have an update on their conditions since i spoke to you 30 minutes ago. Know that were trying to get that. There are officers there trying to make that happen. We have identified the gunman. He is a 26yearold africanamerican individual. The Police Department is working now to develop more information about him. There are certain things that need to be done before we announce his identity and release his photograph. And those things are happening. I still expect to identify the gunman in the short term. Reporter do you have more information about the weapon used . No. Again, the scene is locked down. Someone asked me earlier how many people were inside the church at the time. Im going to approximate it at about 50. I know that we have 30something in a side building on the church campus, air conditioned side building, who are being interviewed by our detectives. Someone asked about children. We thi
And the home of the brave in nashville at the titans seahawks game both teams stayed in the locker room while the anthem played. The anthem singer at this game taking a knee. In chicago the steelers stayed in their locker room during the an them. Only one player stood alone on the edge of the field with his hand over his heart. President trump is officially responding to these protests. Its unclear if he supports them or possibly misunderstands them. Here is his tweet. Great solidarity for the National Anthem and for our country. Standing with locked arms is good. Kneeling is not acceptable. Bad ratings. If you are asking how we got here to the nfl publically protesting the president and the president publically demanding that nfl players be fired . It all started on friday when President Trump went on a tear during a rally in alabama. Here is a reminder of what he said. You may find this language offensive. Wouldnt you love to see one of these nfl owners when somebody disrespects our