The best deal. This is al jazeera america, live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. History made this morning in South Carolina. Onlookers cheered as the confederate battle flag was taken down at the state capitol. It had been flying over a confederate memorial for 15 years. Before that it spent nearly four decades on the capitol dome and now that flag is in a museum. Diane eastabrook is at the capitol in columbia. [ cheers and applause ] reporter a cheer erupted from a crowd of about 7,000 when the Confederate Flag was finally removed from the South Carolina state house grounds today. The state patrol honor guard lowered the flag folded it up and it was transported to an area museum. This has really been a whirlwind week for the people of South Carolina. Less than two days ago the legislature voted to take town the flag and the governor signed it into law less than a day ago. This has been a very divisive issue here in South Carolina, but a lot of people are here relishing the mo
President of ordering the killing. An image that went viral, thousands of donations poor in for the filipino boy whos determination to do his homework caught the attention of the worldwide web. Hundreds of palestinians have been to the funeral of an 18monthold palestinian baby who died in an arson attack suspected to have been carried out by settlers. The parents and brother are in hospital receiving treatment. Both israel and the u. S. Have condemned the attack as an act of terrorism. Reporter the family shared the only bedroom. They would have been fast asleep when the window was smashed and this small space set on fire. This man saw the two attackers standing over the parents who were lying outside with their clothes on fire. He went to get help and when he came back they were gone. Translator i saw the fore year old, i pulled him out. Then there was a huge blast and there was no way to save the baby. Reporter this is the room where the 18monthold was found dead and we spoke to the
But the kings of two key allies arent there. And dozens killed in pakistan after gunmen opened fire on a bus. You are watching al jazeera america. And live from new york city. Im morgan radford. Investigators are at the scene of a deadly Train Derailment in philadelphia. At least six people are dead and dozens were hurt in the crash. Pennsylvanias governor has ordered all flags to be flown at half staff. We have a team of reporters following the latest developments. We have lisa stark live for us in washington but we begin with john terrett who is live in philadelphia. Where do things stand at this hour . Reporter good afternoon to you, morgan. We have had a News Conference from various dignitaries who have given the latest information. The most information we got was from the board member of the ntsb, the group is now on the ground here. He confirmed that they arrived between 4 00 and 5 00 this morning. And most interestingly, robert tells us that they are already looking into data fr
Goes islands. Iraqs military has launched an operation to drive Islamic State of iraq and the levant from Anbar Province. The shia militias say they dont think the plan will take long. It takes up much of western iraq. Anbars capitol, ramadi fell to isil just over a week ago, a major defeat for iraqi forces. Imran khan reports. Reporter Iraqi Security forces gather on the edge of ramadi preparing to retake the city which fell to fighters from the Islamic State of iraq and the levant more than a week ago. [ gunfire ] reporter its likely to be a long operation. There are reports of isil fighters preparing to meet Government Security forces. They have backing from shia militia, many of which are sup pored by iran. The iraqi army is also gearing up for other operations with isil in control of border crossings from syria into anbar, it is feared that isil fighters could push into baghdad. To prevent that this man is securing the outskirs outskirts of the capitol. Translator were fighting a
To show unity. They have different agendas, but when they come out here, expect to see them try to speak with one voice. Reporter president obama and chancellor merkel will meet for four hours at the white house. Merkel and obama will say publicly will be we have to go together and when it comes to ukraine we have to Work Together to put more pressure on putin. But the interests are different. Reporter the latest round of sanctions by the u. S. And European Union stopped short of hitting russias oil and gas industry. Trade between the two countries amounted to 100 billion last year. We work very closely with russia. We are to some extent even dependant on russia gas, so for that reason we are hesitant to put more pressure on russia. Reporter Foreign Policy analyst mark fisher says the white house sees merkel as a possible bridge. She is the link of communication with putin right now. In that respect, being here in washington the day after she just talked to putin, its very important fo