Good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. The future of american troops in afghanistan is being decided by a group of Afghan Tribal leaders. Afghan and american leaders said yes to a security deal and today afghan President Hamid karzai is pushing a council to accept it. The decision now lies with the loya jirga. Translation you are here representing the afghan nation. I was under pressure not to organise the loya jirga. When it comes to issues of National Significance it is important to hold the jirgas. Up to 15,000 troops could remain in the region if the security pact is signed, including 8,00012,000 american troops. It is entirely train, equip and assist there is no combat role for the United States force, and the bilateral Security Agreement is an effort to clarify for afghans and for United States military forces exactly what the rules are with respect to that ongoing relationship. Here are the terms of the deal u. S. Forces that remain after next year rece
After the came, sochi was the pride and joy, but the host city turns into a virtual coast town. Wait until you see what it hooks like now. Its fright night. A short horror film goes viral and hollywood is calling. We talk to the director in our first person report. We begin with the ruins of oso washington. The number of people confirmed missing has dropped. Authority say they are looking for 90 missing people. They are sifting through debris thats 40 feet wide and the ground is constantly shifting. Its gruelling work that is taking a heavy emotional toll. Allen schauffler reports from the scene since the disaster happened. He joins us with the latest. Well, you are looking into the eyes of these firefighters and the search and rescue folks who have been at the seconds since saturday. You can see the toll in their eye, its grim work in a grim place. Another day, day five for search and rescue crews doing the dirtiest kind of work. 200 were at the side slight. Federal workers, helped by
For the first time. John the good new day. Thats our show, tonight. You worried about the future . Hard not to be if you watch the news. Its mostly negative, violence, disasters, danger and i suppose thats our job to t about problems. If a plane crashes, thats news. The fact that thousands of planes will land and take off safely during this tv program is a mirae, but its not news. So we soak in disasters and heed warnings about the next one. Global warming, pesticide residues. I covered hundreds of scares and finally wised up. In england, a journalist smarter than i quickly realized he was focusing on the wrong things that led to this book. The rational optimist. Matt ridley gives lectures around the world explaining why hes an optimist. Back in the 1970, the future was bleak, the population explosion was unstoppable. Famine was inevitable. Bird flu is going to kill us, the ice age is coming back. All these, the desert was advancing. Y2k computer bug, all these things were going to go
Top much our show tonight. General motors recalling another nearly 1 1 2 million vehicles. This time over issues surrounding the sudden loss of power steering. Now the models include chevy malibu and cobalt, saturn auras and ions and pontiac g6s. The stems from 2004 all the way to 2010. That brings total number of recalled gm cars to nearly 4 million although there is some overlap with previous recalls. Just adding more fuel to the fire as gm Ceo Mary Barra will head to capitol hill tomorrow where she is expected to apologize. We have alan kim, former senior enforcement attorney with the national highway Traffic Safety administration. Welcome back to the show. Great to see you again, sir. A long history at nshta. Now we have more recalls coming from gm. What do you make of this . They say that General Motors will replace either the power steering or the steering column. Are you surprised . Well, there seems to be at least temporarily some increased focus on safety at General Motors. Ma
For the first time. John the good new day. Thats our show, tonight. You worried about the future . Hard not to be if you watch the news. Its mostly negative, violence, disasters, danger and i suppose thats our job to tell you about problems. If a plane crashes, thats news. The fact that thousands of planes will land and take off safely during this tv program is a miracle, but its not news. So we soak in disasters and heed warnings about the next one. Global warming, pesticide residues. I covered hundreds of scares and finally wised up. In england, a journalist smarter than i quickly realized he was focusing on the wrong things that led to this book. The rational optimist. Matt ridley gives lectures around the world explaining why hes an optimist. Back in the 19, the future was bleak, the population explosion was unstoppable. Famine was inevitable. Bird flu is going to kill us, the ice age is coming back. All these, the desert was advancing. Y2k computer bug, all these things were going