Bash for Robert Mugabe. Good morning to you, welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford, live from new york city. After a day of political upheaval Opposition Leaders in ukraine are scrambling to feel a power vacuum. Viktor yanukovych fled the capital. Its unclear who is running the country. Viktor yanukovych said he is not stepping down and accused parliament of a coup. Hes referring to a vote that happened hours earlier, removing him from office, setting elections. Former Prime Minister Julia Tymoschenko has been released from prison, where she served three of a 7year sentence for abuse of power. Viktor yanukovychs decision to distance ukraine from the e. U. Is what sparked the protest in the first place. Jennifer glasse is the First International broadcaster to be live outside the Parliament Building today. Good morning. The parliament this morning charting a new future of ukraine. Making a lot of changes. The foreign minister is gone. The minister of science gone. They are lo
Thousands of opposition supporters remain in the streets of kiev, the countrys parliament has named its speaker as interim president , this after ukrainian president Victor Yanukovych fled the capital on saturday in a tell visited interview yanukovych says hes not stepping down and accusing them of a coup. Here is the latest. Reporter victory came at a cost. There is no euphoria in independence square. Instead, we found grieve. Thegrief. They have lost too muco celebrate and anyway they are too exhausted. Ukrainian politics is upside down, former opposition leaders now hold power. They deny they staged a coup against president yanukovych. Translator the government didnt want to listen to the people it. Did Everything Possible to hold onto power and it crossed the line when it killed people now we need a functioning state as soon as possible and parliament will work on this nonstop. Reporter parliament has been busy dismissing january coachs people one by one, a new speaker. Consolidati
Thousands of opposition supporters remain in the capital of ukraine, that despite the countrys Parliament Making its speaker as interim president , this is all after Victor Yanukovych fled the cappal yesterday n a televised interview yanukovych said he is not stopping down and accusing parliament of carrying out an coup. Barnaby phillips has more from Independence Square. Reporter victory crime at a cost. There is no yo euphoria in Independence Square, instead we found grief. They have lost too much to celebrate and anyway, they are too exhausted. Ukrainian politics is upside down. Former opposition leaders now hold power. They deny they stage aid coup against president yanukovych. Translator the government didnt want to listen to the people. It did Everything Possible to hold onto power and crossed the line when it killed people. Now we need a functioning state as soon as possible and parliament will work on this nonstop. Reporter and parliament has been busy does missing january coac
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Intentions. Britain royal family welcomes irelands president for a historic visit. And were in afghanistan where two president ial hopefuls think theyve each secured victory in saturdays votes. Hello. The u. S. Secretary of state says iran breakout period, the time it would take to produce the material for a Nuclear Weapon, is two months. John kerry made his comments when a Senate Committee asked him whether negotiators were aiming for a six to 12month breakout period. I think its fair to say that i think its Public Knowledge today that were operating with a time period for a socalled breakout of about two months. Thats been in the public domain. So six months to 12 months is im not saying that thats what wed settle for, but even that is significantly more. Remember, breakout means that they make a decision to race, to sort of move out of regime put in place and overtly move to enrich sufficiently to create enough material for one weapon. Thats what breakout means. It doesnt mean theyv