For moscow controlled regions of ukraine of voting suicide. Whether to join russia, the west says its an eagle land grab you and investigators accuse russia of committing war crimes on a massive scale in ukraine listing, bombings, executions, torture and sexual violence. Ah, hello, im nora kyle, this is al jazeera live from dough are also coming up at least 70 people are dead after a boat from lebanon sinks off the coast of syria. Many were playing the economic crisis. And the u. K. Makes a big bat on tax cuts, im borrowing to stave off recession. Critics, a, the budget does little to ease the high cost of living. Moscow controlled regions in eastern and southern ukraine have been voting on whether to become a part of russia. The referendums are taking place over 5 days and no hans donnette supp reacher and curse on. Its around 15 percent of ukraines territory, an area the size of hungry cave and as western allies say, the vote is a sham and an unlawful land grab Gabrielle Xander repor
Mornings on 2. Im claw dean long. Im mike, the extended Holiday Weekend continues. Well have a quick look at the forecast. Good morning, to you. Today will be a lot like yesterday. Were waking up with the clouds across the bay, its a cool start but not too bad. 50s out there. Its partly cloudy temperatures very similar to yesterday. We have a warmup coming our way. Ill show you what you can expect for that warm up as well as your temperatures for today coming up. Crews are on the scene of a water main break in san flan loafing a gaping hole in the road. An update on repairs. Alex . Reporter good morning, repair work went on and you can see a crew from the San Franciscos department of water and powers. This is what they have to deal with here. Check out this hole in the roadway here. Workers, so far they have replaced this particular section of pipe. Its a 6inch line that suddenly burst last night. The pipe ruptured just before 10 00 last night and water was sent rushing down the street
Pressure on elected officials to raise minimum wage to living wage or something close to it. Today there was an important turning point in that fight. Mitt romney who said there was probably not a need to raise minimum wage now says it should go up. I, for instance, as you know, part company with many conservatives on the issue of minimum wage. I think we ought to raise it. Frankly, our party is all about more jobs and better pay. Romney isnt the only one embracing wage hike. Fred de luca, founder of subway, the biggest fast food chain, said he was not concerned about hike in minimum wage. Over the years i have seen so many of these wage increases. I think it is normal. It wont have a negative impact. Thats what i tell my workers. The former nominee for president and ceo of the largest fast food chain came out in support of raising minimum wage. Republicans in congress simply arent listening and seemingly do not care. Last week, Senate Republicans filibustered a bill to raise minimum w
Israel says it was, quote, targeting Islamic Jihad, and this did not amount to a violation of the truce. Let me fast forward to later in the day. Here it was, the israeli Prime Minister, netanyahu, viewed the Gaza Campaign will continue. He spoke after a man on a backhoe drove into a city bus in jerusalem, killing a pedestrian before Police Killed him. In a separate incident in jerusalem, a man on a motorcycle shot and badly wounded an israeli soldier. And just a reminder here of the death count in gaza. Palestinian Officials Say 28 days of hostilities have killed more than is 1,800 palestinians. More than 9,000 others injured. 67 israelis are dead, but 3 were soldiers. Joining me live from gaza city, cnns martin savidge. And martin, the idf says its resuming operations, including those air strikes, but netanyahu says his campaign to destroy hamas, the tunnel, specifically, is about to conclude . Why is that . What are you hearing . Well, thats what they say. That they have been saying
Investigation . It was a comment made in court, printed on a transcript that would explain a lot as the 11th hour gets under way on a monday night. As we start a new week, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 753 of the trump administration. If it is monday, it must be el paso. That was the site of the president s rally tonight and the counter rally, headlined by beto orourke, within sight of the president s venue. The president went hard after orourke. He went hard after the news media and the mueller case and made his case for the wall all over again, while just minutes before he emerged on stage word had arrived from congress that they appeared to have a deal in principle to stop this looming next shutdown. At one point President Trump said, the last Government Shutdown was important to show people what is going on at the border. You know what . If we didnt do that shutdown, we would not have been able to show this country, these politicians a