A major battle is brewing in congress over health care an the budget. The house of representatives voted today to stop funding the president S Health Care program and at the same time keep funding the government for three months. It would temporarily prevent a government shut down. This is the 42nd time the house of representatives has tried odefunds socalled obamacare. Those previous measures failed. The bill passed the house mostly along are party lines. 230 voted for it, including two democrats, 189 voted against it including one republican. We get the story from Mike Viqueira. Ideal compromise is a signed of weakness. As a result of this congressional gridlock had threat. Ed to shut down the whole government. After a day of i inknighting, a day of victory. A vote for common sense. Their vote to cut off funding for the Health Care Law, something the house has voted on more than a dozen times. Before. Its time to free americans from the shackles of obamacare. Something that ties the
Prisons. We begin this sunday night in ukraine where divisions over crimea has led to street violence. And there has been little progress on the diplomatic front. Ukraines Prime Minister will travel to the white house on wednesday. They will discuss the standoff in crimea days before a referendum there. Today, rallies took across across the country. Scuffles broke out where demonstrators raised a russian flag over a government building. In the crimean city of sevastopol, people pushed to join russia. In some places protesters supporting ukraine were physically attacked. Tennessee of thousands gather in kiev rallying for a unified kiev. Russian forces are keeping up the pressure on ukraines military. Jennifer glasse has more on the tension thats keeping both sides on edge reporter its a crainiukraip with nothing to do. The armed boards are a sign all is not well here Ukrainian Navy cant go anywhere. Its blockaded by the russians. This is where the sea blockade gets up close and personal
And police in canada say they have video of torontos mayor apparently smoking a crack pipe. Welcome to al jazerra, it was an ambitious order, end syrias ability to produce chemical weapons. But it appears to have been done and ahead of schedule. The announcement from the world chemical weapons watchdog means syria cant produce any new chemical weapons. But damascus still has to destroy its chemical arsenal. Kim explains how we got to this points. Reporter on august 21st, at least 1400 were killed, in what survivors called a chemical massacre. Within days, the u. S. And its allies would condemn it too. This was not only a direct attack on human dignity, its a serious threat to our national security. Reporter president obama quickly threatening military action against syria. Syrian president Bashar Alassad denied at tack and sent a warning to the u. S. You can expect everything. Reporter but polight i cannily, obama garnered support. The chemical massacre in damascus cannot be left witho
In the capital. The Southeast Asian games heads to myanmar for the first time in 40 years. Well have a live report ahead of the opening ceremony. Riot police in ukraine have stormed kievs city hall in an attempt to force out protestors camped outside. Earlier they fought with protestors as they tried to clear out acamp of the square. After Viktor Yanukovych refused to sign an agreement with eu for trade agreement. Tim friend joins me from kiev. Its a fluid situation and within the last half hour or so the riot police have pulled right back. Theyve retreated. Theres not a van in sight. One of their advance have moved into the square earlier. And you cant really see any evidence of the riot police themselves. And just beneath us here, the protestors have started at least to try to build new barricades. So and a number of people in the skill in Independence Square is actually more than we witne witnessed on tuesday. Heres my colleague, robin forester walker with the detail of the events.
Secretary of state john kerry heads to beijing for talks. I was actually literally attacked from the side, heard somebody screaming. I woke up unconscious and in the hospital. Ta rick abbu k khadea. Suspects in the killing, an alleged revenge attack for the earlier murder for the murder of three israeli teenagers. Our Nick Schifrin reports. The beating was brutal. Undercover officers were striking a teenager, paper teenager. List arms behind his back, clearly unconscious but still they kick him one last time. His family sayin says the persoy are holding is tarik abu k khdi. Tarik walked out of court still battered. I remember standing and watching the group of people and they came from the side of me and i tried to run away but then they attacked me. Tareks family describes him as a typical american teenager. Message for tampa, he said he missed them. He got a kiss from his father and a hug from his mother. He was placed under house arrest but hasnt been charged with anything. There is