Waiting for aid conflict and drought more than a 3rd of chance populations struggling for food and power. Frances creates 20 new cardinals. Putting his thumb on the future of the Catholic Church. Ah, weve been watching development closely in libya, where the Health Ministry now says intense fighting in the capital is killed at least 23 people. 17 of them are civilians, almost 100 others were injured. Its raising fears of a political crisis, turning into a wider conflict or gunfire erupted between rival armed groups early on saturday, with explosions, rocking several districts and smoke rising from damaged buildings. According to the un, theres been medium and heavy. Shelling and civilian neighborhoods in a hospital is also damaged. This is the latest threat to 2 years of relative peace offer sees 5 between allies of rival administrations. It was last year that abdul hamid the elder baby was installed his head of the un back government of National Unity in tripoli. He was tasked with le
Ally. Rival militias are battling for towns and countries across the country. We report from the libyan capitol, tripoli. This is what it often sounds like in libya these days. The fightings being done by the dawn of libya and brigades that cause the gaddafi regime. The groups have made. The fighting has caused suffering among civilians and supplies are running out. So far, hospitals in the city of kikla report over 100 fatalities and in benghazi are reports are dozens of injured and dead. The u. N. Is calling for calm. For months, the efforts to bring the two sides together dont seem to be working. It seems clear that the community for egypt and other countries involved themselves in the conflict dont support a negotiated settlement at this time. We do realize there is a lot more mileage in violence still to come. This conflict cant end in a negotiated settlement. Providing support to the elected politicians in the city, they also of international support, but no control on the ground
Protect Health Care Workers on the front line. City streets blocked in hong kong. Hawaii gets soaked but avoids a direct hit from Tropical Storm ana. Another storm poses a threat to europe. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Im del walters. We have breaking news out of back dad. 17 people are dead after a suicide bombing at a knee i cant mosque. No one has claimed responsibility. It is the 30th bombing across the country this month. Well have a live report in baghdad in a few minutes, but first, the u. S. Is stepping up its efforts to protect kobane, syria, against isil fighters. The u. S. Military has air dropped weapons and medalliccal supplies to the kurds trying to defend the town. Libby casey joins us live from washington. Why did washington decide to help arm the syrian kurds now . The u. S. Said these drops serve both a humanitarian purpose, because u. S. Officials say the kurds under siege in kobane could be slaughtered if isil manages to take control
Manns best friend at work helping veterans on a daily basis. We want to make sure we have people that are pretrained, predrilled over and over and have the right protocol going. This doctor spent much of the day talking about new guidelineses for Health Care Workers. It has been three weeks since Thomas Duncan was admitted to texas presbyterian. He suffered ebola, a disease that claimed his listen. Two nurses became unaffected, some asked if u. S. Hospitals were capable of handling an outbreak. Melissa chan is live in dallas, a city that is the focal point to the response for ebola. This quarpt heen will end quarantine will end soon for some. Tell us about that. These people will go back to their regular lives, theres a bit of concern with the mayor and others, about potential discrimination, not just against the Duncan Family that is expected to be released at midnight this evening from their quarantine, from the 21 day period, but the Health Care Workers. The multiple people who have
Flees the country. Italy faces Major Political reform. And in vatican city pope frances prepares to mark his first year in the job. The new ukraine Prime Minister will be meeting the u. S. President at the white house. He has already had a chat with the secretary of state john kerry who said that he will travel to london on friday. The talks with the Russian Foreign minister lavror concerning the crimea referendum taking place on sunday whether it should be part of russia or remain part of ukraine. Were live from washington, d. C. Is yatsenyuk looking for anyone concrete . Reporter it will go a long way in shoring up his support in many peoples eyes. There are World Leaders who dont get this sort of opportunity. So to sit down with the president , the Vice President and secretary of state, that will be important. But hes looking for a lot more besides. The americans said theyre ready to pump 1 billion through the imf into the ukrainian economy. That will be useful. Remember, yatsenyuk