Five years. Good morning everybody. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im David Shuster in new york. Former russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khordorkovsky in prison for 10 years is free and speaking out. In his first media interview since his release the highprofile critic said he is not planning to go into politics. His comments were made to reporters in berlin, where he is reuniting with his family. Putin pardoned Mikhail Khordorkovsky in a pr mood taking a lot of people by surprise. More from berlin. This is the moment days ago they must have thought was impossible. A family finally reunited. A day after Mikhail Khordorkovsky was released from gaol, he was back in the arms of his parents. He gave more details about conditions in prison. Because for a year and two months and 2. 5 years, but during these years i had long meetings with relatives and all the other times i was on a prison regime and had no long visits. Accused of tax evasion, Mikhail Khordorkovsky spent the last decade in detentio
And a teen shot by a colorado classmate has died. Tonight Barack Obama Says the u. S. Will try to rescue americans in south sudan. Gunfire abankruptly stopped evacuations in bor earlier. Nicole johnston has more on the situation. The crisis in south sudan is becoming even more dangerous. The government is sending troops and tanks to jonglei to take on the rebels. It says renae gayed soldiers have taken control. Gunfire hit three u. S. Military aircraft as they were about to land and evacuate american citizens from the town. Four u. S. Servicemen were injured. In the middle of this are civilians looking for protection. 35,000 are camped out in u. N. Compounds in bor, juba and other places. Bor is a strategic location within south sudan, and within the crisis both factions and the Government Forces are using it as a point they want to dominate. However, even the United Nations was a target. On saturday it held a Memorial Service for two indian peacekeepers killed at a base at akobo. They
The worlds youngest country south sudan may be on the brink of a civil war. Hundreds have been killed in factional fighting and earlier today gunman fired at american planes with stopped esubcontract uses. Nicole johnston has more. The crisis with south sudan is becoming more dangerous. The government is sending troops and tanks to Jonglei State to take on the rebels. It says rehn gait soldiers taking control of the state capital are attacking people. On saturday gunfire hit three u. S. Military aircraft as they were about to land and evacuate american citizens. Four u. S. Servicemen were injured. This the middle of this are civilians looking for protection. 35,000 are camped out at u. N. Compounds in bor, juba and bantu. Bor is a strategic location. And therefore within the crisis both factions and the Government Forces are using it as a point that they want to dominate. However, even the United Nations has become a target. On saturday it meld a Memorial Service for two indian peaceke
A u. S. Rescue mission in south sudan has been called off after four soldiers were shot trying to evacuate americans. The pentagon says three osprey aircraft came under fire while attempting to land near the town of bor. Rescues had to be aborted and planes averted to uganda. The injured were flown to kenya. The four are in stable condition, but did not release their names or identify their armed service. Now we go to haru mutasa in juba. A Memorial Service for the United Nations peacekeepers killed in south sudan. They decide trying to carry out their mandate to protect civilians in akobo. In the end they were unable to protect themselves. For their colleagues its an emotional farewell. They were with around 90 other people in a small u. N. Base when they were outnumbered by 2,000 armed nuer youth. Several civilians were killed in the attack. We need to review where our basises are vulnerable and we can face overwhelming numbers in terms of attackers. We are in need of considering how
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