Conflict with israel and the sirns side of social sinister side of social media. Extremism is ripe online, and text giants are ignoring it, say the british we begin in the u. S. Where president obamas party lost the senate. The republicans will take control of both houses of congress. This will limit what president obama can do in his final two years, at home and abroad. Lets take a closer look at how the vote unfolded. Republicans needed six victories across these 10 Battle Ground states to win control of the senate. So far, they have clinched a 7th. Those states are iowa, north carolina, colorado, montreal, south dakota, arkansas, and west virginia. In kented republican bradley kennedy, republican senator Mitch Mcconnell has won reelection and is likely to lead his party in the senate. The democrats lost New Hampshire and a runoff is expected in louisiana, while the race was too close to call there. We can get more from patty culhane, who has been following the election from the whit
Media. Britains top spy boss says extremism is right online. Tech giants are ignoring it well theres heightened tension in jerusalem where right wing israeli activists attempted to storm alaqsa compounds. Palestinians turned up at the site after being denied entry to the mosque. Imtiaz tyab is in jerusalem. The situation in and around the al aqsa mosque is tense after a group of far right jewish activists tried to enter the holy sites. That, of course, resulted in confrontations between Palestinian Protesters and Israeli Security forces. In a rare move we understand that Israeli Security forces entered the mosque at al absque. We have been told by an Israeli Police spokesperson that they went a meter or so in to close the door of the mosque. Whatever the case, again its a very rare move, one that will no doubt inflame the situation in occupied east jerusalem. The situation there, of course, very tense over the past several months. Particularly over the past several weeks as well. There
First we start with break news. Heavy casualties after an explosion market incident. The right now, i was. We understand that so far there has been no claim for responsibility. Are the fingers pointing to them at this stage. Absolutely. This is not the first blast for the day. For now, the state of gombe which is, this town of gombe which is some 114 kilometers from bauce ask targeted, targeted by a bomb that was placed inside one of the vehicles inside the station. And last night there was, last evening there was an attack in the neighboring state of yobe where several people are thought to have been killed by the attack. And from what eyewitnesses are saying, that these are people, suspected members of boko haram who have been operating largely in that area northeast of the country came into the town in 15 different vehicles and stormed the town, attacking strategic locations killing a number of people, setting homes, offices hospitals, Security Forces on fire and targeting specifica
The last six months. Controversy among lawmakers. Fctspakistan apt government any are fighting on two pakistans government and army are fighting on two fronts. After a de facto ban on executions was lifted, this comes in the wake of a School Massacre in peshawar, most of them children. Kamal hyder has the story. The government was certain it would carry out the executions after 55 on death row, anticipation that those executions will be carried out despite the fact of the taliban, pakistan, and another Interesting Development protesters who have been gathering outside the red mosque,ing also supporting some elements among pakistan who were against people of the country has continued outside the red mosque. Although the protest has contained, the momentum is still on. There is a demand by the people here among Civil Society that they should reclaim their mosque but on the other hand, the tarika Taliban Splinter Group spokesman issued a direct threat to those protesters, saying they will
Plight of journalists around the world, from imprisonment to death for doing their job. Four copies of the magna car at a on display for the first time in 800 years. Good evening and welcome to the International Hour on Al Jazeera America. Im antonio mora. And im stephanie sy. We begin in ukraine. A dozen fighters killed in less than 24 hours. And many more over the weekend. Promising to boost their forces to 100 thousand to combat government forces. The white house is weighing its options and whether to provide weapons and other military equipment to stop the advance of separatist forces. That decision could destabilize the decision further but also could keep kiev from losing any more from Eastern Ukraine. Jamie mcintire has more from the pentagon. Best way to aid the government in ukraine and that the president has made no decision but privately pentagon Officials Say the worry is pouring more arms into the conflict may not bring a political solution any closer. Western Officials Sa