Critics and Alex Rodriguez plan to fight the yearlong suspension in federal court. Good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Foreign dignitaries from around the world are in israel today to say farewell to ariel sharon, and the Controversial Military leader passed away saturday at the age of 85 after 8 years in a coma and honored earlier today in jerusalem during a state ceremony outside the Israeli Parliament. The memorial was attended by current israeli Prime Minister netanyahu, a one time foe of sharon and joe biden on hand calling sharon a complex man who put his country first. Ariel sharon was not only loved by the jewish people and he not only loved them as the jewish people but he loved the land of israel. Reporter sharons body will then begin a procession from jerusalem to his ranch in southern israel and casket accompanied by 8 Defense Force general and at 7 00 eastern time, under an hour from now sharon will be buried in a military military setting and
We will go to cairo for the latest. We will speak with the brother of one of the jailed journalist. Then to iraq. No country is safe from that kind of spread of terror, and none of us can afford to leave that entity with a safe haven which would become the base for and all,ainst anyone not only in the region, but outside of the region as well. As john kerry meets with iraqi Prime Minister malik he, sunni militants seized reporter crossings into syria and jordan. In the Presbyterian Church votes to pull millions of dollars in investment from three companies that it says supply israel with equipment used in the occupation of the palestinian territories. We will speak with a presbyterian minister and a rabbi who support the divestment move. [indiscernible] decisions andal align with ones eyes is antisemitic. Withdrawing money from companies that destroy homes and livelihoods and changing the lives, this is not antisemitic. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracyn
We will go to cairo for the latest. We will speak with the brother of one of the jailed journalist. Then to iraq. No country is safe from that kind of spread of terror, and none of us can afford to leave that entity with a safe haven which would become the base for and all,ainst anyone not only in the region, but outside of the region as well. As john kerry meets with iraqi Prime Minister malik he, sunni militants seized reporter crossings into syria and jordan. In the Presbyterian Church votes to pull millions of dollars in investment from three companies that it says supply israel with equipment used in the occupation of the palestinian territories. We will speak with a presbyterian minister and a rabbi who support the divestment move. [indiscernible] decisions andal align with ones eyes is antisemitic. Withdrawing money from companies that destroy homes and livelihoods and changing the lives, this is not antisemitic. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracyn
Of no bark removal from office. They accuse the police of brutal problems and people being arrested in their hospital beds. And millions on the move, china sees the biggest mass migration on the planet as new year festivities approach. Its been a long time coming, the Syrian Government and the opposition now sitting in the same room in geneva, that meeting is happening right now. But the two sides are still refusing to speak directly to each other. Instead, they are speaking from a go between, the u. N. Arran league brahimi and we have the latest in geneva and the two sides might be sitting in the same room but there is still a lot of hurdles to get over and you have been speaking to some of the delegates before the meeting even started. What have they been telling you . Like you mentioned that meeting started and now its over. It was a brief session, the sunday special brahimi addressed the delegates and said there is a need to find Common Ground and the dell egypts are sitting in the
Fighting the cartels in mexico. The astonishing story of an unlikely vigilante. [ music ] we begin with breaking news about the West Virginia leak that had hundreds of thousands told not to drink the water. Since the spill authorities have been testing for a chemical. Tonight investigators reportedly learnt of a second previously undetected material that may have seeped from the chemical storage tanks into the water supply. Lets start with Jonathan Martin who is in charleston. We are learning about all of this. This is coming to light in the last hour. We talked to the Governors Office in West Virginia. They confirmed with officials with Freedom Industries, the cop at the center of the still, pa pph, a second chemical, was mixed in with the chemical that was reported mch. Remember, this is all what leaked from a storage tank at Freedom Industries, two weeks ago along the elk river. It came to light. State authorities received a document from the company indicating the presence of this