Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. We begin tonight with news in the fight against isis. Late last night, president obama authorized a rare and Successful Ground raid into eastern syria. The white house says u. S. Commandos killed a senior Islamic State leader, captured his wife and confiscated isis Computer Data in alamr. Officials say isis Senior Leader abu sayyaf was involved in military operations and oversaw illicit oil and gas operations funding terrorist attacks. His wife, umm sayyaf, is also accused of playing an Important Role in terrorist attacks and may have helped enslave a woma
Extraordinary day at the vatican. Heading to the polls, iraq preparing for a pivotal election. We discuss indepth in the week ahead. Theres absolutely no place in the nst ba family n. B. A. Family for ignorance, intolerance, reprehensible comments that are not fitting for what the league is about. Former n. B. A. All star Kevin Johnson speaking for the players association, joining the fire storm condemning a racist ram attributed to the owner of the rant attributed to the owner of the l. A. Clippers. Lets go to melissa chan outside the oracle arena. What has the rehabilitation been like. The final score was 97118 the l. A. Clippers were clobbered. You have to wonder whether the controversy swirling around the owner had an impact on the performance of the team members. Reporter the protest took place before the game, with players wearing inside out warm up journeys so the l. A. Clippers logo could not be seen. Fans at the game against the warriors expressed shock at the statements alleg
The worst days weve seen in months. The s p posted the first threeday losing streak in two months. The dow logged the first backtoback declines in a month. The dow transports dropped about 2 for the worst day in two months and all of this was, again, as you saw the crude oil prices pushing higher. The dow futures are indicated up by about 13 points. Take a look at whats happening in the early trade in europe. Red arrows there, as well. Biggest declines at least from a percentage basis coming from the ftse in london down close to 1 . In asia overnight, the markets that you are watching did see green arrows, in fact, the shanghai up to close to 1 , nikkei up close to. 8 . And here in the United States looking at the bond market, youll see right now that tenyear note is yielding 2. 95 . The dollar this morning, down against both the euro and the pound. Its trading against the yen. The euros at 1. 3572. And gold prices yesterday rallied by about 1 . That was the best day in almost three mo
Abuse and torture. The Islamic State group accused of ethnic cleansing in iraq. The families of victims storming the Iraqi Parliament building. Were live on the ground in baghdad. As fears rage in the west, firefighters make a startling discovery, saving a pair of Mountain Lion cubs moments before the flames got dangerously close. Good morning, welcome to al Jazeera America. U. S. Now taking aim at another group linked to alqaeda, the pentagon carrying out an air strike in somalia against al shabab. This after an attack left at least 12 dead. Aljazeera has an exclusive look at the fight against al shabab. First, we have more on the strike. Why is the u. S. Targeting al shabab . They seem to have a different policy with each of these different terrorist organizations. Back in marsh of 2008, the u. S. Officials designated it a foreign terrorist organization. The group has been waging war in somalia and other east african count force years. It staged an attack on a snapping mall in kenya
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