Happens. In the meantime, happening now, the son of congressman chaka fatah is in a philadelphia courtroom for the beginning of his bank and tax fraud trial. Monique braxton is here to explain whats happening today. Monique . Reporter right now jury selection is under way, its been going on for an hour now. Heres video we have captured in the past of chaka fatah, jr. , entering the federal courthouse. For months now hes known as chip and has told the court he wanted to represent himself at trial. Today a public defender is prepared to represent the 33yearold who has described himself as an education consulta consultant, high end concierge and political consultant. The indictment alleges fattah used Business Loans for his personal expenses, made false statements to the irs and failed to file income tax returns. Prosecutors allege he lied to keep the money from Business Loans coming as a way of financing his lifestyle. One source with the court says prosecutors hope to seat the jury toda
Measure human organs. The sport, including the gulf hamilton takes his first position for the bar ane grand prix. Hello. A motorbike riding suicide bomber has attacked a bank in afghanistan killing at least 35 people. President ghani said it is a group with links to the Islamic State in rack in the levant. From kabul, jennifer glassee reports. The suicide bomber detonated his vest in a crowd of people lining up outside the kabul bank. Government salaries are paid here the apparent target was civil servants. Passersby tried to help the injured and move the dead. I saw many people dead bodies and injured people on the ground. Ambulance arrived very late and many people died of their wounds. Wounds. Reporter two other blasts around the same time targeted a shrine and another bank highlighting the difficult security situation. President ghani says groups affiliated with isil are to blame. Today, the taliban did not take responsibility. Daesh took responsibility. International terrorists ar
Organs. Hello, a motorbike riding suicidebomber has detonated a bomb outside of a bank in afghanistan killed 35 people. President ashraf ghani has called it a new war in a country struggling to beat the taliban. Reporter the suicidebomber detonated his vest in a crowd of people lining up outside of jalalabads bank. Government salaries are paid here and the apparent target was civil sur fans. Passersby try to help the injured and move the dead. I saw many people with dead bodies and injured people on the ground. Ambulances arrived very late and many people died of their wounds. Two other blasts around the same time targeting a shrine and high lighting a difficult security situation. President ashraf ghani said that groups affiliated with isil are to blame. Today the taliban did not take responsibility. Daesh took responsibility. International terrorists are responsible. They are not our people. If youre afghan or muslim, stand with us. If youre influenced by foreigners, then this is a w
The president , this is part of his legacy. He hoped to end two wars by the time he leaves office. As with speak, more than 3,000 troops in afghanistan, 9800 in afghanistan. That will stay there through 2015. 5500, that will stay there as you take a look at the podium, as president obama announces hell maintain current troop levels in afghanistan this year and next year as well. This largely, jim sciutto, on the advice of military officials who have been studying the situation on the ground. The u. S. Military wanted this decision. Why . Because of the reality on the ground. The fall of kunduz shows the strength of the taliban. Its something they knew before the fall of kunduz. The taliban is active in many parts of the country, because they have been virtually cleared out from and getting closer kabul as well. They saw that reality on the ground communicated to the president. This is not just an extension of troop presence but also an expansion. It is isis on the ground there. The adm
And a german chancellor on the machall talking Climate Change in iceland a country that just said farewell to a glacier that simply melted away. Im brian thomas thanks so much for joining us social media platforms twitter and facebook have shut down accounts targeting the prodemocracy movement in hong kong those platforms said the accounts were part of a Chinese Government does Information Campaign aimed at groups and individuals twitter has suspended some 200000 accounts and plans to ban advertisements from state run media facebook has also taken action it has also closed a number of accounts some of the posted images showed protesters as cockroaches and terrorists. Or posts on social media platforms are just one of part of beijings propaganda war heres a look at what state run t. V. Is doing to get the governments message out. State propaganda can seem so harmless at hong kongs border chinas communist rulers have rustled up a fairy tale 600. 00 illuminated drones however in the night