Proclamation, ideology and actions. Secretary of state john kerry blasts isil for committing genocide against minorities. This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im richelle carey. Judge Merrick Garland today begins the battle of his professional life trying to convince republican senators to even consider his nomination to the Supreme Court. The judge is meeting later today with democrats on capitol hill. But even republicans who admit he is qualified say garland is not going to get a hearing. John terrett live for us in washington. Good morning, john. Reporter hello, good morning. So the judge spoke on the phone with Senate Majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell wednesday. Fell tell us what else is on the agenda. Reporter i understand that Mitch Mcconnell said im speaking to you on the telephone because i dont want to be rude, but we have no intention for a hearing. So the detail today is he is going to meet with Patrick Leahy at 2 30. And the republicans are determined to reje
The government is lying about what happened to their son. Evacuation order. We feel we have a responsibility to do everything we can to ensure their safety. The state department and pentagon tell the families of defense personnel and diplomats to leave Southern Turkey amid growing security concerns. And political crisis. Brazils Largest Political Party quits president rousseffs governing coalition, pushing the embattled president closer to impeachment. Good evening. Im antonio mora. Sps the International News hour. We begin in cyprus where a hijacking involving an egyptian airliner came to a peaceful end today. Egypt air flight 181 was on its way from alexandria to cairo whether a passenger announced he had a bomb. He ordered the crew to divert the plane to cyprus. A sixhour runway standoff ensued. The hijacker walked off the plane and surrendered. His motives are unclear, but cypriot Officials Say its not terrorismrelated. It left crew and passengers shaken. Today they finally made it
This is Aljazeera America, live from new york city, im roxana. Dozens of World Leaders are in washington today, attending president obamas fourth and final nuclear summit. The summit will focus on how to keep groups like is ill from getting their hands on radioactive material. And they will discuss the Nuclear Threat by north korea. But noticeably absent is russia, one of the worlds biggest autumnic powers. Jamie mcintyre is joining me, and what will president obama achieve and will it be his last time talking about this as president . Reporter the focus as you said is preventing nuclear materialsing from getting into the wrong hands, but in advance of the formal sessions of the summit, which kickoff tonight and most of the say tomorrow, president obama has been meeting with the leaders of south korea and japan this morning, and the focus there is the increasing Nuclear Threat from north korea. Later this afternoon, the president will also meet with the president of china, president xi
Cuts and no contract. Reporter is this life changing . Yes, it is, it changed ply life a lot how the government is helping hundreds of thousands of lou income americans get online a 2day Nuclear Summit wrapped up. President obama touted success. He said the 56 nations that took parts in the summit agreed more needs to be done to secure the worlds nuclear safety. National security correspondent Jamie Mcintyre reports from the site of the summit. The president boasted that the nations meeting here have achieved something remarkable. More than 30 counties had enriched uranium and plutonium have been removed. Now when criminal gangs and arms murch ants look around for ingredients. Vast regions of the world are off limits in the same hall where president obama opened the first summit six years ago he sounded an ominous warning. Just the smallest amount of plut owniums, the size of an apple could kill and injure hundreds of thousands. It would humanitarian political and environmental catastr
Donald trump is standing by his campaign manager, who is charged with battery, corey lewendowski, and aljazeeras David Schuster reports. Corey, good job, corey. Good job. Reporter it was just two weeks ago, after the initial complaint, when donald trump publicly thanked his campaign manager. On tuesday, the Jupiter Police department charged corey lun gdowski with battery. And released this video. It appears to show reporter, michelle fields, on the top with a tape recorder, trying to ask trump another question, and lun gdowski appears to stop and grab her. Other video also caught part of the intersection. Fields insisted that she had been manhandled and she tweeted a photo of bruises on her arm. This has to be, aside from my fathers death, the worst experience ive gone through. On the airplane, trump said that the criminal charges charge is absurd. The News Conference is over, and it was done and finished, and she was running up and grabbing and asking questions, and she wasnt supposed