Wild horses are a symbol of the american west. How the Government Shutdown is impacting these beautiful animals and what is being done to make sure they can always run free. Good morning. Welcome to aljazeera america. Im stephanie sy. Good to have you with us. In less than 24 hours, the u. S. Government will lose the ability to borrow money for the first time in the nations history. Congress has until midnight tonight to raise the debt ceiling or risk severe economic consequence heres and around the globe. Leaders are close to a deal that would raise the debt ceiling and Government Shutdown that is now in its 16th day. The fate of that Senate Proposal lies with the republicancontrolled house, which failed twice on tuesday to produce its own plan. President obama said the Tea Party Republicans are to blame. The problem we have right now is that on the other side, theres just a faction of the Republican Party, it doesnt represent all republicans that have decided to take a very extreme p
Good morning and welcome to Aljazeera America on this monday. A group of european lawmakers arrived in washington today and want answers concerning the n. S. A. Spying program. A number of reports almost all based on information leaked by former n. S. A. Contractor Edward Snowden suggest the u. S. Has been spying on many countries and their leaders, including important u. S. Allies. The white house denies the report that president obama knew the n. S. A. Was eavesdropping on german leader angela merkel. We have the latest. A nine member delegation will meet with senior government officials over allegations of widespread spying against leaders. New allegations surfaced that president obama approved spying on german chancellor angela merkel. According to the wall street journal, the president was unaware the n. S. A. Was spying on World Leaders and ordered the agency to stop some of the monitoring programs after learning of them. The president assured the chancellor that the United State
Pirates take two americans host ig hostage, we talk to an American Woman that went through the same ordeal and lived to write the story. Leaders in europe are expressing their anger with the United States, upset about revelations that the u. S. Spied on them. According to newly published nsa documents the spy agency tapped the phones of 35 world leaders. The incidents embarrassing the u. S. And straining relations with allies. Mike viqueira is following the story from washington. Theres more embarrassment in the Angela Merkel affair. A trove of documents leaked by Edward Snowden produced another bombshell. The controversy is growing and so is the rift with the close ally. German chancellor Angela Merkel expressing outrage over reports american intelligence listened in on her cell phone calls. Translation with regards to the National Security agency, i have made it clear to the american president that spying between friends is unanticipatable. I said that in june when he was in berlin,
Take. Our economy is dependent on faith and credit that invested in it by investors around world. In other words there is a real even if intangible value to the save nests of investing in the United States and as we discussed many times in the past days and weeks threatening that. Does real harm and obviously default would cause even more harm but there was already a price that has been paid as we saw in october of 2011 and we have seen again now in the various ways that the flirtation with crossing that line and flirting with default has brought about consequences. He felt and feels it is the right position to take and again applaud the leaders of the senate for coming together and working out a bipartisan solution. Is there any concern even with this deal that downgrade from the Credit Rating agencies . I would refer you to treasury for that kind of assessment. We focus on the things that we control which is calling on congress to quickly act on this compromise agreement to ensure th
Government loses its ability to borrow money tomorrow, and a lastditch effort by the house to muster an agreement was sunk by hardlined conservatives, so this morning congress has its back against the wall with time about to run out. Susan mcginnis is in washington with the very latest. Susan, good morning. Alexis, good morning. We are strangely in almost exactly the same spot we were this time yesterday. All of the focus now is on the senate hoping for an 11th hour deal there. This is after a house plan that was introduced yesterday collapsed, bringing the resumption of this effort in the senate, but those efforts resume dangerously close to this debt ceiling deadline. Senate republicans and democrats worked through the night on a bill to reopen the government and avoid a default. Majority leader harry reid and Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell quickly resumed their efforts after talks in the house fell apart. We felt blindsided by the news from the house, but this isnt the first time.