Folded them into a programme for a medley of media related stories. 2014 will be remembered as the year hong kong erupted with prodemocracy contest. We have the story on hong kong and political clashes in beijing. Three of spains biggest papers had new editors. We have that story we explore a noisy place in the world of journalism, the online comments sections, known as the home of the trolls. And we examine the output of the news media in japan, since the disaster of the Fukushima Nuclear plant and starting with Nick Muirhead from tunis with a look at tunisias most revolutionary news media. Expectations were eye. Tunisia was where the arab spring got its start. The question is have the expectations been met since the fall of president ben ali. Ask tunisians what are the biggest changes since the fall of president ben ali, and theyll tell you its media freedom. You can see it on the news stands, on the airwaves, online. Tunisia is talking. Translation the public realm erupted with peop
There are religious and ethnic minorities scattered across the middle east. In mean cases members of communities thousands of years old. Christians in lebanon, syria and egypt, jews samaritans and the yazidis an off shoot from the ancient religion. As isil tightens its grip it brings a particular level of abuse against those who proclaim against all odds of their airport faith. This is the scene in early august. Thousands of yazidi trapped on mount sinjar, surrounded by isil fighters. The seen, which raised fears of genocide was one of the reasons president barack obama launched airstrikes against isil. I directed our military to take strikes at isil convoys should they move towards the city. In the past few days the Kurdish Fighting force, the peshmerga, has almost retaken the town of sinjar with the help of the yazidi fighters. While this will relief the yazidis, a new report out from Amnesty International called escape from hell, torture and sexual slavery of yazidi girls. Younger w
Digital procedures wajahat ali. An increasingly high tech world im so encouraged how all our guests tonight boil it down to the basic. People ask about the kids. What about the poor parents . Facebook poking, theres poking going on nowadays. My parents didnt have to deal with this and Rising College tuitions. We have a lot of folks tweeting in. Jessica, navigating parenting in this crazy age of social media. Its all new territory. My kids are both toddlers but the criticism of kids no matter what they do is alarming. Athena 115, all about honesty patience, accountability and unconditional love. Those are the age of tweeting. Sounds like a wise woman. Wise woman indeed. General profiles of overbearing parent and more recently, the dolphin pairnt parent emerged. Competition for top universities is more credit tough than ever. Stanford only selected 5 of its applicants. Quite the daunting task so how do parents know when theyre getting it right without adding undue pressure . Is it gettin
No justice no peace. An autopsy sparking protests on the streets of los angeles the death of a young black man shot and killed by a police officer. I feel like rosa parks, you know. We need to get rid of discrimination. Breaking ground on gay marriage. A look back on the most progressive year in American History for same sex couples. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im del walters. Im stephanie sy. Indonesian officials have located dozens of bodies in the java sea from the missing air asia jet. An emergency door and other debris in the water came from flight 8501. A shadow of what appears to be the aircraft is underwater. This is a live look where indonesias president is set to speak. We have more on what they did find overnight. Good morning air asia has put out a statement only in the last few minutes confirming to the debris found is from the missing plane. Since it was discovered just a few hours ago an Indonesian Navy vessel has been recovering bodies. Reuters reporting that at leas
Pass pass. More rain is on the way. Poohs pass pass. It dropped the operator 42 minutes after that. That would have made it at cruising altitude. If you look at the aircraft and accidents and mishaps and the dangerous part of an aircraft of a flight of commercial aircraft, its the take off and the landing. Thats something that is being looked at very close. Most of the time its looking at weather lower to the grouped. These are facts, looking at history, but you cant apply that. I am sure that the investigator. [ audio breaking up ]. Its factoring in the possibilities that could be playing a role in missing. We are waiting for a News Conference by the transport minister. Thats the malaysian transport correction thats the indonesian transport minister. Whose giving a conference. Well go to that. If he speaks english or we have a translation. There has been a statement from air asia indonesia. We had that earlier on. What have they had to say . Well there has been a couple of statements