Managed to fool hsbcs Voice Recognition Security System, designed to prevent fraud. Good morning, its friday, 19th may. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Breaking news this morning. Swedish prosecutors are ending their seven year long investigation into the wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, who has been accused of rape. Mr assange, whos a5, has been living at the Ecuadorian Embassy in london since 2012, claiming asylum to avoid extradition to sweden. Scotla nd Scotland Yard says it is obliged to arrest him for Breaching Bail Conditions if he leaves the embassy. Julian assange has just tweeted this picture. This is in reaction to that means from sweden. That is the first reaction from Julian Assange, though no statement from him as yet. Lets cfoss no statement from him as yet. Lets cross to the Ecuadorian Embassy in london. Our correspondent, Richard Lister, is there. Richard, so, any expectation we might Seejulian Assange leading that embassy any time soon . I would hav
Welcome to al jazeera america. We are following a developing story out of washington state. Earlier tonight Union Members called for a no vote to protest boeings push to end a pension plan and decrease health care costs. Workers would have received a signing bonus of 10,000 if they had approved. Boeing says it needs the deal to assemble the new planes in washington state. Figures show sign ups through the federal website have fallen short of targets. Fewer than 20,000 americans bought policies through healthcare. Gov in the first month it went on line. Congress wants to know what went wrong. Lisa stark has more. Over 106,000 signed up for health care under the healthcare. Gov. Only a quarter, fewer than 27,000 used the federal change. House Speaker John Boehner called the law a rolling calamity that must be scrapped. The administration faced tough questions from republicans about the bungled roll out. This was a monumental mistake to two live and effectively explode on the launch pad.
70 years. The body count is rising as desperate typhoon survivors cling to hope of aid and rescue. Good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America. The death toll is above 2300 the the union warns it will spike. The red cross is preparing to send 1500 body bags to the region. The first mass burial took place outside tacloban without ceremony. 40,000 people in tacloban got water, rice, canned goods and victims. Each ration is enough to feed a family for 23 days. Another shipment is expected today. The u. S. S. George washington is arriving today, carrying 5,000 sailors to aid in the rescue and relief efforts of the the arriving of the Aircraft Carrier will trip the the number of helicopters. Theyll help to deliver hundreds of thousands of gallons of water. In a town in northern cebu one person was killed in the storm. It suffered significant damage. Officials say requests for aid have gone unanswered. Al jazeeras correspondent is on the island in northern cebu with this report. Many peop
We begin with an address of bad news for the president its a setback for the Affordable Care act. As lisa stark reports, numbers are not good. Reporter they are not the numbers the Obama Administration hoped for. 106,000 americans have signed up for health plans under the Affordable Care act. 75 did so through the staterun websites only a quarter fewer than 21,000 used the federal exchange. House Speaker John Boehner called it a rolling calamity that must be scrapped. They faced tough questions from the republicans about the rollout. This was a monumental mistake to go live and explode on the launch pad. On the other side of the aisle democrats say republicans want nothing more than to dismantle the Affordable Care act known as obamacare. Nobody in this country believes that republicans want to fix the website. Caught in the crossfire two Key Technology officials, repeatedly questioned about why after years of work and hundreds of millions the website was not completely tested before i
They dont have religion but they do have a growing following. We begin with the reality check for president obama and the Affordable Care act. Its not exactly welcome news. The administration estimated half a Million People would have enrolled by the end of october. Only one 06,000 people signed up, about onefifth of what the white house had expected of those, nearly 80,000 signed up through staterun exchanges. Fewer than 27,000 enrolled through the federal website. Republicans say its the best evidence yet that obamacare is a failure. We begin our coverage with Mike Viqueira at the whitehouse. Mike . Reporter john, the white house, the Administration Spent weeks furiously trying to lower expectations, anticipating this released to and now, we know why. You read the figures only one 06,000 have enrolled thus far. Thats far short of the half a million that was expected was projected in a memo leaked by house republicans. But of that number, only exactly 26,784 have successfully enrolled