Good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford live from new york city. Its a tough weekend for those still struggling to find jobs. Emergency jobless benefits, a life line for many of americas unemployed, expire today. About 1. 3 Million People who have been out of work for months are finding themselves cut off. The government check they depend on, a little more than 1,000, will not show up in the mail. The benefits program was introduced in 2008 at the height of the recession. The payouts cost the federal government 225 billion. Extending them for another year at 19 billion, but congress has not done that yet. Tony harris reports. Months ago they lost their jobs. Now they are losing the money they get from the government to get by. Since 2008 congress extented the Compensation Program a dozen times. This time lawmakers let it lapse. This means people who lost their jobs will no lodger have a cushion once state benefits run out. Usually after 26 weeks. With the extensi
Im alex witt. Moments ago, president obama wrapped up a press conference in seoul with park. Lets get right to nbc White House Correspondent Peter Alexander who is traveling with the president. Good morning. What is the latest in seoul . Reporter alex, good day to you. President obama just wrapped up a wide ranging News Conference in seoul alongside the south korean president , President Park. President obama said that the palestinian israeli peace talks are at an impasse and he said he sees no signs of progress in the foreseeable future. On the topic of ukraine, president obama again insisted that diplomacy is the way to go, but he said Vladimir Putin is not, in his words, a stupid man, saying that the sanctions in place are already having an impact. On the topic of north korea, president obama said north korea is not just a threat to this region, but a threat to the u. S. As well. This, of course, is a country still reeling from the loss of so many lives in the wake of that ferry dis
We talk to a teacher. From funny girl to business woman, remembering joan rivers, one of the sharpest minds in show business on and off the stage. We begin this hour with a fight to stop the Islamic State group today. Mosul and iraq, one of their top commanders reportedly died in a u. S. Air strikes. It has not been independently confirmed. The attack has pushed back the fighters. The operation in Northern Iraq is costing 7. 5 million, say the pentagon. More u. S. Soldiers are headed to the region, a third of troops ordered to baghdad have arrived. Yates ratchets up its United States ratchets up its presence in iraq, Islamic State group is claiming more territory, saying pakistan and afghanistan is part of its calafat, a challenge to the ambitions of alqaeda, and could prompt the Group Responsible for 9 11 to consider Islamic State a rival. Mike lyons is a former army major and a senior fellow at the truman institute. Al qaeda has ambitions with india. Islamic state has pakistan, afgha
Between russia and ukraine. Overnight russia set its sights on ukraines warships. New video this morning shows four Russian Navy Vessels blocking a ukrainian ship at a crimean port. It is the latest sign that the two countries are on the brink of war. Abcs Tahman Bradley is following the developments from washington. Good morning, tahman. Reporter good morning, john and marci. World powers are urging president putin to withdraw his troops before this situation gets out of control, but so far putin is not backing down. Hes saying hes protecting russian interests. With the Russian Air Force in the skies, russian boots on the ground and the russian navy patrolling ports and seas, Vladimir Putin now controls the crimea region in eastern ukraine. Its a huge escalation raising tensions around the globe. Russia says its troops are there to protect russian citizens from the unrest in ukraine sparked by violent protests that led to the ousting of the countrys president. The country has plunged
Lead, a piece of metal that washed ashore on the australian coast turns out not to be from the jet, missing now for more than six weeks. That as an unmanned sub is now very close to finishing the entire scan of that search area on the ocean floor. So far, too, it has come up with nothing. Lets get straight to Erin Mclaughlin in perth. What can you tell us this morning on this . Obviously, very disappointing for all of those people wanting answers, in this turned out not to be part of the flight at all. Reporter thats right, poppy. I think officials here in perth are disappointed but not exactly surprised. They were very cautious when they made that announcement that that object of interest had been discovered about 190 miles to the south of perth. And sure enough, a further analysis of photographs of the object turning out to be seemingly nothing more than sea junk, the kind of junk that has really muddied the waters all along for this ongoing visual search. Today, another 11 planes an