The stars come out for the biggest night, the oscars. How the awards also shines a spotlight on global issues. Secretary of state john kerry announced hell travel to ukraines capital on tuesday to support the interim cabinet. After russia took control of crimea. He warned russia to step back, there could be economic sanctions and russia could be kicked out of the g8. The head of the ukraine navy was kicked out after swearing allegiance to crimea. Russian troops surrounded military bases in crimea and depended military bases disarm. Jennifer glasse reports from one of the military bases in crimea. It wasnt the day that Sergei Storozhenko thought it would be. Russian forces came to his base ordering him to surrender. More russians arrived, truckloads. The colonel watches and tells someone theyre here. The ukrainians move an armored fighting vehicle to the gate. Therell be no enforcements. No one is coming from kiev, he tells me, me and my brigade. Well do what we can, well see. The comma
Secretary of state john kerry lobbied turkey today to join the International Coalition aimed at destroying the Islamic State group in iraq and syria. Kerry pushed turkish leaders to join the fight against is. Something that theyve been reluctant to do publicly. But kerry said that turkey is committed to fighting terrorists. Turkey and the United States will stand together against ail challenges in the region including all terrorism. Within the coalition there are many ways that turkey can help in this effort, and we will continue our conversations with our military and other experts spending time to define the specific role that turkey will play. Meanwhile, the c. I. A. Believes the Islamic State group may have more than 31,000 fighters. Al jazeeras jamal al shayal looks at how the group has been able to recruit so many. Reporter theyre well armed and well financed across Northern Syria and iraq. But its their brutality that has made them notorious worldwide. Now America Intelligence A
Global offices in washington, d. C. Julia gillard, welcome to talk to al jazeera. For decades, now, the world has been preaching to itself about the value of education. Transform individual lives, remake society, big bang for the buck. Is there anywhere where that lesson hasnt taken yet . Do you still have to preach the gospel of education . I dont think we have to preach the gospel, education changes lives more educated people, higher skills, more prosperous economy. What weve got to do is get out and not only talk about that gospel but implement it on the ground so we are changing childrens lives. And whilst a lot of progress has been made and we should be congratulating ourselves for that, more has to be done. Im gad to chair, and to make a difference for the children who are still out of school and the children who are in school that the quality of their learning isnt really high enough. They are not coming out of school being able to read or right or do math. What is the impedimen
Doing to help us survive these killer storms. Marita davidson is a biologist, specializing in ecology and evolution. Thats our team. Now lets do some science. Hey guys, welcome to techknow. Im phil torres. Joining us are shini somara and Marita Davidson. One of my big issues im working on is how to conserve our wildlife. I got to go down to the San Diego Zoo. This zoo is frozen so lets take a look. At the famous San Diego Zoo safari park, lies a zoo within a zoo, replaced by liquid nitrogen and cell cultures. This is san diegos frozen zoo. Thats right, zoo. Not the one you grew up visiting but one in which there are living specious preserved and frozen, all to help protect future generations of animals currently facing extinction. What was the genesis for creating the frozen zoo . The possibility to save sells allowed us to undertake, each cell of an individual is capable of producing the entire individual. Take me through the process of freezing cells. We can take those cells and trea
Front of the headquarters of the newspaper, Nanfang Zhoumo, they say freedom of speech has been buried and laid down mums to back up their accusation. The flower is traditionally handed out at funerals in china. Translator its a violation of our rights. I cant stand it. Were at the boiling point. Reporter things have been heating up for several days. Staff at the Nanfang Zhoumo planned to run a new years message calling for freedom of speech. But the journalists say local authorities ordered major edits. Once chinese citizens found out, they wrote message after message to show their opposition to the censorship and support for the journalists. Most of their posts have been deleted. Chinas constitution grant freedom of speech and a press, but communist officials sometimes order the media to stay away from stories that put the party or the government in an unfavorable light. Staff at a newspaper took the rare step of running an editorial, calling journalists and protesters to calm down.