Plus. Im Daniel Schweimler in the heart of uruguay, where the cows have been trapped, shortly after birth. Irans government has received a major boost in its fight against sunni rebels. Five russianmade fighter jets have arrived in baghdad. Commanders say the military air force will target areas that have been taken over in the north. The government says it needs more military jets to defeat the enemy. Translation we are in urgent need of this type of aircraft during this difficult time. These jets will come into Service Within the next three or four days, to support the grand units or support i. S. I. L. The government described the latest assault to retake areas of the north as zero hour, involving a major offensive against rebel targets. The conflict is focussed on the Central Region of iraqs. They have operations in many towns, and have taken back the highway from there to the capital baghdad. Integral to the fight, is tikr tikrit. Rebels took the city. Its unclear who controls the
Arrested for drug and prostitution activity you have less than an hour to decide get helped or get booked. That story coming up. Good morning to you. Welcome to al jazeera america. Live from new york city. Im Morgan Radford. We begin this morning with a plea from the white house. The Obama Administration asking congress for more than 2 billion just to try to solve a growing humanitarian crisis. Tomorrow president obama will send a letter to lawmakers asking for Emergency Funds to curb the surge of unaccompanied children crossing in the United States from central america. President obama homes to give whomland security more power to they can deport immigrants home, and tougher penalties for coyotes. Since late last year 52,000 kids and 39,000 women and children have been caught making the journey. President obama addressed the influx in a Television Interview asking parents to stop sending the kid north. Our direct message to the families in central america. Do not send your children to
Well get the thoughts of former us secretary of state Madeleine Albright and get Global Reaction to the new administration from brussels, havana in cuba and here in london. Lady gaga performs the star spangled banner amid the tightest security in living memory on capitol hill. This is the scene live, as President Biden and Vice President harris prepare to attend a wreath laying ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier at Arlington National cemetery. Hello and welcome to bbc news. We are going to take you back to the capitol in washington where there is a military parade taking place as we speak. A military parade taking place as we seak. ,. ,. ,. , speak. And this is in advance of the official residential speak. And this is in advance of the official residential motorcade official residential motorcade making its way to Arlington National cemetery for a wreathlaying ceremony which will involve the now President Biden, Vice President harris and interestingly, former president s obam
John dula. He is an Election Integrity expert and co host of am wakeup and the convo couch are cross talk rules and effect. That means you can jump anytime you want. And i always appreciate dennis. Let me go to you and cleveland. Youre an old hand. This is not your 1st rodeo, obviously here. How do you see this . I mean, you can look at this as a realignment or just a reaction election, or a lot of other people like to call it a change election. How do you read the tea leaves . I think, you know, if i were to be asked to give some numbers, i think the republicans will probably end up with 229 seats in the house. So the democrats jordan 6, i think the senate will also go to the republicans, could be as much as 50. 00 to 48. 00. There is a, theres been a move towards republicans in their selection, principally because of inflation. Their cost of basic foods, goods, and good to going up and people are finding it hard to reconcile with the party in power and of course, crime and of citizen
You almost never get footage of these things right as theyre happening. Even if get footage of these kinds of confrontations, its often from some great distance or through some grainy surveillance interface, and you kind of need a narrator to figure out whats going on. In this case, we got something very rare. We got up close like cinema varitae you are there footage. Not only from an eye level footage. You could even hear the russians swearing in the background. Russias navy chasing three ukrainian ships. This video appearing to show the moment of impact. One ship rammed, shots were fired. The ship seized. Two dozen ukrainian sailors captured russian war planes threatening above. The ukrainian ships were hit at the Narrow Strait between russia and crimea which it illegally annexed. Russia now claiming these waters as its territory and blaming ukraine for provoking the incident. That was a report from nbc correspondent bill neely right at the time that this happened. We also got public