Bash for Robert Mugabe. Good morning to you, welcome to al jazeera america. Im Morgan Radford, live from new york city. After a day of political upheaval Opposition Leaders in ukraine are scrambling to feel a power vacuum. Viktor yanukovych fled the capital. Its unclear who is running the country. Viktor yanukovych said he is not stepping down and accused parliament of a coup. Hes referring to a vote that happened hours earlier, removing him from office, setting elections. Former Prime Minister Julia Tymoschenko has been released from prison, where she served three of a 7year sentence for abuse of power. Viktor yanukovychs decision to distance ukraine from the e. U. Is what sparked the protest in the first place. Jennifer glasse is the First International broadcaster to be live outside the Parliament Building today. Good morning. The parliament this morning charting a new future of ukraine. Making a lot of changes. The foreign minister is gone. The minister of science gone. They are lo
Kenya. The partial Government Shutdown in its sixth day. U. S. Commandos carried out twin raids on saturday in two countries in africa, and libya american troops captured Abu Anas Al Liby, wanted for his role in the 1998 bombings of two u. S. Embassies in south africa. 3,000 miles away a team of navy seals in somalia targeted the leader of alshabab. Secretary of state said the raids against militants in north africa are a message to those who would commit terrorism. We hope that this makes clear that the United States of america will never stop in its effort to hold those accountable who conduct acts of terror, and those numbers of al qaeda and other terrorist organizations literally can run, but you cant hide. We will continue to try to bring people to justice in an appropriate way with hopes that these activities against everybody in the world will stop. Peter greste is in the capital city of somalia, mogadishu, with details of saturdays raid by u. S. Navy seals. Officially we dont h
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