And its such relief for me as well and lots of other mothers that were like me. Reporter her story of great personal loss was documented in an awardwinning movie and the woman who was forced to give up her son shares her story with the pope. All eyes are on russia as the sochi olympics are officially underway. The most expensive Olympic Games in history began smoothly on thursday and qualifying events took place and the olympians arrived and the Opening Ceremony is coming soon and they talked about gay rights and security and promising a safe olympics and rolling out 37,000 police and Security Officers and good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America and im stephanie sy and we are in sochi and good morning and a pretty routine start to the games despite the weeks of anxiety leading up to it. Yeah, well stephanie i suppose as routine as any large Opening Ceremony can be in the most expensive Winter Olympics there has ever been. But, yeah, the Olympic Games always start with a huge gre
Thailand are targeted again in the fight here always here among those who died. A recorded Million Dollar birthday for the 90yearold president of zimbabwe where most men are lucky to reach that age. Costly and controversial as the sochi olympics prepare to wrap up, we look at whether putins pet project was a success. And greece uses its presidency of the European Union to propose that carbon emission rules be relaxed for countries in recession. Well, events in ukraine are moving at pace. Crowds of protesters still packing kievs Independence Square. Theyve seen the blood where i battle says between them and police just a few days ago. A day after the president was apparently voted out of office, his powers have been transferred to the speaker of parliament who becomes interim president. He has told parliament it has until tuesday to form a unity government. Viktor yanukovych has called the decision a coup, its not known where he is. Pictures have emerged of a helicopter outside his pres
Protests and a black market for u. S. Dollars. It was a vote we regret faking and plan on making it right. A vote governor breuer has to take has been stated to be antigay and she has been abbisk to veto it. Good morning, its al Jazeera America, im Morgan Radford in new york city. President obamas pirns is wearing thin, issuing an ultimatum to afghans President Hamid karzai. He wants to keep 10,000 troops inside the country too Train Afghan Security forces. By august of 2011 troop presence peaked to 100,000s. The stalemate creates a showdown with huge consequences for both countries. U. S. President hamid karzai has left the negotiating to hamid karzai to his staff. After nine months of silence, he picked up the phone to send him a personal warning, and was told while the u. S. Wants to stay in afghanistan, they have given up hope that hamid karzai will sign a Security Agreement providing application. 12 years after the invasion, the u. S. Started to plan for the zero option, a complet
The white house and Congress Make a deal with the fiscal cliff agreement means for everyones paycheck. 60 minutes now of 2013, good evening. The u. S. Senate has reached a deal in the fiscal cliff negotiations. Cnn is reporting. Reporter lawmakers postautomatic spending cuts. But they did strike a deal on taxes. Three hours before the midnight dead line Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnel and joe biden emerge with taxing and spending. This is a mini cliff, big cliff still lies in front of us. Big cliff. Reporter president obama had scolded congress for waiting so long. One thing we can count on with respect to this congress is that if theres even one second left before you have to do what youre supposed to do, they will use that last second. Reporter the bush era tax cuts remain in place for individuals earning as much as 400,000 a year and families 450,000 a year. Far above the 250,000 on which president obama campaigned. Those making more will see higher income taxes, Capital Gains
Efficient in the late bigotry approach towards ruin regulations are in place given the process was in place by impacting tens of millions of consumers. It is my hope your commission will work with all parties to ensure all aspects of industry are taken into account in order to ensure current and future Energy Demand variable to be met. Its my understanding ferc is in the process of a holistic fashion in the set of markets in which it regulates. I appreciate the commission taking on this effort, but i have a few concerns are the cutest is to determine where the effort may lead than whether it may be unnecessarily limited. Chairman lafleur, what will they do what information is currently gathering in this proceeding . On the capacity markets, that is very much a work in progress going on right now. I think potentially an illustrative example is what weve done on gas electric, where we looked at a large number of comments from around the country and said, here is a large set of thing that