Particle physics, where a leading scientific project is turning 60. Hello, it is a historic day in afghanistan. The country is about to inaugurate the first new president in a decade. Ashraf ghani will be sworn in as head of a unity government as part of last weeks deal to share power with abdullah abdullah. It marks the end of an era with hamid karzai, who has been president with the u. S. Led invasion in 2001. The taliban launched an attack on a local government headquarters. Eight people, and four attackers were kill. It happened when a suicide bomber detonated a car of explosives at the gate of a compound. Lets go live to Jennifer Glasse in kabul. What do we know about the attack . Well, as you said, it happened Early Morning. It is a kind of attack we have seen the taliban take on the hours across the country, a suicide bomber, followed by fighters on the ground. It took the place over an hour, two hours to kill the four attackers, but also killed in that attack four police, two m
At a place for young classical musicians. We begin out of asia where passenger jet has disappeared. Air asia left indonesia airport at 5 20am local time en route to singapore. It lost contact with a Ground Control 42 minutes after takeoff. We have this report. Reporter at the airport in surabaya, people await news of their loved ones. 162 passengers and crew were on board air asia flight qz 8571. It lost communications with traffic control. Translation i hope for a miracle. May god save them all. I should have been with them. I cancelled. I had something to do. I have two friends and five family members. Reporter indonesias Disaster Management authority set up a Crisis Center at the airport to relay developments. We are widening our search rescue. We have informed sea and coast cards to be on standby and relay. Those waiting for the same information, the plane lost contact as it flew over the java sea. The pilot requested a changed course due to weather. But it trails two other aviatio
Temperatures. Japan allocates 42 million for its biggest ever defense effort as a territorial dispute with china continues the battle against blight in detroit why the city still has a long way to go we begin with breaking news out of yemen. Al qaeda and the Arabian Peninsula says it was behind the attack behind the attack on Charlie Hebdo in paris, leaving 12 dead. They left a claim in an audio recording posted on the internet. We are joined from a yemeni port city to talk about the comments. The video speaker is a member of al qaeda. Clearly they say the group, al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula acted upon directions of their leader. Upon the orders of their leader. The attackers would be heroes. We are aware of the fact that one of the suspects in the paris attack had a connection with anwar altalk anwar anwar Anwar Alawlaki. What do we know about him and communications that may have transpired with him or anyone else in the group, or those abroad . Well what we know is that there is
Good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. Im thomas drayton. We begin this morning with a Senate Report suggesting a deadly aattack on the u. S. Consulate could have been prevented. The state department and american intelligence agencies did not do enough to boost security despite warnings that the threat level was increasing. Its the first report criticising ambassador chris sevens directly. It raises questions about his judgments and actions in the weeks before his death. Stevens and three other were killed on the attacks, taking place september 11th, 2002. Theres a new wave of violence in iraq. Six car bombs exploded in and around baghdad. 75 were killed, dozens injured. The blasts occurred in the mostly shia neighbourhoods. Senator mccain has been an outspokener critic and spoke with John Seigenthaler about his view on americas Foreign Policy throughout the region. Throughout the middle east america is declining in influence and on the wane. People are making their own accommoda
Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford in new york. World leaders in geneva appear to be on the verge of a breakthrough on irans fuk leer program. Secretary of state john kerry arrived there a few hours ago and late friday the state Department Said kerrys goal was to narrow the differences and move closer to an agreement. At a negotiation table Foreign Ministers from iran, russia, france, the uk and germany, hoping to clinch a deal limiting Irans Nuclear activity. We explain what is at stake. For 10 years iran admits it built a vast nuclear infrastructure. It could be for Peaceful Energy but can create components of a Nuclear Weapons. Today its hoped a deal can be truck to cease that. It is the president s policy that iran must not be allowed to make a nuclear weapon. Think of making a bomb like tea. Iran is enriching uranium to about 20 . It will make building a bomb difficult. The deal also stops construction of a plutonium planned. Allowing more access to ins