Decade behind bars. The Defense Department is creating the metal surrogate that could save your life in the future. In the wake of sagging Approval Ratings and approval over thinks healthcare law, president obama held his final scheduled press conference of the year, and he did make some news. In a session that lasted 61 minutes that involved questions from 11 different reporters the president for the first time publicly addressed the Task Force Report that urged the president to scale back efforts by th the National Security age. I have confidence that the nsa is not engaging in domestic surveillance or snooping around, but as people start changing algorithms and programs and map out all the information that were downloading on a database on our telephones and our computers we have to refine this further to give people more confidence. On the Affordable Care act known as obamacare the president said this afternoon nearly 2 million americans have applied for coverage on the health exch
Through some challenges is training to help people get through challenges of their own. The people in charge of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant have another challenge on their hands. Tokyo electric Power Company Officials Say the effects of a leak of contaminated water are expanding. Theyve detected a sharp rise in radioactivity in groundwater at a monitoring well. Nhk world reports. Reporter workers at Fukushima Daiichi seem to have a new challenge on their hands every day. More than 300 tons of contaminated water leaked out of a storage tank in august, and theyve been dealing with the effects ever since. Some of the water may have flowed out through a ditch, and into the pacific ocean. Workers dug a well about 10 meters from the tank to monitor the impact. On thursday, they detected 400,000 becquerels of strontium and other radioactive substances in the well. Thats 6,500 times higher than readings taken the day before. Fishermen worry about what the leaks might mean for them. The
More than 6,000 candidates are vying for a seat. Welcome to al jazeera, in need of help and desperate to flee, the u. N. Says 1030 Million People in the philippines have been effected by typhoon haiyan, the medical challenges are monumentel, rising temperatures and rain are providing perfect conditions as pneumonia and diarrhea to thrive and they have rushish and debris and a large numbers of bodies are yet to be buried and trying to flee the typhoon destroyed places and there is little food, little water and no shelter. The president is leading government relief operations in effected areas and comes on a growing criticism of the aftermath of the storm and handing out packets of food to survivors. Despair and the minute they despair then it cascades down and everyone is hampered. What will you do to challenge mother nature, but the over all question with any casualty, what do we want to try to maintain is what more can we do to minimize casualties number one and disaster effects. Repo
Frontline. Fax stans Prime Minister is rallying his supporters in parliament. He said he will not resign despite the ongoing political cries discuss protest in the capital islambad which shows no sign of ending. Kamal hyder reports. Reporter what began as peaceful protests are now firmly in a volatile phase. Reporter tear gas hangs over the streets of islambad. And now there appears to be decent in the party of Opposition Leader imran kahn. He said the Party President for refusing to storm parliament. And in turn confused of conspiring with the military. Translator imran kahn told me that they said to take kadri along and that we cannot move without the army. The Core Committee said they wouldnt have any unwanted politicians among us. Reporter the military di des back the opposition. So far they have only stepped in when asked by the government. As was the case on monday when protesters stormed the state tv channel. Antigovernment protesters have continued to challenge the police with
The philippines. It was on august 21st, 1953 that benino was gunned downright after he got off a plane after flying back to his home country. Many thought president Ferdinand Blanco orchestrated his killing. Here is the report that claude nann brought us on that day nearly 30 years ago. Hundreds of akino supporters were waiting at the airport to welcome him home. Security appeared to be tight. During those last minutes aboard the plane, akino said he was racing against time. That he must convince demarco to bring democracy back to the philippines. He was wearing a bulletproof vest. My view, we all have to die sometime. We may die from an assassins bullet. Reporter as exited the plane, Security Officers escorted akino. Moments later the shooting started. The government say it is three officers were escorting akino when an unidentified assassin dressed as a Maintenance Man pulled out a pistol. The mortally wounded akino was rushed to an Army Hospital and pronounced dead from a single bul