The dire consequences for greeces economy as athens seeks another hand out marking the centennial. We have no fear or worries on the subject. Our ancestors did not per cent cue. On the 100 Year Anniversary of the massacre of armenians president Recep Tayyip Erdogan stand firm denying genocide good evening, im more. This is al jazeera america. We begin with president obamas admission of a fatal mistake. Confirming that american hostage Warren Weinstein died in january during a drone strike targetting al qaeda. It also killed giovanni lo porto. President obama did not sign off on the operation but defended the legality saying it targeted an al qaeda compound and hundreds of hours of surveillance found no evidence that hostages were present. Two more were killed, they were senior al qaeda officials. Patty culhane has more from washington. Reporter the u. S. Government rarely acknowledges drone strikes in pakistan and afghanistan. I want to express grieve and condolences. Reporter now the
We begin with the details of two al qaeda hostages, an italian aid worker, and Giovanni Porto were killed during a drone strike at the afghanistanpakistan border. And now an investigation into exactly what went wrong. Mike marza joins us from washington and what do we know about the operation and what the u. S. Is doing to help the families . Reporter well, the white house said that the president didnt signoff on the attack, but he appeared in a hasty event in the white house situation room and talked about the inadvertent it deaths of captives wienstein and porto and what they wont say is a long list of questions that many people have, including the nature of the attack. Was it a drone attack, a commando raid . An aircraft launch attack . They did not say the timeline, other than to say that they started to get information in the week after the attack remember this took place in january that wienstein and porto may have been present at the attack. And they wont say where if happened,
Patreus gets two years probation for giving classified information to his mistress. Its been one of the deadliest weeks for migrants trying to cross the mediterranean. The capsize of one boat is thought to have killed as many as 900 people. Now the European Union has access at an emergency summit in brussels. Funding has been tripled for search and rescue operations. Theyll now have 9. 7 million a month and thats roughly the same budget as italys which was scrapped last year at funding was withdrawn because they thought it was encouraging migration. Other nations may also contribute vessels and helicopters to help with the rescue effort. Lets go now live to lawrence lee. Have they done enough to silence the critics do you think . Reporter no, they havent. I think the eu will in some ways reasonably be able to say tonight that they have fulfilled their primary purpose of this meeting which was to try to stop as many people to committing individual ships with a bigger range to try to res
In the morning in napal, after a night of strong and terrifying aftershocks that followed yet another major earthquake there. It killed moreit was centered near a town popular with trekkers headed to mount everest. Some buildings damaged in last months quake collapsed. And rubble littered again. A helicopter is missing, and well have more on that, but first, Andrew Simmons has the latest from kathmandu. Reliving a nightmare. Just when people believed they could begin to return to something near normality. In shock as well. This quake may not have been as big as the last, but kathmandus hospitals are overwhelmed again, and no one wants to be inside of a building when what follows are half a dozen aftershocks within minutes. A man was running an orphanage filled with children. I tried to jump out of the building and i got hurt. And my children were all crying and scared here and there. This is one of the land slides caused by the aftershock marry near the north of the country, an area th
Countries declaring they will turn both loads of people away. The latest coming up world defending champion get ready to reel in. We begin the news hour with the u. S. Secretary of state is due to speak shortly during his first trip to russia since the crisis began more than a year ago. He is been meeting the russian president in the resort city to discuss several major conflicts. On the subject of ukraine, it is understood mr. Kerry was told that it intends to pressure would only lead to a dead end. Some fairly long four hour discussions with john kerry before john kerry then went into meetings with Vladimir Putin. So lav love came out of the discussion and says that yes they had talked about ukraine, that was one of the big topics of this meeting here and i can go through the lines that basically lavrov and kerry agree that there was no alternative really, to a political settlement in ukraine that both sides were saying that the minsk protocols were the only real solution to what was