On line. Chinas economy may be slowing, but the sevenday forecast immigration is on the. You. Investors trying to cash in. Al jazeera is told that hundreds of migrants have died trying to reach europe because not enough is being done to save them. 600 people rescued by the Italian Coast Guard reached port on wednesday. Hundreds of others are believed to have died when their boat overturned. The recent deaths of migrants were a fatal consequence of a change in the European Union tactics. The migrants come from all over north africa and the middle east. The main departure point is libya. Greg rants try to reach spain malta and off the coast of sicily. 280,000 of them made it to europe last year by crossing the mediterranean. 8500 have arrived in just the last four days. Paul brennan joins us from sicily. Can you put into context some of the factors that have contributed to the recent tragedy . Yes. Its getting bigger. The figures were getting from official sources Italian Coast Guard and
Lasting impact of the disaster. This is Aljazeera America. Good morning live from new york city im randall pinkston. U. S. Paratroopers are now on the ground in ukraine. The kremlin warns it will only destabilize the fragile ceasefire. The u am balance door tweeted the arrival. The soldiers are in the country to train Ukraine National guard the u. S. Mission set to last for the next six months. Rory challands joins us live from moscow. What can you tell us about what the paratroopers are expected to do. Theyve come from italy the 173rd Airborne Brigade of the u. S. Army, and they are expected to be on a kind of rotating mission in ukraine for the next six months or so. Theyre going to be training the ukrainian National Guard. They are the only foreign troops in ukraine at the moment. There are already on the ground there some 75 British Military advisors. They are on a rotate mission as well. 200 canadians are going to be arriving, as well. At the moment, they are all going to be locat
Weapons stockpile as the people say people are being starved to death in damascus. Flooding claims dozens of lives. We begin this news hour in italy where former leader beryl sconey has sparked a drama, appealing for his governments survival ahead of votes in parliament. Thats due to happen in the next few hours. Latta said the governments survival must be separated from berlusconis legal troubles. Berlusconi has been fighting a string of legal convictions, first convicted of fraud in october 2012 and sentenced to four years in jail. The high court upheld the conviction in august. Politicians were expecting to vote friday whether to strip berlusconi of a senate seat. In retaliation, berlusconi ordered five ministers in his party to resign from the coalition government, leading to the Prime Minister to seek backing from parliament and a he volunteer of defense. Lets go live now to sonia live in rome. What stage in the process are we at and when are we expecting the vote to happen . Well
February of 2015. Both hospitals are scheduled to be opened in 20019 or sooner. We look forward to a successful project on time and budget with worker safety being our focus. We have mayor ed lee and mike the San Francisco trades council dr. Mike and chief of staff at cpmc and mayor logan. Mayor ed lee please step up to the podium clapping. thank you, very much for working with us again. This is a day weve looked forward to for quite some time. I know our Community Partners have worked really hard with our board of supervisors with lou girard to come together with our Health Officials and make an agreement that is right inform San Francisco. I know this is the first of two announcements that we look forward to. This compass invaluable in the center of where a lot of activity are will have at least a 3 hundred and 2 bed and we look forward to having a similar announcements on the st. Lukes campus to create a Service Hospital there as well. I cant tell you you how excited we are and well
Well good morning, everyone and welcome. Im mike co hill president of the west bay regular alienate. This event will kickoff the construction of two new state of the arc earthquake save hospitals in San Francisco. One hospital here on this site in the center of San Francisco and a Second Hospital at the Caesar Chavez in the growing neighborhoods of the southeast section of the city. Today is a Pivotal Point in the history of the Medical Center and for the Health Care System in San Francisco. For one hundred and 50 years cpmc has been providing citizens with the most advance mcavailable. With the construction of our two new hospitals well be in positional to continue to serve the medical needs of the residents of San Francisco for decades to come. We also have with us the president of the board of supervisors david chiu and supervisor mar farrell. Both supervisors along with david campos were the 3 who helped new york state the final all the time to move this project forward. We appreci