One of chinas prominent human rights lawyers avoids down time. His days as a champion of free speech may be over. Political uncertainty. Protests are growing in haiti. After the president until run up election is definitely postponed. What is fuelling the countrys political unrest. Beautiful and brave. Miss iraq. Grounded in baghdad for the first time. Why she and other contestants defied Death Threats to be in the pageant good evening, everyone, im adam may in for antonio mora. This is al jazeera Americas International news hour. Tonight we begin with a battle for ramadi. The Iraqi Military launched on offensive aimed at recapturing the capital of anbar province, helped by the air strikes, the iraqi forces advanced inside the city center. A defeat would representatives a substantial loss for i. S. I. L. According to one estimate, the group lost 14 per cent of hits territory since the start of the year. I. S. I. L. Is far from finished, releasing footage showing its fighters controllin
York, to montgomery county, pennsylvania, thousands of drivers across the northeast were caught off guard early sunday by slick, icecovered roads. Rising temperatures and rain, not snow, falling from the sky gave drivers a false sense of safety. The rain quickly froze making interstates and back roads making for better skating than driving. I hit the car. The car comes behind me and hits me. Im spinning around four or five times. Other cars are hitting that car and hitting me as well. Reporter the ice caused officials in philadelphia to shut down the citys bridges and also caused a 50car pileup on pennsylvanias interstate 76. Police in new jersey responded to more than 400 accidents alone. But officials in pennsylvania, new jersey, new york, massachusetts and New Hampshire scrambled to get roads salted and sanded, but for some it was too late. The salt truck was behind us. We all, like, passed the salt truck. So we, like, passed the salt truck, we all get in an accident. Reporter chris
Of prims. Thailands Prime Minister summoned for questioning by anticorruption investigators. Protesters demand press freedom for al jazeera journalists still behind bars in egypt a day of action. But we start in ukraine where prorussian protesters seized government buildings in the crimea region. The ukrainian interior forces and police have been put on alert. Wooden barricades have been erected at the entrance to the crimea supreme council. The area surrounding the building has been the scene of violent confrontations. They raised a russian flag as a possible challenge to the new leadership. We are joined live from the crimea. A russian flag flying from government buildings. Tell us what is happening now . Thats right. The russian flag flying from the building behind me. About 200 metres away. Thats the Parliament Building you can see over my shoulder. Inside armed men, professionals. We dont know who they are, but they are understood to have come in overnight. Security was not strong
Heats up. Now, the company has a new plan to win back all the breakfast dealers. And guilty plea, sac, one of the most profitable company, admits to wrongdoing and is set to pay a record fine. All that and more tonight on nightly Business Report today on monday, november 4th. Good evening, im tyler mathisen, it was not all that long ago that blackberry was the envy of the tech world, everybody wanted one of the ohsocool smartphones. But that was before apples iphones and smartphones and android, offering faster access to the internet. Shares saw modest gains and big names did consider buying the company. But now everything has changed. The company is not for sale anymore. Its ceo is on the way out and its biggest shareholder wants to pump a billion more cash into it. Shares fell no more than 16 today to a tenyear low. So can blackberry be saved. Josh lipton has the story. It is a dramatic fall from grace for a company that basically created the smartphone craze. Everyone had them at wo
The most profitable company, admits to wrongdoing and is set to pay a record fine. All that and more tonight on nightly Business Report tod on monday, november 4th. Good evening, im tyler mathisen, it was not all that long ago that blackberry was the envy of the tech world, everybody wanted one of the ohsocool smartphones. But that was before apples iphones and smartphones and android, offering faster access to the internet. Shares saw modest gains and big names did consider buying the company. But now everything has changed. The company is not for sale anymore. Its ceo is on the way out and its biggest shareholder wants to pump a billion more cash into it. Shares fell no more than 16 today to a tenyear low. So can blackberry be saved. Josh lipton has the story. It is a dramatic fall from grace for a company that basically created the smartphone craze. Everyone had them at work. But now blackberry is a shadow of its former self, with a market cap at just 4 billion, a 95 drop in just fi