Michael look who welcome voting has begun in closely watched parliamentary elections in slovakia that could see the country radically changed course on ukraine. People started casting their ballads following an Election Campaign thats resulted in a neck and neck race between a former left his Prime Minister and pro western liberals. Both sides have about 20 percent support and would require Coalition Partners to form the government. Former Prime Minister robert feet, so has campaigned on a populace platform calling for an end to slovakia as robust military support for ukraine and for closer ties to moscow out with the new, even with the old. Thats whats loc use, former Prime Minister, robert feet. So hoops of orders will choose when they go to the polls. Hes already left the country twice, and hes promising major changes for a 3rd terminal. Office. Are no weapons where you crane a veto for you. Craning nato membership and weakening of anti russian sanctions. Is lomax vote seats, so in
Over cities that were taken over for months. And the dirty secret in poland. Hello there, welcome to the program. At least 13 people have been killed after a huge explosion in the chinese port city of t tianjin. These are live pictures that were seeing now just after dawn. The explosion happened after midnight. Thats what the site looking like now. We know its an industrial area, but there are lots of residents and flats around it. We know from eyewitnesses, too, lots of windows were shattered. Hospitals were full overnight and well get more information from chinese authorities tomorrow. Earlier al jazeera spoke to drew chemovac, an american living in tianjin. I her a rush of air followed by a second rush of air and smoke. This is a Development Area with factories. There are malls and a large concentration of apartment towers. So initially at thought we because that area there are a lot of pharmaceutical factories, chemical factories, initially we thought it was from one of those. From
Microsoft technology fair. Former president bill clinton talks about the opioid emepidemic. Hillary clinton rallies supporters at the home Rights Campaign and jeff bezos receives an award for his work fighting for samesex marriage. The the communicators visited several Technology Fairs this year. Heres one of two of them at microsofts washington, dc headquarters. My name is jackson, im a researcher at milwaukee research and work on project premonition which is using mosquitoes as devices to predict the next epidemic. 60 to 75 of caused by pathogens in animal populations. Very difficult to monitor because if you take ebola, for instance, its believed that ebola is from fruit flies. How do you monitor the population of egyptian fruit bats. The projection premonition imagines using a mosquito as a device. They bite all sorts of animals taking blood samples. There are 3600 known species of mosquitoes mosquitoes and they bite everything from reptiles couple humans and chickens. Why would mi
More rain and as you take a look behind me, we are seeing a few whitecaps on the st. Johns river. Again, many people have to evacuate. The largest evacuation since hurricane stand in 2012, super storm sandy and 2012 but many decided they wanted to stay behind. The massive storm is moving up the florida east coast, bringing with it heavy rain. More than 100 Miles Per Hour wind. It is here. It is absolutely here. Reporter Officials Say that the effects of matthew will be unlike any hurricane in decades and that some places it may become, quote, uninhabitable for weeks or months. They are starting to see the impact and it is a monster. Again, our number one priority is protecting every life in this state park reporter power lines are down across the state, hundreds of thousands without power, but despite repeated calls to evacuate, and predictions of a devastating storm surge 11 feet of storm surge so in your house, if you are close, you could have the storm surge and waves over the rooft
The bullying has become outrageous. I was beaten up. I started skipping school because i didnt feel safe in school. Reporter now the Obama Administration says at the request of School Districts, its issuing what it calls a letter of guidance, detailing how schools can ensure transgender students legal civil rights suggesting schools provide access to an alternative restroom, adding curtains could easily be put up in locker rooms. Its not an enforcement action. It does not add a requirement to the applicable law. Reporter but critics see it as an ultimatum, that if they dont comply, Federal School dollars may be withheld. We will not yield to blackmail from the president of the United States. Reporter earlier this week, the federal government and North Carolina sued each other over that bathroom law. Now it appears texas is ready to join the fight. I am working with the governor of North Carolina, and we are going to fight back many lgbt groups are praising the Obama Administrations let