For his wonderful remarks. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] you are watching American History tv. Like us on facebook. Welcome to Grand Junction, situated on the Colorado River on the high desert of western colorado. This city of 59,000 season average of 200 85 days of sun per year. Making it ideal for outdoor enthusiasts as well as growers. Without from our Charter Communications Cable Partners, we will look at the history of Grand Junction. Here about the area positive contribution of development of the atomic weapons in the 1940s. When the Atomic Energy commission started in 1940 seven, Grand Junction becomes a regional hub for uranium purchase. How earlyfind out turned it into an agricultural center. They said water is more precious than gold. It is our light source and blood source. Without it, we would be anot
Line that runs through some of the most inhospitable terrain. 20 years ago this was uneconomic cal but now its better than ever. Keep watching to find out why. Welcome to the newshour. Israel says its. With Holding Around 127 million of tax revenue from the Palestinian Authority. The money which israel collects on behalf of palestinians is used to run the government and pay civil workers salaries. It comes a day after the Palestinian Ambassador to the u. N. Handed over a formal request for palestine to join the International Criminal court. It pushed ahead with the application after its resolution to i wanted israels occupation of its territory was rejected by the u. N. Security council on tuesday. The pal cityian leadership wants the icc to hold israel to account for alleged wire crimes during the war last year. Stephanie knee decker in jer jerusalem has more. Reporter they usually do this as a punitive measure when the palestinians take action they dont agree with. They cant do it fo
The white house lashes pyongyang with another round of sanctions after its alleged cyber attack on sony forced to flee emergency alerts as bushfires threaten lives in australia. Good morning to you. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Thank you for spending your saturday morning with us. Im morgan radford. New developments in the search for qz8501. Four large parts of the jet were found in indonesiania coming as we learn that the airline may not have had permission to fly the route that it took where it fell straight into the java sea. Why would the plane take the route if it was not authorised to go there, ross shimabuku. Thats not clear. All flights from this area are suspended. The airline was permitted to fly the route monday tuesday, thursday and wednesday. It used to have a slot on sundays, but that permission ended in object. Officials say airasia has permission to fly it daily. Airasia is not commenting but is helping with government investigations. Reporter its been nearly a week s
Chaos in libya with warring militia and government we take a look at the ongoing crisis. Great to have you with us. The al qaeda suspect accused of issuing straight orchestrating the 1998 bombings died in custody. He was captured after 15 years on the run. He was due to face trial in nine days on charges of conspiracy. Keenan reynolds has wore. Abu alibi died days before his trial was scheduled. He was accused of planning the attacks on tanzania that killed 224 people. The bombing triggered a manhunt resulting in the death of 18 suspected al qaeda operatives. The big take away is terrorism is a crime, can be fought with crimefighting methods successfully and civil courts can get convictions, people can be identified. In october 2013 u. S. Army commandos snatched him off the streets. He was taken to a u. S. Naval vessel in the mediterranean and questioned for a week of the later he said that during the interrogation he was threatened and made incriminating statements under duress. And p
Talibans Justice System in action. Pash an italian Navy Commander told al jazeera he is worried ships carrying migrants will be abandon in what appears to be a new tactic. Around 400 refugees have been rescued from a cattle sheep, the third found off the coast in the past few weeks. Lawrence lee has more from the port where the ship docked. Reporter they have spent many days at sea, some in fear that they may be ship wrecked. Coming off a vessel dined to carry cattle not people must have been an enormous relief and how exhausted they must have been. Italian medics were ready for them with a level of sympathy towards the refugees, something many politicians lack. Translation we put them in corridors allowing them to arrive in a way that doesnt help the smugglers to prey on the people. Reporter they have been forced to board via helicopter in the dark and rough sea, after the passengers or the crew had abandoned the ship without power and left it to the mercy of the sea. It was the secon