Killed hundreds, we speak to survivors still waiting for justice. We start on the Korean Peninsula where the south Korean Defense ministry is now urging the north to stop its provocations, tensions increased between north and south between exchange of fire on thursday and both countries say they put their military on high alert and support leader kim jong un had a meeting late on thursday and according to state media there he told the armys front line troops to be fully ready for operations and said to take action first and to report it later and harry faucet reports. Reporter south korean president visited a military post on friday with the National Security advisor defense minister and senior commanders and the message being conveyed the personal command of the situation as north and south korea engage in a military face off. Translator the military should be for further provocations, if the situation occurs i want you to take action first and then report later. Reporter it followed
Opponents say they have the votes in congress to keep the deal alive. Good morning, im randall pinkston. Wildfires in the west are pushing fire crews to the limit. Now Washington State is asking for volunteers to pitch in for the first time ever. Nearly 29,000 firefighters are battling fires across six states. International assistance is also on the way from australia and new zealand. Those countries are sending fire managers and specialists to help battle the flames. Thousands have been forced to evacuate their homes as the fires approach. We now know the names of the three firefighters who died in washington. The Forest Service identifies them. They died after the fire took their vehicle near the state line. These were three big heroes protecting small towns. There were 390,000acres burning. Last year was bad with 250,000 acres and we thank everyone who are doing everything they can to make sure the evergreen state does not become an ever fire state. Lets get to kevin. These fires ar
Hundreds. We speak to survivors still waiting for justice. In istanbul, that red brick ruin is the former home on the market for 4. 5 million. In macedonia, police fired stun grenades to drive back greek refugees. Thousands of people are trying to enter every day. On thursday, it declared a state of emergency on its borders. They spent a cold night in no mans land, waiting to cross the border between greece and macedonia. Their passage was blocked by riot police. Rocks were thrown, then this. Tear gas filling the air with police using stun grenades to try to keep people out. In the ensuing chaos, there was panic. Most refugees here have escaped conflict and few would have expected this. We walk in front of this. In macedonia, they shoot the people. The too many, say the authorities, who have declared a state of emergency in two border regions. The local train station is a transit point for many. Most want to try to reach serbia, hungary, then other parts of europe. The International Or
Waiting for just advertise. Im Bernard Smith in istanbul, and that red brick building is the former ruin of communist revolutionary trot ski. Its on the market for 4. 5 million. We start in macedonia, where police have fired stun grenades to drive back a huge crowd of refugees trying to get into the country. But the border has just opened and some refugees have managed to get through. On thursday it declared a state of emergency to try to stop people coming in. Macedonia is one of the major transit points for refugees who are trying to get from greece to other e. U. Countries. The vast majority are syrians escaping the syrian war. A small town just three kilometers away from the border with greece was the focal point of fridays violence. Its on the main route north. Emma hayward reports. Reporter they spent a cold night in no mans land waiting to cross the border between greece and macedonia, but their passage was blocked by riot police. Rocks were thrown, then this. [ gunfire ] [ scre
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. Well the stock market is plunging again for the fourth straight day. The dow is down nearly 2 , 190 points lower after falling 358 points yesterday. That is the biggest winday drop in almost five years. Nasdaq and s p 500 also trading down right now. Richard wolf from the university of massachusetts says this market turmoil requires careful analysis. Selloff has to be taken seriously, because anything of this size, happening so quickly is a warning shot across the bow of the world economy. I think the way to understand it best is to see, that when you have a global capitalism of the in the way that we do, a problem in one major area, its only a matter of time before it becomes a problem elsewhere. For the last two or three years, people here in the United States, have diluted themselves, imagining that the growing problems of europe on the one hand, and the chinese economy on the other, could somehow play themselv