Reparations package for survivors of Police Torture, the city is rocked by another police scandal. More victims have come forward to talk about recent abuse inside a secret Detention Center at homan square. They handcuffed me to the bar and the bench that was there. When it happened, i was are ready pretty shaken up. A kind of pushed me over into my eyes off it was sitting on me. They were playing tugofwar with me. They were kind of throwing fake punches at me so i would hit the back of my head when i flinched. Amy we will speak to guardian reporter Spencer Ackerman as well as flint taylor, attorney and darrell cannon who was tortured by Chicago Police in 1983. 20 people are arrested after forming a human barricade at a Natural Gas Storage facility in upstate new york near seneca lake. It makes no sense for a place in new york to be allowing fracked gas from other states to be stored underneath this incredible 600 foot deep lake source of Drinking Water for 100,000 people. Amy josh fox
California lawmakers take steps to prevent similar tragedies in the future. The south china sea, why those waters are so important to so many countries. A baby girl just hours old snatched from a hospital. How facebook helped catch the kidnapper and reunite a family with their newborn. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Im del walterser. The president resetting americas Foreign Policy after a decade of war, announcing the shift today during an address at west point. It comes amid criticism of his handling of the ukraine crisis, the civil war in syria and an emerging china. Tuesday the president announced plans to end the military presence in afghanistan by the end of his term. Three years ago, there were more than 100,000 troops stationed in afghanistan. The president is going to low their number to 32,000 this month and blow 10,000 by the end of next year. Our White House Correspondent Mike Viqueira is in washington this morning. What can we expect to hear from the presid
You can also reach out to us via social media. The address is on the screen. For twitter, the address is cspanwj. Pan. Book. Com cspas or you can email journal c span. Org. We begin by talking about the speech that the president made four years ago in elkhart, indiana. It is part of the nbc news elkhart project. We will talk more about that. We want to talk to you about your view of the economic recovery. Our first call comes from randy and New Hampshire on our line for independence. Caller how are you guys this morning . Things are going downhill fast. We are in this huge crisis. The recession is going on and on. We are lucky that we are not in worse shape in a severe depression. The banks keep doing business. Things need to change fast. Host what kind of work do you do . Caller i am a diesel mechanic by trade but i now go to school. I go to school so that i can they treat the workers wrong. Everyone is wondering what is going on. People need to get organized and stand up. People crit
The world are deeply distressed by the continued violence in syria. There is too much killing, too much violence, and we obviously want to find a way forward. There are serious questions about aqi, al qaeda in iraq, coming in and other violent groups on the ground. It is a very complicated and very dangerous situation. Everybody understands it is a place that has chemical weapons, and were deeply concerned about that. I would just say to you that we are evaluating. We are evaluating. Were taking a look at what steps, if any diplomatic particularly might be able to be taken in an effort to try to reduce that violence and deal with the situation. When we are prepared to tell you, you will be the first to know. We will let you know. We will evaluate this as we go forward. I knew the foreign minister and i talked about this at length, at length, and we both share a deep concern about what is happening there. I am going to focus on it quite considerably. On iran, we are deeply concerned abo
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