Employees will be on the picket line. Librarians, parking enforcement, nearly every public worker in oakland. 911 dispatchers not allowed to strike. 1021 continues to complain how city departments are understaffed and rely on temporary workers. We rely on a city running on half the force being parttime. Unsustainable way to run a government. Reporter and concerned about health and safety issues they claim the city is unwilling to address. One of the employees. A bunch of needles, feces, plus its just i dont know. Kind of like a mental kind of thing. Youre taking peoples belongings. Reporter union had hoped to bring in former San Francisco mayor willie brown to help as mediator. Idea was rejected. In oakland, abc7 news. Strong winds are being blamed for Power Outages around the bay area. Powerful gusts believed to be responsible for tossing this eucalyptus tree on power lines around 11 00 this morning. Knocked out power to a handful of residents. Winds are blowing pretty strong in that
We shall carry this is al jazeera live from doha also coming out of the deliberations an a. P. O. For the release of an Opposition Leader and hundreds of other prisoners as part of a government amnesty. Thats going in the u. S. And record amounts of money home as fears of deportation rise under President Trump. I will tell you why australias government says its a lot of stuff on refugees as many believe. Americas top diplomat is denying the United States has plans to help create an army of thirty thousand mainly kurdish fighters on the border between syria and turkey turkish tanks have been deployed there in turkey as president has threatened to attack the kurdish city of a frame the secretary of state says reports of the force being created have been mis portrayed. The United States hears and takes seriously the concerns of our nato ally turkey we recognize the humanitarian contributions and military sacrifices turkey has made towards defeating isis towards their support of millions o
For the first time in two years. And waiting for answers, dutch investigators want to start retrieving the wreckage of flight mh 17 in ukraine. Well, we begin in nigeria where an explosion has gone off at a secondary school in the Northern State and dozens of people have been killed and dozens of students gathering for a Morning Assembly when it happened and they are under a state of emergency with similar attacks from boko haram in the past and al jazeera is joined live from legos and where does the casualty toll stand . Well, the police are confirming that 47 people have been killed and 79 injured but hospital authorities are expecting the figure to rise and usually when they come in they are conservative estimates and people are facing deaths as a result of the bombing in the state and actually suicide 3w gathering with students before classes start and detonated his device with the students and killed more than 47 people as the official figure stands at the moment. School attacks a
Investigators want to start retrieving the wreckage of mh17 in ukraine we begin with a landmark meeting in beijing, where chinese president xi jinping and japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe held talks for the first time. The leaders met on the sideline of the Asian Pacific summit. Its seen as the first step to improving relations between the asian superpowers after years of hostility. The two largest economies have been caught up in a territorial fight as well as regional rivalry. Lets go to adrian brown, joining us from beijing. We saw some signals of a thawing of relations with this meeting, but the body language suggested otherwise. Absolutely. Those pictures show just how awkward president xi jinping was when he shook hands with shinzo abe. The japanese Prime Minister seemed more relax. President xi jinping seemed to have the expression of a man saying im only here because i have to be. Its a step forward, but the encounter departments thats level of host democrats that theres a le
Start retrieving the wreckage of flight mh 17 in ukraine. We will tell you why u. N. Peace keepers from the philippines are pulling out of liberia. And using art to spread peace, love and liberty in bokitofasso. We start in nigeria where an explosion has ripped through a secondary school in the Northeastern State and hearing dozens of people have been killed in the attack. Students were gathering for a Morning Assembly when the blast happened. And this is under a state of emergency has seen similar attacks by boko haram fighters in the past. We are hoping to get our correspondent up a little later in the show to bring you more details on that story. In the meantime lets move on to iraq where the army says that it has reached the center of the northern Oil Producing town of beijing and trying to break a siege of isil fighters of the Biggest Oil Refinery and they captured beijing in june across Northern Iraq and we have this exclusive report. Reporter just a day ago isil was said to be f