Week. They previously had a limit of 60 euros per day. Capital controls remain in place. Transfer of funds aboard is restricted apart from a few exceptions. Littles on cash withdrawals still remain. I cannot feel positive about the future. Increases in valueadded tax agreed under the bailout terms have also taken effect. The valueadded tax at restaurants and cafes rose on monday from 13 to 23 . The vat on food items and daily necessities also rose to 23 . The United States and cuba have restored full diplomatic relations and will reopen their embassies on monday. Diplomats from the two countries will officially declare the restoration of diplomatic ties severed if 1961. The cuban interest section if washington, d. C. Has already replaced its door plate with a new one that reads the embassy of cuba. Its covered with occur tain and will be unveiled during an afternoon ceremony to mark the reopening a. Cuban flag will be hoisted at the event. Similar preparations are also under way in cub
Protesting japans return to Nuclear Energy for the First Time Since the meltdown at fukushima killing college debt. If you can refinance your mortgage and car loan, you should be able to refinance your student loan too president ial candidate unveils a plan to help students without mortgaging their futures. Im Randall Pinkston in for antonio mora. This is al jazeera america, we begin in ferguson, missouri, where a state of emergency is in effect at this hour. Live pictures from the city showing the scene where several dozens marched through the streets, blocking traffic. Otherwise, not much disruption. Folks mark the one Year Anniversary of the Police Shooting death of Michael Brown. Almost 60 people were arrested outside a Federal Court House in st. Louis. The arrests after a night of shootings in ferguson, police shot a teen after he allegedly opened fire on plain clothed officers, and two others shot near the memorial in what Police Called random violence. Andy is there. Has the sta
Fukushima meltdown toxic sludge in the u. S. State of colorado, millions of litres of waste spills to local streets a state of emergency has been declared in ferguson, and authorities bracing for unrest. Largely peaceful protests marked the death of michael brown, and another black teenager shot by police. Kristen saloomey has more. Activists gather in a church in st. Louis, preparing to be arrested. We march, and march with a chance of all of that. Church leaders and peace activists take part, including a philosopher, west. You have head of homeland security, who is black and still cant deliver justice for poor people and black people. Now we are moving towards pressure on the federal government. Some have come from out of state. This girl is from ferguson. Theyll see we are serious. Theyll take us seriously instead of thinking us as a joke. All in all, a couple of hundred people acting under the banner of action descended on the courthouse with a message from the department of justic
River to yellow. And we look at whats pushing thousands to flee to europe. Saudi backed forces loyal to yeyemens exiled government say they have retain a city. The offensive is seen as important because its where exiled president hadi is from. The former interior minister were wounded in this last round of fighting. Our correspondent joins live at the news desk live. So the state of play, they are making gains. They are. They are reversing the gains that were made by the houthis in the last four months. Now we can say that the antihouthi forces control aden, quite significant. There is only one province in the south under control of the houthis. Fighting is going to start in the coming days in that province. Won they control the south, its going to be massive. Then the government is going to return, they will set up ministries, establish a base from where they can continue to fight to control the capital. They started that process, when they made the move on aden. The problem is they a
Ladies anladies and gentlemen mikes what pimco ceo the Potomac Institute for policy studies, and is my privilege to welcome you all here today to a seminar on combating biological terrorism. Im proud to report that for now almost exactly 20 years the Potomac Institute has been involved in the study of this issue. Unfortunately, the issue of bioterrorism has only grown worse over time. Its more threatening. It is probably more eminent, and certainly the tools we have for dealing with it are, as inadequate today as they were 20 years ago. Almost, also like 20 years ago, more and more the political people in the world are distracted by so many other threats from nuclear north korea, tehran, the ships run into each other in the pacific to Political Division in this country another, economic disruption around the world that the threats posed by tear are seen more and more as lone wolf driving cars through open spaces in europe and in the United States and other places. And many seem to forg