Today the punishment phase of the trial began, prosecutors representing people of the United States urged a jury to choose death as the punishment for the boston bomber. Four people were killed and 260 wounded almost exactly two years ago. Don dahler says prosecutors started today with a surprise. Reporter prosecutors came out swinging, telling jurors tsarnaev, seen making an obscene gesture at a camera in a Court Holding cell just three months after the bombings, was unconcerned, unrepentant and unchanged. He had one more message left to send. During her Opening Statements framed by photos of those killed during the attacks and in the aftermath, assistant attorney Nadine Pelligrini said he planned and plotted to kill, he deliberately selected a glorious sporting event and twisted the marathon into something cruel and ugly for his own purposes. The jury sat rapt as more victims took the stand. Celeste corcoran described being thrown into the air by the blast that destroyed both her leg
Good evening. An hourlong press conference with president obama today over an issue no less weighty than iran and the nuclear bomb was suddenly overshadowed by a single question about another serious topic and an answer no one expected the president would publicly utter. The question was related to the rape accusations that surround bill cosby. It was not the issue top of mind as the president went before reporters to pitch the Historic Nuclear Deal with iran, but its what a lot of people are talking about tonight. We of course are covering it all. But we want to start with Nbc News National Correspondent Peter Alexander and that question. Ill say this. Reporter it was a stunningly powerful statement, especially for a president whos made it his policy not to comment about ongoing legal matters. If you give a woman or a man for that matter without his or her knowledge a drug, and then have sex with that person without consent, thats rape. Reporter the president , himself a lawyer, publi
Under the agreement, iran will be barred from building a Nuclear Weapon for at least ten years, and in exchange, the sanctions that have crippled irans economy will be lifted. The president said rejecting the deal could lead to an arms race, and Major Garrett begins our coverage. I can say with confidence but more importantly Nuclear Experts can say with confidence, that iran will not be in a position to develop a nuclear bomb. We will have met our numberone priority. Reporter the president tried to instill that confidence in Congressional Democrats whose backing he will need to protect the iran deal from republican attempts to block it. The president even asked the press for more questions. Topics that may not have been touched upon, criticisms that youve heard that i did not answer. Go ahead. Reporter the president responded to the main criticisms of the deal, including that iran will be able to hide its nuclear activities. Under the agreement, iran could deny United Nations inspecto
Image: Oskar Groening (World War II archive), facing charges of being an accomplice to the murder of 300,000 at Auschwitz. Important article first published by Global Research on July 29, 2015 American and Canadian Media rarely miss an opportunity to give prominent coverage to Holocaust stories, so their silence on the recent conviction of the so-called Bookkeeper of Auschwitz is notable. The reason might be the stunning implication of this conviction, which validated criminalizing all members