Protests against the eric gardener decision. Good morning to you. Welcome to Al Jazeera America thank you for joining us here. Coming to you live from new york city. Im Morgan Radford. More than a Million People are in search as a powerful typhoon tears through the philippines. If brought howling winds, toppling trees, and power lines, and cutting off communication. Its the same region where thousands were killed by haiyan ears ago. Reporter this is edison napping next to the radio his familys connection to the outside world and news of typhoon hagupit. Edison and his mother are here with 1,000 other people, huddled in the hallways of this government building. Mostly women and children came from villages by the provincial capital. Three families from my coastal village came from the shelter. We evacuate for every typhoon, because the house may be blown away. Two days before making landfall thousands were directed to shelters like this. With a typhoon like this, the governor says its ab
Britain we are getting reports that gunmen in Afghanistans Helmand province targeted a branch of cab ill bank in lash doc gar. The incident has been confirmed, and a number of attackers have entered the bank. Straight to jennifer who tells us what she is hearing. Its happened not lodge ago in the capital of helmand grovins, lashkar gar. The attackers going after the bank. Two bombs have gone off. We dont know the number of attackers. Its near the end of the month, Afghan Police men have been going to the bank to get their salaries. Perhaps the reason its a tart. We know that the gunfire is ongoing, they dont know how many attackers have gotten inside the bank or, indeed, how many are inside the bank. As i said, its never the end of the afghan month when salaries are available in bank accounts, and the government Spokesman Says the Afghan Police men have been going to that branch. I know information coming in, its a developing situation at the bank, but any idea on whether there has bee
An Emergency Landing. We take those threats seriously and will take extra precautions during the holidays at thats right. Theater threat, the sony hacking scandal forces the company to cancel the new york premier of the interview. Some theaters are refusing to show it. Right now pakistan is observes a national day of mourning, the first of three as that country grieves more than 140 killed. Most of the children be children. Dozens of funerals are taking place, mourners around cough finance, many candlelight vigils held overnight. Inside the school, these images show the horrors that took place, the Prime Minister promising justice, reinstating the Death Penalty overnight. We have the latest. When you look at the size of those coffin, you think this attack was against the countrys most vulnerable. One of the things thats so difficult to comprehend is the number of young lives taken yesterday in just such a short time. The news is still not good this morning, because some children were a
Batters the philippines. Im Andrew Thomas at an Aid Distribution Center in manila. Will the understood get to where its needed most . Fast . In sport, details of a goalscoring record for Cristiano Ronaldo, and why its not just tiger woods golf game breaking down the world number one in last place at his own event. Our top story out of iraq, where there has been more air strikes, suicide attacks and misery. There are signs the war is turning against i. S. I. L. French fighter jets conducted bombings against the i. S. I. L. Group held town of barb eka. Several strikes killed 50 fighters. Kurdish peshawar forces say they are ready to launch a ground offensive. Lets go jane araf joining us live from baghdad. What does retaking barb eka many mean in the fight against i. S. I. L. . Its a step toward the fight the the kurd saying they are ready to start a ground strike, but its not up to the kurds. Its an arab town. Its the center of the islamic state. I. S. I. L. Has it under firm control, a
And we begin with the aftermath of a deadly day in pakistan. 142 people were killed when gunmen stormed a military school. 132 were children. 10 were Staff Members. You can see the mourning at the scene with children looking for their children. It happened in northwestern city peshawar. Its been the deadliest since 2007. The parents have now beentheyre taking the bodies to their residences, where theyll prepare for burial tomorrow morning. As you heard earlier the military finally coming out with a statement, coming out with the figures and the number of people killed. But there are a lot of people in pakistan who are asking as to how so many gunmen could get into a school in a secure area, the military, police, everybody present there, and yet cause mayhem by killing so many people. There will be many questions as far as Security Preparedness in this country is concerned. This is a city that has been hit hard, the complex that you see behind me has received many such victims, this is