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Hong kongs prodemocracy protesters take to the streets once again al jazeera journalist peter greste is free. He was released from an egyptian prison a few hours ago and deported. He flue to cypress where he is expected to continue to australia. He is said to be in good health. His colleagues Mohamed Fadel fahmy and Baher Mohamed are still in gaol in egypt, where they have been held for 400 days. Al jazeera welcomed peter grestes release, but said the campaign to free journalists in egypt will not end until all three have been released. Gerald tan respects. This was the most recent protest against the detention of al jazeera staff in egypt. At the end of the december marking a year since arrest journalists rallied in london and around the world sydney the hague, sarajevo. Its been a year of agony for the men. Peter grestes parents were in cairo, hoping for the release by christmas. To me giving him a hug at the end was difficult just to say goodbye and leave him for the rest of the day
This evening were taking a closer look at challenges ahead for carter and the u. S. Military. We begin with mike viqueira. Hes at the white house for us. Mike . Reporter tony, it was a rarest of occurrenses. Ashton carter contradicted the president on a key issue. President obama had said that arming the Ukrainian Army in their fight against russian rebels in Eastern Ukraine could never work because no matter how much arms you give to the Ukrainian Army, they will never be a match to the russian army. Ashton carter in his hearing said that that is actually a good idea. I think we need to support the ukrainians in defending themselves. The nature of those arms, i havent conferred with our military or ukrainian leaders but i incline in the direction of providing with arms, including to getting what im sure your question is, lethal arms. Now administration spokesmen spent the day back pedaling saying there is no change in u. S. Policy and they would not be sending arms to ukraine any time
To be free. Peter wont rest until theyre released from prison. The first large scale trials against ebola are getting underway in liberia. And the former head of the imf goes on trial, accused of helping to procure women for sex parties. Hello. Welcome to bbc news. The syrian city of kobane has been libertied after four months of intense street fighting and air strikes. Kurdish fighters finally drove the jihadists out with the help of allied forces. Since august the u. S. Led coalition has launched nearly 2,000 air strikes against i. S. Targets, with most of the focus being against kobane and east. But i. S. Still controls swaths of lands in northern and western iraq. Symptom estimate the Extremist Group has taken over almost 40,000 square kilometers. 8 Million People are believed to be living under partial or full i. F. Control. When the fighting in kobane took hold hundreds of thousands fled to neighboring turkey. A bbc Team Including our correspondents, have entered the ruin city an
Positive sign to protect Media Freedom in egypt. Unfortunately they have not gone free. Peter for Media Freedom and stay with us, we will be talking about this of course at length as people react to the news that the Egyptian Court handed down the verdict of 7 years in jail to peter greste, fehmy and mohamed and they accused with, well, im hearing now we will look at more reaction from a person following this on social media. Reporter im struggling to keep up with this one because its enormous and feels like unversatile condemnation and i bring up the hash tag on twitter, it refreshes with 20 new tweets pretty much every second and im not seeing anything that says they agree with what happened, time to boycott egypt but the job there and people say they are sickened by what they are seeing coming out of cairo today and we see an absolute spike on the twitter map and this is the map that shows you where free ajam is twittering and this is close to the levels we saw on the global day of