A downside. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America, live from new york city. Im Morgan Radford. Keeping his ogss open. The United States employs three warships closer to iraq. In as president obama considers a military force of action. The u. S. S george w. Bush will move from the arabian sea to the gulf. The president insists he will not put american books in iraq. This as fighters from Islamic State of iraq and levant have taken control of towns in a mart of days. The battle threatens to tear them along sectarian lines, and they are volunteering to take up arms against the sunni group. Iraqi and american leaders are comtemplating their next move for a country on the verge of falling apart. There have been fears clashes that have taken part. Sunni rebels have moved from moss you will up to that town, fighting with turk men shia. There are heavy clashes going on right now. We are hearing that there are casualties. And 35 injured. The town of tal afa is turkman shia. A lot of them
Rebels. People escape from tribal areas in pakistan where the military is targeting foreign fighters siding with the taliban. And pedal pour in burundi means children dont have to do their homework in the dark. Israels Prime Minister is accusing maamas of kidnapping three teenagers. They are among 80 who have been arrested by troops. Here is what Benjamin Netanyahu had to say a short while ago. They are hamas terrorists, carried out thursdays kidnapping of three israeli teenagers. We know that for a fact. These teenagers were kidnapped, and the kidnapping was carried out by hamas members. Hamass denials do not change this fact, and this attack should surprise no one because hamas makes no secret of its agenda. Hamas is committed to the destruction of israel and to carrying out terrorist attacks against israeli civilians, including children. Instead of abiding by his International Obligation to disarm hamas, president a become bas has chosen to make hamas his partner. Israel holds the P
Martinez, whose son died in the Santa Barbara shootings last week. After a week dominated by the Veterans Affairs scandal and topped by two high profile regular hes nations. President obama tried to change the dialogue in his weekly address today. He turned the conversation to Climate Change. The president proposed regulations would substantially cut Carbon Emissions. Randall pinkston is in washington, d. C. President obamas proposal is going to hit the industry in a big way. What is he planning to do. Reporter it is said to be the biggest Single Source of emissions. In todays address the president address what he is sure to be getting from main of his critics. Special interests will claim that these guidelines will kill jobs and crush the economy. Lets face it. Thats what they always say. But every time america has set clear rules and better standards for our air and water and our Childrens Health the naysayers have been wrong. They said acid rain poisoning our lakes would kill busine
Is unreasonable. We will hear from Richard Martinez whose son died in sant a bash a shootings last week. Thanks for being with us. The american soldier held cantniv afghanistan for the last five years has been freedom. The white house announced not a long ago that sergeant bo bergdahl is coming back to the United States. Randall pinkston in washington d. C. Can you give us the history on Sergeant Bergdahls case . An interesting history and great day for the administration, no the to mention bo bergdahls family. First word of his release came from the white house from president obama. The 28yearold was the longe longestheld pow in the afghan and iraq wars. Five years ago, bo bergdahl was a private first class. He had only been in afghanistan about two months when he was captured in june, 2009, by Taliban Forces. Freedom came at 10 30 eastern time this morning. The u. S. Military official says a few dozen special Operations Forces with support from multiple helicopters and overhead certa
Out by modern martial arts. Good morning and welcome to al Jazeera America, im stephanie, more than four months after egypt military coup the trial of the first freely elected president is underway and p. M. Was over thrown on july 3 and held in a secret location until today. No pictures showing morsi in court have come out. He arrived earlier at a Police Academy in cairo for the start of his trial. These are live pictures of protesters outside the court building. Morsi is charged with insightment to commit murder. Supporters say the trial is political and claim its part of the military crack down on the Muslim Brotherhood. 14 more brotherhood leaders are also going on trial today. John kerry visited on sunday and urged the military government to work toward restoring democracy and egypt is planning to hold a National Referendum on an amended constitution. President ial and parliamentary elections are planned next year. Obviously part of the roadmap and part of the process of strengthe