Ladies and gentlemen, we have a new panda. I repeat, a new panda apartment the national zoo. Pandamonium is off the charts. Breaking news from the national zoo, a panda cub has just been born. Ileana diaz is at the zoo. What can you tell us about this . Reporter yeah, debra, its been a really exciting day, but the last 30 minutes were extra exciting, as people stood around here watching the screen and watching the panda actually, the little cub being born. Its been really exciting. Some people are still hanging out here, many since early this morning. We are told that around 10 30 this morning, the mother was showing some kinds of signs of pacing, body licking, seemed uncomfortable, really tired. Again, all of these signs that she was in labor. It was just this afternoon at 4 32 when her water broke and the cub came just an hour later. Now, this is now her third cub, so obviously this mom is, im sure, very happy and exhausted. Visitors here are really excited that they got to experienc
The three american men who across europe, failed these french Authorities Say stopped a massacre aboard the train on many of the refugees are friday. Tomorrow french president in our last hour we talked Francis Hollande is expected to present the men with the highest to a human rights watcher, about level. It was travelling from amsterdam the crisis in macedonia. To paris. According to french officials macedonia has seen a flow of the gunman had an ak47 and 300 migrants berg its country since rounds of ammunition. Today the americans talking september 2014, and each month its more and more people about bravery at the home of the entering. Taking into account what is ambassador in france. Happening in greece, with people richard has more on how one is entering, coming to greece from bruised and battered, but all turkey, and greek authorities called heroes. Spencer stones face bares transporting people from greek islands in to the mainland. The bruises and cuts from a we can expect maced
Katrina, a look back at the storm that devastated new orleans and part of the gulf coast. We begin night with unease by Global Investors as stocks start in the red. Markets in hong kong and china are dropping. Japans nikkei is dropping another amount as well. Slowing economy, the wall street journal says that chinese is pumping money into the markets to ease drops there. Week saw major lasts that followed 530 point drop. U. S. Markets havent tropped that far that quickly in four years. Were going to have much more on this story, coming up a little later in our broadcasts. We go to france where three american men are going to be recognized for acts of bravery, french president Francois Hollande will present them a medal of bravery, this man they subdeed wasubdued had hundreds s of ammunition. When most of us would run away, spencer, anthony and alex ran in. Is. It was either do something or die. Reporter Airman First Class Spencer Stone and alex scarlatos, are being recognized as heroes
Plus. Im in kuala lumpur where an ancient river is getting a new leash on life. Fears of a slow down in the worlds second biggest economy china are continuing to spook markets across the globe and shares plunged across asia and europe and currency is also falling. Chinas shanghai complex went down 8 wiping out the entire gains for the year and its the biggest oneday fall in years and beijing deployed the billion dollar fund to pump up the market with 400 billion of assets to buy stocks failed to stop the decline, from malaysia to brazil oil and commonty exporting nations have seen their currencies hit multiyear lows and as chinas economy slows its not importing the Raw Materials to power its factories and sent the bloomberg Commodity Index to its lowest level since 1998 and neglect in crude sent Oil Prices Tumbling to 44. 55 a barrel, the lowest since march of 2009 and more from adrian brown in beijing. Reporter the share shell off began within minutes of the Shanghai Stock Exchange op
This is Aljazeera America, good morning, live from new york city, im randall pinkston. Global markets are reeling this morning at chinese stocks take another plunge. U. S. Futures falling sharply now with the dow poised to open down about 3 . Lets look at the numbers. The shanghai composite wiped out all gains for the year, its largest fall in that market in eight nears. The nikkei tumbled four and a half , hitting a five month low. Australia had its worst one day sell off in four years, markets plunging wiping some 40 billion u. S. Dollars off the books there. European stocks are hurting, too, in london, down two and a half , germanys Main Exchange is off 3 . Adrien brown has more on whats behind this from beijing. It is another turbulent day for asian stock markets. Shanghai, the worst performing is down more than 8 , the biggest single day drop in many months. The government before the market opened has said that it was going to use billions of dollars from a state pension fund to p