David. Its been quite a night. This sidewalk was packed about 30 minutes ago. Fans got the tickets months ago and they told me tonight did not disappoint. After an almost 0 year wait its here. This is so exciting. Its awesome. Star wars episode 7 packed theaters across the country and here in king of prussia thursday night as fans waited for hours to see the latest installment in a sevenpart series. Im pretty excited. Ive been waiting ten years to see this movie so im pretty more pumped. From new to the more experienced turned out for the show. Some were there when it hit the theaters in 1977. It was a long, long time ago in a galaxy far away. It was Ground Breaking at the time. I saw three of them. The really serious fans started early this morning with a screening in bucks county of all six movies that are currently on dvd. Call it a star wars marathon. I actually got these tickets as a Birthday Gift back in november. I had been wanting to marathon it and i thought i would do it at h
World demands to know who shot down the jet, separatists promise to let International Investigators access the crash site. There does seem to be some growing awareness that it probably had to be russian insurgenth insurrents. The finger of blame is being pointed at russia and moscow. Accusations they deny. As we said, we have two major news stories for you at this hour, and they are moves fast. Coming up well have the latest on the crash of Malaysian Airlines in eastern ukraine. But we start in gaza, where israel has launched a ground offensive. Israels Prime Minister says he is prepared to wind the operation that began overnight. The army sent tanks and soldiers into northern gaza. At least 268 palestinians have been killed since the violence began ten days ago. At least 24 died overnight and this morning. Here is our report. Downtown gaza city. [ explosion ] reporter the building is used by media companies, one owned by hamas. Israel might have declared a ground war, but so far the s
Troops inside gaza. Israels Prime Minister threatening significant expansion of the military offensive. Were live in the rapidly escalating strike zone. Good morning and welcome to alJazeera America. Im stephanie sy. Im del walters. There have been Significant Developments overnight on both major stories. That Airlines Disaster in ukraine and israels Ground Invasion of gaza. We have reporters stationed around the world with the very latest. In ukraine, rescue workers are pouring over the crash site of flight 17. U. S. Officials say the jet was shot down, killing all 298 onboard. Russian accept claim they have recovered recording devices from that plane. Meanwhile in israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his nation could widen its ground offensive in gaza. Overnight, 19 palestinian were killed along with an israeli soldier. Nick schiffron is live in gaza. What is the very latest there . Good morning. This is the first ground offense of israel into gaza in more than five years a
A girl swept away in the tsunami swept away 10 years later. Thank you for joining us. I am morgan radford. This morning, we are getting a glimpse of the u. S. Military operations happening right now inside of iraq. Just last night, the government released new video of those airstrikes. Now, this is a view from those fighter jets as they destroyed rebel artillery units in Northern Iraq. We are learning more about why the add miles per hourstration decided to move against isil. The white house was reportedly worried about having another benghazi attack. Speaking to reporters in indiana today chuck hagle says the Islamic State is a threat to the world. The fundamentalist ideology we are seeing play out through isil is as dangerous as anything we have probably ever seen, connected with a very Strong Military capability. The brutality of what that group and Groups Associated with it represent. Hagel added that the United States cant fundamentally change the dynamics of the middle east, but
Groups spiritual leader. Sports details coming up later in the program. Hello, a military coup is underway. The countrys Prime Minister says he intends to return home as soon as possible. He told al jazeera from neighboring south africa that armed men had been hunting for him. Soldiers in the capitol had taken over key buildings including the key headquarters. In june there was a no confidence vote. They were looking for me. What they were going to do, i do not know, but i need to return home as quickly as possible. Would you confirm once again there is a coup happening in your country. The definition of a coup. Okay, what led to this situation Prime Minister . Because you were part of a coalition. The coalition that you were part of has accused you of not respecting what you set out to do. And this was the reason that this situation is happening today, that you didnt respect your engagement. What do you respond to that . Those accusations are unfortunate. The problem is that the corru