Backfired. Breaking news tonight. A federal judge has struck down michigans ban on samesex marriage. The detroit judge ruled that it rye late the 14,911 amendmenvio. Libby, the judges decision comes two weeks after this trial wrapped up, and its a huge major victory for gay rights activists. There have been clerks offices all across this area that have been preparing for this ruling, and theyre expecting long lines come money from gays and lesbians seeking marriage licenses. Now this is a case where the state argued that an union should be between man and woman, and they said the state said that the vote by voters back i in 2004 supported this theory. They brought quite a few experts to plead their case. This is a case centered on two women, a lesbian couple. They tried to adopt each other children, but this ban prevented them from doing that, but now they have the green light. Hour the state plans to appeal. Bisi onileere, thank you so much. With two signatures the divide between russ
Unconstitutional. The states attorneygeneral is calling for a fight. When i play with friends on the street, they look at me different. How nigeria is trying to keep young girls safe from sex predators. Good morning to you. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford live in new york city. Its been two weeks since Malaysia Airlines flight 370 vanished with 239 on board. Of the focus is on a remote patch of the indian ocean, 1500 miles off the australian coast. Thats where satellite images showed two large objects in the water. Search clues are focussing on that area, hunting for a sign of debris. Six planes and two merchant ships are taking part in the search. Malaysia is taking the u. S. , asking them to provide sonar and under water surveillance. The u. S. Has spent 2. 5 million on search efforts. Officials are analysing transcripts of the final 54 minutes of recording between the pilot and ground control. So far it doesnt appear to show anything out of the ordinary. Malaysias t
Have been eradicated. Well, russia today pushed to complete its take over of crimea, focussing on ukraines military. Urban soldiers stormed the largest russian soldiers stormed the largest base. They smashed through the base. Russia seized a ukrainian warship earlier this week. In Eastern Ukraine demonstrators called for the return of Viktor Yanukovych. We are return to Jennifer Glasse in sevastopol. The take over of the belbak airbase is another example of russia tightening its grip, an aggressive move in daylight. There was an ultimatum to the ukrainian forces. They had been holed out there. The commander negotiateds twice with the russians and refused to give up. The russians moved in, with Ground Forces firing shots into the air. The ukrainians lined up and sang the national an them. Thats the defines seen. From forces that hadnt wanted to give up bases. They had been overrun by civilian militia. They are in a limbo. What will happen is unclear. Where that will be, they say, they d
The move may have backfired. With two signatures that divide russia and the west deepen today. In belgium, ukraine signed a Political Association agreement with the european union, and the e. U. Imposed more sanctions on russian officials. In moscow russian president Vladimir Putin signed a treaty making crimea part of russia. And secretary general ban kimoon went to ukraine in an effort to end the crisis. Is crimea now a permanent part of russia . Reporter well, libby, in an effect its been that way for quite some time. Its basically a done deal because of those russian boots on the ground out in crimea. We have heard about osce monit monitors that will be sent out to the mainland ukraine because there are fears that while they may have had athletes out in the crimea, there may be designs on the larger part of ukraine. The concern in that part of the country, in the eastern part is that there are agent provocato provocators, agents trying to stir up communities as a pretext for grabbi
Setting up the obamacare exchanges, and we remember what happened when the web site that was the portal through which people would sign up for the exchanges, failed. Well, it was all hands on deck. All hands on deck. Well, i commend the administration for its timely response to that problem, but by comparison, with the tragedies that were reading about in the newspapers from the 40 veterans who died in phoenix reportedly waiting for treatment at a v. A. Clinic or hospital when put on a secret waiting list, i dont see that sense of urgency coming from the administration or from this congress, for that matter. Now, i do commend senator sanders and senator burr who are the chair and Ranking Members of the Veterans Affairs committee, the senate for having secretary shinseki and others today to begin the process of peeling the layers of the onion so we can get to the truth. And i realize the administration has to balance competing priorities. But in my view, there are few priorities more im