In a place like hospice, it was something that you never even thought of. Ifill and, two women from different sides of a long and bitter conflict take tourists on atypical tours of the holy land, that include the west bank. I think its good we see for ourselves the way people live. Im not sure what i was expecting, but not such a normal place. Woodruff those are some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by lincoln financial committed to helping you take charge of your life and become youre own chief life officer. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill president obama nominated u. S. Marine general Joseph Dunford junior today to be chairman of the joint c
We coffer the sports as the season gets underway in australia. Ill tell you how new engines cause big problems and a new generation of drivers top the podium in melbourne. Its a vote that could change the Political Landscape and russias relationship with the rest of the International Community. The people of crimea are deciding whether to join russia or stay with ukraine but with more autonomy. Voters have the choice of answering either yes or no to the following two questions, are you in favor of the reunification of crimea with russia as part of the Russian Federation or are you in favor of restoring the 1992 constitution and the status of crimea as part of ukraine. Supporting the second option would grant crimea more autonomy within ukraine. Aljazeeras jacki roland joins us live. We are seven hours into this polling. What has turnout been like . Well, about half of eligible voters have apparently cast their ballots now, according to the election, the Referendum Commission here in cr
The immigration of the mon a monarchs. Few are taking flight. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford, live from new york city. The next chapter of the ukraines political crisis is unfolding. Polls of opening in the black sea peninsula, crimea. They are voting whether to join russia or become more independent of ukraine. The e. U. And u. S. Called the vote illegal. Lets go to Jennifer Glasse in the crimean city of sevastopol. 1. 5 Million People are eligible to vo. How eligible to vote. How is ut turn out so far . This is a heavily ethnic russian city. Its its own region, and will count its own votes and announce its own results. Crimea we are up in central crimea this morning, and despite rain here, snow up in central crimea where it was freezing this morning. People were coming out in large numbers. Not everyone is going to vote here. Its a divided country. The crimean tat tars are boycotting the vote. Ethnic ukrainians feel they dont have a stake. Theres two q
Behind them. Including a record breaking football star as he becomes the all time leading goal scorer in barcelona. So do you want your country to be russia or ukraine . Thats the question that the voters are answering today. Take a look at the live scene and the people right there are awaiting to hear the results of the first exit polls, the celebrations as you are seeing have started. Jackie is joining us from there as we are reporting, jackie, exit polls are meant to be announced any minute now. Yes, the voting ended just a few minutes ago. We are expecting initial exit polls in the next ten minutes or so. I will give you details about the turnout figures, it is about 75 . The Referendum Commission is saying more than threequarters of the registered voters participated. The council of the Minority Ethnic Community here, a community that is largely boycotting the referendum claim that the turnout is 30 . That injects an element of doubt there. From our experience, particularly at the
Inside of their homes. The u. S. Is moving towards and posing sanctions on russia and this is coming as the polls are closing in an hour in crimea and the people are voting on whether or not to join russia and pro russian demonstrators stormed a government building. The white house warned russian president putin that moscow would face sanctions in the days ahead. We are joined from the white house with details. Mike, secretary of state john kerry spoke just a few hours ago and tell us about the conversation. This is the latest of a series of phone calls with the russia and seech time they are speaking a different language and two different interpretations of what is happening on the ground in crimea and the results of the referendum a fore gone conclusion and that there was certainly no doubt about the outcome and the question is what is going to come next and how are russia react and move to legally try to annex crimea. There are two outcomes from the phone call,er is ri is theying th