Mans search for a better life ended in tragedy the European Union leaders are gathering in the lithuanian capital vilnius at this hour for a two day summit to discuss ties with Eastern European countries. Ukrainian president e r coalition is also to the vendor is expected to be donated by his sudden decision to scrap plans for closer integration with the European Union. Now arriving in vilnius the german cast on a limb ankles said she was willing to resume talks with ukraine and that the door was still open for kiev to sign the eu trade. But she also said she had no hope that the deal would be sealed. At this stop meanwhile ukraine pro european groups continue to protest against the governments decision ukraines Opposition Leader Vitali Klitschko to tell dr that the eu summit the pulpit to yanukovich of staging the ukrainian president klitschko also a champion also been at the eu commissioner and coolangatta coverage to sign the proposed pact with the eu. We want to leave. Wed still be
For a better life ended in tragedy. European Union Leaders are gathered in the lithuanian capital at this hour for a two day summit to discuss ties with Eastern European countries. The agenda is expected to be dominated by the sudden decision to scrap lands for closer integration with the european union. The german chancellor said she was willing to resume talks with ukraine and that the door was still open for kia to sign the eu trade pact, but she also said she had no hope that the deal would be sealed at this summit. Meanwhile in ukraine, pro european groups continue to protest against the governments decision. Theocrat Opposition Leader arrived at the eu summit before the ukrainian president , upstaging him. Also a champion boxer, he met the eu commissioner and called on the ukrainian president to sign the proposed pact with the eu. We want to leave with european family, with european rules, with european life standards. It is the wish of ukraine, and we want to do that. That way,
Mission to the moon. The jade rabbit gets ready to explore. Welcome to al jazeera america. Thank you so much for joining us. Im Morgan Radford live from new york city. Crews are working to clear the scene of a fatal Train Derailment in new york city. A southbound commuter train went off the tracks in the bronx as it headed into manhattan. At least four are dead. 63 more were injured much had those 11 are in critical continue. Al jazeeras Kilmeny Duchardt has more from the bronx. Firefighters, police, crews and the m. T. S. B. Continue to work through the night, checking the tracks, cars, mechanical equipment, to try to figure out what went wrong. The halliday weekend ended in tragedy and chaos for those on board this train in Northern New York city. The crash happened sunday morning. We have recovered the event recorder. We have downloaded the data. Weve not had a chance to analyse or verify it. Officials say the train carried about 150 passengers, heading to new yorks Grand Central te
Rail cars as searchers looking for what caused the derailment from new york city. Dozens of people were hurt. And the accident is having an huge impact on one of the nations biggiest Commuter Rail line. John terrett is in the bronx where they are trai the train c. Reporter were seeing significant progress in righting the derailed train cars. Ill stand aside so our cameraman can go right in so you can see what happened over 24 hours since the accident that killed four people, injured 63, 11 of them seriously. As the second railcar which we think is the four who died were sitting, and most of the injured. And as far as we can tell from our Vantage Point here those are the only two carriages from yesterdays crashed train which remains off the rails. The others have been righted, according to the ntsb, including the diesel itself, that was put back on the rails in the very early hours of this morning when it was still dark. Lets take a look back now at the events that unfolded here and the
Speaks at a washington think tank in just a few minutes. Mike viqueira joins us from washington. Mike, good morning, what are some of the main points the president is expected to address . Reporter you are right, the president turning a page now after the last two months healthcare. Gov debacle. He is going to talk about the grows gap between rich and poor. Its not a new story or a new subject for president obama. He talked ariel castro it two years ago in a benchmark speech in kansas. And he spoke a little bit about in this years state of the union. The top 1 in this country have seen their income triple over the course of the last 28 years, meanwhile the middle class has scene their income grow at a modest 1 on average over the course of that same time annually. So the president will be talking about that. Hell be talking once again renewing his call to raise the minimum wage. A lot of talk about that here in d. C. Where the city council is voting to raise the minimum wage. Democrats