anti-government protesters ahead of parliamentary elections and changing the rules of the u.s. justice department revises how death sentences can be carried out as it tries to rush through more execution. it s a prominent scientist at the center of iran s nuclear program has been assassinated, gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying muslim, fuck, fuck rezaei. and his bodyguards, top military commanders, have vowed to retaliate against that attack. they say israel is behind it. as a bag reports from tehran. the aftermath of the killing holds a call on blood on the floor injured in the attack must in fact result, it was taken to hospital, but later he had been one of iran s most senior nuclear scientists and had already survived a previous assassination attempt based on the report made by the gods 1st, they opened fire to his car, and after 10 to 15 seconds, a truck carrying explosive materials exploded in a car. fire continued after the explosion. officials admit his death is a blo
drinking water how illegal gold mining in ghana is poisoning rivers and trying farmlands and i told you sport italy calls for the european football championships to be postponed and the international olympic committee except to hold emergency talks about tokyo 2020. could have you with us welcome to the new leaders of the 7 world s largest economies are about to begin a video conference on how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic amid a rising death toll and more and more restrictions concern is now about the wider effects been another major plunge on the new york stock exchange it dropped more than 9 percent in a few seconds when it opened triggering a trading halt while in brazil paolo stock exchange for over 12 percent causing trading to be suspended for the 5th time in a week when our white house correspondent is standing by but 1st let s go to gabriel is on the who s following the markets in new york and gabe really has to be said that those circuit breakers were activ
reporting there are no signs of life seen at the crash site of a helicopter that was carrying president ebrahim raisi and others. news of ruiz s death comes nearly 24 hours after the helicopter crashed. it was in a remote part of the country during dense fog, rescue efforts have been hampered by bad weather and pretty rough and tough terrain, and a number of other top officials, including the country s foreign minister, were also on board. the chopper was heading back to the country s capital when it reportedly went down. the crash comes at a fraught moment in the middle east with the war raging in gaza. and then, of course, weeks after iran launched a drone and missile attack on israel in response to a deadly strike on its diplomatic compounds in damascus, so hardliner raisi became president in a historically uncompetitive election in 2021. iran s supreme leader is stressing the business of iran s government will continue no matter what. under the iranian constitution, iran
and live from studio fourteen head al-jazeera headquarters in doha welcome to the news they ve been stuck there for years facing an untold number of air strikes artillery fire and starvation now aid workers in syria have begun evacuating critical patients from the eastern goods a suburb of damascus it s a region that s been under siege since two thousand and thirteen hundreds of thousands of syrians are still stuck the u.n. has identified five hundred critical cases get a firsthand account of this story also in the news good picking up the pieces in the philippines people displaced by tropical storm and affected by political violence and on moving into new temporary shelters we have a video diary from our team on the ground showing us what they found in the areas devastated by floods. was one of the most traumatic events in pakistan s recent history and yet ten years on we still don t know who was behind this escalation a former prime minister been in. bhutto pakistan s first
making a big mistake. all that, plus, meghan markle s family firing back. it s the family she s never had. a power outage at disneyland leaves passengers not so happy. and mega million jackpot now at nearly $700 million combined after another night without a winner. while in south carolina, a computer glitch dashes dreams of players across the state as they walk away empty-handed, today, thursday, december 28, 2017. announcer: from nbc news, this is today. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. and welcome to today. we appreciate you joining us on this thursday morning. savannah, hoda, both off. 15 degrees on the plaza. ah! and folks are still especially brave. i have to tell you, once we go below 25, i kind of are lose track. it s just freezing. it is. literally. uncomfortable, yeah. we are far from alone, as we said. extreme cold gripping much of the country shattering nearly century old records in some states and not going away anytime soon