Their shoes on u. S. Flights. Things looked darn good and Mother Nature threw herself in. Crayfish suffer in the cold. Hi, welcome to al jazeera america. Im thomas drayton. We start in ukraine. 26 people were killed in kiev during protests. As you can see from the live images, theres a lot of activity going on. President Viktor Yanukovych indicated that the two sides will reopen peace talks. Jennifer glasse is in kiev. The barricades were already burns as the police tried to force them from here. Hope is negotiations can avoid blood shed. The violence left 25 dead. Hundreds injured. This paramedic said she treated 50 people. Yesterday was a nightmare. Many people were injured from grenades. There were people of plastic and glass. Glass is the dangerous. The clashes appear to have strengthened the resolve of people in the square. Numbers have been swelling. Double since tuesday. They are reinforcing barricades. Police may have pushed them back. They are determined and undaunted. As nigh
Away for the holidays, massive pileups and thousands without power. I just heard a boom real loud, and then the tornado was like over my house whirling over my house and my whole house was just i mean shaking. Plus a strong storm damages homes in alabama, now the digging out and cleanup begins all across the country. From newtown to your town, americans pause this hour to remember those killed in the school massacre. Well tell you how the tribute could echo through your community. The nations most powerful gun lobby the nra speaking out today one week after violence rocked that Small Community in connecticut. And devastating implosion, the end of the world . Nope, it is not the apocalypse, its what people are saying about the fiscal cliff. After speaker boehners plan b falls flat, whats next . Newsroom starts now. Good morning to you. Thank you so much for being with us. Im carol costello. This hour a nation pauses to honor the victims of last weeks horrifying attack at a connecticut E
30 years, may not be from russias strength, but weakness. That, i think, should inform serious policy thinking about russia and our approach to it. We know that the reset of relations, that the Obama Administration attempted to ork state with moscow in the last four years is, well, not as healthy as it could be, i would say today; right . The reset has been a failure. We know now that the white house is at least beginning to think about what comes next. What this is intended to do is to give them a little bit of food for thought about where russia is headed because knowing where russias heading is determinative to figuring out what our policy towards it should be, so, thank you, guys, ill stop there. [applause] well take questions, be kind to wait for the microphone to be passed to you, and state your name and affiliation if you care to as a curtesy to the guest, and im going to take the prerogative of reading one of the questions we received online, and ill change it a little bit. How
That russias population is fleeing in a real sense. The practices of the state and conditions on economic and social terms are forcing them to eye the exits, and as a result, the pace of exodus from russia of imgrigs from russia, right now, rivals out migration seen a snch ri ago. More than 2 million russians are estimated to have left since putin took power in the last days of 1999. One in five russians today desires to live abackward, and 40 of russians between ages of 18 and 35 on template departure, all right . This is catastrophic because it gives you a window into the thinking of the russian population at large. They are devastating all the more so because they are symptoms of a population thats lost hope in its future and one that no longer trusts that its government is a steward of its needs. Now, this does not mean theres not hopeful signs. There have been as of late. You know that over the last eight months, russia a had an uptick in fertility. The demographics for the last e
Do they believe the United States would help them if the Russian Military got out of control or this yiewn phobia got out of control and would impact troops . Two excellent questions. Two probably rather uninformative answers. We got a choice. Its a tricky one. I dont know what the answer is. Do we continue to support the prodemocracy people who, to put it mildly, have not been successful so far, but or, do we try to engage with the people who have murdered some of them and locked many of the other ones up in order to save independence . In five years time, there may not be a bell ruse. The people are trying discreet. It was interesting, no softy when it comes to russia, and no softer with democracy. Hes received the Russian Ambassador at the Foreign Ministry many a very formal way to say poe land land is ready to talk. Now, those talks become substantial, but something has to happen. Were not demanding immediate dispatch on the coast or even a full independence inquiry, but perhaps le