And the controversy of female ranger two female u. S. Army soldiers in ranger training and how they could make history this week tens of thousands of people marched in the capital of brazil. This is the third time this year people have taken to the street. In march and april voters also called on her to step down. Demonstrators denounced the corruption and the drop in the economy. We have this story from rio. Reporter the largest protest happened in san paulo. Its unclear whether the turnout has been as large as previous large scale protests that happened here in brazil back in march and in april. That number is very important simply because it raises the appetite for brazilians calling for impeachment. The economy plays a huge role ever since these corruption scandals erupted, the economy began to shrink, Investor Confidence also diminished, and people really want to make sure that, that can be stabilized as quickly as possible. So people here would rather see maybe some political fig
Paulo. The protesters wanting her impeached. Smaller gatherings are taking place in towns and city, the third time people have taken to the streets after protests in march and april. Its on political corruption, and they blame rousseff for the bad economy. Reporter the larger protest in brasilia, the capital rio de janeiro. Its unclear if the turn out was as large as the protests in braz brazil in march and april. It is important because it will go to the appetite among brazilians for impeachment. At the moment theres a huge gap between the numbers put forward by the organizers of the protests, and the ones put forward by the police. Now, Dilma Rousseff is highly unpopular. She has the lowest approval rate ever for democratically elected president in this country, 7. 7 , but that is not enough for impeaching her. You need to find you need to keep the momentum for the organizers, bring more people on the streets and have a legal basis for that, at the moment none of the ongoing investig
Hopefuls taking on iowa voters and ben carson. This is Al Jazeera America live in new york city. Im dale walters. The pentagon this morning saying its still trying to figure out if it was indeed jihadi john that was killed in that strike. We are reasonably certain that we killed the targetna we intended to kill which was jihadi john. It was his covered face that appeared in all of those videos showing the killings of western hostages. John, what is the latest on the strike and whether they did indeed kill the man we know as jihadi john. We just dont know for certain. There is a press conference going on at the moment by the pentagon Briefing Room here in washington d. C. Coming in from baghdad, its being hosted by colonel steve warren. According to him, there was a drone strike carried out yesterday, a very routine drone strike according to colonel warren using hell fire missiles. According to him, the people that they expected to be present when the drone carried out the attack were c
Mark seven years since hello a group ally to isil says it carried out a gun and bomb attack on a major hotel. Gunman stormed the hotel which is used by diplomates and foreign workers. There was a siege lasting several hours. And by the edge of it, 11 people including the attackers were dead. Victoria gaiten by reports. The attackers set off a car bomb outside the hotel. Men also stormed the building. There was a gun battle lasting several hours it came to an end when the attackers blew themselves up after being surrounded by Security Forces on the twentyfourth floor. This was a multiattack. That involved a car bomb in the parking lot of the hotel also, there are reports and then the gunman stormed the attack so this was the hotel so this was a very well coordinated attack an audacious attack on one of the most Popular Hotels in the city. A group linked has claims responsible for the attack, but al jazeera cannot independently verify the statement. The hotel in the libyan capitol is pop
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