The White House Briefing now under way. White House Press Secretary saying the president Congratulates Congress on the deal that was just reached. It happened 11 years before the debt ceiling deadline. Senate leaders unveiling a bipartisan plan to a void a default. Wall street relieved that the situation is almost over. Its just off its high off 200plus points. But the plan contains few specifics to address the the nations nearly 17 trilliondollar debt, once again kicking the can down the road. We have libby casey, but well go to jay carney talking about the deal that was just reached. Again, applauds the leaders for the senate for coming together and working out a bipartisan solution. Is there any concern even with this deal being made that a down grade from some of the rating agencies would be spending. I would refer you to the treasury for those kinds of assessments. We talk about the things that we can control which is calling on congress to quickly act on this compromise agreement
The fill fines i desperate search for the survivors after the country was hit pie typhoon haiyan. One of the strongest ever. Nearly 10,00 10,000 have been k. Uprooted trees and levels houses all across the country. More from the capital of ma mill a. Reporter survivors of typhoon haiyan walked through whats left of their town. Still in shock over how quickly their lives were turned upside down, painful reminders of what they have lost are everywhere. Thousands still missing and many areas are unreachable. Badly for the missing and those confirmed killed. So that is a concern but we are addressing the needs of those that are still living. Especially those injured. Reporter the extent of the devastation is making rescue and relief operations difficult. Air pots in the central philippines have been damaged and many of the roads in the affects islands are impassable. Emergency personnel are having to walk for hours to reach survivors with aid. The storm hit on friday and since 10 for many
Prostitutes rights. And today 100 years old. Good morning everybody. Welcome to al Jazeera America. Im David Shuster, live in new york. President obama is officially on vacation, home for the holidays. He and the first family touched down in hawaii a little more than an hour ago. On friday the president said a vacation with the relaxation that comes with it will help him to prepare for the year ahead. Before leaving washington mr obama held a News Conference and took questions about successes and failures of 2013. Mike viqueira has the story. Good afternoon everybody. With calls for reform president obama defended the collection of millions of phone records from the n. S. A. But left the door open to changes. Whatever benefits the configuration of this program may have, maybe outweighed by the scoerns that he had on his potential abuse. If thats the case there may be another way to skin the cat. Asked if a plea deal could be struck with Edward Snowden in exchange for a stop to the leak
Five years. Good morning everybody. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im David Shuster in new york. Former russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khordorkovsky in prison for 10 years is free and speaking out. In his first media interview since his release the highprofile critic said he is not planning to go into politics. His comments were made to reporters in berlin, where he is reuniting with his family. Putin pardoned Mikhail Khordorkovsky in a pr mood taking a lot of people by surprise. More from berlin. This is the moment days ago they must have thought was impossible. A family finally reunited. A day after Mikhail Khordorkovsky was released from gaol, he was back in the arms of his parents. He gave more details about conditions in prison. Because for a year and two months and 2. 5 years, but during these years i had long meetings with relatives and all the other times i was on a prison regime and had no long visits. Accused of tax evasion, Mikhail Khordorkovsky spent the last decade in detentio
Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford. We begin with breaking news out of russia where a suicide bomb attack killed at least 15 people. 27 others are injured. The blast saw through a train vasion in a Southern City of volgergrad. These are the latest pictures. A female suicide bomber detonated the explosives as she walked through the metal detectors. Theres no claim of responsibility for the attack. Russia has bund a height end state of alert ahead of winter games in february. Well have a live report in a few moments. Israel has fired a barrage of artillery shells across the border into lebanon after rockets from fired from lebanon were fired into israel. No one was injured. Tensions on the border are high after an israeli soldier killed a lebanon soldier earlier. The new report by the New York Times is that the benghazi bombing was not at the handof al qaeda. Since the attack some republicans argued not only that al qaeda was behind it but Obama Administration