Children, who drowned in a spanish resorts Swimming Pool say they are devastated by the news. Restoration work on big ben will pause for one night only, so its famous bongs can ring in the new decade in london. The mayor of sydney says the city s famous new years eve fireworks display will go ahead despite a call for the event to be cancelled because of the bushfire crisis affecting parts of australia. More than a quarter of a Million People have signed a petition urging the authorities to spend the money on fighting the blazes instead. tx more than 80 fires are still raging across large areas of new south wales. Tens of thousands of people in the australian state of victoria have been told to evacuate amid worsening bushfire conditions. Officials are warning that temperatures of over a0 celsius, combined with strong winds, thunderstorms and a change of wind direction mean that the danger of fires will be particularly high tomorrow, with some areas facing a catastrophic risk. A warning
Take a new look at news. Hello and welcome back to Al Jazeera America. We are watching washington at this hour, because all this morning german chancellor Angela Merkel has been meeting with president obama. There are two topics that are expected to emerge when the two leaders hold a news crisis in the next few minutes. One being the crisis in ukraine. Much of its a exports come from russia. And the eavesdropping on Angela Merkels phone. Libby casey joins us by phone right now. And libby, you have been tracking the developments that have been taking place. This is not going to be as smooth sailing as many hoped. Reporter good morning, del, as i talked to the german reporters, and were talking about political scientists and scroll lars as well. They say that Angela Merkel is a very polite leader. Dont expect her to throw our fireworks live. But they said she will be speaking intense words behind closed doors to president obama over concerns not just about what happened prior, but also t
Release the name of the officer who gunned down an unarmed teenager or details of the investigation. Protesters push. His parents plead. Still no answers. Why . Painful new details this morning about the circumstances surrounding Robin Williams suicide and recent battle with severe depression that he fought and lost. Good morning, everyone, im john berman. Were midway through the week. Im michaela pereira. Those stories and much more ahead at this hour. Were going to go back to iraq. U. S. Official say 130 more u. S. Marines and special Operations Forces will bolster the already hundreds there advising iraqi troops in their fight against isis militants. Were learning this morning those new troops could assist from the ground in an air evacuation of the thousands of iraqi minorities trapped on mt. Sinjar. Officials insist that any Ground Support would have a humanitarian focus not a combat focus. The latest Development Comes as u. S. Military planes drop food and water to yazidis. Meanw
His announcement. He also talked about a strong arm robbery. He intimated that Michael Brown may have taken part in this strong arm robbery. Lets head to cnns don lemon live outside of their Police Station with more on this. Reporter carol, didnt really connect the dots, did he . And leaving a lot for mamgs and assumption here. Heres what he said. He walked up to the microphone, took his time with doing it, and then sort of tried to figure out where he was, lost his place a little bit and i think he was very me tick cue louse about what he said because he doesnt want anything to be misconstrued here. Heres what he said. Ill go through it and we will get up what he said. I have a lot of sunshine law requests for documents. He said some of it i can talk about it, some i cant, some of it i can release, some i cant. I also have information about a august 9th robbery that preceded the shooting death of Michael Brown. Lets take a listen now to the Ferguson Police chief tom jackson. Here he i
Report on va hospitals across the u. S. Did excessive wait times lead to the deaths of some of americas veterans . Hello, im whole repowolf blitzer reporting from washington. Were following breaking news in the break through in fighting between militants in gaza and israel. Officials announced a new ceasefire has been reached, israel only a few moments later said it has accepted the truth. Power correspondent reza sehe is joining us from cairo right now. Reza, walk us through the details. What do we know about this ceasefire . Wolf, i think whats important to stress is this does not address the core demands, the core issues that have been the source of this. A temporary ceasefire where both sides have agreed to stop fighting, which is good news, and at some point return to cairo and engage in indirect negotiations. We spoke to a senior egyptian official a short time ago. And he essentially tells cnn that this is the same initiative, the same agreement that was on the table one week ago