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as police clash with pro democracy demonstrators trying to clear the streets, aljazeera in the crowd as police moved in to break things up. canceled flights on one of the busiest travel days of the year, hundreds of flights are scrapped as a major storm bears down on the east coast. welcome to al jazeera america. i m del walters. i m erica pitzi. it s calmer in ferguson, missouri thanks to stepped up support from the national guard. 2,000 missouri national guard assisted riot police as protests turned violent for a second straight night. the man in the center of the controversy is breaking his silence, officer darren wilson giving his first t.v. interview. we are live in ferguson, missouri, again this morning. police more than prepared tuesday night for another round of protests. police were ready last night, a very different feel in the town of ferguson. nonetheless, there were sporadic outbreaks of violence. angry protests turned violent again overnight in f ....
to say we recognize the suffering of women. and the new front line in britain s fight against terrorism. where universities have become the focus of sweeping anti-terrorism laws. there has been a second night of protests across the u.s. over the decision not to charge a white policeman in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager. let s take you to the scene in oakland, california. demonstrators setting up a blockade across one street and then setting it on fire. they also looted stores and faced with off police. over to boston, 1500 demonstrators blocked city streets in a mostly peaceful show of force. and in new york hundreds gathered in union square chanting black lives matter. ferguson, missouri is at the heart of the protest. more than 40 people were arrested overnight. from ferguson, daniel lack reports. reporter: for a while it seemed as many monday s mayhem would be repeated. a police car burned outside of city hall. there were reports of gunshots ....
synagogue in jerusalem has had her residency revoked. and months of protest camps in hong kong. parents of michael brown speak about their son s death and the grand jury s decision not to indict the police officer who shot him. 2,000 national guard soldiers were deployed to ferguson after monday night s riots. michael brown s family described how the past few days have been for them. really hard. heartbreaking, and unbelievable. for the once that are protesting in a positive way, some people have their own agenda. i won t say that i m mad at the people, what they re doing, but it s their own agenda. it s not what i asked for. it doesn t have nothing to do with us. but yeah, the protesters, we love them for that. anyone in their right mind would rush or charge a police officer that has his gun. it sounds crazy. we are just going to keep fighting. pray for a better outcome. the policeman who won t face criminal charges for killing michael brown last august gave hi ....
you this is al jazeera america. we begin with newly released surveillance video shows police shooting and killing a 12-year-old boy. tamir rice died on sunday. the officer who shot him thought that the toy gun was real. roxana saberi is following this. reporter: the police say they released video and audio recordings. the video shows police getting out of their car and shooting the buy soon after. it raises the question, could the shooting have been avoided. it shows 12-year-old tamir rice at a cleveland park on saturday waving around what appears to be a gun. the man sitting in the gazebo behind him calls 911. saying a juvenile is pointing what looks like to be a fake gun at people. i don t know if it s real or not. the dispatcher then radios two officers but does not mention that the suspect is a child, and that the gun may not be real. a black male pulling a gun out of his pants pointing it at people. rice talks on his cell phone and sits at his gazebo. ....
we ll get there. the bitter siege at the border town of kobane is straining relations between the kurdish forces defending the city and turkey on the other side of the border. dozens of i.s.i.l. fighters have been killed, but kurdish leaders are angry, accusing attacks to come through turkey. reporter: the latest attempt by fighters by i.s.i.l. to take control of kobane s crossing into turkey involved an assault, including a car filled with explosives and suicide bombs. at least 110 shells were launched and tanks involved in the attack, according to the syrian observatory for human rights, u.k. based. the border remains under the control of syrian kurdish fighters, according to their spokesman. this latest push by i.s.i.l. seems to have exacted a heavy toll on the group. around 50 fighters have been killed since saturday. according to the soh. it would be their biggest single loss of life since i.s.i.l. began its assault in september. a kurdish spokesman said the ca ....