is the best deal. this is aljazeera america. good morning. live from new york city, i m randall pinkston. the first shot of the civil war was fired in south carolina. for decades the confederate flag has been a fixture ocean of the state capitol but that changes in a few hours the battle flag will come down and moved to the relic room. the governor signed a bill to remove the flag yesterday. at her side, family members of victims from last month s church massacre in charleston. diane, tell us how the program will go this morning for the removal of the flag. randall we ve gotten very few details from the state on how things are going to proceed this morning. we know there s going to be a ceremony at 10:00. the flag will be lowered carried away in an armored vehicle. it s going to be taken to the south carolina confederate relic room and military museum here in columbia, about a mile away. we re going to have to waist and see how things proceed as the day progresses. with
human rights. this is aljazeera america. good morning live from new york city i m randall pinkston. we begin with breaking news this morning. a man opened fire inside a movie theater in louisiana killing two people. there is no word on a possible motive. authorities say the shooter injured nine others before taking his own life. some of the injuries are described at life threatening. police are set to give an update in the next few minutes. we ll bring that to you live. jonathan martin is outside the theater in lafayette. have authorities identified the shooter and what do we know about him? good morning to you randall. police do know who the shooter is, have not identified him by name. they say he is a 58-year-old white man. there is no talk about a motive. police have been outside the movie theater all night since the shooting happened. you can see officers here. they just finished a briefing with the louisiana governor bobby jindal. a lot to investigate. they ve talked
with that many believe it hasn t been found. we look at suez canal s strategic importance to egypt. record breaking in wickets meaning grand remain in the action. news from isil claiming responsibility for suicide bombing that targeted personnel in saudi arabia. it was a town in the south of saudi arabia, very close to the border with yemen where there s been conflict, almost a state of war for months now. nine soldiers were injured being treated in hole hospitals. isil becoming increasingly active in saudi arabia. we ll examine why later. it s claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a shia mosque in may which killed 21 people. explosions in the last few hours. we have this report. this is where the attack took place, a suicide bomber managed to get into this mosque in the southern city, blowing himself up and killing police trainees. the governor of the province visited the injured in a nearby hospital. fighters from the islamic state of iraq and the levant cl
impact on the surrounding environment. this is aljazeera america live from new york city, i m richelle carey. nerves are rattled in bangkok this morning after another explosion hits the capital. a bomb went off at a train station earlier today. it follows the deadliest attack to the capital in years. twenty were killed monday at a popular tourist shrine. the hunt is on to find the accused bomber seen in a surveillance video. we are live in bangkok. tell us about thes man in that video and the search to find him. in the past hour or so, we heard from a thai police spokesperson. he said the man seen that in security camera footage, the man in the yellow shirt as he is being described is no longer simply a suspect, that he in fact is the bomber, they believe, so that essential going one step further than the comments we heard from the prime minister earlier in the day, who acknowledged the existence of the video, said he had seen it, that the man in it appeared to be a suspe
controversy over the number of fighters killed since the u.s. got involved. this is aljazeera america, good morning, live from new york city, i am randall pinkston. there are new details about a man accused of plotting to kill police officers manufacture he was radicalized by isil and they reveal a plot to kill a well known political activist. what else do we know? the f.b.i. says it has been monitoring conversations between the man and david wright, now charged with conspiracy. when the two talked about a potential attack, he allegedly said i just got myself a nice little tool, good for carving. he went on oh to say like thinking with your head on your chest. f.b.i. believe that is a reference to beheading. the complaint alleges he plotted to kill pamela gellar. when police approached him outside a c.v.s., he changed plans within the complaint said he called wright, saying he would start attacking police officers instead. police say he lunged at them with a knife the same